The remaining $5.3 million is expected in June of 2022, Adkins said. That’s a total of $10.6 million for the county to spend, but there are restrictions. A 155-page document from the Treasury Department outlines restrictions and guides use of the funds. One restriction is that the money can’t be used to fund retirement accounts.
By Rob Sussman
Apr 30, 2021 | 3:50 PM
KEWAUNEE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) Kewaunee County’s half-percent sales tax was renewed for another five years during a county board meeting this week.
The sales tax was put into place in 2016 to make up for the loss in utility tax revenue from the closure of the Kewaunee County Nuclear Station.
“We were receiving roughly three quarters of a million dollars a year in utility tax,” said County Administrator Scott Feldt. “But with the decommissioning we would no longer be receiving utility tax.”
Feldt says he anticipates that the increase will be in place indefinitely.
“It’s a revenue source that the county uses to be able to fund a variety of different things,” said Feldt. “Especially from things that deal with debt and the like.”
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Sheriff cancels contract
ELLSWORTH Hancock County Jail inmates this past spring lost access to a recovery coaching service provided by Healthy Acadia after Sheriff Scott Kane canceled the contract due to what he described as “philosophical differences” with the organization.
Kane canceled the contract after Healthy Acadia issued a June 10 statement in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
“That decision was made in the height of the rioting and the looting and the burning that Black Lives Matter was associated with,” Kane said. “This is something that came up nine months ago. Why did this take nine months to come up? My responsibility as a police officer is to keep people safe. Those types of protests, when they turn violent, nobody’s safe.”
Airline owes airport almost $14,000
TRENTON Hancock County intends to explore collection efforts against Silver Airways, which hasn’t paid the Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport for services rendered since June of 2020. Silver Airways offered daily nonstop service between Bar Harbor and Boston for the past two summer seasons. However, the airline’s contract with the U.S. Department of Transportation to provide service at the Trenton airport expired Oct. 14, Airport Manager Leroy Muise said. Cape Air took over the contract on Oct. 15.
Muise said the airport has not received payments from Silver Airways for the months of July, August, September and October. The total due is $13,697. That figure stems from fees for passenger enplanement, aircraft landing, rental space on the electronic road sign and ground service equipment rental, Muise said. The overdue payment came up at the Jan. 5 meeting of the Hancock County Commissioners.