 I'd like to call to order the July 19, 2022 meeting of the Sheboyne County Board. Are we certified in compliance with the open meeting law? We are. The agenda is posted on July 15th at 12.30. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Next is roll call. 21 supervisors present that we know of. If anyone is on Zoom remotely, please speak up now. Hi, this is Wendy. And I'm present. Thank you, Supervisor Schubert. We have 22 supervisors present. The next item of business would be the approval of the June 21, 2022 Journal. Supervisor Brower. No motion to approve the minutes. Thank you, Supervisor Brower. Supervisor Ellis. I'll second. Thank you, Supervisor Ellis. Under discussion. Seeing no discussion, please vote. Thank you, Supervisor Schubert. Aye. Thank you. And next is consideration of appointments by County Administrator. Two aging and disability advisory committee, a new appointment, Jean Brille of Plymouth. Reappointments, Derek Mank of Sheboygan, Mary Nowicki of Sheboygan and Teresa Gessler of Sheboygan. And to the Board of Adjustment, a new appointment, Ken Sontag of Cascade, Margin, Pontein of Elkhart Lake, and reappointments Mark Fowler of Elkhart, DJ Reinders of Usper. Supervisor Gehring. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move to concur with the appointments of the administrator. Thank you, Supervisor Gehring. Supervisor Brower. I will second that motion. Thank you, Supervisor Brower. Under discussion. Seeing no discussion, please vote. Supervisor Schubert, how do you vote? Aye. Thank you. Appointments are approved unanimously. Next is a presentation. We have Matt Stripmoder of Health, Human Services and doing a public health update. I was hoping there'd be a downdraft of cold air up here. I found one in the back corner. Good evening, everyone. Matt Stripmoder, Health and Human Services Director. Here tonight to share a bit of information about the public health world. Going to try not to do too much statistics, not too much of the pandemic. Really a bit of an overall look at public health during the pandemic, because of course we can't ignore that right now. But then just some of the other types of communicable diseases in a normal year, or maybe they all wouldn't be a normal year. But there are other things that a public health needs to keep an eye on. Do some investigating, some follow up with community members if they're affected. And then a little bit more on the fun side. Wrapping up some of the things that happened in 2021 and some of the activity from this year. So you have me tonight, Starleen Grossman, our public health officer would definitely be more of a subject matter expert. But I can't on a normal day back her up in a lot of what she does. I can back her up in a presentation here tonight, so that she and her husband and Elsie, who bought their first home two weeks ago. They're not even done unpacking boxes yet. So tonight she appreciated a chance to get a little bit more settled. So I have to continue talking a little bit about the pandemic, because it's still with us. What I'd want to point out with this slide, Chihuahigan County is in the low community level, thank goodness. There are about 28 counties in Wisconsin as of last Friday who were in the same status, 30 counties in the medium status, and 14 counties, including a couple self of us that were in the high status. And put some data up on there just showing that there's a little bit of an uptick in cases when we look at the average per 100,000 over the last seven days, a little bit at least in Chihuahigan of a decrease of hospitalization activity, although the region, I'll show you something a little different. What I'd want to say about this slide is we have been so close to the medium category. Last Friday, you can see our cases per 100,000 was 197.68. If that hits 200, they categorize us medium. The week before our new COVID admissions per 100,000 was nine. If that was 10, it would have put us in medium. So we are very pleased that we've been just on the underside of medium, but we certainly are closer than we wish we were. This is just another way to take a look at it, a little bit more visual for people that like to see things a little more than numbers. Up on the top, that's just a representation of the combined daily case counts. It certainly isn't accurate. It's saying anywhere from 35 to 45 cases per day now, but there is so much home testing going on. And of course, people don't need to report the positives they can, but it isn't automatic. It is still a decent gauge of a trend of how a community is doing. You can see we certainly jump up and down a little bit. And it's nothing like it was back in January. Where's that me? My hands are too hot. So I don't know. Is that the, all right. We have jumped to recent enteric activity. The point with the hospitalization slide, I won't go through all the details, but you can see on the map of Wisconsin, there are three regions in the state. We are one of those regions that has a little bit of increased hospitalization activity over the past few weeks. Again, nothing like it was back in January, but something that we and our local health partners are certainly keeping an eye on. Anyone who's been watching the news or listening to things, there is another variant. You can see on this graphic here, there are always multiple variants in play that is expected with a communicable disease like this. And you can see on the far right side now that sort of aqua greenish color, the BA5 variant is the predominant variant in Wisconsin and across the U.S. It is responsible for the increased uptick. And it seems to be a bit more capable at evading immune responses from either having a vaccine or from natural immunity. We are all very grateful that it does not seem to be causing more severe illness than previous variants. All right, here's why I really had to have Star prep me on things. So I'm going to use some big fancy words that make it seem like I have a public health education. In the country and in Wisconsin, this year there has been an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza. So what a lot of people call bird flu. This is a serious thing for bird flocks and for wild birds, estimated roughly 40 million birds across the country. It's been detected in at least 46 counties in Wisconsin, which would include Sheboygan County. We had a backyard flock in mid-April that tested positive. Some wild birds have been turned in that tested positive. It is possible for humans to get this, but it's very rare. And so far at least in Sheboygan County, we have no known exposures that have resulted in human infection. Enteric activities. So this is something I'm not sure how often we've come and done board presentations, but each year in Sheboygan County and in every county, there are certain viruses, bacteria, parasites that are spread and cause intestinal illness, mostly resulting from consuming contaminated food or water, and mostly occurring in long-term care facilities. We average roughly five of those a year. Some of them could spread from person to person, which is why public health will get involved. If there is an outbreak in a certain place, we will try to find out who's most affected and stay in touch with them, help them understand what to look for and provide information as needed. Usually five or so a year. This year we've had seven. We don't believe that's any specific trend. We think that's just a bit of a hiccup. Most of them occurred from February through April in Sheboygan County. And the last one, before I go a little bit lighter, because it felt like we had to talk about this a little bit, I've certainly seen a lot of articles in the news and read a lot of articles about monkeypox. A lot of people are very concerned about this. It is a rare, but potentially serious viral illness. The first human case wasn't actually reported until 1970. It does not spread easily. It can, but it really must have a lot of close sustained contact. There are approximately, as of last week, about 1,000 infections across the US, only two so far that we're aware of in Wisconsin, the one in Dane County and the one in Milwaukee County. So it felt like I needed to talk about that. That is an important role of part of what public health does, but public health really is a lot more than that. Public health has done a lot in our community in years that isn't a pandemic, and you probably haven't heard much about them unless you were directly involved. We have normally 28 staff that was raised by an additional 19 limited term employees during the pandemic. They are really categorized in about four types of business, community engagement, where we are spending a lot of staff time not trying to take on things by ourselves as a public health department, but really looking for that collective impact. Working with other nonprofits, with the health systems, combining our brains, combining our energy to address different dynamics in the community. That is supervised by Morgan Ron. Clinical services is that wing that ends up most often responding to communicable diseases, which obviously has been an awful lot of where our staff time has gone. Manda Strojink is the supervisor there. Environmental health is one of our most popular health and human service committee presentations because people just don't understand how much they're doing out in the community. And so I'll talk a little bit about them. Tim Swartt is the supervisor, and our women, infants, and children program, which works with a lot of the expectant and new mothers in our community. A little bit about each of them as 2021 was summarized. The community engagement group really worked with the health systems and health providers together did an assessment and a community health improvement program, looking at the major concerns of community members and key informants of the community. And Sheboygan County 2020, or Healthy County, Healthy Sheboygan County is a collective effort with a lot of different organizations, and they're focusing at this time on positive mental health, responsible substance use, and physical activity and nutrition. And also we've been successful in getting a number of different grants in the past couple of years, really work on areas of the community that may not have the same equity, that may have different health outcomes, may have different access to health based on who they are and what they're experiencing in life. So we have two bilingual workers, one with the Spanish community, one with the Hmong community that started us in this past year and have really done a nice job of opening doors and getting us into places that we weren't before, which was the idea. We had some vaccine outreach grants which have allowed us to bring supply and vaccine clinics into some of the populations that have more challenges accessing that. And it really just plain strength and partnerships with the Hmong Mutual Association, Black American Community Outreach Group, partners for community development and nonprofit community. We're really excited about this work because the room here doesn't look like our community. My staffing pattern looks a little bit more like our community. There's an awful lot of people out there who have different histories, different life experiences and they're getting up and working with them in a way that we didn't do in the last couple of years. 43 community events in 2021, many of which are evening and weekend, some very passionate, dedicated people working in that area. Our clinical services area, I think you've heard a lot of this. We did about 10,000 different vaccines through pop-up clinics and dedicated clinics. They did lots of testing in 2021. About 14,000 confirmed probable cases that they worked with in some way, shape or form. We've talked about that data, so I'll go past that a little bit more. Environmental health, so individuals from public health go out, we have a team of four that licenses and inspects over 900 facilities. That's restaurants, stores, lodging, pools, campgrounds, beaches, body piercing, temporary food events, Ryder Cup, they were out there for days and hours at a time with the pop-up food stands and such. 162 non-community transient well inspections. I know we recently were called a pet-friendly community, but we have a 10% increase in the animal bites. We had 183 reported that we needed to follow up with in 2021, so a very busy group working with a lot of the businesses in our community. Women, infants and children, when I see some of these numbers sometimes, it makes me feel really good. With the young mothers and expecting mothers and the information and assistance that gets provided, approximately $1.1 million of benefits went to farmers' market and local grocery stores and pharmacies. So it's been good to get children on the right path, and it's been great for a number of our businesses as well. And strangely enough, they needed to go virtual because of the mandates that are not coming into the building from a federal level, and they had a better show rate of communicating with people when they did things virtually than they had done when people walked in. So it's one of those places where whoever it is that we're serving found it easier to connect with us with some of the different ways that we needed to do during the pandemic. This is like a one slide look at this year, some of the things that they were most excited about in public health. They have been out there working with the community. They have been at United Resource Fairs Family Fund Fest, Mung Health Prevention workshops. They got a whole page of things they've done. They brought gun locks out there, COVID test, vaccine clinics, gun safety information, mental health, that's some huge research information. They're getting out there where the community is, for example, where's the youth and family resource fair, especially put together for the Spanish speaking community at the Dominican Hall, St. Clement Church, very well attended by that community. You can't read all those names, but there were 15, 20 different organizations that serve families, serve children all there that night to be able just to make sure that that community was aware of what was out there to help. Upcoming things, National Night Out, the Mung Summer Festival, the Sheboygan County Interfaith Organization Night Market. This group just, I know I've said it before, but impresses me. On the weekend when I'm sitting by the Sheboygan River reading a book with a cocktail, they're probably out at a fest somewhere just because that's where somebody is, they're not expecting them to walk in our office. They go where those people are and they have families and they're doing it on evenings and weekends and it's something I think that we should be proud of. So I hope tonight was a little bit of a sense. The department wanted me to say thank you. The board has been amazingly supportive. It's been a very challenging few years. They don't want you to forget about them when the pandemic goes away and they're back to some of the behind the scenes things. They do a lot of great stuff out there and they'd be willing to come share it, star herself once perhaps, she's completely done unpacking. So thank you everyone. Exis public addresses. We have none. Letters, communications and announcements. We have one, there's a resolution that has come here before us before so we'll receive that for information. Deputy County Administrator's report. Matt's quite a bit taller than I am here. I really pulled the microphone down a bit. Good evening everyone. As you may have noticed, there's a few new faces at the dais tonight. So I just wanted to call that to your attention. The County Administrator and Attorney Fieber are in route to Colorado currently. The National Counties Association Conference is taking place this week and Chairman Koch and I will be joining them tomorrow. So therefore we've got some different faces at the dais tonight and I'd like to welcome Paul Dirksi who is Attorney Fieber's colleague at Hop Newman-Hunkie for those of you who aren't aware and is serving as our Corporation Council this evening. So we're certainly looking forward to the conference this week connecting with our peers from across the country and discussing our collectively shared challenges as well as hopefully discussing opportunities for improvement. So just wanted to give everyone a heads up. That's where we will be the remainder of the week. So I'd like to start by saying thank you very much to Matt Strittmatter, our Health and Human Services Director for your presentation tonight. That was very well done, very informative and we certainly appreciate you updating the board on all the good work that Public Health has been doing. As we all know they've been dealing with the pandemic as it evolves but there's so many other things as you mentioned that the Public Health Department does throughout the year in addition to that that I think it's good to shine some light on the other activities. So thank you especially for the community engagement activities that you touched on at the end that I know in particular Supervisor Clark is very proud of the resource fair. So thank you Matt and please pass along. I thank you to the Public Health Division. Next I'd like to touch on resolution number four which is being introduced this evening. This is regarding the application for the Justice Assistant Grant in the MOU with the city of Sheboygan. The Sheriff's Department included a letter in your agenda packet explaining the request to pull this for immediate action tonight. As you know we as a county board try to avoid pulling resolutions and we prefer that they go to two committees however that's not always the case. This request simply comes down to timing. The grant application is due on August 8th and therefore needs to be taken up for action tonight in order to meet that grant deadline. This is a grant that we apply for nearly every single year and just depending on the timing of the grant announcement and the timing of the board meetings sometimes it's able to go through our normal process and sometimes it needs to be pulled and unfortunately this year it needs to be pulled. Also the resolution is in part for the MOU for the city of Sheboygan. So last night at the city common council meeting they took this up on their agenda and approved it. So I would respectfully ask that you support pulling this resolution tonight. And finally I'd like to update the board on the 2023 budget development process. As I touched on at the leadership forum all of the departments have received their levy targets and they are working diligently behind the scenes with the accounting staff to develop their preliminary budgets. We've met with a few of them thus far. So far it's going well. A couple of them have identified some fiscal challenges that they're anticipating in the next year or in some instances beyond that. However overall it's going very well. In the coming weeks we'll continue to meet with those departments and have the initial budget reviews and then following that as many of you know the budgets then go to their liaison committee and the finance committee before they come to the full board. So there's plenty of opportunity in the next couple of months if you would like to get engaged, ask questions, learn more about anything we certainly encourage you to do so. So that concludes my remarks. So I hope everyone stays cool this week and thank you. Next we move to the consideration of committee reports, executive committee. Resolution number three regarding authorizing director of emergency management to enter into a mutual aid agreement with other emergency management offices. Community recommendation to adopt. Supervisor Gehring. Thank you Mr. Chairman. I move for adoption. Thank you Supervisor Gehring. Supervisor Brower. I will second that motion. Thank you Supervisor Brower under discussion. Seeing no discussion, please vote. Supervisor Schobert, how do you vote? Aye. And with that I will turn the gavel over to the vice chair. Thank you Mr. Chair. Resolutions being introduced this month is starting with from the law committee resolution number four. Regarding authorizing application for fiscal year 2022 justice assistance grant program award and entering into a memorandum of understanding with the city of Sheboyka. Thank you. Where tonight contemplated action will be to pulling pursuant to rule 13 is anticipated that a motion to withdraw or pull this proposed resolution will be made. If by a majority vote the board votes to pull the resolution it will be subject to immediate action. It will make a motion to pull the motions on the floor to pull for immediate action. So it is not debatable, so please vote on your electronic. Supervisor Schobert, how do you vote? Aye. And it looks like it's unanimous, so approval of the motion. I would move that we approve it for passage or not. Hearing none, please vote. Supervisor Schobert, how do you vote? Aye. Hearing none, resolution number five from finance committee. Regarding approving standard for 2023 county sales tax revenue sharing. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Will we send that to the exec committee executive? Resolution number six from the law committee. Funding under 2019 Wisconsin Act 26, Wisconsin Statutes 2056. Thank you. That will be sent to the executive committee also. And resolution number seven from transportation. Regarding amending the 2022 budget for use of general funds for airport fixed space operator services. Thank you, that will be sent to the finance committee. Introducing ordinance number one from transportation. Regarding amending Sheboyin County Code section 61.03 subsection one and repealing section 61.03 subsection two related to fixed space operator services that Sheboyin County Memorial. That will also be sent to exact. And at this time, I'll call for an adjournment. Supervisor Distrote. Thank you, Mr. Vice Chairman. I move to adjourn. Second the motion. Please vote. Supervisor Schobert. Aye.