{"id":9029,"date":"2021-02-25T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T17:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=9029"},"modified":"2021-02-25T11:41:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T17:41:01","slug":"governor-evers-proposed-capital-budget-includes-several-uw-madison-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=9029","title":{"rendered":"Governor Evers&#8217; Proposed Capital Budget Includes Several UW-Madison Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Governor Tony Evers <a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/education\/university\/gov-tony-evers-wants-2-4-billion-for-state-building-projects-nearly-half-for-uw\/article_1b7881f6-9bd9-5fe3-ae55-f469b193cf39.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=user-share&amp;fbclid=IwAR23qvPK6FOxVrqvDslgOxr_3jq-cO9t_IF1lFHQ8TOdIrHjX8ZnuRd1ZOI\">announced<\/a> his nearly $2.4 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/doa.wi.gov\/DFDM_Documents\/State-Building-Program\/CapBud\/2021-23%20Capital%20Budget%20Agency%20Requests%20and%20Governor%27s%20Recommendations%20Final.pdf\">2021-23 capital budget proposal<\/a>. His plan includes about $1 billion for UW System, including four major projects at UW-Madison:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new College of Letters and Science building to replace the aging Mosse Humanities Building, $88 million<\/li>\n<li>The first phase of a new College of Engineering building to replace the 82-year-old Computer Aided Engineering Center, $150 million<\/li>\n<li>Restoration of the 140-year-old Music Hall on Bascom Hill, $26 million<\/li>\n<li>Underground utility work on the Engineering campus, an area prone to damaging floods, $73 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WKOW-TV has more on the UW-Madison portion of the capital budget proposal:<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-c790041a81f6555304c46dc19935eeea ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:600px; max-height:600px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"UW System to Get $1 Billion in Gov&#039;s Capital Budget\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v_W-PQcK1fQ?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Governor Tony Evers announced his nearly $2.4 billion 2021-23 capital budget proposal. His plan includes about $1 billion for UW System, including four major projects at UW-Madison: A new College of Letters and Science building to replace&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=9029\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[173,172,155],"class_list":["post-9029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uw","category-uw-system","tag-2021-23-capital-budget","tag-2021-23-state-budget","tag-tony-evers","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9029"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9035,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions\/9035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}