 Good evening, certification of compliance with the open meeting law. The agenda was posted on the 16th of April at 9.30 a.m. Thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Roll call. All right, Supervisor Smith. Supervisor Gruber. Your supervisor Schneider. All right. Supervisor Montemayor. Here. Supervisor Clark. Here. Supervisor Nelson. Here. Supervisor Boatjank. Here. Supervisor Koch. Here. Supervisor Schober. Here. Supervisor Brower. Here. Supervisor Jorgensen. Here. Supervisor Siegelbauer. Here. Supervisor Netting. Here. Supervisor Abler. Here. Supervisor Kulow. Here. Supervisor Dan. Here. Supervisor Wagner. Here. Supervisor Imel. Here. Supervisor O.J. Here. Supervisor Hoffman. Here. Supervisor Hillbillink. Here. Supervisor Bosman. Here. Supervisor Veldman. Here. Supervisor Gary. Here. Supervisor Tostridi. Here. 25 supervisors present. Supervisors present. Thank you, John. The administration of Oats of Office, we were formed by our county clerk, John Doulson. John, you would all stand, please. And if you would raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name. Swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the Office of County Board Supervisor to the best of my ability. So help me God. Thank you. Thank you, John. You do need to sign that. We'll send it. We'll be collecting those later. Next, introduction of, I think there's to make an argument that's here, but in interdiction statements by the County Administrator, Ann. Actually, that was for our magnificent seven. We have seven new County Board Supervisors here this evening. We just went through an orientation, sharp group, diverse group, and from this point forward, we shall refer to you fondly as the Magnificent Seven. What do you think? Although the other Board members are shaking their heads, are you kidding me? Well, congratulations. It's nice to have you all here this evening. It's a little surreal to look out and see masks and spread out at the UW Sheboygan Theater. My compliments to all involved. We are going to do some introductions tonight, but we're going to do it in a much safer manner. Some of our department heads are here this evening, but I'm going to introduce all of the department heads. So at least the seven newest Board members are well aware of them. And for those of you who have been around for a while, you might enjoy the photos. I'm going to stand to the side here a little bit. So the administration building. This is where many departments meet and that might hitting. Am I going up this way? Top one. All right. That's your county administrator. I've been working for you for 21 years now. Have the pleasure of working with 19 department heads. I, as the new supervisors just learned, I directly supervise the appointed department heads. Obviously, we have six elected department heads. Treat them all with similar expectations. We've got a good group and we have a very broad organization. 19 departments working with 850 employees administering over 200 programs and services. A lot going on. $158 million budget. Also in the administration building is our planning and conservation director, Aaron Brault. Does this might work? Yeah, I know. Go back. Can you hear me? Stand to the side. Stand over by my executive assistant, Elaine. Hi, Elaine. Okay. Did you just take me back to the first? Thank you. Human Resources Director. This is the newest member of our team, Dennis Miller, just started six weeks ago. Our new board members just had a chance to meet Dennis. We're so grateful to have him here. Did he get thrown into the fire with the coronavirus? All hands on deck with working with our employees. We have 180 employees now working at home. Dennis has helped with policy development, FMLA, sick leave, benefits. What does that look like? How do people work at home? How do we do that safely? Working with IT and others. He's done a remarkable job at a very short period of time as a five staff and a budget of just under $800,000. Planning and conservation director Aaron Brault. Second time he's been up here. He's pretty popular. He's been with us for 13 years. He has 14 staff, a budget of 2.2 million. He'll be working with the Planning, Resources, Agriculture and Extension Committee. Really a good guy. Gets things done. Has been very involved with things like our Cheboygan River Harbor cleanup. And most recently the tree sale. We have sold literally over a million trees during this 10-year Cheboygan County. And that's going on right now. So look forward to meeting Aaron Brault. Registered Deals now. Take a look at that photo. I don't think that was taken in our HR department friend. Do you think that was taken in the conference room there? So Ellen Schleicher, elected Registered Deals. She's been with us 14 years now. It's amazing putting this together or a lane put it together. How quickly the years have passed. She has seven staff and a budget of 661,000. Ellen Schleicher registered Deals on the second floor in the County Administration Building. Finance director Wendy Sharnon. Wendy's been with us five years. She has 16 staff. Her department budget is 1.7 million. But like me she works with $150 million budget pulling that together. Wendy does a really really nice job working with the finance committee. All the department heads. Obviously myself and making sure that we're physically responsible working within the County Board's budget parameters. She does nice work. Our County Clerk John Wilson. Every one of the room knows John Wilson. He just ran a really well orchestrated election in Cheboygan County. John and his staff coordinate that. I was so pleased and proud of our municipal clerks and how they handled the elections here. I thought they did it safely and thoughtfully. I wish a few others other areas in the state would follow Cheboygan County's lead. But a credit to John and all involved. He's been with us seven years. Has three staff and a budget of $400,000. Treasure of real property. Another elected official like our County Clerk, like our Registrar of Beads. Laura used to work in our finance department actually years ago left. And then return as our elected treasurer. She's been with us 17 years in that role. She has seven staff budget of just under $800,000 first floor in the administration building to the right. We now have a glass enclosed office on an area that we wanted to enhance safety. And of course they do very important work and not real glamorous work. Collecting property taxes. Economic development. Not a county department. Not a county department head. But Joe Sheehan, that face may look familiar. He was the Cheboygan school superintendent for a number of years. Two years ago came on to be the director of our Cheboygan County Economic Development Corporation. It's a quasi public private organization. They also are housed in the administration building complements of the county. And we provide some financial support as does the city, other local units of government and the private sector. They have four staff budget of about $600,000. Moving on to the courthouse. Some people ask where is that county administration building? Well, you're all going to know that real well, particularly our new board members. The courthouse is just a kitty corner. And look at that new front entrance. We put in secured entrance a couple of years ago. Improved the parking, the safety, the control of the building. It's a beautiful grand facility and the number of important departments work there, such as our district attorney. He is an elected official as well. State employee. It's not a county employee, the state employee, but he has a number of county employees working for him. He's been in the office for 14 years, has 23 staff, a budget of about $1.1 million. Right now things in the district attorney's office are a little slower because of the coronavirus, but it is going to pick up immensely once we start getting in behind us. Clerk of Courts, Melody Lorgy. Melody has been in the clerk of Courts office for 36 years. She's probably one of our most, if not the most senior employees who is working as a department head, though you certainly wouldn't know what looking at her. Wonderful, thoughtful, kind person. They do very important work in the clerk of Courts office. She's an elected official as well. 24 staff, $2.5 million budget. If you're paying a fine forfeiture, you're going generally to the clerk of Courts office. Court commissioner. Ryan O'Rourke. So the county, just as we discussed with our new supervisors a few minutes ago, we have, like the state judicial system, we have five circuit courts. We also have a court commissioner in his role is similar to a circuit court in that he's processing judicial decisions. He's supporting the five circuit courts. Ryan's been with us for four years. He has three staff, very small office. A lot of people go through it. Budget of just another $400,000. To put it in perspective, often these positions move on to judgeship. Rebecca Persek was our former family court commissioner. Now she's a judge. Terry Burke was a former family court commissioner. Was a judge that since retired. So a very important position. Medical examiner. Generally the person most people don't want to spend a lot of time talking to. Chris Nearing is a really good man. We're fortunate to have him on the team. He worked with the former coroner. Elevated or changed to a medical examiner a number of years ago by the board. He works about two thirds timing as some of four staff that work with him and really interested and passionate about the work he does. I think does a very nice job. He as well has been very engaged with coronavirus plans and preparations and again discussions that most people really don't want to be that involved with. Next slide please. Building services. Jim to Beast. Jim to Beast. We're not sure either used his college graduation picture or he just came from a wedding when he had his picture taken in HR. I think he just updated that. But Jim to Beast has been our building services director for 20 years. He's an engineer. He works with the property committee as 30 staff that he works with they do really important work keeping all of our buildings clean and safe. He has a significant budget and what I really admire and appreciate about Jim to Beast. Engineering background, project management and attention to detail. Well Jim to Beast and our Highway Commissioner Greg Schnell were two key leaders involved with our twenty three million dollar transportation complex and between the two of them we came another budget and Jim really did a nice job. Next slide please. Information technology. Now Chris Lewinsky is with us today. He's in the back room. You may have seen him earlier. If you're able to turn your head maybe you could just see Chris in the back. He could give you a little wave, right? Take a look at that here. There's been quite significant growth in his beard since hiring him five years ago. Built earring. I don't know if you're taking note of this but that is quite a beard. So we're real pleased to have Chris with us. He has built and has a wonderful team to work with. Definitely a go-to person with IT technology assistance with the iPads just helping with a meeting like this. Chris is always in demand in helping make good things happen. He has ten staff and a two and a half million dollar budget. Chris was real involved with the Ring of Fiber that we recently put in the school district of the city. He's now working on doing an extension to Rocky Gnome the transportation complex. He does a lot of the work work behind the scenes that we may not be fully aware of what we sure appreciate that when it's in place and we sure know what when it doesn't work. Next slide please. Health and Human Services. Our Health and Human Services director is I don't know if I should use the clicker anymore Chris. I mean you're anticipating right now. Matt Stripmoder. Matt's been with us for just a year and a half now. You follow Tom Edderrecht who was here for I think close to seven or nine years. Tom did nice work for for us and Matt Stripmoder is as well. He's from La Crosse area. He was a division manager there for about twenty years. It really brought some nice ideas and a different perspective from La Crosse's. Immediately implemented some nice improvements and part of their budget and working with his knees on committee which is the Health and Human Services Committee. So Matt again only a year and a half. The jury's still out and you gotta be here in a few years before we know if it's gonna work. Right Greg? That's great. But I don't know. He's doing a nice job. Two hundred and eight staff. Thirty five million dollar budget. Shared with the new supervisors a little earlier. Over forty four programs in that department. You could that department could be a county within itself. There is so much that goes on in Health and Human Services. So critically important to our community. When I started in this role a little over twenty years ago I knew nothing about Health and Human Services. And the longer I'm here the more I have just my respect and appreciation for that department is sky high. Incredibly important work that they do helping people with mental illness, behavior, health, people in crisis, remarkable work. And right now this department and their public health division deserve all the credit and love and appreciation that we can show for the tremendous job they're doing with the plans, the preparations, the response to the coronavirus. Remarkable. Just remarkable. Next slide please. Aging and Disability Resource Center. Back in the day this used to be the Land and Water Conservation Department and UW Extension. A number of years ago it was somewhat controversial. We consolidated UW Extension with UW Shavoy right here. And it actually worked out very very well. And then over time there's been some changes to that facility. So aging and disability has been there for some time now and I think they're doing a real good work there. And then veteran services just moved in there. It's been about a year or so. And Todd Richter says that the veterans have really appreciated the central location and the ample parking and they don't have to go through the front security and wind through and get back to the annex. It's worked out quite well. So Todd is relatively new. He's been with the county for 16 years but he's only been a department head for about a year. He has three staff, $315,000 budget and of course providing vital services to veterans and their families. Next slide please. Sheriff's Department. So I'll share a query of your earlier. The Sheriff oversees an immense amount of important work and responsibilities. Cory we're so fortunate that Cory is our sheriff. 29 years. 29 years of public service and law enforcement. Very knowledgeable, wonderful demeanor, professional, kind. He's just an entire career helping good things for should avoid the county. 29 years of service, 198 employees of $21 million budget. And for those of us who haven't had that much involvement with law enforcement or have never served them a law committee, they do a lot of heavy lifting. Between law enforcement and health and human services, they do tremendously important work in the community. Next slide. Rocky and I'll talk about important work as we shared with the seven new board members. It wasn't that long ago as many of our board members in the room know we had three facilities. We had over six million dollars subsidizing three nursing homes. We had more beds and more cost than any county in the state. We sets right sides and now we have the Rocky and I'll help your center which is a grand facility. One that our governor actually used to live in and his father used to be a doctor at. Next slide. And right now Kayla Clinton is our administrator and she's young and she's sharp. Very hardworking, very dedicated. This builds a good team and has her hands full as you can imagine with the coronavirus possibility and what that would look like if that got into Rocky and all just as it did at Sunny Ridge. Such appreciation for the contingency pledge she's put in place. The team she has in place, our healthcare providers are doing incredible work in a stressful time. 180 employees there over a 13 million dollar budget. Most of that are state and federal dollars, federal dollars predominantly. Our tax levy right now for Rocky knows about $800,000. Again with that perspective 2007 when we sold Sunny Ridge it was $6.1 million. So we look on the right direction. That's like transportation. Look at that facility. We got to get a little better picture of the sunny day. Maybe get the sheriff's camera out there. What's that called? That drone. Right Elaine? Get that drone out there. But look at that facility 23.5 million dollar facility. We had over 750 people show up for the open house and we consolidated four facilities into one essentially. We really have made some changes in our transportation organization. And as I mentioned earlier Jim DeVis was a big part of that. But next slide please. This transportation director, Greg Chanel, just did a tremendous job of his leadership. 14 years and yes that is an updated photo. At some board meeting or department head meeting in the future we will show the picture from 14 years ago. We have a little fun with our friend Greg. But Greg really has done an outstanding job leading the transportation department. It's one of the few full service transportation or highway operations, county operations in the state. Thanks to Roger Destruity and Tom Wagner and the board as a whole. We implemented the sales tax and directed all to that toward our transportation property tax relief sharing it with other municipalities. And we haven't used the red set of that on the transportation complex itself. But between that new facility, the efficiency to be garnered and the revenue source to be put in place, we've got a good transportation system that we're going to keep it that way. 95 employees, 21.3 million dollar budget. Next slide please. The airport. Years ago the airport was a separate department. We used to have 20 departments. I think way back in the day we had upwards of 30 departments. There's been a fair amount of consolidation over the years. But the airport now also falls under Greg's jurisdiction as a transportation director. Next slide. That's the U.S. Customs Facility that's in progress. Beautiful photo. And if you haven't had a chance of late I encourage you to drive over there. I haven't been there for a few weeks now and I'm looking forward to getting a tour. I occasionally will swing by, as I mentioned, TT. As I mentioned to the new supervisors, they're TT. Try the airport to the north and you can see the progress going on there. Next slide. Matt Grenoble just started. He's pretty recent to the team. He reports directly to Greg and he comes from the airport in, it was a walk-a-shot, right? Really had some nice experience, nice background and so far so good. Three staff, small operation, they're doing a good job. Next slide. UW Extension, I mentioned earlier, used to be out, Jaboi Falls is now right here at UW Shibuya and that really created some synergies for collaboration, sharing resources, provided them with better and newer space. A lot more meeting space, open space for the public of 4-H'ers and it worked out well. Next slide. Cindy is currently the director. She's been with us for three years. She is a state employee, but one of the 19 department heads, she has nine staff and a budget of just $500,000. That department as well would report the planning resources of any extension committee. Next slide. We have an interesting situation in Shibuya County that we don't have an internal corporation council. We have a contracted corporation council. When I started years ago, I thought that's interesting. Most larger counties have their own corp council in-house. Why don't we? I'll tell you why. Because we have a history that goes 50 years or longer with Hapnubin and Hamki. They have outstanding attorneys. The last one we had as our corp council was Carl Bissing. Carl brought Crystal Fieber into the fold in 2006. She had all this transition time and just last year 2019 she became our lead corporation council. She hit the ground running. She has an excellent job and as I shared with all the new supervisors, please don't hesitate to reach out to her if you have any questions about all the meetings, agendas, ordinances. Crystal does an excellent job. Next slide. Now that picture of me, well that was probably just taken last week. Next slide. Okay. This is Chairman Wagner's last meeting. Chairman Wagner said to me, don't give him any attention. So I'm not going to. I'm going to focus on the executive committee in the county board. Every year what we do is we put together a little high-end state of the county, right? And we try to develop a top 10 list or thereabouts. Some of the key accomplishments that we collectively accomplished. So if I just go back four years and quickly summarize what we as a Sheboygan County board and department heads and an executive committee and a community have accomplished for our seven new board members in the room, I think you're going to be blown away with what collaboration can accomplish. In 2016, when I think Chairman Wagner was elected chair, but let's focus on the board, we collectively decided as a county board that we were going to enhance courthouse security and that was approved by the county board. We as a county board went to partnership with GHT, which saved the county over a million dollars rather than having our own self-fund. That year the county board passed a budget that had a 1% levy decrease. County board is a track record of being fairly fiscally responsible. We worked with the city, the school district. Chris Lewinsky, as I mentioned earlier, was a big part of this and established a ring of fiber, which now we have far more enhanced capability, 23 miles of fiber network that all three entities are sharing and working collaboration. The transportation complex was approved and we had a groundbreaking that year. We established a drug and alcohol treatment court. We took on and upgraded our radio system and completed combined dispatch. We also that year implemented a county sales tax and revenue sharing program, which as I mentioned earlier as well, the board had to get it done and show the leadership for that. Roger Distruty was a key leader involved with that as well. The next year in 2017 we sold the Pennsylvania Avenue property. You might recall just up from the courthouse there where the new Penn site is, that was a dilapidated brownfield. I went into one of the homes we tore down and they were just shambles and of course we can look at what's going on there now. That first year in 2017 with the use of the sales tax revenue we delivered. We did over 30 miles of overlay. We shared revenue with our local municipalities. We reduced property taxes. We applied some of it to debt service. We created an opioid detox service enhancement to address the opioid crisis and that continues to be an area of concern but we took some effort and initiated there and that strong physical track record. In 2017 we had a 1.38% property tax levy increase. In 2018 the Pennsylvania Avenue redevelopment was proceeding and we constructed a new garage. What is Jim DeBeest and his staff like that new garage that's in the back parking lot? We had a road diet and put two roundabouts in in Kohler and that turned out well and that was a vision largely of Aaron Brault to have a road diet there and put in a path and more green space and of course Greg's team did an excellent job with the roundabouts. Rocky Knoll we've really emphasized the importance of quality care. They had a five star rating that year and they've maintained it ever since. We started our planning for the U.S. Customs Facility, the planning. Amsterdam Dunes that we had purchased previously in 2018 we totally recouped and celebrated the $4.2 million of fund balance that the County Board took a leap of faith that provided to purchase those 333 acres. We recouped the entire investment. We upgraded our emails and phone system and voting system didn't we Chris Lewinsky and of course that continues to be work in progress but it's a far more efficient system today than it was years ago. What about that strong track record of fiscal responsibility? Well that year we had a 1.83 percent increase in the levy and the transportation facility was completed and then in 2019 just last year strong track record, fiscal track record, we had a 2.41 percent increase in the property tax levy. Essentially we've been capturing the net new construction or what the state allows for us. If you look at the last 10 years of what the county board and our organization has achieved we've had on average a 1 percent increase in the property tax levy. We have been leading by example when it comes to fiscal responsibility. Rocky and Ole maintain their five star rating and they're adding childcare, adding childcare. We're going to try something different and see if that helps us recruit and retain staff. Construction began on the U.S. terminal 31 miles of county road were completed and highway 23 broke ground and we Sheboygan County weighed in on that and had some influence on getting that done. Behavioral health, use justice, child welfare programs were enhanced and our Sheboygan County Economic Development Corporation achieved a 10-year milestone. Those are just a few of the accolades and accomplishments that collectively through collaboration we achieved. So for the seven new county board supervisors that are with us tonight you're following seven people that have combined 114 years of experience and they did good work. You're going to do good work too but know that you're you're joining a pretty successful team. So finally, though collaboration is key to our success and it requires all of us working together in a thoughtful and respectful manner, it does require strong leadership. So with that if chairman Wagner could come forward and I will very quickly hand him a modest plaque thanking him for his impressive leadership and dedication as our Sheboygan County Board Chair for the last four years would you please all rise and give Chairman Wagner a round of applause. All right thank you. I don't want to appear ungracious. I do want to just rope quickly thank everybody. This board is highly respected I believe within the county and it's highly respected outside of this county in the state of Wisconsin and the reason being is because we're civil, we solve problems, we work together and I think we have a reputation I know that will continue so thank you everyone. Next adoption of the rules. Chapter two every two years the executive committee goes through the rules and we probably stand a little more talking about this than we have in other years in all honesty and a lot of it was just codifying what we've been doing it didn't always have the rules. There are some other changes if anybody's got same questions we'll we'll have that but if I could have a motion to bring it to the floor. Supervisor Nelson. Thank you Chairman Wagner for the rules. Thank you Supervisor Ziggler. I'll second that motion. Thank you Supervisor Ziggler. Are there any questions or comments that anybody has? Yes Brian. Thank you Mr. Chairman. I had a question on under finance committee oh this is not page number nine I apologize for that. So make your time. Section K was struck it said the finance committee it should be the duty and make settlement with all officers and department heads at the end of their terms and upon termination where was that moved or what's changed there? I'll let our court counsel. Okay. Handle that if you don't mind. Can you hear me? Can you hear me without the mic? So as Chairman Wagner mentioned there were several changes that were made to chapter two to bring it more in line with what the current practice was that was one of the items that was identified as something that had it been handled by the finance committee it has not been reallocated to another area to make settlement with all officers and department heads only the county administrator is involved at the end of the department heads term of employment with the county it was something that was deemed no longer necessary under the finance committee responsibilities. Yeah so the follow-up on that good question made for that now it's following current practice the department has reported to me a higher fire authority in the rare instances where change needs to be made obviously i'm having discussions with the executive committee or the HR committee certainly the county board chairperson but those matters are handled quietly and confidentially and we move on and again i'm handling that directly. Okay thank you. Any other questions? I'll make sure to see everybody. Okay um if we're all done is that right or just can't vote? You can do a voice vote. Okay let's do a voice vote and all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? As is your answer. Next uh as is custom here and now we have been the rules I will turn the meeting over to our corporation fellow crystal viewer to handle the elections. Hear me now? Okay. I'm just briefly run through how the election will work everyone should have some blank ballots in front of them does everybody have those and some to write with? Okay I'm standing when waving frantically so it looks like everyone is set. This will be conducted by secret ballot and the way we'll go about it is our first election is going to be for our county board chair then it will be for the vice chair and lastly it'll be for the three positions each individually for the executive committee. The first ballot that you cast will be the nominating ballot. Even if one of the candidates receives at least 50 of the vote for the nominating ballot we will still move on to the election portion. In other words if this first nomination does have more than 50 percent going to one candidate that just means that that person will be on the ballot for the election. I will ask each of you who are nominated whether you choose to accept the nomination if you choose to decline you will be removed from the ballot then you will not be eligible then to be nominated or excuse me to be elected into that position. You should simply write the name of the individual that you are nominating or electing any extraneous marks or if it's an unreadable ballot you will not be able to count it. So if there's any questions I'm happy to answer those otherwise I will open up the nominations for county board chairperson. Yes. Crystal, I hereby nominate Byron Koch for chairman of the Shibuya County Board. And so our first we would if there's any questions about the process I'll handle those otherwise we will move into the secret ballot for the nominations that will be the first thing that you write on your paper the first name will be the nomination and then we'll go around and collect them. I have three individuals who are going to be collecting them we have some Nets down here to promote social distancing and I understand Elaine Bosman and Grive Schnell and Sheriff Corey Raceler will help us collect them tonight. So are there any other questions before we get to writing the nominations on your ballot? All right, hearing none I would ask that each of you move forward with nominating a candidate for county board chairperson. Yes, supervisor Hoffman. Byron Koch for chairman. In the front of the paper. All right any other questions and then maybe wave your arm if Greg and Elaine aren't seeing you or hold up your ballot that's a good idea. Thank you, Carl. So our nominations for chair are Byron Koch, Ziggler Bauer and Keith Adler. Not for nominations. Supervisor Koch do you accept your nomination? Supervisor Koch accepts the nomination for county board chairperson. Robert Ziggler Bauer do you accept your nomination for county board chairperson? Supervisor Ziggler Bauer accepts the nomination for county board chairperson. Supervisor Adler do you accept your nomination? No thank you. Supervisor Adler declines his nomination. Supervisor Ziggler wishes to decline his nomination. With the voting for the county board chairperson we have one individual who's accepted his nomination that supervisor Koch. I ask that you now proceed with voting for county board chairperson. Those were cheeses. Supervisor Koch has received 25 votes to be elected as our next county board chairperson. We will now move forward with the nominations for the vice chairperson of the county board. And again you'll be writing your nomination on your ballot and then our tellers will come around and collect those. So vice chairperson. We have six nominees for county board vice chairperson. Those nominees are Robert Ziggler Bauer, Keith Adler, Roger Chastruti, Brian Hoffman at Procek and Al Bosman. Supervisor Ziggler Bauer do you accept your nomination for vice chairperson of the Shpoiting County Board? Yes I do. Supervisor Ziggler Bauer accepts his nomination. Supervisor Adler do you accept your nomination? Supervisor Adler declines his nomination. Supervisor Chastruti do you accept your nomination? I will decline. Supervisor Chastruti declines his nomination. Supervisor Hoffman do you accept your nomination? I will decline. Supervisor Hoffman declines his nomination. Supervisor Procek do you accept your nomination? I decline. Supervisor Procek declines his nomination. Supervisor Bosman do you accept your nomination. Supervisor Bosman declines his nomination. We have one county board supervisor who has accepted his nomination that is Robert Zigglebauer. I would now ask that you proceed with voting on County Board Vice Chairperson. With 25 votes Supervisor Zigglebauer is elected our next County Board Vice Chairperson. On to the three open positions on the Executive Committee. We will do them each individually and so we will now vote or nominate the individual that you like to see for the first open position on the Executive Committee. So I ask that you fill that on your ballot and our tellers will come around to collect those. We have six nominations for the Executive Committee in the first position. We have Supervisor Obler, Supervisor Bering, Supervisor Procek, Supervisor Trudy, Supervisor Hoffman and Supervisor Dam. Supervisor Obler, do you accept your nomination? I do. Supervisor Obler accepts his nomination. Supervisor Bering, do you accept your nomination? I do. Supervisor Bering accepts his nomination. Supervisor Procek, do you accept your nomination? I do. Supervisor Procek accepts his nomination. Supervisor Trudy, do you accept your nomination? I will decline. Supervisor Trudy declines his nomination. Supervisor Hoffman, do you accept your nomination? I do. Supervisor Hoffman accepts his nomination. Supervisor Damp, do you accept your nomination? I do. Supervisor Damp accepts her nomination. We have five individuals who have been nominated and who have accepted their nominations. I now ask that you proceed with voting for the individual that you would like to see on the executive committee. Yes, one vote and we're going to do this three times for the three open positions or more. Yes. We are voting for one individual. Moderator while we're tabulating I was wondering if I could make a public service announcement that tomorrow is Earth Day. 50 years, 50th anniversary of Earth Day, which was started by who? Gaylord Nelson and there was a young man in the journalism department at River Falls with an eight inch zoom lens that I recall taking pictures of Gaylord Nelson on Earth Day. Would he be in the building? All right, thank you for that public service announcement. Supervisor Hoffman bringing you back to our election. We do not have a supervisor who has received at least 50% of the votes so we will move on to round two. Supervisor Adler has five votes. Supervisor Gehring has ten. Supervisor Procek has six. Supervisor Hoffman has two. And Supervisor Dampe has two. So we will now move on to the next round voting for one individual and we will continue doing this until one individual has at least 50% of the vote. So we're moving on to round two with the voting. Does anybody wish to decline at this point to continue on? Hearing none, we'll proceed to voting. Is there one abstention? Okay, our tellers are hard at work here and we have one for Hoffman, we have three for Adler, two for Dampe and three for Procek. And 16 for Supervisor Gehring. So after two rounds of voting, Supervisor Gehring has more than 50% of the vote is elected to the first position of the executive committee. All right, and that was so much fun. We're going to do it again. So we'll open it up to the nominations. So I ask that you nominate the individual, one person that you would like to see on the executive committee and then our tellers will come around and collect that. All right, our nominations are Supervisors Adler, Dampe, Procek, Bosman, Nelson and Hoffman. Supervisor Adler, do you accept your nomination? Yes, I do. Supervisor Adler accepts his nomination. Supervisor Dampe, do you accept your nomination? Supervisor Dampe accepts her nomination. Supervisor Procek, do you accept? Supervisor Procek accepts his nomination. Supervisor Bosman, do you accept? Supervisor Bosman declines his nomination. Supervisor Nelson, do you accept? Supervisor Nelson declines his nomination. Supervisor Hoffman, do you accept? How will it be fine? Supervisor Hoffman declines his nomination. We have three supervisors for the second position on the executive committee, Supervisors Adler, Supervisor Dampe, and Supervisor Procek. I ask that you now move forward with electing the second supervisor to the executive committee. All right, after round one of voting, Supervisor Adler has 12 votes, Supervisor Dampe has four, and Supervisor Procek has nine votes. None of the supervisors have received at least 50% of the votes, so we will move on to round two of voting, unless anyone wishes to decline their current nomination. Hearing none, moving on to the voting. I did hear that my predecessor used to tell jokes that I apologize if I don't have anything rehearsed for tonight. That's right, you're right, good jokes. Yeah, you never rehearsed anything. After the second round of voting, Supervisor Adler has 18 votes, Supervisor Dampe has one vote, and Supervisor Procek has six votes. With 18 votes, Supervisor Adler has more than 50%. It is elected to that second open position on the executive committee. Now, first, nominate, so write down the individual you'd like to nominate for the last position on the executive committee. Our nominations for this last round are Supervisors Procek, Dampe, Gruber, and Hoffman. Supervisor Procek, do you accept your nomination? I do. Supervisor Procek accepts his nomination. Supervisor Dampe, do you accept your nomination? Supervisor Dampe accepts her nomination. Supervisor Gruber, do you accept? I decline. Supervisor Gruber declines his nomination. Supervisor Hoffman, do you accept your nomination? I do. Supervisor Hoffman accepts his nomination. We have three candidates for the last position on the executive committee. I ask that you move forward with casting your ballot. In the first round of voting, Supervisor Procek has 16 votes, Supervisor Dampe has six votes, and Supervisor Hoffman has three votes. With more than 50% of the vote, Supervisor Procek has been elected to the last position on the executive committee. Okay, all right. Congratulations to everyone. Okay, I promise to keep this as brief as Adam's speech. Seriously, I am honored and humbled to be chosen the county board chair, whether this is your first election or your 19th election. I wanna thank you for the service you are providing to the citizens of Sheboyga County. We are in the middle of some very trying times with a number of challenges that will need to be addressed, including the economic turmoil that will undoubtedly be part of the fallout of the pandemic, the detention center population level, and trying to maintain services going forward. I am grateful that past county boards and their chairs have put us in a position to weather this storm by having a restraining spending and have a healthy reserve fund that we can draw upon. And we are also blessed with an excellent staff throughout county government at all levels. So to help get us through these historic times. And at the end of the day, our mission has not changed. It's to provide courteous, responsive, efficient, and effective services to those we serve. Appreciate everybody's support. I am looking forward to working with seven new people. I found it very adequate that you use the magnificent seven. There was people that got together and helped the community. I believe that's very important. And I truly enjoy working with this man on law. And I'm looking forward to helping and working together with all of you. Thank you. And with that, the next order of business would be adjournment. Supervisor Ballard. Motion to adjourn. Thank you. And is there any second? Supervisors Hoffman? Second. Thank you, Supervisors Hoffman. Very cool. Okay, all those in favor of adjournment say aye. Aye. All those, we are adjourned.