Published: February 16, 2010
Tags: bill, budget, Dan Thompson, Fitzgerald, Huck, income tax, Krueger, League of Wisconsin Municipalities, Plale, property tax, roadwork, sales tax, shared revenue, Wisconsin Alliance of Cities
By Paul Snyder
Local governments facing a grim future of postponed roadwork and delayed capital projects are hailing a bill that would force the state to return more money.
But standing between the bill’s proposal and passage is the equally grim reality that the state doesn’t have any more money to return.
“This sounds kind of gimmicky,” said [...]
Published: February 10, 2010
Tags: affordable housing, amendment, Brink, budget, Cieslewicz, Curt Brink, Gorman, Gorman & Co., Housing Committee, loan, Madison, Madison Affordable Housing Subcommittee, Madison Housing Committee, maintenance, new construction, operating costs, Schumacher
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By Paul Snyder
Madison leaders are hung up on the strings to attach to a $4.1 million pot of city money for affordable-housing developers in the city.
The city’s Housing Committee is reviewing a proposed amendment to the 2003 ordinance that created the affordable-housing trust budget and defined how the money would be spent. The amendment would [...]
Published: February 1, 2010
Tags: budget, construction fatalities, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, osha, Solis
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Monday requested $573 million for fiscal 2011, a $14.5 million increase over the agency’s 2010 budget.
The increase would let OSHA add 60 investigators and enforcement staff members in 2011, for a total enforcement staff of 1,752 people.
The budget continues to make construction a targeted industry, with an estimated [...]
Published: February 1, 2010
Tags: blog, budget, Hot Topics, osha, power, Ryan, SVEP
By Sean Ryan
staff writer
The message in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s 2011 budget is clear: The agency is not playing nice.
Published: February 1, 2010
Tags: budget, Bush, Medicare, national deficit, Obama, Senate Budget Committee, Social Security
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By Martin Crutsinger
AP Economics Writer
Washington — President Barack Obama unveiled a multitrillion-dollar spending plan Monday, pledging an intensified effort to combat high unemployment and asking Congress to quickly approve new job-creation efforts that would boost the deficit to a record $1.56 trillion.
Obama’s new budget blueprint preaches the need to make tough choices to restrain run-away [...]
Published: January 28, 2010
Tags: budget, candidates, constitution, Doyle, Forestry and Natural Resources, Gottlieb, governor, Holperin, Neumann, Republican, Senate Committee on Transportation, spending, thompson, tourism, Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin, Walker
By Paul Snyder
Wisconsin’s Republican gubernatorial candidates are blasting Gov. Jim Doyle and the state Legislature for failing to fix the state’s transportation spending problems.
Both candidates — Mark Neumann and Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker — also share the same solution for generating more money for roadwork: Shift money from sales taxes on vehicles and vehicle-related [...]
Published: January 27, 2010
Tags: budget, Doyle, Legislative Fiscal Bureau, taxes
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tax collections in Wisconsin are projected to drop by another $220 million, but it won’t be enough to force lawmakers to take additional action to balance the state budget.
The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported the new figures Wednesday and Democratic leaders say they’re close enough to being on target that they [...]
Published: January 22, 2010
Tags: budget, law, pension, Pew Center for the States, retirement, State Investment Board, Wisconsin
By Matt Pommer
Wisconsin’s public employee retirement system is well-financed. Whether that is good news or bad news may depend on how you view credit and debt.
In mid-January the State Investment Board reported that money in the basic, core pension program was up 22.2 percent to $67.8 billion in 2009. More than 142,000 retirees are collecting [...]
By RYAN J. FOLEY
Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle said Wednesday the economic recession made 2009 his most challenging year in office, but Wisconsin responded well by helping the unemployed and positioning itself for recovery.
In a year-end interview at the governor’s residence, Doyle said the hardest part was watching people struggle after [...]
Published: December 18, 2009
Tags: budget, Building Commission, Carlson Hall, Kanavas, Kaufert, Miller, University of Wisconsin System, UW System, UW-Whitewater
By Paul Snyder
State lawmakers want to try cutting into a maintenance budget deficit that will never be balanced.
Four University of Wisconsin System projects this year produced lower-than-expected bids resulting in a combined savings of almost $20 million.
The state Building Commission cut $17 million of that money when it approved a renovation to Carlson Hall at [...]
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