Fiore v. City of Madison

The controversy centers around the city’s segregation of $600,737.06 of its funds by appropriating them to a “city-county nonlapsing building-reserve fund” instead of devoting them to the budget and plaintiff’s effort to make such amount available to defray the 1952 budget pro tanto.

On December 27, 1951, the common council, which is the governing body of the city of Madison, a city of the second class, held a public hearing on a previously formulated budget designed to plan and control the revenues, expenses, and general property taxation for the year 1952, as directed, by sec. 65.90, Stats.…