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For 105-7 CFW News, I'm James Kelly.
The Dunn County Board of Supervisors officially voted to adopt its 2027 budget at its meeting this week.
According to a press release, the newly approved budget establishes a total tax levy for Dunn County of a little over $25 million, of roughly 1% decrease from last year's budget.
It also lowered the property tax rate by about $0.25 per $1,000 of property value, making it the seventh year in a row that the county has reduced the property tax rate.
That property tax decrease will also come with some reduction to county services.
According to county manager Dan Dunbar, reducing some of those services was the only way to address a projected $1.4 million budget shortfall due to state imposed limits on property tax increases.
In addition to those limits, the county also needed to balance lowering property taxes with increases in employee compensation, operational costs and inflation.
The budget proposal adopted on Tuesday included the elimination of a handful of county positions, but officials say they had not been able to fill those eliminated positions so layoffs were not necessary.
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers was in Western Wisconsin this week, highlighting the importance of providing additional support for struggling food pantries across the state.
According to a WEAU report, Governor Evers visited the Durand Area Food Pantry on Tuesday, calling on state lawmakers to provide more food assistance support and aim to lower everyday costs like groceries for residents.
Governor Evers also highlighted $10 million in funding set aside in the biennial budget to help food pantries stock their shelves with food from Wisconsin producers.
One person was killed and another seriously injured in a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 53 in Eau Claire County this week.
According to the Eau Claire County Sheriff's Office, the crash occurred at around 9 p.m.
on Tuesday near Mallard Road and County Road v. Authorities say one person was pronounced deceased at the scene when they arrived and another was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Authorities have not yet released the identities of the individuals involved or details on their investigation into the cause of the crash.
For 1057 CFW News, I'm James Kelly.
For Civic Media News, I'm James Kelly.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments and a challenge to the Act 10 legislation passed in 2011.
The court released an order on Wednesday stating it would review the lawsuit brought against the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission by the Abbotsford Education Association, which argues carve-outs in the Act 10 legislation covering collective bargaining rights for public safety workers violates the Equal Protection Clause of the state constitution.
Democratic state lawmakers have also shared their intent to repeal Act 10 with new majorities in the legislature.
With the midterm election in the rearview mirror, state lawmakers have chosen their party leaders in the legislature.
On Tuesday, Wisconsin Democrats elected State Senator Diane Hesselbein to serve as Senate Majority Leader and State Representative Greta Newbauer to serve as Assembly Speaker after flipping control of both chambers of the state legislature.
Both had served as the minority party leaders in the legislature under Republican majorities.
State Representative Newbauer also became the first woman to ever be elected as Assembly Speaker.
Following the votes on Tuesday, Democratic state lawmakers said they're already discussing their legislative priorities with their new majority.
Those priorities include addressing a number of persistent issues affecting communities across the state, like increasing public school funding, expanding access to health care, and lowering costs for residents.
Now with the minority party in the legislature, Wisconsin Republicans elected State Senator Julian Bradley to serve as Senate Minority Leader and State Representative Tyler August to serve as Assembly Minority Leader.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has announced an upcoming change to its invasive species regulations.
According to a press release, the revisions to the Invasive Species Identification, Classification, and Control Rule will add a total of 65 new prohibited or restricted species and remove 22 species.
An additional 46 species will have their classification as prohibited or restricted amended.
Prohibited species include those that are not currently present in Wisconsin at all, while restricted species cover those that are invasive but have already
spread throughout the state.
I'm James Kelly for Civic Media News.
The Miz recognized as the best pitcher.
Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with Sports Baseball.
The Milwaukee Brewers, Jacob Mizorowski, receiving the Cy Young Award, his reaction after being recognized as the best pitcher in the National League this season.
It's crazy.
It's really cool to have an honor like that.
It just shows the year that we had as a team.
You know, I had as a player, but no, it's really cool.
The Yankees, Cam
Schlittler, named the winner in the American League.
Collage Hoops, Marquette losing on the road to number 20th ranked Michigan, 84 to 70.
The Golden Eagles now 2-1.
NBA, the Bucks lost to the Lakers, 123 to 112.
At just one and 11, how do you keep a team from falling apart?
Taylor Jenkins.
You know, that's the biggest thing that we talked about at the beginning of the year is our togetherness.
Like, how do we make sure we maintain that through adversity?
Times are good.
Times are not good.
Been a work in progress.
Hopefully we can continue to build on that.
That's like the focus for this week.
That's the Bucks head coach Taylor Jenkins with Sports on Mike Clemens.
Mostly cloudy and quite a bit colder today with highs in the upper 30s to near 40 this afternoon.
Tonight clouds early.
We'll have some gradual clearing late tonight with lows dropping into the low to mid 20s tomorrow.
Mostly sunny with highs once again in the upper 30s to near 40.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable.
Outside now it's 33.
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