Lawmakers used a public hearing on Wednesday to grill Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services Secretary-designee Dawn Crim on her work to resolve a backlog of building plans that emerged in 2019.
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Read More »A bill circulating in the state Legislature aims to keep a months-long backlog in commercial plan reviews from reemerging by reviving changes to the review process that lawmakers had proposed last year.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services released a report Wednesday touting progress it has made in addressing a backlog of plan reviews that left contractors waiting months for the agency to sign off on construction projects.
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Read More »Even as the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services remains under pressure to speed its processing of commercial-building plans, it has removed from its website a public calendar showing the extent of its review backlog.
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Read More »A bill meant to reduce a backlog of commercial-plan reviews drew a mixed response from construction officials at a public hearing in the state Capitol on Wednesday.
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Read More »Lawmakers are moving quickly to advance a bill meant to ease a backlog of requests for reviews commercial-construction plans before this year's short legislative session runs out.
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Read More »Responding to recent complaints about delays in plan reviews, a top state official is calling for changes to standards determining when project plans have to receive official approval.
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Read More »As the Department of Safety and Professional Services continues to struggle to work its way through a persistent backlog of request for commercial-plan reviews, new attention has been called to staffing at the regulatory agency.
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Read More »State officials are taking steps meant to ease an acute backlog in requested reviews of commercial-construction plans after delays were a common subject of complaint this past building season.
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Gov. Tony Evers' pick to oversee the agency charged with issuing licenses for people in the trades said during a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday that it was a "horrendous mistake" that led to her being charged with felony child abuse in 2005 after jabbing her 5-year-old son's hand with a pen.
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