HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 1970 (25) RESOLUTION # 25
WHEREAS, increased labor and material costs for mainten-
ance and improvement of highways and streets of the political
subdivision of this State have increased at an accelerated pace
compared to the increase of revenues derived from highway use
taxes and,
WHEREAS, the additional revenues required for highway im-
provement and maintenance places an additional burden on the
property tax payer who is already saturated with this regressive
tax, and,
WHEREAS, the cost of maintaining and improving all highways
in the State of Wisconsin should be borne by the users of said
highways, therefore,
WHEREAS, the Wisconsin sales tax is imposed upon sales of
motor oil, tires, automobiles, repa-ir and towing charges, and
road construction machinery and,
WHEREAS, the aforementioned sources of sales tax revenue are
all related, in one way or another, to highway use, and,
WHEREAS, this tax revenue is presently deposited in the State's
general fund and,
WHEREAS, tax revenue which is generated by or from highway
use should be used for highway purposes, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Langlade County Board of Supervisors
that the 1971 session of the Wisconsin Legislature is urged to
change the appropriate sections of Wisconsin Law so as to deposit
into the segregated highway fund all tax revenues generated by or
from highway use and,
BE IT RESOLVED, these additional revenues be apportioned
to the political subdivisions of this State using the present for-
mula of distribution, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Clerk be and is hereby
instructed to send copies of this resolution to the Executive Secret-
aries of the Wisconsin County Boards Association, Wisconsin Town's
Association, League of Municipalities and to Governor Warren P.
Knowles, Senator Rueben LaFave, and Assemblyman Milton McDougal, and
all County Board Chairmen.
Dated this 9th day of June, 1970.
S_/ James K. Peters
State of Wis.) SS
Co. of Langlade) S/ Mel Berg
I, Norman J. Cejka, Clerk of the County
of Langlade, Antigo, Wis. do hereby certify S! Vernon McKinney
that the foregoing Resolution #25 is a true
and correct copy of said resolution as passed Russell Ross
by the Langlade Co. Board of Supervisors at
their regular monthly meeting, Tuesday, Jun-S/ Robert E. Curran
9, 1970. S! Robert Benishek
Dated June 9, 1970
Langlade Clerk