You Paid For It. The I-Team exposed it. So what happened next?

After the I-Team wraps up You Paid For It investigations, we don't just move on and forget about them...especially when they involve YOUR tax dollars!

Here are some updates:

The problem we saw in the Village of Sturtevant was so obvious, it seemed almost silly: A $4 million train station with elevators exposed to the elements. Village leaders told us rain seeps in and fries the motors, plus, drifting snow jams-up the doors.

TODAY'S TMJ4'sAaron Diamant: "Was there ever a point where anybody said, ‘you know what, I think we're missing something here?’”

"We relied on the expertise of the people we hired to design and build the thing,” Sturtevant Village Manager Mark Janiuk said, during the I-Team’s initial investigation.

While lawyers try to hammer out some sort of settlement, the village hired new architects to come up with a way to enclose the elevators. That fix could cost taxpayers another $600,000. Work should start late next month.

In Milwaukee, until recently, Public Works parking checkers gave every vehicle they saw with expired tags a $50 ticket. No exceptions, even if their stickers got stolen!

Aaron Diamant: "Those more cynical among us would say, 'Look, this is the city making money off of crime victims.'"

"But you have to understand that we can't assume that every license plate that's not on a vehicle or a license plate without an updated tag is stolen,” DPW’s Dorinda Floyd said.

Still, the Common Council changed the rules, lowering the fine for improper display to just $15, if the car's registration is up-to-date. DPW says it has written more than 1,200 of those $15 citations since August 1.

Finally, we head back out to the city of Pewaukee, where 91-year-old Rosetta Johnson and a dozen of her neighbors got hit with a $31,000 special assessment on their homes this year: their share of a sewer and water project along Bluemound Road to an empty field, where Harken Yacht Equipment plans to build a new headquarters.

"This was shoved pretty much down our throats, and economic times…this has happened at a bad time for us," homeowner Karen Krumenacher explained.

Neighbors fought it, but lost. Last week, crews got to work on the project which will take few months to complete.

The folks in Pewaukee don't have pay the assessment unless they hook up to the system or sell their homes. Still, the group hired lawyers to look at their options. Turns out, they don't have any.

Stay tuned to TODAY'S TMJ4 for more updates on the stories that affect you.