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Middleton council deadlocks on budget range for proposed community campus after extended debate
Summary
After more than two hours of discussion, the Middleton Common Council declined to set a firm budget range for a proposed community campus, with motions to establish specific lower and upper bounds failing on roll-call votes. Staff will return with more detailed cost and engagement materials.
The Middleton Common Council spent the bulk of its Oct. 21 meeting debating how much the city should plan to spend on a proposed community campus but ended without a binding decision on a budget range.
City Administrator Brian opened the discussion by asking the council for guidance on “upper and lower bounds” for project scope and cost, saying staff had already identified roughly 13,000 square feet of building area that could be removed from conceptual plans to reduce cost. He told alder members the council’s previously discussed upper appetite had been about $100,000,000.
Council members offered a range of views. Some members urged a conservative floor focused on repairing…
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