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]."
