County Board - Regular Meeting

Good evening and happy new year. I'm going to call the executive committee meeting to order. And the first item on the agenda after the role, we have a quorum. We do have a quorum. Um, everyone's here except Supervisor Shakur who might be here shortly. And then uh item number one is approval of the previous minute meeting minutes. Move to approve.

Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor say I. Opposed. Motion carried. Item number two, ordinance number 202572 by individual supervisors amending the ring county court of ordinances article two chapter 2 article 2 division 3 meetings section 2-89 recording streaming and retention of county board and committee meetings and sections 2-90 and 2-100 reserved supervisor Rossi This would be your ordinance.

Thank you, chairman. Um hopefully everyone's had a chance to look through it. Um it's pretty straightforward on this one. There's some technicalities in in the implementation that are defined in the ordinance, but really it's just a matter of now this would require streaming and then the uh um storage. So retention of all the meetings for a period of up to 10 years and um county leased or um you know we do some contracting. So there's cloud storage, there's it could be county servers, but the idea being that know primarily all meetings are streamed. So that would be um committee meetings, board meetings, and um that's really the gist of it. And the the caveats are of course, you know, if there's technical difficulties, um funding requirements for implementation of recording software or streaming software in certain rooms, you know, that there limitations on it. So it it accounts for, you know, the real world situations that someone could run into when trying to stream a meeting. Um that's I think that sums it up on a general sense. Um I I do want to make one um item or one change on this one. And if I could get my laptop to hurry up, there's I think it's section G that starts off with the county executive in coordination with the um

county section that's I'd like to change that to the county clerk in coordination with the county executive and IT department. That's the only tweak I'd make at this point. Just being the clerk being the um custodian of records, it it makes more sense. And after consulting with two people on this one, they felt that was more appropriate. What's going on? I have a question for the county clerk. Retention of records. If we have u streaming records, can we uh what how what's the retention on a on a video or audio record?

I don't know. I'm going to have to defer that to corporation council. Uh, seven years. Seven years. Okay. So, 10 years. Are there any other questions, Mr. Chairman? Supervisor Miller.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, [clears throat] I appreciate that we have this draft. Um, does anybody know how much this is going to cost? because we have staff tonight. We have two staff here at county board meeting and we have a lot of committees that have a lot of meetings. And while I'm for transparency, I am not sure that we need to record every committee meeting and keep it for and it's um supervisor Rossi, you said u up to 10 years, but the act the wording is not less than 10 years. So that's a little different. Um and you know where where is this going to be stored? um if it goes we originally were using Facebook then we learned that that did not have as much retention as we wanted now it's on YouTube but we have no control over YouTube so I think if it's going to be done it should be uh internally stored but I'm really concerned about the cost of that and I I can't support that until I get more information on how much this would actually cost.

Okay. Supervisor Rossy, you wanted to Thank you. Add something.

I I would like to say I thought about that in the retention portion of this. I myself, for example, I keep with triple redundancy at my own house. what would be the equivalent and I just looked at some of the recordings right now and the quality level on YouTube and I can keep about 20 years of of our data right now on my home server and and the to and associated network storage. Now obviously the county wouldn't be using something as rudimentary as what I have but if I can do it for about $1,000 I would imagine that we already have the systems in place to do this we'd essentially be pigging back onto existing storage systems. it's not that much to store uh videos of this nature. There's there's typically, you know, a lot more items that we're worried about storing on a on a county system. Um, and I'm making an assumption there, but then again, I think it's more realistic that, you know, even if we do it with like a cloud system, um, I I think about five terabytes is going to get you through at least the first three years being extremely extremely conservative on that estimate. And the cost for that type of storage, I mean, even using something as basic as a Dropbox, that's somewhere around $200 a year, $300 a year. Now, the corporate side of that, maybe they're going to kick in another $200, $300, but this type of storage is not, you know, extravagant anymore. As as media files and um, you know, video, picture, audio, as they get more and more high definition, these files become massive. I'm not even asking for, you know, I'm not even setting a standard for, you know, we're not going to keep 4K video of all the meetings. Right now, we're doing 1080 in some case 720p, which is that's a very reasonable file size. Matter of fact, I think the last one that I exported from YouTube was somewhere around 60 megabits. So 60 megabits, a,000 megabits make up one

gigabit. So you can understand a terabit, which is a very common amount of storage. So if you're if we're just looking at it graphically, I'm holding my hands up now. This being a terabit, we're talking about this for one video. I mean that this the storage is just it's very realistic now to store these types of things on, you know, servers that are housed in the county or again third party like a cloud service. Mr. Chairman, Supervisor Miller. Yeah.

Yeah. Thank you, Supervisor Rossi. um very helpful but I I think I would like to see from our IT staff a cost estimate on all aspects of this. Uh supervisor Ross has just given some uh good information about uh the uh reasonleness of storage but you know I I would really like to hear a proposal from it on where it's going to be stored. um how many staff members or how much staff time they anticipate it's going to take to do this. Uh I I would invite if she's willing the county clerk to chime in because I did speak with her and um I think her well I won't speak for her but I think she anticipates uh much involvement of it on this. Robert, you got since you're here, this was coming. John and I did a little bit of uh research associated with what it would take to provide this solution. And Supervisor Rossi is correct. The um our ability to to have storage, especially with the new uh new storage solution that we have, the storage really isn't the issue. Um, I think it'll be more of the issue with um what we plan to do with all of the the the tapings, right? So, do we want to make it available on our website, right? Um, we have to get our our website provider to be able to do that. And it's also um staffing associated with it to make sure that we're able to do this. We've also started conversations with our AV uh consultant to see what kind of

automation that we can do. So, it's it it's really very doable. It just depends on um the specifics of what we want to be able to try to try to do this and if all committee meetings are are included in this proposal. Super. Again, good additional information, but I I still want I want some numbers. uh and uh I I think it's going to take a little more time for that and certainly willing to wait, but uh I think before before we commit, we really should know how much this is going to cost.

Sup Supervisor Spencer, did you have a question or comment? Mine was just um and Supervisor Miller brought it up about staff. Does does this mean we need two staff members at every single committee meeting including like UW extension? You know, that's these are questions we have to ask. Okay. We have [clears throat] to look at vice chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One of the questions I just had wondering too is how are we going to roll this out? Is this going to be something in phases? Is this be something all done at one time? Which kind of piggybacks on to Supervisor Miller's question as far as cost? How do we we're putting this this update of this ordinance in place, but we don't really have a plan of action. How are we going to get to there and how we're going to get it done is one of my questions. So, if there's if there's some format or some platform to this already, what we're thinking about doing, how we're going to do it, and how we're going to implement it, that'd be good information to have. Supervisor Caprellian.

Thank you. [clears throat] as chair of government services, uh I've been streaming our committee meetings for years now. And uh not only have I been streaming them, we have been streaming our county board meetings, we're streaming our executive meeting, we streamed our committee of the whole meetings, and we've also had some other special meetings. So the structure is in place currently right now. So we're not starting from ground zero. uh we've already been doing it um and we're quite successful at it. Uh the ordinance as I see it just simply extends what was proven to already work but now it extends out to the committees. Uh the IT director just confirmed that storage isn't the issue. The infrastructure is largely in place. We're not reinventing the wheel here. We're just formalizing best practices that are already producing results. I think citizens deserve to see the government in action, not just read it, you know, whenever it may possibly come out. And I support this ordinance. And I'll just say this, you know, I rather see us, let's say, how can we support this to get it going to continue? I remember Jonathan many of his last state of the counties, not just the last one, the time before that and the time before that, he kept throwing transparency in there. Transparency, transparency, transparency. Uh, this is more transparent. I mean, the like I said, the infrastructure is in place. Um, the one thing I want to bring for those who have been on for a while, and maybe it was just me digging, but I remember the IT department years ago, uh, they I had sat, uh, some time up on the 10th floor and was trained on how to put stuff up on my own county supervisory page and they had encouraged it. So I think it was something that was

put out to all of us and then uh to give us then the tools instead of putting the burden on the it you know go ahead if you want to whatever it may be add your background your bio and then you can have access and as the chair you know maybe we need to think about uh instead of uh putting more stress on the IT department empowering the chairs the vice chairs the secretaries too if ultimately what it may be is uh like sometimes uh our government services meetings if we can't get on and stream but we can record it uh and then we we can upload it later. So if there's an issue you know us as chairs we can be trained having that additional responsibility just to turn something on. I don't know if IT is cringing at me right now but uh but they can always review it later. Um, I'm just trying to find solutions rather than saying no. I think we really need to say yes to transparency. And granted, we have big questions and I didn't hear anybody say no. But, uh, to me, I don't see as many obstacles as maybe what people are believe in their head, but I might be a little generation who uses uh, the computer every single day. So, thank you,

county clerk. Um, also I believe this is just meant to be for the county board standing committees, not all of the other extraneous committees that perhaps are posted to our website like the UW extension or the 980 or the civil service or some of those meeting agendas that you see come out. Um, I believe this was really meant for those standing committees of the county board itself. Sup, Supervisor Troier.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, I am [clears throat] to in agreement with Supervisor Miller. As chair of the finance committee, I've always concerned about the additional cost and time of the staff that would have to come and initiate this. And uh, I am for total transparency, no doubt about it. And I know that there is a process in place based on what Supervisor Caprian has said and other times we have streamed, but I'd like to see what the commitment and time cost is of the staff prior to approving this ordinance. Thank you. question, Robert.

How how long would it take you to work up a cost estimate based on our current schedule with for for staffing on this? Not long at all. Probably be about a a week working with uh with Wendy to understand the the time and sequence of of meetings which is published and then just understanding the um the manpower associated with with being able to get those uh streamed. We also need to be able to get a location where we have cameras. I think this building um count. So, it'll probably take me about a week, maybe two at most. Supervisor Rossi.

Thank you, Chairman. Um I would like to speak to the limitations that some of the supervisors had mentioned. Um if there is the inability to stream, that's addressed in here where then the meeting would be recorded and then uploaded afterwards. So, if there are limitations on the location um availability of staff, those caveats are already listed within um um Vice Chair Miller or Meer, excuse me, I believe your concern was about Sorry, I was trying to keep track and I was having laptop issues. I was starting it up. Um what was your concern? I'm sorry.

My concern is if we have a platform, how we going to roll this out? Now, yes, we do stream county board meetings. Yes. But as far as the committee meetings and staff meetings, whether it's public works or health and human development, my concern is we have an additional staff or additional time. Do we have the people that can do it or willing to do it? How does that work? And then what is the cost of that for going forward? And then is this going to be, you know, is this stuff we're going to do, you know, ongoing forever or is this, you know, how soon will we roll this out is my other question.

Thank you. Um the answer to that is this defines the streaming platform. So the designated streaming platform. So right now that would be YouTube. That's what we're already using. Um the process for streaming to YouTube for just myself is pretty straightforward with just the laptop. So it's really just a matter of understanding the county systems. So the AV system of the room and then patching that into the YouTube streaming system. So it's literally at that point after you've connected the hardware, turn the hardware on. Correct me if I'm wrong at any point here, Robert, but connecting the hardware to the laptop and then um engaging the streaming system via the interface on YouTube. So, it's pretty straightforward. Now, again, I'm not doing it. They're the ones actually doing it. Maybe my interface with these systems is different than what the county is seeing, but the world right now is is moving towards these streaming systems. So, this isn't as complicated as what it was, you know, eight years ago when you tried to stream something and you had to, you know, there's a lot of network protocols that had to be worked out. This is a this is a much easier thing to do than most people would assume. Thank you,

Supervisor Miller. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, [clears throat] again, as I said originally, thanks to Supervisor Rosi for bringing this to us. I'm definitely in favor of transparency. I just want to know I want us to know the details of and I appreciate Vice Chairman Meyer's comments too of you know how's this um going to roll out and it seems there I don't think there are many obstacles. It's just that we need a little more information.

I tend I tend to agree that it's a good ordinance. it has the transparency and I believe we have to do the due diligence on the costs if there's staffing or how it will roll and also how it rolls out cuz if we roll it out and we can we're capable of doing it as county board chairman and vice chairman without staff members there. Of course, that's a little bit different cost than than uh than if we have to staff it. And I think that to the point where maybe Robert should come back, you know, once in about a month and and tell us what he thinks and how it would work in the little bit of, you know, how much to cost, how roll it out.

Absolutely. We uh we've done preliminary work on it and I mean this is supervisor Russy's correct. This is this is something that's pretty easy. We're already kind of doing it. It's just I just need to know the details so that way I can put a cost associated with it. I was being generous. Two weeks. Two weeks would be fine. Okay. Yeah. Sure. Supervisor Wishoff.

Thank you, sir. Uh just a quick question uh as it relates to the staffing uh concern. Do you really need additional staff for this? I mean we already have a staff member present at these committee meetings. I mean is this something as simple as just training that staff member to plug and play and then we move forward? No, that's what I asked Robert to come back with how you know I mean obviously different capabilities on different people, right? I just say we've been doing this for six years now and we're only school district and we've not had any issues. So been pretty straightforward.

Supervisor Rossi. Thank you chairman. Um since we've got drivers here right now. Um, one thing I'd just like to say, I'm thinking it really would just be a matter of YouTube would be the primary source of storing videos and then the localiz, you know, retention would be then just exporting or downloading the YouTube video. It's pretty much that straightforward.

Yeah, it's it's very similar. We also need to know if we want to serve it off of our of our um of our website just in case we want to control it or we want to have YouTube be the owner of that but then we we're liable to the terms and conditions that YouTube um changes and if they change it then we may lose that information. Um if this really is an ordinance where we want to keep it I'd rather keep it in house and then find a way to serve it up um either through YouTube or through our through our website. None of this is is not hard. part is just those those details will matter depending on um the the extra steps that we have to take

and the intent of the ordinance is to the public face or the public interface for these streams and then this the retained videos would be YouTube. The county side retention is really more so of a backup system where if there were a failure on the YouTube end for whatever reason they change their terms they change they have a somehow have a loss a system loss which I've you know never seen on YouTube's end so far but then we would have time then to look at how the county would engage you know and restore you know the avail the availabilities of the or the availability of these safe meetings.

Yeah that's correct. uh it's just understanding those little those little nuances to be able to give a really good clear understanding of the cost associated with it. But um as you mentioned this is tried and true technology and there I don't see very many barriers to it. Any further questions? Supervisor Shakur. Thank you Mr. Chairman. I don't have a question, but I would, if if I may, move to defer this for two weeks.

We have a motion to uh defer this for two weeks till the next meeting on the 27th. Is there any questions or comments about that? All in favor say I. I. Opposed. See you in two weeks. Robert Item number three, journment.journ. We are adjourned. Thank you.

Good evening. I'd like to call the January 13th uh county board meeting to order. If the clerk could call the role. Supervisors Kelly Neielson and Price Ger excused. Everyone else is here. As customary, we have an opening prayer and it's going to be led tonight by Supervisor Wish.

Good evening everyone. Lord, please guide our decisions. Help us work in harmony and open us to hearing from one another. Help us see and understand issues which face our constituency with clarity and charity. And Lord, please protect our first responders. Amen. Amen.

The pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item number item number four on the uh agenda is public comments persuant to section 2-71 of the rine county code of ordinances. Each speaker will be allotted three minutes. Vice Chairman Meyer will be the timekeeper. He'll give you a run down as you close to your time. We have one person who's registered to speak tonight and it's Keith Far. So, if you want to come up to the to the podium here, give you give us your name and address. First name is Keith, last name Fair, 11:41 Valley View Drive, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. and I am here to address the county board on the issues of the incident that happened at the juvenile detention center on or about May the 27th of 2025. The public, we believe, has a right to to know transparency, accountability, and these things have not been demonstrated by uh this legislative body. Before me, I have a petition and hopefully I won't have to file it. But what we're asking for as a as a

community, the lack of transparency is there and the reasonable belief that crimes may have been committed. Crimes such as physical abuse of a child, battery or excessive use of force, abuse or mistreatment of a person in custody, and misconduct in public office. Hopefully, this county board would see fit to give this community transparency and fairness. Uh lastly, I'd like to say that through this incident, there's several questions or numerous questions that need to be answered. Those questions are pertaining to why is it that one person gets terminated and the other three get a chance to stay employed when they were participating in the incident? And why were they continuously allowed to um stay on it same capacity in the same facility as the young men that was beaten. Once again, transparency is the key, accountability is the key. And one major question, the incident happened on May the 27th of 2025. The public didn't find out until December the 7th, December the 8th from WTMJ4.

That's problematic. Thank you very much. Thank you. Are there any other people that want to come forward and have a public comment? Okay, we're going on to item number five, reading of the minutes of the previous meeting which is automatically waved under request unless requested by a majority of the members present. Seeing no objections, I'm going to go to number six. Resolutions and ordinances referred to committee.

Ordinance number 2025-72 by individual supervisors amending the recine county code of ordinances chapter 2 article 2 division 3 meetings section 2-89 recording streaming and retention of county board and committee meetings. and sections 2-90 to 2-100 reserved was referred to the executive committee.

Item number seven, introduction of resolutions and ordinance for first reading and referral.

Resolution number 2025-73 by public works parks and facilities committee authorizing acquisition of rightaway for a highway improvement project in county trunk highway C in the village of Mount Pleasant. Ordinance number 2025-74 by Finance and Human Resources Committee amending the Rine County Code of Ordinances Chapter 2, Article 3, Division 4, Settlement of Workers Compensation Claims. Resolution number 2025-75 by Finance and Human Resources Committee authorizing a three-year agreement from 2026 through 2028 with Honeywell Building Solutions for service and maintenance of building door access control system at Jonathan Dela Grave Youth Development and Care Center for a total of 82,572.78. Resolution number 2025-76 by Finance and Human Resources Committee authorizing a five-year agreement from 2026 through 2020 with Spectrum for Internet Services at the Rochester Highway Department shop location for a total of $11,400. Resolution number 2025-77 by Finance and Human Resources Committee authorizing a memorandum of understanding with the town of Norway for use of two empty bays at the Wind Lake Fire Station number two with share of twothirds of the utility cost from February 1st, 2026 through January 1st, 2027 and use of sufficient funds within the capital 2026 budget. Resolution number 2025-78 by Public Works Parks and Facilities Committee authorizing application and acceptance of outdoor recreation trail aids county snowmobile trail aids funding through the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in the amount of 49,311 and transfer funds within the parks 2026 budget and resolution number 2025-79 by public works parks and facilities committee in support of the rine county trail crossings planning Objection.

Item number eight, communications and claims.

Number one, resolution supporting the renewal of the Nol Nelson Stewardship Fund from Winnebago, Marathon, Outer Gaming, and Green Lake counties in the city of Wasau. Number two, resolution authorizing missing, excuse me, authorizing Washington county's withdrawal from Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, known as Super PAC, from Washington County. Number three, notice of public hearing regarding the proposed MMSD rules. Chapter 11, discharge regulations and enforcement procedures from the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District. Number four, request for information for a determination of the adequacy of warning devices in the exemption of nine public cross crossings of the Union Pacific Railroad Company tracks in multiple counties and for a determination of the adequacy of warning devices of the Union Pacific Railroad Company tracks with US Highway 14 in the city of Jamesville Rock County from the office of the commissioner of railroads. Number five, state trunk highway map system for rine county from the division of transportation infrastructure development. And under six, investigation on the commission's own motion to review aggregation of retail customers to form demand response load reduction resources from the public service commission.

Items number one through six are referred to economic development and land use planning committee. Number seven, Rine County facilities management notable project status report for the month of December 2025. Item number seven is referred to the public works parks and facilities committee. Number eight, memo regarding the meals on wheels delayed enrollment for 2026 from the human services director, Hope Otto. And number nine, announcement of the openings of fiscal year 2026 to 2027 tele medicine equipment grant cycle from the public service commission of Wisconsin. Items number eight through nine refer to health and human development committee.

Number 10 is a claim against the county. Number 11 is a foreclosure or mortgage and numbers 12 through 41 are notifications from the United States Bankruptcy Court. Items number 10 through 41 are referred to Finance and Human Resources Committee and Corporation Council. Supervisor Wishaw. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd [clears throat] like to request copies of one, two, and five, please. Supervisor Horth. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to request copies, please, of 1 through 7. Supervisor Cole. Uh, copies of two and five.

Supervisor Coleman. Chairman. 1 six and 10, please. One, six, and 10. Yep. Supervisor Troutier. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, one, two, five, and 10. Supervisor Mcrenolds. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Copies of five and 10, please. Supervisor Hoffman. Uh, copies of one and 10, please. Supervisor Spencer. Two, five, and eight, please. Supervisor Kowski. Copies of one, three, and five, please. Supervisor Fant. Thank you, Supervisor. Copies 1 through six, please. Chairman,

thank you, Chairman. Copies of three, five, and 10, please. And then I I would like two and 10. Any further requests? Seeing none, we're going to move on. Communications item number nine, communications from the county executive. Report number 2025-51 by county executive making appointments to the local emergency planning committee was referred to the government services committee. Supervisor Capillian government services has yet to meet. So uh we if we could ask for a deferment on this one. Well granted. Thank you.

Super item. Go ahead. Report number 2025-53 by county executive making appointment to the rine county board of health was referred to the health and human development committee. Supervisor Miller.

Thank you Mr. Chairman. In order to expedite this, I would uh like to ask the uh health and human development committee to make a recommendation tonight to the full county board. And I will read the report so the public knows what we're talking about. This report by the county executive making an appointment to the Rine County Board of Health. A vacancy exists on that body in the role of the medical advisor. This role was previously held by the late Dr. Mark Deek to fill this vacancy. I hereby appoint for a term expiring on December 31st, 2030, Dr. Margaret Hennessy. Dr. Hennessy has been a practicing pediatrician since 1999 and has served the Racine community throughout her entire career at Ascension All Saints. She has been a long-standing partner to the Racine County Public Health Division, contributing her expertise to the fetal, infant, and child death review team as well as the home visiting stakeholders group. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Dr. Hennessy provides immunization guidance through her walls with Ascension Healthcare, Wisconsin Council on Immunization Practices, and IMU I immunize Wisconsin. Her dedication to improving the health and well-being of Racine County residents aligns closely with the goals of both the public health division and Racine County. She looks forward to continuing her service and collaboration as a member of the Racine County Board of Health. I ask you confirm this appointment. Sincerely, Ralph Maliki, County Executive. What is the pleasure of the committee?

As this appointment, second. We have a motion and a second to recommend confirmation. Any discussion from the committee? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? committee does recommend and so I would move to the full county board that this nomination be approved.

We have a motion a second to uh make the appointment to the uh health department committee or the health health board. Are there any questions or comments? It's a majority vote, voice vote. All in favor say I. Opposed. Motion's carried. Next, we have report number 2025-55 by County Executive making an appointment to the Veterans Service Commission. That's referred to Health and Human Development Committee. Item number 10, standing committee reports containing recommendations on items referred.

There are no reports. Item number 11, second reading of resolutions and ordinances. Under majority vote, we have ordinance number 2025-70 by Finance and Human Resources Committee amending Rine County Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2, Article 5, Division 2 Departments. Supervisor Troutier.

Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh resolution 2025 um requiring a voice majority vote pertains to the amending the ordinance just stated by the county clerk at our fine FHR meeting. This was approved unanimously. I have attorney Michael Lansorf and director Sarah Street here to make comments about this change. Mr. Chairman, yes. Cook that. Got a motion to adopt. We have a motion in a second. Does the corp council want to start us off?

Sure. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good evening. So, uh, the ordinance modifications before the board this evening fall generally into what I would characterize as two categories. Uh, the first category is largely housekeeping. Uh the board will recall that in the course of the 2026 budget authorization uh unfunded positions were effectively eliminated. Um so that included the chief of staff which has for several years been unfunded. Uh the diversity officer position which has been unfunded. Um and so to reflect that these positions are no longer authorized, the ordinance has been modified to strike references to those positions. Uh similarly, you'll note that at section 2 uh 266 that was modified uh several years ago to reflect that W extension falls the direction and supervision of the human services department. That's what's reflected in the the duly authorized budget as well. However, uh we noted in the course of this cleanup that section 22 276 had not been changed uh to reflect the same. it reflected the old model where that was part of the um I believe it was the county executive or uh within the chief of staff um there was a culture affairs uh group and so that is has been modified. So that's what I would characterize as the housekeeping portion of this ordinance. The other more substantive provision of the ordinance deals specifically with facilities management. If authorized, it would return uh the facilities management division from corporation council where it presently sits uh to the public works uh parks and facilities um uh and development services division or department where it had previously uh rested. Uh some of you may recall that

it was in the course of the 2020 budget uh that the facilities management then known as buildings and facilities uh was moved from the public works department where it had long been um seated to corporation council. Um there were some operational challenges facing that division. Um staffing uh was a real challenge and uh it was made all the more difficult because public works is housed in an entirely different building from uh buildings and facilities or facilities management. Uh corporation council uh then and now uh worked and and continues to work very closely with facilities management. uh they deal extensively with risk management, uh contracts, uh things of the like, things that have um legal implications and and very much fall within the the purview of of corporation council. Um and while we're very proud of a lot of the gains of that division, um it is is always, you know, something that can be improved uh as as all departments can. And so in the course of the 2026 budget, uh many of you you will remember that it kind of presented itself as as even more of a challenge with corporation council. It's tough, you know, wearing the corporation council hat while also overseeing a division that can be subject to to scrutiny. And so partly with that in mind, but also the county executive highlighted this is something very early in his term that he wanted to eventually return. Um, Rine County, to my knowledge, is the only county in the state where corporation council oversees facilities management. Um, I don't know any of my counterparts who oversee a facilities manage department and probably for good reason. Um, so with all of that in mind, while I expect that the corporation council, if approved, would continue to work very closely with

facilities management, if authorized, um, this ordinance would be modified to return it back to public works, would be supervised and overseen by the public works department. We have tremendous teams in place both within uh public works under the leadership of director Bame um and within facilities management under the supervision of new superintendent Mike Elzzinga that I have every confidence that they'd continue to operate a very high level and hopefully see further improvement. So with that I'm happy to address any questions.

Are there any questions comments? Director Street, did you have any comments on this? No. Seeing none, we have a motion put put forward. It's a voice majority vote. All in favor say I. Opposed. Ordinance is passed. Now in our group of twothirds majority vote would be resolution number 2025-65 by finance and human resources committee authorizing the acceptance of community policing development microrant in the amount of $169,600 and transfer of funds within the sheriff's office 2026 budget resolution number 2025-66 by finance and human resources committee authorizing the elimination of one FTE support services coordinator N126 and two FTE youth and family case manager N125 creation of one FTE Youth and Family Services Supervisor E060 and one FTE Youth and Family Lead Case Manager N126 effective January 24th, 2026 and transfer of 71,452 within the human services 2026 budget. Resolution number 2025-67 by Finance and Human Resources Committee authorizing the acceptance of Wisconsin Department of Health Services Grant in the amount of $187,500 and transfer funds within the public health 2026 budget. Resolution number 2025-68 by Finance and Human Resources Committee authorizing the acceptance of a national network of public health institutes data modernization in medial no medical league sound can't say it medical legal death investigation offices grant in the amount of $19,984 and transfer funds within the medical examiner 2025 budget resolution number 2025-69 by finance and human resources committee authorizing a fee schedule change for environmental health lodging

fees due to the revision of state administrative rude ATCP72 and resolution number 2025-71 by finance and human resources committee authorizing a tentative agreement between Rine County and the rine county deputy sheriff's association for the years of 2025 through 2028 adoption Mr. Chairman second motion's been made and seconded supervisor trier yes uh thank you Mr. Chairman, I am requesting um special consideration for uh resolution 202571 from the board.

And I'd like to group together the remaining um 202565 66 67 6. We start with 202565

65. We'll start there. Um this pertains to a grant of 169,600 from the Department of Justice. The grant is for equipment is an investment in Racine County's public safety strategies and long-term capacity to prevent and respond to violent crimes through technology and evidencebased information. I have Captain Evans here to continue the discussion. This runs from 101 of 25. So, we're three months behind. No. Uh, this was not on behalf of our sheriff's department. It took a while for the Department of Justice to get it to us. And it runs through 9:30 of 27. questions for Captain Evans.

That is the right sound. It's a beautiful sound. Some supervisor, [clears throat] thank you. Captain Evans, I think you can probably somewhat anticipate my question. I'm assuming that these funds were properly earmarked in the 2026 budget considering that years or that portion of this total cost. Is that correct? This is a new software and some hardware that's part of a grant that's a non-match fund. So, it's not even part of the budget. Yeah, this is all non-match grant funding that's just additional.

So, to offset any additional questions, it's also something at the end of the contract term, I have been very very clear with the vendor. I want to be able to just walk away. If I can't refund it through grant, I can just walk away from it. So, if I seeundred rounding off $170,000. Let's just call this $85,000 a year. Um, is that a new expense to the 26 budget that wasn't there or is the grant going to subsidize all of that? The grant subsidizing everything. Thank you. Y Supervisor Spencer.

Oh. Um, hi. I'm asking if you would just um specify a little bit more about the community policing development part of it. So specify a little more

what exact are you asking? Community policing is a a massive thing that we use. It's a huge grant funding source that uh the DOJ puts out that allows us different access to funding both from personnel standpoints to technology and others that we utilize in order to try to reduce violent crimes and other crimes within our community. As we know, all crimes in our community nowadays involve some form of technology. I've been in front of this board several times recently talking about this, right? This is a uh this company is creates some of the tools that we use to process that ginormous amount of data in a more efficient and rapid way so that we can bring faster case resolution sometimes so we can even get resolution.

Any further questions? What is the technology exactly? Supervisor Coleman. Sorry. Look, I was just looking at him and I just felt it. Sorry. Um, it's okay. So, what is the technology um part of it? So, this this technology is called Pathfinder through Cellbrite. Uh what this does is it compares the data that we have in a case to look for crosses that we wouldn't see easily or that would take us hours, weeks, months, however long to go through that crazy amount of data. Your phone on your desk is 128 gigabytes.

If you've ever downloaded that just to like move your pictures from your phone to your computer and then to try to go back and find the photos, it's very complex right now. Imagine text messages, voice messages, you know, notes and everything else nefarious that somebody might hide in their phone for part of their criminal dealings. And we need to be able to rapidly get to those very specific, very granular things and connect that maybe between a network of people. Often people don't commit crimes in silos. This allows us to make those connections rapidly using technology. Oh, okay. Thank you. Sorry,

Supervisor Troutier. And and just a a note here, the equipment is what we are obtaining through the grant. Celebrate Guardian, which is a licensing and onboarding for 47,500 and Celebrate Pathfinder is licensing and server infrastructure for 122100. I could inject here. Okay,

that was what we wrote the grant for. there's potentially and likely going to be modifications to the grant. I've already talked with the grant administrator. They're okay with our modifications. The problem being if I were to go with Guardian, I create something that our team is going to have to ingest data into and we would have to have that in perpetuity. I can't rightly come before you without a funding way to pay for that and say now I want to use this and use it in perpetuity. So we move back from that. I increased in another side of this. So right now what we're asking for is just to accept the grant. I'll come back to you with the contract and I'll explain all the details of the contract, but we're leaning heavier on the side of Pathfinder. So it it'll be more on one side, but you are correct in stating that this does buy a server. This does cover all of the costs for the server and the setup and it covers all the costs of the software.

Thank you, Supervisor Cole. Is there kind of a plan when once you implement this of kind of trying to keep track of how much time and efficiency this brings you versus, hey, we got this and sped us up and everything's grand.

I'm going to have to spend some time thinking about if there's a way I can report that back cleanly. I I so I do foresee us being able to say that the discoveries that were there were quicker, but to be able to clearly articulate that I found the needle in the haststack faster than I would have found it before would it's hard to say, right? I mean, it just don't know when you'd find the needle. Maybe I would have found it when I first started looking or maybe it would have taken me longer. But what I can say over the course of using it for these two years, I should be able to tell you that we're consistently seeing faster turnarounds or we're seeing cases that are spreading further and we're we're either preventing more victimization or we're getting more um resolution to more cases. So I I think we're going to beble to have articulable stories for you. How I'm going to be able to put that into a data set, I'm I'm not positive, but let me spend some time thinking about it. So, if you just an idea of like if you can take a couple where you get a phone, give it to an officer, have them go through, see how long it takes, and then put it in.

I wish it was that simple. They're just nothing's nothing's apples to apples. Okay. You know, I mean, it it I it's an it's an idea and we can we can talk about it. I'm not sure. I'd like to get you something that is reasonable that I can stand behind. Um, let me think about it a little bit. Any further questions? Supervisor Troutier. Resolution 202566. 666. Thank you, Captain Evans. That uh addresses several staffing adjustments to streamline operations and enhance service delivery in our child welfare program.

[sighs] And it's due to the creation of the wellness connect that these changes will provide necessary leadership and oversight and support staff retention. So changes have been made for the wellness connect program and uh I have um Jeff Langley here to address any questions about these changes in staffing. Good evening, Jeff. Good evening. Were there any questions right off the bat?

Supervisor Horth. Thank you. Jeeoff, just one question. The budget got completed two months ago and we're now asking for there to be some changes in something. Didn't we anticipate this when we did the budgeting process? Yeah. So, I can address that. When the budget was being when the budget process was ongoing, this was caught. This should have been in the budget request for 2026. This was an oversight and it got caught, but it was too late. Everything had been printed and uh so it was talked about that we would just come back and amend this after the budget. Okay. I appreciate your honesty on that. Thank you. Any further questions,

Mr. Chairman? Supervisor Miller. Yeah. Maybe if Jeff could just give a brief overview um about the impact of the changes.

Sure. So through the budget process uh you and youth and family I'm speaking on behalf of Steve Bedwell tonight and and hope um youth and family and behavioral health services collaborated to create the wellness connect initiative which meant moving some positions from youth and family over to BHS and streamlining things. What happened was through that process one of the it left vacant a supervisor position. It left a few employee about 10 employees unsupervised essentially. And so what we wanted to do is convert the support services coordinator to the supervisor and um and then also we're going to streamline two youth and family case managers down to a lead position. So a net decrease of 1.0 FTE in that area. And um by doing that, that'll allow that lead person to engage in more staff development and support and training um and find some efficiencies that way and free up about $64,000. Any question? Any questions?

Thank you, Jeff. Stay up there, Jeff. Resolution [laughter] 202567 here.

Yes. Uh and this pertains to the grant of 187,500 obtained a grant obtained from DHS commencing 111 of 26 through 1231 of 26. The initiative will help deliver comprehensive traumainformed education and capacity building across maternal and family support systems. So, this will be used amongst a couple of different departments, I believe Jeff's area as well as Hope's area to help specifically strengthen provider capacity to address and prevent substance misuse and related risk factors. Expand education on risk factors for substance misuse. build capacity among home visitors and social workers with populations at risk for substance misuse and increase awareness of the local resources for prevention and support. Any questions from Jeff?

Like to make a comment on that, Jeff?

Sure. So this is this funding is federal funding from SAMA and it's coming from a pot of money within the SAMA which usually pays for treatment and substance abuse uh support. This particular pot of money is specific for prevention and prevention only. So they do not allow us to use this for any treatment for any screening. This is purely to strengthen capacity and work uh the upstream factors of substance abuse. Um so very very infrequently do we see funding come along that that encourages that upfront down or upstream uh support of people before they um end up struggling with addiction. So it's a unique funding opportunity for us. Uh grant starts January 1st a couple weeks ago. We actually do not have the contract yet from uh Department of Health Services, but uh it it does look pretty good as far as the the funding coming. So, we'll hit the ground running uh if approved.

Could you give an example of a program that might

Yeah. So, one of the things we're going to do is work one thing that hope uh director Otto really wanted to see within the um within uh human services department is more collaboration between the different divisions. And so this grant will provide the public health division the opportunity to be the lead on the grant, but also work with youth and family and behavioral health services to provide training uh with our partners from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee to better to better equip and support frontline personnel who are taking phone calls from the public um so that they are better equipped to identify need, make referrals, do it in a compassionate way, and do it in a way that's responsive. to the community. Uh we'll also work with there are different components to this grant. Another will be working with other providers in the community as well to uh remind and refresh people what risk fac what these risk upstream risk factors are for substance abuse, how to easily identify them and what to do about it. Um and that way we can get ideally people into treatment quicker uh earlier and have better outcomes that way. Supervisor Hor.

Yes. Thank you, Jeff. Um, so again, this grant is for $187,000 and it has not We haven't received the commitment yet. You're in the process of completing the paperwork. Is that correct? Correct. We received the commitment that we received as a notice of award that original notice of award was for $250,000. That was the original application amount. the the state decided to fund an additional grantee. So, they reduced everybody's award to 1875. Uh the state is committed to funding this project. They're just waiting for the funds from the federal government.

So, I would presume that none of this none of these funds are currently being spent or are not going to be spent until that is actually received or approved. That is 100% accurate. Thank you. Any further questions? Thank you, Jeff. Thank you. Resolution 202568

68 approved unanimously by the FHR committee on 123 of 25 a grant of $19,984 from the national network of public health to modernize and address technology needs for our racing county medical examiner. [sighs and gasps] This will involve the purchase of laptops for our deputy medical examiners, necessary maintenance, and upgrades to the daily operations that need to be done. These are used for investigations by the medical examiner. $19,984 in the form of a grant. questions of Jeff.

I don't think there's much to say about this. Nope. Onetime funding. One time funding. Thank you. Item number resolution number 202569.

Okay. This relates to a new state mandate changes based on ATCP72 specifically related to licensing and specialty lodging. Um so I it's believed that this came about with all the Airbnbs that are now out there and it may have come from the lobbyists from the hotel motel individuals. as I look over at one of my fellow county board supervisors smiling. [gasps] So, um yeah, these are the changes that have been made and these will be implemented I believe now. Correct, Jeff?

That is correct. They take effect on the on January 27th, I believe. Don't quote me on that. It's right at the end of January. that we will put them in effect with our new licensing year which would start for establishments looking to for a new license anytime after April and then again commencing with our normal licensing year which is July to June. These fees um we would have put in the 2026 budget. This legislative change came after we were the the county had deliberated on budget. So, this came literally probably a week after the county approved the the budget. So, we had to come back to we apologize for having to come back to you as uh on the

nothing we could do about that. So, so Jeff, with Airbnbs, they're being inspected by you now, right? And this would be a feat. And I know I've been at a meeting maybe a year and a half ago or two years where you have a list you have a company that lists the Airbnbs in Rine County. We do. Why don't you give give a little background on that real quick?

So airbnbs are also in in code known as tourist rooming houses. So Airbnb, Verbbo, uh that kind of thing. Yeah, the they're they're somewhat unique in that if you wanted to find out if a hotel was operating in your jurisdiction, you could go to a hotel's website and it would have their address. We would know that's in our jurisdiction. We should reach out, make sure they're licensed appropriately. Airbnbs and temporary or tourist rooming houses do not operate that way. You don't get the address until you purchase the rental. So there was a company we through a budget decision I think two years ago uh the county purchased it's proprietary software from a company it's granicus I think same company that uh hosts our website as a matter of fact they have proprietary software that basically combs the internet and can provide municipalities um a list of currently operating tourist rooming houses in their jurisdiction. The advantage of doing that is a making sure that you know these are meeting basic safety and and sanitation standards. Two um there is um tax revenue that's collected and room room tax I believe it's called. So that money is not being collected when tourist rooming houses are not being licensed or have been identified unless they're doing it proactively on their own. So this creates an accountability process where we have safe um healthy places for people to stay. The room tax is being collected and distributed to uh visitine helps us with that because I believe they're the ones who actually collect that and it gets distributed to the municipalities. So, it's a win for the tourist rooming house. They can say, you know, we're we're licensed. We're we're good to go. Win for the municipalities. Um, and when for public health, we can

get in there and do our job. Any questions? Supervisor Wish,

the website. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The website that we're using to find out who's in Airbnb, how how often is it updated? uh it's updated constantly and it's we have to uh renew with them annually uh and this we've been the the fee for that gets split with city rine because some of that data goes to their their air their health department so they can license their temporary tourist rooming houses visit rine chips in about $2,000 and the county covers about 8,000 annual how many there are oh I don't have that off the top of my head. Um I believe we licensed last year around 70

Mhm. 70 between 70 and 80 in our jurisdiction alone. That excludes the city. Are we contacting them or are they required to contact you? Uh we are contacting them as we learn about them and then we send a we send an introductory letter to those establishments and ask them to reach out. Most do. those who don't, we do a followup and then try to get a visit, an inspection scheduled. Supervisor Cole, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, are we anticipating that the tax revenue and the fees are going to offset the expense of the inspections on this?

Yeah. So, I'm glad you asked that. So, I'll go into our philosophy that we've had since come since since before we were with the county and since we've been with the county as the Rine County Public Health Division has always been that the environmental health program for licensing of establishments, you know, food, hotel, motel, pools, that that is a shared responsibility. And so, the fees do not cover 100% of the cost of an inspection. It's about half. And through our agreement with the uh Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, we're required to outline how we come up with our fees, what percentage of the program it pays for. Some counties put 100% of the environmental health program on the licensed establishments. Um I think Oakclair County might be one of those counties off top of my head. So that would mean if you look at our fees, they would need to nearly double to probably cover the cost of the program. There's a public good that, you know, a license establishment is they're making money, they're making a profit, but they're also providing a service to customers. We're there to make sure they can, you know, we're there to partner with them and help them do things safely. And we think that there's a shared shared good for the public that uh the the environmental health program be paid for by a combination of licensing fees and the tax dollars. So about half about half.

Supervisor Spencer. Yeah. Hi. Um help me out here. So you get a list or you go to a website and check it occasionally and then you find where the service we paid for. um their proprietary software combs the internet and provides us a list. Okay. So, we download it off of their their server and it gives us the the uh address, the municipality um contact information who the owner is. So, some of the Airbnbs or or tourist rooming houses are owned by people living out of state. So, we would send our letter to the owner, not the person renting the the unit, obviously. So,

so as county board supervisors, can we get copies of that list say every six months or something that so that we are aware of the Airbnbs and the the uh tourist rooming houses in our districts. Thank you. I'll make a note of that, Supervisor Horse.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um really for all board supervisors, too. I'm actually encouraged by this move and and would offer that while Jeeoff I know this adds another level of administration that you're responsible for, it also does a goes a long way toward potentially protecting our county because unfortunately the facilities that are being used for these transient stays, if you will, the Airbnb is not it's almost being used like the term Xerox now, but because it's not just Airbnb, there's a whole series of them out there. um unfortunately they have not been living up to that end of the responsibility as well as they probably should have protecting the interest of their visitors. So I'm encouraged by it. I would say this though, um, and I don't know the process of this and we can consider this in the future, but to me, if there's an inspection being done by the county on behalf of that facility to approve them, I'm not so sure why they aren't responsible to have to pay for that simply because it I they want to go ahead and rent it out, they're going to. And that's just the fee of the price of a business license just like anybody else would be getting charged. So, not for tonight, but certainly something I would be interested in furthering the dialogue on for consideration. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Any further questions or comments? So, we're This is a 2/3 majority vote. Thank you. And uh set us up.

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Come on. Technology. [laughter] I'm pretty sure it's unanimous, but I can't see the number. I think they're working on it at the very bottom. I think there you go. 18. Yep.

Yep. All in favor. All right. And then our last item which was asked for separate consideration is that resolution resolution number 2025-71. [music] Supervisor Troutier. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um this is a a tenative [sighs] uh memorandum of understanding between our Racine County Sheriff's Department and Racine County and the village of Sturdivan. I'd like deputy chief Widner to come up and go over some of the details uh of that uhou please. Mr. Chairman. Yes. Yes. Yeah. I I believe uh this is

Yeah. Resolution 202571 is for the uh Rene County Deputies Association contract. Ah I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Um, is there somebody here for this? Supervisor, excuse me, director and chief deputy whitener.

Hello. Good evening. Um, this has been a very long process, so I'm happy to be here tonight that we were able to come to an agreement. Um, this has been ongoing for a year actually to the date I looked at our initial meeting that we had to get the county executive Maliki up to speed and it was a year ago today. Um the county executive really had um two guiding goals for this contract and it was for fairness of both sides and also fiscal responsibility and this agreement reflects a balanced approach recognizing the essential and demanding work of our deputies while ensuring long-term financial stability for the county. Um we feel this contract is competitive um and it reflects our current market conditions and aligns county with comparable counties in our region. Um, we also believe this contract will assist us with uh retention and recruitment of other deputies in the the region. If you'd like to add anything or

No, as uh director street stated uh this is this process has been going on for about a year. Um I feel that uh both sides have really come together uh from the county as well as the deputies association to really establish a very equitable contract. Are there any questions? All right. Any other questions? Okay. I need a refresher. Oh, yeah.

Supervisor Pullman, I couldn't see. Sorry. Yeah, I need a refresher about this uh the agreement and all this stuff.

Sure. So, um the de deputies and the command staff of the sheriff's office are under a union. Um so, we do have to negotiate a contract with them. Um this the terms of this contract are for four years although it starts it'll be retroactive to 2025. So um at the end of each contract we have to come together both management side so myself um attorney Lansdorf um Ralph Maliki and Chief Deputy Widner um and then also the deputies association has a group of leadership as well that's on the bargaining team for them. So we come together, we exchange proposals and come to an agreement. So that's what you see before you is the new agreement.

Any further questions? Supervisor Horth. Yes, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. And and I'm sorry if I start to sound like the broken record, but my question is simple. the contract that is tentatively being agreed to were the amount of of the the expenses that were anticipated in this year's budget properly reflected to show the numbers in that contract? Yes. So for 2025 um a 2.5% increase was incorporated into the budget and for 2026 the 4% increase was incorporated into the budget. So there is a 4% increase that already appears in these numbers. Correct.

Thank you, Mr. Mr. Chairman, could I address that as well? Just in the interest of full disclosure, Director Street's absolutely correct that as it related to the base wages that 2 and a.5% for 2025 um and then I believe it's the 4% for for 2026, that's what was you know incorporated into and baked within the uh budget planning for those respective years. there are some discrepancies and I I just want to be transparent about that that there are some additional changes that are incorporated within the the contract that have or that aren't without a fiscal impact. Um we adjusted the the difference between certain ranks. Um and and those things, you know, despite best efforts, we can't plan for everything that's going to result from the the year-long negotiations. We make every effort to u but I just want to be fully transparent that while the base wages are accurately reflected from what was budgeted in 2025 and 2026 we couldn't necessarily capture every uh fiscal impact uh despite those best efforts and so there is going to be some level of discrepancy beyond those wages with [clears throat] that have if I may one more if that being is being the case then I guess my response would be okay we understand that but then there should be a way in which we can understand exactly what that impact's going to be

for the potential to offset those costs in other areas if necessary. I'm not sure if somebody from finance is here but I I believe that the fiscal note reflects you know some of those costs as well. But I do believe it is somewhat of an estimate because we can't predict the exact amount of overtime for example [clears throat] or you know there's changes to how many how much how much um deputies will be paid if they come in on a holiday and so that would be you know a situation occurs on the holiday and they get called in. So there are some factors that we can't account for exactly. So

I, you know, [clears throat] I think I've said in my previous comments about this, I fully understand the unexpected will happen. It will happen. However, we still have history that tells us roughly what we should anticipate. And so when the budgets were completed, I would have assumed assumed that those were the types of things that were being taken into consideration to and including by the way this contract which we already had a sense of what the numbers were going to be because if if someone says that these potential one-off scenarios of additional costs is going to be a dollar amount of X, well then I think being fiscally responsible, we'd want to take a look at all right, is there a way in which we can help offset that increase to try to help maintain our total numbers because otherwise we end up at the end of the year, overspending a budget, and dipping into a reserve account to try to offset it. So that's why I'm just being very targeted on it, not being critical, just trying to better understand how this all got approved and or for that matter, what can be done in the event we have to spend more because of a circumstance. That's all. Supervisor Spencer,

I just want to congratulate you on coming to an agreement. It takes a year. It's a lot of work and I'm glad that you and I die on this.

So, I have a question here on the fiscal note and it kind of relates back to the wage increase of 4% but then with the fringes added in, it's 5.1. Now, I know some of the fringes probably went up like state retirement took a pretty hefty jump this year for for law enforcement. So, is that 5.1 part of retirement and what else goes into making it going from 4% the actual wage increase to an average increase? And did we budget the average increase at 4% in the budget or is it closer to the 5.1%.

Um I without somebody here from finance I can't answer that specific question. I mean I think they did their best um estimate that they could and you are right some of the fringe rates did go up. Um our workers comp uh fringe rate went up. Um there were some other that that did go up.

Right. and and that and and that some of the some of the fringes that we increase the amount, you know, those are in the budget. Some of it, you know, and some of it like retirement we know about soon enough to put it in the budget. I'm just, you know, I'm And then I guess the second question I have is where do we go from here? Is this is this was what we're going to see? the final contract doesn't have to come back to us or

No, I believe we signatures and then we would um get it up online as our new contract and uh the deputies would get their retro payments. The payroll department would start working on all those calculations going back to 2025. Um so this is this is the final step for the county board. Correct. for this organization there. There's still the command staff which is a separate bargaining unit for the deputies association. Yes, supervisor Wish.

Thank you. Uh, I'd be remiss in not um congratulating you guys, but also not in passing uh along one of my constituents who's a deputy um as thanks for the board for uh the work that they did and the increase in the wage. It's much appreciated. Any further questions or comments? Supervisor Rossi.

Thank you, Chairman. Um Director Street, question for you. the this amount the total cost so for 2025 15 million700,000 and so on that how much of that is general levy I mean I know it's sub substantially paid for by the general levy but could you give close to a guess right now 70% 90% 100 yeah I don't I that's not reflected on the fiscal note you're saying I'm no did you hear the question. Um, Michael, I mean, I know that the fiscal note notes the projected assumption of 136 FTEEs.

Yeah, it's just it's just a matter of where's it, you know, is it is this fully funded by the general levy or are there other funding sources that cover this? I I can just based on my limited understanding that the deputies salaries are by and large if not exclusively covered by the levy, but I I can't vouch for that. It's a finance

I wouldn't hold you to it. Thank you. That's that's generally my understanding as well. And the second part of this question then is, you know, in 2028 we're looking at 8%. Um the general levy prior to last year's budget would raise anywhere between, you know, in the last five years, six years, 700,000 to 1.5 maybe 1.8 million. Um we're looking at between 2027 and 2028. 1.4 million alone in this contract. Is it concerning to you? Um I feel like it is what we have to do to be to remain competitive in this environment. But I agree that it is a large sum of money.

Thank you. I just would like to make everyone aware of this. You know, this is a big number. If if paid entirely by the general levy and that's what this appears to be, this alone would be the substantial portion of the general levy in well very quickly definitely in 27 and 28 2027 and 2028. So, just keep that in the memory banks. And uh I' I'd like to thank Supervisor HT, you know, for really calling some attention to this. And you can say you're a broken record. I'd like to be another broken record right alongside you with these items. I just want everyone to be aware, you know, we're making some commitments and u you know, things are already tight. Thank you. when um the contract was brought to the finance and HR committee, one of the questions that was asked was just about how we compare to Kenosha County with this contract. Um and I just for our top step deputy um in Kenosha County, they are paid um 7 cents less. So this really is in line with what where we need to be. So, at the end of the contract, I should by

Kenosha County has contracts out to 2028. Yes.

Okay. Any any further questions? Seeing none, I'll call a question. Super Coleman.

All have voted. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. Item number 12, reconsiderations of resolutions and ordinances from previous meetings and or actions on vetos. There are no items. Item number 13, reconsideration and of not of and or notices of intent to reconsider resolutions or ordinances. There is no notice. Item number 14,formational reports.

Report number 2025-56 by Finance and Human Resources Committee announcing the distribution of sales and use tax revenue for December 2025. Item number 15, miscellaneous businesses announcements and oral reports. I just want to remind everybody if they have any expense reports from 2025, see if you can get them to me by the next meeting because then it then uh the time runs out from closing the books on 2025 as a request by any other supervisor.

Yes. Very quickly, everybody should have a brochure on your desk regarding the winter workshop by the watershed protection committee. Uh there will be a winter seminar that's going to be held at the cotton exchange in Waterford on February the 6th. Uh again, wanted to make everyone aware of this. This is all part of uh not only of course watershed, but this is entirely quite a bit regarding the land, the farmers. Uh it tends to be a pretty good event attended by anywhere from 100 to 120 people. So, we certainly wanted to make sure that everybody was aware of that and uh both Supervisor Spencer and myself sit on this committee and uh we'd be remiss if we didn't try to encourage. Thank you, Supervisor Spencer.

And on that note, before you leave this evening upstairs, you can vote on Reine County Land and Water Conservation Committee's conservation poster contest. Um there's voting sheets up there. They um they've um grades four through six category and a seven through nine category. They were asked to make create a poster on soil where it all begins. So there's sheets up there explaining what to do and there's voting sheets and just put your sheet at the end of the line. So um there's pencils too. So that's a cool thing and it's kind of fun and the artwork is amazing.

World Traveler Supervisor Troier. Thank you, Mr. Thank you, uh, Mr. Chairman. I just want to bring to everybody's attention, I believe an email was sent out about the future of youth justice, the, uh, magazine that is WCA sends out. And uh please get a hold of your um elected official and support the mission behind the new the new youth justice center that we have on ThreeMile and Douglas and also um get a hold of WCA and let them know you're in support of it, please. Thank you.

Any further? Supervisor Caprellian.

Thank you. So we have some exciting news. Uh Rine Community Health Center and Outreach Community Health Center have uh partnered and we are opening up an FQC, a federally qualified community health center. It is on the Ascensions campus. So if you know where the emergency room is on the Ascensions campus on Spring Street, it is right across the drive from there. What is fantastic about this and for your constituents is it's access to quality health care for those who are underinsured or not insured. Um not to say if you are insured you can't go there but to have good quality access to health care is extremely important extremely needed in our rine community. So, it's a great partnership. Ascension or um outreach community health center based in Milwaukee who has partnered with us. Uh they have a great reputation as an FQC and especially uh focused on those experiencing homelessness. So, keep that in mind as you're out in the community and people who may need access to health care who don't have insurance, who are underinsured. So, there is going to be a soft uh grand opening. would love to invite you to it. That is uh Wednesday, January 21st and from 12:30 to 1:30. So, meet over uh if you'll see it uh if you um haven't got the press release, but just right by the emergency room, you'll see it right across the way. And now, just to for government services, as we did not have a meeting, but I need you to be aware next Wednesday, you all applications um are um are due uh this week. I believe this week or next week, but uh you will have

to do some scoring and so please please please pay attention to your emails. Take a look at the applications. 50 kids got nominated. So, thank you all to who have nominated those youth. Fantastic. It doesn't mean the youth will submit an application, but you will have a handful. Those scores will have to be in the day before our next meeting for government services. So the deadline is h uh February 4th and I think we meet on the 5th. So please uh take a look at your emails and get those in and thank you all who supported the program and nominated those youth. Any further questions?

Thank you supervisor Shakur. We are ajourned.