We provide legal services, education and training programs, insurance and investment opportunities, and we represent municipal interests in the Legislature. The League includes 4,017 elected local officials. Two fundamental principles guide the League's legislative program. One, city and village officials oppose any limitation on local home rule authority. Two, local governments depend on the state government to provide funding for services provided at the local level.
Local governments have two major sources of revenueproperty taxes and state aid.
Therefore, one of the main goals of the League's legislative program is to increase state aid to local government and protect the property tax base. The League's legislative program calls for increasing funding for the shared revenue and expenditure restraint programs. We will continue to work with other local government associations to increase funding for local transportation aids. The League supports full funding of local government recycling costs from the state's general purpose revenues or by increasing the state tipping fee surcharge. I hope you will contact me or Dan Thompson, Executive Director, or Kathy Bull, Assistant Director, if you have any questions or ideas about the goals of cities and villages.