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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
March 27, 2015 - Introduced by Representatives Krug, Steffen, Ballweg and
Kahl, cosponsored by Senators Roth and Lassa. Referred to Committee on
Ways and Means.
AB123,1,4 1An Act to create 60.85 (2) (b) 8. of the statutes; relating to: limited
2authorization for the town of Rome in Adams County to make cash grants or
3loan subsidies to owners, lessees, or developers of land located in a tax
4incremental district created by the town.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under the current tax incremental financing program, a city or village may
create a tax incremental district (TID) in part of its territory to foster development
if at least 50 percent of the area to be included in the TID is blighted, in need of
rehabilitation or conservation, suitable for industrial sites, or suitable for mixed-use
development. Currently, towns and counties also have a limited ability to create a
TID under certain circumstances. Before a city or village may create a TID, several
steps and plans are required. These steps and plans include public hearings on the
proposed TID within specified time frames, preparation and adoption by the local
planning commission of a proposed project plan for the TID, approval of the proposed
project plan by the common council or village board, approval of the city's or village's
proposed TID by a joint review board that consists of members who represent the
overlying taxation districts, and adoption of a resolution by the common council or
village board that creates the TID as of a date provided in the resolution.
Under the current law limitations on towns to use tax incremental financing
(TIF), a town may create a TID for projects related to tourism, agriculture,
manufacturing, or forestry. A town may also use TIF for residential projects, but only
to the extent that the residential project has a necessary and incidental relationship

to a tourism, agricultural, manufacturing, or forestry project, and for retail projects
to the extent that the retail development is related to the retail sale of a product that
is produced due to an agricultural, forestry, or manufacturing project.
A town may also create a TID in limited circumstances under which the town
enters into a cooperative plan with a city or village under which part or all of the town
will be annexed or attached by the city or village.
This bill authorizes the town of Rome in Adams County to make direct cash
grants or loan subsidies to an owner, lessee, or developer of land in a TID that
includes a golf course. The authorization created in the bill may only be used for one
TID.
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:
AB123,1 1Section 1. 60.85 (2) (b) 8. of the statutes is created to read:
AB123,2,102 60.85 (2) (b) 8. A project that includes a golf course, except that this subdivision
3applies only to the town of Rome in Adams County and the town may create only one
4district to which this subdivision applies. Notwithstanding the limitations under
5sub. (1) (h) 2. d., the town of Rome in Adams County may include as project costs, for
6the project authorized under this subdivision, cash grants or loan subsidies to
7owners, lessees, or developers of land that is located within the tax incremental
8district. With regard to a district to which this subdivision applies, the town board
9resolution adopted under sub. (3) (h) need not contain the findings related to the
10required percentage of real property that is specified in sub. (3) (h) 5. a.
AB123,2,1111 (End)
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