Section 206.05. County highway improvement.

 

(1)   Duties of the county executive. Each county executive or designee, or where there is no office of county executive, the county board chairperson or the chairperson's designee shall perform the following:

(a) Establish and maintain a 5-year program of county trunk improvement projects eligible to be funded from the county highway improvement entitlement of the local roads improvement program. It shall include a priority list of needs and a 5-year schedule of improvements.

(b) Send, no later than January 15 of each even-numbered year, to the department the LRIP project application form listing the CHI projects planned in the current state biennium.

(c) Execute, no later than April 1 of each odd-numbered year, an approved project agreement for each project that will be constructed in the current state biennium as a county highway improvement project.

(d) Certify that the county trunk improvement projects selected meet the eligibility requirements of this chapter.

(e) Determine in a case where a proposed project under agreement cannot be built in the specified time frame, whether a substitute project should be put under agreement.

(f) Determine whether to enter into agreements with other recipients of the local roads improvements to jointly fund eligible local road improvement projects.

(2)   Standards. All county trunk improvement projects funded under this chapter shall be designed and constructed according to standards in ch. Trans 205 except as provided in s. Trans 206.03 (13) .

History: Cr. Register, June, 1992, No. 438 , eff. 7-1-92.