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Local Government Center Workshops
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This May, topics will include powers and duties of town officials, Open Meetings Law, effective meetings, land use law, road maintenance and construction and road safety, ethics and conflicts of interest, performance measurement, and a state legislative and budget update.
Town officials who attended these workshops in years past have commented:
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1,520 participants attended in 2007. |
1,121 participants attended in 2005. |
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1,170 participants attended in 2003. |
"Comprehensive Planning Update; Town-County Zoning Relations" (PowerPoint file, 74 kb)
PowerPoint presentation used in the Spring 2005 Town Officials Workshops. (This includes slides 40-45 which were missing from some workshop packets.)
Fall Finance WorkshopsAnnually, UW-Extension’s Local Government Center puts on nine local finance workshops in September and early October for town and village officials. The series is a cooperative effort with Wisconsin Towns Association, the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, the Internal Revenue Service and County UW-Extension offices. This year's workshops will provide basic budgeting, payroll, and accounting information. For more experienced officials, there will be a workshop on understanding the levy limit, land use issues, biding public projects, records management, parliamentary procedure and a question/answer session. |
Since this program series began in 1998, 5,686 town and village officials have participated in these workshops.
2008 Program and Registration Form(PDF file, 726 kb) |
561 town and village officials attended in 2008. |
2007 Program and Registration Form(PDF file, 561 kb) |
491 town and village officials attended in 2007. |
| 578 town and village officials attended in 2006. | |
| 586 town and village officials attended in 2005. | |
| 485 town and village officials attended in 2004. | |
| 607 town and village officials attended in 2003. | |
| 482 town and village officials attended in 2002. | |
| 633 town and village officials attended in 2001. |
Since 2003, UW-Extension's Local Government Center has helped coordinate and offer a series of annual programs aimed at educating Business Improvement District managers, their Board members and interested parties about BID operations and programming.
Seminar Agenda for 2008 "Foundations for Successful BIDs"
PDF, 56 kb
Seminar Agenda for 2007 "Beyond the Basic BID"
PDF document, 11 kb
Seminar Agenda for 2006 "Models of Economic Renewal"
PDF File, 23 kb
Seminar Agenda for 2005
PDF File, 7 kb
Following the spring elections in even numbered years, UW-Extension's Local Government Center and the Wisconsin Counties Association co-sponsor day-long workshops to orient both new and continuing county officials, at several locations around the state. With turnover on county boards averaging about 25% each election cycle, board members need opportunities to learn more about their roles and responsibilities. Past participant comments included the following:
(PDF File, 98 kb) |
216 county officials participated in 2008. |
163 county officials participated in 2006. |
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210 county officials participated in 2004. |
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187 county officials participated in 2002. |

