Walker Signs Pro-Cheese Bill, First To Pass This Year

Gov. Scott Walker has signed into law the first bill to pass the Legislature this session, a measure designed to help Wisconsin’s cheese industry.

Walker signed the bill Thursday making it possible for tax incentives to be extended to help finance construction of a $30 million cheese packaging and distribution plant in the village of Oostburg near Sheboygan.

Plymouth-based Masters Gallery Foods is looking to construct the new facility. The new law will allow Oostburg to create a new tax incremental district to help subsidize construction of the 150,000-square-foot facility.

It is expected to create 120 jobs over three years.

Walker said the bill is good news both for the Oostburg community and the state.