A $4 million gift from John and Tashia Morgridge toward a new outdoor swimming pool at Hoyt Park in Wauwatosa was hailed Tuesday as a great example of a public-private partnership.
The donation also should free up scarce county money to build a new pool at Lincoln Park or pools in other, less affluent parts of the county, county supervisors said.
John Morgridge is chairman emeritus of Cisco Systems, a California-based high-tech firm. He and his wife grew up in Wauwatosa. They also have made huge donations to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including $50 million last year for the Institutes for Discovery and $31 million in 2004 to renovate the School of Education.