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TUE AM News: Milwaukee schools installing more than 3,000 water filters from Zurn Elkay
— Milwaukee Public Schools is installing up to 3,250 water filters annually as part of its effort to provide clean drinking water to students, staff and community members.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is providing up to 3,250 filters a year through the 2027-28 school year as part of an agreement to convert all drinking fountains, commonly called “bubblers” in Milwaukee, and bottle filling stations to Elkay filtration systems. The donation is worth about $2.2 million. Zurn Elkay is headquartered in Milwaukee, just outside downtown and its filters are made in Illinois.
MPS Superintendent Dr. Keith Posley in a statement praised the move.
“Zurn Elkay’s generous gift to MPS will help ensure that students and staff all across the district continue to have the safest possible drinking water,” he said.
The district also used federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds to buy another 700 Zurn Elkay bottle filling stations, which brings the total county of Zurn Elkay bottle filling and filtered drinking fountains to more than 3,200.
MPS in 2016 tested drinking water in all its facilities and later announced every school would be provided water filtration for drinking fountains.
See the release:
https://www.wisbusiness.com/2023/milwaukee-public-schools-zurn-elkay-donates-2-2-million-in-drinking-water-filters-to-mps/
— The Senate Committee on Labor, Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military Affairs will hold a hearing on a bill to help criminal convicts get jobs.
SB 169 would create a Department of Workforce Development hotline to inform employers seeking to hire people with criminal records. The information would include available incentives and programs, such as those targeting people participating in work release programs.
The bill came out of the Legislative Council Study Committee on Increasing Offender Employment Opportunities, chaired by Sen. Mary Felzkowski, R-Irma and Vice-Chair Michael Schraa, R-Oshkosh.
See the hearing notice:
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/proposals/sb169.pdf
See the bill text:
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/proposals/sb169.pdf
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