NUMBER
001694
VERSION
ORIGINAL
REFERENCE
SPONSOR
JUDICIARY AND LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
Title
Resolution opposing passage of state legislation prohibiting local governments from requiring employees to comply with residency requirements.
Analysis
This resolution expresses the opposition of the Common Council to proposed state legislation, 2001 Assembly Bill 113, that prohibits local governments from requiring employees to comply with residency requirements. The resolution expresses the Common Council's grave concern about the devastating impact that such legislation could have on the City of Milwaukee and its homeowners and businesses, and directs the Intergovernmental Relations Division-DOA to lobby in opposition to any state legislation that would eliminate the authority of the City of Milwaukee to establish residency requirements for City employees, and urges all state legislators to join in that opposition.
Body
Whereas, The Wisconsin Legislature is considering legislation to prohibit counties, cities, villages, towns and school districts from requiring their employees to meet residency requirements; and
Whereas, The proposed legislation, 2001Assembly Bill 113, repeals the authority of local governments to set their own residency requirements but retains the authority of state government to require state residency—an example of the discredited governmental practice of big government setting rules for others but not requiring its own compliance with those rules; and
Whereas, Local governments and school districts throughout the state are currently able to evaluate their own unique circumstances and concerns as they decide whether or not to require their employees to be local residents; and
Whereas, The issue of local residency requirements is not a matter of state-wide concern but is instead clearly a local question that should be determined by local governments that are directly answerable to local voters; and
Whereas, Muni...
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