 I'd like to call the order, the Tuesday, August 15, 2017, Sheboyton County Board of Supervisors. Certification of compliance with the open meeting law. The agenda was posted on August 10th at 2 p.m. Thank you. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of Allegiance is to the plight of the United States of America and the Republic which stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Roll call. 22. There are 22 supervisors present. Thank you. Approval of the July 18, 2017 journal. Supervisor Winkle. Motion to approve it's published. Thank you, Supervisor Winkle. Supervisor Glavin. Second. Thank you, Supervisor Glavin. Any discussion? Please push your aye or nay button. Motion to approve unanimous say. I did their question. I got lost somewhere in the shuffle. There we go. There are bones in there. Thank you. All right. That's why I'm trying to do two things at once. Excuse me. Consideration of appointments by county administrator. Aging and disability advisory committee, reappointments Gerald de Montierre and Carol Zoran and transportation coordinating committee, reappointment Derek Mench. Supervisor Gehring. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I concur with the appointments of the administrator. Thank you, Supervisor Gehring. Supervisor Koch. I support. Thank you, Supervisor Koch. Any discussion? Please push your aye or nay button. Appointments are approved unanimously. Thank you. Presentations. We have none. Public addresses. We have none. Letters, communications and announcements. I have some resolutions. One from out of gamey board of supervisors supporting proposed legislation to reduce fines for marijuana crimes. We refer that to the law committee. Next ever resolution from the dark county board of supervisors opposing the IKEA resources back 40 mine project in Michigan. We refer that to the prey committee. Next ever resolution from wood county. Board of supervisors regarding legislative redistricting. We'll receive that for information. We've received that before. And finally from wood county resolution opposing the repeal of Wisconsin prevailing wage law. We'll also receive that for information as we receive that before. That is all. Thank you, John. County administrators report. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good evening. Good evening. I am going to give a brief update on the transportation complex. A brief update on the half percent sales tax revenue and a brief update on the 2018 budget development process. First the transportation complex. Just have, I think, eight or nine slides here. This is since the last county board meeting. Next slide. As you can see, we have yet to clear the area for the transportation complex. There's a lot of trees to remove as much as happened. Does anybody recognize that area? That is the route to Rocky Knoll and the water tower. So over the course of the last few weeks, they have been clearing brush and preparing where the boring is going to go to hook up to Rocky Knoll's water tower, which was very beneficial for the transportation complex as well as Rocky Knoll, which are made in the future. That will be a shared cost, so we'll have more people benefitting from that water supply. Next slide. This is what, unfortunately, a lot of the workers have been dealing with over the course of the last three, four weeks. A lot of rain, a lot of water, and it has caused some delays. In fact, Chairman Wagner and I were just in a meeting the other day getting an update on progress and safety. And at this point, we think we're about four weeks delayed in part because of dealing with something we have no control over. Next slide. We've got a lot of water also in the buildings themselves because, of course, the roofs aren't fully in place yet. So it's just been a wet building site, though fortunately, because of the good work of the transportation department staff, you know, a lot of gravel was brought into that area so it can handle a lot of rain, and it tends to dry out relatively quickly. In fact, that same photo where it was that wet has now been dried out sufficiently where we're now bringing in gravel and preparing to pour concrete in the main transportation complex where all the trucks will be. Next slide, please. This is an aerial shot. Anybody know what that building is there? The salt shed. Went up in about two weeks. Amazing how quickly with that span creep, how quickly those buildings go up. So the salt shed is now in play. They're preparing the foundation for another cold storage area. Next slide. And they are, fortunately, as weather permits, getting that roof on. And good progress is being made. Next slide. So there you see the entire complex. And as you know, this is the main area where all the trucks will be housed. This is the main area, the shop area, where a lot of the maintenance will be done. That's our salt shed in the back. And this smaller area up front will be where administration is. Next slide, please. Fuel tanks are going in. We have a $15,000, $15,000 capacity diesel, 6,000 gas, and 4,000 waste oil. So that are those three tanks right here. And, believe it or not, those are three workers in that hole right now preparing. So that's in play. Next slide. So there you go. If you haven't had a chance, please go out there and take a look. We are, as I said, a little late because of weather conditions, but we continue to be under budget and looking good. Real credit to Greg and his team, Jim to Beast and his team. A lot of good people working on that. The other topic I wanted to touch on was the sales tax. And as you know about a year ago, in order to support our 450 miles of county roads, 73 bridges, to be fiscally responsible and make sure that we were maintaining rather than having more expensive fixes down the road, we now have a goal to do a minimum of 30 miles of paving annually. And thanks to your support, the 1.5% sales tax was implemented and it has not only allowed us to hit that target, we are on pace with over 20 miles paved already. A lot of good work is happening throughout the county. It's helped us with reducing borrowing, reducing our debt service, providing direct property tax relief, and we are the only county in the state that's sharing some of that revenue with our local municipalities and it's been working out well. So on your desk this evening is a high-end spreadsheet that shows how much revenue Sheboygan County has received to date. And I want to give credit where credits do. Wendy put this together and she compared us with a few counties that received sales tax revenue, Fond du Lac, Sock, and Wallworth. And then as you know, we had delayed implementation. We didn't start receiving the dollars until February March. So we didn't get full month revenue in January or February. But as you can see on the bottom line for 2017 we received $586,000 in March, $556,000 in April, bumped up to $817,000 in June. And as you go along that line you'll see to date, through July we received $3.6 million. We budgeted $6.75 million. So that was a best estimate based on projections from I believe the UW extension and perhaps the Department of Revenue I think we had two different sources and we split the difference and we're on pace to hit our budgeted amount of $6.75 million. So we're looking good and as I said a lot of work is being done as a result of that. If you look at the comparables with Woolworth, Sock and Fond du Lac and if you look at that chart, which can kind of throw you at first but we are the purple graph where the purple what is that? Bar graph. Bar graph. We're the purple bar for goodness sake. And if you look at that and compare us to even Sock with everything going on in Sock with all the tourism there we've had better performance. So I think so far so good we're planning to budget $9 million for 2018 which we think is achievable, reasonable and of course we'll be sharing or plan to share with the support of the Finance Committee and County Board $1.5 million of that with our local municipalities again. So that is a brief staff's report on the sales tax revenue so far so good. And then finally the 2018 budget development process I can tell you both Wendy and I are feeling a little tired because the last three four weeks it has been incredible heavy lifting with department meeting after department meeting I want to thank the chairs and county supervisors that joined us in some of those meetings to get a feel for that some meetings would last as long as two and a half hours for the larger departments and perhaps as short as 30 or 40 minutes for the smaller departments but we really challenge folks we go through that carefully and our department has done a tremendous job as I mentioned before after our review at the department level they go on to the liaison committee level then on to the finance committee and then ultimately on to the full county board and at this point we're poised for success just to set the stage a little bit 10 years ago in 2007 our tax rate was $5.64 in 2016 or 2017 rather it's $5.65 so it was $5.64 in 2007 it's $5.65 this year and at this point we're anticipating it's going to be $5.45 for the year ahead since 2007 the county board has reduced property taxes five times there aren't many counties across the state that can say that you have reduced property taxes five times since 2007 and if you look at the last decade and average that for each year on an annual basis the property tax level has gone up less than 1% less than 1% supporting over 800 employees 19 departments 207 programs and services with demands that we know continue to go up for law enforcement mental illness helping people with substance abuse the list goes on and on so it's rather a remarkable track record report card of the county board and our team's success holding the line on property taxes to put it in further perspective from a standpoint of consolidating or sharing services in 2007 the total payroll related cost was $70 million of approximately $154 million budget today 2017 it's $61 million out of $145 million budget we've gotten leaner and for those of you who have been around for a while and many of you have we have consolidated a number of programs and departments throughout the county but I think it's a real credit to you and everyone who works for Sheboygan County on the work we do to establish priorities and the sensitivity we have collectively to holding the line on property taxes because we all know how important that is to the community the sheet you have before you is one that the finance committee is very familiar with and again it gives a very high-end snapshot of all the departments that we've met with what their target is for 2018 and as you know we established that target as a collaborative effort and communicated as part of our leadership form and then as our budget kickoff with the finance committee it shows what departments have come in over or under and you'll note no one has come over target they all have to hit the target a few departments came in under their target and the shining star was Rocky Knoll $173,000 under their target to refresh your memory we didn't provide them with any additional property tax levy we already challenged them to hold the line and they not only absorbed any increases but came in $173,000 so all of that helps provide some additional flexibility for addressing any rescues or what we refer to as requests above and beyond the target for new initiatives or a need in the community that has to be addressed or just practical that matters such as replacing sheriff's department vehicles and things of that nature so we're poised for success and we're poised for success because of a lot of hard work collectively from our staff Wendy and the accountants who have been working with the department heads and their staff our county board supervisors everyone pulling on the same rope to achieve our goal of no more than net new construction the net new construction increase came in at 1.72% little more than we anticipated which was good news but because we're reallocating operational levy and putting more to reduce our debt service actually as it stands today and of course this is a draft and we'll continue to work on this over the course of the next couple months as it stands today as you can see the final tax levy is projected to increase no more than 1.38% no more than 1.38% which still would sustain our decade track record of less than a 1% increase each year on average and the final tax rate would drop from $5.65 to $5.45 which is about a 3.5% reduction if you have any questions on any of this please don't hesitate to contact myself or our finance director or certainly our finance committee that is going to do a lot of heavy lifting now over the course of the next month or so again reviewing every department budget that comes out of the liaison committee thank you Mr. Chairman thank you Adam consideration of committee reports executive committee ordinance number three regarding amending county operational provisions relating to office hours committee recommendation to enact supervisor Gehring thank you Mr. Chairman I'll move for adoption of ordinance number three thank you supervisor Gehring supervisor Tostrodi thank you Mr. Chairman I'll second the motion thank you supervisor Tostrodi any questions all those in favor three were on three any other questions all those in favor push I or nay any reports finance committee ordinance number one regarding repealing and recreating chapter three and repealing chapter 55 recommendation to enact supervisor Wegemann thank you Mr. Chairman I will move for adoption of ordinance number one thank you supervisor Wegemann supervisor Gehring thank you Mr. Chairman I will second that motion thank you supervisor Gehring any discussion or questions that motion is approved unanimously thank you ordinance number two regarding amending chapter 50 of the county code establishing county purchasing procedures committee recommendation to enact supervisor Tostrodi thank you Mr. Chairman I'll move for adoption thank you supervisor Tostrodi supervisor Glavin I'll second that motion Mr. Chairman thank you supervisor Glavin any questions or discussion I or nay button that motion is approved unanimously turn the gavel over to the vice chair thank you Mr. Chairman resolution is introduced resolution number nine from the finance committee regarding 2018 five-year capital plan resolution number nine is referred to the executive committee ordinance is introduced ordinance number four from the finance committee regarding changing supervisor in district boundaries 15, 16 and 17 to reflect annexation ordinance number four is referred to the executive committee next item on the agenda is adjournment supervisor Bemis I move to adjourn is there a second to the motion supervisor Winkle I'm sorry Glavin second motion second to adjourn all in favor press your aye button opposed nay stand adjourned