The Honorable, The Senate:
We are please to submit to you, the Recycling Market Development Board Quarterly Report for October through December 1998. In accordance to the statutory requirement, the Recycling Market Development Board is submitting the Quarterly Report to the Senate Chief Clerk and the Assembly Chief Clerk, for your review.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to update you on the Recycle Market Development Board activities. We hope this report will answer any questions you may have, as well as demonstrate the accomplishments we have made in our constant efforts to develop and sustain recycling markets in Wisconsin.
If you have any further questions or comments, please contact me at (608) 267-9360.
Sincerely,
Gail Miller
Executive Director
State of Wisconsin
Department of Corrections
January 22, 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
This is the annual report on Prison Industries for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, as required by Wisconsin Statutes 303.18. This report includes the cash balance of each industry and the amount of wood furniture and printing state agencies purchased from Prison Industries.
The cash deficit for traditional prison industries (appropriation 134) has been eliminated. The Department showed a cash profit of $700,687 during FY 98; a change of the accumulated balance from ($236,629) in FY 97 to $464,058 on June 30, 1998.
The cash deficit for private venture partnership industries (appropriation 189) increased by $290,747 (from ($989,310) in FY 97 to ($1,280,057) in FY 98). The unsupported portion of the negative balance is $878,877.
See Appendix A for a summary of the cash balance for each industry and the overall financial condition of Prison Industries.
State agencies purchased $36,898,424 in printing from all sources in FY 98. Of that amount $1,125,177 or 3% was purchased from Prison Industries. State printing bulletins now require that all forms for which Prison Industries has negotiated a contract be purchased from Prison Industries.
The total amount of purchases made by state agencies for wood furniture is no longer available. Due to an accounting policy change, agencies are only required to identify a purchase for wood furniture by a specific object code if it exceeds $5,000. State agencies reported purchases of $236,236 for wood furniture in FY 97. Prison Industries reported the sale of $905,875 of wood furniture to state agencies. Purchases of less than $5,000 are included in the amount reported by Prison Industries.
Appendix B provides comparisons with FY 97 for printing and wood furniture.
Sincerely,
Jon E. Litscher
Secretary, Department of Corrections
Mark D. Bugher
Secretary, Department of Administration
Referred to committee on Insurance, Tourism, Transportation and Corrections.
State of Wisconsin
Department of Corrections
January 28, 1999
The Honorable, The Legislature:
The following information is provided for your consideration and review pursuant to 301.03(6m) WI Stats. the figures below cover the period from January 1, 1998 to December 31, 1998.
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1. There were 43 inmates transferred involuntarily from a prison to a mental health institute under 51.20(13)(A) 4. All but four were committed for outpatient treatment. Two inmates were returned to Corrections with their cases dismissed. Two inmates were committed upon release. Six inmates were committed to inpatient treatment and stayed an average of 103 days. One inmate transferred voluntarily from prison to a mental health institute and stayed for 20 days.
2. 3,733 inmates underwent voluntary treatment with psychotropic drugs and 39 inmates were treated with psychotropics on an involuntary basis. the types of medications used include antipsychotic drugs, antidepressant drugs, mood stabilizers, anti-parkinsonian medications, and medications for side effects.
3. Mental health services, both psychiatric and psychological, are available at all the major institutions. Services include individual and group therapy, chemotherapy, psychiatric, psychological, and neuropsychological evaluations, crisis interventions, sex offender groups, domestic abuse groups, anger management groups, and cognitive interventions programs. Inmates who need more intensive mental health services are transferred to the Special Management Unit at Columbia Correctional Institution, the Wisconsin Resource Center, or one of the Mental Health Institutes.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Jon E. Litscher
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Corrections
January 29, 1999
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Attached is the second quarter report on Prison Industries for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, as required by Section
303.019 of the Wisconsin Statutes. This report includes the year-to-date cash balance of each industry. This report reflects private sector joint venture balances separately from the remainder of Prison Industries.
Traditional Prison Industries
Traditional Industries cash receipts for the period July 1, 1998 through December 31, 1998 were $10,648,394. Cash expenditures for the same time period were $10,183,204. Through the 2nd quarter of this fiscal year, revenues exceeded expenditures by $465,190.
Traditional Industries are projecting a $330,000 profit on a cash basis for the fiscal year. On an accrual basis, a $580,000 profit is projected for the period ending June 30, 1999. Traditional Industries ended fiscal year 1998 with a cash balance of $464,058, becoming debt free for the first time in 20 years.
Private Sector Ventures
Private Sector Ventures receipts for the period July 1, 1998 through December 31, 1998 were $144,724. Cash expenditures for the same time period were $361,262. Through the 2nd quarter of this fiscal year, expenditures exceeded revenues by $216,538. This is partially offset by accounts receivables of $36,414.
In fiscal 1998, the Department of Corrections identified program changes to the Private Sector Program to reduce the cash deficit. These changes have been implemented and include the elimination of the second shift at Jackson Correctional Institution and renegotiation of rates paid by the private sector company. The Department is confident that these and other changes identified in the ongoing assessment of this program will result in the program breaking even and recovering its one-time start-up costs by June 30, 2000. With the significant reduction in work orders from one of the two private businesses, additional actions will need to be taken so that this goal can be met.
In viewing the cash deficit, it should also be noted that these numbers do not reflect the financial benefits realized by the State in the form of room and board payments, state and federal taxes, crime victim restitution and child support payments. For the last two pay periods of FY-96 and fiscal years of FY-97 and FY-98, this amount was in excess of $933,000. During the first two quarters of FY 99, $158,304 was collected and it is estimated that the total collected for FY 99 will be approximately $300,000.
The Department would be happy to respond to any questions you may have on this matter.
Sincerely,
Jon E. Litscher
Secretary, Department of Corrections
Mark D. Bugher
Secretary, Department of Administration
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executive order #361
Relating to the Creation of the Governor's Task Force
on Building Tomorrow's Workforce
WHEREAS, working citizens are the heart and soul of Wisconsin's thriving economy; and
WHEREAS, Wisconsin's unemployment rate has been below the national average for 142 consecutive months; and
WHEREAS, Wisconsin's record-shattering economy has increased employment by thirty-three percent over the past twelve years and created over 680,000 new jobs for Wisconsin families; and
WHEREAS,Wisconsin has utilized its workforce to such a degree that Wisconsin is facing a shortage of quality, high-skilled workers; and
WHEREAS, to compete in a global economy and keep Wisconsin's economy growing, we must continue to train and educate our workforce;
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 Section
14.019 of the Wisconsin Statutes, do hereby:
1. Create the Governor's Task Force on Building Tomorrow's Workforce (hereinafter "Task Force").
2. Provide that the Task Force shall consist of not more than twenty-five (25) members appointed by the Governor to serve at the pleasure of the Governor.
3. Provide that the Governor shall designate two (2) members of the Task Force as co-chairs to serve in that capacity at the pleasure of the Governor.
4. Require the Task Force to prepare and submit a report to the Governor detailing its findings and recommendations to recruit, train, and educate Wisconsin's existing and future workforce.
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5. Provide that the Task Force shall have the following mission:
a.
To map out the future of technical and industrial education for high school and post-secondary students; and
b.
To create strategies to expand apprenticeship programs; and
c.
To identify best practice models and develop recommendations for preparing youths for careers in technical occupations, for re-employing disadvantaged and dislocated workers in technical occupations, and for facilitating continuing education, training, and career development in the classroom and the workplace.
6. Direct the University of Wisconsin system and other state agencies to provide assistance to the Task Force.
7. Instruct the Department of Workforce Development and the Department of Commerce to provide staff assistance to the Task force.
8. Direct the Department of Administration to provide the Task Force with reimbursement for expenses in accordance with section 20.505 (3)(a) of the Wisconsin Statutes.
IN TESTIMONY WHERE OF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the city of Madison this thirtieth day of January in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
By the governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
January 29, 1999
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint Braun
, Richard A.,
of Kewaunee, as a member of the Banking Review Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2004.
