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    Wisconsin state budget (2010-2011)

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    Note: This article was last updated in 2011. Click here for more recent information on state budgets and finances.


    Wisconsin faced a budget shortfall of $137 million for FY2011.[1]

    Wisconsin had a total state debt of $17,971,519,547 when calculated by adding the total of outstanding debt, pension and OPEB UAAL’s, unemployment trust funds and the 2010 budget gap as of July 2010.[2]

    2011 State spending & deficit in billions[3]
    Total spending Healthcare Education Protection Works and economic support Other
    $14.2 $1.4 $6.4 $1 $0.15 $5.25
    2011 Local spending & deficit in billions[4]
    Total spending Pension Healthcare Education Welfare Protection Transport Deficit
    $38.5 $0.4 $1.5 $11.7 $2.5 $3 $3.4 $18

    Fiscal Years 2010-2011 State Budget[edit]

    See also: Archived Wisconsin state budgets

    Find the state’s FY2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) compiled by the state government online.[5]

    Gov. Jim Doyle signed the 2009-2011 biennium budget on June 29, 2009. The budget cut overall spending by $3 billion.[6][7]

    Summary of 2009-11 Appropriations and Authorizations[8]

    Fund Source FY 2010 FY 2011 Total % of Total
    General Purpose Revenues $13,470,870,900 $14,200,780,300 $27,671,651,200 42.1%
    Federal Revenue $9,380,918,100 $8,809,515,000 $18,190,433,100 27.7%
    Program Revenue $4,296,691,900 $4,403,424,200 $8,700,116,100 13.2%
    Segregated Revenue $3,844,369,800 $3,785,542,100 $7,629,911,900 11.6%
    Bond Revenue $3,581,172,100 5.4%
    Total $65,773,284,400 100.0%


    2009-11 All Fund Appropriations by Functional Area[8]

    Functional Area Amount % of Total
    Education $23,181,424,300 37.3%
    Human Relations and Resources 22,502,889,300 36.2%
    Environmental Resources 6,863,414,600 11.0%
    Shared Revenue and Tax Relief 4,719,345,800 7.6%
    General Executive 2,724,505,100 4.4%
    Commerce 912,178,000 1.5%
    General Appropriations 515,153,500 0.8%
    Compensation Reserves 351,141,700 0.6%
    Judicial 274,324,500 0.4%
    Legislative 147,735,500 0.2%
    TOTAL $62,192,112,300 100.0%


    Budget background[edit]

    See also: Wisconsin state budget and finances

    Wisconsin operates on a biennium, covering two fiscal years at a time. A fiscal year begins on July 1 and ends on June 30 of the following year with the biennium starting July 1 of odd-numbered years. Agency budget requests were submitted in September of even-numbered years. During the following months, the Governor meets with the departments and agencies to hear their budget proposals for the following fiscal year. Following the hearings the Governor issues a budget recommendation for the upcoming fiscal year to the Legislature. Both the State Assembly and the Senate were required to make any necessary changes or adjustments to the budget until the bill was passed in both houses.[9] When the Lesgislature passes the bill the Governor approve of the bill as a whole, veto the entire bill or execute line-item vetoes.[10] Gov. Doyle signed the FY 2010-2011 biennial budget (covering July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2011) with 81 vetoes.[11]

    Budget figures[edit]

    The following table provides a history of Wisconsin's expenditures and gross domestic product (GDP).

    Fiscal Year Expenditures (billions) GDP (billions)
    2000 $34.5[12] $175.7[12]
    2001 $36.9[12] $180.9[12]
    2002 $39.3[12] $188.6[12]
    2003 $40.8[12] $195.9[12]
    2004 $42.4[12] $205.9[12]
    2005 $43.1[12] $214.1[12]
    2006 $45.3[12] $223.4[12]
    2007 $47.5[12] $232.3[12]
    2008 $49.9[12] $241.5[12]
    2009 $52.4*[12] $251.2*[12]

    Accounting principles[edit]

    The Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau was a nonpartisan legislative service agency created to assist the Legislature in maintaining oversight of state operations. The director of the Legislative Audit Bureau was Janice Mueller the State Auditor, who was appointed by the Legislature's Joint Committee on Legislative Organization. The Bureau conducts objective audits and evaluations of state agency operations to ensure financial transactions had been made in a legal and proper manner and to determine whether programs were administered effectively, efficiently, and in accordance with the policies of the Legislature and the Governor. The results of these evaluations were provided to the Legislature, along with recommendations for improvements in agency operations. The Legislative Audit Bureau was created by Chapter 659, Laws of Wisconsin 1965. Prior to the creation of the Bureau, financial audits were performed by the Department of State Audit, an executive branch department created in 1947. The Legislative Audit Bureau was organized into four sections: Financial Audit, Program Evaluation, Information Systems Support, and Administrative Services.[13][14]

    Wisconsin's CAFRs were publications of the Wisconsin Department of Administration, Division of Executive Budget and Finance, State Controller's Office. Stephen J. Censky was State Controller. Michael Morgan was Secretary of Department of Administration.[15][16]

    Credit Rating Fitch Moody's S&P
    Wisconsin[17] AA- Aa3 AA

    See also[edit]

    Wisconsin state budget and finances

    Footnotes[edit]

    1. ↑ New York Times "Democrats Missing, Wisconsin Vote on Cuts was Delayed" Feb. 17, 2011
    2. ↑ State Budget Solutions “States Hide Trillions in Debt” July 22, 2010
    3. ↑ Wisconsin Department of Administration, Budget in Brief
    4. ↑ USA Spending, State Guesstimated* Government Spending
    5. ↑ FY2011 CAFR
    6. ↑ The Business Journal of Milwaukee, June 29, 2009
    7. ↑ 2009-2011 biennium budget
    8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, "2009-11 State Budget: Summary Tables and Charts," July 22, 2009
    9. ↑ Mental Health America of Wisconsin, "Wisconsin budget process," accessed March 18,2009
    10. ↑ State of Wisconsin, "The Wisconsin Biennial Budget Process Overview of Governmental Structure," accessed March 18,2009
    11. ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Status," November 2, 2009
    12. ↑ 12.00 12.01 12.02 12.03 12.04 12.05 12.06 12.07 12.08 12.09 12.10 12.11 12.12 12.13 12.14 12.15 12.16 12.17 12.18 12.19 US Government Spending, "Wisconsin State and Local spending," accessed March 18,2009
    13. ↑ The Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau Web site, accessed November 18, 2009
    14. ↑ audits and evaluations
    15. ↑ Wisconsin Department of Administration Web site, accessed November 18, 2009
    16. ↑ CAFRs
    17. ↑ State of Indiana, “State Credit Ratings-as of June 24, 2009"
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