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Todd Novak: “They were down to 126 students.”

Featuring: Todd Novak, Republican | Wisconsin State Assembly, 51st District

October Legislative Update

Published October 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:04

So she's very good about letting her legislators know what's going on and we meet every quarter down there. Howard, Senator Markline and Representative Tranl and I so we knew this was coming. They were down to 126 students. I think the difference is though I think with maybe Richland and Sauk is Sauk county was ready for this. They knew it was coming because of demographics. (06:04–06:07)

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Asserts that [UW Baraboo] had 126 students enrolled.

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“I think we lost 50,000 students in the state of Wisconsin that never came back after Covid.”
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“Sauk county was ready for this. They knew it was coming because of demographics.”
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“The county had already done it has done a study or doing a study on what to do with the facilities.”
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“I believe that's co op owned by both of the city maybe and the county.”
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“Dropping enrollment is becoming such a big problem.”
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“I think by a decade [the two-year campuses] they'll all be closed.”
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“I think there'll be some universities that will contract or whatever.”
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“Tech schools though are holding pretty steady from what I'm hearing.”
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“Lafayette county is like the most ag dependent county in the state.”
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“The statistics on homeschooling has gone way up.”
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“Every ambulance service in my industry is dealing with [staffing issues].”
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“When I left finished my term as mayor of Dodgeville, we were transitioning to full time [EMS staff].”
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“We try to get more money in EMS and stuff so we can have more people go to training and join these crews.”
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“Coming when I got elected in 2014 to compare it to now we've really worked hard every session to change the EMS rules.”
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“I've heard it several times myself of, you know, they'll call for an ambulance and nobody, they don't get a full crew.”
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“Especially in my rural area that happens more frequently and that's very unfortunate.”
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“It's not cheap full benefits thing but you know, you need them and anybody that does that kind of work, yeah, they should make good money.”
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“They're on call usually 12, 24 hour shifts.”
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“There's just not the people out there anymore.”
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“We do need to build, replacing [Waupun and Green Bay] prisons.”
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“The governor has a different philosophy, that we should let more people out to deal with some of the overcrowding.”
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“We voted to close Lincoln Hills up north, which is a juvenile detention center.”
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“It was supposed to be closed by now, but working with the governor, and that's something we're all on page to close this.”
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“Definitely Waupun and Green Bay need to be replaced.”
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“The vacancy rates have come way down as far as staffing.”
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“We really increased wages a lot in the last couple budgets.”
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“I'm on the Southwest Regional Planning. I'm a commissioner. I've represented Iowa county for 15 years.”
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“Southwest Regional Planning...help a lot of municipalities write grants.”
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“I'm on the WETA board, the housing board. I represent the assembly.”
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“All this huge amounts of money for housing was going to Milwaukee and Madison.”
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“We did development going up in Dodgeville and I think I got one in Lafayette County.”
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“We all worked on ARIP for row roads.”
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“I always tell people out here I could live, we could live off what they spend in southeast with Wisconsin for roads.”
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“I didn't think it'd last this long, but this is the part of politics that I don't like.”
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“Right now, I mean, it's manageable, but if it goes on too much longer, I think there's going to be some pain.”
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“Tony and I have no problem. We, we work together with the other side of the aisle.”
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“Budget supposed to be done by June 30th.”
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“We passed one [budget] in September, end of August or September.”
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“We'll be on the floor in a session in assembly and let's say, for example, have 40 bills up that day, and they'll all pass bipartisan…”
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“I was on speaker's task force at Alzheimer's and dementia before.”
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