#06 Apply to County for Exemption from Library Tax Levy (File Res. #2009-653)
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES MEMORANDUM
November 2, 2009
TO: City Council
FROM: Patty Lynch, Comptroller
SUBJECT: Action on a Proposed Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Make
an Application to the County for an Exemption from the Library Tax Levy
(Res. #2009-653)
Summary
The City of Janesville can receive an exemption from its share of the Rock County library
tax levy because the Hedberg Public Library expends an amount greater than our share to
the Rock County Arrowhead Library System’s appropriations. The City Council must
annually adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager to make application for this
exemption.
Recommendation
The Administrative Services Department recommends the City council adopt Resolution
#2009-653 authorizing the City manager to make an application to Rock County for an
exemption for the Library tax levy.
City Manager Recommendation
The City Manager recommends approval.
Suggested Motion
I move to adopt Resolution #2009-653.
Background
The Arrowhead Library System provides library services to residents of Rock County who
are not directly served by local library facilities. In addition, the Arrowhead Library System
provides the mechanism for giving township residents free access to the seven municipal
libraries located in Rock County by compensating the libraries for allowing township
residents to use the municipal libraries.
They receive their funding by a direct appropriation from the County. The County’s 2009
appropriation for this purpose was $949,727. Pursuant to State Statutes 43.64(2), any
city, town, or village in a county levying a tax for county library services would be
exempted from its share of the county tax levy, if it intends to expend, from the local tax
levy for library services, a sum at least equal to the sum it would have had to pay towards
the prior year’s county tax levy.
As the Hedberg Public Library proposes in 2010 to appropriate and expend an amount
greater than what our share of Rock County’s 2009 Arrowhead Library System’s
appropriation would have been, we can apply for and receive Rock County’s exemption by
filing an application with the County.
cc: Jacob J, Winzenz, Director of Admin. Services / Assistant City Manager
Eric J. Levitt, City Manager
RESOLUTION NO. 2009-653
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO MAKE
THE APPLICATION TO THE COUNTY OF ROCK, WISCONSIN,
FOR AN EXEMPTION FROM THE LIBRARY TAX LEVY
WHEREAS, the Rock County Board of Supervisors, pursuant to Wisconsin State Statutes
43.64, has adopted a county-wide library service plan; and
WHEREAS, such service plan provides for the County to levy a tax to fund such service; and
WHEREAS, the County has approved the Arrowhead Library System’s funding of $949,727
for 2009; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Wisconsin State Statutes 43.64(2), any city, town, or village in a
county levying a tax for a county library under sub. (1) shall, upon written application to the county
board of the county, be exempted from the tax levy, if the city, town, or village making the application
appropriates and expends for a library fund during the year for which the tax levy is made a sum at
least equal to the sum which it would have to pay toward the county tax levy in the prior year; and
WHEREAS, the City of Janesville will expend for a library fund a sum at least equal to the sum
it would have to pay toward the prior year’s county tax levy and thus qualified for such exemption;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of Janesville that
the City Manager be and hereby is directed to make the application to the County of Rock,
Wisconsin, for any exemption from the library tax levy.
ADOPTED:
Motion by:
Second by:
APPROVED:
Councilmember Aye Nay Pass Absent
Brunner
McDonald
Eric J. Levitt, City Manager
Perrotto
Rashkin
ATTEST:
Steeber
Truman
Voskuil
Jean Ann Wulf, City Clerk-Treasurer
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Wald Klimczyk, City Attorney
Proposed by: Accounting
Prepared by: Accounting