Marjorie,Matt,
I don't think it has to require a complete veto of the budget to restore STP-D
funding. As I understand it, the funding is being transfered to a road building
account. If the governor line item vetoed that account, it would force the
legesilature to pass a separate bill to restore the road building account as
legislators want the road building projects for their districts but hopefully would
also force the legislature to restore the STP-D funding in order to meet the
governor's demands. On the other hand, a complete veto of this budget bill would be a
good thing in my opinion. I just don't think the governor will do that.
Mark
> From: Marjorie Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> It has been unclear up to this point if STP-D could be restored via line
> item veto...but it is becoming clear to me that it can not. I think that
> Matt is correct in what he has said...that it will take a full out veto of
> the budget to give us another shot at STP-D. There MAY be some action that
> can be taken to increase Local Enhancements (which the governor originally
> proposed reducing to divert the money to roads and road-related state level
> enhancements) to mitigate the STP-D loss that COULD be handled via line
> item veto. I'm not sure that anyone is talking about that yet.
> Meanwhile...the feds are trying to eliminate Enhancements entirely...though
> I have high hopes that the huge outcry that proposition has created will
> prevent Enhancements from being cut.
> -Marjorie, BFW
>
> At 02:48 AM 07/23/03 -0500, Matt Logan wrote:
> >Mark N. Shahan wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>2. Veto the elimination of Surface Transportation Program-Discretionary
> >>Funding (STP-D) from the state budget.
> >>
> >
> > I support the restoration of STP-D funding too, but I am not sure
> >this is something the Governor can line-item veto in itself, If it is
> >something not in the current budget how can it's presence be removed?
> > If that is true, the only way to restore this would be to veto the
> >whole budget (or perhaps just the whole transportation budget) and
> >encourage the legislature to put STP-D back in a resubmitted budget.
> >
> >Matt Logan
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> >Madison, WI, 53704
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