Referred on August 10, 2004
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Relating to operation of the health insurance risk-sharing plan (HIRSP).
Submitted by Department of Health and Family Services.
Report received from Agency, August 6, 2004.
To committee on Health.
Referred on August 16, 2004
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Communications
August 9, 2004
The Honorable John Gard
Speaker, Wisconsin State Assembly
Room 211 West
State Capitol
Madison, WI 53708
Dear Mr. Speaker:
I hereby resign from the Assembly Committee on Education Reform.
I greatly appreciate the opportunity you gave me to lead this committee.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Scott R. Jensen
State Representative
98th Assembly District
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
Madison
August 4, 2004
To 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)).
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The report for the period April-June 2004 is attached.
Sincerely,
Marc J. Marotta
Secretary
Referred to committee on State Affairs.
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Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
Madison
August 12, 2004
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
As required by s.
229.8273(6), Wis. Stats., we have reviewed the Green Bay/Brown County Professional Football Stadium District's efforts to meet contracting and hiring goals for minorities and women for the Lambeau Field reconstruction project. Statutes required the District to establish goals for:
* Awarding 15 percent of the value of contracts that are financed by bond proceeds to minority-owned businesses, and 5 percent to women-owned businesses; and
* Hiring minorities and women related to the construction project so that 15 percent of the new employees hired specifically for the project are minority group members and 5 percent are women.
Although the goals are required to be applied only to the $160.0 million in bonds issued by the District, the parties involved in the project agreed that the entire amount budgeted would be subject to statutory participation goals. Therefore, we based our analysis on the application of the statutory goals to the entire $295.2 million budget, less $22.1 million that was exempted from the goals. A total of $60.8 million in professional and construction contract dollars was paid to targeted businesses, including $42.9 million to minority-owned businesses and $17.9 million to women-owned businesses. The goals were met: 15.7 percent of project expenditures were paid to minority-owned businesses, and 6.5 percent were paid to women-owned businesses.
In addition, of the 2,323 new hires who worked on the project, 440 (18.9 percent) were minority group members, and 154 (6.6 percent) were women. This exceeded the statutory hiring goals for both minorities and women.
We appreciate the courtesy and cooperation extended to us by the District in conducting our review.
Respectfully submitted,
Janice Mueller
State Auditor
