Week in Review: June 19 to June 25

The future home of The City Market looks ready to go from the outside, but the cafe is still a couple weeks away from opening, co-owner Jeff Swanson said.

If you haven’t been by the corner of Silver Spring Drive and Hollywood Avenue lately, the outside of the building at 527 E. Silver Spring Dr. is painted and the café’s signature logo adorns the large glass windows looking out over the street. Swanson said the interior brick walls are finished, and all of the equipment and tables are moved into the building.

The Whitefish Bay Civic Foundation hosted the first of its two Ice Cream Social events in Schoolhouse Park Wednesday evening. The event featured free ice cream and musical entertainment from the Whitefish Bay Community Band.

The Whitefish Bay School Board will not extend teacher contracts before Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill takes effect, meaning teachers will lose their collective bargaining agreement with the district.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has , and the bill is set to be published on June 29. If the current teacher contract is not extended by that date, it would expire and the union would lose the ability to bargain anything other than salary. Instead of a collective bargaining agreement, teachers would be employed with individual contracts, similar to those of administrators.

The drew widespread criticism at a meeting of more than 150 people at the Wednesday night as well as calls for County Executive Chris Abele to veto the measure.

Rice filed a lawsuit last week saying the County Board violated the state Open Meetings Law by failing to provide notice of what they were adopting. Lawyers for the county said the procedure was appropriate and the Wisconsin Attorney General's office deferred to the county on the matter. He also called for an ethics investigation of County Board Chairman Lee Holloway.

The Whitefish Bay School Board approved a salary freeze for administrators, support staff and other non-union employees at a special meeting Wednesday night.

The 25 employees are also subject to the 5.8 percent pension contribution mandated under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill. Unionized teachers are also subject to the pension contribution requirement, but are still able to bargain salary increases up to the consumer price index, which has yet to be handed down by state officials.

Whitefish Bay Superintendent Mary Gavigan said the employees affected by the action have been notified, and noted that the salary freeze has been discussed throughout the district’s budget process. Salaries will be frozen for the 2011-12 school year, which begins July 1.

The driver of the car that crashed into the front window of a home at North Lake Drive and East Fairmount Avenue last week was impaired by a medical episode.

The driver, a 42-year-old Shorewood man, was driving his Honda Accord southbound down Lake Drive, when the driver suffered from a medical episode that caused him to lose consciousness and control of the vehicle and crash into the house at 5 p.m. Wednesday, according to the police report.