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State Building Commission approves UW System budget reallocations and construction authorizations
Summary
On Jan. 10 the State Building Commission approved comprehensive UW System budget adjustments that reallocate $43.4 million in SEG REV funds and grant construction authority for major campus projects, including UW‑Madison's New Engineering Building; Part 2 reallocations passed 5–3 to fund small projects.
The State Building Commission on Jan. 10, 2025, approved comprehensive budget adjustments and granted authority to construct multiple University of Wisconsin System projects, reallocating SEG REV (state building repair) funds and authorizing construction spending across several campuses.
The Commission approved Part 1 of the UW‑System request by an 8–0 vote. The action decreases $45,064,000 in SEG REV from the UW‑Eau Claire Science/Health Science and Lower Campus Chiller/Cooling Tower Replacement project and reallocates those dollars to increase the budgets for UW‑Whitewater's Winther Hall/Heide Hall Entry Additions & Renovations (+$10,576,000 SEG REV), the UW‑Madison New Engineering Building (+$29,064,000 SEG REV and $43,400,000 in gifts/grants), and the UW‑Stout Heritage Hall Addition & Renovation (+$5,424,000 SEG REV). The package as recorded includes authority to approve Design Reports and to construct the projects; it also includes authority to demolish the existing Computer Aided Engineering Facility at UW‑Madison as part of the Engineering Building project.
Representative Jill Billings moved to approve the request and Ms. Barb Worcester seconded the motion; the minutes record the motion as carried. The Commission's packet shows the budget modification/reallocation total for the action as $43,400,000 and lists an authority-to-construct total of $508,865,000 across the affected projects.
On a separate but related item labeled Part 2, the Commission approved a request, 5–3, to decrease $25,000,000 SEG REV from the UW‑Eau Claire Science/Health Science project and to reallocate and release $25,000,000 SEG REV to the 2023–25 All Agency Small Project allocation. The minutes record that Senators/Representatives André Jacque, Rob Swearingen and Robert Wittke voted No on that measure; the remaining commissioners recorded votes in favor.
The Commission record provides background on prior approvals, planning releases and enumerations in Wisconsin Acts (including 2019 and 2023 acts) for the listed projects and notes that, to date, the SBC has released $97,033,000 for the 2023–25 Small Projects Program. The meeting concluded and the minutes were signed by Naomi De Mers, Secretary; the record states the minutes are subject to ratification at the next State Building Commission meeting.
Meeting action summary: Part 1 approved 8–0; Part 2 approved 5–3 with three recorded No votes. No direct quotations are included in the record.
