Recent Documents

We'll be your voice in Waukesha County and beyond. We'll keep you informed about important issues that impact your organization and the region's business climate. We'll advocate on your behalf to ensure a growing, vital business community.

Focused on key policy issues, we strive to:

• Encourage economic development by promoting greater collaboration between the many public and private stakeholders in the county and region
• Improve and modernize our public infrastructure, including roads and water supply, to encourage people and businesses to locate in southeastern Wisconsin
• Ensure employers have access to a skilled talent pool of workers, today and in the future
• Create a competitive tax and regulatory climate that retains, attracts and creates businesses and jobs

Our advocacy efforts are guided by a policy board and four policy committees - consolidated services, economic development, education and infrastructure. The policy brief below gives an overview of the Alliance's more detailed policy agenda, which can be downloaded from the recent documents section (left).

Waukesha County Business Alliance 2013 Policy Brief

Consolidated Services

• Identify and support improvements to the Waukesha County Combined Dispatch System that would enhance services, save tax dollars, and encourage additional local communities to join
• Encourage greater collaboration between local communities to provide improved and more cost-effective services to residents
• Support policies that facilitate cooperative mergers of municipalities

Economic Development

• Foster business development through greater collaboration
• Advocate for tax and regulatory measures that promote business retention
• Advance efforts to streamline and simplify inconsistencies in taxes and regulations
• Support state and national efforts to ensure businesses are treated fairly

Education

• Support education recommendations in Sullivan Report, including academic career planning for all students beginning in middle school
• Support Be Bold 2 recommendations to better align education with current and future jobs forecasts and promote hands-on learning for students through internships, job shadowing and apprenticeships
• Partner with the Waukesha County Manufacturing Alliance on presentations to inform students, parents and educators on the employment needs of Waukesha County  manufacturers
• Offer Schools2Skills ™ plant tours and promote the website: www.dreamitdoitwi.com

Infrastructure

• Support reconstruction of the Zoo Interchange
• Support construction of a West Waukesha Bypass
• Advocate for Lake Michigan water as the best and only known long-term sustainable solution to the City of Waukesha’s water needs.

For more information, please contact Suzanne Kelley.