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SouthWEst: 1B

Members of the Platteville School Board and the Platteville Public Schools architects and contractors held a groundbreaking for the Westview Elementary School project Monday morning. Westview students did their own groundbreaking with their own shovels.
Photo by Steve Prestegard

A festival
for the 40th
The Platteville Chorale
will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a choral
festival at UWPlatteville
Oct. 25.

LOCAL NEWS: 2A

Boldt property
sale OKd
The Platteville Common
Council approved the purchase of the five buildings
of the former Pioneer Ford
Sales site Monday night.

Local News: 8A

#1 in SWC
The Platteville volleyball
team clinched the Southwest Wisconsin Conference title and are seeded
number one in its regional

Sports: 14A

Six in a row
After an 02 start, Potosi has won six consecutive football games.

Sports: 14A

Index

Church directory
4B
Classifieds
5B
Court news
8B
Education 11B
Entertainment 7A
The First Amendment 4A
FYI
5A
Government Journal 5A
A Healthier You
6A
I See by The Journal 10B
Legal notices
6B
Livingston/Rewey 4B
Society 4B
SouthWest 1B
Sports 14A
The Week
1B
Women in Business 2B
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2016 city
budget
projected
smaller
than 2015

Shields not
chosen for
Chicago
State job
UWPlatteville chancellor Dennis
Shields apparently will not be the next
president of Chicago State University.
Chicago State announced Thursday that
its trustees had chosen Dr. Thomas J. Calhoun, vice president for enrollment management at the University of North Alabama, as its 22nd president, replacing the
retiring Wayne D. Watson.
Calhoun was chosen over Shields, UW
Plattevilles chancellor since 2010, and
Jerry Blakemore, vice president and general counsel of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill.
Calhoun, Shields and Blakemore were the
three finalists out of 38 applicants for the position, 12 of whom were interviewed in August, according to the Chicago State website.
Chicago States website says that
CSU, whose enrollment is about 7,000, is
unique among universities in Illinois in
that it serves a nontraditional population,
including many first-generation students
and many students trying to advance from
an hourly job to a career. The average CSU
student is 31 and has one child.
Chicago States faculty approved a noconfidence resolution against Watson in November, according to the Chicago Reader.
Watson and CSU general counsel Patrick
Cage are being sued in federal court by
two CSU professors who claim Watson and
Cage are waging an ongoing campaign to
silence the professors criticisms over how
the University is run on the professors
CSU Faculty Voice blog.

by Steve Prestegard

plattevillejournaleditor@gmail.com

Homecoming at UWPlatteville included the parade Saturday morning (see SouthWest), a win over UWStevens Point Saturday afternoon (see Sports), and fireworks
over the lighted M Saturday night.
Photo by Tyler Ensrude

City managers and aldermen come

and go, but the City of Platteville budgets every year to fund city functions.
The proposed 2016 city budget had
its unveiling at the Common Council
meeting Monday night.
The public will have several
chances to observe the budget-making process and weigh in, with two
Common Council budget review
sessions in the Police Department
conference room Oct. 20 and 26 at
6 p.m., a public presentation on the
budget at the Police Department
Nov. 17 p.m., and the public hearing on the budget and the 20162020
Capital Improvement Plan Nov. 24.
The proposed operating budget is
1 percent smaller than last year, at
$8.2 million. The budget decrease is
the result of transferring EMS operations to Southwest Health, according
to City Manager Karen Kurt.
State tax levy limits allow a tax
levy increase of only $31,253, which
equals the total of net new construction in the city last year, one year after a jump in the tax levy from the
See BUDGET page 5A u

For I was hungry and

you gave me food ...
St. Marys hosts
food pantry
Story and photo by Steve Prestegard
plattevillejournaleditor@gmail.com

very third Friday morning of the month, the gym

at the St. Marys School
building in Platteville fills.

Trucks come in with fresh, canned

and frozen food. About 20 volunteers
help set up the food so more than
120 people can take food from the
monthly Second Harvest Food Pantry.
The Second Harvest Foodbank of
Southern Wisconsin started mobile
food pantries in 2003. St. Marys has
See PANTRY page 5A u

SALES
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About 20 volunteers help at the monthly Second Harvest Mobile Food Pantry in the St. Mary School gym in Platteville.

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