MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Legislature’s budget-writing committee has voted to cut a local recycling program cut by 20 percent.
The Joint Finance Committee on Tuesday went along with Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut the state’s environmental management account from $20 million to $16 million for the fiscal year that starts in July. The money that goes to county and local governments would be restored in the second year of the budget.
The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau says it’s not known how many local governments would have to change their recycling programs due to the one-year cut, or what kind of changes they would have to make.
The Fiscal Bureau says that while eligible recycling costs have increased the past 10 years, the amount of grants available to defray the costs have dropped.
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