Wednesday, September 6, 2000
Ninety-Fourth Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
September 5, 2000
The Honorable, The Senate:
The following lobbyists have been authorized to act on behalf of the organizations set opposite their names.
For more detailed information about these lobbyists and organizations and a complete list of organizations and people authorized to lobby the 1999 session of the legislature, visit the Ethics Board's web site at
http://ethics.state.wi.us
Fonfara, Thomas Milwaukee Public Schools
Taylor, Chad Covenant Healthcare System Inc
Also available from the Wisconsin Ethics Board are reports identifying the amount and value of time state agencies have spent to affect legislative action and reports of expenditures for lobbying activities filed by the organizations that employ lobbyists.
Sincerely,
Roth Judd
Director
State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
September 5, 2000
The Honorable, The Senate:
The following lobbyists have been authorized to act on behalf of the organizations set opposite their names.
For more detailed information about these lobbyists and organizations and a complete list of organizations and people authorized to lobby the 1999 session of the legislature, visit the Ethics Board's web site at
http://ethics.state.wi.us
Reed, Holly Ameritech (Wis Bell Inc)
Also available from the Wisconsin Ethics Board are reports identifying the amount and value of time state agencies have spent to affect legislative action and reports of expenditures for lobbying activities filed by the organizations that employ lobbyists.
Sincerely,
Roth Judd
Director
State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
August 15, 2000
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Chapter
34, Laws of 1979, requires that when the Department of Administration maintains an office in Washington, DC, for the purpose of promoting federal/state cooperation, it should submit a report detailing the activities of the office and reporting the status of federal legislation of concern to the Legislature and other state agencies (Wis. Stats. 16.548(2)).
The report for the period April, 2000, through June, 2000, is attached.
Sincerely,
George Lightbourn
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
August 25, 2000
The Honorable, The Senate:
We have completed financial audits of the Mendota and Winnebago Mental Health Institutes for fiscal year 1998-99, at the request of the Department of Health and Family Services. We were able to provide unqualified opinions on the Institutes' financial statements. We note that, on an accrual basis, Mendota Mental Health Institutes had net income of $787,000 and Winnebago Mental Health Institute had net income of $2.6 million.
For several years, the Department did not maintain an adequate system to accumulate accurate and reliable information on patient revenues and outstanding patient accounts receivables and to summarize that information for financial reporting purposes. In January 1999, the Department began implementing a new billing and receivable system, but the system has not yet been able to produce receivable balances that we could rely upon for financial statement purposes. We anticipate that as the Department completes an analysis of receivable balances and works with its software vendor to address system issues, the new system will be more reliable and will allow for more accurate financial reporting in the future.
Copies of the audit report have been distributed to members of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee and those required by law to receive them. If you are interested in receiving a copy of this report, please contact our office and request report number 00-9. The report is also available on line at
www.legis.state.wi.us\lab\windex.htm.
Sincerely,
Janice Mueller
State Auditor
Department of Revenue
August 25, 2000
The Honorable, The Senate:
The Benevolent Retirement Home for the Aged Task Force was created under
1997 Wisconsin Act 27 to investigate the property tax exemption for benevolent retirement homes and all problems that are associated with it.
The task force has completed its work. The reports to be submitted in the manner provided under s.
13.172)2), Wis. Stats., are attached. One report is submitted on behalf of the five members representing the not-for-profit perspective. The other report (entitled "The Government 5 Report") is submitted on behalf of the five members representing for-profit facilities and taxing jurisdictions.
Other attachments include a Department of Revenue Staff Summary of the work of the task force and an appendix consisting of presentations at task force meetings and materials distributed to members.
Sincerely,
Tom Ourada
Executive Assistant
