 Good evening. I'd like to call the Sheboyin County Board of Supervisors monthly meeting to order. Chairman Koch was not able to be with us tonight, but right out of the chute I'm taking it over. Anyways, are we in compliance with the open meeting? We are. The agenda was posted on the 13th of May at 315. Thank you. Would you all join me please in the Pledge of Allegiance? Thank you. Once we get the computers up and the screens up make sure we're all in on the roll call, please. I can't hear you. Oh, okay. Thank you. Yes, please press your attend button, your I button, and I should indicate there we are. Sometimes you have to press harder. 22 supervisors present. Thank you, John. Approval of the April 26th 2022 journal is before us. Supervisor Blar and make a motion to approve. Motion is made to approve. Is there a second to that motion? Supervisor Clarke? I'll second. Thank you. All right. There's any questions or changes or corrections? Basically, if not, let's all vote. I should just ask to real quick, if there's anyone on Zoom that are zooming in or on the phones, not necessarily supervisors that are here voting. All right. The journals proved unanimously. Okay. Thank you. Consideration of appointments by the chairperson. Firmative Action Commission, Christian Ellis, Amsterdam Dunes Advisory Committee, Roger Distruty, Edward Procek, Communications Council, Christian Ellis, Emergency Medical Services Council, Wendy Schobert, Land Information Council, Al Bosman, Little Alcar Lake Rehabilitation District Board of Commissioners, Paul Gruber, Local Emergency Planning Committee, Berne Koch, Traffic Safety Commission, Gerald Jorgensen, Transportation Coordinating Committee, Kurt Brauer, Thomas Wagner, for the chairman's appointments. Okay. Thank you. Chairman Geary? Supervisor Geary? Former Chairman Geary? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I moved to concur with your appointments. Thank you. There's a second. Supervisor Brauer? Oh, I'm sorry. And there's a second. If I see the screen right next time, I'll get you right in order, Jacob. Any discussion? Any questions? All in favor, please vote your desire. Thank you. Those appointments are pretty unanimously. Thank you. Appointments by the County Administrator, please. To affirmative action, Commission, Corey Raceler, Communications Council, Brian Olson, Jason Ebert, Russell Schreiner, Michael Brungraber, Emergency Medical Services Council, Joel Lomanski, Daniel Altus, Holly Parker, Elaine Warner, Steven Zills, Michael Luebert, Roberta Felicki-Pulaski, Land Information Council, Eric Zinkl, Local Emergency Planning Committee, Eric Bowler, Charles Butler, Terry Katzma, Stephen Cobb, Stephen Steinhardt, Starling Grossman, Daniel Altus, Dean Dolenz, and Traffic Safety Commission, Michael Miesin, Sean Spivallo, and Andrew Cunninger. Okay, thank you. Supervisor Geary? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I moved to concur with the Administrator's appointments. Supervisor Emel? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will second that motion. Thank you. All right, if there's no questions or please let everyone vote. Oh, we might have a question. Can you move this way? Okay. I just have a question. There's a couple of people on the EMS that were from out of town, like from Cedarburg and I think some other town that was just wondering, I thought everybody had to be from Sheboygan County, so. Thank you for that question. We are following our ordinance and the appointments we make and in some cases, depending on the position, they may not live in the community, but they're serving the community or working in the community, so sometimes these volunteers can be difficult to identify or they have to certainly be interested in serving, but as long as they're working in the community or serving the community, they may not necessarily live in the community. Okay. All right, and we voted on that. We have to vote yet now, so please do. And those appointments are previously. Thank you. Presentations tonight. Greg Schnell, Transportation Director with Project Updates. As you can see from the presentation, creating safe, reliable transportation today and tomorrow is our Sheboygan County Highway Department's model. We are the maintenance authority for 450 miles of County Trunk Highway. We also have maintenance agreements for 465 miles of Township Road. We also have a maintenance agreement with the State of Wisconsin of 170 miles, so if you put that in perspective, you can drive from here to California in one round of storm removal. That's kind of a big number when you think about it. We're also the bookkeeper or the record keeper and inspectors for 152 bridges throughout Sheboygan County. Next slide, please. So as we know in Wisconsin, all we have is two seasons, construction and winter. Our construction season consists of surveying, purchasing right-of-way, designing roads, paving 30 miles a road, landscaping, bridge construction, bridge repair, mowing, municipal maintenance, all that kind of stuff goes into it, and we do that with 95 people. We also have a full repair shop, mechanics, welders, tire repair. This is a picture that we just taken recently of County Trunk C that runs from County Trunk P to the West County line. It's a million operation. In this particular picture, we'll be re-applying two-and-a-half inches of asphalt that means taken off. It's being put into the back of our trucks. Delivered back to the asphalt plan will be run back through the asphalt plan so we can recycle it. This is Indiana Avenue, which I'm sure many of you have driven through either lately or started to, and now you're just trying to avoid it. This is a federally funded project that we're working alongside with the non-motorized funding that was given to us several years back, and it's one of the most projects that will be going on. So what we're reducing, it's called a road diet. We're reducing the four lanes down to two, adding some bike paths as well as sidewalk on both sides of the road. It goes our section, our County responsibility is from 24th Street to Esslinger Park. So from the road standpoint, it's about a five-and-a-half million dollar project. Our share of that is 3.5 million, and then the non-motorized is putting in a million dollars as well. So it's a big project. It's going to be going on the rest of the construction season, probably end of October being November to be completed. This is another picture of Indiana Avenue. You can see it goes up. Taylor drive just a little bit to the bridge approaches. They're getting ready for the placement of concrete. This section will be concrete from the intersection back to 24th Street. This is County Trunk V. It starts at County Highway OK. It heads to the State Park. It's a pulverizing pave. Pulverizing means that we come in with, if you want to put it in perspective with, you use that as your home for tilling up your garden. This is a big piece of equipment, it's eight feet wide. It tilts down into the asphalt, gets a little bit of that gravel to keep the tools clean or cold in order to bring that all together. We'll come back in, start grading it up and put a fresh layer of asphalt, five inches thick over the top of that. We are in the process of rebuilding the intersection of County Trunk V and I. If you're not familiar with this, it's at real close to Kim's Historic Five Corners. So actually we're turning five corners into four corners. This project has been started many, many years ago. There used to be a home on the corner just across from Kim's and where that loader's parked. They were real close to that. Those people had approached us and mentioned that they would like to get out of their home. So we took the opportunity of purchasing that so we could reconfigure the intersection in the way it should be and provides that. We're also doing a little free advertising for the town of Lima. That's their town hall where that large craper's running there as well. Just want to go back. On your desk tonight is a list of the road construction projects that we have planned for this season. Starting with the top one is County Trunk TT. It goes from C to the railroad tracks. Unfortunately we are going to go back and do a little rework. That will be happening in June to replace the bike pedestrian paths that run alongside that. County Trunk S from State Highway 23 to 57 is a mill and pave. So that'll be similar to what the C project is. County Trunk F is a pulverizing pave. When we do a pulverizing again, we put down five inches of asphalt. So it's a little bit more expensive of a project but you get the longevity. When we do a mill and pave, you're going to start to see some cracks that'll probably happen within that second to third year, sometimes even earlier than that, just from the free saw cycles that we go through in Wisconsin. County Trunk V, I already touched base with that. County Trunk M, State Highway 28 to County Trunk I is a mill and pave. County Trunk D, mill and pave from 28 to HH. EH from 67 to 57 is a mill and pave. County Trunk S, W to SS, pulverizing pave. County Trunk O, a mill and pave. This project is already completed. As far as the asphalt goes, it needs to have the shoulder work done yet. County Trunk E is a mill and pave as well. From J to 23, that needs the shoulder replaced on it yet as well. County Trunk C to the West County Line, that's the earlier one I talked about. I did talk about the five corners and the reconstruction there. Obviously, reconstructions are a lot more expensive than what the average mill and pulverize and pave would be. When you think about that, overlay now probably cost us $150,000 a mile. We've seen a 20% increase in oil costs alone this year. You guys feel it at the pump, we're feeling it on the asphalt end of things. We don't know where that's going to end. There's a lot of things happening with the market. Right now we're locked in through the middle of July, so we're trying to get as much of our paving done as possible. Obviously, it's not going to be able to get it all done in that time period. The pulverizing pave a mile is about $250,000 a mile and to reconstruct, that would be reconstructing, starting from the bottom to the top, putting in all the asphalt, cutting new ditches, drainage ways, pipe, and then repaving is about approximately $1.75 million. As I mentioned with the Indiana project, that's a project that's been ongoing for several years and it's finally coming to fruition so we can get that finished up. It's federal funded, so our staff is not building that. It's let out to a private contractor. We're working with the DOT on that. We also have three bridges that are going on this year as well, or four bridges, I'm sorry. On the bottom you'll see those. On County Trunk V, that's a part of the reconstruction that's happening down in the village of Walville that we're assisting with the village and the village is kicking in on for the curb and gutter and storm sewer work. We have a bridge on County Trunk W that is actually bundled with the Rousseau Road Bridge so we can get better prices on bidding and design work. We also have the center road in the town of Green Bush that will be happening in in July. So there's just a lot of work going on. If you look at this list, just in the paving, alone in the reconstruction, about $10 million will start happening. We're looking forward to getting it all done before we have to start harnessing our equipment for winter and repeating the cycles all over again. I know it was fast. I appreciate your time and patience and if you have any opportunities to stop out at the highway shop and want to speak with me please give me a call and we'll organize the time to get together. Thank you for your time. Thank you Greg. Sure. To make it all happen we need to have an asphalt plan, right? It's been a really long day. Just to give you a little bit of an update, next week Monday the contractors come in to start to do the underground digging for the foundations for the scale and the silo. From that point on it's going to be real slow in progression only because obviously you see it on the shelves at the store. Supply just isn't there. So we're getting we have some challenges with that. We do have most of our prices locked in so we're feeling pretty comfortable with that. It's just delivery. We will not see the new plant up and running until probably beginning of June next year. So it's going to be the site's all prepped so we can do some work in between time, running conduit, getting electrical lines pulled, that kind of thing. The concrete pads are placed for the feet to sit out for the silos and the and the drum. So again just another thing that we have and we have to work on this year yet as well as cutting all the grass. Cleaning up the bridges, cleaning up the trash and getting everything else accomplished that people are expecting over their tax dollars. Again I'll go back now. I'm done. Thank you Greg. Are there any public addresses this evening? Letters, communications and announcements? We have one resolution from Monroe Monroe County Board of Supervisors about clean water. We will receive that for information. That is all. Thank you. County Administrator's report. Thank you Mr. Chairman. Good evening. So it does look a little different up front here and Chairman Koch has allowed me to share that though he is vaccinated and boosted uh just yesterday I think last night actually he was a close contact. So though he tested negative I think last night and this morning he closed the air on the side of the we're sorry I was throwing the vice chairman into the fire here but I think Supervisor Alpler's done an excellent job and we thank former Chairman Tom Wagner for coming up and helping navigate up there because it is it takes a little work so my compliments. As you know particularly the veteran board members but I presume the new board members are recognizing this as well. This is a highly complex organization. I mean there is a lot going on in Sheboygan County government. 19 departments and every department is almost like its own business you know focusing on healthcare focusing on law enforcement or planning conservation. There is a lot going on here a lot to learn and of course we have our upcoming annual county board leadership forum for the board to get into the weeds more and I think it's really been one of the secrets to our success and working collaboration particularly with the budget process but a lot goes on here behind the scenes. I mean way too much to get into but just last at the last board meeting Scott Meelef approached me. How many of you know who Scott Meelef is? A handful of you. Scott Meelef is the program director for WSCS. WCS is the cable television that shows and broadcasts these county board meetings and common council meetings and goes to school meetings and in fact Scott did I think almost all the TV8 programs that we did for nearly 15 or 20 years. He's really been a dedicated public servant and the mission of WSCS is to make local government more accessible to the citizens of Sheboygan County by providing more access and a direct link to some of these meetings. In fact you may not be aware of it. I wasn't till I looked into this just earlier today WSCS has been around and serving this community now for 35 years and again Scott the program director for 22. Often Scott is behind the scenes in fact behind this door helping run these meetings or one of the volunteers or staff that they have but last month Scott approached me he said you know every year or every periodically they'll forward on a program or something they were a part of for recognition. I had no idea he did this but Scott took the lead to submit the U.S. customs facility and county terminal video that he shot last year to the best of the Midwest media a fest. I imagine you've all been there before right? I'm sure it's all these media type behind the camera behind the scene folks that go to this but how nice of him to do that he also submitted the public service announcement that we put together with the support of the county board and public health our health and human services department and so for some of you I presume you may not have seen the the U.S. customs facility and county terminal and particularly if you're newer to the board this was a tremendous investment by the county board over five million dollar investment to build this new U.S. customs facility to support our businesses Kohler and many others that fly in and out of our community also the terminal to have a place to greet people to have a positive impression to receive good service and so it was a collaboration and investment from the Sheboygan county from the state of Wisconsin and the Kohler company also has put skin in the game in fact they continued to cover the operational costs of U.S. customs some of you I know are aware of this but this may be new to some of you so if I could ask Cheryl to tee up the U.S. customs facility and county terminal we're only going to play half of it it's five minutes long so we're going to play about two minutes and 15 seconds because I know we don't have a lot of time to see but uh or your information welcome I'm Sheboygan county board chair Vernon Koch and on behalf of the Sheboygan county board I'd like to welcome everyone to the grand opening of the U.S. customs facility and general aviation terminal at Sheboygan county memorial airport the Sheboygan county board strongly supported this edition the airport has approximately 40 000 annual aircraft operations and is capable of handling international range business jets it is the fifth busiest general aviation airport in the state and the eighth busiest overall it also has a 26 million dollar impact to the area and is a tremendous asset to our community the addition of the customs facility will help it continue this legacy greetings my name is Adam Payne Sheboygan county administrator and I'm so pleased to be standing before you in front of our brand new U.S. customs facility and Sheboygan county memorial airport aviation terminal what a facility what a wonderful investment for our community years of planning and teamwork went into bringing this to fruition and partners including the U.S. Bureau of the Wisconsin Bureau of Aviation the U.S. customs border patrol and the private sector namely the Kohler company but we also had so much support from the Sheboygan county economic development corporation businesses such as Johnsonville and Bemis and others that certainly are going to benefit from this tremendous asset it's good for economic development it's good for tourism and it's going to be a vital asset to continue to improve our community for generations to come so if you've never been out to the airport please come out and check out the new customs facility check out the beautiful terminal such a nice first impression when people fly into Sheboygan county and we hope you too will be proud of another community asset that's going to help make good things happen and further strengthen our community and our economy hi i'm mack rena poor matt we cut it off just before he had a great thing to say he was probably the best thus far well as you can see we're very polished professional presenters we do this daily we look at it and we think wow how how did how did they get the award with us being presenters it's not necessarily our our in our wheelhouse but all involved i think did a nice job and again it's a it's a compliment to Sheboygan county and particularly it's a compliment to Scott Miliff and their organization for highlighting this and making this happen and i wanted to thank and acknowledge greg schnell because again if you look historically the investments that the county board has made in our transportation system we consolidated from about seven sheds to four we built the new 22 and a half million dollar facility out in the central part of the community the county board has continuously over the years invested in our airport and the customs facility of the new terminal yet another showcase improvement and just what Greg almost forgot to mention but the asphalt plant that's over a five million investment which is key to supporting our transportation system so we appreciate the support of the board in the community the Sheboygan county economic development corporation and others or these things wouldn't be possible and i wanted to ask Greg if he could please come forward real quick we have from the best of the midwest media fest 2022 award of merit to Greg and Matt and Scott Miliff for their good work at the airport let's put our hands together on that same note covid is something we're all very very tired of but sadly uh covid is not done with us and doesn't know borders and continues to impact businesses and families and communities and and it just it just continues to be a real challenging and ongoing battle and early in that process when we all pulled together and did our best to inform the community and learn about this and and how do we prepare uh the decision was made to put a public service and uh announcement together for the community and and that just just doesn't happen but to me when it did i thought what a wonderful reflection on our community well could you please tee that up i'm david kohler i'm louis gentine i'm michael stair superic i'm terry cotswain state representative my name is elise opal i'm a pediatrician at aurora children's health 2020 has been a challenging year for us all and i want to thank you and i want to thank you for all you are doing to slow the spread of covid team vaccines are on the way but we must continue to take precautions to protect ourselves and our loved ones doing this doing this doing this this will help our health care providers support our school systems and keep businesses open i'm asking you to please limit social gatherings stay six feet from each other when you can stay home when you are sick wear a face covering in public these small actions make a big difference and will help keep our community safe together we will raise a leader for more information on how you can slow the spread of covid in shaboyton county visit shaboytoncounty.com that that public service announcement was also identified and and recognized by the best of the midwest and i was hopeful that kurt brauer could please come forward and i'll share with him the certificate and kurt as you know is the new chair of the health and human services committee and we appreciate his leadership as well as everyone at public health and health and human services please put your hands together for kurt i haven't looked at that and probably you i imagine that's the case for many of you but it is something to see how the community pulled together in our in our area i'm proud of that i hope you are too speaking of pride it's national police week it's national police week national police week is observed every year from may 11th through the 17th and if you're not aware of where it originated from in 1962 president kennedy proclaimed may 15th as the national peace offers officers memorial day and the calendar week in which may 15 falls so back in 1962 is when this got started national police week pays special recognition to those law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty and honoring america's law enforcement community i'll readily admit there are a lot of national days and national weeks and holidays and this has been one that i haven't been as mindful of but i found myself feeling particularly mindful of it this year and i hope you do as well because our law enforcement officers deserve our support and our appreciation the history of the board here has been really impressive with the support for our sheriff's department a strong county board support in fact i asked wendy sharn and our finance director to confirm this for me but if you look at i think the last 20 years the most significant significant property tax levy allocation year in and year out the 19 departments transportation health and human services a lot of very important departments the most significant property tax allocation each year goes to the sheriff's department it says a lot about the priorities of the county board in our community i'm i'm proud of that for me it's really been a growth experience because i've always respected law enforcement officers i grew up to respect law enforcement always thought highly of emergency responders when people are running from trouble are running from a crisis they're running toward it they're remarkable people some remarkable professions to be in and for the first time in my life we now have a sworn officer in our family my my daughter's husband my son-in-law is a officer in wabatosa so wabatosa police officer and they met at concordia and she'd bring this young guy home was checking out my daughter and i'm sizing him up and i'm thinking who is this young man what do i know about him and like any young man he has his strengths and weaknesses but he chose the law enforcement profession and i can't tell you how proud i am of him and how much it's made me even appreciate law enforcement officials more this young man has had his finger on the trigger and has had to make life and death decisions this young man was the first to respond to the mall shooting he was involved with the deer district tragedy that just happened last week he is interacting with gunshots and overdose deaths and family members that are torn apart and it's just remarkable to me i like to think those of us in this room or some of us are a little more seasoned we've seen a lot in our lives i haven't had to deal with many of the things he's had to deal with in his early 20s just remarkable just remarkable sheriff quarry raceler to his credit has been doing a law enforcement memorial it's going to be this thursday i get 11 o'clock you all received i think a copy of the brief program i've gone to in the past and it's always well done short sweet but just a very nice memorial and i recall being at at last year and senator devin lemieux was giving the remarks and he mentioned that there nationally i think it was 265 law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty and that's significant i took the time to look at it this afternoon and for the year after for the year 2021 it's 618 and i started going down the list and you know you can kind of imagine some of the tragedies might be you know automobile crashes gunfire like there are 62 law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty from gunfire 22 at a heart attack 14 were struck by a vehicle number of very sad situations a gunfire was at the top of the list until recently 439 law enforcement officers last year died in the line of duty from covet the average age of these individuals was 48 so i encourage you to take the time to pause and be thankful for what our law enforcement officers and emergency responders do have done the sacrifices they've made the sacrifices their families make i think of my daughter now and you know she really when an incident happens is my husband coming home i can recall in the past hearing about a tragedy or shooting and and being upset by it and concerned but never did i think about necessarily calling one of the emergency responders that was there so if you get a chance i'll take the time to thank a law enforcement officer this week and if you're available thursday from the memorial and i'll share a phrase there would appreciate you participating thank you mr chairman thank you for the report administrator pain resolutions to be introduced resolution number one from executive committee regarding approving use of american eski plan funds number four i am referring that to the finance committee resolution number two from transportation committee regarding authorizing sale of county property to alcard lakes wrote america ink that we will sign to the executive committee please ordinance to be ordinances to be introduced there are none supervisor to strudy i would recommend your choice of adjournment thank you mr vice chair i move to adjourn thank you is there a second supervisor brawler okay any comments on the motion hearing none all in favor say aye and press your eye buttons i'm so used to so used to committee meetings yeah so supervisor smith say aye okay see come on there we go supervisor to strudy double check your button please thank you thank you we will adjourn until next next meeting thank you