page_title: Sheboygan, Wisconsin
section_title: Local government
hierarchical_section_title: Sheboygan, Wisconsin / Government / Local government
caption_attribution_description: English: An image of Sheboygan, Wisconsin's City Hall building on September 3, 2019, the day the building was re-dedicated after a year-long renovation.
context_page_description: Sheboygan is a city in and the county seat of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 49,288 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Sheboygan, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 115,507. The city is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Sheboygan River, about 50 miles north of Milwaukee and 64 mi south of Green Bay.
context_section_description: Sheboygan has a Mayor–Council form of government. The full-time mayor is elected by general election for a term of four years, with no term limits and an official non-partisan position. The Common Council consists of ten alderpersons representing the city's ten aldermanic districts with a council president and vice-president presiding over them.  A City Administrator oversees the day-to-day administration of the city and is appointed by the Common Council.
  Sheboygan's 1916-built City Hall was remodeled throughout 2018 and into 2019, being re-dedicated on September 3, 2019 with a new north frontage becoming the building's new main entrance and making the building's vintage three-story staircase its most prominent feature within a new atrium.
  The Sheboygan Police Department is the law enforcement agency in the city. Civil and criminal law cases are heard in the Sheboygan County Circuit Court, with municipal citations for Sheboygan and Kohler handled through the city's municipal court within the police headquarters building. The Sheboygan Fire Department provides fire suppression and emergency medical services, operating out of five fire stations throughout the city.
caption: The new north front of Sheboygan's City Hall after its re-dedication in September 2019, which made the former back of the building its new main entrance.
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