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Senator as you know there were originally seven Pilot Projects that we looked at. For them were approved in three of them are not approved including the 70 Million Dollar mississippi grant. We were deeply disappointed as well because he wanted to try to make this work but at the end of the day the state in nta couldnt agree on terms because the states plan didnt provide the necessary level of detail we needed to meet the statutory requirements. As you know under the btop program there were specific statutory requirements that this had to meet and the mississippi plan that came forward was not ...

Those are the important things about the network that will make a very big difference. Thank you. Senator fischer. Thank you mr. Chairman. Ms. Swenson can you give us some idea when this is all going to be fully operational . Do you have a window of time there . Its eyes a great question. As i said we have the strategic roadmap that lays out the timeframe of getting tourist a consultation issuing the rfp getting the response and obviously awarding to the winner of the process. While we dont know today is what might happen in that process. So if we were unencumbered by external factors than we ...

First net is their first priority. Because this is no pra jorty of comment about people that we work with, but first net is a secondary item for them. They have a fulltime day job and we pile on top of that. We probably dont get the urgency that we feel about things. So to the degree we can take accountability and responsibility for those functions well obviously follow all the rules and regulations but we would have an opportunity to move more quickly. Id like to see what we can do about improving that and also taking responsibility from commerce and obviously e we wouldnt do that until such ...

There are new efforts that i will call on the legislature to adopt. However we should make our First Priority implementing the reforms we have already passed. I recently released opportunity mississippi which is my Strategic Plan for the state. In that document i outlined benchmarks for education works reforms. College and Career Readiness among High School Students has become the centerpiece of change and advancement. We must aim to reduce our High School Dropout rate a 10 by 2017. If properly implemented, the other reforms we have enacted will help us achieve this goal. Through the third gra...

A b process systems in stratford hired 50 more people over the past year and greenheck in schofield added 209 jobs since 2011. These are just the employers i visited in the past few days. Throughout the past year, we helped amazon. Com expand and create up to 1,250 jobs here in wisconsin. Emco chemical distributors moved up from illinois with about 187 jobs. Hanna cylinders announced the same thing and brought 105 jobs to our state. All three of these companies moved into kenosha county. [ applause ] these are just a small sample of the many good news stories showing wisconsin is going back to...