 I'd like to call the order of the Tuesday June 20th 2023 meeting of the Sheboygan County Board of Supervisors. Are we certified in compliance with the open meeting law? Yes it was posted on June 16th at 3 p.m. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Next is roll call. 22 supervisors present. Next is the approval of the May 16th 2023 journal. Supervisor Wagner. Thank you Mr. Chairman. I'll move for approval of the journal. Thank you Supervisor Wagner. Supervisor Brower. Thank you Mr. Chair. I will second that motion. Thank you Supervisor Brower. Is there any discussions? Seeing none please vote. It is unanimous. Next is consideration of appointments by County Administrator. To the Sheboygan County Industrial Development and Revolving Loan Agency Incorporated. Appointments Allen-Mayer and Thomas Ryle. Reappointments Donald Hammond and Don Tom Brickley. Supervisor Brower. Thank you Mr. Chair. I will make the motion to approve. Thank you Supervisor Brower. Supervisor Gearing. Thank you Mr. Chairman. I will second that motion. Thank you Supervisor Gearing. Under discussion. Seeing no discussion please vote. And that is unanimous also. Next is presentation. Erin Brault planning and conservation updates. All right good evening everybody. So the last couple years you've heard me talk about Amsterdam Dune so I thought I'd change it up tonight a little bit so I'm gonna go over hazardous waste our household hazardous waste program talk a little bit about Gerber Lake and some of the recent stuff we've done out there and then I'll pretty much to show you some pictures of what's going on and out of the Marsh Dam. I'm told the clicker may not be working all that well. Here's my wink Cheryl. There we go. Yep keep keep it going. So our hazardous waste you know I don't know in other departments but at least in our department this is a program that makes you guys look good. I can't tell you how many thank yous we get I mean nearly everybody coming through the line you know is very thankful that they have a place to go with this type of material so since the 90s we've been doing this collection I think 98 it started. Our budget is typically about a hundred and ten thousand dollars and then we get a little extra revenue from the state. We apply it with Manitowoc and Vanillac counties and what's known as a clean sweep grant and that varies every year but it's usually between 10 and 15 so all in probably a hundred and fifteen or a hundred and twenty five hundred and thirty thousand each year is what we budget on this and that usually guarantees us about three events and the fourth event is usually budget dependent on whether we hold that one in September or not. So since 01 we're nearing roughly two million pounds of hazardous waste that we've collected. In 15 we started to accept electronics and then since 15 we're well over one million pounds of electronics and one of the questions we ask when people come through the line is and that's how we determine the fee they pay as well. Do you have hazardous waste hazardous waste and electronics or just electronics and it's usually the breakdown is consistently a third a third a third so a third of people are just doing hazardous waste a third of people are doing just electronics and then a third are bringing both in. So some of our events have been very popular during COVID when everybody was sitting at home and cleaning out the garage in the basement and the sheriff was in line and he can attest to this we were backing cars up. The event was at Maywood and cars were starting to back up on I-43 so it was that was a big one but typically our bigger events are at the Southside Shed Maywood and then out at the Plymouth Shed and we usually figure about 300 cars for those events. So I thought maybe I'd touch on what are some of the top nasty things that we get and I'll probably butcher the the pronunciation on these but pentachlorofenol nitric acid hydrofluoric acid and then concentrated hydrogen peroxide for some reason. So viola is the contractor we use and I asked him you know what are the top fourth sort of oddball nasty things we get and this is what they are. So pentachlorofenol you know you see that on a lot of old utility poles that was a biocide to try to keep the critters and stuff from eating the wood from a toxicity you know it's all this stuff is extremely toxic to humans so this stuff does respiratory blood kidney liver immune system eyes nose and skin issues then the next nitric acid we usually we get that primarily from the egg community that's used in fertilizer that's also extremely toxic I'm not gonna go through each one but you know it causes some nasty things to happen next hydrofluoric acid we get that primarily through refrigerants and fluorescence and that can cause burns if you touch it and and that one sort of you may not realize it that one takes a good 12 to 24 hours before it starts showing its sign so you may have touched it and not know for you know a couple hours down the road and then again I don't know why people are buying concentrated hydrogen peroxide but you can get it online you know I took this picture DIY chemicals that's 30% you know the stuff you buy in the little brown bottle at Walmart or wherever you know that's usually about I think one and a half two percent but people are for some reason are buying concentrated and that can be used as explosives I don't know if people are using it as a propellant or or what but I know or if people are cheap and want to dilute it themselves I don't know but those are sort of the top four things that we get that you know are oddball and like I said can do some damage some of the really weird things that we've got in the last couple years I'm not old enough to know what Makura chrome is but apparently that's an old antiseptic that people used to use that explains a lot so do you so we get that you know mercury's no good sodium arsenide that's an old pesticide potassium cyanide and I think these are the coolest thing when people bring these in that said red bulb in the middle there that was an old fire suppressant people would have those on their walls or commercial buildings would have that in their wall on their wall and if a fire started you would chuck it on the fire and it starves it from oxygen and puts the fire out but it's it's nasty stuff potassium cyanide we that's a picture I think we got that last year the year before that little bottle there carbon tetrachloride that's oh that's the that's the fire suppressor I'm sorry the potassium cyanide is a photography when people used to have their own dark rooms and then DDT that was banned 50 years ago and and every year we still get DDT so they're cleaning out grandpa's barn or whatnot and we still get that couple of the other weird things I had a older gentleman bring in a kerj are full of liquid mercury and I said he asked if we would take it I said yes absolutely we'll take that but my first question was why the heck do you have a kerj are full of liquid mercury and he was doing the right thing he was taking old thermometers and old thermostats that had mercury in and and keeping it and and disposing of it somebody asked if we would take nine tons of glycerin and I said well I have to get back to you on that but he I asked him I said why do you have it apparently that's a byproduct of creating your own biodiesel fuel turns out it's not toxic I told him to start making soap that's one of the main ingredients and so so yeah we get we get some weird stuff every year the last one that we did I think last weekend we had it's an old farm chemical anyways we get weird stuff every year so all right moving on so this is sort of a map you you know to try to keep folks honest we ask them what their zip code is we've only had to turn away two people at least in the 13 14 years that I've been doing it now one for Manitoba County one from Ozaki County so it's a Sheboygan County only thing and this is sort of a breakdown of the zip codes where people are coming from obviously city Sheboygan and the urbanized areas Plymouth and Falls and Howard see you know the largest folks coming through all right next all right so moving on to Gerber Lake just talk a little bit about that if you want to move to the next slide so a couple things going on there since 2019 on a lot of our properties we've tried you know start planting a lot of trees because a lot of our trees on County property just like everywhere else in the county are dying due to the emerald ash borer so we've been able to partner with LNRP which is Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership in Glacierland and we've planted over 4,500 new trees at Gerber Lake the previous slide had a picture on we've had some schools out there I think Sheboygan Christian High School came out for one event I think Sheboygan North we've had out there to help plant all these trees and then in 2022 and then again this year we did prairie burns on both the north and south prairie and the next slide sort of shows why burn you know a lot of people ask well why why do you burn a prairie for one that mimics what would have naturally happened before human involvement so pre-settlement every three to ten years prairies would typically burn you know lightning or what not would hit them we aim for the middle so there's no exact science on when you should do it but general rule of thumb is every three to ten and we aim for the middle every five to seven DNR used to do them for us but they can no longer as of about I think six or eight years ago no longer work on non DNR property so we have to hire it out now so but it also combats trees and shrubs that would otherwise shade out the prairie it helps combat invasives in a pretty cheap manner it consumes all the excess fuel that you know builds up over time to prevent wildfire habitat some animals in in plants need fire to survive out west the ponderosa ponderosa pine doesn't reproduce without fire it needs it to survive so so those are some of the reasons why we burn again this year you can see the field on the right we did in April so they go in they create a firebreak the firm that we hire they mow around 25 feet or so well actually our crews Greg's guys mow for us and do a 20 foot break around and then depending on which way the wind is blowing they start to back burn you sort of burn into the wind so it doesn't spread super quick and then they sort of go around the edges and then eventually it just takes off and boom it's done and you know a couple minutes so it's pretty neat to watch but so again we every five to seven years and now that we have to pay for it it's usually about eight to ten thousand dollars to have them come out the crews do it so alright and then Marsh Dam just again show a couple pictures of what's going on out there if you haven't been out there the dam project started about three four weeks ago now they're gonna be the first step was to build coffer dams so they can work in dry conditions but the first step then was to take down the side of the dam they're not working on so it could pass enough water during a heavy rainstorm knock on wood we haven't had that happen yet but so you can see in the picture on the left or my left maybe you're right that's where they peckered all the concrete out and created a deeper channel for that water to go through in case upstream there's a you know a high rainfall event and you can see the coffer dam on the left-hand side of that picture and that's where they're working in dry conditions so they'll build the new dam and halves like I said a couple weeks ago is when it started they have in their contract a substantial completion date of December knock on wood no major hiccups yet London is the firm that won the bid we had about five bids come in and three were pretty competitive and the other two were flyers you know they put in a huge number and if they got it they got it but they weren't very competitive all in is about three to three and a half three point three million dollar project and then it's a good partnership it's a county-state through the DNR Ducks Unlimited the local conservation Association US Fish and Wildlife and then a bunch of private and a lot of them are anonymous came in as well donations to make this happen and again you can see some more pictures you can see them using the hammer over on the right to get rid of the concrete on the left there you can see the temporary coffer dam and that was when they breached it to send the water through and then the drone footage is actually from earlier today you can see the marshes starting to draw down and which we've been trying to do since 2017 but it's been too wet to do so from a habitat standpoint that'll that'll be good for the marsh that's what I have for you this evening any questions all right thank you next is public addresses others communications and announcements County administrators report thank you Mr. Chairman well I don't know if my presentation will be quite as interesting as Aaron's I should have gone first but number of things to report to the board this evening first I want to thank Aaron for coming tonight and giving those updates on the couple of the programs that his department overseas I hope you all enjoy seeing some of the pictures and learning what he and his staff have been working on the first item I want to cover is just a quick overview of one of the items in your packet for this evening related to ordinance number one which is amending chapter 46 if any of you have reviewed that ahead of time you'll see there's quite a bit of redlining there so I wanted to just take a minute to cover those changes and there's two main components to this ordinance the first is related to the highway commissioner appointment and we started modifying chapter 46 as it relates to our hiring process and at that time discovered that the highway commissioner language was inadvertently removed a number of years ago and it's good thing we took this up now with Greg's pending departure so the timing is excellent so Greg was hired in 2006 and at that time it was changed from a two-year appointment to an indefinite appointment and so you'll see that in the language and then shortly thereafter the county administrator position was created from the county administrative coordinator position so the proposal before you tonight is re-adding the language that was inadvertently removed and then also confirming that the highway commissioner which is what we call here in Sheboygan County the transportation director but that appointment is by the county administrator instead of the board like all the other non-elected department heads so I just wanted to confirm that portion of the ordinance and then the second portion is related to our hiring process and this is to hopefully address some of the ongoing challenges that we have with the tight labor market and the proposals before you are based on feedback from the department heads and the hope is that it'll make our process more efficient and timely and also just to clean up some of the redundancies in the language so currently as you know when a department head wants to fill a vacant position they need approval from their liaison committee and in some instances the HR committee as well and that creates time constraints when we're trying to fill positions especially if we don't have a lot of notice when someone is vacating their position so the proposal is to give the department heads authority to backfill positions after consulting with the HR director on the need that they truly need to backfill that position that there's a need to have that position filled and that it was already approved as part of their budget and so then the department heads will routinely report back to their liaison committees on the positions that they are filling and then of course if there are any changes to a position those would go through the the normal process of committee approval and so again we're just hoping that this will help speed up the process and hopefully have your support in that tonight I know the department heads are hopeful that this will pass and the HR department is supportive of this change as well. Next I want to talk about the handout that's on your desk hopefully you all saw this this is a report coming from Forward Analytics on the fentanyl epidemic written by Dale Knapp from WCA if you participate in the weekly WCA leadership calls or if you were at leadership forum last week you heard him briefly talk about this so I just wanted to point out that the printed version is on your desk for you and hope that you take it home and take some time to review it there's a lot of great content in there although I'll admit the statistics included our staggering and I want to just read one statistic for you and this Dale did touch on this last week but I thought it was important to restate it so in 2022 the US Drug Enforcement Administration seized more than 50.6 million fentanyl laced pills which is double the number seized in 2021 and also 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder the DEA estimated that these seizures represented more than 379 million potentially deadly doses of fentanyl and to put that number in context the entire population of the United States is 332 million so that means that the amount that they seized in 2022 could have had the impact to wipe out everyone in the United States so I think that is extremely staggering and that there's certainly more information like that in this report and I'm glad that we have the dollars from the opioid settlement coming so that we can address this and try and combat the opioid epidemic here not only in Sheboyin County but also throughout the state so again just wanted to draw your attention to that report and speaking of leadership forum I want to thank everyone who was able to join us last week if you weren't there the materials are on your desk for you and if you have any questions please feel free to reach out to myself or the chairman and want to thank Greg and Chris for presenting to the board last week on transportation and broadband and we reviewed all of the comments from the evaluation forums and everything was very positive and the supervisors that you all noted that it was beneficial so we appreciate your feedback and hope you all can join us again next year there was a request to hear from Corporation Council so Crystal you're on the docket for next year she called me before and she said are you sure I don't have to be there I always have to be there I said nobody you're off the hook this year and apparently her her presence was missed so start planning for next year crystal and then I wanted to also just touch on the shared revenue bill so Dale Knapp from WCA joined us last week and covered this in depth so I won't go into great detail but wanted to just touch on a couple of points but certainly the news from today you can go ahead Cheryl so not sure if you recognize any faces in this picture but we had someone from Sheboygan County representing us today at the bill signing in Wausau so Supervisor Tom Wagner was able to make it there today to accompany other County Wisconsin County Association board members as well as County execs administrators and a number of representatives from the legislature and leadership at the from the capital there so we're very glad that that was signed today you go to the next slide please so just a couple of super quick highlights this is now going to be referred to as the 2023 Wisconsin Act 12 no longer the shared revenue bill so it has an official name now and as a reminder it is allocating 20% of the sales tax to the counties and municipalities and the aid that we will receive from this will continue to grow as the state sales tax grows and since the state sales tax has been in place since 1964 there have only been two years where there were declines in that so one of the most positive components of this is that it will have it'll be a sustainable revenue source and continue to grow as the sales tax grows and Sheboygan County currently receives about 1.87 million from shared revenue and this will provide a 56% increase which will equate to an additional 1.06 million so in total we will be receiving 2.93 million and then that of course will grow as the sales tax grows next slide please there are some restrictions on it so this is just a high-level overview of what those are so of course not all of those relate to county operations some of them are specific to municipal but those are the specific callouts for what the dollars can be used for and want to just end by thanking the legislators specifically Devin Lemahue who got this across the finish line with bipartisan support this is going to have a huge impact on all local units of government across the state so we're glad that that became a reality today and then finally I'll just end with a couple of updates on the state budget and some action coming out of the Joint Finance Committee they continue to meet and they still have a few areas that are outstanding but a couple of the things that have come out of their meetings there's some some small wins for counties and in the following areas we know that there will be increases that includes the land and water conservation the assistant district attorneys the victim witness division veteran services the ADRC operations child support administration GTA although Greg will tell you it's less than what we had anticipated and similarly HHS Joint Finance met last week Thursday on a number of provisions related to HHS and we were a little bit disappointed that it was less than we were expecting for increases in funding for APS which is Adult Protective Services crisis and birth to three so there are some small increases being proposed but we were hoping for larger increases especially as it relates to crisis to help combat mental health so we will continue to be monitoring the action coming from the Joint Finance and then calculating what that might mean for Sheboygan County but we of course won't be building any of that into our budget until the the state's budget is final approved and signed so certainly more to come on that topic but thus far we are seeing some modest increases a number of areas so we're grateful for that and thank you for all the work that you've been doing with contacting your legislators and certainly voicing your concerns at legislative breakfast to let them know what's important to us here in Sheboygan County. Thank you. Next is consideration of committee reports. Executive committee. And then number one, amending chapter 46 of the county code of ordinances. Committee recommendation to enact. Supervisor Gearing. Thank you Mr. Chairman. I move to enact. Thank you Supervisor Gearing. Supervisor Brower. Thank you Mr. Chair. I will second that motion. Thank you Supervisor Brower. Under discussion. Seeing no discussion please vote. As approved unanimously. Ordinance 2. Ordinance number 2 amending chapter 12 emergency medical services council committee recommendation to enact. Supervisor Brower. Thank you Mr. Chair. I will infirm with that motion. Supervisor Wagner. Thank you Mr. Chairman. I'll second that motion. Thank you Supervisor Wagner. Under discussion. Seeing no discussion please vote. That passed unanimously. Next is the committee report. 2022 to 2023 per diem report committee recommendation to concur. Supervisor Gearing. Thank you Mr. Chairman. I move to concur with the report. Thank you Supervisor Gearing. Supervisor Brower. Thank you Mr. Chair. I will second that motion. Thank you Supervisor Brower. Under discussion. Seeing no discussion please vote. Passes unanimously. Consideration of committee reports ordinance number three. Establishing speed zone on county roads A and J. Town of Rhine. Supervisor Wagner. Thank you Mr. Chairman. I'll move for approval of ordinance number three. Thank you Supervisor Wagner. Supervisor Brower. Thank you Mr. Chair. I'll second that motion. Thank you Supervisor Brower. Under discussion. Seeing no discussion please vote. Passes unanimously. All right. I shall turn the gavel over to the vice chair. Thank you Mr. Chair. This month we have three to report on resolution number two from the executive committee. Approving the use of American Rescue Plan Act for funds number seven. Thank you that will be referred to finance. Resolution number three from finance committee. Approving standard intergovernmental agreement for 2024 county sales tax revenue sharing. Thank you that will be referred to the executive committee. Resolution number four from transportation. Proving the purchase of assets from boroughs at aviation LLC to provide fixed-based operator services at the Schwaing County Memorial Airport. Thank you that'll also be referred to the executive committee. With business concluded I'd like to entertain a motion for adjournment. Chairman just just Judy former chairman. Thank you Mr. Vice Chairman. I'll move to adjourn. Is there a second? Supervisor Brower. Thank you Mr. Vice Chair. I will second that motion. Thank you. Please vote. Thank you.