Monday, December 4, 2006
Ninety-Seventh Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date:
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Communications
State of Wisconsin
Revisor of Statutes Bureau
Madison
DATE: December 1, 2006
TO: Patrick E. Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
Robert Marchant
Senate Chief Clerk
FROM: Gary L. Poulson
Assistant Revisor of Statutes
SUBJECT: Rules published in the November 30, 2006,
Wisconsin Administrative
Register, No. 611.
The following rules have been published:
part eff 04-01-2007
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
Madison
October 23, 2006
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
Attached please find the Department of Administration's contractual service purchasing report for Fiscal Year 2006 pursuant to §
16.705(8), Wis. Stats.
State government continues to reduce reliance on contracting. In FY06, agencies cut contractual services spending by $5,356,356, or 1.26%, from FY05 levels. Likewise, the UW System trimmed contract spending by $5,070,460, or 6.89%. Together, State of Wisconsin contractual services spending decreased by $10,426,816, or 2.08%, from FY05.
In addition to directing agencies to place less reliance on contracts, Governor Doyle recently signed important legislation and an order to increase the transparency and accountability of state contracting:
• Cost Benefit Legislation. On January 5, 2006, Governor Doyle signed
2005 Wisconsin Act 89 requiring agencies and the UW to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of each proposed contractual service procurement over $25,000. On July 1, 2006, DOA implemented an emergency rule specifying uniform procedures for determining whether services are appropriate for contracting. The permanent Act 89 rule is pending final approval.
• Executive Order 137. On February 2, 2006, Governor Doyle signed Executive Order 137 directing that no employee of the Office of the Governor, and any unclassified agency head, commissioner, deputy agency head, executive assistant or division administrator may serve on a Request for Proposals evaluation committee. This Order ensures that all contract proposals are evaluated by career civil servants and other disinterested evaluators.
• Contract Sunshine Act. On May 19, 2006, Governor Doyle signed
2005 Wisconsin Act 410 requiring every State executive, legislative and judicial agency to post on the Internet all bids, proposals, orders or contracts of $10,000 or more. This legislation provides for greater transparency of contracting across all of State government.
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If you have questions about this report, please contact Patrick Farley, Administrator, DOA Division of Enterprise Operations, at 266-0779.
Sincerely,
Stephen E. Bablitch
Secretary
Referred to committee on Government Operations and Spending Limitations.
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State of Wisconsin
College Savings Program Board
Madison
November 7, 2006
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
We are pleased to submit the 2005-2006 College Savings Program Annual Report. This ninth annual report covers the EdVest and tomorrow's scholar plans, highlighting the key developments in the program over the past fiscal year, with summaries of the financial statements. The program experienced significant growth and success in FY06. As of June 30, we were helping to meet the college savings needs of over 214,000 current and future students and families nationwide with over $1.7 billion in assets under management.
Highlights for the year:
• In a nationwide competitive procurement, the program's administrative contracts were re-bid and Wells Fargo was selected as program manager for a five-year term.
• Account owners now enjoy lower fees, as the annual account fee payable to the Board and the annual account maintenance fee payable to Wells Fargo are now waived for Wisconsin residents.
• Total program fees now include some of the lowest among all "529" college savings plans nationally.
The College Savings Program Board and staff look forward to continued growth with quality service to participants in this exciting program. We're sending a cover letter regarding this report to all state legislators and will post the report on our website
www.ost.state.wi.us/home/edvest.htm If you have any questions regarding the Annual Report, please contact Marty Olle at 264-7886.
Sincerely,
Senator Alberta Darling
Chair, College Savings Program Board
Jack C. Voight
Vice-Chair, College Savings Program Board
Referred to committee on Colleges and Universities.
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
Madison
November 14, 2006
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
In compliance with Wisconsin statute 16.548, please find the Wisconsin Office of Federal/State Relations quarterly report to be submitted to the Legislature for the third quarter of 2006. This report provides information on the activities of the office and the status of federal legislation of concern to the State of Wisconsin.
Please contact me if you have any questions about this material.
Sincerely,
Stephen E. Bablitch
Secretary
Referred to committee on State-Federal Relations.
