These sections require the Department of Transportation to fund the repair of the Veterans Memorial Bridge in the city of Kaukauna on Catharine Street from the appropriation under s. 20.395 (2) (eq). I am vetoing these sections as I object to the placement of the project in the budget, particularly given the lack of additional funding provided to ensure that this earmark does not result in a delay for other needed repairs. At my direction, the Department of Transportation has already been reviewing options to move forward with the Kaukauna bridge project and will continue to do so.
75. Alternative Project Delivery
Sections 46m, 1079m, 1089m, 9144 (4p) and 9144 (4q)
These provisions require the Department of Transportation to establish an office of innovative program delivery, contract for six projects through a "design-build" contractual framework, evaluate potential bids with a technical committee, and submit reports to the Joint Committee on Finance.
I am partially vetoing these provisions because I object to the level of specificity that has been included in the statutes and the restrictions that have been placed on the department, which will make successful implementation of this alternative project delivery system difficult. As a result of my partial veto, the department will be able to implement a contracting model that has proven successful in accelerating transportation related project delivery at a reduced cost. In addition, the department will have the flexibility to implement this system on an ongoing basis without overly prescriptive statutory parameters.
76. Payments to Offset Reduction in Video Service Provider Fees
Section 1073g
This section provides a state aid payment program for ten years to compensate each municipality losing revenue as a result of the bill's reductions to fees paid by video service providers.
I am partially vetoing this section to make the payments ongoing because I object to terminating the payments after ten years. As a result of my veto, the permanent reduction in video service fees will be accompanied by a continuing stream of payments to municipalities to offset this revenue loss. This partial veto has no fiscal effect in the 2019-21 biennium.
77. Economic Development Grant for Milwaukee 7 Economic Development Partnership
Section 9149 (1i)
This section creates nonstatutory language requiring the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to provide $250,000 in fiscal year 2019-20 to the Milwaukee 7 Economic Development Partnership for supporting efforts to secure basing of KC-46 tanker aircraft with the 128th Air Refueling Wing of the Wisconsin air national guard.
I am vetoing this section because I object to a directive that is entirely unnecessary. If the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, working cooperatively with the Department of Military Affairs, believes that it is likely that a grant to the Milwaukee 7 Economic Development Partnership will help secure this basing, the corporation has sufficient flexibility in its current budget to provide such support.
78. Fabrication Laboratories Grant Program
Section 9149 (1g)
This section creates nonstatutory language requiring the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to allocate at least $500,000 in each year of the 2019-21 biennium for the purpose of awarding grants under a fabrication laboratory grant program substantially similar to the program originally created under 2015 Wisconsin Act 55. I am vetoing this section because I object to the Legislature limiting the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation's authority. The fabrication laboratories program has been an innovative effort to expand the educational experiences of public school children across the state, but this is a policy more appropriately administered with other educational grant programs. If the corporation wishes to make such an allocation it can choose to do so on its own volition.
Sincerely,
Tony Evers
Governor
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Communications
July 3, 2019
Patrick E. Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
hist103878Please add my name as a co-author of Assembly Bill 303, relating to legislative and congressional redistricting. Sincerely,
JOEL KITCHENS
State Representative
1st Assembly District
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July 3, 2019
Patrick E. Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
hist103876Please add my name as a co-sponsor of Assembly Bill 65, relating to prohibiting the sale of vapor products to minors and the purchase of those products by minors. Sincerely,
JANET BEWLEY
State Senator
25th Senate District
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