Section Trans 206.07 - County highway improvement program districts and committees(1) COUNTY HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM DISTRICT COMMITTEES. In each county highway improvement program district, there shall be a county highway improvement program district committee. The committee shall consist of no more than 5 county executives or the county executive's designee or when there is no office of county executive, county board chairpersons or the chairperson's designee from counties in the district. The committee shall be chosen by all the county executives or the executive's designee or when there is no office of county executive, the county board chairperson or the chairperson's designee in the district. The committee members shall serve 2-year terms beginning October 1 of the odd-numbered years and ending September 30 of the next odd-numbered year. The secretary or designee shall serve as a non-voting member of each county highway improvement program district committee.(2) DUTIES OF THE COUNTY HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT COMMITTEE. The county highway improvement district committee shall perform the following: (a) Establish criteria for the selection of CHI projects to be funded from uncommitted entitlements of member counties.(b) Select, no later than January 15 of each even-numbered year, CHI projects to be funded from uncommitted entitlements from within the district from the member counties CHI project lists.(c) Select, no later than October 1 of the odd-numbered years, the committee chairperson for the next 2 years.(3) SELECTION AND DUTIES OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE COUNTY HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM DISTRICT. (a) The chairperson of the county highway improvement program district committee shall be selected from the district committee members.(b) Selection shall occur by October 1 of each odd-numbered year.(c) The chairperson shall perform the following:1. Preside over the meetings of the committee.2. Convene a meeting of the committee as needed.3. Convene and preside over a meeting of all county executives or county executives' designees or when there is no office of county executive county board chairpersons or the chairpersons' designees in the district, no later than October 1 of each odd-numbered year, for the purpose of selecting committee members and a chairperson for the next 2-year period.(d) Inform in writing, no later than November 1 of each odd-numbered year, the secretary and all county executives or the county executives' designees or when there is no office of county executive, county board chairpersons or the chairpersons' designees in the district of the committee membership.(e) Inform the secretary and all county executives or county executives' designees or when there is no office of county executive, county board chairpersons or the chairpersons' designees in the district, no later than January 15 of each even-numbered year, of the committee's selection of projects in the district to be funded with the uncommitted entitlements of counties CMSIC, CTRIC, and municipalities with a population of less than 20,000 in the district.(4) ELIGIBLE PROJECTS. Any improvement to the county trunk system in any of the counties within the county highway improvement program district is an eligible project, provided the county has complied with the provisions of the chapter pertaining to the county highway improvement component.(5) SELECTED PROJECTS. A county trunk improvement project selected for funding under this chapter shall be constructed under the provisions of s. Trans 206.05. The county executive or county executive's designee or when there is no office of county executive the county board chairperson or county board chairperson's designee from the county of the selected project shall be responsible for the development and construction of the project and the certification that the project constructed complies with the provisions of the county highway improvement component.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation Trans 206.07
Cr. Register, June, 1992, No. 438, eff. 7-1-92.Forms can be obtained from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, P.O. Box 7916, Madison, WI 53707-7916.