State Codes and Statutes

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)

(2) Duties. The department shall:

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, government accountability 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.

560.04 - ANNOT.

History: 1971 c. 125; 1973 c. 243 s. 82; 1975 c. 39, 224; 1977 c. 2; 1979 c. 34; 1979 c. 162 s. 38 (11); 1979 c. 175; 1979 c. 361 ss. 31 to 40, 48, 98, 113; Stats. 1979 s. 560.04; 1981 c. 349; 1983 a. 27; 1983 a. 36 s. 96 (3), (4); 1985 a. 29; 1987 a. 399; 1989 a. 31; 1991 a. 39; 1993 a. 399; 2001 a. 103; 2007 a. 1.

560.04 - ANNOT.

Cross Reference: See also ch. Comm 108, Wis. adm. code.