Marathon County

A WisLine Teleconference Series 2011-2012 Current Issues Affecting Local Government Officialswill be covered in an ongoing Wisline Teleconference series beginning September 8, 2011. This series of programs is designed to keep local government officials up to date on recent and ongoing issues that affect their communities. Each session will provide ample opportunity for participant questions and comments. Programs will be moderated [...]

Town and Village Officials are invited to attend the 2011 Fall Budget and Finance Workshops. Track one of these workshops cover a basic curriculum on budgeting, payroll and financial administration; a second track covers more specific topics such as state budget impacts on highways, land-based programs, local finance an regulatory changes, meeting procedures and developing [...]

The UW-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development has recently released two new publications on community approaches to economic development. Community Indicator:  Changing Public Investments in Economic Development In Wisconsin and across the United States communities are grappling with the roles of the government and the public sector in economic development. While private corporations can [...]

Every year Wisconsin municipalities spend one billion dollars to repair and replace roads and bridges. There are nearly 100,000 miles of local roads in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Transportation Information Center was created in 1983 to help local highway officials manage their road systems as efficiently as possible. The Crossroads newsletter provides local officials the latest [...]

Dean Forss Hired as Wausau Broadband Coordinator for State of Wisconsin Wausau, WI—Wausau is leading the way in building access to high capacity internet access in Wisconsin, thanks to two federal grants received by Wisconsin in a process led by the University of Wisconsin-Extension. The larger of two grants provides $29.9 million to expand broadband [...]

The GREAT software package contains statewide databases for all counties and municipalities from 1987-2007. The acronym GREAT stands for “graphing revenues, expenditures and taxes.” It is a tool to automatically map out revenue, expenditure, and property value and tax information. For the most part, the data is very summary and combines a number of government activities or revenue sources under one heading. [...]

Every year Wisconsin municipalities spend one billion dollars to repair and replace roads and bridges. There are nearly 100,000 miles of local roads in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Transportation Information Center (TIC) helps local officials manage their road systems and transportation budgets. The TIC offers training, publishes a newsletter and technical bulletins, supports a pavement management system for [...]

Finances and budgeting are some of the most challenging aspects of local government. The complexities of the rules and laws governing public finance, the ever-increasing demands for services, and the limited revenue sources available to Wisconsin local governments make knowledge of the “tools” of government financial management essential for good decision-making. The UW-Extension’s Local Government [...]