Gov. Evers Enacts Legislation Providing Historic Shared Revenue Increases for Local Communities

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"To me, the issue of shared revenue has always been about doing the right thing for Wisconsin. I began working on this when I took office four years ago, and that effort began for me with this simple truth: that for far too long, our local communities have been expected to do more with less. Local partners for years have had to make impossible decisions, forced to choose between paying for first responders, addressing PFAS, fixing the roads, and other critical priorities that affect the health, safety, and well-being of folks across our state.

"I believe the state should be doing its part to support our local partners and ensure our communities have the resources they need to meet basic and unique needs alike, period, and I've always believed that supporting our local communities is an area where we could work to find common ground and bipartisan support, and that's exactly what we did."

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"I've always said much of the hard work that happens in our state happens at the local level. Whether it's providing essential services like EMS, police, and fire, repairing streets, expanding affordable housing, ensuring kids and families have safe, clean parks, addressing water quality issues like PFAS, or supporting local libraries and public health, today means so many of our local partners will finally be able to make ends meet. To leave our state with a legacy of prosperity, we must fulfill our obligation to fund our communities--the future of our state, our economy, and our workforce depend upon it."

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"I will never stop fighting to do the right thing for our kids because I believe, as I've often said, that what's best for our kids is what's best for our state. Today, we're one step closer to making a historic investment in this budget for K-12 schools and education, and that includes providing more than $1 billion that can be used for our kids in the classroom, increasing the low revenue ceiling by $1,000 per student, while continuing to support school-based mental health services and setting aside funding aimed at improving literacy and reading outcomes across our state."

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