City of Milwaukee - File #: 180849

• File #: 180849
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Dead
• File created: 9/25/2018
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 11/5/2018
• Title: Resolution directing the Department of Administration - Intergovernmental Relations Division to seek introduction and passage of State legislation relating to municipal budget systems in cities of the 1st class.
• Sponsors: ALD. DONOVAN, ALD. HAMILTON, ALD. BORKOWSKI, ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. PEREZ, ALD. RAINEY, ALD. STAMPER, ALD. LEWIS
• Indexes: BUDGET, COMMON COUNCIL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
11/5/2018	0	COMMON COUNCIL	VETO OVERRIDDEN	Fail	8:6
10/25/2018	0	MAYOR	VETOED
10/16/2018	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	8:6
10/8/2018	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Appearing: Sponsor - Ald. Donovan Per lead sponsor, include Ald. Lewis to this resolution. There were no objections.	Pass	5:0
10/5/2018	0	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added
10/1/2018	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
9/25/2018	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
180849
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
76-1428-a
Sponsor
ALD. DONOVAN, HAMILTON, BORKOWSKI, BAUMAN, PEREZ, RAINEY, STAMPER AND LEWIS
Title
Resolution directing the Department of Administration - Intergovernmental Relations Division to seek introduction and passage of State legislation relating to municipal budget systems in cities of the 1st class.
Analysis
This resolution directs the Department of Administration - Intergovernmental Relations Division to seek introduction and passage of State legislation to amend s. 62.02(3), Wis. Stats., to provide that a board of estimates in a city of the 1st class consists of the mayor, common council president, comptroller, budget and management director, police chief, commissioner of public works and chairs of the common council’s finance, public safety and public works committees. This State legislation should also amend s. 62.20, Wis. Stats., to remove the language providing that any transfer of the duties and responsibilities relating to preparation of a 1st class city’s proposed budget from the board of estimates to the mayor is permanent, and add language creating a procedure by which these duties and responsibilities may be transferred back to a board of estimates.
Body
Whereas, Chapter 65 of the Wisconsin Statutes provides for the municipal budget system in a city of the 1st class to be directed and overseen by an 11-member “board of estimates” consisting of the mayor, president of the common council, comptroller, treasurer, city attorney, commissioner of public works and members of the common council’s finance committee; and

Whereas, In 1977, the State Legislature amended Chapter 65 to create an alternative to the board of estimates budget process under which the common council of a 1st class city may, by adoption of a charter ordinance, permanently transfer the duties and responsibilities of the board of estimates relating to preparation of the city’s proposed budget to the mayor of the city; and

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