560.038(1)(a)
(a) "Business incubator" means a facility designed to encourage the growth of new businesses, if at least 2 of the following apply:
560.038(1)(a)1.
1. Space in the facility is rented at a rate lower than the market rate in the community.
560.038(1)(a)3.
3. Management and technical assistance are available at the facility.
560.038(1)(a)4.
4. Businesses using the facility may obtain financial capital through a direct relationship with at least one financial institution.
560.038(1)(b)
(b) "Nonprofit corporation" means a corporation that is organized under
ch. 181 and that is exempt from taxation under section
501 (c) (3) of the internal revenue code.
560.038(2)
(2) Grants. In each fiscal year, the department may make a grant of not more than $100,000 from the appropriation under
s. 20.143 (1) (fm) to a nonprofit corporation, if all of the following apply:
560.038(2)(a)
(a) The nonprofit corporation owns and operates a business incubator.
560.038(2)(b)
(b) The business incubator provides services primarily to minority group members or minority businesses.
560.038(2)(e)
(e) The nonprofit corporation submits a plan to the department detailing the project and the proposed use of the grant.
560.038(2)(f)
(f) If the grant is part of a project that is also funded by contributions from other sources, the nonprofit corporation provides the department with the amount of those contributions or pledges for contributions that the nonprofit corporation received before the grant is made.
560.038(2)(g)
(g) The secretary approves the plan submitted under
par. (e) before awarding the grant.
560.038(2)(h)
(h) The nonprofit corporation agrees not to use the proceeds of the grant for salaries or other administrative costs.
560.038(2)(i)
(i) The nonprofit corporation agrees to use the grant to build or rehabilitate the premises of the business incubator.
560.038(2)(j)
(j) The nonprofit corporation agrees to try to ensure that at least 50% of the proceeds of the grant will go to contractors that are minority businesses.
560.038(2)(k)
(k) The nonprofit corporation agrees to submit to the department, within 90 days after spending the full amount of the grant, a report detailing the actual use of the proceeds of the grant.
560.038 History
History: 1991 a. 39 s.
9115 (1h);
1993 a. 16 ss.
3360,
3884; Stats. 1993 s. 560.038;
1997 a. 27.
560.039
560.039
Minority business incubator grants. 560.039(1)(a)
(a) "Business incubator" means a person who operates a facility designed to encourage the growth of new businesses, if at least 2 of the following apply:
560.039(1)(a)1.
1. Space in the facility is rented at a rate lower than the market rate in the community.
560.039(1)(a)3.
3. Management and technical assistance are available at the facility.
560.039(1)(a)4.
4. Businesses using the facility may obtain financial capital through a direct relationship with at least one financial institution.
560.039(2)
(2) Grants. In each fiscal year, the department may make a grant of not more than $100,000 from the appropriation under
s. 20.143 (1) (fm) to a business incubator, if all of the following apply:
560.039(2)(a)
(a) The business incubator provides services primarily to minority group members or minority businesses.
560.039(2)(d)
(d) The business incubator submits a plan to the department detailing the proposed use of the grant.
560.039(2)(e)
(e) If the grant is part of a project that is also funded by contributions from other sources, the business incubator provides the department with the amount of those contributions or pledges for contributions that the business incubator received before the grant is made.
560.039(2)(f)
(f) The secretary approves the plan submitted under
par. (d) before awarding the grant.
560.039(2)(g)
(g) The business incubator agrees not to use the proceeds of the grant for salaries or other administrative costs.
560.039(2)(h)
(h) If the grant will be used to build or rehabilitate the premises of the business incubator, the business incubator agrees to try to ensure that at least 50% of the proceeds of the grant will go to contractors that are minority businesses.
560.039(2)(i)
(i) The business incubator agrees to submit to the department, within 90 days after spending the full amount of the grant, a report detailing the actual use of the proceeds of the grant.
560.039 History
History: 1991 a. 39 s.
9115 (1i);
1993 a. 16 ss.
3361,
3885 to
3888; Stats. 1993 s. 560.039;
1997 a. 27.
560.04
560.04
Community development. 560.04(1)
(1)
Purpose. The legislature determines that a pattern of state-local relations shall be established that will facilitate closer coordination and cooperation between state and local governments. The department shall recommend methods for achieving such closer coordination and cooperation in order to meet citizen needs, provide a balanced economy and facilitate economic and community development.
560.04(2)(a)
(a) Review proposed changes in local government boundaries and evaluate and recommend to communities involved those changes which are in the best interest of the state and the communities involved.
560.04(2)(b)
(b) Cooperate with and provide technical assistance to county, town, village, city and regional planning commissions and their governing bodies, community development groups, and similar agencies created for the purposes of aiding and encouraging orderly, productive and coordinated economic and community development in the state and assuring a productive and coordinated state-local relationship.
560.04(2)(c)
(c) Encourage and, when requested, assist the efforts of local governments to develop mutual and cooperative solutions to their common problems.
560.04(2)(e)
(e) Consult with and encourage participation by private groups, individuals, and organizations in carrying out the purposes of the department.
560.04(2)(g)
(g) Establish and operate a community development and local government clearinghouse to facilitate the exchange of information between other state and federal agencies and units of local government.
560.04(2)(h)
(h) Identify for the governor's attention those significant state-local relations problems, including economic development, which may be relieved by state action.
560.04(2)(j)
(j) Administer grant programs related to economic or community development, including economic development assistance programs and urban development comprehensive planning grants affecting local government, business or industry, to assist and strengthen local, regional and state economic and community development and support experimental and cooperative activities and intergovernmental relations, training of local government officials and personnel, and other activities consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
560.04(2m)
(2m) Duties. The department may assign one or more full-time equivalent positions to the functions of coordinating the development and scheduling of training programs for local government officials by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, technical college system, department of revenue, elections board, and other state agencies in order to assure the effective delivery of training programs and to prevent duplication of effort and of coordinating requests for management or personnel consultative services from government units other than the state and directing those requests to the appropriate division of the department of administration.
560.045
560.045
Community development block grant administration. 560.045(1)(1) Notwithstanding
s. 16.54 (2) (a), from moneys received under a community development block grant,
42 USC 5301 to
5320, the department shall contract with the department of administration for the administration of housing programs, including the housing improvement grant program and the initial rehabilitation grant program. To the extent allowed under federal law or regulation, the department shall give priority in the awarding of grants under the programs to grants for projects related to the redevelopment of brownfields, as defined in
s. 560.60 (1v).
560.045(2)
(2) The department shall expand the blight elimination and brownfield redevelopment program under
subch. V of
ch. Comm 108, Wis. Adm. Code, to fund redevelopment planning and projects that will result in end uses with taxable value.
560.045 History
History: 1991 a. 39;
1997 a. 27;
1999 a. 9.
560.05
560.05
Additional powers to provide facilities. 560.05(1)
(1) As used in this section unless the context requires otherwise:
560.05(1)(a)
(a) The term "corporation" in relation to any conveyance, lease or sublease made under
sub. (2) means a nonstock corporation organized under
ch. 181 that is a nonprofit corporation, as defined in
s. 181.0103 (17).
560.05(1)(b)
(b) "Existing building" in relation to any conveyance, lease or sublease made under
sub. (2) means all administrative buildings, all storage facilities and garages, all buildings used for exhibition or promotional events for agricultural, industrial, educational, recreational or athletic purposes and such other buildings, structures, facilities and permanent improvements as in the judgment of the department are needed or useful and all equipment therefor and all improvements and additions thereto which were erected, constructed or installed prior to the making of such conveyance, lease or sublease.
560.05(1)(c)
(c) "New building" in relation to any conveyance, lease or sublease made under
sub. (2) means all administrative buildings, all storage facilities and garages, all buildings used for exhibition or promotional events for agricultural, industrial, educational, recreational or athletic purposes and such other buildings, structures, facilities and permanent improvements as in the judgment of the department are needed or useful and all equipment therefor and all improvements and additions thereto which are erected, constructed or installed after the making of such conveyance, lease or sublease.
560.05(2)
(2) In order to provide new buildings and to enable the construction and financing thereof, to refinance indebtedness hereafter created by a corporation for the purpose of providing new buildings or additions or improvements thereto which are located on land owned by or owned by the state and held for the department or by a corporation or for any one or more of said purposes but for no other purpose unless authorized by law, the department has the following powers and duties:
560.05(2)(a)
(a) Without limitation by reason of any other provisions of the statutes, the power to sell and to convey title in fee simple to a corporation any land and any existing buildings thereon owned by or owned by the state and held for the department for such consideration and upon such terms and conditions as in the judgment of the department are in the public interest.
560.05(2)(b)
(b) The power to lease to a corporation for terms not exceeding 50 years each any land and any existing buildings thereon owned by or owned by the state and held for the department upon such terms and conditions as in the judgment of the department are in the public interest.
560.05(2)(c)
(c) The power to lease or sublease from a corporation and to make available for public use any such land and existing buildings conveyed or leased to such corporation under
pars. (a) and
(b) and any new buildings erected on such land or on any other land owned by such corporation, upon such terms, conditions and rentals, subject to available appropriations, as in the judgment of the department are in the public interest.
560.05(2)(d)
(d) The duty to submit the plans and specifications for all such new buildings and all conveyances, leases and subleases made under this section to the department of administration and the governor for written approval before they are finally adopted, executed and delivered.
560.05(2)(e)
(e) The power to pledge and assign all or any part of the revenues derived from the operation of such new buildings as security for the payment of rentals due and to become due under any lease or sublease of such new buildings under
par. (c).
560.05(2)(f)
(f) The power to covenant and agree in any lease or sublease of such new buildings made under
par. (c) to impose fees, rentals or other charges for the use and occupancy or other operation of such new buildings in an amount calculated to produce net rentals sufficient to pay the rentals due and to become due under such lease or sublease.
560.05(2)(g)
(g) The power to covenant and agree in any lease or sublease made under
par. (c) to impose fees, rentals or other charges for the use and occupancy or other operation of existing buildings in an amount calculated to produce net rentals sufficient to pay the rentals due and to become due under such lease or sublease.
560.05(2)(h)
(h) The power and duty, upon receipt of notice of any assignment by a corporation of any lease or sublease made under
par. (c), or of any of its rights under any such sublease, to recognize and give effect to such assignment, and to pay to the assignee thereof rentals or other payments then due or which may become due under any such lease or sublease which has been so assigned by such corporation.
560.05(3)
(3) The state shall be liable for accrued rentals and for any other default under any lease or sublease made under
sub. (2) (c) and may be sued therefor on contract as in other contract actions under
ch. 775, except that it shall not be necessary for the lessor under any such lease or sublease or any assignee of such lessor or any person or other legal entity proceeding on behalf of such lessor to file any claim with the legislature prior to the commencement of any such action.
560.05(4)
(4) Nothing in this section empowers the department to incur any state debt.
560.05(5)
(5) All conveyances, leases and subleases made pursuant to this section shall be made, executed and delivered in the name of the department and shall be signed by the secretary.
560.05(6)
(6) All laws conflicting with this section are, insofar as they conflict with this section and no further, superseded by this section.
560.05(7)
(7) The department may not convey or lease under
sub. (2) (a) or
(b) on or after September 1, 1980.
560.05 History
History: 1979 c. 32 s.
92 (5);
1979 c. 361 ss.
58,
103; Stats. 1979 s. 560.05;
1983 a. 189;
1997 a. 79.
560.06
560.06
Memorandum of understanding on use of allocated moneys for providing assistance to a nonprofit organization. 560.06(1)(1) The department may provide assistance to a nonprofit organization that provides assistance to organizations and individuals in urban areas. No later than December 30, 1997, the department of commerce shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the department of administration that specifies how the department of commerce may use the moneys allocated under
s. 20.143 (1) (c) for providing assistance under this subsection.
560.06(2)
(2) In each fiscal year, the department shall provide $100,000 from the appropriations under
s. 20.143 (1) (c) and
(ie) in assistance to the nonprofit organization specified in
sub. (1) that provides assistance to organizations and individuals in urban areas. Notwithstanding
sub. (1), the department shall use the moneys authorized under this subsection in accordance with the memorandum of understanding under
sub. (1) and shall ensure that the nonprofit organization provides assistance to organizations and individuals in an area that includes the city of Beloit.
560.06 History
History: 1997 a. 27;
1999 a. 9;
2001 a. 16.
560.07
560.07
Promotion. The department shall provide coordinating services to aid state and local groups in the promotion of economic enterprises and shall conduct such publicity and promotional activities as are desirable to stimulate all facets of the economy and to this end it shall specifically:
560.07(1)
(1) Collect and disseminate information regarding the advantages of developing business and industrial enterprises in this state.
560.07(2)
(2) Stimulate and foster the development of the private industry of this state.
560.07(2m)
(2m) In cooperation with the University of Wisconsin Small Business Development Center, the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, the technical college system board and the University of Wisconsin-Extension, collect and disseminate information regarding employee-owned businesses and promote the appropriate establishment of employee-owned businesses.
560.07(3)
(3) For the purpose of attracting persons interested in locating new enterprises in this state:
560.07(3)(a)
(a) Serve as the state's official liaison agency between persons interested in locating new economic enterprises in Wisconsin, and state and local groups seeking new enterprises. In this respect the department shall aid communities in organizing for and obtaining new business or expanding existing business and shall respond to requests that reflect interest in locating economic enterprises in the state. When the secretary considers appropriate, the department shall refer requests for economic development assistance to Forward Wisconsin, Inc., and shall attempt to prevent duplication of efforts between the department and Forward Wisconsin, Inc.
560.07(3)(b)
(b) Contract with Forward Wisconsin, Inc., if the secretary determines it appropriate, to pay Forward Wisconsin, Inc., an amount not to exceed the amount appropriated under
s. 20.143 (1) (bm), to establish and implement a nationwide business development promotion campaign to attract persons interested in locating new enterprises in this state, and to encourage the retention and expansion of businesses and jobs in this state. Funds may be expended to carry out the contract only as provided in
s. 16.501.
560.07(3)(c)
(c) Whenever appropriate, submit to the secretary of administration a report setting forth the amount of private contributions received by Forward Wisconsin, Inc., since the time the department last submitted such a report.
560.07(4)
(4) Collect and disseminate information regarding the ports of the state and promote the advantages of developing new business for the ports of the state.
560.07(5)
(5) Study, promote and implement means of expanding foreign and domestic markets for products of this state.
560.07(6)
(6) The secretary shall annually meet with the secretary of agriculture, trade and consumer protection to mutually agree on any joint program efforts.
