State budget deal boosts municipal services payment; Madison to receive about $3.1 million a year, Welch Group says

A Welch Group representative told the Madison Common Council Executive Committee on July 1 that a state budget agreement announced by Governor Tony Evers includes a $14,000,000 increase in the municipal services payment over the biennium — $7,000,000 per year — and that Madison will receive roughly $3,100,000 per year from that increase.

The municipal services payment provides state reimbursement to local governments for police and fire services; the Welch Group representative said the change would raise Madison’s share of the calculated cost from roughly 37.6% to “slightly over 50%,” returning the reimbursement level to about where it was in 2011. The representative cautioned the committee that the budget…