 I'd like to call the order the Sheboyin County Board of Supervisors meeting of Tuesday June 18th 2019 certification of compliance with the open meeting law the agenda was posted on the 14th of June at 2 30 thank you John please join me in the pledge of allegiance local there are 23 supervisors present thank you approval of the May 21st 2019 journal supervisor Glavin move to approve thank you supervisor Glavin is there a second please it usually works this chairman I prove I wouldn't second that motion it's well received supervisor hot and thank you is are there any questions or discussion seeing no lights please push your iron a button thank you and I mean thank you consideration of appointments by the County Administrator to emergency medical services reappointments Shailen Edson Steven Cobb Robert Kohanek Alan Ruble Randy Narbutovics Steve Steinhardt Darrell Kaszibowski Craig Schicker Suzanne Martins Thomas Barr to local emergency planning committee reappointments Gregory Bierman Thomas Barr Philip Ditter Peter Madden Douglas Sherpa reel and to the traffic safety commission reappointments Ronald Becker Terry Martin Sargent Terry Kram and Joe Lermansky if there is any objection if somebody wants a motion to accept all of them supervisor Glavin move to approve thank you supervisor Glavin supervisor to strudy thank you mr. Chairman I'll second the motion thank you so very sturdy any questions or comments or anybody wants to split any of them seeing no lights please push your iron a button motions approve unanimously thank you presentations we have none public addresses also none letters communications and announcements we have none I'm gonna be nice here County Administrator's report he knew this was coming that's why thank you for saving all that additional time for me did I say that good evening good evening it's it's a good feel in the room this this evening hope everyone's doing well I want to touch on some very positive things that I think many of you may be aware of but these are this is information that really I think recognizes what happens when we work together and when we help make good things happen in the community so for example today Aaron Brault and I attended just this morning in Milwaukee the US Canada Great Lakes public forum this is a forum that they have every three years is representation from all of the Great Lakes of course Wisconsin Michigan Canada and others I think there were about a hundred and twenty five hundred and fifty people there and I was asked to give a little update about our Sheboygan River Harbor dredging project and as you know that really took place predominantly between twenty two thousand seven and was completed in twenty thirteen so sometimes gone by but of course the key question of the day was well what kind of impact has that had on the community and of course those of us who live here fully appreciate what a tremendous impact it has had on the city of Sheboygan and Sheboygan County we are no longer one of the dirtiest rivers and harbors in the country it was a super fun site as you know dating back to 1986 it is no longer the black eye of our community in fact it's a river and harbor that we now celebrate that's been cleaned up that was dredged to this extent that we could have filled Lambeau field to the 45th roll we leveraged over a hundred million dollars of city county state and federal funds as well as private sector funds to get it done and that cleanup now has not only contributed to cleaner water to new wildlife habitat and restoration to more boat landings and recreational areas for kayaking fishing windsurfing you name it but we also now in the last two years alone either directly along this quarter or very near it within a within throwing a rock distance we have over 50 million dollars in economic development that's occurred along the Sheboygan River and Harbor in just the last two years if you look at the last three four years it's over 60 million dollars some of that may have happened but frankly candidly it's pretty difficult to encourage people to make multi-million dollar investments right along a river that's a superfund site and can and considered one of the dirtiest and unhealthiest in the country and where you have fish consumption signs up and and that kind of perception so a tremendous success story and I joined five or six other community representatives who talked about what it meant to their community and Aaron Brault and I went down it was a good chance for us to catch up and he of course we both know a number of people in the audience but you know I was feeling really good about the fact that we leveraged a hundred million dollars and sixty million dollars of economic development just in the next two years our tourism I think's gone up for 14 percent we're seeing more charter fishing and other activity we're building a visitor center at one of the small postage stamps where we used to do the dewatering you know we walked through all this and then of course when someone from Toronto got up there they talked about a six hundred million dollar cleanup and you know of course it's all relative but a very positive reflection and the people involved with it at the EPA and the DNR some of them approached us after the meeting and and said how much they really appreciated working with Sheboygan County and working with people in this community so it reflects well on us and of course it wasn't for the Sheboygan County Board and our planning and conservation department and key stakeholders in this community it would not have happened Sheboygan County was the first to create the local work group to bring all these entities together Sheboygan and the city of Sheboygan both put two hundred and fifty thousand dollars on the table as seed money and that grew to over a hundred and seven million dollars that is remarkable speaking of good news and recognition we just received notice that the Wisconsin policy forum it has selected Sheboygan County to be the recipient of the twenty nineteen award for an innovative approach to problem-solving for our Amsterdam Dunes preservation area and wetland mitigation bank so next week chairman Wagner myself supervisor distruty and Aaron Brault are going to go to Milwaukee to accept this award and we were selected for the statewide recognition because once again it's a project that was a tremendous leap of faith by the county board you unanimously allocated four point two million dollars of fund balance to purchase this property which is highly unusual it wasn't in our five year capital plan it was an opportunity that we seized you did that the board did that with the with the hope that we would ultimately recoup those dollars and since then as you recall we have received the largest state DNR stewardship grant ever provided we received natural resource damage assessment funds we sold one of the lots and at this point we have fully recouped the four point two million dollars and we will have more revenue coming when I say fully recouped we have payments coming from the CUMSA as you recall so that's not in hand yet but we've covered the full four point two million we will have additional dollars coming when the mitigation bank has been approved by the Department of Natural Resources and depending on what the county board establishes as a fee structure as you recall every time we had to extend an airport runway or widen the county road or a town road and impact wetlands we either needed to create a new wetland mitigation bank which is obviously very difficult to do or and we didn't have one or purchase credits in another county like Ashland for hundreds of thousands of dollars so the beauty of the Amsterdam Dune preservation area and wetland mitigation bank is going forward not only will the county but other municipalities and the private sector when if and when they have to impact in a wetland which you don't want to do but if you have to we will have our own wetland mitigation bank we can sell those credits and those dollars will further not only enhance the property but become part of the county coffers for other good work so we're going to be the recipient of this war award and two weeks ago Roger just Rudy and I went down to Amsterdam Dunes and Roger as you know was chairman of the county board when this opportunity was present the board again the community was very supportive and I appreciated Roger being interviewed and and sharing some history about the property it's it's it's an accomplishment that I hope everyone on the board and our community takes pride in it's a special place and it wouldn't have happened if the county board didn't authorize that purchase we have a Sheboyton County legislative breakfast once a month we periodically cancel them or don't hold them depending on the time of the year but it's it's unique to Sheboyton County not most counties don't have a routine legislative breakfast and many of you participate and we're very fortunate to have excellent rapport with our elected officials in fact since Senator Lemme you used to sit in these very chairs and Terry Kotsmo was also on a local government and well respected leader in the community so we have two representatives that we know well on the joint finance committee and I as you know I've been around now 21 years in this position some of you have been on the board almost twice that long and whenever the state budget comes forward you know you kind of hold your breath a little bit is it going to be helpful is it going to be hurtful are we going to see more pressure on us to fill on funded mandates will we be able to address needs and in my opinion this is one of the kindest one of the best proposed budgets that I've seen first come from governor evers and it wasn't perfect but it had a lot of good things in there for county government and now the joint finance committee has reviewed it made their decisions it's now their budget that they have submitted back to governor evers and I think it's one of the best budgets we've seen come out of the joint finance committee in a long time and I really credit senator Lemme you and representative Kotsmo for their leadership and your input not only during the legislative breakfast but you recall we kind of had that special meeting where we focused on child welfare crisis as our number one priority and then we followed up with seven budget issue papers now when you have a hundred and forty five million dollar budget implementing over two hundred and seven programs and services it's tough to boil that down to seven key priorities but that's what we did and some of you might be wondering well now that this work's done how did we do how did they respond to our information children and family aides the governor was proposing a fifteen million dollar increase statewide for the children and family aides crisis wonderful initiative the joint finance committee allocated twenty five point five million more than the governor proposed for our children and family aides wonderful news and again that'll be distributed county wide social boy can we'll see a piece of that but that was a strong yes when it came to a positive response to our budget issue paper and obviously the good work of the wisconsin counties association and all the other counties that weighed in on that state district attorney funding was the other number two honor our budget issue papers as you recall we are in dire need of more district attorneys in fact this county board is one of the few counties in the state who's actually put more county property tax levy to support now one point five of our district attorneys these are state positions but we stepped up because the need was so great the joint finance committee supported a two and a half to three million dollar increase for thirty four positions which will provide any of the another half position for sheboygan county so a strong yes to our budget issue paper in reacting favorably to supporting the governor's proposal as well as the joint finance committee supporting it court appointed attorney compensation this one's a little maddening isn't it the state public defender rate was forty dollars per hour the lowest in the nation wow we obviously weren't keeping up with that and that is implications for our judicial system and the number of people that are sitting in our detention center waiting to get the representation they need it's not cost-effective might feel good to see only gonna pay a public defender forty dollars an hour but we couldn't find folks to do it so the governor proposed an increase of up to seventy per hour and the supreme court wanted it to be a hundred dollars an hour the joint finance committee also supported raising forty to seventy dollars an hour and also built in another five million to counties in those situations where they do have to pay the hundred dollars so a strong yes a favorable response from the joint finance committee on this budget issue paper support local control and adjust statutory property tax levy limit I don't think most of us were holding our breath on this the governor had proposed making it a little bit more flexible that it could be net new construction or up to two percent up to two percent which still wouldn't be sufficient to cover a wage and benefit increases alone personally our county board we felt it was a reasonable adjustment the joint finance committee did not support that so the current caps remain one of the things I heard from our wisconsin counties association representation I think Kyle may have mentioned that at our leadership forum but if he didn't he shared it with me that there there was some reluctance I think there are increasing more legislators who recognize that that net new construction cap can't continue in perpetuity not at a half or one percent it's not enough it's not sufficient and it has nothing to do with the programs and services we have to provide but there was some reluctance on the joint finance committee to make that change so that was a no underfunded state mandated programs as you know to the tune of about ten thirteen million dollars a year we support unfunded or underfunded mandated programs that health and human services alone and one of the things that helps offset that is state shared revenue state shared revenue hasn't been increased in over a decade in fact it's been reduced in 2004 2010 and 2012 the governor proposed a two percent increase in state shared revenue the joint finance committee said no no action there and then finally the last two were a nursing home rate increase and transportation funding now a nursing home rate increase is challenging to get attention at the state level because about 33 of 72 counties own and operate a nursing home so we're not a majority and of course they need legislators from across the state to support making an adjustment here but as you know in 2016 alone 27 skilled nursing home facilities closed across the state as you know rocky no continues to subsidize at a higher and higher level the cost of administering our services there because Medicaid doesn't cover the cost it simply doesn't and it hasn't been adequate and it's been woefully underfunded for years the governor proposed an 8.7 million increase in fiscal year 2020 and a 17.8 million fiscal increase in fiscal year 2021 it would have been about two and a half percent increase step in the right direction our joint finance committee supported a 37 million dollar increase for Medicaid reimbursement three times as much as the governor this is a big win for Sheboygan county for our nursing homes across the state and certainly our beloved rocky no so that's wonderful news and then as i said the last one transportation we've certainly seen some good progress made there in Sheboygan county with our half percent sales tax and the good work that greg and his team are doing the governor had proposed a 10 percent general transportation eight increase the joint finance committee supported that so most of our budget issue papers most of the priorities that we established and shared with our legislators in in particular terry and devon we saw positive traction we saw improvement and that's fantastic so next time you see them at legislative breakfast or fleet farm or wherever you might run into them please say thank you because they stepped up for us and it's encouraging and it was much needed finally tonight you're gonna be asked to take action on a couple of resolutions and just wanted to set the stage the first is on the designation of the us customs facility as a user fee airport just want to refresh everyone's memory the county boards are already taking action to support building a us customs facility and welcome center that decision's been made and right now in the five-year plan we have five and a half million dollars set aside for that though the cost is coming in closer to 3.7 to 3.9 million so we hope to exceed expectations there two and a half million dollars is a grant from the state to cover that cost so we're looking good what this resolution asks of you is do does the county board support a coaler company covering the wage and benefits for the staff that have to operate it all right so we've discussed this in the past coaler company has offered to cover the operational costs for this customs facility we have a proposed agreement in place uh crystal's been doing a nice job working on that we've had discussions for months frankly with the coaler company on this i had a call today from a coaler company vp that's involved she was very upbeat about the then proceeding with that it's looking good so what's being asked of you today are two things one do you support the coaler company covering the cost operating the customs facility i presume the answer is yes because we certainly don't want to pick that up with property tax levy and then the second question is do you support this being a user fee facility so going forward as other entities use it such as johnsonville beamess other companies in the community that would want to use this facility what do you support them paying a user fee to offset those costs again so it isn't put on the shoulders of property taxpayers so that's what's being asked of you there and then finally a little out of the ordinary but there was a letter from jim to beast and property committee chair steve bower asking you to pull the resolution supporting the sale of a sliver of property for lutheran high school as many of you may know they're looking to do some remodeling and add an addition there we've had discussions for actually too long on this because we have a very consistent approach in this in this county we asked for the appraise value we did that when we sold transportation property land the old highway facilities the land at amsterdam dunes we say appraise value why it's fair to the taxpayer and we're not showing any favoritism for one entity or another so we had a couple of appraisals done on this it came to six thousand dollars so tonight you're being asked to pull this document to approve that sale so they can proceed with building now rather than having to wait another four weeks and i know they would certainly appreciate that thank you mr chairman thank you adam consideration of committee reports executive committee resolution number two regarding designating the shaboy in county memorial airport as a u.s custom service user fee airport and entering into an agreement with color company for funding committee recommendation to adopt supervisor gearing thank you mr chairman i moved to adopt resolution number three thank you supervisor gearing supervisor ziggelbauer high support thank you supervisor ziggelbauer any questions or comments seeing no lights please push your eye or nae button motions approve unanimously thank you uh continuing with executive committee reports resolution number three regarding approving corporate partnership program with concordia university committee recommendation to adopt as amended supervisor gearing thank you mr chairman i moved to enact ordinance number two as amended correct correct thank you supervisor to strudy thank you mr chairman i'll second the motion thank you supervisor to strudy any questions any questions or comments supervisor bomb guard thank you mr chairman um i have no problem with concordia developing a partnership but we have uh lakeland university and silver lake um i'm just curious why um the uh concordia college has come in and dazzled us when our other hometown universities are left behind i think this is an addition as i understand we have lakeland college already on board with this so we're just looking to give more opportunities to our employees if they choose to go there is that fair gene thank you any other questions supervisor glavin uh as a matter of a correction this is resolution number three right right bill said to i think he'll just he'll correct that thank you seeing no other lights all those in favor say i or nae that motions approve unanimously thank you ordinance number two regarding changing supervisory district boundaries to reflect annexation city of plymouth recommendation to enact supervisor bomb guard or maybe your light was on from previous i'm sorry supervisor damp thank you supervisor damp supervisor gearing thank you mr chairman i will second that motion thank you supervisor gearing any questions or comments supervisor koffman do you have a question go ahead please be adjusted again i know there will be adjustments after the census but i think this was required by the city of plymouth is that correct now i understand that but i'm just saying and these will be incorporated okay make sense thank you i guess i must answer that right i'm trying not to be shocked here thank you no no problem with the question okay seeing no more lights all those in favor say i those opposed nae this is my district by the way let's let's be honest here motions approve unanimously i've had a lot of them lately okay motion passes okay committee report 2018 2019 per dm payments this is just something that we need a every year we do annually and i need a motion to accept the report supervisor glavin move to approve thank you supervisor glavin supervisor damp i will second that motion thank you supervisor damp any questions or comments supervisor oje thank you mr chairman i'd just like to point out for anyone in the public who actually looks at this total meetings is total meetings they were paid for not necessarily the total meetings they attended that is correct thank you for that information anybody else seeing no lights please push your a or nae or nae on acceptance provisor oje gonna repush motion is previously thank you turn the gavel over to the vice chair resolutions introduced resolution number four from the property committee regarding authorizing sale of luther and high property pursuant to rule 13 it is anticipated that a motion to withdraw this proposed resolution will be made if i'm a by a majority vote the board votes to pull the resolution will be subject to immediate action supervisor nelson thank you vice chairman coach pursuant to rule eight move to uh to approve the resolution to pull the uh to pull it you're wishing to mediate action okay you're wishing to pull a resolution yeah very good supervisor oje i'll second the motion thank you supervisor oje this time i believe will be voting on pulling the resolution please vote motion approve is uh unanimous okay the motion has pulled for immediate action so is there a motion under resolution number four supervisor oje thank you mr vice chairman i moved to approve resolution number four uh thank you vice chairman i second that motion thank you is there any discussion supervisor pronger thank you very much uh um well this less than one person one acre of land is is uh certainly uh a good thing so that the uh luther and high school can expand uh but my concern has been a little bit about why the engineering and drafting uh didn't take this into consideration ahead of time and maybe develop a plan that didn't require the uh almost acre or the the the facts that um there's obviously some lack of of discussion because now we'll be asking to uh pull the uh motion which which were and vote on it making that so that they can start to construction earlier um i just wonder if it wasn't a problem with the county not discussing it with the luther and high school in in detail or the luther and high school people were just slow and moving and not having their ducks in order so that this wasn't necessarily an issue that they needed to take the acre or that they needed to uh move on quickly at the end so they could do construction so i i just feel that what there there was some lack of communication somewhere along the line thank you supervisor i was just attending the property committee meeting this evening prior to this meeting we talked a little bit about the history and another representative from luther and high said you know this discussion actually dates back to jack van dicks horn he said that there was discussion about the possibility of this building and i think jack may have had discussions with the property committee about whether we could just give them this property or sell it for a dollar and ultimately you know we chose to be consistent and go with the appraised value so we're not showing any favoritism to anyone so it i think it took longer than it needed to before we just locked into an approach and and once we did we got it done but to your point of due diligence i mean i i think of this is any building project you know how often have we built a home or built a facility 50 100 years ago and you can't anticipate every area of growth or the or the need for the facility so as i understand that they have just a an incredible addition in mind a remod some remodeling in mind and the sliver of land is right behind luther and high right at the base of that hill it's property that jim to beast and others have looked at we would not use it for any purpose i mean it is literally right behind their building and then it goes along their property line out to the road in in the shape of a sliver so i think it's a good thing for luther and high i imagine they could have changed their building plans to have the setback necessary that wouldn't require the sale but i think it's a good thing i'm glad that we could be helpful supervisor roe jane thank you mr vice chairman yeah we've been talking with them for months and because everyone here knows it's it's a pain because the committee that has to do the dealing with them isn't the ones who actually can say yes we can sell it to you so yeah there's there's a lot of stuff that has to go back and forth and for several months we did until eventually we we reached an agreement and at this point there's no reason to make them wait another month to start building um and i do have one question now after having to take a couple of votes today to take money out of contingency funds for things where's the six thousand dollars going that's a commission that goes directly to the county board chairman what did i do no that that will fall to the general fund i like the question if it's the answer no are there any further discussion then we can vote that motion is approved unanimously resolution number five from the executive committee regarding authorizing creation of joint county library planning committee number five will be sent to the finance committee resolution number six from the finance committee regarding improving standard intergovernmental agreement for 2020 county sales tax revenue sharing resolution number six will be sent to the executive committee there are no ordinances introduced the next item of business is the supervisor be this i move we adjourn thank you supervisor be this second we are adjourned