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Related: About this forumWalker administration to pay $1.7 million to outside companies to identify state buildings to sell
http://bloggingblue.com/2014/07/walker-administration-to-pay-1-7-million-to-outside-companies-to-identify-state-buildings-to-sell/As reported by Patrick Marley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Gov. Scott Walkers administration has committed to paying nearly $1.7 million to four private companies for their assistance in determining whether the state should sell heating and cooling plants and other state-owned properties.
Studying the issue is expected to cost even more. The state is working with four other firms on the matter, but has not finalized contracts with them. State Sen. Luther Olsen (R-Ripon), a member of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee, said he was surprised by the costs and thought Department of Administration employees would have been able to do such work. Dont we have anybody on staff that can do that kind of thing? he said.
Department of Administration spokesman Cullen Werwie said in an email the agency doesnt have the expertise to provide the type of analysis that is needed to fully evaluate these assets. We decided to move forward and have independent, outside evaluators come in to provide an unbiased, accurate analysis (of) the assets that we could potentially sell or lease.
The Walker administration has pushed the idea of selling off state-owned properties as a way to help pay down the states $8 billion in debt debt that has actually grown larger thanks to Gov. Walkers budgets. If these efforts by Gov. Walkers administration to sell state-owned properties are successful, I have no doubt they will be viewed as having been a short-sighted band aid on a problem made worse by Gov. Walkers borrow and spend budget decisions.
Studying the issue is expected to cost even more. The state is working with four other firms on the matter, but has not finalized contracts with them. State Sen. Luther Olsen (R-Ripon), a member of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee, said he was surprised by the costs and thought Department of Administration employees would have been able to do such work. Dont we have anybody on staff that can do that kind of thing? he said.
Department of Administration spokesman Cullen Werwie said in an email the agency doesnt have the expertise to provide the type of analysis that is needed to fully evaluate these assets. We decided to move forward and have independent, outside evaluators come in to provide an unbiased, accurate analysis (of) the assets that we could potentially sell or lease.
The Walker administration has pushed the idea of selling off state-owned properties as a way to help pay down the states $8 billion in debt debt that has actually grown larger thanks to Gov. Walkers budgets. If these efforts by Gov. Walkers administration to sell state-owned properties are successful, I have no doubt they will be viewed as having been a short-sighted band aid on a problem made worse by Gov. Walkers borrow and spend budget decisions.
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Walker administration to pay $1.7 million to outside companies to identify state buildings to sell (Original Post)
Scuba
Jul 2014
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hue
(4,949 posts)1. All according to Wanker's privatization mission! Yet WI swirls deeper into debt!!
postulater
(5,075 posts)2. Most of his privatization stuff is actually a version of out-sourcing,
the very thing he was FOR last week but AGAINST this week (now that his economic development corporation is under attack for outsourcing).