PLOVER, WI (WSAU) — Governor Tony Evers and the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee are still hashing out the details of a proposed increase in shared revenue between the state and local government entities.
During a stop in Plover on Tuesday Evers said that he remains in constant communication with the budget writers and cities, villages, towns, and counties as they work to find a sustainable solution. “Everybody’s talking. We’ve seen some proposals and we are hopeful that at the end of the day, we will have something that our municipalities can count on.”
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The dialogs are the first serious discussions about changing the state’s shared revenue formula since the early 2000s. Republicans rolled out the plan in late April, but a few days later Governor Evers’ said he would veto the plan because it would set some limitations on what the money could be spent on. Evers says he’s still considering a veto, but notes that conversations are moving in the right direction.
“We have to do it right. That’s important to me. But, we’ll see what happens, there are a lot of moving parts,” added Evers. “It’ll be resolved sometime in the next week I would think.”
The JFC is still in the process of crafting the state budget.
Local leaders have expressed optimism in the talks but have stopped short of promising changes in their budgets or promising lower taxes if the money does come through.
