JFC approves guv’s call to add $5.8 million in bonds for safe drinking water loan program

The JFC voted unanimously to approve the guv’s call to add $5.8 million in general obligation bonding authority for the safe drinking water loan program, which provide low-interest loans to municipalities for public drinking water systems. Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, sought to amend the program to allow more money to flow to Milwaukee, where she said 60 percent of the the state’s problem is. Bu...