Frederica Freyberg:
Meanwhile, Corrections Secretary Hoy called this a moving target. How difficult is it to plan for a project like this and so many years into the future, especially when it will continue under a new governor?

State Sen. Mary Felzkowski:
So I think when you have a Legislature, it's always going to be a moving target and numbers are going to go, but I do think you can plan. But you can't plan on today's numbers and we can extrapolate out. You know, we see trends in society, and we can look at that and then say, "Here's where," and you probably might want to plan a little high in some areas and maybe a little lower in others. We know what trends are. Then you can say, "We're going to need X number of beds here. We're going to need X number of beds here." And you plan for those numbers. Just like we did around juvenile corrections. We know we need X number of beds for SRCCs, so that's what we did. We have the SRCC in Kenosha or Racine, we have the SRCC in Milwaukee, and we needed to add a SRCC in Dane County, plus we had to do the Mendota Youth Mental Health. We had to plan there also in order to be able to close Lincoln Hills. So, that's how you plan.

Frederica Freyberg:
Just the discussion of it, it is so complicated.

State Sen. Mary Felzkowski:
Everything's complicated — but when you bring people together and people that have backgrounds in certain issues. I'm an insurance agent. That's what I do in real life, right? But when you bring people together and you can research and you have knowledge on certain issues, and you bring experts in, you can uncomplicate very complicated issues.