Marathon County’s top administrator urged supervisors Monday to keep a highway shop financing plan that county projections show could shift more than $60 million onto property taxpayers by 2042.
The plan pays for the $54.98 million Highway Department facility in Kronenwetter without borrowing. North Central Health Care’s lease payments for its Lake View Campus buildings used to offset the county’s debt payments. Now those payments go toward construction, and property taxpayers cover the full debt bill.
Former Supervisor David Baker of Kronenwetter, who supports the new facility, used Monday’s public hearing on the 2027 budget to ask why the county is making that shift all at once…