Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: Assembly Committee on Labor, Assembly Committee on Workforce Development, Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin, bill, Mary Williams, Mielke, prevailing wage, repeal, reporting, Sinicki, state budget, Toles
Comments: 2
By Paul Snyder
Political resistance and timing could spoil the construction industry’s chance to speak out on a bill that would repeal the state’s new prevailing wage law.
“If we’re just looking at repealing all the work we did last year to get this into the budget, I don’t know that I’m going to hold a hearing,” [...]
Published: February 18, 2010
Tags: ABC, Assembly Committee on Labor, Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin, Balko, Construction Business Group, Eagle Construction, Kahl, law, Mary Williams, Mielke, prevailing wage, reporting, Sinicki, state budget, threshold
By Paul Snyder
A bill that would repeal every prevailing wage law change enacted in last year’s state budget faces long odds in the Democrat-controlled Legislature.
State Rep. Mary Williams, R-Medford, has drafted a bill that would reinstate a threshold of $234,000 as the point at which prevailing wages must be paid on public projects. The threshold [...]
Published: January 25, 2010
Tags: Berceau, Brasser, county government, emergency services, Gottlieb, law, League of Wisconsin Municipalities, state budget, Witynski
By Paul Snyder
Even if a city finds a way to save money on emergency services, a month-old state law won’t let it happen.
The law means local construction projects likely will suffer as county and municipal governments craft their upcoming budgets, said Curt Witynski, assistant director of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities.
“Every government,” he said, “is [...]
Published: December 28, 2009
Tags: Allouez, Cowles, Division of Management Services, expansion, Fischer, Green Bay Correctional Institution, inmate, Kessler, Mead & Hunt, population, prison, projections, state budget, Wisconsin Department of Corrections
Comments: 1
By Paul Snyder
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is trying to set a construction strategy based on what likely will be conflicting inmate population projections.
The first estimate predicts more inmates and recommends major renovation projects. The second projection, though not yet released, is expected to forecast the opposite.
“It’s one of the struggles we face,” said Earl [...]
Published: December 23, 2009
Tags: counties, county highway, La Crosse County, maintenance, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee County Highway Department, Osgood, Schmitt, snow removal, state budget, Stone, Takerian, Wisconsin Department of Transportation
By Paul Snyder
A bill that would give Milwaukee County the freedom to ask the state for more road maintenance money for the winter is the latest fallout from state transportation budget cuts.
“This is being driven by the money being transferred out of the transportation fund,” said state Rep. Jeff Stone, R-Greendale. “It’s creating these kinds [...]
Published: November 23, 2009
Tags: Connections 2030, Forestry and Natural Resources, Gottlieb, Holperin, Kanavas, Kapanke, roadwork, Senate Committee on Transportation, state budget, thompson, tourism, Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, WisDOT, Zoo Interchange
By Paul Snyder
Lawmakers are deadlocked over whether the state’s road construction budget should be protected from raids.
“I do want to handcuff the Legislature,” said state Rep. Mark Gottlieb, R-Port Washington. “Until we can assure voters that user fees are going to be used for the right purpose, they’re not going to support new spending.”
Gottlieb wrote [...]
Published: August 17, 2009
Tags: Construction Business Group, Jim Doyle, prevailing wage, state budget, Wisconsin Realtors Association
Comments: 1
Paul Snyder
paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com
Opponents of the state’s new prevailing-wage law spot a chance to renew the fight with Gov. Jim Doyle’s announcement Monday that he will not seek a third term.
Doyle, in the 2009-11 state budget, approved such changes to Wisconsin’s prevailing-wage law as applying the standardized worker payments to private projects that receive at least $1 [...]
Published: August 4, 2009
Tags: bill, earmark, Joint Committee on Finance, Rich Zipperer, set-aside, state budget, transparency
Paul Snyder
paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com
Stockton’s railroad crossing improvement project would have been a plan with no money if a lawmaker had not set aside a $175,000 grant in the state budget.
The town’s annual road budget never exceeds $90,000, and Town Supervisor Jerry Piesik said if it takes a budget money set-aside to get the work done, he will [...]
Published: July 30, 2009
Tags: recovery, spending, state budget, stimulus, unemployment
Mike Glover
AP Writer
Des Moines, IA — With tax revenue plunging and states struggling to balance their budgets, officials from several states are acknowledging they’re more focused on immediate problems than long-term issues.
Officials from 10 states gathered in Des Moines this week to discuss how they are handling billions of dollars from the federal stimulus and [...]
Published: July 27, 2009
Tags: Central Sands Buildings Inc., K-W Electric Inc., nonunion, prevailing wage, Reesman’s Excavating & Grading Inc., state budget, survey, union
Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
Months of debate over whether expanding the reach of prevailing wage would ruin the industry did little to persuade contractors to fill out the state survey.
“Typically we don’t,” said Gregory Reesman Jr., president of Reesman’s Excavating & Grading Inc., Burlington.
“I really haven’t had the chance to give it any consideration (this year).”
Contractors have [...]
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