2002-322RESOLUTION NO. 2002-322
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
and
WHEREAS, such service plan provides for the County to levy a tax to fund such service;
WHEREAS, the County has approved the Arrowhead Library System's funding of
$880,359 for 2002; 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: December 9, 2002
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ATTEST:
Jea~nn Wulf, City Clerk-Treasury
APPROVED AS TO FORI~:
City Attomey g/ ! ~ ~
MOTION BY: O'Leary
SECOND BY: Steeber
COUNCILMEMBER AYE NAY PASS ABSENT
STEEBER x
MURPHY x
DAMRON X
WILLIAMS X
DEGARMO X
LoBRIEN X
'LEARY X
Proposed by: Finance Administration
Prepared by: Finance Administration