Storm clouds form around rainy day budget

Published: May 18, 2010
Tags: constitutional amendment, Klipstien, Mark Gottlieb, rainy day budget, State Engineering Association, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin Assembly, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Wisconsin Joint Committee on Finance, WisDOT
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By Paul Snyder
An amendment to the state’s constitution that would create a rainy day budget and keep Wisconsin’s employees at work is drawing support from people dealing with furloughs.
“We were laid off nine days in the last fiscal year, and we’re going to be laid off nine more in the next fiscal year,” said Mark [...]

Transportation budget hits pothole

Published: August 25, 2009
Tags: budget, shortfall, Transportation, Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin Inc., Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Wisconsin Joint Committee on Finance, WisDOT

Paul Snyder
paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com

Wisconsin’s transportation budget faces the latest in a long line of blows — a $49.1 million budget shortfall for 2009.
The state’s Joint Committee on Finance on Thursday will discuss a Wisconsin Department of Transportation plan to help cope with the shortfall: lapsing $33.3 million in major highway development and state highway rehabilitation money for [...]