Grant funds during 1996 primarily supported law enforcement activities on tribal land throughout the state. In recent years, more county sheriffs' offices have used county-tribal law enforcement grant funds to defray salary, maintenance and patrol costs associated with law enforcement on tribal lands. This has been the main usage for funds in some counties, while other counties now find that grant awards will not support community crime prevention programs and the basic costs of law enforcement in Indian communities as they once did. Funding requests have steadily increased over the last few years.
The program has been successful in encouraging county sheriffs' offices to employ deputies from tribal communities. Likewise, cross-deputization has allowed some tribal police offices to continue to assist the sheriffs' departments by providing law enforcement services for county areas on and off Indian lands. These costs have also been charged to the county-tribal law enforcement program and have increased the amount of grant revenue requested from the department.
The awards to counties for the 1996 County-Tribal Law Enforcement program are listed below.
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1996 COUNTY-TRIBAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FUND AWARDS
* The Outagamie County Sheriff returned the $27,000 explaining the the original plan had been to employ a sheriff's deputy with the grant funds. The awarded amount did not support that activity.
Spending authority for this program is $607,200. Therefore, the Department of Justice requested and received a $45,000 increase in spending authority in order to meet 1996 award projections. Penalty assessment revenues supported this request.
The Department of Justice will continue to monitor county-tribal law enforcement to ensure successful collaboration between Indian nations and counties in state. It is hoped these cooperative programs will ensure the provision of valuable law enforcement services to counties and the Indian communities within them.
Sincerely,
james e. doyle
Attorney General
State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
JANUARY 28, 1997
To the Honorable the Senate:
At the direction of s.
13.685(7),
Wisconsin Statutes, I am furnishing you with the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board that employ one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules, and notifying you of changes in the Ethics Board's records of licensed lobbyists and their employers. For each recently registered organization I have included the organization's description of the general area of legislative or administrative action that it attempts to influence and the name of each licensed lobbyist that the organization has authorized to act on its behalf.
Organizations recently registered:
Below are the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board as employing one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules.
Ameritech (Wisconsin Bell Inc)
Subject(s) Any laws, rules, or practices that affect the conduct of business by Ameritech as a provider of telecommunications services.
Cruz, Lorenzo
Paulson, Michael
Ruble, Mary
Bell South Cellular Corp.
Subject(s) Any matter affecting the company in any way by any state agency or the legislature.
DuBois, Wayne
Petersen, Eric
Wimmer, Jr., James
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc
Subject(s) The legislation sought would impact on current tax law legislation and administrative rules and thereby this legislative effort would seek to exempt prescription pharmaceutical samples from the Sales & Use Tax laws of Wisconsin.
Christianson, Peter
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Subject(s) Dept. of Transportation Wis. Stats. 85.028 through 85.20; Wis. Administrative Code RR 1.00 through RR 4.00; Commissioner of Railroads Chapter
RR1 through 3.50.
Luebke, Keith
Center for Public Representation, Inc
Subject(s) Welfare reform; health care for low-income consumers; consumer; telecommunications - access for low-income individuals and communities.
Meili, Stephen E
Trubek, Louise
Cooperatives, Wisconsin Federation of
Subject(s) WFC represents a wide range of cooperative businesses and therefore tracks and lobbies on a variety of issues, including those affecting financial institutions, telephone and rural electric cooperative utilities, dairy, farm supply, livestock marketing, insurance, health care and cooperative housing. Cooperative taxation issues impact all WFC members and is another area in which the Federation is involved. State agencies the Federation works most closely with include the Public Service Commission, Department of Agriculture, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Financial Institutions and Department of Commerce.
Clay, Timothy
Hoopman, David
Jenkins, David
Manske, John
Nelson, Ruthann
Nilsestuen, Rod
Ericsson Inc
Subject(s) All state legislation and/or administrative rules relating to or affecting transportation/communication technologies.
Peshek, Peter
Fair Aid Coalition
Subject(s) The Coalition is interested in maintaining fairness in the funding of local education through the State equalization aid formula. It supports the current three tier formula or similar mechanism for distribution of state aids and tax levy credits. It is also interested in adequate Chapter
220 funding by the state.
McDowell, Kelly
Schreiber, Martin
Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Inc, Retired Professional
Subject(s) Any areas dealing with the public employee retirement system.
Strohl, Joseph
Firearms Tech, Inc
Subject(s) Legislation controlling firearms, administrative rules relating to the use of firearms.
Fendry, James E
Subject(s) We are concerned with any legislation or administrative rule that affects aspects of environmental, safety or health as it relates to Growmark, Inc in Wisconsin. This could include budget and non-budget related legislation or rules. In the 1997-98 legislative session, we plan to be involved with the Agricultural Chemical Clean-up funding adjustments, ATCP 29 changes, weights & measures adjustments, land application of LP gas meter testing changes, commercial feed rule changes, ERB-4, and hazardous materials transportation changes.
Wantland, David
Insurance Assn., American
Subject(s) All matters affecting property/casualty insurance, including but not limited to all commercial and personal issues and all matters relating to surety and fidelity coverage.
Christianson, Peter
Key Life Insurance Company
Christianson, Peter
Toman, William
Lake Geneva Historical Society, Inc
Subject(s) Support the preservation of the undeveloped shoreline of Black Point and the historic Black Point residence on the south shore of Geneva Lake, Walworth County.
O'Connor, William P
Local Union 2150, IBEW
Subject(s) Wage and hour; OSHA reform; minimum wage; right to work; FMLA; tort reform; campaign and finance reform; utility restructuring; deregulation; privatization; unemployment compensation; workers compensation.
Kowalkowski, Joseph
Menominee County Taxpayers Assn., Inc
Subject(s) Menominee County has a taxable land base of less than 1.5% of the area in the county. The organization is concerned with any legislation or rule that would affect taxation of Menominee County taxpayers.
Tenuta, James
Metropolitan Builders Assn. of Greater Milwaukee
Subject(s) The Metropolitan Builders Association of Greater Milwaukee will attempt to influence state legislation and administrative rules which concern the home-building industry. Specifically, the Association will be most concerned with legislation and rules affecting items checked below, as well as banking, consumer affairs, economic development, solid waste and recycling, taxation, utilities, and Worker's Compensation. The Association may also engage in influencing other areas as the need arises.
Moroney, Matt
Milwaukee Teachers Education Assn.
Subject(s) Areas of educational funding in K-12, retirement benefits for public employees, property tax issues as they relate to funding of schools.
Anderson, Robert
Carmen, Samuel
Gaston-Mounger, Linda
Milwaukee, City of
Subject(s) Any and all areas that affect a municipal corporation or its residents and taxpayers.
Curley, Patrick T
Czarnezki, Joseph J
