“This looks like an attempt to skirt the normal budget process by moving positions around instead of being transparent about staffing levels,” Born said. “The reality is, this agency (DOA) already has a large number of positions and, before shifting more we need a clear justification and accountability to taxpayers.”
When the Badger Institute first contacted Rosenberg directly, she said she believed she could provide answers to some of our questions. She then failed to respond to follow-up calls trying to get those answers in the weeks after the Badger Institute obtained the LFB analysis.
The DOA did not respond to emails asking about the office and Rosenberg.
The DOA defended its decisions to an analyst for the state’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau investigating the behind-the-scenes funding of state offices. Officials took the route they did “due to constraints on expenditure authority” during the regular and public budget process, according to a memo from the LFB analyst shared with the Finance Committee.
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