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Action Call: Support for LRB-2237 needed
As recommended by the Snowmobile Recreation Council at its August 22, 2016 meeting and supported by the Association of Wisconsin Snowmobile Clubs, a Bill #LRB-2237 will be introduced in Madison. This Bill will ensure that counties and local snowmobile clubs across Wisconsin will have access to the increased funds provided by Wisconsin Act 142. LRB-2237 increases the amount snowmobile clubs may be reimbursed from $250 per-mile to $300 per-mile for trail maintenance activities, but it will not have a fiscal impact on Wisconsin's budget. It simply grants clubs the ability to use the increased funds that resulted from the changes made by Wisconsin Act 142. The cap on the per-mile maintenance funding for snowmobile trails has not been raised in 20 years, and raising it will alleviate the strain counties and clubs have felt due to two decades of stagnate funding. This bill also increases the supplemental trail aid eligibility requirement from $150 per-mile to $200 per-mile for grooming expenses.
Please share this with your clubs and their members. We need to have you contact your legislators immediately and ask them to co-sponsor LRB-2237. The deadline to sign on is Friday, March 10 at noon.