“I would like to thank the members of the Joint Finance Committee for their support of the UW System. In particular, I want to thank Speaker Vos, Majority Leader Fitzgerald, Finance Co-Chairs Darling and Nygren, as well as Senator Harsdorf and Representative Born, for their leadership in bringing forward the UW System budget motion and …
The Joint Finance Committee has released an omnibus motion on the UW System budget. Read the motion here. The committee is currently debating the motion. The meeting can be viewed on WisconsinEye. UPDATE: The omnibus motion passed on a 12-4 vote.
The co-chairs of the Joint Finance Committee are saying that the UW System budget will be on the panel’s calendar for Thursday. The committee is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. The session can be viewed live at WisEye.org.
The UW System portion of the 2017-19 state budget has been pulled from today’s Joint Finance Committee’s calendar. The committee’s vote on UW System funding will be rescheduled at a later date.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank issued the following statement on the announcement of the establishment of the Tommy G. Thompson Center for Public Leadership on campus. We are delighted that UW-Madison has been chosen as the home for the Tommy G. Thompson Center for Public Leadership. We expect the center will make significant contributions to public …
Joint Committee on Finance announced that it will take up the UW System portion of the 2017-2019 budget on Tuesday, May 23rd at 1:00 pm. Budget papers for UW System can be viewed here. Streaming of the session can be found here at WisconsinEye.
UW System President Ray Cross on Thursday testified before the legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance, telling the panel “affordability, accountability, compensation, infrastructure maintenance, and flexibilities are important to the university system.” “We are very pleased with what the Governor has proposed,” Cross said. “It provides the first investment of new state dollars the UW System …
The state legislature’s budget-writing committee, the Joint Committee on Finance, will begin its deliberations on the 2017-19 state budget this week. Three days of agency briefings kick off on Tuesday, with the University of Wisconsin System on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting. The schedule of agency briefings can be viewed here. Public hearings on the budget …
The non-partisan state Legislative Fiscal Bureau today released papers analyzing Governor Scott Walker’s 2017-19 budget recommendations. The papers analyzing the governor’s recommendation for UW System can be viewed here. The full document can be viewed here. Analysis of Walker’s recommendations for other state agencies can be accessed here.
Governor Scott Walker yesterday released his capital budget recommendations for 2017-19, detailing $803 million in projects over the next two years. Walker’s proposal defers four requested UW-Madison projects but does include significant funding for general maintenance at UW System campuses. “We appreciate the all-agency funding included in the governor’s capital budget,” UW-Madison Vice Chancellor for University Relations …