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Special Committee on Differences in Laws Applicable to Cities and Villages

Chair: Rep. Mark Gottlieb
Vice-Chair:  Sen. Jeff Plale
Legislative Council Staff: Don Dyke and Ron Sklansky
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The Special Committee is directed to review laws relating to cities and villages, other than those laws that relate to the fundamental organizational structure that distinguishes cities and villages, to determine discrepancies and inconsistencies in the application of those laws to each type of municipality and recommend, when appropriate and advantageous, rectifying those discrepancies and inconsistencies that exist for no apparent policy rationale.

Report to the Legislature
Recommendation to the Joint Legislative Council (March 26, 2009)
  • Results of the March 26, 2009 Meeting.
  • Proposed Report to the Legislature 2009-02, Special Committee on Differences Applicable to Cities and Villages (February 4, 2009).
  • LRB-0568/2, relating to establishing and changing compensation for city and village elective offices; signing village contracts; bidding procedure for village public construction contracts; officer-of-the-peace status of village officers; publication by the city clerk of fund receipts and disbursements; village and 4th class city regulation of political signs; liability of counties and cities for mob damage; means of providing police and fire protection by cities and villages; holdover status of appointed city and village officers; use of the s. 32.05 procedure in villages for certain housing and urban renewal condemnation; and application of public contract bidder prequalification to 1st class cities.
Completed Committee Work (Pending JLC Review)
  • WLC: 0046/2, relating to establishing and changing compensation for city and village elective offices; signing village contracts; bidding procedure for village public construction contracts; officer-of-the-peace status of village officers; publication by the city clerk of fund receipts and disbursements; village and 4th class city regulation of political signs; liability of counties and cities for mob damage; means of providing police and fire protection by cities and villages; holdover status of appointed city and village officers; use of the s. 32.05 procedure in villages for certain housing and urban renewal condemnation; and application of public contract bidder prequalification to 1st class cities.
October 6, 2008 Meeting
  • WLC: 0046/1, relating to establishing and changing compensation for city and village elective offices; signing village contracts; bidding procedure for village public construction contracts; officer-of-the-peace status of village officers; publication by the city clerk of fund receipts and disbursements; village and 4th class city regulation of political signs; liability of counties and cities for mob damage; means of providing police and fire protection by cities; holdover status of appointed city and village officers; and use of the s. 32.05 procedure in villages for certain housing and urban renewal condemnation.
  • WLC: 0103/1, relating to the application of public contract bidder prequalification requirements to first class cities.
September 11, 2008 Meeting
  • Memo No. 5, Application of Section 32.05 Condemnation Procedure to Villages for Certain Housing and Urban Renewal Condemnations (September 2, 2008).
  • WLC: 0003/1, relating to establishing and changing salaries for village and city elective offices.
  • WLC: 0004/1, relating to publication by the city clerk of fund receipts and disbursements.
  • WLC: 0005/1, relating to officer-of-the-peace status of village board members.
  • WLC: 0006/1, relating to liability of counties and cities for mob damage.
  • WLC: 0007/1, relating to municipal regulation of political signs.
  • WLC: 0023/1, relating to the provisions of police and fire protective services in a city.
  • WLC: 0024/1, relating to signing village contracts.
  • WLC: 0025/1, relating to village contracts for public construction.
August 5, 2008 Meeting