The Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on motions relating to the University of Wisconsin System this week. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau has prepared budget papers with possible alternatives to those offered by Governor Scott Walker in his budget proposal:
- University of Wisconsin System
- Creation of the UW System Authority (Paper #675)
- GPR Base Budget Reduction (Paper #676)
- Resident Undergraduate Tuition Freeze (Paper #677)
- Delete Segregated Fund Appropriations (Paper #678)
- Delete Tribal Gaming Funding (Paper #679)
- Future GPR Funding (Paper #680)
- Compensation, GPR Position Authority, and Position Reports (Paper #681)
- PR-Funded Building Projects and Self-Amortizing Bonding (Paper #682)
- Procurement Authority (Paper #683)
- Investment of Certain PR Balances (Paper #684)
- PR Balance and Auxiliary Reserve Reporting (Paper #685)
- State Laboratory of Hygiene Funding (Paper #686)
- Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative (Paper #486)
- Wisconsin Environmental Education Board (Paper #488)
- Extension Recycling Education and Solid Waste Research and Experiments (Paper #487)
- Minnesota-Wisconsin Student Reciprocity (Paper #390)
- End Sheet
The committee may decide to forego individual motions and instead vote on a single omnibus motion, as it did with K-12 last week.