Section 83.035. Streets and highways, construction.

  Any county board may provide by ordinance that the county may, through its highway committee or other designated county official or officials, enter into contracts with cities, villages and towns within the county borders to enable the county to construct and maintain streets and highways in such municipalities.

Counties may charge 1 percent of a project cost administrative fee for work done on municipal roads. 63 Atty. Gen. 321.

Effective January 1, 2010, with respect to any public works or public construction project whose estimated cost exceeds $25,000, state prevailing wage rates must be paid to the employees of a local unit of government that enters into an intergovernmental agreement under this section to perform services for another local unit of government upon such a project. OAG 5-09 .

Projects involving county highway contracts entered into by the county highway committee or the county highway commissioner under ss. 83.035 and 83.04 (1) are exempt from county competitive bidding requirements. OAG 5-09 .

A county board in a county with a county executive cannot enact an ordinance precluding the highway commissioner from determining that the county highway department will perform any of the work on any joint county highway project under ss. 83.03 and 83.035 if a contracting local municipality requests that all of the work on the project be competitively bid and let to private companies. OAG 2-11 .