OPINION: Racine site is right for new juvenile center
By: Associated Press
January 8, 2021
7:42 am
We were frankly surprised at the sour reaction some Racine City Council members gave the county’s proposal to open a $45 million center for at-risk-youth on or near the site of the old Brannum lumberyard on the city’s south side.
Part of it may have been pique at being left out of the loop.
Ald. John Tate II, president of the City Council, complained that no residents of his district had been made aware that the proposed center is to be built near them — not even he: “It’s exceptionally frustrating when the alderman of the area wasn’t told this was coming to the neighborhood.”