 Okay, I'd like to call the order of the Tuesday, February 18th, 2020, Sheboygan County Board of Supervisors, certification of compliance with the open meeting law. The board agenda was posted on the 14th of February at 345. Thank you. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. This is to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic of which it stands, on the nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Roll call? Well, we got them all. There are 23 supervisors present. Jim is one of them. I would duly note they never cheered me when I did anything. They cheered you. Thank you. Approval of the January 21st, 2020 Journal. Supervisor Glavin. Move to approve. Thank you, Supervisor Glavin. Supervisor Ziggabauer. I'll second that motion. Thank you, Supervisor Ziggabauer. Any questions, comments? Seeing no lights, please push your iron apron. The journal's approved unanimously. Thank you. Presentations. I have one from Aaron Brault, our planning and conservation director at Amsterdam Dunes. Evening, Aaron. All right. Like John mentioned, I was asked to talk a little bit about where we're at on some of the items at Amsterdam Dunes and the Sheboygan Marsh. So I know Amsterdam Dunes is, the mitigation bank has been a long process, but I'm hopeful that we are nearing the end. So I'll go through a few items there and talk through that. Let's see where do I point. Please. Next slide. So Amsterdam Dunes, I'll talk a little bit about the mitigation bank or primarily the mitigation bank and then what's been going on in the non-mitigation bank portion of the property. If you recall, we have sort of two separate areas that we divided it up, essentially two parcels of that property. And then at the marsh, I'll talk a little bit about the bypass gate, the dam project, and then also the potential building that the friends of the marsh are fundraising for. Next slide. All right. So recent progress on Amsterdam Dunes. About last year this time, we submitted what we were hoping was going to be our final banking instrument is what they call it. We weren't successful in that. However, based on past submittals in the draft documents, we'd get maybe 20, 15 comments back. The good news is that this last submittal, we only had four comments. And one of the comments was changing names. So to the new people that are in roles at the U.S. Army Corps and DNR and places like that. So overall it was pretty exciting, at least for me. The largest comment that we needed to address was there were certain areas of the property where they wanted to have additional archeological studies. So when we first started the process, similar to our Brownfields grant, we had to go through what was known as a phase one archeological study. So they'd walk the site, you know, looked at the ground, seeing if they could find any shards or arrowheads or things like that that might have been there. And they look at a historical documentation to see if there is any known literature out there that stated that this may have been a Native American settlement or things like that. So there was a couple hits in that phase one, and they wanted to have additional study, which meant we had to do what's called a phase two archeological study. So because of the mild weather that we've been having, we were able to complete that in December rather than having to wait until the spring, so that was good news. We got that report delivered on the 31st of January, and we've been working with our consultant now to get those other three additional comments taken care of in our submittal and add in the phase two archeological study. So we're hoping for what I hope is our final submittal this first or second week of March and we'll see what happens. Next slide. So the study areas, I know this isn't the best map, but if you can see up in the top right here, the black areas were where we had to do the phase one archeological study early on, and then these red areas are where they wanted additional study. And essentially what I described, what they do in the phase one study, what they do in the phase two study is actually get out there and start looking underneath that top six, eight inches of farmed material that's been farmed over the years. So you take a backhoe out there and you slowly take a couple inches off at each time and they look at what might be underneath there. Next slide. So some of the findings, I thought one of the coolest things was once they stripped off that six, eight inches, there were certain areas where you could see where they had fires. So there was staining in the ground where they may have had a camp area and had fires. Overall, the good news as far as our mitigation bank was they didn't find much material, so we don't have to switch our plans or revise our plans. So that was the good news. They did find some shards and small material. Most of it was centimeters in length. All told, and I think we had 14 or 15 pits that were dug, they found about a quarter pound of that clay pottery material. So in their eyes, it wasn't very significant. So again, that was good news for our mitigation bank. The other good news, when we were digging pits, I don't know if you can see here, we found a lot of water. So that's good as far as restoring wetlands. Next slide. So where does that leave us for this upcoming submittal? We'll have about 31.9 credits. One of the other comments of those four comments was in our, we have restoration areas, enhancement areas, and then creation areas. And in enhancement, and all those are worth different ratios. So if you're restoring, you get a one-to-one credit. On enhancement, it's a negotiation. On creation, it typically is a half a credit to one, so a 0.5 to one ratio. We were pushing our enhancement in previous submittals. We were going for 0.75, then we dropped it to 0.7, and they essentially came out and said, unless you drop it to 0.5, you're not going to get approval. So we lost five credits in our enhancement areas. And enhancement areas are existing wetlands, and essentially you're going in and taking care of invasive species, drainage issues that may be there, things like that. So 31.9 credits. Credits are currently going on the market for about 80 to 100,000, and that depends on what type of credit you have to buy. If you're buying a forested wetland credit, if you're destroying a forested wetland, those are worth more. If you're looking at like a sedge meadow or something like that, those are worth less. Next slide. So what does that mean for us? If we conservatively say 70,000 a credit, that's about 2.2 using our 31.9 credits, the current estimates for moving dirt, breaking tile, seeding and everything like that is at about 720,000. So that's a difference of about one and a half. But that depends on how we determine how we want to sell our credits to. When we started this early on, we talked about maybe selling it to local units of government for less than we would to the private sector. So that's one of my performance evaluation goals is to present to you guys a policy on that. So we'll be working through that this year. So that number could change a little bit based on what we come up with there. Next slide. So next steps in our hopeful timeline, like I mentioned, we're looking to submit that proposal early March based on past precedent. I'm guessing summer is when we'll hear back from them and hopefully we have approval, which if that all works out would be good for a fall construction timeline because you don't really want to plant in summer when things are hot. So fall planting or spring planting tend to be where you get your most success. So, and like I said, one of my goals for this year is to present to Adam and you guys a policy on how we're going to look at credit sales. Next slide. Other notes just quickly if you recall, our acquisition costs have been fully accounted for either between state stewardship grant, the settlement with Tecumseh, we're still getting payments on that, and then we were able to sell Lot 3 if you recall and Lot 3 is what put us into the black in that regard. Once the bank is approved, we can sell 10% of the credit. If we end up with that 31.9, we'll be able to sell about three, three and a half credits. The Amsterdam Dunes Advisory Committee, we still continue to meet every so often with that committee, probably two or three times a year. They've been providing input on certain items in regards to our non-mitigation bank restoration efforts. And then one of the, if you haven't been down there lately, take a ride, there's no beach left. So we compared the air photos from this point here, and this is at the boat landing looking north towards Amsterdam Park. In 2014, there was about 185 feet more beach than what exists as of about two weeks ago when this parent picture was taken. So pretty significant. Next slide. Non-mitigation, we've been pushing forward with the restoration efforts in the non-mitigation bank portion of the property, and this is sort of how I keep things straight. I map it out and color code it, but we've been successful in getting a number of grants in that regard. Probably the two largest were the US Forestry Service Grants. So this past spring, we planted about, I think, 4,200 trees, and this spring we'll be planting about another 3,500. And that's primarily in the areas where we logged ash last year. So there's certain stands of forest on the site that are between 80% and 90% ash. So that's going to be dead, as you guys know, pretty soon. So we were able to log last year while some of that timber still had value, and these forest grants are where we're replacing trees because of the ash. Next slide. And then, yeah, just some pictures on the ash. Some of the forested areas, like I said, greater than 80% ash. We logged a couple areas in 19, and then, like I said, we'll be planting about 7,000 or 8,000 trees in those areas. All right. Next slide. And then lastly, Shboygan Marsh, we have three projects out there. The Bypass Gate Replacement, if you recall, in 2018 it got stuck in the down position, so we had no water control structure out there. So we haven't had a control structure out there since July 3rd, I believe, is when we finally got it out of 2018. That should be installed next week. The New Dam. We have it currently listed in our five-year capital plan for 2023 construction. I think the county, we have in there 1.4 and some change. We have a million-dollar ask-in at the DNR through their wildlife program. From what I hear, that's looking pretty good so far, so we'll see on that. And then the Shboygan County Conservation Association has pledged $100,000 of their funding for the New Dam. Right now, we're trying to secure design dollars, so when we get to 2023, we can build it, that we have a design and approve plans in place. And then the new building, Friends of the Marsh. We're getting there. That's taken a while, too, with the fundraising, but right now we're about $170,000 short of the goal to begin construction. So we're hopeful that we can start in 2020. Tuesday night, we have a meeting with a potential donor, so hopefully maybe next Tuesday this time we'll have good news. So I guess any questions? That's a quick rundown of both properties. Thank you very much, Aaron. Thank you for all you did out there, and I just wanted to add real quickly, you know, to me that was a perfect example of the Amsterdam Dunes project. Adam was involved, obviously. Aaron, former chairman, Roger Giastrudi, the finance committee, prayer committee, executive committee, the board as a whole had a little bit of a leap of faith there with good information. And I think it was a perfect example of the type of collaboration that leads to good results, and I just wanted to mention that. Thank you. Public addresses. There are none. Letters, communications, and announcements. There are two resolutions from the Audigamy County Board of Supervisors. The first one is supporting pending legislation correcting statute discrepancies dealing with children in need of protection or chips. We'll refer that to the Health and Human Services Committee. And the second one is supporting pending legislation known as commitment to Veterans Support and Outreach Act. We'll also refer that one to the Health and Human Services Committee. Thank you, John. County Administrators Report. Adam. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good evening. Good evening. I appreciate it. Chairman Wagner's summary there as I reflect and look at this. The current board has three more board meetings. You only have three more board meetings. And as we know, there's going to be a number of new faces next term. And as Aaron walked through the Amsterdam Dunes preservation area, mitigation bank, I mean, as Chairman Wagner said, what an accomplishment by this board in Sheboygan County. And I've said this to Aaron before and I'll just say it publicly. I don't know if there is a planning and conservation director or a county board in the state that has a stronger track record right now of natural resource protection and enhancement. You took a leap of faith and purchased 333 acres of one of the last remaining undeveloped properties along Lake Michigan between here and Milwaukee. We garnered over $100 million to clean up the Sheboygan River and Harbor to dredge it working with the city of Sheboygan and others. We've purchased Gerber Lakes. We've done good work at the Sheboygan County Marsh. And if you talk about quality of life or one of the few counties in the country that invested over $25 million in our non-motorized transportation system. So whether you're a planning and conservation director and Aaron's team or on the planning and conservation, the Precom Committee, any member of this county board, without your support, these type of activities don't happen. And I see in the room this evening we have a few guests who are running for county board. And I welcome you this evening and I think it's a compliment to you that you're here to observe what we shared when I stopped back and chatted with you. It also is a reflection on this county board that decorum, professionalism, respect, thoughtfulness, working in collaboration, it's the culture that we have established. It starts with Chairman Wagner and every former county board chairperson that's here this evening, it's a responsibility of all of us. And it's why I love working for Sheboygan County. We don't focus on Ds and Rs. We focus on problem-solving and we have a really impressive track record of helping make good things happen. So I thank the county board for your work and your leadership and when you see a presentation like that or if you're going to be retiring soon and stepping off the board, I hope you reflect on all the good things that you've helped make happen that you've been a part of. Thank you for that. 100 years from now, folks are going to be walking Amsterdam dunes and they're going to be thinking, wow, somebody had some vision to protect this for future generations. Pretty cool. With any new board and we have our annual county board leadership form Vice Chairman Koch and Chairman Wagner and I have already been talking a little bit about the leadership form. We want to focus more on orientation because we know we're going to have new faces on the county board. We already have some new faces on the county board with some appointments that have recently occurred and there's always opportunities to learn. So at the leadership forum, of course we'll be looking at our fiscal outlook challenges ahead but we'll certainly be talking about Robert's rules of order and our just approach of collaboration and teamwork. I think our budget process, for example is second to none. We have a very effective and collaborative budget process and the longer I'm around the more I'm hearing other counties who don't quite operate what we do and don't have the success that we do in that regard. So it's again a credit to the board and we want to make sure the new board members, the new supervisors that they appreciate and recognize the approach we have there as well. The Wisconsin Counties Association does a fair amount of training most recently chairman or vice chairman Vern Koch and I and supervisor Jerry Jorgensen. We attended a training session in Stevens Point was that a couple of weeks ago and thought it was very valuable, very well done and coming up and you may have already received this notification the 2020 county officials workshops, they refer to it as cows. I don't know if I like the acronym so much, but it is Wisconsin Adam, it is Wisconsin. Yes, right, right, but I encourage you to think about it, whether you're a new board member or not they'll have a number of dates and locations in May and I'll be sure to share this if you don't receive it directly from the Wisconsin Counties Association but the two closest are probably in Stevens Point and in Depeer Lake Geneva that's on May 15th May 18th and May 20th, so you may just want to make a note or jot something on the calendar and again we'll give this information out to you. We received this chairman Wagner, I don't think the full board has received this. I don't know, I did. They said more information had come so this may have just been handed out to us at the policy exchange you were at so I encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity, certainly make sure that you attend our annual county board leadership forum, we've been doing it for 20 years, it's one of the secrets to our success. Attend the Wisconsin Counties Association conference in September, particularly new board members, a great opportunity and the opportunity that chairman Wagner, vice chairman Koch and I just attended was the Wisconsin Counties Association legislative exchange and I wanted to provide a brief update on that. Felt a little bit like Groundhog Day, we've been attending these for a while, it's generally the administrator the chairperson sometimes the vice chairperson so the three of us had the opportunity to go this year. Markle Connell started the session talking about population dynamics in the state of Wisconsin and particularly rural areas are seeing their population decline and decline significantly and you think about the pressure that puts on the tax base and maintaining services, particularly maintaining our transportation system. I don't know if you had a chance to review the article I forwarded on from but the New York inquirer or whatever it was New York Times that's got a better ring to it, doesn't it? Yes it does. They were talking about Trampolo County and that their turnaround time on taking care of their roads now is upwards of 70 years and how many counties are feeling this pressure. Thank goodness the Sheboygan County Board had the vision the courage the leadership to implement a half percent sales tax and have a sustainable funding source to maintain our transportation system. Thank goodness and now we have other counties looking at us as a model the fact that we not only are dedicating that to our transportation system that we're providing property tax relief and we're sharing it with other local municipalities the only county to do so pretty impressive. Mark set the stage Executive Director Mark O'Connell with some of the challenges, struggles that counties are having with population dynamics with workforce if any of you want to continue working into your 90s we encourage it because there's a need out there and I think of my kids who are all in their 20s now and any young people coming into the workforce wow are there opportunities out there for people there's a real need for workers. Sheboygan County even with all of our focus with the Sheboygan County Economic Development Corporation all the strides we've made the last five, ten years we still have about 2,500 open positions right here in Sheboygan County we received a legislative update from Kyle Christensen, Sarah Dietrich Kastorf Dan Barr Marcia Rainbolt folks that many of you probably have heard before heard them speak at a WCA conference and they're outstanding WCA staff are outstanding Kyle Christensen is just I think he's a rock star, he does a wonderful job as legislative director and if you've never met Sarah Dietrich Kastorf she's been with that association now for over 20 years and she focuses a lot on health and human services incredibly knowledgeable so they talked about a lot of things going on or maybe not enough going on at the state level to problem solve discuss levy limits and I can assure you no one is interested in raising property taxes but if we're not going to raise property taxes or if we're going to continue to have levy limits in place that really don't provide enough revenue for us to maintain our programs and services we better be willing to look at alternative revenue streams and you're starting to hear more focus about the sales tax if you may recall from our county board leadership forum sales tax in Wisconsin is less than the surrounding states around us and candidly I think people find it a little bit more acceptable than the old property tax increase that comes right around Christmas time it's considered to be one of the most despised taxes there are so who wants to beat the drum to raise property taxes we don't know we've held the line very effectively for the last decade or more but we're going to have to be willing to look at alternatives our legislators are going to have to be willing to look at alternatives and as I shared at the legislative breakfast last week Monday for the board members who attended that you understand the programs and services we have you see the needs at health and human services whether it's children people suffering from mental health whatever it may be if you aren't talking to our legislators and helping raise their awareness to the challenges we have and that we're just striving to maintain what we have in play who's going to so I think we're all going to have to contribute more to that discussion the other topic they had was juvenile corrections we all heard a lot about that last couple of years now the state juvenile correctional facilities did a poor job and they were looking to blow it up and create four regional facilities and they asked counties to step up and there were a number of counties willing to do so though when they looked at the cost benefit of doing that and the risk involved fewer and fewer counties stepped forward finally we reached some agreement in the state and now we have some reservation at the state level about providing sufficient funds so it's all being delayed but it's a challenge it's an ongoing challenge Governor Tony Evers attended the WCA policy exchange and as former chairman Bill Gehring knows and Roger Distruty you don't necessarily see the governor there every policy exchange but he was there and speaking about what they would like to do with the fund balance or the surplus that you've no doubt read about I think it's a real credit to the state the state's fiscal house has not been in order which I've always felt strongly that dog on it, Sheboygan County's better be and it is but the state for over a decade has not had their fiscal house in order and it's encouraging to see and reflects well on all involved that right now the state's fiscal house is looking better the rainy day fund is approaching one billion and if we do see a downturn in the economy which no doubt we will at some point we've got some reserves there helps with the bond rating it's good all around we had a legislative leadership roundtable and that as I see my friend Bill Gehring smiling back there that does feel like round dog day because you get these important leaders up there and Mark O'Connell does a nice job talking to them about what's hot what are they focusing on talking to them about themselves and so the majority and minority leaders were there and honestly it was really more about them really pointing fingers at one another about the lack of communication the lack of maybe respect or courtesy and asking one another to get together to talk things through rather than just throw it out there and see what sticks it's to me it felt like I mean with all due respect because they have very very challenging jobs I can't imagine not in their shoes but it felt like there's some room for improvement there on just how we communicate and treat one another Andy Phillips the attorney who represents Von Bresen and Roper and the Wisconsin Counties Association gave an update on the opioid lawsuit that 71 of 72 counties have signed on with including Sheboyin County he also gave an update on Brown County and the fact that they're in the midst of a lawsuit on their half percent sales tax and whether or not for every dollar that is raised in sales tax revenue should we be reducing property tax levy the same dollar amount imagine if that was the ruling every county in the state that has a sales tax and I believe about 65 of 72 do would be in a world of hurt just late a fix so we're waiting on a court ruling with that and then finally we had some Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates present there and that always feels a little unique when they do that but it's educational to see the differences in their point of view and so we got to get to know them a little bit better so just a quick little recap on that but I think it's a very valuable policy exchange and it's a credit to our Wisconsin County's Association staff and all involved they do a nice job representing county government the last thing I'd like to touch on is what's in your packet this evening you have resolution number 21 authorizing and if indefensible right of use agreement for the use of ring of fiber in infrastructure it's quite a mouthful essentially it gets the exclusive right a private entity to assist Sheboygan County and the other partners we have the city of Sheboygan school and the city of Sheboygan and further improving upon our ring of fiber for those of you who are a little new or wondering what is this ring of fiber let me very briefly share in partnership with the city of Sheboygan and Sheboygan area school district Sheboygan County completed the construction of a 23 mile ring of fiber to the tune of two and a half million dollars in October of 2016 it was quickly time flies right it was a real investment and a collaborative effort between the county the city of Sheboygan and the city of Sheboygan school district the network replaces the aging and sometimes unreliable radio tower equipment that previously connected county facilities to the internet the enhanced speed and reliability of the new network will support the construction of a disaster recovery and data backup site that is now in our detention center that was done in 2017 it vastly improves our overall security it was just the right thing to do and talk about a wonderful investment this fiber that goes in the ground generally last they say for about 40 years probably longer over the course of that time we will completely pay back the investment that we made and have a far more reliable system so what's happening with the resolution you have before you Chris Lewinsky deserves credit our IT director he sought request for proposals and we have a company even though it's entitled brown county it's a private sector third-party company and what they're doing is putting fiber in so we can hook up our transportation facility and rocky no and in return we're giving them some lines that we aren't utilizing so bottom line is because they're there it's going to benefit our overall organization and make sure that folks at rocky no our employees there and at the transportation facility are hooked up into the ring as well it's a good thing and it's a credit to Chris and all involved for seeing it through with that I'll conclude thank you mr. chairman thank you Adam next consideration of committee reports executive committee resolution number 20 regarding carry over of an expended 2019 appropriations to 2020 recommendation to adopt supervisor garing thank you mr. chairman I move for adoption thank you supervisor garing I need a second thank you sir as a robler thank you sir as a robler any questions or comments seeing no lights please push your eye or a button recommendations adopted unanimously thank you resolution number 21 regarding authorizing indefeasible right of use agreement for use of ring of fiber infrastructure recommendation to adopt supervisor brawler I'd like to make the motion to approve thank you supervisor brawler supervisor to strudy thank you mr. chairman I'll second the motion thank you supervisor to strudy any questions or comments seeing no lights please push your eye or a button that motion is approved unanimously thank you consideration of committee reports law committee ordinance number 10 regarding establishing a speed zone on county road KK tana wilson recommendation to enact supervisor globin move to approve thank you supervisor globin supervisor zigglebauer I'll second that motion thank you supervisor zigglebauer are there any questions or comments on this ordinance seeing no lights please push your eye or a button ordinance is approved unanimously thank you I would like to note that I think I would like to make sure that the road change in speed that passed unanimously because if you all remember and I love the guy he still calls me by the way just so you know and we talk from time to time he's a great guy supervisor be miss obviously he was not a fan of that so just thought I'd mention it I won't tell him that happened keep it quiet okay turn the gavel over to the vice chair resolution 22 from the finance committee regarding authorizing the issueanson sale $4,750,000 general obligation promissory notes resolution 22 will be sent to the executive committee resolution 23 from the finance committee regarding adopting citizen participation plan resolution 23 will be sent to the executive committee resolution 24 from the finance committee regarding adopting policy to prohibit use of excessive force and barring entrances exits for nonviolent civil rights demonstrations. Resolution number 24 will be sent to the law committee. Resolution number 25, from Planning, Resource, Agriculture, and Extension Committee. Regarding approving merger of lots one and two, plot of survey titled lot one, shores of Amsterdam, Dunes, town of Holland. Resolution number 25 will be sent to the executive committee and resolution number 26, from Planning, Resource, Agriculture, and Extension Committee. Regarding requesting Wisconsin DNR Stewardship Local Assistance Grant. Resolution number 26, will be sent to the finance committee. There are no new ordinances. Supervisor Tastrodi. Thank you, Mr. Vice Chair, I'll move to adjourn. Thank you, Supervisor Tastrodi, Supervisor Glavin. Second. Thank you, Supervisor Glavin. Please vote. We are adjourned.