State lawmaker: No thanks to highway maps
MADISON — To hear Rep. Scott Allen tell it, the maps are tough to give away.
Allen, R-Waukesha, wants to scrap a law he says wastes money while leaving lawmakers with a glut of unwanted state highway maps each session.
At a time when state lawmakers are clamoring for greater efficiency at the cash-strapped state Department of Transportation, Allen’s is perhaps the most granular penny-pinching proposal offered yet.
State law says the department shall give 500 highway maps — the folded paper kind — to the office of all 132 state lawmakers each time they’re published. Another 300 must be given to the Legislature’s nonpartisan reference bureau.
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