Number
080313
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN, KOVAC, BOHL, MURPHY, HINES AND WADE
Title
Substitute resolution relating to the composition of the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission.
Analysis
This resolution:
1. Authorizes and directs the Intergovernmental Relations Division-Department of Administration to seek introduction and passage of state legislation changing the composition of a regional planning commission containing a city of the first class such that membership on the commission is proportional to the populations of member counties.
2. Expresses the City of Milwaukee’s opposition to Federal Highway Administration recertification of the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission as the Metropolitan Planning Organization for Southeastern Wisconsin in its current format and organizational structure.
3. In the event the state legislature does not pass legislation changing the composition of a regional planning commission containing a city of the first class such that membership is proportional to county populations, urges Milwaukee County to withdraw from membership and participation in the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
Body
Whereas, In 1960, the Wisconsin Legislature created the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (“SEWRPC”), an agency charged with performing comprehensive planning activities for a 7-county region that includes Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha, Washington, Ozaukee and Walworth counties; and
Whereas, Pursuant to s. 66.0309, Wis. Stats., SEWRPC is governed by a 21-member commission consisting of 3 members from each of the 7 counties in the region; and
Whereas, This governing structure is fundamentally unfair in that it gives counties with relatively low populations disproportionately large representation on the commission; and
Whereas, At the same time, the 3-members-per-county configuration results in underrepresentation of counties an...
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