Amendment SSA1-SB777

SB777-SSA1,31,2 (g) 1. Subject to subd. 2., the board of a county with a population of at least 750,000 may not adopt a budget in which the total amount of budgeted expenditures related to the compensation of county board members, and to any other costs that are directly related to the operation and functioning of the county board or committees of the board, including staff, is greater than 0.4 percent of the county portion of the tax levy for that year to which the budget applies. The board may not alter any formula by which fringe benefits, interdepartmental charges for services, depreciation, or debt service are allocated in the recommended budget.

SB777-SSA1,31,5 2. The 0.4 percent budget limitation for a county with a population of at least 750,000 that is described in subd. 1. does not apply to any of the following elements of the county's budget:

SB777-SSA1,31,7 a. Any costs related to pension and health care payments for retired county officers, employees, and their families.

SB777-SSA1,31,10 b. The costs for the salary, health benefits, and pension benefits of county board supervisors and the county board chairperson for any term that begins before April 2018.

SB777-SSA1,31,12 c. Any costs associated with duties performed by the county clerk under s. 59.23 (2).

SB777-SSA1,31,13 d. Any costs associated with a department created under s. 59.52 (32).

SB777-SSA1,31,14 e. Space rental that is attributable to the county board.

SB777-SSA1,44 Section 44 . 59.61 (4) of the statutes is created to read:

SB777-SSA1,31,18 59.61 (4) Fund accounting. (a) A county that is subject to s. 59.60 shall utilize fund accounting. Section 59.60 (3m), as it applies to s. 59.60, applies to this subsection.

SB777-SSA1,32,5 (b) In addition to a general fund, a county may create other governmental funds, proprietary funds, fiduciary funds, and other appropriate funds allowed by government accounting practice, provided that in creating each fund the county describes the sources of revenues that may be deposited into each fund and the types of expenditures that may be made from each fund. Counties may maintain reasonable balances in each such fund to provide the county with necessary working capital, based on sound business principles, to avoid cash flow interruptions and the need to engage in short-term borrowing to fund daily operations. In counties with no county executive, the board may create a fund described in this paragraph by ordinance. In counties with a county executive, only the county executive may create a fund described in this paragraph by executive order, and such an executive order may not be modified or otherwise affected by county board action.

SB777-SSA1,32,8 (c) A county that creates governmental, proprietary, fiduciary, or other funds under this subsection shall develop policies and procedures that apply to each such fund, including all of the following:

SB777-SSA1,32,9 1. Setting a working cash flow target for each fund.

SB777-SSA1,32,10 2. Publishing annual estimates of working cash flow balances.

SB777-SSA1,32,12 3. A description of possible uses of balances in a fund that accumulate above the cash flow target.

SB777-SSA1,32,14 (d) Each governmental and proprietary fund created under this subsection shall serve as a fiscal and accounting entity with a self-balancing set of accounts.

SB777-SSA1,45 Section 45 . 59.79 (8) of the statutes is repealed.

SB777-SSA1,46 Section 46 . 63.02 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB777-SSA1,32,24 63.02 (2) The director of personnel shall cause the minutes of its proceedings to be taken and fully transcribed. The original transcribed copy shall be the official minutes of such proceedings and shall be open and available for public inspection. The director of personnel shall preserve all reports made to the commission, keep a record of all examinations held under its direction and perform such other duties as the commission may from time to time prescribe. The director of personnel shall be appointed by the county executive in the unclassified civil service and is subject to confirmation by the county board, as provided in s. 59.17 (2) (bm).

SB777-SSA1,47 Section 47 . 68.14 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB777-SSA1,33,5 68.14 (1) The seeking of a review pursuant to s. 68.10 or 68.13 does not preclude a person aggrieved from seeking relief from the governing body of the municipality or any of its boards, commissions, committees, or agencies which that may have jurisdiction, except that the authority under this section of a county board is subject to the limitations in s. 59.17 (2) (d).

SB777-SSA1,48 Section 48 . 83.01 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB777-SSA1,33,14 83.01 (1) (b) In counties having a population of 500,000 or more, the county highway commissioner shall also be the director of public works. The person holding the position of county highway commissioner and director of public works, under the classified service, on June 16, 1974, shall continue in that capacity under civil service status until death, resignation, or removal from such position. Thereafter the county executive shall appoint as successor a director of transportation who shall assume the duties of county highway commissioner and director of public works and is subject to confirmation by the county board, as provided in s. 59.17 (2) (bm).

SB777-SSA1,49 Section 49 . 289.33 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB777-SSA1,34,8 289.33 (3) (d) “Local approval" includes any requirement for a permit, license, authorization, approval, variance or exception or any restriction, condition of approval or other restriction, regulation, requirement or prohibition imposed by a charter ordinance, general ordinance, zoning ordinance, resolution or regulation by a town, city, village, county or special purpose district, including without limitation because of enumeration any ordinance, resolution or regulation adopted under s. 91.73, 2007 stats., s. 59.03 (2), 59.11 (5), 59.42 (1), 59.48, 59.51 (1) and (2), 59.52 (2), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (11), (12), (13), (15), (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (25), (26) and (27), 59.53 (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), (9), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (19), (20) and (23), 59.535 (2), (3) and (4), 59.54 (1), (2), (3), (4), (4m), (5), (6), (7), (8), (10), (11), (12), (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (25) and (26), 59.55 (3), (4), (5) and (6), 59.56 (1), (2), (4), (5), (6), (7), (9), (10), (11), (12), (12m), (13) and (16), 59.57 (1), 59.58 (1) and (5), 59.62, 59.69, 59.692, 59.693, 59.696, 59.697, 59.698, 59.70 (1), (2), (3), (5), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (21), (22) and (23), 59.79 (1), (2), (3), (5), (7), (8), and (10), 59.792 (2) and (3), 59.80, 59.82, 60.10, 60.22, 60.23, 60.54, 60.77, 61.34, 61.35, 61.351, 61.353, 61.354, 62.11, 62.23, 62.231, 62.233, 62.234, 66.0101, 66.0415, 87.30, 196.58, 200.11 (8), 236.45, 281.43 or 349.16, subch. VIII of ch. 60, or subch. III of ch. 91.

SB777-SSA1,50 Section 50 . Nonstatutory provisions.

SB777-SSA1,34,14 (1) Confirmed appointees. Any department head appointee of a county executive who has been confirmed by a county board, or whose confirmation has been waived by the board, on the effective date of this subsection does not need to be reconfirmed, or confirmed, by the board as long as the appointee continues in uninterrupted service in that position.

SB777-SSA1,51 Section 51 . Initial applicability.

SB777-SSA1,34,18 (1) Internet site for public contracts. The treatment of section 59.52 (3m) of the statutes first applies to a contract that is entered into on the first day of the 7th month beginning after the effective date of this subsection.

SB777-SSA1,34,21 (2) Public works contracts. The treatment of section 59.52 (29) (am) of the statutes first applies to public contracts that are let on the effective date of this subsection.

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