Senate Joint Resolution
6
Relating to: urging the U.S. and Canadian governments to prohibit diversion of Great Lakes water.
By
Senators
Jauch, Cowles, Baumgart, Moen, Burke, Erpenbach, Grobschmidt, Breske, Welch, Decker, Wirch and Darling; cosponsored by Representatives Krug, Musser, F. Lasee, Urban, Plale, Ott, Colon, Hasenohrl, La Fave, Plouff, Kreuser, Boyle, Black, Gronemus, Richards, Kelso, Kedzie and Sherman.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Joint Resolution
13
Relating to: memorializing Congress to amend
21 USC 661 (a) to allow for the interstate shipment of state-inspected meat.
By
Senators
Schultz, Shibilski, Fitzgerald, Welch, Panzer, Drzewiecki, Rude, Farrow, Darling, George, Zien, Breske and Clausing; cosponsored by Representatives Kestell, Ott, Klusman, Johnsrud, Musser, Brandemuehl, Gronemus, Freese, J. Lehman, Goetsch, Pettis, Ainsworth, Miller, Plouff, Seratti, Kreibich, Owens, Sykora, Spillner, Hahn, Gunderson, Albers, Huebsch, Petrowski, Skindrud, Lassa and Grothman.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill
6
Relating to: the transfer of firearms and providing a penalty.
By
Senators
George, Burke, Risser and Erpenbach; cosponsored by Representatives Bock, Ryba, Schneider, Riley, Miller, Urban, Travis and Boyle.
To committee on Natural Resources.
Senate Bill
64
Relating to: the amount of funding that a local governmental unit may receive under the safe drinking water loan program.
By
Senators
Clausing, Cowles, Grobschmidt and Schultz; cosponsored by Representatives Johnsrud, Freese, Miller, Albers, Gronemus, M. Lehman, Olsen, Plouff, Nass, Seratti, Sherman, Rhoades, Musser, Hahn, Brandemuehl, Huebsch, Ladwig and F. Lasee.
To committee on Environment.
Senate Bill
80
Relating to: employment of persons by private schools participating in the Milwaukee parental choice program.
By
Senators
Jauch, Erpenbach, Rude, Grobschmidt, Huelsman, Plache, Moen, Clausing and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Nass, Bock, Goetsch, Boyle, Sinicki, Pocan, J. Lehman, Wasserman, Ryba, Black, La Fave, Musser, Lassa, Cullen and Colon.
To committee on Education Reform.
Senate Bill
108
Relating to: authority to modify speed limits within historic districts.
By
Senators
Burke and Rude; cosponsored by Representatives Freese and Schooff.
To committee on Highway Safety.
Senate Bill
109
Relating to: requirements for a state health officer.
By
Senators
Moen, Rude, Breske, Erpenbach, Schultz, Robson, A. Lasee and Plache; cosponsored by Representatives Urban, Johnsrud, Miller, Freese, Black, Kelso, Lassa, Ladwig, Staskunas, Seratti, J. Lehman, La Fave, Brandemuehl, Gronemus, Musser and Albers.
To committee on Public Health.
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State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
Madison
June 18, 1999
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
We have been monitoring the construction costs of Miller Park, the new stadium for the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, at the request of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. The Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District, a local unit of government created by
1995 Wisconsin Act 56, oversees the design and construction of the stadium. Statutes authorize the District to issue revenue bonds for stadium construction and impose a 0.1 percent sales and use tax in a five-county area of southeastern Wisconsin to pay for debt service and other expenses. Through December 1998, almost $50 million in sales and use tax revenue had been collected.
Total costs for the stadium-including the District's budgets for stadium construction, infrastructure, leased equipment, and project administration-are currently estimated at $399.4 million. District officials do not expect costs to change significantly because more than 75 percent of the stadium construction and infrastructure work was completed by the end of December 1998, or contracts for this work had been signed.
At the time of legislative deliberations on the proposal to construct a new stadium for the Brewers, many legislators and others believed that sales and use tax revenue would be used to pay only for the stadium's construction. However, under the terms of agreements signed by the District and the Brewers, the District will also be responsible for either $3.85 million or 64.0 percent of actual annual maintenance and repair costs incurred by the Brewers, whichever amount is less. If the District pays $3.85 million in each year, the sales and use tax will provide the Brewers with $115.5 million to help fund maintenance and repair costs over the course of the 30-year lease.
Statutes require the District to adopt hiring and contracting goals for minorities and women working on the stadium project and to hire an independent monitor to evaluate efforts to attain these goals. According to available information, the District is making progress in achieving these goals. For example, through December 1998, minorities accounted for 26.3 percent of construction and professional services work performed by new employes hired for the project, while women accounted for 8.8 percent. However, the independent monitor has not yet provided detailed reports confirming these participation levels.
The District's response is Appendix III.
Respectfully submitted,
Janice Mueller
State Auditor
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Representative Ladwig moved that the Assembly stand adjourned until 10:00 A.M. tomorrow.
The question was: Shall the Assembly stand adjourned?
Motion carried.
The Assembly stood adjourned.
3:16 P.M.
