Section 25.187 - Operating expenditures(1)(a) In this section, "operating expenditures" include all costs and expenses incurred by the investment board for the purpose of operating the board and managing the assets of each fund for which the board has management responsibility, but does not include costs or expenses incurred under s. 25.18 (1) or (2) or 40.04 (3) (intro.) or incurred in connection with information technology purchases, including those contemplated under s. 16.751, business travel, recruitment of job applicants, or subscriptions to relevant news or industry publications, or office management expenses.(b) The investment board's expenditure of operating expenditures contemplated by this section is not subject to the provisions of subch. IV of ch. 16, but the investment board may, in its discretion, coordinate purchases with the department of administration under s. 16.71.(c) The investment board shall adopt policies and procedures that specify all of the following: 1. When the investment board is required to publicly solicit proposals from multiple vendors of goods or services.2. How the investment board is to evaluate proposals from multiple vendors.3. How the investment board is to assess any conflict of interest a vendor may have if the vendor sells goods or services to the investment board.(2)(a) On September 1 of each year, the investment board shall assess each fund for which the board has management responsibility for its share of the board's operating expenditures for the current fiscal year in an equitable manner. The board shall pay the assessment from the current income of each fund, unless an appropriation is made for payment of the assessment, in which case the assessment shall be paid from that appropriation account.(b) The investment board may establish the operating budget for operating expenditures and monitor the fiscal management of this operating budget.(3) The investment board shall transmit a notice of each assessment to each fund at the time that the assessment is made, and shall transmit a statement of the board's actual expenditures for management of each fund at the close of each fiscal year both to the state agency having primary responsibility for expenditure of principal or earnings of the fund and to the department of administration or, if there is no state agency, only to the department of administration.(4) The investment board shall establish travel policies for investment board employees and job applicants and a schedule for the reimbursement of investment board employees and job applicants for travel expenses, which shall take into account the maximum rate for lodging expenses incurred in this state under the approved uniform travel schedule incorporated under s. 20.916 (8) (b) into the current compensation plan under s. 230.12 (1).Amended by Acts 2021 ch, 177,s 14, eff. 3/13/2022.Amended by Acts 2021 ch, 177,s 13, eff. 3/13/2022.Amended by Acts 2021 ch, 177,s 12, eff. 3/13/2022.1999 a. 9, 185; 2005 a. 25, 153; 2007 a. 20; 2011 a. 32.