From: Hans Noeldner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 1:24 PM To: 'Kerry Thomas'; Gary Goyke Cc: Eric Sundquist ([email protected]); Steve Hiniker; Bruce Speight Subject: Anti-rail bill in JFC
Hi Kerry: Thanks for passing along this.disgusting news. It would appear that fighting against any and all threats to Happy Motoring is the centerpiece of Republican strategy this year. A perusal of the list of Brett Davis' campaign contributors is very enlightening in this regard. Question: in existing state law is there any comparable language which stipulates that the DOT may not encumber or expend "any federal, state, or local funds for any aspect of a highway expansion project, including for costs associated with environmental assessments or reports, preliminary engineering or design work, or project construction, unless the legislature has approved the project by statutory enumeration"? If not, AB 960 represents blatant discrimination against non-motorists. I am working on a LTE which takes Brett Davis to task for this. (Note that his home district includes my municipality, the Village of Oregon). I hope to finish it over the weekend and submit to local paper and Madison papers. Hans Noeldner www.entropicjournal.blogspot.com Oregon, Wisconsin 608-444-6190 "Govern thyself with a strong hand, that thy governance by Nature and Man might be less oppressive." From: Kerry Thomas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 12:40 PM To: Kerry Thomas Subject: ALERT: AB 960 Anti-rail bill in JFC Importance: High Hello, Lots of activity on transit! This urgent message forwarded from RTA coalition members: AB 960 will thwart RTAs and local and state governments from beginning the studies and environmental, engineering analyses for extended or new passenger rail lines UNTIL a project is enumerated by the Legislature. This makes any rail projects far more difficult to get started. ASSEMBLY BILL 960 An Act to create 85.057 of the statutes; relating to: requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. (FE) 2010 04-15. A. Introduced by Representatives Davis, Vos, Kramer, Bies, Gunderson, Honadel, Kerkman, Kleefisch, Knodl, LeMahieu, Lothian, Montgomery, Murtha, Petersen, Spanbauer, Strachota, Suder, Townsend, Vukmir, M. Williams and Zipperer; cosponsored by Senators Leibham, A. Lasee, Hopper, Darling, Grothman, Lazich and Olsen. 04-15. A. Read first time and referred to joint committee on Finance. LRB analysis: This bill prohibits DOT, as well as any other state agency or regional transit authority, from encumbering or expending any federal, state, or local funds for any aspect of a rail passenger service extension project, including for costs associated with environmental assessments or reports, preliminary engineering or design work, or project construction, unless the legislature has approved the project by statutory enumeration. (NOTE: Specifically it states no such RR projects are enumerated as of passage of the bill.) "(3) An agency or authority may encumber or expend funds for the following rail passenger service extension projects: (a) No project is enumerated as of the effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date]."
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