9. Health and Family Services 1 771,600 771,600 Social services: Indian substance abuse prevention education ($500,000 PR annually) and Indian Aids ($271,600 PR annually).
10. Health and Family Services 2 250,000 250,000 Compulsive gambling awareness campaign grants.
11. Higher Education Aids Board 1 779,800 779,800 Indian student assistance grant program for Native American undergraduate or graduate students.
Program Revenue
Department 1999-00 2000-01 Purpose
12. Higher Education Aids Board $400,000 $400,000 Wisconsin Higher Education Grant (WHEG) program for tribal college students.
13. Historical Society 1 170,100 170,100 Operation of Northern Great Lakes Center as an historic site.
14. Justice 3 758,900 758,900 County-tribal law enforcement programs: local assistance ($708,400 annually) and state operations ($50,500 annually).
15. Justice 81,100 93,700 Indian law unit for Indian-related litigation.
16. Natural Resources 4 2,000,000 2,000,000 Transfer to the fish and wildlife account of the conservation fund.
17. Natural Resources 1,000,000 1,000,000 Nonpoint program cost-share grants to landowners.
18. Natural Resources 5 669,000 619,000 Snowmobile enforcement program.
19. Natural Resources 1 120,000 120,000 Nonpoint grants and local assistance to the Oneida Nation.
20. Natural Resources 1 109,700 109,700 Management of state fishery resources in off-reservation areas where tribes have treaty-based rights to fish.
21. Natural Resources 0 250,000 Management of an elk reintroduction program.
22. Natural Resources 6 100,000 100,000 Payment to the Lac du Flambeau Band relating to certain fishing and sports licenses.
23. Natural Resources 1 10,000 10,000 Spearfishing enforcement aids.
24. Natural Resources 81,000 131,000 Mandatory snowmobile education program.
25. Natural Resources 0 300,000 One-time grant to the Town of Swiss in Burnett County and the St. Croix Band for a drinking water study.
26. Public Instruction 7 198,000 203,000 Alternative schools operating American Indian language and culture education programs.
27. Tourism 4,000,000 4,000,000 Tourism marketing, including grants to nonprofit tourism promotion organizations.
28. University of Wisconsin System 0 0 Ashland full-scale aquaculture demonstration facility: debt service payments and operational costs.
29. Veterans Affairs 66,900 68,000 American Indian services coordinator project position and grants to assist American Indians in obtaining federal and state veterans benefits.
Program Revenue
Department 1999-00 2000-01 Purpose
30. Wisconsin Housing and
Economic Development Auth. $2,500,000 $0 One-time funding to guarantee loans to small businesses located in, or adjacent to, counties with tribal casinos.
31. Workforce Development 350,000 350,000 Vocational rehabilitation services for Native American individuals and tribes or bands.
Total $20,605,700 $22,134,400
1 Would eliminate GPR funding and provide an identical amount of gaming revenue for the same purpose.
2 Would eliminate PR lottery and racing revenue funding and provide tribal gaming revenue in a greater amount for the same purpose.
3 Would eliminate GPR and PR penalty assessment funding and provide an identical amount of gaming revenue for the same purpose (funding provided in budget bill reflects an increase previously approved under s. 16.515 of the statutes after the adjusted base was established).
4 Would increase revenue for fish and wildlife account, possibly holding down fee increases or preventing certain program reductions.
5 Would eliminate GPR and SEG funding and provide an identical amount of gaming revenue for the same purpose.
6 Would supplant SEG funding (fish and wildlife account) currently used for this purpose.
7 Would eliminate GPR funding and provide gaming revenue in a greater amount for the same purpose.
Under the Governor's provisions, the tribal gaming program revenue appropriation would have an estimated balance of $633,300 on June 30, 2001.
Joint Finance: Allocate $20,595,100 PR in 1999-00 and $22,534,200 PR in 2000-01 from tribal gaming revenue. These allocations total $10,600 less in 1999-00 and $399,800 more in 2000-01 than under the bill. Modify the Governor’s recommendations, as follows:
a. Administration: Management Assistance Grant Program. Create a management assistance grant program, administered by DOA, to provide financial assistance to counties to fund public safety, public health, public infrastructure, public employee training and economic development expenditures. Provide that grants be awarded, subject to the availability of funds, to counties that meet the following criteria: (1) the county does not contain any incorporated municipalities; (2) the county has a geographic area of less than 400 square miles; (3) the county submits a detailed expenditure plan that identifies how the funds are proposed to be expended and how those expenditures meet the program's goals; and (4) the county maintains its financial records in accordance with accounting procedures established by DOR. Establish the grant amount for each eligible county at $500,000, annually. Create an appropriation to make grants under the program. Place $1,000,000 in tribal gaming revenues in the PR appropriation of the Joint Committee on Finance to be transferred under s. 13.10 to the management assistance grant program appropriation upon request by DOA and a finding that a county has met the eligibility criteria of the grant program.
b. Administration--Office of Justice Assistance: Tribal Law Enforcement Assistance [LFB Paper 160]. Provide $175,000 PR annually to the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe for a public safety initiative, and $150,000 PR annually to the St. Croix Chippewa tribe to develop law enforcement capacity on reservation lands to be administered by the Office of Justice Assistance (OJA) under the newly-created tribal law enforcement assistance grant program. Correct a statutory reference in the bill. Exempt the procedures for administering the tribal law enforcement program from the administrative rule process.
c. Administration--Office of Justice Assistance: County Law Enforcement Grant Program. Provide $250,000 PR annually and create a county law enforcement grant program, to be administered by OJA, under which counties may receive no more than $50,000 annually. Provide that counties that fulfill all of the following requirements would be eligible to receive funds: (a) the county borders a federally-recognized Indian reservation in Wisconsin; (b) the county does not receive a grant from the Department of Justice's cooperative county-tribal law enforcement program for each of the tribes that border the county; (c) the county demonstrates a need for law enforcement services; and (d) the county submits an application and proposed plan to OJA that shows how the county would use the grant monies for law enforcement services.
d. Commerce: Gaming Economic Development and Diversification Grants [LFB Paper 161]. Make the following modifications to the gaming economic development and diversification grant and loan programs:
1. Provide an additional $2,000,000 PR in 1999-00 for economic development grants and loans.
2. Require Commerce to make annual grants of $1 million to the City of Milwaukee for a matching grant program administered by the Milwaukee Economic Development Corporation for remediation and economic redevelopment activities in the Menomonee Valley.
3. Require Commerce to make annual grants of $150,000 to the Northwest Regional Planning Commission to match federal or private funds to establish a community-based venture fund. Require Commerce to release $1 of state funding for each $2 of federal or private matching funds.
4. Require that businesses in all counties be eligible for gaming economic development and diversification grants and loans.
5. Create program revenue repayments appropriations as annual.
6. Specify that Native American businesses are eligible for grants and loans.
7. Require Commerce to make a grant of $299,800 from the gaming economic development grants and loans appropriation to a city that was required to replace its city well because of federal highway construction.
e. Commerce: Native American Economic Development Liaison [LFB Paper 285]. Provide $9,000 PR annually to the appropriation for a Native American economic development liaison to reflect increased administrative service charges related to the transfer of administrative positions to the Administrative Services Division's program revenue charge-back appropriation.
f. Health and Family Services: Indian Health Program Funding [LFB Paper 163]. Modify the Governor's recommendations relating to Indian health program funding as follows: (a) provide $183,700 PR in 1999-00 and $245,000 PR in 2000-01 to be used as the state match to support MA-funded tribal outreach activities; (b) provide $300,000 PR in 1999-00 and $400,000 PR in 2000-01 in the Joint Committee on Finance's supplemental appropriation as a contingency fund for BadgerCare premiums and require DHFS to submit a request for the release of these funds, under a 14-day passive review process once DHFS receives a written decision from the federal Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) on whether Native Americans would be required to pay premiums under the BadgerCare program; and (c) provide $825,000 PR annually as the state match for MA services provided by tribal federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and delete a corresponding amount from the GPR MA benefits appropriation. Provide $450,000 PR annually in the Committee's supplemental appropriation to support a new tribal grant program. Direct DHFS to establish criteria for distributing grants to tribal health clinics and to take into account each tribe's financial need, available resources and other demographic health status indicators in developing a distribution formula. Specify that these grants would support health care services of tribal members that are purchased or provided by tribal health clinics. Require DHFS to submit a request for the release of this funding that specifies the distribution formula that would be used for awarding these grants, under 14-day passive review, by September 1, 1999.
g. Historical Society: Northern Great Lakes Center [LFB Papers 158 and 575]. Delete the provision that the Society would operate and maintain the Northern Great Lakes Center as an historic site.
h. Justice: County-Tribal Law Enforcement [LFB Paper 165]. Transfer 100% of the unencumbered balance of the county-tribal programs -- surcharge receipts appropriation to a newly-created penalty assessment appropriation under OJA.
i. Justice: Indian Litigation [LFB Paper 159]. Delete $81,100 PR in 1999-00 and $93,700 PR in 2000-01 and 2.0 PR positions annually and associated appropriation language relating to an Indian law unit in the Department of Justice.
j. Natural Resources: Fish and Wildlife Account Funding [LFB Paper 166]. Delete the increases in hunting and fishing licenses recommended by the Governor. Transfer an additional $500,000 PR annually (for a total of $2.5 million annually) to the fish and wildlife account of the conservation fund.
k. Natural Resources: Nonpoint Grants [LFB Paper 159]. Delete $1,000,000 PR annually for nonpoint cost-share grants to landowners.
l. Natural Resources: Elk Reintroduction [LFB Paper 167]. Provide $50,000 PR and 1.0 PR wildlife biologist position in 1999-00 and delete $50,000 PR and provide an additional 0.5 PR wildlife biologist position for a total of $200,000 and 1.0 position in 2000-01 for the management of the elk reintroduction program by DNR.
m. Natural Resources: Spearfishing Enforcement Aids [LFB Paper 158]. Delete $10,000 PR annually for spearfishing enforcement aids. Maintain the current GPR appropriation for the aids, with no funding appropriated in the 1999-01 biennium and lapse any balance to the general fund (estimated at $37,000).
n. Natural Resources: Drinking Water Study [LFB Paper 169]. Provide $100,000 PR in 1999-00 in addition to the $300,000 PR in 2000-01 provided under the bill. Require the Town of Swiss and the St. Croix Band to submit a report of the findings of the drinking water and water quality study to DNR and DOA no later than January 1, 2001, instead of January 1, 2003. Specify that the funds be used for engineering design and feasibility activities related to construction of wastewater and drinking water treatment facilities (in addition to being used for a study).
o. Natural Resources: Crane Study and Whooping Crane Reintroduction. Provide $55,000 PR in 1999-00 and $60,000 PR in 2000-01 to DNR as one-time funding for a study of crop damage caused by cranes to be done by the University of Wisconsin and the International Crane Foundation. Also, provide $75,300 PR in 1999-00 and $87,000 PR in 2000-01 and 1.0 PR wildlife biologist position related to the reintroduction of whooping cranes in Wisconsin.
p. Tourism: Tourism Marketing [LFB Paper 171]. Require that at least $1,130,000 annually be spent for Joint Effort Marketing (JEM) grants and specify that any tribal government or not-for-profit tribal entity is eligible to receive JEM grants. Delete $750,000 GPR each year from Tourism's marketing appropriation. Allocate $200,000 PR annually from the tribal gaming tourism marketing appropriation for grants to the Milwaukee Public Museum for Native American exhibits and activities. Allocate $75,000 PR in 1999-00 to DNR for completion of Phase II of upgrading at Aztalan State Park, which would include developing an overall public education and research strategy as well as a long-term interpretive and management plan. Further, require the Historical Society to work with the management at Aztalan State Park to achieve this upgrade in a timely fashion. Specify that the management plan include an interpretive and visitors' center, opening other portions of the site to the public and using visual effects to enhance the visitor's experience at the site. Provide 1.0 PR position and transfer $23,500 PR in 1999-2000 and $30,500 PR in 2000-01 from the tribal gaming tourism marketing appropriation to a new, annual appropriation funded by tribal gaming revenue for a tourist information assistant. Require that program revenue from the tribal gaming tourism marketing appropriation annually be transferred to match the amount in the schedule for the tourist information assistant position. Delete $35,700 PR annually and 1.0 vacant tourism special assistant position in the surplus property appropriation for tourism promotion. Specify that Tourism maintain proportionate balances in each marketing appropriation. Maintain the GPR tourism marketing appropriation as an annual appropriation.
q. UW System: Aquaculture Center [LFB Paper 172]. Require the Board of Regents to submit to the Joint Committee on Finance, for its approval under s. 13.10 of the statutes, a plan for the construction and operation of the proposed aquaculture facility including: (1) a description of the physical characteristics of the facility; (2) the functions to be performed by the center; (3) how, and by whom, those functions would be carried out; (4) staffing levels; and (5) estimated operational costs. Specify that the program revenue bonding for construction of the facility could not be issued until the Committee has approved the University's plan.
r. Veterans Affairs: Services to American Indian Veterans [LFB Paper 173]. Provide the additional American Indian veterans services coordinator position as a permanent position rather than a four-year project position. Provide additional funding of $12,500 PR in 1999-00 and $17,500 PR in 2000-01 to establish a grant program of a maximum $2,500 per tribe for those Wisconsin Indian tribes which designate a tribal veterans service officer and which have had a tribal veterans services officer plan approved by DVA.
