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Michael Totoraitis says he's commited to providing long-term, strategic leadership.

Michael Totoraitis will lead department, subject to council confirmation.

John Chisholm was underway by October 2018. By November 2019 then-commissioner Jeanette Kowalik said the matter had grown to include the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) and was slowing work at the department. “Some of the files and investigations are being held up with that,” said Kowalik of the investigation. “There are various pieces because they’re looking at a certain time period.” But none of the criminal investigators nor city officials have ever explicitly stated what or who is being investigated. Records that the Public Health Foundation, an auditor of MHD’s lead pr...

The new commissioner is currently the director of the joint Washington Ozaukee County Health Department. She worked in the office of Representative  Ron Kind (D-La Crosse) as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy fellow for a one year period starting in 2018. During her confirmation hearing, she expressed frustration with political disagreements that left her unable to use the suburban department’s authority to control the spread of the virus. Her department was releasing names of businesses and organizations with disease outbreaks before a lawsuit halted the practice. “This ha...