Committee hears state budget gains for shared revenue, municipal services, roads, water and a new film tax credit

Katie Yeager, Intergovernmental Relations Division, told the Milwaukee Common Council Judiciary and Legislation Committee on July 28, 2025, that the recently passed state budget includes modest increases that will produce new revenue for the city, plus a new state film office and tax credit program.

Yeager said the budget calls for a 2.3% shared-revenue payment increase in the first year, followed by a 3.4% increase in the next year, with a state estimate of about 2.9% in 2027. "For the first time in over 20 years, the city is seeing annual increases in shared revenue payments from the state," she said.

Yeager also described an approximately $7 million increase in the state’s payments for municipal services—money the state pays municipalities that host exempt state properties—projecting that…