Opinion No. Oag 48-79, (1979)

RICHARD L. HAMILTON, Corporation Counsel Outagamie County

You have requested my opinion on three questions:

1. May a county establish an ordinance which would require all capital expenditures in excess of a designated amount to be submitted to the electorate by a referendum, the results of which would be binding upon the county's ability to make that expenditure?

2. What is, basically, the ability of the County Board of Supervisors to submit any questions, by its own initiation, to the electorate for vote, either binding or advisory?. . . .

3. In those instances where the Statutes specifically…