Lake Delton Intermingles TID and PRT Money

Readers can go online to the Wisconsin Department of Revenue -Tax Incentive Financing Information page to review the Village of Lake Delton annual submission for the year 2017.  Recall filing of the annual report for the year 2017 was due on July 2, 2018.

TID 4 created 7/23/2007

Under the transfer to other funds category - 433,321 transfer to PRT fund.

This records the Village of Lake Delton transferring money from the Tax Incremental District 4 fund over and in to the premier resort tax fund.  This is intermingling - the moving of money between the separate funds for utilization in a manner that is more regulatory acceptable.

The 2017 annual TID report filing documents the Village of Lake Delton's history of intermingling tax incremental district  money with premier resort tax money.

Wisconsin Dells Dynamic One Year Wonder

One Year Wonder is slang that is used across the Wisconsin Dells area to describe how rapidly visitation numbers drop off for new buildings and amusements.  Popularity a sense of how much the consumer population values a new building or amusement in the Wisconsin Dells is disappearing much sooner than it did 20 years ago.

As a response to this predictable dropping in visitation calculations the local municipality has established a loop that provides publicly collected money through the authority of amended regulations back to the private business operator.  Large Wisconsin Dells area resorts depend upon this publicly collected money being repeatedly distributed into their private business accounts to maintain operation.

The local municipalities use the tax incremental districts to borrow funds through promissory notes that are secured by a guarantee that the acting administration will raise taxes on the residents when the invested project is discovered to be performing poorly.  The new tourism industry projects across the Wisconsin Dells area do not create the longevity required to generate an investment grade property capable of contributing to the long term economic growth.

The most recent loop providing publicly collected money through the authority of amended regulations back to the private business operator is labeled the High End Attraction Incentive Program.  This delivers publicly collected money over to the families operating the large resorts to update and improve their amusements and attractions.

The large resorts need for locally collected public money to update and improve their amusements and attractions indicates the business system has not generated the revenue required to produce the profits demonstrating the success expected of a self sufficient investment grade property.

Wisconsin Dells 2020 BID Adds Expense To Family Vacation

The City of Wisconsin Dells has become mindful of the way taxation has discouraged economic exchange.  The City of Wisconsin Dells (BID) Down Town Business Improvement District Committee is funded by applying a special tax to area property.  To collect the money needed to pay this extra tax the store front operators add to the price of their goods, services, food, and beverage.  This is elevating the price vacationing families must pay.

When you consider this elevated cost in combination with the extra premier resort tax the store front operator must charge - this acts as a deterrent to once simple financial transactions.  This creates costs that are out of reach for many visiting families.

This all while the (BID) Wisconsin Dells Down Town Business Improvement District Committee requires business operators to alter the appearance of their store fronts.  The expense a business operator pays to alter their store front is being added directly on to the price of goods, services, food, and beverages being marketed in the Down Town Wisconsin Dells Commercial District.

In 2020 visiting families will have to spend more money to visit  Down Town Wisconsin Dells due to the (BID) Business Improvement District Committee.  Some vacationers choose not to purchase. Area business modals are seeing how taxation has discouraged economic exchange in Down Town Wisconsin Dells.

Monitoring Wisconsin Dells TIF District Information

As the new year fast approaches the community members are reviewing the impact the 3 Wisconsin Dells (TIF) Tax Incremental Financing Districts have upon the areas projected economic performance in 2020.

The City of Wisconsin Dells is required to prepare and make available to the public annual reports describing the (TIF) Tax Incremental Financing Project Status, Expenditures, and Revenues.  Online go to State of Wisconsin Department of Revenue Website.  Key in to Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) information site, Press annual reports, year 2018, search Wisconsin Dells and 3 will show on the computer screen.

The City of Wisconsin Dells must file their annual report on TIF's every year by July 1 - so 2019's filing must be submitted by July 1, 2020.  Below lists last filing 2018 for each tax incremental district describing expense, earned revenue, and surplus money generated

TIF 2 Created 11/20/2000
Future costs- 6,816,144
Future revenue- 4,050,000
Surplus 0

TIF 3 Created 7/31/2006
Future costs- 49,761,011
Future revenue- 45,900,000
Surplus 0

TIF 4 Created 7/31/2006
Future costs 306,382
Future revenue 175,000
Surplus 0

Viewing the 3 annual TIF District reports for the City of Wisconsin Dells gives insight in to the benefit the ongoing use of tax incremental districts has delivered for the communities economic well being.

Monitoring Lake Delton Wisconsin TIF District Information

The Village of Lake Delton is required to prepare and make available to the public annual reports describing the (TIF) Tax Incremental Financing Project Status, Expenditures, and Revenues.  Online go to the State of Wisconsin Department of Revenue Website.  Key in to the Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) Information Site, Press on Annual Reports , Year 2018, Search Lake Delton and the 3 will show on the computer screen.

The Village of Lake Delton must file a report on the Tax Incremental Districts every year by July 1st.   So the filing for 2019 will be due by July 1, 2020.  One can key in to review the tax incremental financing information on 002 which was created in 9/28/2000.

Under transfer to other fund amount is listed - transfer to sewer , debt payments per residents 620, 590.00 .  The information published on each individual tax incremental financing district can give the reader a sense of the impact this activity is having upon the community.

The activity conducted through the tax incremental financing districts is funded through local taxation which requires the information to be made available to the public.  Readers are encouraged to view the annual reports as a way to monitor Lake Delton Wisconsin TIF District information.

Wisconsin Dells Prepares For Election Year 2020

On December 16, 2019 the City of Wisconsin Dells council  adopted resolution no. 5112 Statute 5.15 (5) (b) to facilitate the combining of wards for reporting purposes. This is implemented for efficiency with the one individual polling location that serves a population of less than 3 thousand residents.

The City of Wisconsin Dells plans to provide one reporting unit for Columbia County wards 1,2.3, and 6.   This enables small municipalities to better manage the work required to conduct a proper election process.

The value of individual ward calculations is diminished for less densely populated communities.  The combining of wards for reporting purposes is expected to simplify the City of Wisconsin Dells election process in 2020.

Can Tax Incremental Districts Make Wisconsin Dells A Year Round Tourist Destination

Being a small rural summer resort community the Wisconsin Dells area store front operators remain open up to the point at which - additional days of operation are just not worth the cost.   The store front operators then close down for the off season - preserving their business modals resources.

The City of Wisconsin Dells and Village of Lake Delton acting administration have chronically used tax incremental districts to divert publicly collected money from being used for the needs of the residents - to create local financial incentives that try to get store front operators to stay open - even after it is just not worth the cost.

This incentivizes Wisconsin Dells area store front operators to travel on a path that is just not economically viable - and is making costs paid by visiting families rise.   For years publicly collected money has been selectively dispersed to chosen store front operators for building improvements with an expectation that the business will appear open year round.

This chronic use of tax incremental districts to create financial incentives has altered the primary function of store front operators across the Wisconsin Dells area.  The primary function of todays Wisconsin Dells area store front operator is to think up new and different ways to receive locally collected incentive money and public property - rather than thinking up new and different ways to create value for the visiting families.

Wisconsin Dells Amends Wizard Quest Agreement At Last Minute Due To Affiliation

The Wisconsin Dells Events Newspaper has reported the City of Wisconsin Dells acting counsel needed to do a last minute amendment to the original Wizard Quest development agreement due to the creation of an affiliation.

All the original work on the Wizard Quest project involved the City of Wisconsin Dells interacting with Concept Attractions Wisconsin Incorporated - their corporate structure.  At the last minute an affiliation was created by the addition of a new party to the agreement - Concept Holdings LLC.

An affiliation indicates an economic interdependence between Concept Attractions Wisconsin Incorporated and Concept Holdings LLC related to ownership, management, and day to day interactions.

The City of Wisconsin Dells Counsel has amended the original development agreement with Wizard Quest to accommodate the affiliation which altered the existing contract.

Lake Delton Post Resort Improvement Residential Property Tax Elevation

The Village of Lake Delton has received a waiver from the State of Wisconsin to extend the chronic use of tax incremental districts.  This enables the acting administration of the Village of Lake Delton to divert public money collected for the needs of the residents and give it to private business operators.

The residents have agreed to allow the Wisconsin Dells area to collect premier resort sales tax and over night lodging tax at the highest levels in the State of Wisconsin.  This premier resort tax is collected to pay for infrastructure improvements - roadway , side walk, curb , gutter - to save the residential population this expense.  This small rural summer resort community lacks the population to make pushing these expenses upon the year round residents a sustainable practice.

The resorts are dispersed in a way that their consumers inhabit and utilize much of the residential area in the Village of Lake Delton.  Think of the resort presence along the Lake Delton shoreline.  This makes improving residential infrastructure - roadway, side walk, curb, gutter,  central to the long term plan of supporting the large resort business modals that have received publicly collected money through the local incentivized process.

But when these large tourism style business modals that have been incentivized ( receive local publicly collected money) perform poorly - we are seeing the Village of Lake Delton syphoning the cost of infrastructure improvements - roadway, side walk, curb, gutter, from the residential population.  Recall the Village of Lake Delton held a public hearing on December 9, 2019 to explain their need to raise property taxes related to infrastructure improvements.

This hefty cost and ongoing need to contribute residential resources to support the continued operation of local tourism business modals is not sustainable.  This activity is further impoverishing the Wisconsin Dells area

Wisconsin Dells Hopes To Be Center Of J1VISA Employment In United States For 2020

The Village of Lake Delton has given the family who operates Noah's Ark 1.5 million publicly collected dollars to build new housing for the J1VISA population.  The new housing is being constructed on Lake Avenue and will include two large housing buildings and a convenience store.  The new housing is expected to hold 600 work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming to temporarily live and work in the Wisconsin Dells area.

The Village of Lake Delton diverts public money collected for the needs of the residents and gives it to private business owners to build the new housing for the work experience travelers coming from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming.  The Wisconsin Dells area is a temporary home to more than 4500 work experience travelers coming from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming every year.

The approaching Presidential Election has Wisconsin Dells area resort operators worried.  The acting Administration of the Federal Government has been enacting regulations designed to limit temporary immigration - this has greatly reduced the number of families willing to allow their loved ones to travel in to the Wisconsin Dells area to perform the temporary work that supports the local tourism efforts.

The need for workers from outside of the Country in the small rural summer resort community of Wisconsin Dells has actually grown with the completion of the huge new convention center.  This means the Wisconsin Dells area needs to attract much more than the more than 4500 work experience travelers who have been coming from outside of the Country to temporarily support local tourism efforts.  This makes the visiting J1VISA work experience traveler population the largest group of community share holders in the Wisconsin Dells area.

This growing number of work experience travelers temporarily living in the Wisconsin Dells area has changed the local culture and customs - simply the global population alters the tourism experience through their day to day activities.  As this population is on course to grow -the community expects to see a position created upon the local board to better represent their ongoing needs in 2020.

Wisconsin Dells 3 Large Projects Compete For Scarce Community Resources

In the Wisconsin Dells area three large projects are actively competing between their committees for scarce community resources.  The three large projects are:

- Elm Street Outdoor Plaza

- Lake Delton Law Enforcement Building Alcan and Miller

- High School Along Rock Arbor State Park

These three large projects will struggle for the available public resources to bring some form of completion to the efforts.  This will include fund raising across the Wisconsin Dells area in varied forms - often described as a voluntary tax.

Families coming to vacation in the Wisconsin Dells area can expect to be asked to contribute to the local projects - fund raising in public places is an accepted practice.  The community is hoping the project committee's will work together and share the scarce resources in a fashion that assures all 3 projects get some support.

Lake Delton Aggressive Residential Property Tax Collection Temporary Tourism Business Modals

The Village of Lake Delton is aggressively working to procure additional money for the municipality by a wide ranging elevation of residential property tax values.  This despite the Wisconsin Dells area's collection of premier resort sales tax and over night lodging room tax at the highest levels in the State of Wisconsin.

The State of Wisconsin has approved an extension for the City of Wisconsin Dells and the Village of Lake Delton on the chronic use of tax incremental districts.  This enables the continuation of local targeted economic subsidies.  This means the City of Wisconsin Dells and the Village of Lake Delton can continue to divert public money collected for the needs of the residents and give it to special selected private business operators in the area.

The Village of Lake Delton has given millions of dollars of publicly collected money to families who operate private business modals in the Wisconsin Dells area.  The value of private business modals serving the tourism industry seems to expire much more rapidly today.   Visiting tourists stop populating the Wisconsin Dells area tourism business modals much quicker than was occurring 20 years ago.

This means customer numbers on newly incentivized business modals drops at such a rapid rate - the municipality has the ongoing need to repeatedly deliver public money to the receiving operation.  This ongoing need to repeatedly deliver publicly collected money to the private business operators drains the municipality revenue needed to balance the budgets for essential community services and pushes greater expense upon the residential property owners.

This simply means the Village of Lake Delton's creative use of incentive programs for local business modals comes at a cost of higher property taxes for residents.

Does Gasser Road Cross Highway 12 Connecting To Kalahari Drive

The Kalahari Resort was constructed on a parcel of land between a rural residential neighborhood and the interstate.  With the building of the new convention center traffic numbers are expected to increase.  This would bolster local efforts using a land use services approach to change the functional classification of Gasser Road from a rural local road to an urban collector road.

The Village of Lake Delton is recognizing the huge new convention center at the popular Kalahari Resort should be served by an urban collector road.  This would indicate the initial character of the service Gasser Road was intended to provide has changed.  This can prove instrumental in improving the over all success of the new convention center.

Wisconsin Dells Area Business Modals 2020 Seeking Stronger Staffing Assurance

The Village of Lake Delton has invested millions of publicly collected dollars to build new housing for the temporary work staff coming from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming.  The new housing includes employees who are assigned to monitor the visiting workers presence while they temporarily reside in the Wisconsin Dells community.  This improves the Wisconsin Dells communities compliance with federal customs and immigration laws.

With these ongoing upgrades the Wisconsin Dells area business community is asking for more frequent publishing of the number of J1VISA workers staying in the newly built housing complexes.  For the year 2020 the Wisconsin Dells area business operators are seeking a stronger assurance of available staff for their business modals.

The encouraging of the City and Village to comply with the frequent publishing of accurate numbers of J1VISA visitors staying in the new housing constructed with publicly collected money - is to better inform the business community of the available staff.  This has become an essential requirement for the small rural resort community of the Wisconsin Dells area who is trying so hard to grow their local economy.

Wisconsin Dells Fund Raisers Target Large Resort Guests

Fund raising as a service is expanding and well accepted across the Wisconsin Dells area.  From September 15th to about April 15th more than 75 percent of the business operators in the Down Town Wisconsin Dells commercial district close for the off season.   The business operators being gone do not provide a significant source of contributions for local fund raising efforts.

Work experience travelers coming from outside of the Country through Federal J1VISA Immigration Programming to temporarily live -make up a large community share holder population in Wisconsin Dells.  More than 4500 work experience travelers will come and temporarily live in the Wisconsin Dells area.   Members of this huge community share holder population typically lack the resources upon arrival in the area to feed themselves until an initial paycheck can be earned.  It is common for a convenience store clerk to ask the customer for a couple of dollars to get some food - trying to make it till they can get a paycheck.  Work experience travelers temporarily staying in the Wisconsin Dells area do not provide a significant source of contributions for local fund raising efforts.

The Wisconsin Dells School District has published current statistics listed by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction that demonstrates 59 percent of the families with school age children in the area qualify for nutritional assistance programming.  Residents of the Wisconsin Dells area do not provide a significant source of contributions for local fund raising efforts.

The population fund raisers are targeting in the Wisconsin Dells area to improve the collection numbers is the families coming to stay in the large resorts.  Families coming to stay in the large resorts in the Wisconsin Dells area can expect to be asked to contribute money toward the many varied fund raisers taking place across the community.  Fund raisers purposely entangle their efforts with large resort guest encounters to elevate collection numbers. Visitors coming to vacation in the Wisconsin Dells area can expect to be asked to contribute to local fund raising efforts.

Wisconsin Dells Area Tighter Sign Regs As Response To So Many Vacant Store Fronts

The Wisconsin Dells area has a much higher than normal business lease failure rate.  This is due to the high cost of importing our labor from outside of the Country.  This involves numerous signs on the exterior of buildings and the roadside- advertising business modals that are no longer operational.

Now combine that with the bulk of the business modals closing for the off season.  The off season across the Wisconsin Dells area runs from about September 15th to about April 15th.  The visiting population is receiving limited benefit from the signs which lack a certain accuracy.

The City of Wisconsin Dells and the Village of Lake Delton to combat the numerous signs that advertise local business modals that are no longer in operation - frequently amend and tighten sign regulations.   The tighter sign regulations increase the placement time involved, increase the cost , limit the number of,  limit the size, and limit the type of sign that an active business can place in the Wisconsin Dells area.  The cost of conducting business in the Wisconsin Dells area is soaring higher with the proliferation of regulations.

The Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Market Place is an online multisided economic platform being developed to integrate local business modals with the non-local visitor population. The Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Market Place will deliver an immediate means of advertising to the tourist population with your new business.  Easy to use , and it can be embedded with proven fiscal providers like paypal to facilitate real time transactions that will grow your annual profits.

Wisconsin Dells Pays 300k per year for High School Debt

The City of Wisconsin Dells will pay 300K per year for 10 years with the intention of refinancing the remaining balance owed for another 10 years.  The newly borrowed money is a promissory note for 4.7 million dollars.  Promissory notes can only be taken out for a term of 10 years - the City of Wisconsin Dells expects to need more time than 10 years to repay this debt.

This borrowing is being done very early in the process of constructing a new high school out along Rocky Arbor State Park.  The need to raise an additional 300 thousand dollars per year to pay down a loan has the community questioning what next years budget process will look like.

The City of Wisconsin Dells was able this year to craft a passable budget - but there is no money in risk reserve.   As the varied City committee's continue to compete for scarce public resources - the residents will need to remind the common council to keep their focus on assuring the essential services needed to maintain the community at an acceptable level.

What Tax Incremental Districts Are Doing For World Famous Wisconsin Dells

This is a chronological listing of the unfolding of the benefits the World Famous Wisconsin Dells area is experiencing from the chronic use of tax incremental districts to subsidize business development.

1. Implementation of tax incremental districts enable City of Wisconsin Dells and Village of Lake Delton acting administrators to divert public money collected for the needs of the residents - and gift it to private business operators under the pretense of growing the local economy.

2. The foundational mis-perception declaring that the small rural summer resort community of Wisconsin Dells is now a year round tourist destination - is parroted throughout the area.

3. This is occurring all while the existing consumer base is shrinking - meaning the Wisconsin Dells area is experiencing a decrease in annual tourist visitation numbers.

4. The Wisconsin Dells area community planners acknowledge a much higher than normal business lease failure rate - due to the high cost of importing our labor from outside of the Country.

5. The consumer base is flat - fixed and the tax incremental districts have been just shifting the flow of the existing number of annual visitors - and not really bringing more tourists in to the Wisconsin Dells area.

6. The Wisconsin Dells area community planners now recognize newer business modals being created with public funds through the tax incremental districts are just drawing consumers off the existing operating businesses - this is impoverishing the older operating businesses across the area.

7. In Down Town Wisconsin Dells the Timber Falls Mall with five store fronts are purposely demolished - leaving a large vacant lot.  The Rocky Rococco Restaurant and A and W Restaurant building is purposely demolished leaving a large vacant lot.

8. Wisconsin Dells area community planners acknowledge the giving of this publicly collected money to private business operators seems to be discouraging economic activity in other parts of the local economy.

9.  Area residents have concluded that the Wisconsin Dells chronic use of tax incremental districts to deliver financial incentives to private business operators is not actually spurring economic growth.

Wisconsin Dells New High School Chronic Local Biz Subsidies Impoverish Area

The City of Wisconsin Dells and the Village of Lake Delton have received an extension from the State of Wisconsin on their (TID) Tax Incremental Districts.  This will enable the continuation of local targeted economic development subsidies.  This means the City of Wisconsin Dells and the Village of Lake Delton divert public money collected for the needs of the residents and give it to special selected private business operators in the area.

The net effect of targeted economic development subsidies in the Wisconsin Dells area has been negative.  This is important for families who would consider the idea of moving into the Wisconsin Dells area with the building of the new high school facility.  Many of the local incentivized business modals under perform because they have been talked into locating in a less than ideal setting.

The construction of new incentivized buildings comes at a cost of higher taxes for residents and a reduction in public services - which has discouraged economic activity in other parts of the local Wisconsin Dells economy.  The Wisconsin Dells area lacks the population to staff these large incentivized business modals requiring the residents to contribute to the building of new housing for staff to come from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming and temporarily live in the area to support the local tourism efforts.

The City of Wisconsin Dells carries such a high municipal debt load - business operators asking for financial subsidies must accept the conveyance of public land instead of the past generous giving of sums of money.  Municipal budgets are tight and public services are being spread thinly providing more evidence the chronic giving of municipal incentives to private business operators have not worked as expected and are further depressing Wisconsin Dells area economic activity.

Families considering a move in to the Wisconsin Dells area for the new high school building are being encouraged to be mindful of the added expense and diminished quality of community services being persistently imposed by the local administration's ongoing diversion of public resources as a subsidy - financial aid, to private business operators.

Lake Delton Selects For High End Attraction Incentive Program Behind Closed Doors

 In the Village of Lake Delton Wisconsin on Friday November 15, 2019 at 11am a special meeting was held to consider an application submitted to receive publicly collected funds through the High End Attraction Incentive Program.

Adjourn to closed session, to discuss an application for high-end Attraction Incentive, pursuant to Section 19.85 (e) Wis Stats, deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business, whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session

The acting administration utilizes Section 19.85 (e) Wis Stats - to assure selection to receive these free funds is done behind closed doors.  This limited access to the process used for selecting the recipients for the free money  - leaves the area business community questioning the fairness.

Wisconsin Dells Residents Step In To Help The Large Resorts Who Are All Struggling

The Village of Lake Delton has started the High End Attraction Incentive Program.  This diverts public money collected for the needs of the residents and gives it to the private resort business operators to update and improve their attractions and amusements.

The giving of publicly collected money out to the private business operators in the Wisconsin Dells area lacks the transparency required to demonstrate existing municipal administrators are being good stewards of the communities scarce public resources.  The Village of Lake Delton has a history of diverting huge sums of publicly collected money and giving it to select private business operators under the pretense of growing the local economy.

The family who operates the Kalahari Resort needed 10 million publicly collected dollars to build the new convention center.  The family who operate Noah's Ark needed 1.5 million publicly collected dollars to build housing for their temporary work staff to live in for the summer season.  The family operating the La Quinta Del Sol Hotel has received 1.8 million publicly collected dollars.

The Wisconsin Dells area has been lacking the promotional applications needed to attract new audiences in to the area.  This means the consumer base has remained fixed -flat.   When you supply private business operators with public resources the newer buildings are shifting the flow within the existing consumer base - meaning the newer business modals are drawing consumers from the other area business operators.

When a newer business modal supported by free money from the Wisconsin Dells area residents is grabbing customers from nearby operating business's there is no real economic growth.  The Wisconsin Dells area needs innovative applications that strengthen the promotional capacity capable of growing the existing consumer base.

Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB is a community partner working to expand promotional communication to grow the existing consumer base by developing new audiences - who will want to visit the small rural summer resort area.  The work of the Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB is an essential part needed for the Wisconsin Dells area residents to earn a return on these hefty investments of scarce community resources.

BID Role Reduce Barriers to Trade Wisconsin Dells Commercial District

Property owners are questioning the role of (BID) Down Town Wisconsin Dells Business Improvement District Committee in reducing barriers to interaction and trade in the commercial district during the months from April 15th to September 15th.  Members of the Wisconsin Dells community have agreed to allow the collection of the premier resort tax at the higher allowable level for the needs of the residents.

Wisconsin Dells is a small rural summer resort community - with the bulk of the financial transactions taking place in the Down Town Wisconsin Dells commercial district during the months from April 15th to September 15th.  The past two summers the Down Town Wisconsin Dells commercial district has performed very poorly due to the extensive road construction that blocked consumer access to the store fronts during the short summer tourist season.

The coming year 2020 is expected to bring an extensive construction project from Elm Street to Cedar Street with the transformation of the Chalet building in to the Wizard Quest attraction.  Community members are questioning the role the (BID) Down Town Wisconsin Dells Business Improvement District Committee will provide to demonstrate evidence of interventions delivered to reduce the barriers to interaction and trade the Chalet project could create during the short tourist season from April 15th to September 15th.

Simply- what steps will the (BID) Down Town Wisconsin Dells Business Improvement District Committee be taking to assure financial transactions for the near by business operators will not be disrupted with the Chalet construction project scheduled to begin in the year 2020.  Does the Down Town Wisconsin Dells Business Improvement District Committee bear any responsibility in assuring the commercial district is suitable for tourist visitation from April 15th to September 15th.

Wider City Wisconsin Dells Boundaries More People to Count 2020 Federal Census

Since 2010 the City of Wisconsin Dells has annexed additional geographical areas which expanded the legal boundary.  This adding the surrounding area to the City of Wisconsin Dells should increase the population count for the Federal 2020 Census process.

City of Wisconsin Dells residents expect a higher population calculation with the 2020 Federal Census Process due to the adding of more geographical areas in to the City by expanding the boundaries.

The Wisconsin Dells area is home to more than 4500 work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming to temporarily live and help support local tourism efforts.  Unfortunately being from outside of the Country, the more than 4500 individuals should not be counted with the 2020 Federal Census process.

Wisconsin Dells area residents have committed publicly collected money to construct new housing for the J1VISA Programming population - to help subsidize the private resort operators.  Some view the diverting of public money from the needs of residents to support private resort business modals controversial, others call it the Wisconsin Dells area's commitment to the future of the tourism industry.

With the City of Wisconsin Dells annexing additional land masses in to the new legal boundaries, the residents expect the Federal 2020 Census process to result in an increased population.

Service Coordination Hot New Biz Modal In Wisconsin Dells 2020

The hot new business modal for 2020 in the Wisconsin Dells area is service coordination.  Service coordination is about employing local business products to create a gathering that populates a geographical location - and results in stronger annual profits for the entire Wisconsin Dells area.

Service coordination is performed by stand alone business modals often called:

- Event Planner

- Convention Organizer

- Fund Raiser

- Community Festival Liaison

Service coordination improves utilization numbers for the large building space often vacant throughout the Wisconsin Dells area.  The Wisconsin Dells Administration will begin to tailor their activity to amend existing regulatory codes in a manner that favors the professional practice of service coordination.  This enables broader participation with local business providers and lifts the entire Wisconsin Dells area in to stage II of the convention hosting industry.

Raising Visitation Calculations Above the Existing Consumer Base - Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB

Wisconsin Dells Convention HUB is a long term intervention designed to raise visitor calculations above the existing consumer base.  This is being called - developing new audiences for the Wisconsin Dells area.

The Wisconsin Dells area has constructed several new buildings and added more attractions and amusements only to serve the existing consumer base.   The new buildings and amusements shift the flow within the existing consumer base - meaning the more recent business modals grab a higher percentage of the existing area consumers - pulling off of nearby business providers.

Wisconsin Dells Convention HUB is an intervention at the community level implemented to raise annual visitor calculations above the existing consumer base - demonstrating true economic growth for the area.  From the perspective of the entire Wisconsin Dells community you want to see all business modals serving additional consumers - rather than a newer business modal maintaining operation by pulling customers from a nearby business provider.

By developing new audiences - Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB is adding to the existing consumer base - inflating visitor numbers that will require business modals to be open longer hours and serve more people.  This applies directly to the commerce needed to demonstrate evidence of real economic growth for the Wisconsin Dells area.

Wisconsin Dells 2020 Hot Entrepreneur Trend -Service Coordination

The hottest opportunity for entrepreneurs in the Wisconsin Dells area for the year 2020 will be service coordination.  These are stand alone professional services local entrepreneurs can profit from their ongoing delivery.  This is a brief list of the titles entrepreneurs can use to represent their service coordinating craft.

- Event Planner

- Convention Organizer

- Fund Raiser

- Community Festival Planner

Service coordination is about employing local business products to create a gathering that populates a geographical location - and results in stronger annual profits for the entire Wisconsin Dells area.  The City of Wisconsin Dells and the Village of Lake Delton have invested millions of publicly collected dollars to create the structures needed to support the service coordinating activity required to lengthen commerce periods beyond the summer months.

The Wisconsin Dells area is now at a ground floor level for entrepreneurs looking to bring their service coordinating efforts to a sustainable business modal.  2020 will be a profitable year for the Wisconsin Dells area service coordinating business providers.

Wisconsin Dells Regulates Military Duck Ticket Sales

The City of Wisconsin Dells Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Monday December 9, 2019 at 5pm in the Municipal Building to amend City Ordinance Chapter 19 Zoning Code.  This action is being taken to prohibit hawking - the calling out to passing pedestrians from the war time duck ticket booths - are you folks interested in taking a duck ride today.

This regulatory change will enable the City of Wisconsin Dells Code Enforcement staff to fine the employee who is trying to sell their duck tickets to the passing pedestrians.  This is part of a larger effort in the City of Wisconsin Dells to move the war time ducks and ticket booths off the main street in the down town commercial district.

Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Staff are developing the Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Market Place to integrate local business locations with non-local convention participants.  Companies attempting to sell their tickets to people visiting the Wisconsin Dells area will benefit through utilization of this autonomous online technology.

2020 How To Say Wisconsin Dells A Bigger Deal With Fewer Funds

The Wisconsin Dells area is getting ready for 2020 to be a productive and bountiful year in the tourism industry.  Local financial incentive programs have updated lodging , and amusement and attraction options.

Residents, work experience travelers, and business operators are committed to making Wisconsin Dells an above average stay for visiting tourists.  More and more individual business operators are finding unique opportunities to profit by serving the growing visitor population.

The huge new convention center is open.  Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB is embedding technological applications designed to develop new audiences for the Wisconsin Dells area.  This is laying the initial ground work to assure business operators as well as the visiting tourist population continue to benefit for years to come.

Wisconsin Dells will be a top tourist destination for families , as well as a popular option for corporate business gatherings in the year 2020.

Off Season Hard On 3 Large Projects Competing For Scarce Wisconsin Dells Area Public Resources

Three large projects are competing for scarce community resources in the Wisconsin Dells area.  The 3 large projects are:

- Elm Street Outdoor Plaza

- Lake Delton Law Enforcement Building Alcan and Miller

- High School Along Rocky Arbor State Park

With annual visitation numbers down across the Wisconsin Dells area - and now being in the off season - access to community resources are very tight.   The off season in the Wisconsin Dells area is a time period between September 15th to about April 15th.

During the off season more than 75 percent of the store fronts in the down town Wisconsin Dells commercial district close.  This is due to the insignificant number of over night guests staying in the large resorts.

During the off season residents are exposed to additional voluntary taxes in the form of fund raisers. Some of the municipal departments will organize and conduct fund raisers to get them through the long off season- and keep the department operating.

Committee members working on the three large projects are now confronted with very limited resources - and will be required to share between projects in order to bring some form of completion to all of them.

World Famous Wisconsin Dells Area Extends TID's

The State of Wisconsin recently extended tax incremental district 3 for the Village of Lake Delton until the year 2042.  The State also extended tax incremental district 4 for the Village of Lake Delton until the year 2044.  Recall the Wisconsin Dells TID has been extended to the year 2045 by the State of Wisconsin.

The TID's effect all Wisconsin Dells over lapping taxing entities.  The Tax Incremental Districts defer adding the value of any new development to the property tax base until the project funding is paid.  The need to extend the TID's indicate the development did not perform financially as the speculative calculations indicated at the origin.

TID funded projects by design enable the Village of Lake Delton and the City of Wisconsin Dells to raise property taxes upon the residential land surrounding the proposed site of development.  This leaves local residents struggling to pay higher amounts of annual property taxes - with no real change in expected service.

The Wisconsin Dells area being a small summer resort community experiences very minimal elevations in local wages.   The work is seasonal and the wages paid depend upon tourist visitation.  The Wisconsin Dells area lacks the resident population able to fill the jobs created within the project developments - this requires the community to fund new housing to attract more than 4500 work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming to temporarily live in Wisconsin Dells and support the tourism efforts.

The high cost adds to the difficulty required to attract the increased number ( more than 4500) of work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country -needed to staff the larger resort style delivery of service.  The lack of staff who are not in Wisconsin Dells on a 90 day visa delivers a measurable dip in the level of service traveling consumers once expected of the Wisconsin Dells area.  This contributes to a much lower number of annual tourist visitors - and a much higher than normal business lease failure rate across the Wisconsin Dells area.

Critical for Village Lake Delton To Extend TID's With Debt To New High School

The State of Wisconsin has extended the Village of Lake Delton TID 3 out to the year 2042.  The State has also extended TID 4 out to the year 2044.   The assessed value of the land before the tax increment district was created is considered the tax base.

What the land in the tax increment district is worth after the property is improved is the increment.  The Village of Lake Delton realizes the municipality may use excess increments for more projects if the expenditure period has not expired.  However - only projects in the approved plan may be paid with TID funds.

With the Village of Lake Delton needing money for their commitment to fund the new high school - expect the administration to complete a project plan amendment and submit it to the Department of Revenue.  The project plan amendment will require a contract between the City of Wisconsin Dells and the Village of Lake Delton that describes the use of TID funds on legally acceptable expenditures in the construction of the new high school building.

These funds can be applied to infrastructure - but cannot legally be used for the new Wisconsin Dells High School building.  The City of Wisconsin Dells Common Council will need to approve the contract that will essentially define the limit of the amount and the application of the fund.  This will include the City of Wisconsin Dells commitment to fund their portion - about 4.5 million dollars.

This shifts some of the risk associated with not paying for projects by the time they were originally set to expire - over on to the property owners in the Wisconsin Dells area.  Recall the City of Wisconsin Dells is a documented distressed tax incremental district - and their TID has been extended out to the year 2045.

Lake Delton Need To Extend TID Distresses Wisconsin Dells

The City of Wisconsin Dells can be considered a distressed TID Tax Incremental District and their TID needed to be extended out to 2045.  The City of Wisconsin Dells and the Village of Lake Delton have always supported each other in the quest for economic growth.

The Village of Lake Delton has gone to the Governor of the State of Wisconsin who was able to sign Senate Bill 391 -  now Act 21 which enables an extension for TID Tax Incremental District 3 until the year 2042.  This also extends TID Tax Incremental District 4 until the year 2044.

An extension simply means the municipality has not received the aggregate tax increments that equal all the project costs under the administered project plan. It is when the TID is closed that the community taxing entities can begin to benefit from the project tax base and fund balance.

Recall that recently the Village of Lake Delton employed a controversial tax assessing organization to raise property taxes.  The past raising of the property taxes to collect additional money was tax payers supporting the project costs.

Wisconsin Governor Extends Lake Delton Tax Incremental Districts

The Governor of Wisconsin has signed into Law Senate Bill 391, now Act 21- which extends the duration of tax incremental financing for Lake Delton in districts 3 and 4.  This extends the life of these TID districts.  TID 3 is extended to the year 2042.  TID 4 is extended to the year 2044.

Tax incremental financing districts are subject to wide variation in design and interpretation.  The Village of Lake Delton - enabled by State Legislation partners with private business operators to designate an agreed upon area as a TIF - tax incremental financing district.  This includes calculating the amount of property tax revenue that the project will generate for the next 20 years or more.

The calculation of projected revenue includes taxes on the project itself as well as the expected tax increases on the other properties in the district - related to the increased assessed value due to the implementation of TIF.  The money can then be sequestered to support the projects current needs and make development in the TIF district possible.  This enables the Village of Lake Delton to compensate private developers for their investments.

With Lake Delton making up a large part of the greater Wisconsin Dells area - community planners are being challenged to demonstrate evidence that the extended use of TIF - tax incremental financing is delivering economic benefits to the entire area.  This is tracking the economy wide benefits throughout the Wisconsin Dells area.

A key benchmark to an economy wide benefit would involve a larger population of residents in the off season.  This simply means inhabited properties from September 15th to about April 15th.  The larger population of residents helps off set the increased expense of attracting the more than 4500 work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country to temporarily live in the Wisconsin Dells area to support the local summer tourism efforts.

Hoping Large Permanent Festival Grounds Located In Lake Delton

City of Wisconsin Dells community planners are hoping a large permanent festival grounds can be located in the Village of Lake Delton.  The Wisconsin Dells Down Town Business Improvement District Committee has been discussing this potential development in their meetings.

The Wisconsin Dells Visitor and Convention Bureau are working with the acting administration in the Village of Lake Delton to place a large permanent festival grounds within Lake Delton.  This is expected to enable a more organized approach to the entire community earning a return from hosted events.

The cost of organizing, conducting, and cleaning up can be assigned to staff employed by the permanent site.  Resources like extra police officers - additional garbage pick up- will have their own trade line on the contract the festival organizers must sign to assure payment.

Assigning festivals to a permanent site in Lake Delton alleviates the City of Wisconsin Dells with the ongoing consumption of scarce community resources to patch together a gathering.  The challenge for the City of Wisconsin Dells will be to bring the (BID) Wisconsin Dells Down Town Business Improvement District Committee to a place where they can lean in and support the large permanent festival grounds in Lake Delton.

Help On Way For Struggling Wisconsin Dells Resorts

Visitation to the large resort style of service delivery in the Wisconsin Dells area has dropped annually.  This is most recognized with the off season which runs from September 15th to April 15th.  Due to the extremely low number of visitors staying over night in the large resorts more than 75 percent of the store fronts in the Down Town Wisconsin Dells commercial district close.

To compensate for the increasing drop in visitors to the Wisconsin Dells area resorts the Village of Lake Delton is creating the High End Attraction Incentive Program.  This can be described as a local level political technique that diverts publicly collected money from being used on the needs of the residents - and gives it over to the private business operators in the Wisconsin Dells area resorts.

The Village of Lake Delton is hoping the resort operators use this money diverted from the needs of the residents to add and improve their attractions and amusements to attract more annual visitors.  At the local level the politically elected officials have the perception that more and newer amusements and attractions will bring more tourists into the Wisconsin Dells area.

The Village of Lake Delton is firming up the process for the distribution of publicly collected money over to private business operators by amending Section 1. Amendments to Chapter 16 - Section 16.10 of the Village Municipal Code - adding subsection D - the high end attraction incentive program.  Wisconsin Dells area private business resort operators are being encouraged to apply for this publicly collected money to add and improve the amusements and attractions upon their property.

Wisconsin Dells Wants Premier Resort Tax From Fee For Service Entertainment

The Wisconsin Dells area wants their premier resort tax from fee for service entertainment.  Local bar, restaurant, and cafe's must charge their customers 6.75 percent sales tax on the food and beverages being sold.  The 6.75 percent sales tax also applies to fee for service entertainment.

This simply means a bar and restaurant that hosts several live bands during the evening and charges a cover charge to help with the expense - is expected to collect the 6.75 percent sales tax.  Local concerts, plays, live performances that charge the consumer to attend are expected to be collecting the 6.75 percent sales tax.

The premier resort tax is collected across the Wisconsin Dells area to support the needs of the residents.  As Wisconsin Dells area business providers begin to host more live entertainment that contributes to the premier resort tax - expect to see fewer organized festivals.

Organized festivals with a not for profit structure compete directly with brick and mortar business providers - and avoid the contribution to the premier resort tax.   The organized festivals are beginning to experience a much harder time with placing an event in the Wisconsin Dells area.

Wisconsin Dells Public Works Tasks Increase

The building of the new high school along Rocky Arbor State Park expands the City of Wisconsin Dells corporate boundary.  The City of Wisconsin Dells is challenged to annex this geographical area - requiring the public works to provide maintenance service.

The City of Wisconsin Dells public works department is expected to serve a growing area with the existing labor and equipment.  It is beneficial for the residents and the business owners of the Wisconsin Dells area to recognize the need for the public works department to reconfigure the current level of service to accommodate the additional geographical area.

The tight resources within City of Wisconsin Dells budgets means the public works department is doing more with less.  This requires the public works department to shift labor from existing delivery toward the extra tasks created with the expansion of the added geographical area.

When you cover a larger geographical area with existing labor and equipment the level of service changes.  This will be hard on individuals in the community who perceive this as a lack - and expect the service to return to a more comprehensive delivery.

B2B Gatherings Wisconsin Dells Wants Their Premier Resort Tax

In the past business operators would present their tax Id number to defer local added taxes.  Today in the Wisconsin Dells area the local communities enforce a broader collection of transactions through the Premier Resort Tax.

Visitors are expected to pay a 6.75 percent sales tax on purchases and a 12.25 percent tax on over night lodging.   Business to Business (B2B) gatherings in the premier resort tax area will experience stronger strategies to help assure cooperative contributing of the higher taxes.

Purchases made through organized gatherings in the convention center can require attending business operators to show the tax id number, the retail sales permit, and their area business permit.  This is because both the business operator hoping to defer local taxes and the local business service provider carry a higher risk of IRS audit.

The Wisconsin Dells area wants the local business operators to be collecting the higher premier resort tax on all transactions for the purpose of funding the needs of the residents.  The Wisconsin Dells area needs the extra money being collected from each individual financial transaction to maintain the essential public services expected of a community.

Wisconsin Dells Long Off Season Contributes To Impractical Local Policy

The off season in the Wisconsin Dells area is a time period from about September 15th to about April 15th.  During this time period approximately 75 percent of the Down Town Wisconsin Dells store front operators close.  This is due to the drastic drop in over night stays at the large Wisconsin Dells area resorts.

This is a difficult time for local level community planners who see how the lack of visitation can close a geographical area committed solely to the tourism industry right down.  The drastic drop in financial transactions across the Wisconsin Dells area leaves local community planners with little or no actual resources that would allow their committee to continue to function.

The long time period of the off season in the Wisconsin Dells area can move community planning conversations away from the pragmatic action of caring for the resident population - over to fantasizing about future revenues that will come from Disney like interventions.  This often includes unrealistic comparisons of the small rural Wisconsin Dells area to Cities that thrive with delivering tourism industry services but sorely lack in characteristics that match up with the geographical location of  the Wisconsin Dells area.  When visitation drops off - and incoming revenue is missing - anything sounds good.

The off season transports local Wisconsin Dells area leaders to a perception of lack and the need to act to remedy this uncomfortable time of little or no revenue.  This is a time where public service needs change - and the cost of maintaining the physical attributes of the community seem higher - with no money coming in.  Local leaders will act to amend policy that enables code enforcement efforts to expand revenue collection through questionable temporary techniques that lack any set reality in State and Federal Law.  This is non-productive activity being performed though local municipal committee's that are trying to compensate for the lack of a commercial district that generates any real revenue in the long off season.

Policy made during the long off season in the Wisconsin Dells area lacks input from the share holders who operate the local business's - they have fled.  This frustrates local committee's who are made to realize any real form of revenue generating change must be created through the cooperation of the share holders in the business community.  Much of the policy being created during the long off season will not apply come next April 15th when the Wisconsin Dells area summer tourist season begins a new.

Wisconsin Dells Off Season Still Collecting Elevated Sales and Lodging Tax

The Wisconsin Dells area collects through the Premier Resort Tax - 6.75 percent on sales and 12.25 percent tax on over night lodging - even during the off season.  This means consumers making purchases in the Wisconsin Dells area pay more for things like clothing, books, jewelry, bikes, ATV's, restaurant served food and beverage, hotel motel lodging, theater productions, concerts, golf course greens fees, amusement park tickets and more.

The off season in the Wisconsin Dells area is a time period of approximately September 15th to April 15th.  Despite the long off season - business operators are required to continue to collect the higher tax on all transactions.

Of the 100 percent of the premier resort tax collected annually through financial transactions across the Wisconsin Dells area - it is generally accepted that the business operators in the Village of Lake Delton collect 75 percent of the extra taxes consumers contribute.    The City of Wisconsin Dells business operators would be collecting about 25 percent of the extra taxes consumers contribute annually.

Due to the extra tax imposed upon consumer goods and services the local population will shop outside of the high tax Wisconsin Dells area if transportation is available.  Due to the extreme drop in annual visitors to the Wisconsin Dells area resorts - the Village of Lake Delton is diverting publicly collected money from the needs of the residents - and creating a High End Attraction Incentive Program.  This High End Attraction Incentive Program will provide free money for the area resorts to update and improve their attractions and amusements.

The Wisconsin Dells area is hoping that by diverting funds publicly collected for the needs of residents and giving that money to the private operators of the large resorts - they will update their amusements and attractions and hopefully increase the number of annual visitors to the Wisconsin Dells area.

Value of Wisconsin Dells Area as a Tourist Destination Resides with a Few Summer Months

The value of the Wisconsin Dells area as a tourist destination resides with a few summer months.  In the off season more than 75 percent of the Down Town Wisconsin Dells Commercial District store front operators close.  This is because visitation to the large Wisconsin Dells area resorts drops to insignificant calculations.

This makes it hard on the 3 Wisconsin Dells area committees competing for scarce community resources to bring their projects to some form of completion.  The 3 large projects competing for scarce community resources are:

- Elm Street Outdoor Plaza

- Lake Delton Law Enforcement Building Alcan and Miller

- High School Along Rocky Arbor State Park

The Wisconsin Dells area is a rural summer resort community with a low population of year round residents.  The Village of Lake Delton has applied millions of publicly collected dollars to build new housing to attract workers who come from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming to staff the various tourism business modals.  This brings more than 4500 work experience travelers who come every year to temporarily reside in the Wisconsin Dells area.

Committee members working on the 3 large projects competing for scarce Wisconsin Dells area resources are beginning to understand the 4500 plus temporary work experience visitors are not a source of fund contributors.  Thankfully these people are willing to come and work hard for the Wisconsin Dells Tourism industry - but their earned money will be taken and contributed to their own community they must help financially support.

Wisconsin Dells Resorts Struggling Economically Advances Poverty

Wisconsin Dells area residents are questioning if the diversion of publicly collected funds from residents needs - and giving these huge sums of money to private business operators is further impoverishing the area.  The Village of Lake Delton has crafted a political structure that enables large sums of publicly collected money to be diverted from the needs of residents and given to private business operators.

Wisconsin Dells area business operators are suggesting there is an unequal quality to this current practice of giving public money collected for the needs of the residents to selected private business operators.  Recall the family who operates the Kalahari Resort received 10 million publicly collected dollars to construct a convention center.  The family who operates the Noah's Ark has received 1.5 million dollars to build new housing for the J1VISA Immigration population.  The family who operates the La Quinta Del Sol Hotel received 1.8 million dollars.  This is publicly collected money being diverted from the needs of residents and given to private business operators.

With annual visitation numbers falling lower than ever the Village of Lake Delton is crafting the High End Attraction Incentive Program - this will provide free publicly collected money to the struggling resorts for updating and improving their amusements and attractions.  This is publicly collected money being diverted from the needs of residents and given to private business operators.

The residents of the Wisconsin Dells area - seeing no valid return with this giving of high sums of money away to private business operators - now believe this is further impoverishing the Wisconsin Dells area.

Change Coming To Wisconsin Dells Broadway Commons

The Broadway Mobil is a common community gathering place along Broadway in Wisconsin Dells.  In August 2020 this is all expected to change.

Coming August of 2020 the Wisconsin Dells high school population will be moved to the new building out along Rocky Arbor State Park.  The school breaks do not accommodate the long trip from out along the Rocky Arbor State Park to the Broadway Mobil location.

The motor vehicle traffic that once benefitted the Broadway Mobil will now travel on the other side of the bridge.  Wisconsin Dells residents are questioning where the next community commons will emerge.

We will have to watch to see what location becomes the next common gathering place for the community.

Lake Delton Limit More Than 4500 J1VISA Workers Use of Electric Scooters

The Village of Lake Delton diverts millions of publicly collected dollars from use on the needs of the residents - and gives it to private property owners who agree to construct new housing for the J1VISA population to live. The Wisconsin Dells area is a global community and home to more than 4500 work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming to support local tourism efforts.  The more than 4500 work experience travelers are now the largest population of community share holders in the Wisconsin Dells area.

This newly constructed housing for the J1VISA population does not follow typical code requirements - so the rentals lack adequate motor vehicle parking.  Electric scooters are becoming more popular as an economic, efficient, transportation option.  The use of electric scooters is a popular mode of transportation across the globe.

Fearing the more than 4500 work experience travelers coming from outside of the Country to live in the new public funded housing will take advantage of the electric scooters for an economical means of transportation - the Village of Lake Delton is crafting regulations to limit the use of electric scooters across the Wisconsin Dells area.

This at a time that residents have suggested that due to the large size of the J1VISA population - more than 4500 - there needs to be a seat on the Village of Lake Delton board to better represent the needs of this growing population.  The Wisconsin Dells area residents are investing millions of dollars of local public money - without any real input from this huge J1VISA population.

Ordinance No 19-012 Amended To Get Struggling Wisconsin Dells Area Resorts Back On Track

The Village of Lake Delton has amended ordinance number 19-012 chapter 16 of the municipal code to create a high end attraction incentive program.  The high end attraction incentive program is locally collected public money being diverted from residential needs to help get the struggling Wisconsin Dells area resorts back on a track of economic wellness.

The high end attraction incentive program provides free money for new high end attractions - amusements that are located and operated in the Wisconsin Dells area.  This is public money being donated to the larger resort style service delivery modals to update their attractions for the purpose of increasing the number of visitors to the Wisconsin Dells area.

The Village of Lake Delton is developing the application process - which will require evidence to support an increase in the contribution of collected room tax.  The hope is by using public money to pay for the improvement of amusements and attractions within the property of private business modals - more tourists will come stay in the Wisconsin Dells area.

Wisconsin Dells Resorts in Economic Struggle

The Wisconsin Dells area is a small rural summer resort community.  Residents are using the Down Town Wisconsin Dells commercial district as a direct indication of the economic wellness of the large resort business modal style of service delivery.

When the resorts experience a decrease in visitation the Down Town Wisconsin Dells commercial district has fewer consumers entering store fronts.  With about 75 percent of the store fronts in the Down Town Wisconsin Dells commercial district closed for the off season - it follows the local large resort business modals are serving fewer visitors.

To help compensate for the dip in revenue being experienced by the large resorts across the Wisconsin Dells area - the Village of Lake Delton is creating A High End Attraction Incentive Program.  This is publicly collected money being distributed freely to the resort business modals to improve their packages by offering newer attractions.

The Village of Lake Delton is developing the application process - this will give Wisconsin Dells area resort operators access to free money to improve their attractions and amusements.  Community planners are hoping the large resorts take advantage of this free money - improve the visitors resort experience - and bring a larger population to the commercial district streets where individual store fronts reside.

The High End Attraction Incentive Program is local publicly collected money being diverted from residential needs to help get the struggling Wisconsin Dells area resorts back on a track of economic wellness.

Wisconsin Dells Departments Pass The Collection Plate

The City of Wisconsin Dells carries a massive debt.  This makes it difficult for City of Wisconsin Dells departments to operate within their budgets.  To compensate the City of Wisconsin Dells departments will fund raise.

A simple example of this is the City of Wisconsin Dells Park and Rec's Department Black and White Affair scheduled for Saturday November 16, 2019.  This is fund raising performed to benefit the City of Wisconsin Dells Park and Rec's Department.

Fund raising has become an accepted practice across the Wisconsin Dells area.  These gatherings populate a business operators location creating revenue that contributes to annual profit.  The theme is to give money for the Park and Rec's Department in the City of Wisconsin Dells and includes the sale of food, beverage, auctions, and varied ways to get the participants to give more.

The Wisconsin Dells is a small rural summer resort community.  The area lacks the population to produce the tax revenue to financially maintain the City Department  budgets.  Departments within the City of Wisconsin Dells depend upon organized charitable giving to deliver their service to the local residents.

Moving Wisconsin Dells High School Furnishings Summer 2020

The Wisconsin Dells area has three large projects actively competing for scarce community resources.  The 3 projects are:

- Elm Street Outdoor Plaza

- Lake Delton Law Enforcement Building Alcan and Miller

- High School Along Rocky Arbor State Park

As the old high school building becomes empty for summer recess the Wisconsin Dells school system will be scrambling to engage the labor needed to transport furnishings to the new high school location along Rocky Arbor State Park.

The effort to construct and open the new Wisconsin Dells high school along Rocky Arbor State Park is actively competing with the committee members participating in the Elm Street Outdoor Plaza and Lake Delton Law Enforcement Building Alcan and Miller projects for scarce public money.

This simply means that as one project committee asks for more public resources the other two Wisconsin Dells area projects must be agreeable to take less.  The committee participants on each of the 3 projects will be expected to share scarce community resources in a manner that will bring some form of completion to each of the Wisconsin Dells area projects.

Wisconsin Dells Residents Expected To Contribute More With High End Attraction Incentive Program

The Village of Lake Delton has given 10 million publicly collected dollars to the Family operating the Kalahari Resort for the construction of the huge new convention center.  Staffing the new convention center requires a much higher number of J 1VISA Immigration Program people coming from outside of the Country to temporarily live in the new housing constructed in the Wisconsin Dells area with publicly collected money.

The Wisconsin Dells area tourism business modals are staffed by the more than 4500 travelers coming in to the community from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming.  The Village of Lake Delton is creating a high end attraction incentive program that will give publicly collected money to business operators who locate a new amusement in the Wisconsin Dells area.

This increases the need for additional J1VISA Immigration Programming staff to come from outside of the Country and temporarily live in the new housing the small rural summer resort Wisconsin Dells community is paying to construct.

The more of the J1VISA Immigration Programming staff brought into the Wisconsin Dells area the higher the cost of maintaining the essential public services for the permanent residents.  Wisconsin Dells permanent residents are making this connection with the Wisconsin Dells Events Newspaper publishing the City of Wisconsin Dells being unable to meet the actual cost of delivering emergency transport - ambulance service across the community.

Permanent Wisconsin Dells Residents Support The Resort Staffs Stay In The Area

The Wisconsin Dells area resort style business modals are dependent upon more than 4500 work experience travelers coming from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming to staff their resorts.

Despite the strain this population of more than 4500 work experience travelers puts upon local community services - the United States Federal Government does not list them with the census process.  This huge population does not count - which would make the Wisconsin Dells area qualify for more revenue sharing.

The permanent residents of the Wisconsin Dells area through local service budgets commit the bulk of public resources needed to support this huge population of more than 4500 in their community.  This simply means the residents are needed to pay for the resources necessary to house the more than 4500 work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country to temporarily live and work at the resorts.

But the 4500 is not enough - the Wisconsin Dells area tourism business modals actually need twice that many to come in from outside of the Country to live and work.  Said another way - the Wisconsin Dells area resorts need to attract additional permanent residents who can help shoulder the burden of supporting the out of Country staffs stay.  It is the local populations resources that are being utilized to staff the resorts with people who come from outside of the Country to temporarily live in the Wisconsin Dells community.

The Wisconsin Dells area resorts are hoping the building of a new high school is a way to attract more permanent residents that can increase local contributions being used to bring them more staff from outside of the Country.

Wisconsin Dells Approaching 2020 Federal Census Process

In 2020 the Federal Government will perform the census process.  The Wisconsin Dells area is now home to more than 4500 work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming to temporarily work.

The Village of Lake Delton has invested millions of locally collected public dollars to construct new housing for the J1VISA Immigration Programming population.  There are more than 4500 work experience travelers who come in from outside of the Country to reside in the Wisconsin Dells area - and the tourism industry business modals actually need twice that many.

Although the more than 4500 J1VISA Immigration population puts a heavy strain upon local public services - the Federal Census Process does not calculate there being here as growth.  This is unfortunate because when you have a higher population with the Federal Census Process the community qualifies for additional shared revenue.

This simply means local municipal budgets must allocate more public resources toward the service needs created with accommodating  a huge population - residing in the Wisconsin Dells community.  This acknowledges the Wisconsin Dells area residents role in sharing the local support needed to staff these large resort style business modals.

Low On Funds Wisconsin Dells Struggles Over Tourism Events

This large tent is staked in to the asphalt to secure.  These large tents are an added benefit for the visiting population - with technology the area can be heated, or cooled.  It is impossible to deny events like On Tap are successful in populating the Down Town Wisconsin Dells commercial district.

The City of Wisconsin Dells Departments are reminding event planners of the increased cost generated by this activity.  A long tradition of driving stakes through asphalt to set up the tenting is being considered unacceptable. The cost of additional refuse will require higher fees.  The placement of temporary access to electricity requires higher fees.  Code violation enforcement staff prowl for fining opportunities.  Law enforcement expects a trade line on the event contract to directly list their cost.

The Wo-Zha-Wa Festival Committee will be required by the City of Wisconsin Dells to charge residential property owners who open up their land for vendors to set up- a one thousand dollar fee.  This is more than a City that depends upon the tourism industry trying to monetize their partnership with event planning organizations.

This is individual City of Wisconsin Dells Departments fighting over tight public resources.
This is a City in need of public money - and will impact the local economy in a negative way by sending revenue producing events to other areas.

City of Wisconsin Dells Lacks Risk Reserve Money

As the City of Wisconsin Dells Departments craft their 2020 budget the massive debt becomes extremely obvious.  This hangs over the property owners who recognize that despite charging a lodging tax and premier resort tax at the higher end - the revenue being contributed continues to drop.

The City of Wisconsin Dells has absolutely no money in risk reserve to apply toward annual budget overages.  Visitor dollar profits have significantly dropped - meaning less and less lodging and resort tax is being collected by business operators.  This means lower contributions toward City of Wisconsin Dells public service departments.

This causes emotions to run high throughout the Wisconsin Dells area during the annual budget process.  The massive debt and consistent down swing in lodging and resort tax contributions in the Wisconsin Dells area is requiring City department budgets to assign additional duties to existing staff rather than hiring adequate employees to cover the labor.

The high emotions can quickly jump to anger which results in the City of Wisconsin Dells assigning a blame for their lack of risk reserve money on to some temporarily chosen cause - this helps soften the angry emotions but does little for the need for more public money.

Wisconsin Dells A Global Community J1VISA Largest Share Holder Population

The Wisconsin Dells area is a global community.  Work experience travelers coming from outside of the Country through Federal J1VISA Immigration Programming make up the largest share holder population.

The Wisconsin Dells area is home to more than 4500 work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country to temporarily live and support tourism efforts.  The calculation of visiting workers exceeds the local population making the J1VISA the largest group of share holders.

The Village of Lake Delton is investing millions of publicly collected dollars to build new housing for the largest group of share holders the J1VISA work experience travelers.  Pictured is the new housing and convenience store going up on Lake Avenue for the immigrating J1VISA population.  This Lake Avenue new housing creates a temporary home for about 600 work experience travelers.

Residents are suggesting their needs to be a position on the City and Village Boards for an individual who immigrates through the Federal J1VISA Programming and can advise on the value of all the new construction and services -millions of dollars are being invested.  Simply, does this huge population of share holders see this as the right action to support their work stay in the Wisconsin Dells global community.

With the immigrating J1VISA being the largest share holder population in the Wisconsin Dells area economy - it seems a responsible thing to do is seek their input.

Wisconsin Dells New Convention Center Means Switch To Franchise Hotels

The Village of Lake Delton invested 10 million publicly collected dollars to construct the new convention center interstate exit 92 Wisconsin Dells Parkway at the popular Kalahari Resort.  The Village of Lake Delton is using financial incentives and local regulations to switch all the hotels over to franchise modals.  This is part of moving the group size of those attending gatherings at the new convention center closer to the high end of occupancy.

This top down change impacts the type and characteristics of the visiting population.  This is creating a whole new population of shared customers.  With the new population comes a change in the value of area business modals.

With this new population expect to start to see fewer :

- Fewer Horseback Rides

- Fewer Go Kart Rides

- Fewer River Rides

With this new population expect to start to see more :

- More Continental Breakfast

- More Outlet Mall

- More Indoor Art Display

This is a very short incomplete list of the way in which Wisconsin Dells business modals will begin to alter their service to better meet the new population of visitors needs.  This top down change is controversial and not accepted community wide.

Wisconsin Dells BID Conservative Approach To Elm Street Closure Project

Residents of the Wisconsin Dells area are suggesting the Wisconsin Dells Down Town Business Improvement District Committee  (BID) would be looked upon more favorably if they took a much more conservative approach to the Elm Street Closure Project.  The Wisconsin Dells Down Town Business Improvement District Committee's insistence upon implementing the Elm Street Outdoor Plaza competes directly with two other large projects for scarce public resources.

The closure of Elm Street for a summer outdoor plaza is competing with :

- The Lake Delton Law Enforcement Building Alcan and Miller

- The High School Along Rocky Arbor State Park

This simply means as one project gets more of the available public resources - the other two projects get less of the available resources.  During the month of October the City of Wisconsin Dells Finance Committee meets for the annual budget process.  This is the time of year the massive Wisconsin Dells municipal debt is in the minds of the residents.  Residents seem to have a far more accurate grasp on the revenue producing capability of the short summer tourist season.

With the extensive amount of business modals closed for the off season - the Down Town Wisconsin Dells Business Improvement District Committee is struggling to demonstrate evidence of the effectiveness of their interventions.  The Wisconsin Dells Business Improvement District Committee implemented tighter regulations - this diminished the value of  individual operator creativity- while elevating the cost of doing business in Down Town Wisconsin Dells.

Municipal services must now be managed in a way that accounts for the lack of business in the Down Town Wisconsin Dells commercial district.  With the tightening of the free market in Down Town Wisconsin Dells the dip in business will require the City to add duties to existing staff rather than hiring additional employees.

Wisconsin Dells Annual Finance Committee Process Has Whole Area Scraping For Money

The City of Wisconsin Dells Finance Committee has started the annual budget process.  Money is exceedingly tight due to the 3 large projects competing for scarce community resources.  The 3 large projects are:

- Elm Street Outdoor Plaza

- Lake Delton Law Enforcement Building Alcan and Miller

- High School Along Rocky Arbor State Park

These three projects are consuming a huge amount of the areas public resources.  City of Wisconsin Dells Departments for the 2020 budget are instructed to come in at an increase of 2 percent or less.  This is difficult knowing this small rural resort community is also home to more than 4500 work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming and temporarily live in Wisconsin Dells.

The City of Wisconsin Dells Legislative Committee is considering charging residential property owners who provide space for Wo-Zha-Wa fall festival vendors as a way to increase revenue.  The community is anticipating additional fund raising with the vacationing families at the resorts being the target population.  Fund raising is a strategy to populate a business location and create revenue that improves the operators annual profit calculation.  This is accepted and employed frequently throughout the Wisconsin Dells area.

Role of Military Ducks in De-Populating Down Town Wisconsin Dells Commercial District

City of Wisconsin Dells planners are questioning the impact military ducks have on de-populating the Down Town Wisconsin Dells commercial district.  The large military ducks consume Broadway parking and function to remove vacationers from the Down Town commercial district.

The Down Town Wisconsin Dells commercial district has multiple wood booths that are stationed on the prime real estate corners - only to sit empty on the long off season.  Business owners see their locations being blocked in by large military ducks that shuttle their customers off to another location.

The future of the Down Town Wisconsin Dells commercial district will involve the large military ducks being assigned space to park and load off Broadway.  This is a very controversial plan for many who have memories of the Down Town Wisconsin Dells being entirely focused on the River rides.

Wisconsin Dells Start Charging Residential Property Owners Who Give Space To Wo-Zha-Wa Vendors

In the City of Wisconsin Dells Legislative Committee Meeting Minutes dated September 9, 2019 - published plans to charge residential property owners who make space available for vendors who set up for Wo-Zha-Wa Fall Festival.  This assures both the residential land owner and the vendor have each purchased a Wo-Zha-Wa permit.

Future agenda item to include discussion on requiring those who rent out their residential yard space to vendors during WoZhaWa weekend to obtain a permit in order to do so.

The cost of a Wo-Zha-Wa permit is about one thousand dollars.  This effort by the City of Wisconsin Dells should push the number of participating vendors to a lower calculation.

3 Wisconsin Dells Projects Struggling To Grab Larger Share Of Scarce Community Resources

Committee participants of each of the 3 Wisconsin Dells area projects are struggling to grab a larger share of the scarce community resources.  Each of the three projects will require a lot of public money and service to complete.  The three Wisconsin Dells area projects competing with each other are:

- Elm Street Outdoor Plaza

- Lake Delton Law Enforcement Building Alcan and Miller

- High School Along Rocky Arbor State Park

Accompanying the consumption of public community resources the Wisconsin Dells area expects ongoing fund raising efforts.  Fund raising has become an accepted way for a business operator to populate their location creating revenue that boosts annual profit calculations.

Fund raising events involve settings that facilitate access to the vacationing families money.  Local fund raising efforts involve strategies that entangle vacationing families - and requesting tourists to contribute.

This competition between the participants in these three projects could become quite intense - related to the last two summers of road construction in Down Town Wisconsin Dells that blocked consumer access to the business locations.  Due to road construction- revenue has been dropped for the last 2 summers in Down Town Wisconsin Dells.  This simply means less public money.

Fund raisers will consistently target the Wisconsin Dells Resort locations that function year round.  This consumer population provides the new money needed to help the Wisconsin Dells area complete these 3 projects.

Wisconsin Dells Area Fund Raisers Question Where Are Consumers Spending

With the foot traffic in Down Town Wisconsin Dells dropping off significantly - area fund raisers are questioning where consumers are spending money.  Most of the business locations in Down Town Wisconsin Dells have closed for the off season.  The complete drop in direct consumer interactions makes Down Town Wisconsin Dells a less likely target for organized fund raising efforts.

The Wisconsin Dells area has three large projects that are competing with each other for scarce community resources.  The 3 projects are:

- Elm Street Outdoor Plaza

- Lake Delton Law Enforcement Building Alcan and Miller

- High School Along Rocky Arbor State Park

These three projects depend upon scarce public resources to complete- and can be expected to be accompanied by ongoing fund raising efforts.  Vacationing families coming into the Wisconsin Dells area can expect to be asked to contribute - as part of their stay.

Fund raising events in the off season in the Wisconsin Dells area have become an accepted way to populate a business location and create revenue for the operator.  Wisconsin Dells business locations profit from occupying available space with fund raising events.

Wisconsin Dells area fund raisers are looking to determine where clusters of commerce can boost monetary intake.   Continuous fund raising is an accepted activity in the Wisconsin Dells area and the year round resorts deliver the target population.

Wisconsin Dells Vacationers Entangled With Local Fund Raising Efforts

The Wisconsin Dells area has 3 projects competing for scarce community resources. The three projects are:

- Elm Street Outdoor Plaza

- Lake Delton Law Enforcement Building Alcan and Miller

- High School Along Rocky Arbor State Park

The Wisconsin Dells area organizes a lot of fund raisers in the off season as a way to increase revenue for the local business locations.  Fund raisers populate business locations who profit from the organized event.  This is accepted and seen as favorable across the Wisconsin Dells area.

Vacationing families can expect to become entangled in the fund raising efforts for local projects.  Fund raising takes place in business locations that depend upon tourist money to maintain operation.  Vacationing families frequently become entangled in fund raising efforts for local projects and are expected to contribute.

It is beneficial for vacationing families to understand this dynamic and acknowledge that they can be required as part of their Wisconsin Dells trip to contribute to the ongoing fund raising efforts.

3 Wisconsin Dells Area Projects Competing For Scarce Community Resources

The Wisconsin Dells area has three projects actively competing for scarce community resources.  The three projects requiring large sums of public money are:

- Elm Street Outdoor Plaza

- Lake Delton Law Enforcement Building Alcan and Miller

- High School Along Rocky Arbor State Park

Expect to see forms of fund raising as these 3 projects actively compete for scare community resources across the Wisconsin Dells area.  There may be some pleas from project participants repeatedly asking for more resources to complete these high cost projects.

The competition for scarce public resources from these three projects is expected to be ongoing.  This means even after the projects have been constructed the fund raising efforts will continue to pay for the expected costs of maintaining the space.

Families visiting the Wisconsin Dells area should be expecting to be asked for money during their visit to help pay for these 3 projects.

How Does Wisconsin Dells Fit With Immigration As Number 1 Issue Of Approaching Presidential Election

Residents of the Wisconsin Dells area are questioning how they fit with immigration being the number 1 issue of the approaching Presidential Election.   The primary industry in the Wisconsin Dells area is tourism.  The Wisconsin Dells area has invested millions of dollars of publicly collected money with private business operators who are completely dependent upon people immigrating from outside of the Country to staff their locations.  This includes the investment of millions of dollars of public money for land owners to build new housing on their land for a population that immigrates from outside of the Country.

Without the people who immigrate from outside of the Country ( more than 4500) the Wisconsin Dells Area's local economy collapses.  The Administration of the United States Federal Government is consistently enacting regulations to restrict legal immigration in to places like Wisconsin Dells.  This includes enforcement efforts that gather people up, take them to an undisclosed location, and treat them like a criminal.

The large resort style delivery of services for the visiting tourists in the Wisconsin Dells area are moving employees within their attraction grounds to compensate for lack of staff.   People are hearing - as soon as the employee finishes folding towels near the pool- they will come up and make you that custom cocktail you said you saw on our brochure.  Fewer and fewer people from outside of the Country are willing to risk entering through J1VISA Immigration Programming that has become essential to staffing the business modals in the Wisconsin Dells area.

Residents of the Wisconsin Dells area are asking local municipal governments to begin publishing utilization numbers of people coming to live in the new housing being constructed with millions of dollars of public money for the population immigrating from outside of the Country.  Simply how many people from outside of the Country are residing in the new housing constructed with public money- are the new buildings being occupied at the level they have been designed for.

Wisconsin Dells Group To Manage Biz Competition Through Municipality

The City of Wisconsin Dells Down Town Business Improvement District Committee in their meeting on September 18, 2019 discussed plans to restrict excess duplication of types of business modals now compromising the down town area.  The City of Wisconsin Dells Down Town Business Improvement District Committee plans to act on enforcement mechanisms that eliminate a percentage of the operations that deliver similar products and services. 

The committee expects to use their internal position to influence - block the ability of operators of business modals that seem to compete with down town business locations from renting - or buying property in down town Wisconsin Dells.  This is managing business competition through the Municipality.

This City of Wisconsin Dells sanctioned effort will make it increasingly difficult for existing land lords to rent their commercial property - and equally difficult for the property owner to sell their real estate.   Newer business modals can expect an increased frequency of visits from the code enforcement staff who are being assigned the task of selectively creating finable offences.  

This action by the City of Wisconsin Dells Down Town Business Improvement District Committee is seen commonly in other communities where significant business improvement efforts over the past years have failed.  The committee's commitment to stronger regulations that restrict competition within a defined commercial district is a reactive attempt to rapidly correct a descending economy created through poor municipal policy. 

Wisconsin Dells Immigration Cycle Conflicts With Federal Government Efforts

The Wisconsin Dells area has crafted a cycle of immigration to compensate for the areas critical lack - which is labor.  The immigration cycle has transitioned the rural Wisconsin Dells community into a global home for more than 4500 work experience travelers.  The work experience travelers come from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Program to temporarily live in Wisconsin Dells and work in the tourism industry.

The Village of Lake Delton consistently allocates publicly collected money to private business enterprises who operate tourism modals of business designed to employ a greater number of out of Country workers.  This requires the Village of Lake Delton to allocate publicly collected money to private property owners who construct new housing for individuals to immigrate to temporarily live in the Wisconsin Dells area.  This requires the Village of Lake Delton to allocate publicly collected money to construct a larger law enforcement building- to better serve a population of more than 4500 immigrating staff.  This requires the Village of Lake Delton to aggressively employ all means possible to elevate taxes upon residents to support the infrastructure and services needed for libraries, schools, and pools.

This cycle is circular:

- Wisconsin Dells Area elevates percent collected as premier resort tax - and collects room tax

- Village of Lake Delton gives family who operates Kalahari Resort 10 million publicly collected dollars to build convention center

- Village of Lake Delton gives Noah's Ark 1.5 million dollars to construct new housing for immigrating staff

- Village of Lake Delton allocates publicly collected money to construct larger law enforcement building on Alcan and Miller

- Sporadic gifting of large sums of publicly collected money in to private business modals  - results in a more aggressive approach to taxing residents to support the infrastructure and services needed for libraries, schools, and pools.

This Wisconsin Dells cycle of immigration conflicts with the efforts of the current Administration of the Federal Government - to restrict legal immigration.  The Federal Government is making it clear - the Country is full- people are not being welcomed.