After months of negotiations and partisan wrangling, the $1.2 billion Shared Revenue and School Funding Plan has cleared the legislature.
The plan will give more state money to local municipalities and counties, and with the latest additions, schools will also get more.
Both sides of the aisle have been voicing their opinions, with neither side 100% happy with the measure, but it appears as though both sides are getting just enough of what they want.
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu of Oostburg called it “the largest bipartisan agreement in recent memory”, and said if Governor Tony Evers were to pass it, “every local government and public, choice, and charter school in the state will see a substantial increase in resources available to them to fulfill their core priorities.”
Senator Andre Jacque was not quite as excited about the measure, calling it a “step backward” for several police and fire related items, due to “backroom deals that ostensibly bail out Milwaukee after decades of fiscal mismanagement”.
Jacque also said, “In the end, that was too high a price to pay for me to support this legislation.”
