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Members of the Fort McCoy workforce supported the June 12 meeting of the Monroe County (Wis.) Economic Development and Tourism Committee in Sparta, Wis.
The meeting brings together leaders from communities and businesses from all around the county, according to the webpage for the committee at https://www.co.monroe.wi.us/government/county-board-of-supervisors/boards-committees/economic-development-commerce-and-tourism. Committee members include Adam Balz, committee chair, and Joey Esterline and Cedric Schnitzler. Citizen members include Sean Truskowski, Tucker Gretebeck, Maila Kuhn.
Advisory members Jarrod Roll with the Monroe County Local History Room, Fort McCoy members, Lance Hauser with the Sparta Chamber of Commerce, Tina Thompson with the Tomah Chamber of Commerce, Roxie Anderson who serves as the Monroe County land use planner, and Chris Hardie and Brad Bauges.
Fort McCoy’s Information Management Officer Shawn Quinn, who has worked directed with the Fort McCoy Plans, Analysis, and Integration Office (PAIO), briefed the committee about Fort McCoy’s economic impact for local economies for fiscal year 2024.
Fort McCoy’s total economic impact for fiscal year (FY) 2024 was an estimated $1.6 billion, Fort McCoy Garrison officials announced in April, which is up from FY 2023’s total impact of $1.38 billion.
The data was compiled by Fort McCoy PAIO. Workforce payroll, operating costs, and other expenditures totaled more than $398 million for FY 2024.
A total of 1,934 personnel worked at Fort McCoy in FY 2024 — 1,061 civilians, 495 military, and 378 contract employees. Also, approximately 66 percent of the workforce lives within Monroe County, Quinn noted. The total FY 2024 workforce payroll for civilian and military personnel was $270.4 million.
A gross multiplier index (GMI) of 4.0 was used to determine the overall effect of the expenditure on the local economy. The GMI measures the number of times a dollar turns over within a region and was developed previously by the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The multiplier was further validated by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Fiscal and Economic Research Center.
Following the meeting, many of the attendees then participated in a tour of the Cardinal Glass facility in Tomah, Wis. There they learned about plant operations and processes.
Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.”
Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin.
The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984.
Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/fortmccoywi, and on X (formerly Twitter) by searching “usagmccoy.”
Also try downloading the My Army Post app to your smartphone and set “Fort McCoy” or another installation as your preferred base. Fort McCoy is also part of Army’s Installation Management Command where “We Are The Army’s Home.”
| Date Taken: | 06.18.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 06.18.2025 16:55 |
| Story ID: | 501034 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US |
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