The Government Accountability Board said they have made some improvements to the state's Contract Sunshine website, a site meant to aggregate state agency contracts in one online location.
Over 80 state agencies, including all UW System schools, were found in violation of the law in March due to their failure to post their contracts on the site. The website currently displays only one contract for all of the 26 UW System schools.
Reid Magney, GAB spokesperson, said additional information has been posted but is not necessarily visible to the public.
""There are areas that have been updated for example, the Department of Administration, has uploaded info about statewide purchasing contracts, and those contracts … [are] visible to the registered users of systems,"" he said.
State Sen. Robert Cowles, R-Green Bay, said he does not agree with setting limitations on who can view the contracts.
""One way or another, I want to see these contracts listed on the website, so that people can know who's benefitting from the taxpayer dollars,"" Cowles said.
In order to ensure that this would happen, Cowles said he called for an audit of Contract Sunshine about a month ago. He said he hoped this would help solve some of the problems within the GAB process.
As of last week, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee had not decided to approve the audit.
Magney said the GAB is working with the DOA to improve the contract system so more UW System schools will put their contracts online.
""We're in the process of working with the Department of Administration and our other partners to improve the website,"" Magney said. ""To make it easier for them to use the site, it is up to [the schools] to use the site and to comply with the law.""
Magney also said there are still no enforcement mechanisms in place to ensure compliance.
""Nothing has changed,"" he said
