Philip D. Ball, William N. Camplin, Henry Haslach and Rebecca Young, Petitioners/Plaintiffs-Appellants v. District…

Summary

The Wisconsin Supreme Court held that the Madison Area Technical College building program had been approved before January 31, 1980, and therefore was exempt from the referendum requirement in section 38.15(1). The court treated the earlier approval as authorization of a general plan to construct new facilities, while later decisions concerning site and design were implementation details that did not trigger the referendum requirement. Justice Bablitch, dissenting, would have required a referendum for the materially different split-campus project.