Notes on meeting of the Wisconsin Land Council - September 21, 1998

The Wisconsin Land Council held its second meeting in Madison on September 21, 1998. The outcome of the meeting can be divided into hard news and general information.

Hard News

1. The Wisconsin Office of Land Information Services in the Department of Administration has hired one new staff person in the position of Planning and Policy Analyst. Linda Keegan has been given this position. Linda has a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from UW Madison and a background in journalism. She has worked for several state agencies since receiving her master’s degree. In the summer of 1994, she worked for WAPA in planning a fall conference and studied Oregon’s growth management system as part of that work.
2. Doug King of Wisconsin DOA has been named chair of the Wisconsin Land Council Technical Working Group. The group is still being formed. Nominations are being solicited.
3. The Wisconsin Land Council tentatively approved with some modifications a draft MOU between it, the Wisconsin Land Information Board and the Wisconsin Department of Administration. The amendments will be reviewed by the Executive Committee of the WLIB and then will come back to the Wisconsin Land Council at its October meeting. Anyone interested in fine points of language can contact me for a copy of correspondence between Wiliam Mielke, Michael Blaska and Secretary Bugher regarding the MOU.
4. The next meeting date was set for the afternoon of October 29, 1998 in Madison.

General Information

1. Greg Landretti of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue made a presentation on a proposal to generate a web system to computerize Wisconsin land information. This proposal is in the form of a budget initiative from his department.
2. James Wood, a consultant in charge of survey work for On Common Ground, presented the results of the fourth set of public opinion surveys. These will be published in the next issue of On Common Ground.
3. Time allowed only the beginning of a facilitated "discussion of strategic vision." The facilitator was Brian Ohm of UW Madison. Time allowed only opening comments by some of the members. This topic will be revisited at the October 29 meeting.
4. None of the state agency heads attended the meeting due to a memorial service being held in the Capitol for a state employee who died in a plane crash.