AB 654

This bill allows the Milwaukee County board to decrease the number of

supervisors and change the boundaries of the supervisory districts not more than

once prior to November 15, 2017. Under the bill, at least 30 percent of the number

of new districts must be within the city of Milwaukee.

Under current law, with certain exceptions, the Milwaukee County board's

expenditures, as budgeted in the annual budget adopted by the board, for expenses

related to the county board, such as salaries and fringe benefits of county board

members, costs for staff, and certain items related to the functioning of the board,

are limited to no more than 0.4 percent of the county portion of the property tax levy.

Among the items specifically excluded from this 0.4 percent limit are costs related

to pension and health care payments for retired county employees, officers, and their

families; salaries for supervisors and the county board chairperson for a term that

begins before April 2016; and certain costs related to duties performed by the

Milwaukee County clerk.

Under this bill, depending upon the number of supervisory districts eliminated,

an amount equal to either the decrease in the number of supervisory districts

multiplied by the current salary of a county board supervisor or the total of the

current salaries of all current county board supervisors is also excluded from the 0.4

percent limit.

This bill also excludes from the limit costs for the salary, health benefits, and

pension benefits of county board supervisors and the county board chairperson for

any term that begins before November 15, 2017, or the date that the board decreases

the number of supervisory districts, whichever is sooner.