JFC co-chairs demand Evers administration use existing vacancies for wanted new jobs

The Joint Finance Committee co-chairs today refused to take up requests from the Evers administration to create 21 new positions, instead ordering the asks to be resubmitted after identifying existing vacancies that could be used to cover the proposed jobs. Last month, state agencies sent Finance requests to create more than 60 new jobs, and the committee had planned to review 21 at today’s hearin...