Ed,
> The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), Bureau of Highway
> Operations (BHO) in partnership with eight WisDOT Division of District
> offices is responsible for the maintenance of the state trunk highway
> system in Wisconsin. The WisDOT has contracted with all 72 County Highway
> Departments in Wisconsin to perform winter maintenance activities on the
> state trunk highway system.
> As you requested, below are the total costs (materials, labor and
> equipment) for winter operations for the last three winters:
> Last winter's (1999-2000) winter operations totaled $33,192,000
> 1998-1999 winter operations totaled $32,911,000 and
>
> 1998-1997 winter operations totaled $33,347,000.
> This winter, we have budged $36.5 million for winter operations.
> Feel free to let us know if there is any other information that we can
> provide you with.
Cathy Meinholz
Bureau of Highway Operations
To clarify and simplify the discussion on the cost of winter highway
maintenance, let us go with the following statement to conclude the
paragraph immediately following the discussion of deaths and injuries:
"According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the
department spent an average of $33.2 million to the 72 counties to
perform winter maintenance activities on the state trunk highway system
during the relatively mild three winters between 1997/98 and 1999/2000."
Hope this clarifies and simplifies.
Ed
P.S. Yes, and the correct terminology since Wisconsin became the
first state in the country to number its highways back in 1918 is the
"state trunk highway system", to distinguish from the country trunk
system and town roads!
EJH
Dear Ed,
The safety seminar is just around the corner, March 3rd. I just wanted to
touch bases with you as to your topic, any audio/visual equipment needed and
to get some biography information on yourself.
1. As we had previously discussed, boundary layer meteorology would be
topic that balloonists would be interested in. Maybe you have some insight
as to an approach to this after your flight. If you plan to have any
handouts or want some brochures included with our information packet, please
either e-mail or snail mail them to me.
2. If you have any audio/visual materials (i.e. require a data projector,
VCR, etc.) please let me know. Actual video/data is always of interest to
the group.
3. If you could provide me with some bio information about yourself to
include with the BFA (Balloon Federation of America) registration of the
safety seminar as well as included into the attendees packet. Again, you
can either e-mail that to me or snail mail at the address below.
I have included some attachments, that I hope you can open, as to the
schedule of the seminar and general information. You are scheduled to be
the first speaker at 8:00 AM.
If you have any further questions or comments, please do not hesitate to
contact me.
Here is the address info:
Chris Fitzsimmons
124 Harvest Circle
Mt. Horeb, WI 53572
(608) 437-7044 (Home)
(608) 836-8820 (Work)
(608) 836-5822 (Fax)
Thanks again for devoting you time to our safety seminar. To date we have
over 50 confirmed attendees and look to reach the 75-80 mark by March 3rd.
Sincerely,
Chris Fitzsimmons
Wisconsin Balloon Group Director
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