[Act 9 Sections: 3im, 209, 628, 628b, 638x, 642x, 9107(1)(Lm), 9107(6g) and 9110(7h)]
8. MILWAUKEE YOUTH ACTIVITIES CENTER
Senate/Legislature: Enumerate the construction of a $5,074,000 Milwaukee Police Athletic League Youth Activities Center at the northeast corner of North 24th and Burliegh Streets in Milwaukee as part of the 1999-01 state building program and provide the following funding for the construction of the facility: (a) $1,000,000 in general fund supported general obligation bonding authorized for the purpose of constructing the center and create an appropriation to fund the debt service associated with the bonding; and (b) specify that $4,074,000 in gifts, grants and other receipts are to be used to fund the remaining costs of the project (see Tables 1 and 2 for project enumerations and funding).
Establish the following requirements related to the release of the $1,000,000 in general fund supported borrowing: (a) specify that the Building Commission would be required to provide the proceeds from up to $1,000,000 in bonding for the construction of the center in the form of a grant to the Milwaukee Police Athletic League; (b) require that before approving any state funding commitment for the project, the Building Commission would have to make a determination that the Milwaukee Police Athletic League has secured additional funding commitments of at least $4,074,000 from non-state donations for the construction of the youth center; (c) require that the state would retain an ownership interest in the facility equal to the amount of the state grant, if the grant funds are not used to construct a youth activities center; (d) require that the Building Commission would not be allowed to make the grant for the construction of youth activities center unless the Department of Administration (DOA) reviews and approves the plans for the project; and (e) specify that DOA would not supervise any services or work or let any contract for the project.
Specify that the Legislature finds and determines the following: (a) that preventing youth from engaging in delinquent behavior, encouraging positive moral development in youth and providing youth with opportunities for positive interaction with the police are statewide responsibilities of statewide dimension; (b) that the youth of the City of Milwaukee are disproportionately represented in the state’s juvenile correctional system and that, because those youth are so disproportionately represented, the state has a specific concern in preventing those youth from engaging in delinquent behavior, encouraging positive moral development in those youth and providing those youth with opportunities for positive interaction with the police; (c) that the Milwaukee Police Athletic League prevents that delinquent behavior, encourages positive moral development in youth and provides opportunities for positive interaction with youth through recreational, educational, social and cultural activities for the youth of the greater Milwaukee community; and (d) that assisting the Milwaukee Police Athletic League will provide recreational, educational, social and cultural activities for the youth of the greater Milwaukee community under the supervision of volunteer police officers in the City of Milwaukee will have a direct and immediate effect on that specific statewide concern and on those responsibilities of statewide dimension.
[Act 9 Sections: 3ip, 628, 628b, 638y, 642y, 9107(1)(km) and 9107(6m)]
[LRBb0044/1 Sections: 1 (as it relates to 3i), 8, 10, 18 (as it relates to 638w) and 51 (as it relates to 9107(1)(k) and 9107 (6))]
9. PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED 1999-01 BUILDING PROGRAM ENUMERATIONS
Building Commission/Legislature: Delete the 1997 Act 27 provisions related to the advanced authorization of facilities to be included in the 1999-01 state building program. These facilities would be re-enumerated as part of the 1999-01 state building program.
[Act 9 Section: 3261p]
10. CAPITAL EQUIPMENT ACQUISITION BONDING
[LRBb0044/1 Section: 48 (as it relates to 3261p)]
Building Commission/Legislature: Authorize the Building Commission during the 1999-01 biennium to use bonding that is provided for capital equipment acquisition for:
a. Capital equipment acquisition for any project in the building program; and
b. Acquiring other priority capital equipment for any office, department or independent agency in the Executive Branch, the Legislature and the Courts.
[Act 9 Section: 9107(5)]
[LRBb0044/1 Section: 51 (as it relates to 9107(5))]
11. PROJECT CONTINGENCY FUNDING RESERVE
Building Commission/Legislature: Specify that the Commission could, during the 1999-01 biennium, use bonding provided for project contingencies for any project in the building program. Generally, projects include an allowance of 5% to 7% of the total budget to cover unanticipated costs during construction.
[Act 9 Section: 9107(4)]
[LRBb0044/1 Section: 51 (as it relates to 9107(4))]
12. PROJECT LOANS
Building Commission/Legislature: Authorize the Commission, during the 1999-01 biennium, to make loans from general fund-supported borrowing or the building trust fund to state agencies for any 1999-01 building program projects funded from non-GPR sources.
[Act 9 Section: 9107(3)]
[LRBb0044/1 Section: 51 (as it relates to 9107(3))]
13. STATEMENT OF BUILDING PROGRAM CONTINUATION
Building Commission/Legislature: Continue the building and financing authority enumerated under all previous building programs into the 1999-01 biennium. Each building program is approved only for the current biennium; this provision would continue all past building programs into the 1999-01 biennium.
[Act 9 Section: 9107(2)]
[LRBb0044/1 Section: 51 (as it relates to 9107(2))]
14. MEDIUM SECURITY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AT CHIPPEWA FALLS
Building Commission/Legislature: Require the Department of Corrections to establish a medium security correctional institution in Chippewa Falls in addition to the adult medium/maximum security and or adult medium security facilities identified under current law. The facility would be enumerated as part of the 1999-01 state building program. Specify that the institution would be a state prison.
Require the Department of Corrections to provide the facilities necessary for the Chippewa Falls facility using the Highview building located at the Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled that would be converted to a correctional facility under the 1999-01 state building program.
Require the Building Commission during the 1999-01 biennium to coordinate the construction project related to the vacation of the Highview Building at the Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled and the conversion of the facility to a medium security correctional institution and related projects. Specify that jurisdiction over the building and adjacent land would be vested in the Building Commission for the purpose of effecting the transfer. Require the Commission to transfer the building and the land to the Department of Corrections at such time as is appropriate.
[Act 9 Sections: 2698g, 2698m, 2718 and 9107(7)]
[LRBb0044/1 Sections: 44, 45 and 9107(7)]
15. PROBATION AND PAROLE HOLDING AND ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG USE TREATMENT FACILITIES
Building Commission/Legislature: Require the Department of Corrections to establish parole and probation facilities in the state, one of which would be required to be located in the City of Milwaukee. Modify the enumeration of a $49,800,000 probation and parole holding and alcohol and other drug abuse facility in the 1997-99 building program to also refer to the treatment of alcohol and other drug abuse. Delete the reference in the enumeration that states the facility would consist of 600 beds. Further, specify that the facility would be located in the City of Milwaukee rather than southeastern Wisconsin. These changes would replace a provision of AB 133 that also would have required that this project be located in the City of Milwaukee.
[Act 9 Sections: 2695m, 2718 and 3261m]
[LRBb0044/1 Sections: 43, 46, 47 and 48 (as it relates to 3261m)]
16. STATE PRISON FACILITIES
Building Commission/Legislature: Delete the statutory references to specific state prison institutions for which the current law limit on the authority of county social service organizations to make investigations regarding the admission to or release from these institutions applies. Rather, specify that the limit would apply to all state prison institutions, which would have the effect of extending the limitation to the Kettle Moraine Correctional Institute at Plymouth and the Wisconsin Resource Center at Oshkosh.
[Act 9 Section: 1022m]
17. CORRECTIONS PRODUCTION BAKERY [LFB Paper 249]
Building Commission: Enumerate the construction of a production bakery for the Department of Corrections as part of the 1999-01 state building program project enumerations (see Tables 1 and 2).
Joint Finance/Legislature: Delete the enumeration of the production bakery as part of the 1999-01 state building program. Further, require DOA to conduct a study of a production bakery for Corrections to produce breads and other baked products for institutions in southeastern Wisconsin which would address: (a) the specific size of the bakery; (b) the potential customers of the bakery, including other governmental entities; and (c) operational details of the facility, including how the facility would be funded and staffed, projected revenues and expenditures for the bakery, and any offsetting staff and cost reductions that can be made in Corrections, DHFS, DPI and DVA as the result of a centralized bakery.
[Act 9 Sections: 9101(18i)]
[LRBb0044/1 Section: 42]
18. EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES [LFB Paper 391]
Building Commission: Make the following changes to the Assembly Bill 133 provisions related to the elimination of the Educational Communications Board (ECB) and the creation of a Educational Broadcasting Corporation, and the sale and leasing of broadcast tower space.
19. VETERANS FACILITIES
Educational Communications Board. Modify the duties and appropriations of the ECB, as follows:
Provide ECB the authority to: (a) enter into contracts that allow other public or commercial broadcasters to lease additional broadcast bandwidth available to the Board under its public broadcasting licenses due to the conversion to digital television; (b) rent, lease or sell space on its broadcast towers to other public or commercial broadcasters; and (c) rent, lease or sell any products available to the Board.
Authorize $5,307,000 in self-amortizing program revenue supported bonding to fund the Board’s conversion to digital television projects enumerated in the 1999-01 state building Additionally, provide $2,957,000 in general fund-supported borrowing and $1,350,000 federal funding. Specify that the state may not contract public debt associated with the self-amortizing bonding authority on or after the date the last broadcasting license held by ECB and the Board of Regents of the UW System is transferred to the Educational Broadcasting Corporation.
Modify the current appropriation for gifts, grants, contracts and leases to also include all moneys received from the sale of excess capacity, broadcast bandwidth or broadcast tower space or other revenue sources authorized by law. Specify that in addition to being used to carry out the purpose for which these funds were received, the Board could transfer an amount necessary to make the principal and interest payments on the Board's self amortizing facilities and to make payments to comply with federal restrictions on arbitrage, if needed.
Create a program revenue debt service appropriation for all monies transferred from the Board's gifts grants, contracts and leases appropriation to fund the debt service costs associated with financing the acquisition, construction, development and enlargement or improvement of self-amortizing facilities and to make payments to comply with federal restrictions on arbitrage, if needed.
If the Department of Administration (DOA) Secretary determines that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the transfer of all broadcasting licenses held by ECB and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin (UW) System to the proposed Educational Broadcasting Corporation, the ECB, these, and all current, duties and appropriations would be deleted.
Department of Administration. The following duties would be provided to DOA if the DOA Secretary determines that the FCC has approved the transfer of all broadcasting licenses held by ECB and the UW Board of Regents to the proposed Educational Broadcasting Corporation.
Provide DOA the authority to sell space on its towers to other public or commercial broadcasters. Further, allow the DOA Secretary, by contract, to authorize the proposed Educational Broadcasting Corporation to rent or lease space on broadcast towers leased to the Corporation to other public or commercial broadcasters.
Increase DOA's general fund-supported borrowing bonding authorization to acquire, construct, develop, enlarge or improve educational communications facilities by $8,264,000. This amount would be equivalent to the increase in bonding provided ECB in the 1999-01 state building program.
Joint Finance: Delete provisions related to the changes in governance of the Educational Communications Board contained in the Building Commission recommendations (See "Educational Communications Board"). Delete the $5,307,000 in self amortizing general obligation bonding and provide an additional $6,756,700 in general fund supported borrowing and $1,106,400 in gifts, grants and other receipts for conversion to digital television projects. Create a bonding authorization under the Milwaukee Area Technical College and provide $3,500,000 in general fund supported bonding and $350,000 in gifts, grants and other receipts for conversion to digital television projects and create a general fund sum sufficient debt service appropriation under the Building Commission to fund the debt service associated with the authorized bonding. Provide $2,800,000 in general fund supported bonding and $280,000 in gifts, grants and other receipts to the to the University of Wisconsin System for conversion to digital television projects. (See Tables 1 and 2 for changes to project enumerations and funding).
Assembly: Increase the matching requirements that ECB, and upon the creation of the broadcasting corporation, the corporation, the UW and MATC would be required to secure from nonstate donations for the purpose of digital television conversion before the Building Commission could approve any state funding for digital television. Require ECB, or the corporation, to raise $5,531,900, rather than $1,106,400. Require UW to raise $1,400,000, rather than $280,000. Require MATC to raise $1,750,000, rather than $350,000. (See "Educational Communications Board" for provisions related to the governance of ECB.)
Senate: Modify the provision of funding for the transition to digital television from Joint Finance levels as follows. Provide $2,221,800, rather than $3,500,000, in general fund supported bonding as a grant to the Milwaukee Area Technical College for the acquisition, construction, development, enlargement or improvement of facilities and equipment related to the conversion to digital television. Delete the requirement that MATC secure $350,000 from nonstate donations for this purpose and instead provide $350,000 FED for this purpose.
Provide $2,778,700, rather than $2,800,000, in general fund supported bonding to the UW for the acquisition, construction, development, enlargement or improvement of facilities and equipment related to the conversion to digital television. Delete the requirement that the UW secure $280,000 from nonstate donations for this purpose.
Provide $12,638,700, rather than $9,713,700, in general fund supported bonding to the ECB for the acquisition, construction, development, enlargement or improvement of facilities and equipment related to the conversion to digital television. Delete the requirement that the ECB secure $1,106,400 from nonstate donations for this purpose. Delete $350,000 FED for ECB for this purpose. (See "Educational Communications Board" for provisions related to the governance of ECB.)
Conference Committee/Legislature: Delete $15,709,700 in general fund supported borrowing, $1,350,000 in federal funding and $1,736,400 in gifts and grants as follows; (a) $9,409,700 in general fund supported borrowing, $1,350,000 in federal funding and $1,106,400 in gifts and grants for ECB conversion to digital television projects; (b) $3,500,000 in general fund supported borrowing and $350,000 in gifts and grants for Milwaukee Area Technical College for conversion to digital television projects; and (c) $2,800,000 in general fund supported bonding and $280,000 in gifts and grants for UW-system conversion to digital television projects. (See Tables 1 and 2 for changes to project enumerations and funding and "Educational Communications Board" for provisions related to the governance of ECB).
[Act 9 Sections: 641g and 9107(1)(c)]
[LRBb0044/1 Sections: 2 thru 5, 9, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 38 and 39]
Building Commission/Legislature: Delete the reference to housing facilities under the Veterans Administrations self-amortizing bonding authorization. As a result, the bonding could be used to acquire, develop, enlarge or improve any facilities at state veterans homes rather than only veterans housing facilities. Specify that the veterans cemetery located in southeastern Wisconsin is the Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery and the veterans cemetery in northwestern Wisconsin is the Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery. Also, specify that the veterans nursing care facilities in southeastern Wisconsin be known as the Southern Wisconsin Veterans Retirement Center.
[Act 9 Sections: 642e, 982m and 984m]
[LRBb0044/1 Sections: Section 21 (as it relates to 642e), 40 and 41]
20. FOOD SERVICE REPORT AT SOUTHERN WISCONSIN CENTER
Building Commission/Legislature: Require DOA to submit a report to the Joint Committee on Finance and the Building Commission by March 31, 2000, on the status of the centralized advanced food production system project at the Southern Center for the Developmentally Disabled that would be enumerated in the 1999-01 state building program. Require that the report address the status of the renovation project and the proposed plans for the transfer of the assets and operational responsibilities for the food service activity at the center from the Department of Health and Family Services to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
[Act 9 Section: 9101(19t)]
21. AGENCY MAINTENANCE WORKPLANS AND REPORT
Joint Finance: Require state agencies to submit a workplan to DOA on expenditure of capital building maintenance funds appropriated to each agency under their operating budget. Allow DOA to specify the timeframe to be covered by the workplan and the date by which the workplan is to be submitted. Specify that upon approval of a plan by DOA, the plan would be forwarded to the Building Commission. Require that the Building Commission review the workplan and provide that the Commission could approve or disapprove any plan or approve a plan with modifications. Provide that DOA may withhold any maintenance funding appropriated to the individual agencies for significant maintenance projects determined by DOA if a project does not conform to a work plan. Further, require DOA to submit a report to the Joint Finance Committee relating to the annual expenditure of capital building maintenance funds and capital building maintenance projects completed by each agency following the end of each fiscal year.
Senate: Delete provision.
Assembly/Legislature: Include Joint Finance provision.
