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C. a' C., 1; C. t; C 6.: C., Cr 4; a; C C I: C C. 4: 4; a; C DISH • 235 South 2nd Street • Milwaukee • 273 -DISH IN STEP NEWSMAGAZINE Ike Milwaukee Common Council Rejects Partners Benefits Proposal by William Attewell other issues behind the scenes." of the In Step Staff On October 9, at the Human Rights League Public Officials Reception Mayor John Norquist urged a crowd of over 100 persons "not be upset Milwaukee — The proposal to provide partners benefits for City of or discouraged" by the fail- Milwaukee ure of the benefits proposal. employees was killed in committee only to be resurrected and defeated again at a meet- Street agreed with Norquist stating, "Change takes a long time. ing of all 17 aldermen on October 14. The final vote was 14 to 3. Voting for the mea- This issue was not even on the people's radar screens before this, and it is moving forward." sure were Paul Henningson, Mike D'Amato and George Butler. "One of the things I think may happen, is an awareness and education how The full Common Council vote came after a committee of aldermen voted on long it takes accomplish something this. But I think the mayor meant was perhaps we can get October 8, to place on file the proposal to extend health and funeral leave benefits to unmarried partners of city employees. A move which effectively killed the measure. The Common Council's Finance and Personnel Committee voted 4-0 to place on file the proposal presented by Alderman Paul Henningson. "Change takes a long time. This issue was Henningson told In Step, "I was disappointed, I thought several members who would have voted for it, didn't. I think most of them chickened to the religious not even on people's radar screens before opposition." The only two members of the committee who would comment, Michael Murphy this, and it is moving forward." and Marvin Pratt, said their concerns were financial. Both Alderman James Witkowiak and Suzanne Brier had no comment about the measure. —MARK STREET, D.P. TASK FORCE The city's budget office estimated it would cost $600,000 a year to pay for the addi- tional benefits. The committee voted after two hours of debate over everything from money to morality. A handful of protesters gathered outside City Hall before the meeting it another way ... through the labor contracts," stated Henningson. started with signs decrying "gay sex" and alluding to "sodomites and fornicators." Others Street told In Step that another push for a partners benefits package is likely to begin made their way inside wearing small placards reading, "No taxation for perversion." again next year, "We will look at strategizing a legislative effort in 1998. In addition, we are going to take a much closer look the angle of using the union bargaining to bring this about through contract negotiation." "I think most of them chickened to the reli- Henningson believes it will take at least a year for same-sex partners benefits to become part of the Milwaukee's benefits package. He also believes in the union bar- gious opposition." gaining route, "If the unions made it part of the negotiating demands ... the Mayor probably would not object to it." ALDERMAN PAUL HENNINGSON "Typically, Milwaukee will probably be one of the last big cities to do this. It is inevitable as just a normal part of the benefits that municipal employees receive, it is an "Financially, this is a drop in the bucket," stated Henningson."The city pays issue of equal benefits for equal work," according to Henningson. $500,000 a year for health benefits for employees. It was projected by our fiscal experts this might have increased the budget by about $300,000 to $900,000 a year." Mark Street of the Domestic Partnership Task Force stated, "I think the financial aspect plays a major role in it. Our city has the good fortune of being very well finan- cially managed. It has led to a culture of conservative budgeting. However, there are trio of drugs, was smaller and was conducted under strict clinical conditions to assure the patients all took the medications regularly and as scheduled. Researchers Report Mixed Results The Deeks study, which found only about half the patients being so dramatically helped by the three-drug combination, was based on a much larger group of patients — more than six times as many as in the Gulick for New Protease Inhibitors study.