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EVENT LISTING

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Sunday
Other Events
  • Uncovering the Enemy: Military Intelligence During the 20th Century
    Noon - 4 p.m. - Exhibit Preview
    1 p.m. - Opening Ceremony
    Wisconsin Veterans Museum
    30 W. Mifflin Street
    Madison
    Light refreshments will be served.
    Call 608.267.1799 for more information.
  • 14th Annual Creating Change Conference
    Sponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
    Milwaukee
    Refer to Nov. 7.
  • Milwaukee County Democratic Party Fundraiser
    5:30 p.m.
    All 2002 candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General have been invited
    Four Points by Sheraton Hotel,
    4747 S. Howell Ave.
    Milwaukee
    Cost is $35 per person,
    Contact: Dawn Martin, 414-4085

12
Monday
Around the Capitol
  • Governor's Schedule
    9 a.m. - Remarks-Tri-State Criminal Justice Executive Leadership Conference
    Radisson Inn Harborview
    200 Harborview Plaza
    La Crosse
    3:30 p.m.-Media Availability
    Discover Wisconsin
    225 E. St. Paul Avenue, Suite 201
    Milwaukee
    Gov. McCallum, Dept. of Natural Resources Secretary Darrell Bazzell, Mark and Rick Rose of Discover Wisconsin and the stars of Into the Outdoors will share exciting news of winning a prominent television award.
    4:30 p.m.-Salvation Army Christmas Campaign Kickoff
    Court of Honor
    9th Street and Wisconsin Ave.
    Gov. McCallum, honorary chairperson of the Salvation Army Christmas Campaign, will participate in a special tree lighting ceremony.
  • Commerce - Fire Dues Task Group
    10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
    Indianhead Room South
    Best Western Arrowhead Lodge
    600 Oasis Rd.
    Black River Falls
    Contact: John Lippitt, 608-266-1036, jlippitt@commerce.state.wi.us
  • Dept. of Health and Family Services Hearing
    11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
    Room B155
    State Office Building
    1 W. Wilson Street
    Madison
    Relating to the licensing of emergency medical technicians-intermediate. For more information contact Karen Dixon at (608) 266-1568.

Other Events

  • WI Tobacco Control Board
    10 a.m.-3 p.m.
    Marquee Room
    Madison Civic Center
    Will hold its final vote Monday on how it plans to allocate money from the state's 2002 tobacco prevention campaign, which was cut 49 percent from last year's funding level by the legislature. Monday's votes will determine how to spend $9.9 million on programs ranging from community coalitions to statewide advertising.
    The major votes will occur between 11:15 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Immediately following, board members will be available for comments on the program.
    For more information, contact David Gunderson at 608-267-0944 or Connie Fedor at 332-5201.
  • Airport Security & Safety Media Advisory
    6 p.m.
    Security Screening Station
    Martin Luther King Entrance
    City County Building
    Madison
    Former airport security workers and Dane County Supervisors will call on the County Board to increase airport security by adding more sheriff deputies to help airport screeners. They also want to add quality standards to improve screening, training, and background checks. They will introduce these amendments as part of the Dane County budget this week.
  • DATCP - Mint Research Meeting
    8:30 a.m.
    DATCP
    Room 172
    2811 Agriculture Dr.
    Madison
    Followed by Wisconsin Mint Board Meeting
  • 2nd Annual Political Law Seminar
    1-4:30 p.m.
    Concourse Hotel
    1 West Dayton
    Madison
    Developments in Election, Campaign Finance, Redistricting and Ethics Laws
    The event is free and open to the public. Please register online at www.gklaw.com.
    Sponsored by Wisconsin Realtors Association & Wisconsin Education Association Council
  • DATCP- UW, Mint and Muck Joint Planning Meeting
    1:30 p.m.
    Room 172
    DATCP
    2811 Agriculture Dr.
    Madison
  • Municipal Security Conference
    KI Convention Center
    333 Main Street
    Green Bay
    For information, log onto www.wiscities.org.
  • Economic Development Roundtable
    with Gov. McCallum and Sen. Kanavas
    Noon - 1 p.m.
    Milwaukee Athletic Club
    758 North Broadway
    Milwaukee
    Cost: $250 per person. RSVP to: 262-510-7933.
  • "Great Scott Reception" for Rep. Scott Walker
    with special guests Scott Jensen & Scott Klug
    Home of Elizabeth Meyer and Sam Hope
    6432 Upper Parkway North
    (in the Washington Highlands of Wauwatosa)
    All contributions gratefully accepted (no PAC checks until after 1/1/2002). Please make donations to: Friends of Scott Walker, 2334 North 73rd Street, Wauwatosa, WI 53213.
  • Fundraiser for Tom Barrett
    5 - 9 p.m.
    Derry Hegarty's Irish Pub
    5328 W. Bluemound
    Milwaukee
    $100 campaign donation suggested
    But all donations gratefully appreciated
    Payable to: Barrett for Wisconsin
    P.O. Box 510796
    Milwaukee WI 53203
  • Reception for Congressman Mark Green
    Republican, 8th District
    5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
    Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel
    525 W. Johnson
    Madison
    $100 per person/$150 per couple
    Hosted by Dan and Ann Neviaser
    To R.S.V.P., please contact Heidi Green at 274-1388 or HKGreen@aol.com
  • Breakfast Honoring Sen. Tom Harkin
    8- 9:30 a.m.
    Pfister Hotel
    424 East Wisconsin Avenue
    Milwaukee
    Sen. Herb Kohl will attend the fundraiser for Sen. Harkin. Please make checks payable to: CITIZENS FOR HARKIN, 426 C Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002. For more information, contact Carrie Henrichsen, 202-546-9292, or email: chenrichsen@tomharkin.com


13
Tuesday
Around the Capitol
  • Assembly Committee on Education Hearing
    10 a.m.
    Rm. 300 NE
    State Capitol
    AB 383- The Wisconsin School for teh Deaf and creating a deaf and hard-of-hearing education council.
    AB 428- Creating an individual income tax deduction for classroom teachers who use their own funds to purchase classroom educational supplies.
    AB 500 - Dispositional orders for truancy or habitual truancy and the disclosure of juvenile records by a juvenile court or a municipal court.
    AB 502 - Limiting school board payment for course taken under the youth options program and making pupils in the youth options program eligible for certain grants.
    AB 504 - Granting high school diplomas to veterans.
    SB 118 - The procedures for changing the number of school board members, for establishing a plan of apportionment of school board members, and for providing election to numbered seats on a school board.
    SB 178 - Administrating drugs to pupils in compliance with instructions of practitioners.
  • Assembly Committee on Tourism and Recreation
    10 a.m.
    Rm. 225 NW
    State Capitol
    Informational Hearing on Tourism in Wisconsin, the committee has invited representatives from Dept. of Tourism and the Governor's Council on Tourism to present testimony regarding the tourism industry in Wisconsin. Testimony will be limited to invited guests only.
    AB 562 - The operation of all-terrain vehicles on highways for the purpose of certain types of access.
    AB 585 - Membership on the state fair park board.
  • Dept. of Health and Family Services Hearing
    11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
    Pineary Room
    Stevens Point Library
    Stevens Point
    Relating to the licensing of emergency medical technicians-intermediate. For more information contact Karen Dixon at (608) 266-1568.
  • Special Committee on Navigable Waters Recodification
    10 a.m.
    Room 328 Northwest
    State Capitol
    Madison
    WLC 0077/2 - Relating to recodification of subch. II of ch. 30, and amendments to the draft.
    WLC 0156/2 - Relating to recodification of part of subch. V of ch. 30.
    WLC 0163/4 - Relating to local regulation of boating, seaplanes and icebound waters.
    WLC 0189/P1 - Relating to changing the terms "navigable" in the statutes.
    WLC 0190/1 - Relating to definitions in ch. 30.
    Other bill drafts and memorandums distributed prior to or at the meeting.

Other Events

  • Fundraiser for Speaker Scott R. Jensen
    5 - 7 p.m.
    The University Club
    924 E. Wells Street
    Milwaukee
    Inner Circle Membership: $250
    Speakers Club Membership: $125
    For further information contact: Mary Stitt at 262/268-6859. Payable to: Taxpayers for Jensen.
  • Fundraiser for Rep. Jerry Petrowski
    5:30 - 10 p.m.
    American Legends Sports Bar
    7611 Birch Street
    Weston
    $200 to host. Any questions please call Amy Petrowski at 608/273-6377.
    Payable to: Petrowski for Assembly
    720 N. 136th Avenue
    Marathon WI 54448
  • Reception for Sen. Brian Burke, Candidate for AG
    5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
    The Milwaukee Athletic Club
    758 N. Broadway
    Milwaukee
    All contributions gratefully accepted. Make checks payable to Friends of Brian Burke, P.O. Box 908, Madison, WI 53701-0908.
    For further information please call Friends of Brian Burke at 608/255-0940, or go to www.brianburke.org
  • Fall Fundraiser and Food Drive with Sen. Jon Erpenbach
    5 - 7 p.m.
    Capital Brewery
    7734 Terrace Ave.
    Middleton
    Please bring non-perishable food items, which will be donated to local food pantries. No PACs please, Payable to: Jon Erpenbach Senate Committee,
    P.O. Box 628351, Middleton WI 53562
  • Door County Fish Boil with Kevin Shibilski
    5 - 7 p.m.
    Shooters
    Junction Hwy. 51 and 54 E
    Plover
    All contributions gratefully accepted, Payable to: Wisconsin for Shibilski P.O. Box 511015, Milwaukee WI 53203
  • Native Voices for the Wolf River
    7:30 p.m.
    Barrymore Theatre
    2090 Atwood Avenue
    Madison
    Benefit for the Town of Nashville's legal battle to stop the Crandon mine in northern Wisconsin. Tickets $12 in advance and $14 day of show, or charged by phone at (608) 241-8633. On sale on-line at http://barrymorelive.com

14
Wednesday
Around the Capitol
  • Governor's Schedule
    8 a.m. - Remarks/Check Presentation - TechStar
    Hyatt Regency Hotel
    333 W. Kilbourn Ave.
    Regency Ballroom
    Milwaukee
    9:45 a.m. - News Conference w/DNR Sec. Darrell Bazzell
    Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary
    1660 East Shore Drive
    Green Bay
    3:20 p.m. - Bill signing - AB 61 and AB 153
    Heartland Aviation
    Eau Claire
  • Minority Business Development Fund Board Meeting
    9 a.m.
    Dept. of Commerce
    1st Floor Conference Room
    201 W. Washington Avenue
    Madison
  • Assembly Committee on Ways and Means
    9:30 a.m.
    328 Northwest
    State Capitol
    AB 525 - The sales tax imposed on the sale of mobile telecommunications services.
    AB 577 - Authorizing claims under the school property tax rent credit for property taxes paid in the year before the year in which they are due and authorizing such claims, for property taxes paid, for the year to which the taxes relate.
  • Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules
    1 p.m.
    Rm. 201 SE
    State Capitol
    HFS 94.20 - Relating to patients' rights. Extension of the effective period of this emergency rule at the request of the DHHS. First consideration.
    NR 20.20 and NR 25.06 - Relating to sports fishing and yellow perch in Green Bay and its tributaries and commercial fishing for yellow perch in Green Bay. Extension of effective period of this emergency rule by 60 days at the request of the DNR. First consideration.
    Clearinghouse Rule 99-071 - Relating to the eligibility of nonparent relatives of children to receive kinship care benefits to help them provide care and maintenance for the children.
  • Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice
    1 p.m.
    Rm. 417 N
    State Capitol
    AB 442 - Battery and providing a penalty
    AB 608 - Providing a material support of international terrorismand providing a penalty
    AB 613 - Expanding definition of racketeering activity to include certain violations of prohibition against unauthorized release of animals, and providing a penalty.
    AB 618 - Pointing a firearm at a law enforcement officer and providing a penalty.
    AB 622 - Graffiti and providing a penalty.

Other Events

  • Celebration of Tom Ament's Birthday
    5 - 7 p.m.
    Derry Hegarty's Irish Pub
    5328 W. Bluemound
    Milwaukee
    All contributions gratefully accepted
    For more information call Dave O'Neil, 278-0435
    Or visit www.ament2004.com
    Payable to: Citizens for Tom Ament
    622 N. Water Street, Suite 416
    Milwaukee WI 53202
  • Cocktail Reception Honoring Speaker Scott Jensen
    5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
    512 Wisconsin Avenue
    Madison
    $250 Inner Circle Renewal
    $125 Speakers Club Renewal
    Payable to: Taxpayers for Jensen
  • Public Forum on Fox River Cleanup
    7 - 9 p.m.
    Christie Theater
    UW-Green Bay Student Union
    For more information, please contact Victoria A. Harris, UW Sea Grant Institute, UWGB, 920-465-2795 or Michael Strigel, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 608-263-1692 ext. 11. Press release

15
Thursday
Around the Capitol
  • Governor's Council on Tourism
    11 a.m.-2 p.m.
    Tommy G. Thompson Commerce Center
    201 W. Washington Ave., 1st floor
    Madison
  • Assembly Committee on Judiciary
    10 a.m.
    Kenosha County Center
    19600 75th Street
    Bristol
    AB 578 - Access for sheriffs and jailers to reports regarding the competency of criminal defendants.
    AB 520 - Effect of nonaction of senate on nominations by governor.
    AB 616 - Prohibiting state agencies or authorities and local governmental units from discriminating against federally chartered corporations.
    AB 449 - Calculating child support and creating committees to review the method of calculating child support.
  • Assembly Committee on Transportation
    1 p.m.
    417 North - GAR
    State Capitol
    AB 252 - A bicycle and pedestrian inspection and inventory program and making appropriations.
    AB 458 - Hail-damaged vehicles and salvage vehicles, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
    AB 530 - Delivering a trailer or semitrailer from the manufacturer to a dealer or distributor or from the dealer or distributor to a purchaser.
    AB 597 - Issuance of an identification card.
    AB 609 - The titling of motor vehicles that have been damaged; the sale of a motor vehicle subject to a seizure for a crime related to driving while under the influence of an intoxicant or other drug; displaying the empty weight on the side of certain motor vehicles; vehicle identification numbers for motorcycles; and operating a motor vehicle that is not registered (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of transportation).
    Commitee may receive a briefing by WisDOT on the closing of certain DMV service centers.
  • Dept. of Natural Resources Hearings
    1 p.m.
    Room A324, Door Co. Courthouse
    421 Nebraska Street
    Sturgeon Bay
    4:30 p.m.
    Room 106, Sheboygan Co. Job Center
    3620 Wilgus Avenue
    Sheboygan
    On revisions to ch. NR 25, Wis. Admn. Code, relating to commercial fishing in Lake Superior and Lake Michigan.

Other Events

  • Center on Wisconsin Strategy Presentation
    11:45 a.m.
    Amery Rotary
    Amery
    Overview of the state of the state and how to impact public policy decisions. For more information, go to www.sustainingwisconsin.org or e-mail Michael Jacob at mjacob@cows.org.
  • Fundraiser for Speaker Scott Jensen
    5 - 7 p.m.
    University Club
    420 Summit Ave.
    St. Paul, Minnesota
    $125 per person (includes annual membership in the Speaker's Club). For further information and RSVP please call Mary Stitt at 262/268-6859.
    Payable to: Taxpayers for Jensen, c/o 2020 Lake Shore Rd., Grafton, WI 53024
  • Birthday Fundraiser for Senator Robert Wirch
    VFW
    39th Ave and 67th St.
    Kenosha
    All contributions gratefully accepted
    Payable to: Friends of Robert W. Wirch
  • Groundwater Lecture Series
    "Will the Well Run Dry? Groundwater Management in Wisconsin"
    7 p.m.
    Rm. 1610 Engineering Hall
    1415 Engineering Dr.
    The series is co-sponsored by the Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Groundwater in Wisconsin: Who should the public trust? For more information, contact Professor Ken Potter, 262-0040, kwpotter@facstaff.wisc.edu.
  • U.S. Sen. Paul & Sheila Wellstone Dinner
    6-8:00 p.m.
    At the home of Betty & Ed Garvey
    3421 Circle Close, Shorewood Hills
    co-hosted by Senators Russ Feingold & Herb Kohl,
    Cong. Tammy Baldwin, Barbara & Cal Lawton
    Please call A.J. Goodman, 202-588-1453 for details.

16
Friday
Around the Capitol
  • DNR Board Meeting by Teleconference
    9 a.m.
    Room 774B
    State Natural Resources Bldg (GEF-2)
    101 S. Webster St.
    Madison
    Agenda: Wisconsin Public Service land acquisition - Marinette and Oconto counties
  • The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals Press Conference
    10 a.m.
    Assembly Parlor
    State Capitol
    A number of Faculty Senates throughout the UW System are considering resolutions condemning the regent action of June 28, 2001 - the firing of UW-Superior tenured professor John Marder. Contact Edward J. Muzik at 608-277-7700, ext. 238, for more information.
  • Award Dinner - Marquette University Law School
    National Sports Law Institute

    6 p.m.
    Pfister Hotel
    424 E. Wisconsin Ave.
    Madison
    Former Wis. Gov. Tommy G. Thompson will receive the 2001 Master of the Game Award. Tickets for the event are $75 per person. For tickets or information about dinner reservations, contact Paul Anderson, assistant director of the National Sports Law Institute, at (414) 288-5815.

17
Saturday
Other Events
  • Tom Barrett Reception
    2 - 4 p.m.
    Derry's Irish Pub
    5326 W. Blumound Rd, Milwaukee
    Fundraiser and discussion of issues important to people with disabilities.
    Please RSVP: (608) 836-3237
    All donations gratefully accepted
    Donations to: Barrett for Wisconsin
    P.O. Box 510796, Milwaukee, WI 53208

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Sunday

19
Monday
  • Center on Wisconsin Strategy Presentation
    7 a.m.
    Minocquah/Lakeland Rotary
    Minocquah
    Overview of the state of the state and how to impact public policy decisions. For more information, go to www.sustainingwisconsin.org or e-mail Michael Jacob at mjacob@cows.org.
  • Wisconsin Cranberry Board, Inc., Annual Meeting
    9:30 a.m.
    Rm 353
    JF Friedrick Center
    1950 Willow Dr.
    Madison
  • Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities
    10 a.m.
    Large Group Instruction Room (LGI)
    University Center
    UW Extension Fond Du Lac
    400 University Dr.
    Fond Du Lac
    The committee will hold an informal hearing to view and discuss the special working relationship between UW Extension Fond Du Lac, Moraine Park Technical College and Fond Du Lac High School. The committee will also receive an update on upcoming security procedures to be implemented on UW Campuses.
  • Pocan Press Conference to Discuss Emergency Contraceptive Bill
    11 a.m.
    Assembly Parlor
    State Capitol
  • UW System Board of Regents Executive Committee
    1:50 p.m.
    Meeting by teleconference
    Agenda: Convene in open session and consider a motion to recess into closed session to consider salary adjustments
  • Guest Lecturer at the UW Law School
    Election & Campaign Finance Law Course
    4:35 p.m.
    Room 5240
    UW Law School
    E. Joshua Rosenkranz, President & CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, will speak. A former law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. as well as then-Court of Appeals Judge Antonin Scalia, Rosenkranz is one of the nation's leading public sector lawyers.
    Contact Mike Wittenwyler at 608-284-2616 or at wittenwyler@gklaw.com for more information.
  • Reception in Honor of AG Jim Doyle
    5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
    At the home of Bob and Mimi Habush
    1516 E. Dean Road
    $500 per couple
    RSVP to: 414/226-2002
    Payable to: Doyle for Wisconsin
    P.O. Box 2687
    Madison WI 53701

20
Tuesday
Other Events
  • RESCHEDULED to Tuesday, Dec. 4
    Center on Wisconsin Strategy Presentation
    12 noon
    Whitewater Rotary
    Whitewater
    Overview of the state of the state and how to impact public policy decisions. For more information, go to www.sustainingwisconsin.org or e-mail Michael Jacob at mjacob@cows.org.
  • Barrett, Coggs Press Conference
    10:30 a.m.
    Clock tower entrance
    Milwaukee County Courthouse
    Announcement of plan to house prisoners in county jails instead of out-of-state private prisons.
  • Volume Cap Allocation Council
    2:30 p.m.
    Rm. 6A - Tommy G. Thompson Bldg.
    201 W. Washington Ave.
    Madison
  • UW System Working Group on Mission Review and Clarification
    3:30 p.m.
    1820 Van Hise Hall
    1220 Linden Dr.
    Madison
  • Fundraising Reception for State Rep. Antonio Riley
    5 - 7 p.m.
    Mo's Market
    A Place for Wine
    717 N. Plankinton Avenue
    Milwaukee
    $100 suggested contribution, but all contributions accepted
    Payable to: Friends of Riley
    P.O. Box 05590
    Milwaukee WI 53205
  • Groundwater Lecture Series
    "Will the Well Run Dry? Groundwater Management in Wisconsin"
    7 p.m.
    Rm. 1610 Engineering Hall
    1415 Engineering Dr.
    The series is co-sponsored by the Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The overall framework for Wisconsin Groundwater Management: the good, the bad, the needed. For more information, contact Professor Ken Potter, 262-0040, kwpotter@facstaff.wisc.edu.
  • Green County Democratic Party meeting
    Special Guest Speaker Kathleen Falk, Dane County Executive and candidate for Governor
    7:30 p.m.
    New Glarus Township Hall 1101 Hwy. 69,
    New Glarus
    Refreshments will be served, contact number (608) 527-2426

21
Wednesday
  • Richland County Democratic Party Meeting
    Guest Speaker Atty General Candidate Senator Brian Burke
    6:30 p.m.
    Pizza Hut
    Contact: Janet Parr, 608-647-4913
  • Dane County Libertarian Party Meeting
    6:30 p.m.
    Jingles Coliseum bar.
    Madison
    Call Julie Cordry for details at 608-873-8541.

22
Thursday
Thanksgiving Day

23
Friday
Other Events
  • Special Committee on State-Tribal Relations
    10 a.m.
    Stockbridge-Munsee Pine Hills Golf
    Course and Supper Club (downstairs)
    N9498 Big Lake Road
    Gresham
    Models of communication and relations between the legislative and executive branches of state government and tribal governments in WI, labeling of wild rice offered for sale, and for committee members arriving early there will be a tour of the Stockridge-Munsee Reservation (the tour will leave the Pine Hills Golf and Supper Club at 8:30 a.m. and last about one hour).

24
Saturday
Other Events
  • North Country Libertarian Party Meeting
    9 a.m.
    The meeting will be held at the Garden of Eatin' Restaraunt in Rhinelander, WI. Contact Paul Ehlers at 715-362-3683 for more information.
  • Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Pregnancy Services Board Meeting
    10 a.m.
    Telephone Conference Call Meeting
    This APPPS Board Meeting will convene in closed session for review of grant applications.
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Sunday
  • Clark County T.A.R. Organizational Meeting
    All Clark County teens interested in joining the Teen Age Republican party, call Lydia or Verity Palmer 743-3101. clarkpharm406@tds.net
  • 8th Congressional District Democrats Meeting
    1:30 p.m.
    Gipper's Sports Bar and Grill
    1860 University Ave
    Green Bay
    Lunch on your own begins at 12:30. Contact: Jack Krueger, 920-437-3163

26
Monday
Around the Capitol
  • Governor's Schedule
    Office Time
    6 p.m. -
    Remarks & Reception - WI Economic Summit II
    Midwest Express Center

Other Events

  • Reception for Bob Welch
    4-7 p.m.
    The Wautoma Moose Inn
    W6846 State Road 21
    Wautoma
    Suggested Contribution:
    $75 individual/$100 per couple
    No corporate or PAC checks please
  • Wis. Economic Summit II
    Midwest Express Center
    Milwaukee
    For information, read a UW System press release or log onto www.wisconsin.edu/summit.
  • Center on Wisconsin Strategy Presentation
    12:15 p.m.
    Oconomowoc Rotary
    Oconomowoc
    Overview of the state of the state and how to impact public policy decisions. For more information, go to www.sustainingwisconsin.org or e-mail Michael Jacob at mjacob@cows.org.

27
Tuesday
Around the Capitol
  • Governor's Schedule
    11 a.m. - Kick-Off to WI CTSO Fire Truck Project
    Governor's Conference Room
    Office Time
  • Assembly Information Policy & Technology Committee
    1 p.m.
    328 NW
    State Capitol
    AR 42 - Memorializing Congress to enact the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act of 2001.
    AB 416 - Prohibiting certain electronic mail solicitations and providing a penalty.

Other Events

  • Wis. Economic Summit II
    Midwest Express Center
    Milwaukee
    For information, read a UW System press release log onto www.wisconsin.edu/summit.
  • Purchasing Law in Wisconsin
    8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
    Radisson Inn
    517 Grand Canyon Dr.
    A one-day seminar designed for purchasing and materials managers, contract administrators, buyers, project directors, in-house counsel, presidents, vice-presidents and CFOs, business managers and other financial professionals. For more information call (715) 833-3959, or visit www.lorman.com.
  • Center on Wisconsin Strategy Presentation
    12 noon
    Montello Rotary
    Montello
    Overview of the state of the state and how to impact public policy decisions. For more information, go to www.sustainingwisconsin.org or e-mail Michael Jacob at mjacob@cows.org.
  • Holiday Party with State Sen. Peggy Rosenzweig
    5 - 7 p.m.
    Kneeland Walker House
    7406 Hillcrest Drive
    Wauwatosa
    Donation: $25.00
    Payable to: Sen. Peggy Rosenzweig
    6236 Upper Parkway North
    Wauwatosa WI 53213
  • Farm Bill Forum
    7:30 - 9 p.m.
    Room 165
    Bascom Hall
    UW-Madison
    The forum will provide attendees the opportunity to ask questions about the programs funded by the Federal Farm Bill.

28
Wednesday
Around the Capitol
  • Governor's Schedule
    Office Time
    2 p.m. -
    Building Commission
    Governor's Conference Room
  • Assembly Ways and Means Committee
    9:30 a.m.
    415 Northwest
    State Capitol
    AJR 67 - Memorializing Congress to pass House Resolution 97, the Notch Fairness Act of 2001.
    AB 491 - Creating definitions for common and contract carriers for sales tax and use tax purposes.
    AB 599 - The sale of tax delinquent real property.
  • Assembly Government Operations Committee
    10 a.m.
    328 Northwest
    State Capitol
    AB 563 - Abandoned property reporting requirements; reporting and delivery of abandoned stock, intangible business interests, and other intangible property to the state treasurer; the sale of abandoned property; and creating a procedure for claiming certain escheated funds.
    AB 581 - Designating Fire Protection Week and Wisconsin Firefighters Memorial Day.
    AB 493 - Review of state agency performance and operations.
    AB 460 - Executive salary group assignments for certain state employees.
    SB 116 - Notification to the legislature of a proposed rule.
  • Senate Insurance, Tourism & Transportation Committee
    10 a.m.
    201 Southeast
    State Capitol
    SB 312 - Advertising by intoxicating liquor retailers.
    SB 241 - Designating the bridge on I-43 across the Fox River in the city of Green Bay as the Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge.
    SB 274 - The licensing of motor vehicle dealers, motor vehicle salespersons, and sales finance companies and providing a penalty.
    AB 167 - Access by law enforcement agencies to photographs on motor vehicle operators' licenses and identification cards.
    AB 249 - The effect of annexation or detachment of territory on a municipality's quota of "Class B" intoxicating liquor licenses.
    AB 436 - Requiring the DOT to provide transportation planning and assistance in reviewing the site plan of proposed school construction or enlargement and granting rule-making authority.
  • Building Commission Meeting
    2 p.m.
    Governor's Conference Room
    115 East
    State Capitol
    Agenda

Other Events

  • Tree Decoration - Governor's Executive Residence
    1 - 2 p.m.
    Various ethnic groups from the International Institute of Wisconsin will decorate the holiday trees at the Executive Residence. First Lady Laurie McCallum will be on hand. For further information on this event call the Executive Residence at (608) 266-3554.

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Thursday
Around the Capitol
  • Governor's Schedule
    Office Time
  • Senate Environmental Resources Committee
    10 a.m.
    411 South
    State Capitol
    CERNY, Mike J., of Sharon, as a member of the Snowmobile Recreation Council, to serve for the
    term ending July 1, 2004.
    DITTMAR, Beverly Ann, of Eagle River, as a member of the Snowmobile Recreation Council, to
    serve for the term ending July 1, 2004.
    ELMAN, William R. of Appleton, as a member of the Land and Water Conservation Board, to serve
    for the term ending May 1, 2005.
    GABERT, Dr. Thomas C., of Minocqua, as a member of the Snowmobile Recreation Council, to
    serve for the term ending July 1, 2004.
    LANGDON, James M., of De Forest, as a member of the Snowmobile Recreation Council, to serve
    for the term ending July 1, 2004.
    LARSEN, Mark A., of River Falls, as a member of the Snowmobile Recreation Council, to serve for
    the term ending July 1, 2004.
    MARSDEN, Michael A., of Grand Chute, as a member of the Waste Facility Siting Board, to serve
    for the interim term ending May 1, 2003.
    OSBORNE, Patrick J? of Madison, as a member of the Great Lakes Protection Fund, to serve for the
    term ending October II, 2003.
    SCHUMANN, William E., ofManitowish Waters, as a member of the Snowmobile Recreation
    Council, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2004.
    SB 209 - Zoning of upland environmental corridors, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
    SB 264 - Prohibiting certain persons from obtaining licenses that authorize hunting with a firearm and providing a penalty.
    AB 300 - the designation and duties of chief warden, deputy chief warden, internal affairs officer, and complaint officer within the department of natural resources.
    AB 301 - Authorizing conservation wardens to enforce the trespass law and prohibitions on shooting at caged or staked wild animals and to make arrests under warrants issued for felonies or misdemeanors.
  • Assembly Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems
    9 a.m.
    417 North
    State Capitol
    AB 91/SB 34 - Classifying certain teachers employed by the state as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin retirement system.
    SB 46 - Executive participating employee status under the Wisconsin retirement system for certain court commissioners.
    AB 261/SB 111 - Classifying county jailers as protective occupation participants for the purposes of the Wisconsin retirement system.
    SB 169 - Classifying state employees who are employed at state correctional institutions, secured correctional facilities, the mental health institutes at Mendota and Winnebago, the Wisconsin resource center, or any secure mental health unit or facility for sexually violent persons as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin retirement system.
    SB 188 - Classifying employees of the department of military affairs who perform security functions at weapons facilities owned by the state as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin retirement system.
    SB 189 - Classifying state employees assigned as security officers at facilities owned, leased, or operated by teh University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinic Authority as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin retirement system.
    AB 631 - Extending duty disability and death benefits provided to protective occupation participants to county jailers.
  • Assembly Housing Committee
    1 p.m.
    Assembly Parlor
    State Capitol
    AB 624 - The income and franchise tax credit that supplements the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit.
    AB 446 - Exampting certain horse boarding and horse training facilities from state building codes.
  • Assembly Committee on Judiciary
    10:30 a.m.
    225 Northwest
    State Capitol
    Pledge of Allegiance
    AB 534 - Allowing Municipal courts to hold refusal hearings.
    AB 620 - Mandatory minimum sentence for a juvenile who is convicted of throwing a bodily substance at or toward a person while placedin a secured correctional facility, a secure detention facility, a secured child caring insititution, or a secured group home and providing a penalty.
    LRB 4056 - Threats related to use of or exposure to a toxic chemical or its precursor or a biological agent and providing a penalty.

Other Events

  • DATCP Meeting
    9:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
    DATCP Eau Claire Regional Office
    3610 Oakwood Hills Parkway
    Eau Claire
    The proposed rule to revise ch. ATCP 60, relating to diary farm standards will be discussed, as well as a temporary emergency rule requiring DATCP approval of lab analysts who visually read drug residue screening tests on milk.

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Friday
Around the Capitol
  • Governor's Schedule
    11:30 a.m. - Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
    State Capitol Rotunda

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Saturday