SB424: Bill Text

SB424,21,22 27.08 (1) Every city that is not part of a local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229 may by ordinance create a board of park commissioners subject to this section, or otherwise as provided by ordinance. Such, and if the city has a board of park commissioners the city shall terminate that board and end the board's authority under this section upon the city's creation of or participation in a local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229. The board shall be organized as directed by the common council shall provide.

SB424, s. 41 Section 41. 27.08 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,22,8 27.08 (3) In any city having no If a city does not have a board of park commissioners its and is not part of a local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229, the city's public parks, parkways, boulevards , and pleasure drives shall be under the charge of its board of public works, if it has such last named board; otherwise or, if it does not have such a board, under the charge of its common council. When so in charge, the board of public works or the common council may exercise all of the powers of a board of park commissioners. Upon a city's creation of or participation in a local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229, the city's board of public works or common council may not exercise any authority under this section.

SB424, s. 42 Section 42. 30.277 (1b) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,22,12 30.277 (1b) (a) "Governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county, or local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229, or the Kickapoo reserve management board.

SB424, s. 43 Section 43. 66.0301 (1) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 2001 Wisconsin Act 16, is amended to read:

SB424,23,2 66.0301 (1) (a) In this section "municipality" means the state or any department or agency thereof, or any city, village, town, county, school district, public library system, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, sanitary district, farm drainage district, metropolitan sewerage district, sewer utility district, solid waste management system created under s. 59.70 (2), local exposition district created under subch. II of ch. 229, local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229, local professional football stadium district created under subch. IV of ch. 229, a local cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229, local park and recreation district created under subch. VI of ch. 229, family care district under s. 46.2895, water utility district, mosquito control district, municipal electric company, county or city transit commission, commission created by contract under this section, taxation district, regional planning commission, or city-county health department.

SB424, s. 44 Section 44. 66.0617 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,23,13 66.0617 (1) (a) "Capital costs" means the capital costs to construct, expand, or improve public facilities, including the cost of land, and including legal, engineering, and design costs to construct, expand, or improve public facilities, except that not more than 10% of capital costs may consist of legal, engineering, and design costs unless the political subdivision or local park and recreation district can demonstrate that its legal, engineering, and design costs which relate directly to the public improvement for which the impact fees were imposed exceed 10% of capital costs. "Capital costs" does not include other noncapital costs to construct, expand, or improve public facilities or the costs of equipment to construct, expand, or improve public facilities.

SB424, s. 45 Section 45. 66.0617 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,23,17 66.0617 (1) (c) "Impact fees" means cash contributions, contributions of land or interests in land, or any other items of value that are imposed on a developer by a political subdivision or a local park and recreation district under this section.

SB424, s. 46 Section 46. 66.0617 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,23,23 66.0617 (1) (d) "Land development" means the construction or modification of improvements to real property that creates additional residential dwelling units within a political subdivision or local park and recreation district or that results in nonresidential uses that create a need for new, expanded, or improved public facilities within a political subdivision or local park and recreation district.

SB424, s. 47 Section 47. 66.0617 (1) (dg) of the statutes is created to read:

SB424,24,2 66.0617 (1) (dg) "Local park and recreation district" has the meaning given for district in s. 229.86 (3).

SB424, s. 48 Section 48. 66.0617 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,24,6 66.0617 (1) (g) "Service area" means a geographic area delineated by a political subdivision or local park and recreation district within which there are public facilities.

SB424, s. 49 Section 49. 66.0617 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,24,11 66.0617 (1) (h) "Service standard" means a certain quantity or quality of public facilities relative to a certain number of persons, parcels of land , or other appropriate measure, as specified by the political subdivision or local park and recreation district.

SB424, s. 50 Section 50. 66.0617 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,24,16 66.0617 (2) (a) Subject to par. (am), a political subdivision may enact an ordinance under this section, and a local park and recreation district may adopt a resolution under this section, that imposes impact fees on developers to pay for the capital costs that are necessary to accommodate land development.

SB424, s. 51 Section 51. 66.0617 (2) (am) of the statutes is renumbered 66.0617 (2) (am) 1.

SB424, s. 52 Section 52. 66.0617 (2) (am) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

SB424,24,22 66.0617 (2) (am) 2. No local park and recreation district may impose an impact fee under this section for any purpose other than park facilities, as defined in s. 229.86 (7).

SB424, s. 53 Section 53. 66.0617 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,25,6 66.0617 (3) Public hearing; notice. Before enacting a political subdivision enacts an ordinance or a local park and recreation district adopts a resolution that imposes impact fees, or amending amends an existing ordinance or resolution that imposes impact fees, a political subdivision or a local park and recreation district shall hold a public hearing on the proposed ordinance or amendment. Notice of the public hearing shall be published as a class 1 notice under ch. 985, and shall specify where a copy of the proposed ordinance or amendment and the public facilities needs assessment may be obtained.

SB424, s. 54 Section 54. 66.0617 (4) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,25,14 66.0617 (4) (a) (intro.) Before enacting an ordinance or adopting a resolution that imposes impact fees or amending an ordinance or resolution that imposes impact fees by revising the amount of the fee or altering the public facilities for which impact fees may be imposed, a political subdivision or a local park and recreation district shall prepare a needs assessment for the public facilities for which it is anticipated that impact fees may be imposed. The public facilities needs assessment shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

SB424, s. 55 Section 55. 66.0617 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,25,20 66.0617 (4) (b) A public facilities needs assessment or revised public facilities needs assessment that is prepared under this subsection shall be available for public inspection and copying in the office of the clerk of the political subdivision or in the office of the secretary of the board of the local park and recreation district at least 20 days before the hearing under sub. (3).

SB424, s. 56 Section 56. 66.0617 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,25,24 66.0617 (5) Differential fees, impact fee zones. (a) An ordinance enacted or resolution adopted under this section may impose different impact fees on different types of land development.

SB424,26,8 (b) An ordinance enacted or resolution adopted under this section may delineate geographically defined zones within the political subdivision or local park and recreation district and may impose impact fees on land development in a zone that differ from impact fees imposed on land development in other zones within the political subdivision or local park and recreation district. The public facilities needs assessment that is required under sub. (4) shall explicitly identify the differences, such as land development or the need for those public facilities, which justify the differences between zones in the amount of impact fees imposed.

SB424, s. 57 Section 57. 66.0617 (6) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,26,11 66.0617 (6) Standards for impact fees. (intro.) Impact fees imposed by an ordinance enacted or resolution adopted under this section:

SB424, s. 58 Section 58. 66.0617 (6) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,26,15 66.0617 (6) (b) May not exceed the proportionate share of the capital costs that are required to serve land development, as compared to existing uses of land within the political subdivision or local park and recreation district.

SB424, s. 59 Section 59. 66.0617 (6) (h) of the statutes is created to read:

SB424,26,19 66.0617 (6) (h) Shall be payable, no sooner than 90 days after final plat approval, by the developer to the local park and recreation district either in full or in installment payments that are approved by the park and recreation district.

SB424, s. 60 Section 60. 66.0617 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,27,2 66.0617 (7) Low-cost housing. An ordinance enacted or resolution adopted under this section may provide for an exemption from, or a reduction in the amount of, impact fees on land development that provides low-cost housing, except that no amount of an impact fee for which an exemption or reduction is provided under this subsection may be shifted to any other development in the land development in which the low-cost housing is located or to any other land development in the political subdivision or local park and recreation district.

SB424, s. 61 Section 61. 66.0617 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,27,8 66.0617 (8) Requirements for impact fee revenues. Revenues from impact fees shall be placed in a segregated, interest-bearing account and shall be accounted for separately from the other funds of the political subdivision or local park and recreation district. Impact fee revenues and interest earned on impact fee revenues may be expended only for capital costs for which the impact fees were imposed.

SB424, s. 62 Section 62. 66.0617 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,27,20 66.0617 (9) Refund of impact fees. An ordinance enacted or resolution adopted under this section shall specify that impact fees that are imposed and collected by a political subdivision or local park and recreation district but are not used within a reasonable period of time after they are collected to pay the capital costs for which they were imposed shall be refunded to the current owner of the property with respect to which the impact fees were imposed. The ordinance or resolution shall specify, by type of public facility, reasonable time periods within which impact fees must be spent or refunded under this subsection. In determining the length of the time periods under the ordinance, a political subdivision or local park and recreation district shall consider what are appropriate planning and financing periods for the particular types of public facilities for which the impact fees are imposed.

SB424, s. 63 Section 63. 66.0617 (10) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,28,2 66.0617 (10) Appeal. A political subdivision that enacts an impact fee ordinance under this section shall, by ordinance, and a local park and recreation district that adopts an impact fee resolution under this section shall, by resolution, specify a procedure under which a developer upon whom an impact fee is imposed has the right to contest the amount, collection, or use of the impact fee to the governing body of the political subdivision or local park and recreation district.

SB424, s. 64 Section 64. 66.0617 (11) of the statutes is created to read:

SB424,28,9 66.0617 (11) Transfer of unused impact fees. If a city, village, or town transfers title to its municipal park facilities to a local park and recreation district, as described in s. 229.861 (5) (a) 4., and if the city, village, or town has unspent impact fees that were to be used for municipal park facilities, as defined in s. 229.86 (5), the city, village, or town shall transfer such impact fees to the local park and recreation district.

SB424, s. 65 Section 65. 67.01 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,28,18 67.01 (5) "Municipality" means any of the following which is authorized to levy a tax: a county, city, village, town, school district, board of park commissioners, technical college district, metropolitan sewerage district created under ss. 200.01 to 200.15 or 200.21 to 200.65, town sanitary district under subch. IX of ch. 60, local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district established under s. 33.23, 33.235, or 33.24, and any other public body empowered to borrow money and issue obligations to repay the money out of public funds or revenues. "Municipality" does not include the state.

SB424, s. 66 Section 66. 70.11 (37m) of the statutes is created to read:

SB424,28,21 70.11 (37m) Local park and recreation district. The property of a local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229.

SB424, s. 67 Section 67. 71.26 (1) (bm) of the statutes, as affected by 2001 Wisconsin Act .... (Assembly Bill 512), is amended to read:

SB424,29,3 71.26 (1) (bm) Certain local districts. Income of a local exposition district created under subch. II of ch. 229, a local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229, a local professional football stadium district created under subch. IV of ch. 229, or a local cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229, or a local park and recreation district created under subch. VI of ch. 229.

SB424, s. 68 Section 68. 77.25 (18m) of the statutes is created to read:

SB424,29,5 77.25 (18m) To a local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229.

SB424, s. 69 Section 69. 77.54 (9a) (i) of the statutes is created to read:

SB424,29,7 77.54 (9a) (i) A local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229.

SB424, s. 70 Section 70. 79.03 (3) (b) 4. a. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB424,29,18 79.03 (3) (b) 4. a. "Local general purpose taxes" means the portion of tax increments collected for payment to a municipality under s. 66.1105 which is attributable to that municipality's own levy, the portion of environmental remediation tax increments collected for payment to a municipality or county under s. 66.1106 that is attributable to that municipality's or county's own levy, general property taxes, excluding taxes for a county children with disabilities education board, collected to finance the general purpose government unit, property taxes collected for sewage and sanitary districts, property taxes collected for local park and recreation districts, mobile home fees, the proceeds of county sales and use taxes and municipal and county vehicle registration fees under s. 341.35 (1).

SB424, s. 71 Section 71. Subchapter VI of chapter 229 [precedes 229.86] of the statutes is created to read:

SB424,29,21 CHAPTER 229

SB424,29,24 subchapter vi local park and recreation districts

SB424,29,25 229.86 Definitions. In this subchapter:

SB424,30,1 (1) "Board of directors" means the board of directors of a district.

SB424,30,5 (2) "Chief executive officer" means, as to a sponsoring municipality or as to a municipality that is wholly within the jurisdiction of a district, the mayor or city manager of a city, the village president of a village, or the town board chairperson of a town.

SB424,30,6 (3) "District" means a special purpose district created under this subchapter.

SB424,30,9 (4) "Enabling resolution" means a resolution, or an amendment of a resolution, adopted by the governing body of a municipality and signed by the chief executive officer to create a district.

SB424,30,11 (5) "Municipal park facilities" means a public park or recreational facility, including improvements, that is owned by a municipality.

SB424,30,15 (6) "Municipality" means any city other than a city that has a majority of its territory located in a county with a population greater than 500,000; any village other than a village that has a majority of its territory located in a county with a population greater than 500,000; or any town.

SB424,30,17 (7) "Park facilities" means a public park or recreational facility, including improvements, that is owned by a district.

SB424,30,19 (8) "Sponsoring municipality" means any municipality that creates a district in combination with another municipality.

SB424,30,24 229.861 Creation, organization, and administration. (1) Subject to sub. (5), 2 or more municipalities may create a special purpose district that is a unit of government, that is a body corporate and politic, that is separate and distinct from, and independent of, the state and the sponsoring municipalities, and that has the powers under s. 229.863, if the sponsoring municipalities do all of the following:

SB424,31,2 (a) Adopt an enabling resolution, subject to sub. (2), that does all of the following:

SB424,31,3 1. Declares the need for establishing the district.

SB424,31,4 2. Contains findings of public purpose.

SB424,31,5 3. Contains a detailed description of the boundaries of the proposed district.

SB424,31,7 4. Declares an intention to negotiate with a county the termination of any agreement entered into under s. 27.075 (1), (2), or (4).

SB424,31,9 (b) File copies of the enabling resolution with the clerk of each municipality and county that is wholly or partly within the boundaries of the proposed district.

SB424,31,14 (2) Subject to sub. (5), a district shall consist of at least 2 municipalities. Each sponsoring municipality shall be identified in a substantially similar enabling resolution that is adopted by the governing body of each sponsoring municipality within a 90-day period beginning with the date of adoption of the first enabling resolution.

SB424,31,16 (3) A district consisting of 2 or more municipalities may also be created, subject to subs. (4) and (5), by a petition and referendum if all of the following occur:

SB424,31,21 (a) A petition that conforms to the requirements of s. 8.40, which contains a detailed description and scale map of the proposed district, on the question of the creation of a district is circulated on or after December 1 and filed not later than 5 p.m. on the first Tuesday in January in each municipality that is within the boundaries of the proposed district.

SB424,31,24 (b) The petition is signed by a number of qualified electors residing in the municipality equal to at least 15% of the votes cast for governor in the municipality at the last gubernatorial election.

SB424,32,2 (c) The signed petition is filed with the clerk of each municipality in which the petition is circulated.

SB424,32,15 (4) If all of the steps in sub. (3) occur, each municipality in which petitions containing the requisite number of signatures are submitted to the clerk shall hold a referendum at the next succeeding spring election. Subject to sub. (5), if the question submitted at the referendum is approved by a majority of the electors who vote in the referendum at the spring election in at least 2 municipalities, a special purpose district that is a unit of government, that is a body corporate and politic, that is separate and distinct from, and independent of, the state and each municipality, and that has the powers under s. 229.863 is created, the boundaries of which include each municipality in which the question is approved. The referendum question shall be substantially as follows: "Shall a local park and recreation district, the territory of which includes in whole the .... [name of municipality], be created?" If a referendum question is not approved in at least 2 municipalities, no district may be created.

SB424,32,22 (5) (a) Before a district may be created, the governing bodies of each municipality that has adopted a resolution under sub. (1) or in which a referendum question has been approved under sub. (4) shall adopt a resolution or enact an ordinance, not later than September 1 of the year in which the resolution under sub. (1) or the referendum question is approved, that, subject to pars. (b) and (c), contains an agreement among each of the governing bodies which addresses at least all of the following provisions:

SB424,33,2 1. A mechanism that provides, from each of the municipalities, a loan of start-up funds for the initial operating costs of the district. The loaned start-up funds shall be sufficient to sustain the district until it receives the first amount of proceeds from a tax that is imposed under s. 229.863 (8).

SB424,33,5 2. A method of appointing temporary members to the board of directors under sub. (6) (am) to serve until the initial members are elected at the spring election and qualified to take office.