April 5, 1996
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Section
303.019, Wisconsin Statutes, directs that "the Department of Corrections and administration shall report on a quarterly basis, except for the last quarter in a fiscal year, to the Joint committee on Finance providing a cash balance summary for each prison industry and a projected fiscal year-end profit and loss statement for the prison industry program...".
Attached are the "Projected Accrual Profit and Loss Statement" and "Year to Date Cash Balance Summary by Industry" for the period ending December 31, 1995.
Prison Industries had a cash deficit of $1.3 million through the second quarter ending December 31, 1995. Actual year-to-date expenditures were $8,146,800. These expenditures reflect approximately $685,000 in expenditures related to the previous fiscal year (FY 95) as directed by Joint Finance in an October 26, 1995 s.13.10 meeting.
Revenues for the same time period were $6,619,000. Prison Industries has adequate fixed assets, inventories and receivables to cover the overdraft.
The projected profit on the accrual basis for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1996 is $200,000.
Sincerely,
Michael J. SulLivan
Secretary
Department of Corrections
James R. Klauser
Secretary
Department of Administration
Referred to joint committee on Finance.
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
April 17, 1996
The Honorable, The Legislature:
We have completed an evaluation of the methodology used to determine the workload of Wisconsin circuit court judges and the need for additional positions, as requested by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Circuit court judges were transferred from county to state employment in 1980 by Chapter
449, Wisconsin Laws of 1977.
Currently, there are 233 authorized full-time equivalent circuit court judgeships. In fiscal year 1994-95, the State's circuit court expenditures totaled $56.9 million. Although position requests are typically made by the Director of State Courts, the judiciary is significantly involved in the request-development process. While the Director of State Courts uses a measure of reasonable judicial workload to identify circuits in need of additional positions, to be included in the position request a circuit is expected to have support from the affected county and the chief judges of the state's ten judicial districts.
We found that Wisconsin's methodology for measuring judicial workload is capable of providing objective and comparable information on the need for additional judges. However, a recent update of the methodology is incomplete and needs changes to yield reliable results. We include a number of recommendations to increase confidence in the results of the workload measure. These include expanding the size of the data sample used to estimate the time required to hear cases, improving reporting to make data more comparable among counties, and recognizing differences in administration and legal research activities for different case types. Once the estimates of case times are improved, they could be used to evaluate whether different case weights should be established for large and small counties.
We appreciate the courtesy and cooperation extended to us by the Office of the Director of State Courts, circuit court judges, and court staff throughout the state. The response of the Director of State Courts is Appendix IV.
Sincerely,
dale cattanach
State Auditor
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
April 18, 1996
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint Berkos
, Daniel M.,
of Mauston, as a member of the Public Defender Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 1999.
Sincerely,
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
Read and referred to committee on Judiciary.
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
April 18, 1996
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint Walsh
, Donald E.,
of Pewaukee, as a member of the Public Defender Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 1999.
Sincerely,
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
Read and referred to committee on Judiciary.
Office of the Governor
April 18, 1996
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint Roe
, Dean K.,
of Brookfield, as a member of the Wisconsin Health and Educational Facilities Authority, to serve for the term ending June 30, 2003.
Sincerely,
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
Read and referred to committee on Health, Human Services and Aging.
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
April 18, 1996
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint DeBraska, Bradley,
of Milwaukee, as a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, to serve for the interim term ending May 1, 1999.
Sincerely,
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
Read and referred to committee on Education and Financial Institutions.
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
April 19, 1996
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint Sell
, Steven D.,
of Oxford, as Administrator of the Division of Emergency Government, to serve for the term ending at the pleasure of the Governor.
Sincerely,
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
Read and referred to committee on State Government Operations and Corrections.
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
April 18, 1996
To the Honorable, the Senate:
The following bill(s), originating in the Senate, have been approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State:
Sincerely,
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
April 18, 1996
To the Honorable, the Senate:
I have approved
Senate Bill 565 with several partial vetoes as
1995 Wisconsin Act 216 and deposited it in the Office of the Secretary of State.
This government operations bill primarily corrects drafting errors made in
1995 Wisconsin Act 27, the biennial budget bill. It also contains several changes needed to effectively administer several programs created or modified in Act 27.
I have exercised the partial veto in Section 9101. This partial veto eliminates a nonstatutory provision which requires the Department of Administration to decrease appropriations from a program revenue or program revenue-service appropriation by $32,400 for fiscal year 1995-96 and $32,400 for fiscal year 1996-97 and decrease 1.0 PR position authorized for the department. In addition, the Secretary of Administration must notify the co-chairpersons of the Joint Committee on Finance no later than June 1, 1996, of the proposed decrease in funding and position authority under the 14-day passive review process.
I am vetoing this provision because this funding and position authority reduction was already decreased under the Land Information Board's standard budget adjustments in
1995 Wisconsin Act 27. The additional reduction in the Department of Administration's program revenue appropriation would be viewed as eliminating funding and a position twice.
