Familiar issues brought to budget hearing in Stevens Point
4/14/2015
WSAU Radio Wausau

By Larry Lee 

The proposed state budget continues to bring Wisconsinites to public hearings, and there were two more in central Wisconsin yesterday. People brought concerns to lawmakers in Marshfield in the morning, and at UW Stevens Point in the afternoon.

Republican Representative Scott Krug chaired the afternoon session, and says everywhere they go, they are hearing about the same major issues.  "When it comes to university issues, K-12 issues, transportation, DNR, you know, Senior Care, Family Care, IRIS, all fo those types of things, we've been hearing them across the board, so it's nothing new today, and these are all issues we've all put motions in for already to make changes to."

Democrat Katrina Shankland says wherever she goes, nobody likes the proposed budget.  "Whether it's the severe cuts to our DNR scientists, stewardship funding, the cuts to our public education while surging into the private voucher schools that are unaccountable, the 300 million dollar radical cut to the University of Wisconsin System, and the long term drastic changes to the programs that our elderly and people with disabilities rely on, everyone who attended today was very opposed to this budget." 

MORE​

 

​​

Article Tags

Chancellor; Budget