AB510: Bill Text

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill authorizes certain municipalities (any city, village, or town or portion of a town, that is located in an urbanized area, as designated by a regional planning commission or county zoning agency) to jointly create a metropolitan service district (district). A district is a local unit of government that is a body corporate and politic and that is separate and distinct from, and independent of, the state and the municipalities within its jurisdiction. Subject to a number of conditions, a district's jurisdiction consists of two or more municipalities, that are located within a single urbanized area, if the municipalities adopt similar enabling resolutions within a 30-day period. The resolution declares a municipality's intent to create a district and declares which two or more governmental services the district will provide.

Upon the adoption of such resolutions by at least two municipalities, every municipality within the urbanized area becomes a part of the district unless a municipality's governing body opts out of the district within 60 days after the adoption of the second enabling resolution.

A municipality that opts out of a district may later join if its request to join is approved by the commission, which is the district's governing body, and by all of the municipalities that are part of the district. A city or village that is not in the district's urbanized area may also join with approval from at least 50% of the municipalities that are part of the district. The territory of a municipality may be in only one district. A district may be in more than one county, although a county may not be a part of a district.

Before a district may be created, the governing bodies of each of the municipalities that have not opted out of the district must reach an agreement that addresses a number of issues, including the number of members of the commission, which may not be greater than nine; a method of appointing temporary members of the commission to serve until the initial election and qualification of members; an apportionment plan for the election of commissioners, or an agreement to not have an apportionment plan; and a list of issues and actions of the commission that are subject to review by a veto panel (see below). The agreement may also address any other issue. Before such an agreement may be entered into, the participating municipalities must select an arbitrator who will decide by November 1 any of the issues that are not resolved by the municipalities by September 1, except the issue of whether to elect members of the commission pursuant to an apportionment plan (see below).

A district is governed by its commission. The members of the commission must choose from among themselves a chairperson, vice chairperson, secretary, and treasurer. A district may take action based on the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the members of the commission. The members of the commission are elected for three-year terms, except that the terms of the nearest whole number to one-third of the initial commissioners shall be one year and the terms of the nearest whole number to one-third of the initial commissioners shall be two years.

The first election of members of the commission occurs in the April following creation of the district. Unless unanimously agreed to by the governing bodies of all municipalities that lie within the district, the commissioners are elected at large pursuant to a plan of apportionment under which each commissioner resides in a separate geographic area. If unanimously agreed to by the respective governing bodies, the commissioners may be elected at large without a plan of apportionment.

Upon its creation, a commission and each municipality that is part of the district must determine which property, facilities, and other assets of the municipality shall be transferred from the municipality to the district. Real property and attachments that relate to a service provided by the district, and associated debts of such property and attachments, must be transferred to a district, as well as vehicles and specialized equipment with a value of at least $50,000. Unused property, equipment, or other assets must be returned by the district from the municipality from which it came. If the commission and a municipality are unable to reach an agreement on the transfer of property, equipment, and other assets within 90 days after the municipality becomes a part of a district, the parties must agree on the selection of an arbitrator who shall decide on the terms of settlement.

A district must provide at least two governmental services, which shall include at least one of the following: economic development; land use planning; fire and emergency medical; parks and recreation; zoning; mass transit; highway maintenance; police; recycling; yard waste and garbage collection; and municipal or joint libraries. If a district provides a service to only some of the municipalities in the district, only the municipalities that receive the service may be charged a fee for that service.

If a municipality becomes a part of a district, the district must employ all municipal employees who provided the service to be provided by the district, and pay them wages and benefits at least comparable to their former wages and benefits, until the expiration of the of the applicable collective bargaining agreements. Upon the expiration of the agreements, the district may offer continued employment to those employees, who shall retain as district employees the seniority they accumulated with their municipal employers. If, in any collective bargaining unit that is initially created at a district, a majority of the former municipal employees were represented by the same representative when they were employed by a municipality, that representative becomes the initial representative of the employees in the collective bargaining unit without the necessity of filing a petition or conducting an election that otherwise applies under current law. If a municipality becomes a part of a district, it must accept all of the services then provided by the district, and must discontinue its collection of a room tax, if any, if the district collects a room tax.

In connection with property or facilities used or needed by a district to perform the services it provides, the powers of a district include: the authority to acquire, develop, maintain, improve, operate, and manage the property or facilities; the authority to operate recreational facilities or programs; the authority to enter into contracts; the authority to employ personnel; the authority to impose an impact fee on developers; the authority to impose a room tax; the authority to issue debt for capital improvements to property or facilities; and the authority to levy a property tax to carry out the district's functions.

Under the bill, a district is considered to be a municipality for purposes of determining eligibility for and receiving a payment under the expenditure restraint program. Under current law, generally, a municipality that imposes a property tax levy rate of more than five mills receives an expenditure restraint program payment, if any increase in the municipality's budget for the year is no more than the allowable increase under the program. The allowable increase is based, generally, on the property value in the municipality and the inflation rate.

No municipality that is part of the jurisdiction of a district may expend any funds to support property or facilities that are owned by the district, or impose an impact fee for property or facilities that are related to providing a service that the district provides to that municipality. No city or village may annex town territory of a town that is part of the same district to which the annexing city or village belongs, other than under a boundary agreement or at the request of the property owner and with the consent of the town board. In addition, a town that is located in whole or part within a district that provides the town with planning and zoning services may exercise tax incremental financing powers if the town enters into a revenue sharing agreement with every other municipality in the district.

Upon the creation of a district, there is also created a veto panel, consisting of the chief executive officer of each municipality that is part of the district. The veto panel exists, generally, for ten years after its creation. The commission must notify the veto panel, and each municipality's clerk, whenever it takes action on an item that is subject to veto panel review. Each member of the panel may notify the commission's clerk within ten business days of being notified of such commission action that the member objects to the commission's action. If at least 50% of the members of the panel object to the commission's action, the action of the commission is vetoed and may not take effect. The commission may override a veto, however, by a two-thirds vote of all of the members of the commission.

A municipality may withdraw from a district if it adopts a resolution stating its intention to withdraw and if all of the other municipalities that are a part of the district adopt resolutions of approval.

Disputes between municipalities and the commission involving the creation, governance, functions, or services provided by a district, or the transfer of property and facilities from a district to a municipality upon a district's dissolution, must be submitted to arbitration.

Subject to providing for the payment of its debts, and the performance of other contractual obligations, a district may be dissolved by its commission. Upon dissolution, the property of the district shall be transferred to the municipalities that are a part of the district, based on a number of factors, such as the current value of the property and facilities transferred by the municipality to the district and the amount of money or other contributions made to the district by the municipality during the district's existence.

A district may operate (as well as improve and promote) an existing mass transit system. A mass transit system means public transportation on a regular and continuing basis by bus, shared-ride taxicab, rail, or other conveyance, whether publicly or privately owned.

A district may contract with a municipality for the district to perform all or certain parts of highway maintenance services on highways under the municipality's jurisdiction. These services may include but are not limited to snow removal, highway lighting, and highway surface cleaning. (Current law allows a municipality to contract with the Department of Transportation (DOT) to perform highway maintenance services on highways under DOT's jurisdiction, and the bill also allows a district to contract with DOT to perform such services.) If a municipality and district enter into a highway maintenance contract, the municipality must transfer to the district, within 30 days of receipt, all state transportation aids received by the municipality allocable to the cost of providing those highway maintenance services that are the subject of the contract. The municipality must further provide information to DOT regarding the services that are subject to the highway maintenance contract and the amount of state transportation aids transferred to the district because of the contract. A district providing highway maintenance services may register vehicles with DOT in the same manner as a municipality and is governed by the same civil liability limitations that apply to municipalities with respect to operation of motor vehicles. While the bill does not relieve a municipality from its legal responsibility for highways under its jurisdiction, including limited civil liability for highway defects, the bill allows a municipality to recover from a district for any legal liability imposed upon the municipality based upon a highway defect resulting from a district's highway maintenance work.

For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB510, s. 1 Section 1. 5.02 (21) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,6,5 5.02 (21) "Spring election" means the election held on the first Tuesday in April to elect judicial, educational, and municipal officers, nonpartisan county officers, sewerage commissioners, and commissioners of metropolitan service districts and to express preferences for the person to be the presidential candidate for each party.

AB510, s. 2 Section 2. 5.58 (1u) of the statutes is created to read:

AB510,6,12 5.58 (1u) Metropolitan service district commission. Except as authorized in s. 5.655, there shall be a separate ballot for members of the metropolitan service district commission. Arrangement of the names on the ballot shall be determined by the metropolitan service district clerk in the manner provided under s. 5.60 (1) (b). The ballot shall be entitled "Official Primary Ballot for Member of the Metropolitan Service District Commission."

AB510, s. 3 Section 3. 5.58 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,7,17 5.58 (3) Names on spring ballot. Only 2 candidates for state superintendent, for any judicial office, or for any elected seat on a metropolitan sewerage commission or town sanitary district commission,; in counties having a population of 500,000 or more only 2 candidates for member of the board of supervisors within each district,; in counties having a population of less than 500,000 only 2 candidates for each member of the county board of supervisors from each district or numbered seat or only 4 candidates for each 2 members of the county board of supervisors from each district whenever 2 supervisors are elected to unnumbered seats from the same district,; in 1st class cities only 2 candidates for any at-large seat and only 2 candidates from any election district to be elected to the board of school directors,; in school districts electing school board members to numbered seats, or pursuant to an apportionment plan or district representation plan, only 2 school board candidates for each numbered seat or within each district, ; in a metropolitan service district, twice as many candidates as are to be elected members of the metropolitan service district commission, or, if the district elects commissioners from apportioned areas, twice as many candidates as are to be elected members of the commission from each apportioned area; and twice as many candidates as are to be elected members of other school boards or other elective officers receiving the highest number of votes at the primary shall be nominees for the office at the spring election. Only their names shall appear on the official spring ballot.

AB510, s. 4 Section 4. 5.60 (6u) of the statutes is created to read:

AB510,7,24 5.60 (6u) Metropolitan service district commission. Except as authorized in s. 5.655, a separate ballot shall list the names of all candidates for member of the metropolitan service district commission. Arrangement of the names on the ballot shall be determined by the metropolitan service district clerk in the manner provided under sub. (1) (b). The ballot shall be entitled "Official Ballot for Member of the Metropolitan Service District Commission."

AB510, s. 5 Section 5. 5.68 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,8,12 5.68 (2) Except as otherwise expressly provided, all costs for ballots, supplies, notices, and any other materials necessary in preparing or conducting any election shall be paid for by the county or municipality whose clerk or board of election commissioners is responsible for providing them. If a ballot is prepared for a school, technical college, sewerage or, sanitary , or metropolitan service district, the district shall pay for the cost of the ballot. If no other level of government is involved in a school, technical college, sewerage or, sanitary, or metropolitan service district election, the district shall pay for all costs of the ballots, supplies, notices, and other materials. If ballots, supplies, notices, or other materials are used for elections within more than one unit of local government, the costs shall be proportionately divided between the units of local government involved in the election. In a 1st class city, all costs otherwise attributable to a school district shall be paid by the city.

AB510, s. 6 Section 6. 5.68 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,8,21 5.68 (3) If voting machines are used or if an electronic voting system is used in which all candidates and referenda appear on the same ballot, the ballots for all national, state, and county offices and for county and state referenda shall be prepared and paid for by the county wherein they are used. If the voting machine or electronic voting system ballot includes a municipal or school, technical college, sewerage or, sanitary, or metropolitan service district ballot, the cost of that portion of the ballot shall be reimbursed to the county or paid for by the municipality or district, except as provided in a 1st class city school district under sub. (2).

AB510, s. 7 Section 7. 7.51 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,9,3 7.51 (3) (b) For ballots which relate only to municipal or, school district, or metropolitan service district offices or referenda, the inspectors, in lieu of par. (a), after counting the ballots shall return them to the proper ballot boxes, lock the boxes, paste paper over the slots, sign their names to the paper, and deliver them and the keys therefor to the municipal or, school district, or metropolitan service district clerk. The clerk shall retain the ballots until destruction is authorized under s. 7.23.

AB510, s. 8 Section 8. 7.51 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,9,11 7.51 (3) (d) All absentee certificate envelopes which have been opened shall be returned by the inspectors to the municipal clerk in a securely sealed carrier envelope which is clearly marked "used absentee certificate envelopes". The envelopes shall be signed by the chief inspector and 2 other inspectors. Except when the ballots are used in a municipal or, school district, or metropolitan service district election only, the municipal clerk shall transmit the used envelopes to the county clerk.

AB510, s. 9 Section 9. 7.51 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,9,18 7.51 (4) (b) The chief inspector, or one of the inspectors appointed by him or her, immediately after the votes are tabulated or counted at each election, shall report the returns of the election to the municipal clerk or , to the school district clerk for school district elections, except in 1st class cities, or to the metropolitan service district clerk for metropolitan service district elections. The clerk shall then make the returns public.

AB510, s. 10 Section 10. 7.51 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,9,25 7.51 (5) Returns. (a) The inspectors shall make full and accurate return of the votes cast for each candidate and proposition on tally sheet forms provided by the municipal clerk for that purpose. Each tally sheet shall record the returns for each office or referendum by ward, unless combined returns are authorized in accordance with s. 5.15 (6) (b) in which case the tally sheet shall record the returns for each group of combined wards. After recording the votes, the inspectors shall seal in a carrier envelope outside the ballot bag or container one inspectors' statement under sub. (4) (a), one tally sheet, and one poll or registration list for delivery to the county clerk, unless the election relates only to municipal or school district offices or referenda or metropolitan service district offices. The inspectors shall also similarly seal one inspectors' statement, one tally sheet, and one poll or registration list for delivery to the municipal clerk. For school district elections, except in 1st class cities, the inspectors shall similarly seal one inspectors' statement, one tally sheet, and one poll or registration list for delivery to the school district clerk. For metropolitan service district elections, the inspectors shall similarly seal one inspectors' statement, one tally sheet, and one poll or registration list for delivery to the metropolitan service district clerk. The inspectors shall immediately deliver all ballots, statements, tally sheets, lists, and envelopes to the municipal clerk.

AB510,10,21 (b) The municipal clerk shall arrange for delivery of all ballots, statements, tally sheets, lists, and envelopes relating to a school district or metropolitan service district election to the school district or metropolitan service district clerk, respectively. The municipal clerk shall deliver the ballots, statements, tally sheets, lists, and envelopes for his or her municipality relating to any county, technical college district, state, or national election to the county clerk by 2 p.m. on the day following each such election. The person delivering the returns shall be paid out of the municipal treasury. Each clerk shall retain ballots, statements, tally sheets, or envelopes received by the clerk until destruction is authorized under s. 7.23 (1).

AB510, s. 11 Section 11. 7.53 (3m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB510,11,15 7.53 (3m) Metropolitan service district elections. The metropolitan service district clerk shall appoint 2 qualified electors of the district prior to the date of the election being canvassed, who shall, with the clerk, constitute the metropolitan service district board of canvassers. The clerk shall appoint an individual to fill any temporary vacancy on the board of canvassers. The canvass shall begin as soon as possible after receipt of the returns and shall continue, without adjournment, until completed. The board of canvassers may return defective returns to the municipal board of canvassers in the manner provided in s. 7.60 (3). Following the spring election, the board of canvassers shall publicly declare the results on or before the 2nd Tuesday of April. The board of canvassers shall prepare a written statement showing the numbers of votes cast for each person for each office and shall prepare a determination showing the names of the persons who are elected to the metropolitan service district commission. Following each primary election, the board of canvassers shall prepare a statement certifying the names of the persons who have won nomination to the metropolitan service district commission. Each statement and determination shall be attested by each of the canvassers. The board of canvassers shall file each statement and determination in the metropolitan service district office.

AB510, s. 12 Section 12. 8.10 (6) (e) of the statutes is created to read:

AB510,11,18 8.10 (6) (e) For members of a metropolitan service district commission, with the metropolitan service district clerk.

AB510, s. 13 Section 13. 8.11 (2f) of the statutes is created to read:

AB510,11,25 8.11 (2f) Metropolitan service district commissions. A primary shall be held in a metropolitan service district whenever there are more than twice the number of candidates as are to be elected members of the metropolitan service district commission, or, if the district elects commissioners from apportioned areas, more than twice as many candidates as are to be elected members of the commission from any apportioned area.

AB510, s. 14 Section 14. 9.10 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,12,7 9.10 (1) (a) The qualified electors of the state,; of any county, city, village, or town,; of any congressional, legislative, judicial, or school district,; of any metropolitan service district; or of any prosecutorial unit may petition for the recall of any incumbent elective official by filing a petition with the same official or agency with whom nomination papers or declarations of candidacy for the office are filed demanding the recall of the officeholder.

AB510, s. 15 Section 15. 9.10 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,12,16 9.10 (1) (b) Except as provided in par. (c), a petition for recall of a state, congressional, legislative, judicial, or county officer shall be signed by electors equal to at least 25% of the vote cast for the office of governor at the last election within the same district or territory as that of the officeholder being recalled. Except as provided in par. (c), a petition for the recall of a city, village, town, metropolitan service district, or school district officer shall be signed by electors equal to at least 25% of the vote cast for the office of president at the last election within the same district or territory as that of the officeholder being recalled.

AB510, s. 16 Section 16. 9.10 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,13,8 9.10 (2) (d) No petition may be offered for filing for the recall of an officer unless the petitioner first files a registration statement under s. 11.05 (1) or (2) with the filing officer with whom the petition is filed. The petitioner shall append to the registration a statement indicating his or her intent to circulate a recall petition, the name of the officer for whom recall is sought and, in the case of a petition for the recall of a city, village, town, metropolitan service district, or school district officer, a statement of a reason for the recall which is related to the official responsibilities of the official for whom removal is sought. No petitioner may circulate a petition for the recall of an officer prior to completing registration. The last date that on which a petition for the recall of a state, congressional, legislative, judicial, or county officer may be offered for filing is 5 p.m. on the 60th day commencing after registration. The last date that on which a petition for the recall of a city, village, town, metropolitan service district, or school district officer may be offered for filing is 5 p.m. on the 30th day commencing after registration. After the recall petition has been offered for filing, no name may be added or removed. No signature may be counted unless the date of the signature is within the period provided in this paragraph.

AB510, s. 17 Section 17. 9.10 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,13,13 9.10 (3) (a) This subsection applies to the recall of all elective officials other than city, village, town, metropolitan service district, and school district officials. City, village, town, metropolitan service district, and school district officials are recalled under sub. (4).

AB510, s. 18 Section 18. 9.10 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,14,22 9.10 (4) (a) Within 10 days after a petition for the recall of a city, village, town, metropolitan service district, or school district official, is offered for filing, the officer against whom the petition is filed may file a written challenge with the municipal clerk or board of election commissioners or school district clerk official or agency with whom it the petition is filed, specifying any alleged insufficiency. If a challenge is filed, the petitioner may file a written rebuttal to the challenge with the clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency within 5 days after the challenge is filed. If a rebuttal is filed, the officer against whom the petition is filed may file a reply to any new matter raised in the rebuttal within 2 days after the rebuttal is filed. Within 14 days after the expiration of the time allowed for filing a reply to a rebuttal, the clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency shall file the certificate or an amended certificate. Within 31 days after the petition is offered for filing, the clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency shall determine by careful examination of the face of the petition whether the petition is sufficient and shall so state in a certificate issued by the official or agency and attached to the petition. If the petition is found to be insufficient, the certificate shall state the particulars creating the insufficiency. The petition may be amended to correct any insufficiency within 5 days following the affixing of the original certificate. Within 2 days after the offering of the amended petition for filing, the clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency shall again carefully examine the face of the petition to determine sufficiency and shall attach to the petition a certificate stating the findings. Immediately upon finding an original or amended petition sufficient, except in cities over 500,000 population, the municipal clerk or school district clerk and except with regard to a member of a metropolitan service district commission, the official shall transmit the petition to the governing body or to the school board. Immediately Except with regard to a member of a metropolitan service district commission, immediately upon finding an original or amended petition sufficient, in cities over 500,000 population, the board of election commissioners shall file the petition in its office. Immediately upon finding an original or amended petition sufficient, with regard to a member of a metropolitan service district commission, the metropolitan service district clerk shall file the petition in his or her office and shall transmit a copy of the petition to the governing body of each city, village, and town that has territory within the jurisdiction of the metropolitan service district.

AB510, s. 19 Section 19. 9.10 (4) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,15,4 9.10 (4) (d) Promptly upon receipt of a certificate or copy of the certificate issued under par. (a), the governing body, school board, or board of election commissioners shall call a recall election. The recall election shall be held on the Tuesday of the 6th week commencing after the date on which the certificate is filed, except that if Tuesday is a legal holiday the recall election shall be held on the first day after Tuesday which is not a legal holiday.

AB510, s. 20 Section 20. 9.10 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,15,8 9.10 (7) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to facilitate the operation of article XIII, section 12, of the constitution and to extend the same rights to electors of cities, villages, towns, metropolitan service districts, and school districts.

AB510, s. 21 Section 21. 10.05 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,15,23 10.05 Posting of notice. Unless specifically designated elsewhere, this section applies to villages, towns and, school districts, and metropolitan service districts. Whenever a notice is required to be published, a village, town or, school district, or metropolitan service district may post 3 notices in lieu of publication under ch. 985 whenever there is not a newspaper published within the village, town or, school district, or metropolitan service district or whenever the governing body of the village, town or, school district , or metropolitan service district chooses to post in order to supplement notice provided in a newspaper. Whenever the manner of giving notice is changed by the governing body, the body shall give notice of the change in the manner used before the change. Whenever posting is used, the notices shall be posted no later than the day prescribed by law for publication , or, if that day falls within the week preceding the election to be noticed, at least one week before the election. All notices given for the same election shall be given in the same manner.

AB510, s. 22 Section 22. 10.07 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,16,10 10.07 (1) Except as provided in sub. (2) in the case of voting machine ballots, whenever any county clerk or and one or more municipal or, school district , or metropolitan service district clerks within the same county are directed to publish, or whenever 2 or more municipal, school district, or metropolitan service district clerks within the same county are directed to publish any notice or portion of a notice under this chapter on the same date in the same newspaper, the text of which is identical, the clerks may publish one notice only. The cost of publication of such notice or the portion of the notice required shall be apportioned equally between the county and each municipality or, school district, or metropolitan service district sharing in its publication.

AB510, s. 23 Section 23. 11.02 (8) of the statutes is created to read:

AB510,16,13 11.02 (8) If the jurisdiction under sub. (3) is a metropolitan service district, the appropriate clerk is the metropolitan service district clerk.

AB510, s. 24 Section 24. 11.31 (1) (h) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,16,19 11.31 (1) (h) (intro.) Candidates for any local office , who are elected from a jurisdiction or district with less than 500,000 inhabitants according to the latest federal census or census information on which the district is based, as certified by the appropriate filing officer, and candidates for member of a metropolitan service district commission, an amount equal to the greater of the following:

AB510, s. 25 Section 25. 17.01 (11m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB510,16,24 17.01 (11m) By a member of a metropolitan service district commission, to the commission. The commission shall immediately give a copy of each resignation under this subsection to the elections board and to the chief executive officer of each municipality that has territory within the jurisdiction of the district.

AB510, s. 26 Section 26. 17.13 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,17,5 17.13 Removal of village, town, town sanitary district, school district, technical college and district, family care district, and metropolitan service district officers. (intro.) Officers of towns, town sanitary districts, villages, school districts, technical college districts and , family care districts, and metropolitan service districts may be removed as follows:

AB510, s. 27 Section 27. 17.13 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,17,12 17.13 (3) All officers. Any village, town, town sanitary district, school district or, technical college district, or metropolitan service district officer, elective or appointive, including those embraced within subs. (1) and (2), by the a judge of the circuit court of the a circuit wherein the village, town, town sanitary district, school district or, technical college district , or metropolitan service district is situated, for cause.

AB510, s. 28 Section 28. 17.27 (1f) of the statutes is created to read:

AB510,17,22 17.27 (1f) Metropolitan service district commission. Except as provided in s. 9.10, a vacancy in the office of any member of a metropolitan service district commission may be filled by temporary appointment of the remaining members of the commission. The temporary appointee shall serve until a successor is elected and qualified. If the vacancy occurs in any year after the first Tuesday in April and on or before December 1, the vacancy shall be filled for the residue of the unexpired term, if any, at the date of the next spring election. If the vacancy occurs in any year after December 1 or on or before the first Tuesday in April, the vacancy shall be filled for the residue of the unexpired term, if any, at the 2nd succeeding spring election.

AB510, s. 29 Section 29. 23.09 (19) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,18,3 23.09 (19) (a) 2. "Governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county, lake sanitary district, as defined in s. 30.50 (4q), public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, or metropolitan service district under subch. VI of ch. 229 which provides parks and recreation services under s. 229.863 (2) (d), or the Kickapoo reserve management board.

AB510, s. 30 Section 30. 23.09 (20) (ab) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,18,7 23.09 (20) (ab) 1. "Governmental unit" means a municipality, a metropolitan service district under subch. VI of ch. 229 which provides parks and recreation services under s. 229.863 (2) (d), or the Kickapoo reserve management board.

AB510, s. 31 Section 31. 23.09 (20m) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,18,12 23.09 (20m) (a) 1. "Governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county, or metropolitan service district under subch. VI of ch. 229 which provides parks and recreation services under s. 229.863 (2) (d), or the Kickapoo reserve management board.

AB510, s. 32 Section 32. 23.0917 (4m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB510,18,17 23.0917 (4m) (a) 3. "Local governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county, lake sanitary district, as defined in s. 30.50 (4q), or a public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, or metropolitan service district under subch. VI of ch. 229 which provides parks and recreation services under s. 229.863 (2) (d).