Report on hiring outside contractors 8 months late; state says it will be public soon

Gov. Scott Walker?s administration has not filed its annual report on the hiring of outside contractors to perform services for state agencies, eight months after the deadline set by state law. The Department of Administration is required to file the report, which is scrutinized by public employee unions and others, by Oct. 15 each year….The unusual delay was caused by the University of Wisconsin System, which did not turn in its portion of the report until last month, DOA spokeswoman Jocelyn Webster said Wednesday. “We do anticipate the report being finalized and made public very soon,” she said.