79.037 (4) For the distribution in 2024 and subsequent years until 2050, if a county fails to make the full amount of a deposit required under s. 229.695 by July 1, the department of revenue shall reduce the county’s total of payments under this section for that year by the difference between the amount of the deposit required under s. 229.695 and the amount of any deposit made by July 1 of that year and direct the department of administration to pay to the baseball park facilities improvement segregated fund under s. 229.687 the amount of the reduction.

229.64 Legislative declaration. The legislature determines that the provision of assistance by state agencies to a district under this subchapter, and any appropriation or grant of funds to a district under this subchapter and the moral obligation pledge under s. 229.74 (7) serve a statewide public purpose by assisting the development, construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of a professional baseball park facilities in the state for providing recreation, by encouraging economic development and tourism, by preserving business activities within the state, by generating additional tax revenues that would not exist without the baseball park facilities, by reducing unemployment, and by bringing needed capital into the state for the benefit and welfare of people throughout the state. The legislature determines that the taxes that may be imposed by a district under subch. V of ch. 77 are special taxes that are generated apart from any direct annual tax on taxable property.

229.65 (1) “Baseball park facilities” means property, tangible or intangible, owned in whole or in substantial part, operated or leased by a district that is principally for the support or performance of professional baseball operations including parking lots, garages, restaurants, parks, concession facilities, entertainment facilities and transportation facilities, and other functionally related or auxiliary facilities or structures.

229.65 (6m) “Professional baseball team” means a baseball team that is a member of a league of professional baseball teams that have home stadiums approved by the league in at least 10 states and a collective average attendance for all league members of at least 10,000 persons per game over the 5 years immediately preceding the effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts date].

229.66 (2) (a) A number of persons equal to the number of counties within the jurisdiction of the district plus one, chairperson and 3 others, all of whom must be state residents, appointed by the governor. At least one of the persons appointed by the governor shall reside within each county that is within the jurisdiction of the district. A person appointed under this paragraph may take his or her seat immediately upon appointment and qualification, subject to confirmation or rejection by the senate.

229.66 (2) (b) Two persons One person, who must be a state resident, appointed by the governor from a list containing the names of not fewer than 3 persons provided by the chief executive officer of the most populous county within the jurisdiction of the district, who shall serve at the pleasure of the chief executive officer governor. A person appointed under this paragraph may take his or her seat immediately upon appointment and qualification, subject to confirmation or rejection by a majority of the members-elect of the county board.

229.66 (2) (bm) Three persons appointed by the majority leader of the senate, all of whom must be state residents.

229.66 (2) (cm) Three persons appointed by the speaker of the assembly, all of whom must be state residents.

229.66 (2) (g) One person, who must be a state resident, appointed by the governor from a list containing the names of not fewer than 3 persons provided by the mayor of the most populous 1st class city within the jurisdiction of a the district or if that city is organized under subch. I of ch. 64, the president of the council of that city, who shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor governor. A person appointed under this paragraph may take his or her seat immediately upon appointment and qualification, subject to confirmation or rejection by a majority of the members-elect of the common council or council.

229.66 (2) (gm) One person, who must be a state resident and who may not be an employee of the state or of a professional baseball team that leases baseball park facilities constructed under this subchapter as its home facilities, appointed by the governor from a list containing the names of not fewer than 3 persons provided by the professional baseball team. A person appointed under this paragraph may take his or her seat immediately upon appointment and qualification. With respect to any of the following, a person appointed under this paragraph may not participate in any nonpublic meeting of the board or vote:

1. Approving or amending the lease specified in s. 229.6802 (1).

2. Approving or amending the nonrelocation agreement specified in s. 229.6802 (2).

3. Approving or amending a lease or sublease other than specified under subd. 1. or 2. between the district and the professional baseball team.

4. Obtaining or accepting a loan under s. 16.09 (5).

5. Retaining a 3rd-party negotiator under s. 229.6802 (3).

6. A dispute between the district and the professional baseball team.