So how did the Marcus Center become entangled in this arena deal? Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (D., Kenosha), one of nine elected officials on the new 17-member WCD board, recently said, “There was not a great deal of discussion” about the transfer and that it was apparently included in the state law at Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele’s request.Īlthough worried Milwaukee citizens contacted legislators before the arena-bill vote requesting that they remove the unexplained Marcus provision, the Assembly leadership would not introduce any amendments. Taxpayers will also fund the arena through city, county, and state commitments totaling $250 million (about $400 million with interest). The new law turns the WCD into a “super-district” in order to tap the WCD’s taxing authority to borrow $93 million for arena construction.
The WCD currently manages the Wisconsin Center convention hall, the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena and Milwaukee Theatre. But the law also included a provision mandating transfer of an “unencumbered” Marcus Center to the Wisconsin Center District “as soon as practicable.” Neither condition was defined: unencumbered is presumed to mean “without debt,” but could it also mean without needing any major repairs? In July, the state law passed to provide funding for the new Bucks arena put the arena under the control of the WCD, where it will benefit from taxes (like the hotel, car rental and food and beverage taxes) collected by the district. The Marcus Center gets county funding and charitable dollars and is run by its own board as a non-profit arts organization, but is now supposed to come under the governance of the Wisconsin Center District (WCD), and no one seems to know just how that will work. The county-owned facility has a long history (since 1969) as a key player in the city’s arts scene, where groups like the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Milwaukee Ballet have long performed. Mathews made this statement at meeting last week of the Milwaukee County Parks, Energy and Environment Committee Committee, where the fate of the Marcus Center was on the agenda.
“We’re in limbo,” says Marcus Center for the Performing Arts president and CEO Paul Mathews. In 2013, she directed her first short film, "(Un)Fair trade".Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. She is represented in France and in London.
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She's also appeared in the feature films "Poupoupidou", directed by Gérald Hustache-Mathieu, and in Didier Le Pêcheur's "The List of my Desires", in addition to the TV series "Interventions" by Eric Summer. She has performed in several short films, including "Storge", "The Pit and the Kid" and "The Apology of Love" for which she was nominated for Best Actress at the Avignon Short Film Festival in 2013. In 2014, she directed her first short film, "There is No Place Like Home."Įlea Clair began her acting career in the role of Emily, a recurring character in television's "Déja Vu" on France 2 in France. Today, she is represented in London as an actress and works for Anglo-Saxon productions. She has lent her voice for commercials and documentaries. She performed in series as "Versailles" (Canal+), "Nos chers voisins", "Commissaire Magellan". She studied acting at the drama schools Enfants Terribles and Studio Pygmalion, and then worked with directors such as Paul Verhoeven, Michel Hazanavicius, Claude Pinoteau and Dominique Farrugia. : Olivia Gotanègre and Eléa Clair / fiction / 2015 / 6 min 35 / France
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