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DOA Releases PMS Payments for 2017
Last week, the Department of Administration submitted a report to the Joint Finance Committee showing the amount of payment that each eligible municipality will receive in 2017 under the Payment for Municipal Services (PMS) program. The PMS program reimburses municipalities for police and fire services provided to tax-exempt state owned facilities located in the community. In the current state budget annual funding for the program is set at $18,584,200. According to DOA's November 15 memo, this amount is to be distributed among 326 municipalities in 2017 and covers less than 38% of the actual costs these municipalities incurred in serving state facilities.
See 2017 PMS payment amounts by municipality here.
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DOA Releases Revenue Estimates and Agency Budget Requests Summary
Yesterday, the Department of Administration released the Department of Revenue's general purpose tax revenue estimates and a summary of the state agency budget requests for the 2017-19 budget.
According to the
report
, agency requests exceed expected revenues by $693 million over the biennium.
Most of the gap can be attributed to expenditure requests from:
- DPI: $508 million additional GPR
- DHS: $450 million GPR for Medicaid costs-to-continue.
The $693 million gap between agency requests and anticipated revenue is significantly less than the $2.2 billion shortfall projected at this point in the budget process two years ago. It is nearly six times more, however, than the $117.4 million projected shortfall from the 2013-15 budget.
The DOA report also shows that
Wisconsin completed the 2015-16 fiscal year with a positive balance of $331.0 million.
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Study Committee to Vote in December on Fire District Enabling Legislation and Other Proposals
Last week, the Legislature's Study Committee on Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technical Shortages finalized a list of bill drafts that the committee will vote on by paper ballot in December. The vote is on whether to recommend to the Joint Legislative Council that these bill drafts be introduced. The list includes a bill draft, LRB-0567/P1, authorizing communities to create fire service districts with the ability to raise revenues by levying property taxes or by imposing special charges.
Also on the list is a bill draft, LRB-0595/P1, prohibiting municipalities from prohibiting their employees who are emergency responders from from volunteering to serve in that same capacity in another jurisdiction. The League has not yet taken a position on either of these proposals.
The committee will also be voting in December on the following other bill drafts:
- LRB-0246/P1: Intravenous technician endorsement for emergency medical technicians
- LRB-0247/P1: Licensure or certificate renewal for certain emergency medical services personnel
- LRB-0589/P1: Funding for first responder training and certification
- LRB-0595/P1: Revising the length-of-service awards program in the Dept. of Administration for volunteer emergency response personnel
- LRB-0683/P1: Creating a refundable individual income tax credit for emergency responders
- LRB-0685/P1: Creating an individual income tax credit for certain expenses incurred by an emergency responder
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