By Madalyn O'Neill
Feb 12, 2021 6:22 PM
MADISON, Wis. – While the City of Madison provides services residents need, Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said what the city needs are options.
That’s as the city faces tough budget cycles in the coming years, according to Rhodes-Conway.
“In part because of the coronavirus pandemic, in part because of the structural issue in how severely the state limits impact our budgets,” she said. “What we’ve seen is just a really precipitous decline in revenue.”
Rhodes-Conway said the city is cutting where it can.
It would allow counties and Wisconsin’s 26 cities and one village (Menomonee Falls) with more than 30,000 people to add a .5% sales tax. For counties, that’s on top of a .5% sales tax already available and in place in 68 out of 72 counties, according to Evers’ office.