20.225 Educational communications board. There is appropriated to the educational communications board for the following program:

(1) Instructional technology.

(a) General program operations. The amounts in the schedule to carry out its functions other than programming under ss. 39.11 and 39.13.

(b) Energy costs; energy-related assessments. The amounts in the schedule to pay for utilities and for fuel, heat, and air conditioning, to pay assessments levied by the department of administration under s. 16.847 (3) for costs incurred and savings generated at facilities of the board, and to pay costs incurred under ss. 16.858 and 16.895, by or on behalf of the board.

(c) Principal repayment and interest. A sum sufficient to reimburse s. 20.866 (1) (u) for the payment of principal and interest costs incurred in financing the acquisition, construction, development, enlargement or improvement of facilities approved by the building commission for operation by the educational communications board and to make payments under an agreement or ancillary arrangement entered into under s. 18.06 (8) (a).

(eg) Transmitter construction. As a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule to construct national weather service transmitters.

(er) Transmitter operation. The amounts in the schedule to operate the transmitter constructed with moneys appropriated under par. (eg).

(g) Gifts, grants, contracts, leases, instructional material, and copyrights. Except as provided in par. (i), all moneys received from gifts, grants, contracts, the lease of excess capacity, the sale of instructional material under s. 39.11 (16), and the use of copyrights under s. 39.115 (1), to carry out the purposes for which received.

(i) Program revenue facilities; principal repayment, interest, and rebates. A sum sufficient from gifts and grants to reimburse s. 20.866 (1) (u) for the payment of principal and interest costs incurred in financing the acquisition, construction, development, enlargement, or improvement of facilities approved by the building commission for operation by the educational communications board, to make payments determined by the building commission under s. 13.488 (1) (m) that are attributable to the proceeds of obligations incurred in financing the facilities, and to make payments under an agreement or ancillary arrangement entered into under s. 18.06 (8) (a).

(k) Funds received from other state agencies. All moneys received from other state agencies to carry out the purposes for which received.

(kb) Emergency weather warning system operation. From the moneys received by the department of administration for the provision of state telecommunications to state agencies, the amounts in the schedule for the operation of the emergency weather warning system under s. 39.11 (21).

(m) Federal grants. All moneys received from the federal government as authorized by the governor under s. 16.54 for the purposes for which made and received.

History: 1971 c. 125; 1973 c. 90, 333; 1975 c. 39; 1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 20; 1985 a. 29 ss. 210m, 212, 3202 (15) (a); 1987 a. 399; 1989 a. 31; 1993 a. 16; 1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 27; 1999 a. 9; 2001 a. 16; 2003 a. 33; 2007 a. 20; 2009 a. 28; 2015 a. 55; 2019 a. 9.