 I'd like to call to order the meeting of the Sheboygan County Board of Supervisors for Tuesday, June 21st, 2022. Are we certified in compliance with the open meeting law? We are. The agenda was posted on the 17th of June at 3 p.m. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Next is the roll call. 25 supervisors are present. All right. Next is approval of the May 17th, 2022 journal. Supervisor Brower. Thank you, Supervisor Brower. Supervisor Wagner. Second that, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Supervisor Wagner. As a reminder to all County Board supervisors, please speak directly into the microphone or when you speak or it won't be picked up on the recording, okay? Is there any discussion regarding the journal? Seeing none, please vote. That motion is approved unanimously. Next is consideration of appointment by Executive Committee. To Glacierland Resource Conservation and Development Council, the reappointment, Al-Basman. Supervisor Gehring. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move to concur with the appointments. Thank you, Supervisor Gehring. Supervisor Brower. I will second the motion. Thank you, Supervisor Brower. Under discussion, seeing no discussion, please vote. That appointment is approved unanimously. Next is consideration of appointment by County Administrator. Also to Glacierland Resource Conservation and Development Council, the reappointment, Julie Sudelka. Is there a motion? Supervisor Clark. I move to approve the appointment. Thank you, Supervisor Clark. Supervisor Brower. I second the motion. Thank you, Supervisor Brower. Under discussion, seeing no discussion, please vote. That appointment is also approved unanimously. Next is presentation. We have Craig Thompson, Department of Transportation Secretary on Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good evening. I know you have a very full agenda tonight, so I won't try to take up too much of your time, but the administrator had asked me if I could come and give a little bit of update on where we're at with transportation and with the federal money that's coming in, so I really appreciate the opportunity. And again, I will try to be brief. So if we look at, I should say this, before I start that, I was going to be coming to speak here tonight, and the Northeast region folks, of course, the region you're in, reached out to me and asked if I was going to be speaking. And I said yes, and they asked if they could provide me a couple of things that they would like that I said, and I said sure. And so they share those with me, and I'm not going to go through all of the bullet points they had, but they really wanted for me to impress upon you that your Highway Commissioner, Greg Schnau, is the model that they hold up to all the other counties in the region, whether it's on routine maintenance, whether it's on the use of liquid brine, whether it's just on whenever they need anything for him being ready to go. So I'm not going to tick through all the things that they have, but just rest assured that the people in our region are very, very happy that they hold Cheboyka County up really as an example to other counties in the area. So if you see any of our regional people, Colleen or Tambuco, to make sure you let them know that I did, in fact, tell you that, that the great job Greg's doing, and we really do appreciate that because our partnership with counties is just absolutely paramount to doing work here in Wisconsin. You know, one of the things that I think you probably know, but a lot of the other secretaries across the country, I've been part of it upon them, I think they all know it. Now, we're the only state in the country that has the model that we contract with counties to do maintenance on the state highway system. And so when I talked to a lot of folks and they talk about workforce issues and all these different things at the state level, you know, that's one area. I said, we don't have those, and they're like, what are you talking about? So we actually, and it's historical, it goes back over 100 years that we contract with counties to do the maintenance on our system. So our relationship with counties is just so very important. And so the fact that your county is held up in this region is really an example of the others I think is really a testament to the leadership in your county. So briefly, as far as in Wisconsin where we're at with transportation, I don't want to go back too far, but I do want to just say that, you know, prior to when Governor Evers ran for election, he talked about fixing the roads, made it part of one of the three things that he had run on. And part of the reason for that was we had gone several decades without new investment in our transportation system other than increased borrowing, really since the Thompson administration, through the Doyle administration we had and through the Walker administration we had. And it had been really the issue that had held up a lot of budgets. There had been a lot of debates within the same entities, within the same party, a lot of disagreement. So the very first budget that we started, we were very happy to be able to reach agreement with the legislature to pass the first ongoing investment in transportation, again over decades, over $400 million of new and ongoing revenue that would go in. And where all of that money went, that entire upper went into really two spots. It went into, well, the one area, general areas, went into fixing what we have. It went into either the State Highway Rehabilitation Program, which is the program that we use to simply maintain and update our two-lane state highways. And it went into local aides, whether General Transportation Aides or local improvement programs. So that's where the entirety of that increase went. And so we were very excited about that to begin rolling that out. And then, of course, COVID hit, right? And you all were dealing with it. We all had to have workers go home overnight. And we had a lot of decisions that we had to make. And one of those was, and we hosted a lot of calls with our 10-neighborhood states. What do we do in terms of our projects moving forward? Do we delay some projects? Do we defer some projects? Do we cancel some projects? And a lot of states did. And we decided that we were going to do our best working with the locals, with our contractors, with our engineering consultants to do our best to move forward. And that first year of COVID that we were in, we had 378 projects that we had scheduled. And we had 370 projects that were finished. And we were very proud of that. And actually, while traffic was down, we were able to actually realize some significant savings because we could do some adaptive scheduling and close some more lanes and actually be able to finish some, you know, head of schedule and under budget. And then the following budget, we were able to reach concurrence with the legislature again to not have the same level of increases before, but to make sure that we kept pace with that higher level of cost of inflation for our state level and then actually some more uppers for locals, another $100 million in the local road improvement program and some increases in general transportation aid. So over that four-year period for the locals, it's been about a 30% increase in funds for transportation between general transportation aids and local road improvement program. And we know, I mean, I know you're all putting it to great use, so I appreciate that very much. And then on the heels of that, as we talked about, they're at the federal level, they passed the bipartisan infrastructure law. And so while President Biden signed that into law in November of the previous year, the way it works at the federal level is that just because he passed it does not mean it becomes law and that we get the money. Congress has to appropriate the dollars. And we know how Congress works, or it doesn't sometimes. And so it took quite a while, and they didn't appropriate the funds until mid-March. It was actually part of the Ukraine package. And so that became somewhat problematic for us and all the other states in the country because the way federal funding works for transportation is when they give money for an authorization, which is generally, by the way, five years. So that bill they passed gives us five years of certainty. And it's overall about a 25% increase just in our formula funds, not to mention other areas. So a significant increase. But when the federal funds go out to a state, the state has to obligate those federal funds within that federal fiscal year, or you lose them. And then in the fall, the federal government goes through and states that were unable to obligate, they redistribute those dollars to other states that are able to. And we've been very successful over the last two years. Between the two years, we were able to get $100 million of redistribution dollars from other states that had not been able to. But the federal fiscal year ends September 30th. And so for them to not appropriate those dollars till March 15th, then we had a way to get our final tables. And then state law here says that as the secretary, I had to submit that federal plan to the Joint Committee on Finance because it was a different amount of federal money than what was anticipated when the state budget was passed. So we still had to do that. So submit that, they approved it, and we are moving forward. But I tried to go out to Washington, D.C. with some of my colleagues to say, we didn't get this money until later. How about we move that deadline out until later? And I was woefully unsuccessful in that effort. So we've got a very compressed timeframe in this first year of that five-year period to obligate those funds. At the state level, that's really not that huge of a hurdle because we had state projects that were what we call on the shelf that were ready to go that we could assign those dollars to. But for the locals, much more challenging. Local governments generally don't have projects on the shelf, not going to expend a lot of dollars to get a project ready if you don't know that it's going to go forward. They're not evergreen and you can't just leave them there. So we did try to use that time between November when the president signed the bill and March to April when we were able to get those out. To begin, we worked very closely with the county's association, the League of Missapalities and the Towns Association to say we would like to get a lot of this money to you, but you're going to have to have the types of projects we need ready to go and this first year is going to be very challenging. And they worked with people like Adam and a lot of other leaders across the state to really try to get that word out. And then we actually solicited for projects even before we got approval on the dollars just trying to get as ready as we could. A lot of states decided in this first year just to put it on state projects because it was just too difficult to get it out to the locals. But with that being said, I know it's been a very heavy lift for counties, for towns, especially for smaller towns, villages and municipalities because for this first year one of the things I stressed is it had to be, since we had that very, very short time frame, it had to be projects ready to go. We couldn't have somebody come in the project and say we still need some real estate, we still need utility movement, we've got railroad, we would never be able to get that done. So it had to be projects for this first year that were ready to go. And so I know for our folks at the local level it's been a lot of work. I know for your folks at that level it has been a lot of work, but I am happy to say we've gotten those, we've approved. Not everybody got the projects they put in for in the first round and I will get to that in a moment, but I do believe we're going to be able to expend all those. Another thing I did say though is if a project would fall off or something we will take that money then and put it on a state project so that we don't leave any money on the table for when the feds go around and do distribution. But overall it was about a 25% increase in what we call our formula funding, our usual money that we get for roads and bridges. It was about a 40% increase for transit, we had about a 50% increase for airports. So significant across those different areas. And then in addition to the formula money we got, states got separate what they called special bridge funding. And in Wisconsin, and I guess this depends on how you want to view it, it could be either glass half full or half empty depending on you. We actually were on the lowest rung of the amount that we got because it was based about the number of deficient bridges that you have in your state. So in some ways a good thing in other ways, we could have gotten more, but we got significant money outside of that formula. That's $225 million for the next five years or about 45 million a year up to the state's discretion on where to use that. And so I sat down with our folks and we looked at Wisconsin. And of the bridges in Wisconsin, the locals have about 9,000 bridges. There's about 6,000 bridges on the state system. Of the 6,000 bridges we have in the state system, about 2% of ours were rated in poor condition. Of the 9,000 at the local level about 10% were. So we made the decision and the legislature concurred when we sent to the joint committee on finance to take 100% of that bridge money and give it all to the world. So the good news about that bridge money is it does not have that same type frame that that other road and other projects money have. We've got a four-year rolling average on each one of those years to get that bridge money out. So if Greg has bridge projects around here, you're going to have a very good chance of getting them funded to be moving forward. And that's at an 80-20 split. But I guess as far as that federal money goes, I just really want to say that it's been kind of here on fire for everybody. But I think it was because we tried to get as much out to the locals as we could under this. And I know it's been a lot of work and some folks put in and didn't get anything in that first round and may have felt frustrated. That is the first year of five years. And I think if you've put the work in and you've got projects ready, you're going to be very confident whether it's yourself at the county level or I know you work very closely with your underlying municipalities within Sheboygan County that I think over the course of those five years, most of those projects that people are able to get through the process will get funded. So we feel pretty good about what we were able to do at the state level, which actually put us in a position when we received these federal dollars when I talked about having projects on the shelf at the state level we could put them on. We could have been in that position if not for the two budgets that we had at the state level before that. So we think with this federal money coming in, we're going to be able to do a lot of good. The other thing outside of the road money, the bridge money, the transit money, and the airport funding, there was also funding for electric vehicle charging stations. And so for Wisconsin, we're going to be getting about $78 million over the next five years. We haven't expended any of that yet. We need to submit a plan to the federal government in August about how we propose to deploy those funds. And we have to demonstrate to them that along what we call our alternative fuel corridors, which are generally our interstates, and then we're proposing a couple other areas that are non-interstate in the northwestern part of the states that we have coverage, that we would be able to demonstrate that we would have charging stations at least every 50 miles along those corridors and go more than one mile off of the exit. So we're working at putting together that plan right now. It'll be administer, the folks actually hosting those and doing those, I think will be largely private sector, quick trips, hotels, whatever it may be. And so when we submit our next federal plan, that's when we'll look at starting to expend those electric vehicle charging money. And then in addition to all of those monies that we know Wisconsin is getting, there's also a significant amount of money that's available for competitive grants. And so there's some that are specifically available just for locals, safe streets, some other ones like that, that we wouldn't be the entity applying for, but we are trying to make sure we're reaching out as much as we can to be as helpful as we can if there's resources that we can provide for locals that are putting in for that. But there's other various grant opportunities that are out there, so we're going to do what we can, both at the state level to be as aggressive as we can applying for those funds, but also trying to provide the resources to the extent that we can for locals that are looking at applying for those grants as well. So like I said, I know you've got a very full agenda tonight. I tried to cover the hope I didn't talk too fast, but just kind of wanted to give you a brief update on where we are at the state and with the federal funding coming in. So I appreciate the opportunity very much. Thank you. Thank you, Secretary Thompson. Next is public addresses. All right, first we have Deidre Malay of Sheboygan talking about the ARPA resolution. Is that good? Okay. Hi there, I am Deidre Malay. I am the Executive Director of the Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce. I want to say thank you to Administrator Payne, Chairman Koch, and the County Board Supervisors for the opportunity. Your willingness to inclusively seek community input and your recommendations and support of developing and implementing the ARPA Task Force process has been phenomenal. I had the pleasure of chairing the Workforce Development Task Force participating on the Broad Bend Task Force, and although not officially participating, there was certainly partnership and support of the Affordable Housing Task Force as well. I would also like to thank all of the Task Force members for their willingness to step in and give of their time and talent. For more than five months, and in between regular meetings, they spent a lot of time in between on research and additional homework, if you will. So really, their willingness to give that much time to this process was also phenomenal. Bringing these groups together not only encouraged diverse thought around the table, but it also encouraged problem solving with intention to tackle the mountains before us. I live and breathe workforce development in my professional role. I'm very excited to do it all the time. I understand the need for and importance of filling the positions in Sheboygan County, providing relief to our employers so they can operate and continue growth in our region, and removing barriers to access so that workers who are looking for an opportunity to live, work, and play in some place better, Sheboygan County, will have those chances. Because of that, I'm very excited about the recommendations and thoughtfulness of the Workforce Development Task Force, and also excited about what the other task forces were able to accomplish as well. Childcare, affordable housing, broadband, behavioral health, and transportation must all be working in unison because not one can be successful or fulfill its mission without the others. The process that we embarked on in 21 and 22 was just that, collaborative and forward thinking. And as a community with a growth mindset, great quality of life, and a significant number of opportunities available, the strength in our collaborations and the ability to leverage these resources and remove barriers to access is what sets us apart from other communities. So with that, I'd like to encourage the county board to support the proposed resolution, and thank you again for including me in this process and for your consideration. Next is Kate Baer of Elkar Lake regarding the ARPA resolution. Good evening. My name is Kate Baer. I have worked as an executive director in the social sector in Sheboygan County for over 18 years. Most recently, the last two and a half as executive director of United Way of Sheboygan County. I would like to start by taking a moment to thank the county for establishing a process that sought out community input and really valued inclusivity and what these experts and each of these task force brought in as experts. So thank you so much for this opportunity. I was co-chair with the behavioral health and crisis task force along with Matt Stripmatter and just like many other task forces, again, we worked really hard to find representation and in our case alone, we had 23 individuals representing 16 behavioral health related organizations right here in Sheboygan County that analyzed the major gaps identified by recent community assessments and ultimately brought forth four recommendations, two of which you see in this resolution. So again, it was a group effort of a lot of individuals who live and breathe this work bringing in the people who benefit, right, who need it most. So I also participated in the broadband task force presented to the housing task force on the challenges faced by asset limited income constrained families and individuals. I sat on the workforce development task force as well a little bit and my colleague at United Way director of community development, Gina Cavalli, had the opportunity to co-chair and help lead the child care task force. So yes, United Way was proudly very involved in this inclusive, exciting and creative and meaningful approach. So I wanted to quickly highlight a few recommendations included in this resolution before you all. Again, these recommendations invest in our community's health and safety serving the most impacted by the pandemic, right? That's the goal here. So mental health, substance abuse, crisis response and barriers to accessing care continue to be of significant concern in this community, right? Violence in our community we're concerned about about violence everywhere. And so one of the amazing programs that we hope these ARPA dollars can help launch is the neighborhood social workers program. It works within the city of Sheboygan neighborhoods with the most significant challenges that families, the most significant challenged families and really builds neighborhood resiliency, self-sufficiency, reduces the likelihood of residents needing intense or emergency services ultimately at cost savings but ultimately in investment in humanity. They help with, this is a model that's already happening, right? In La Crosse and Dane counties and they can really help elevate families accessing and finding basic food, clothing, locate and stabilize housing, connect with local resources for parent, family concerns, behavioral health concerns, overcome barriers to transportation, employment and childcare, all things we're talking about tonight. And so there's already been neighborhoods identified where we get a lot of CPS calls. There's a lot of children who need our help and families who need our help and this type of program can really connect with the neighborhood and help elevate it. So I'm excited to help and hope that moves forward. Investing in our communities certainly continues with prevention and one thing connected to all of this is early care and education. So hiring recruitment specialists as well as inclusion specialists via an already well-established non-profit family connections, which is our community's childcare resource and referral agency. By providing these supports we will maintain current early care and education or childcare professionals in Schwoing County and we're going to reduce that burnout. It's really hard to work with families that are struggling and kids' behaviors and we're not retaining childcare teachers. So we can build all the childcare centers we want but not have people to work and work with our children and want to be there. So we need to pay a livable wage. We need to, again, if we're going to bring more families in through workforce development and through amazing housing initiatives, there's no place for the children to go to get the quality care and we're not in an economy where even if families wanted to stay home they often don't have that choice either, right? So we just, we really need to step up in our community and I'm really excited to looking at the innovative solutions that the Child Care Task Force came up with. You all know the statistics so I don't need to ramble on there but they're bad, right? So I will just comment real quickly on a few. As of January 20th when this was wrote and I think we even lost a childcare center since then, we had only 21 licensed group childcare centers and now we have 20. There are more than 357 known children on waiting lists in Sheboygan County. I also worked in early care and education for years and the chance of abuse of our children who are in unregulated childcare settings it's overwhelming. So roughly we have 200 of those almost 400 individuals really under the age of two that need childcare. So, you know, toddler's infants. Current wait list is just, it's incredibly daunting but I know with these proposed recommendations and with recruiting new childcare providers as well as inclusion specialists we can really address this problem in our community. All of these recommendations that will be discussed and brought forth tonight really do leverage additional resources. We all worked hard to look at that to look at if they were equitable and who we're serving in our county and they work in collaboration across multiple agencies and sectors. So with that, thank you again for the opportunity. This means a lot to our entire community. We have so much to be proud of and I encourage the county board to support the proposed resolution. So thank you for your consideration. Next is Kristen Stearns of Sheboygan regarding the ARPA resolution. It's like a yo-yo. Adam, Chairman Kosh, Tony Board Supervisors, thank you very much for having me today. I did not get to chair any of these amazing committees but I did serve on three of them. But first and foremost, I want you to know that my name is Kristen Stearns and I'm the CEO of Lakeshore Community Healthcare. I've been there nine years now and all of these initiatives and task forces that have been in place affect what we're doing at Lakeshore. So just think about that. Every single one of them affects what I do at Lakeshore Community Healthcare. And we serve over 7,000 people in Sheboygan County and 13,000 people throughout Sheboygan and Mantua counties. Secondly, what a progressive group to want to get community input of subject matter experts to really identify key areas in which dollars could impact our community in such a large way. Serving in multiple counties, I can tell you that this is not the process that has occurred in other places. In fact, little to no input has been asked of non-profit or other businesses within the community regarding ARPA funding coming in. So kudos to all of you for letting us take the time to really dive in and look at what could make a difference in Sheboygan County. With that, I was able to serve on the workforce task force, the housing task force and the behavioral health task force. And I just want to say that I really believe that the $11.1 million that is being looked at tonight, this investment is a small investment that can perpetuate what Sheboygan County can do over the years. So right, we're investing in a three-year process that really, I think, look at what that investment means over the long term. This is not just about the next three years. This is about the future of Sheboygan County. And I'm really excited to see things like a neighborhood social work program increase broadband access. Again, telehealth, telemedicine, hugely needed in our community, hugely needed for mental health, so how these connect and tie is just such a huge, you know, it really makes a difference. Workforce as an employer of 138 individuals throughout both communities, I can tell you that I actually have availability to hire 150 people right now, and we're struggling to hire. And so workforce and really creating a pipeline to get individuals into this community is so important. And I believe that once we get people here, how can you not love this community, right? Like, it is so amazing. So we need to get people here. We need to get people engaged in our community. We need them to have access to quality childcare. We need them to have access to quality housing and safe and stable housing. And so again, how all of these play really that continuum of what we need in Sheboygan County to make a difference. So I am not as eloquent as my two former people, but I am here to ask that you support resolution number one and invest in all of these amazing initiatives so that we can really create the best Sheboygan County as possible. Thank you. Next we have Gary Delmas of Sheboygan Falls regarding our resolution. Good evening. I am Gary Delmas, past chair and current vice chair of the SCEDC for the Sheboygan County Economic Development Corporation. Thank you Chairman Koch and Administrator Payne for the honor to speak tonight to the county board regarding the ARPA funding opportunities. The county created a task force in a funding recommendation process of which is being submitted tonight for your approval. The SCEDC formed a housing task force of over 20 participants, chaired by Don Hammond and myself. We had participants from the public, the private, the non-profit agencies involved in housing and a representative from the housing coalition. During the seven meetings that were held we discussed all aspects and the existing financial programs available. The SCEDC knew from the beginning that housing and the development of entry level single family homes would be a colossal challenge and would require major investments from the private sector. With this challenge we reached out to some of the county's major manufacturers and they stepped up big time. Through the SCEDC and progressive thinking and generosity of Johnsonville, Kohler Company, Masters Gallery and Sargento the forward fund was created. The forward fund is an $8 million fund funded 100% from the companies I just named and was established to help spur the development of entry level homes. The goal is to reduce the barriers to building entry level affordable housing for those under 120% of the county medium income, the CMI. In particular those between 80 to 120%. This is the underserved group. Our research indicated that there are many programs for those under 80% of the CMI but very little to serve the group that makes too much to qualify for these programs but not enough to afford the housing that's being built in the entirety of the houses on the market. The proposed $2 million in the county funding would work in concert with the already $8 million in the forward fund. In addition, the resolution in front of you also supports $500,000 towards the payment assistance program which is so desperately needed by first-time home builders. The forward fund and the county's additional $2.5 million will make a difference. I have lived here all of my life and I'm proud to say that Sheboygan County is my home. We have made tremendous strides and have made huge differences in the lives of Sheboygan County residents and tonight with your approval of this funding request we have the opportunity to do it again. I strongly request your approval of the resolution in front of you. Thank you for your wisdom and your forward thinking to make this happen. Good night. It's Damogalski of Sheboygan regarding the offer resolution. Chairman Koch, Administrator Payne and county board members thank you for the opportunity to speak with you tonight. If you do not know me I am Christopher Damogalski and I am blessed to serve as the chief of police in the city of Sheboygan. Over the past 12 years I appreciate having had the experience to work collaboratively with many individuals, multiple county departments and many non-governmental organizations to provide service, solve problems and help create and sustain a quality of life in Sheboygan County for most residents that is second to none. Your leadership, trust and support of the work that we do is a key part of the many successes that we enjoy. While we enjoy a great deal of success I think we can all agree that we have more work to do as there are many residents of our county who still experience multiple challenges on a daily basis. I offer my thanks to you for establishing a process that sought community input and encouraged a diverse range of proposals to come forward. I appreciate the opportunity to have served on and contributed to the behavioral health and crisis response task force. I would like to recognize Kate Baer and Matt Stripmider for their leadership and all the time and effort that they put into the task force. I'd also like to recognize all of the other members that served on that task force. As you can see from the speakers tonight really high quality members that really are looking out for the best interests of our residents. So thank you for that opportunity. Thank you for all the work that they put in and I would also like to recognize Jackie McGlowsky for her hard work, support and willingness to collaborate, break down silos and focusing on improving outcomes for our residents. I would ask for your support of the ARPA funds resolution. In particular I would share that as at least some degree responsible for the pandemic in my work, I've seen a significant increase in the really the amount of mental health and AODA issues that we deal with on a regular basis. I was recently interviewed by the Sheboygan Press and I would share with you the same thing that I would share with them that we're at a point where a large percentage of our calls for service so non-criminal events really are in those two categories and the amount of time that we spend responding to those incidents really prevents us from performing some of our key functions such as traffic enforcement and some of those things that if I go to neighborhood meetings are really the main concerns of our residents and so I would ask for your support of everything in the resolution that particularly my expertise would fall in that behavioral health area and I would tell you that both of the programs that are in there I believe will lead to a more comprehensive and coordinated system that will deliver better outcomes to our residents. In particular I believe those programs will allow us to establish better connections, build relationships and get to vulnerable people before they get in crisis and allow us to deliver those services that can make a difference in their life so thank you very much. Now I have Angel Berry of Sheboygan regarding the ARPA resolution. Hello, thank you so much for allowing this opportunity to speak I'll be very brief my name is Angel Berry I'm executive director of A Million Dreams we're a new non-profit and we're opening a 24-7 childcare center later on this fall I'm here to urge you to vote in favor of this resolution there's some amazing things it sounds like in all of them but being on the childcare task force myself I got to see firsthand how this all developed how it came together and how everybody really put their passion and their heart into it besides that I want to take a moment to implore you to not set this aside when we're done here today there is a childcare crisis throughout the entire country and Sheboygan County is not there are families that call every single week begging for childcare do you know anybody who's available I just want to go to work so we need to make sure to keep this at the county level and keep it in front of you and there needs to be more focus on this to come up with solutions that will help all of the families thank you That's it for public addresses The next is Letters, Communications and Announcements We have none Then the County Administrators Report Hey Mr. Chairman good evening I'm going to boil nine slides into two because you just heard from some incredibly eloquent speakers and I can't recall a time during my tenure where we've had this many community leaders come forward and I'll be pulling together to recommend and support taking action in our community so listening to the comments tonight was very heartwarming for me and I trust for you as well First I want to thank and acknowledge Secretary Craig Thompson for joining us that has a nice ring to a DOT Secretary I've known Craig for almost 30 years he used to work in the Wisconsin County Association and I can't tell you how lucky we are as a state to have him as Secretary of the DOT thoughtful, collaborative and gets things done we are so fortunate and as you all know one of the first things that Secretary Thompson said his eyes on were completing the Highway 23 project and we broke ground what's it been now about three years or so I lose track of time with everything going on but I'm sure we're going to be having one heck of a nice party this fall and celebrate success a little bit but Secretary Thompson and his administration stepped up and delivered and we thank you for that so thank you for being here this evening I also want to thank and acknowledge our affordable housing and our behavioral health and crisis response broadband development, child care transportation and workforce development task force chairs when we put this process into play last fall I think it was August 17 we reached out to some community leaders many of which you just heard from and everyone stepped forward so remarkable about Sheboygan County is people step forward and they get engaged and they want to be helpful and we get things done we problems all and Don Hammond, Gary Dalmas both co-chairing the affordable housing Kate Baer and Matt Stritmoder co-chairing the behavioral health and crisis response Chris Lewinsky our IT director chairing the broadband development Colleen Steinbrecher and Gina Covelli co-chairing child care Derek Mink chaired transportation and Dietra Martinez I got to get used to this new married name now chairing the workforce development group and as they all spoke to people were willing and able and enthusiastic about participating over 100 people step forward to participate 65 organizations participate I do not take pride in living in a community where you have that kind of engagement and leadership and community support I want to thank and acknowledge Kurt Brower and Henry Nelson who participated Verne Koch, Bill Gehring, Rebecca Clark Ed Procek and also former supervisor Nannick and Robert Zigglebauer all of these board members also volunteered to participate on these taskforces but as was summed up this evening the collaboration was just incredible key organizations our gentle foods were in our home Sheboygan County Housing Random Lake the SEEDC that was mentioned Lakeshore Community Health Care Center United Way Aurora Medical Center Health and Human Services Mental Health America Rogers Behavioral Health Plymouth School District Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce Family Connections, Master Gallery it goes on and on folks stepped up so I personally am proud to be your county administrator and proud to live in a community where we have this kind of engagement and people who care this much about our community and it's also heartwarming to hear the feedback from people who are operating Supervisor Tom Wager as you know serves on the WCA Board of Directors and he shared I think at the leadership forum and at our executive committee meeting that he isn't aware of another county that has engaged the community to the extent we have maybe it's happened but I'm sure proud of what we're doing here so thank you, thank you for your leadership and really making a difference in this community I'm not even pulling it up so nine slides to two the process it was back in August of 2021 that we convened these task forces the executive committee really did the heavy lifting so I want to thank Chairman Koch and all the members of the executive committee that were engaged they reviewed and ranked scored all of these recommendations they heard presentations in this very chambers from many of the people this evening they sought more input they ultimately unanimously proposed the resolution that is before you and it was unanimously supported by the finance committee so this is a historic county board meeting these federal ARPA funds hasn't happened before it may not happen again and you do hear from time to time that there might be communities or bad actors who aren't sure how they're going to use it or haven't done anything yet or doing everything behind closed doors I don't know but that's not how we roll here that's not how we operate here so thank you thank you all in fall for your leadership and thank you for your consideration this evening next is consideration of committee reports executive committee resolution number two is an authorizing sale of county property to Alcatel Lake's Road America Inc recommendation to adopt Supervisor Wagner thank you Mr. Chairman I'll move for approval of resolution number two thank you Supervisor Wagner, Supervisor Gehring thank you Mr. Chairman I will second that motion thank you Supervisor Gehring under discussion seeing no discussion please vote resolutions approve unanimously committee report resolution number two per DM report recommendations we'll need a motion for this Supervisor Brower make a motion to support thank you Supervisor Brower Supervisor Clark I'll second the motion thank you Supervisor Clark under discussion seeing no discussion please vote next is consideration of committee reports finance committee resolution number one regarding the American Rescue Plan Act funds number four recommendation to adopt Supervisor Wagner thank you Mr. Chairman I'll move for approval of resolution number one thank you Supervisor Wagner Supervisor Tostrodi thank you Mr. Chairman I'll second the motion thank you Supervisor Tostrodi under discussion Supervisor Speltz hi Mr. Chairman can I speak I just wanted to share some of my thoughts in regards to the ARPA funds and first and foremost I wanted to think all the people that did do a lot of work and this is my comments are in no disrespect for any of that I just have different thoughts and opinions on it so I just wanted to share that first of all I just I wasn't in favor of the community shutting down in the first place as far as businesses and churches and things like that people being you know forced to go through COVID mitigation measures I believe that this was an infringement on our constitutional freedoms and I also believe that people are more than capable of making their own decisions in regards to health and safety and any with any free monies I believe there's a lot of strings attached you know so that's a concern and I'm not in favor of I believe this is rather irresponsible in regards to the federal government to unload so much money I believe that has a lot to do with inflation and I'm not I'm not so convinced I mean I was I am very well aware of the situations of mental health concerns in the county I was a school social worker for years I've done this kind of work for about 30 so I'm well aware of that so I do understand the concerns I'm just not convinced that government programs is always the answer and I know this probably comes in opposition of much of what's said and again I this is no disrespect for you know the people that came forward and all the work work that people had done but I just needed to express my thoughts and my opinions so thank you Supervisor Smith Thank you Chair McCotch I don't know if I can have like a question answered but my my thought kind of goes to have a lot of these programs continue beyond 2024 and I'm just wondering how when the ARPA funds are exhausted how do some of these programs stay funded how do they keep operating what is there a plan in place to kind of continue on from this initial three-year window I'm not sure how to each one of the programs actually has in it how it would continue funding going forward I'm on slide number three the last slide of the nine so the recommendation this evening is to support buckets and the resolution you have obviously shows whether it's for the full three years or a portion thereof it was a little different based on the different task force recommendations but the Executive Committee then working with staff will develop agreements with organizations that can implement these recommendations so we have clear expectations goals accountability all of reporting requirements all of those details will have to be worked out but as I trust everyone's aware because all of this has been on our website for months all of the recommendations talk about defined time periods the ARPA funds need to be obligated by December 2024 and expended by December 2026 so in some instances this may be a program or initiative that you know the ARPA funds are going to continue on so will there be a change in scope at that time it's possible but what I'm hopeful for is that we will continue to see dollars leveraged and more opportunities to raise and lift expectations and for example childcare if we can get more people trained and in the field of childcare and we have good organizations for them to work in like to think that once they're employed they're going to stay in that field and if more people are able to take their children for childcare purposes more are going to be able to pay for that you got to have some teachers there first the work that our social workers are going to do we're working with the city of police I would like I hope that we're going to see some real impactful changes there and it's going to be so beneficial to our community that policy makers such as yourself and the city of we may have to reallocate other resources there because that is making such an impact in people's lives so that's what's really unique about these ARPA funds so often you receive a grant from the state or federal level and it's a one year grant here we have three to four years to implement and make a profound impact in our community and time will tell what kind of impact that is we've now heard from so many thoughtful leaders in the community I mean including companies like the Kohler Company and Bemis and Johnsonville and Sargento they didn't get involved with these processes and recommend these initiatives if they didn't feel it was the right thing to do so I hope that's helpful Supervisor Lanoff Hi, I'll do try to do justice I was familiar with this somewhat but in the last 48 hours I spent at least an hour looking at what this plan act actually is on the website and my interpretation of what I read is that it was a COVID-driven act by our legislation in Washington DC it's all over the place COVID many, many times mentioned in it and it was that about that and on the short that I was surprised at the length of what this was I guess maybe not surprised but many things that it mentioned that are health related that would be on the short tails of COVID I'm surprised because of that tonight I didn't hear from the speakers and I'm not being critical but I didn't hear anyone mention COVID, the word I heard a few things about nursing facilities, childcare workers that was what I read today in the actual act that I read those words childcare programs public health but there were some things that I heard that really didn't pertain to what I read about today so I'm not being difficult about this if anyone in this room or anyone listening wherever you are thinks I don't care about society that is not true I've been a mentor in our jail for inmates for 12 years minimum these are the most distraught people in our society and that's not what this subject is about but I don't want people to mis interpret what I'm saying and how I vote on this because I do care for people I was on the Sheboygan excuse me, Kohler school board now I'm on the county board I don't do this for me I do it for our society and our families and our children and grandchildren so this is the first time our federal government ever spent 1.9 trillion dollars on anything like this and that was mentioned tonight by someone but the amount wasn't but this is the first time this was ever this money is not free money I know it's wonderful to get free money I like to personally get free money but it's not free this 1.9 trillion dollars we don't have that that was given to us it's nice, I agree it's nice but we don't have that that was added to our deficit and this isn't billions of dollars this is 1.9 trillion this is the last wave three or four waves of money that have been issued by our federal government to us and it trickles down to us and this is wonderful I'm not debating anything and all the goodness of what we've done with this money my issue is that this will affect us everyone in this room eventually this money is not free it's nice I'm not debating anything personally in our society and I'm passionate about that I just don't care, I'm passionate about it so this is the fourth wave of federal money and I struggle with this because it is wonderful to get money but it was all about COVID when I read this it was about COVID so I don't connect the dots here and I'll conclude with that I just don't connect the dots with some of the things some of the things I heard tonight are wonderful again I go into jail every week to talk to most distraught people I care about people and I surely care about our kids I preface tonight by saying I care about our families and our children and grandchildren thank you any further discussion okay please vote 22 ayes and 3 nays and with that I will hand the gavel over to the vice chair resolutions to be introduced first will be resolution number three from law committee regarding authorizing director of emergency management to enter into mutual aid agreement with other emergency management offices that be relayed to the executive committee please ordinance is introduced okay well thank you very much thank you mr. vice chair I moved to adjourn Mr. Brower thank you I'll vote then