(1) An
applicant may apply to the department
for a grant to develop a plan or plan update for any of the following
activities:
(a) Services and activities
included in ss.
16.965(2)
and
16.9651(2),
Stats., including contracting for planning consultant services, public planning
sessions, educational activities, and purchase of computerized planning data,
planning software and hardware required to utilize planning data or
software.
(b) Development of the
plan document including printing costs.
(c) Public participation and outreach
activities including educational materials, citizen surveys, internet
activities and newsletters.
(d)
Development, purchase and documentation of data, maps and computerized
information used within the
plan or
plan update as follows:
1. Digital mapping and data development
activities funded under this grant such as geographic information system
development shall be consistent with applicable county land records
modernization plans developed under s.
59.72(3)
(b), Stats.
2. Digital mapping and data development
activities funded under this grant may not duplicate efforts funded through the
Wisconsin land information program under s.
16.966,
Stats.
Note: Approved land records modernization plans and the
planning grant manual can be obtained from the Comprehensive Planning Grant
Program, Department of Administration, P.O. Box 8944, Madison, WI 53707
(telephone 608/267-3369).
(e) Other activities that the applicant deems
necessary in the preparation of a plan or plan update except ineligible
activities noted under s. Adm 48.03(2).
(2) The following activities are ineligible
for funding under this grant:
(a) Segmented
activities not related to the development of a plan or plan update such as
highway corridor plans, outdoor recreational plans and recreational trail
plans.
(b) Planning activities and
plan development costs incurred by the
applicant prior to the council approving
the grant priority list under s.
Adm
48.08.
Note: Section
15.107(16),
Stats., Wisconsin Land Council, was repealed in 2011 Wisconsin Act 257.
Pursuant to s.
16.9651(2),
Stats., "Prior to awarding a grant under this section, the department shall
forward a detailed statement of the proposed expenditures to be made under the
grant to the secretary of transportation and obtain his or her written approval
of the proposed expenditures." Section
48.03(2)
(b)will be modified accordingly in future
rule-making by the Department.
(c) Costs incurred by the applicant to
prepare the grant application.
(d)
Activities undertaken by applicants that have received a fully funded planning
grant under s.
Adm
48.05 within the previous ten years.
(e) Purchase of property or land.
