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State of Wisconsin
October 12, 1995
The Honorable, The Senate:
Pursuant to Senate Rule
20, I have made the following appointment to a Senate Standing Committee:
Government Effectiveness; Senator Fred Risser.
With regards to members of the minority party, the appointments reflect recommendations of that caucus.
Sincerely,
Senator Michael Ellis
Committee on Senate Organization
State of Wisconsin
Department of Transportation
July 1995
The Honorable, The Senate:
This is to submit to the Legislature the 1994 Wisconsin Highway Traffic Volume Data book. This publication contains data collected over a three-year cycle at nearly 30,000 rural and urban locations around the state. Data from 1992, 1993 and 1994 are included.
Additional information may be obtained from the Department of Transportation by calling (608) 266-0775. Copies are available from: Document Sales, 3617 Pierstorff Road, Madison, WI 53707-7713, (608) 246-3265.
Sincerely,
Charles H. Thompson
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
October 4, 1995
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 July 1, 1995, through September 30, 1995, is attached.
Sincerely,
james klauser
Secretary
Ethics Board
October 10, 1995
To the Honorable the Senate:
At the direction of s. 13.685(7), Wisconsin Statutes, I am furnishing you with the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board that employ one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules, and notifying you of changes in the Ethics Board's records of licensed lobbyists and their employers. For each recently registered organization I have included the organization's description of the general area of legislative or administrative action that it attempts to influence and the name of each licensed lobbyist that the organization has authorized to act on its behalf.
Organization recently registered:
Below is the name of an organization recently registered with the Ethics Board as employing one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules.
Greater Milwaukee Committee
Construction financing for a new baseball stadium in Milwaukee.
Mueller, H. Carl
Organization's authorization of additional lobbyists:
The following organizations previously registered with the Ethics Board as employers of lobbyists have authorized to act on their behalf these additional licensed lobbyists:
Athletic Trainers Assn, Inc. , Wisconsin
Driessen, Tony
Automatic Merchandising Council, Wisconsin
Stenger, Scott
Cooperatives, Wisconsin Federation of
Bablitch, Stephen
Jentz, Robert
Podiatric Medicine, Wisconsin Society of
Stenger, Scott
Procter & Gamble Distributing Co, The
Graven, Mara
Tavern League of Wisconsin
Graven, Mara
Women's Network, Wisconsin
Fitzsimmons, Therese
Organization's termination of lobbyists:
Each of the following organizations previously registered with the Ethics Board as the employer of a lobbyist has withdrawn, on the date indicated, its authorization for the lobbyist identified to act on the organization's behalf.
Automatic Merchandising Council, Wisconsin
Theo, Peter 10/6/95
Milwaukee, County of
Welch, Robert 10/6/95
Optometric Assn, Wisconsin
Theo, Peter 10/5/95
Podiatric Medicine, Wisconsin Society of
Theo, Peter 10/6/95
Procter & Gamble Distributing Co, The
Theo, Peter 10/5/95
Water Quality Assn of Wisconsin
Blume, Ed 10/3/95
Women's Network, Wisconsin
Martin, Mary 7/31/95
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,
R. Roth Judd
Executive Director
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executive order #262
Relating to the Creation of the Commission on
Reform of the State's Human Resource System
WHEREAS, the State of Wisconsin's human resources system, including civil service statutes and processes, is not meeting the needs of the State's mangers and employes;
WHEREAS, the changing roles of government and state employes, as affected by technology and the need to reorganize state government, require new skills and abilities, as well as responsiveness and flexibility not provided by current statutes, rules and processes;
WHEREAS, the State's human resource system, which includes civil service, has not been reviewed since the late 1970s and is in need of study to identify how to further streamline and reform the system;
WHEREAS, it is in the interest of state government and the people of Wisconsin to balance efficient, effective and economical management of state employes with the legitimate interests of those employes for employment safeguards, fair hiring and promotion processes, appropriate compensation and satisfying work;
WHEREAS, re-engineering Wisconsin's human resource system is essential to prepare the State to successfully meet the challenges state employes face now and in the twenty-first century; and
WHEREAS, 1995 marks the one hundredth anniversary of Wisconsin's civil service statute;
Now, Therefore, I, TOMMY G. THOMPSON, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of this State, and specifically by Wisconsin Statute s.
14.019, do hereby:
