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please.
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etc.
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» Sounds great.
All right, good evening. My name is
Eugene Prenice. I live at N1781
Gladwater Beach Road, uh right in the
southwest corner of the county.
Um
topic of discussion tonight is flock
cameras.
Those who would give up essential
liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty
or safety.
That was a quote from
Benjamin Franklin.
Did this board get input from law
enforcement, private companies, and
political figures, or did it try to get
the input from we the people?
For over 2 years, law enforcement has
had this new ability
for the first time in history to do
searches
without a warrant.
Whenever law enforcement wants to see
where your whereabouts are, they can.
Oh, and these are the same people with
qualified immunity.
How did this start? Did a political
person persuade this body?
That was the first response I got from
law enforcement.
Why would this body purposefully
disregard the Fourth Amendment?
This is my educated opinion
felt by the majority of most Americans.
If these ALPRs,
um which stand for automatic license
plate readers, so good, why are so many
counties, cities, and colleges in this
great state getting rid of them?
Have anybody in this room actually
looked into why?
Might be a reason.
Garrett Langley, the owner of Flock,
said deflock.org was a terrorist
organization.
Just for dis- dis- disagreeing with the
Flock safety system.
How about law enforcement misuse of the
system in Milwaukee
where the two where there was an officer
who was following his ex, and then the
officer that was investigating the
officer was doing the same thing. And
both of them got fired, but I don't
think either one of them spent a day in
jail. But finally today, if you actually
look at Fox 11, you'll see a person in
Menasha that I think got 6 months
for doing the same thing, law
enforcement. But here's a power that
we're giving these people, the qualified
immunity,
but we can trust them, right?
All right.
So, have have uh
have people been wrongly identified by
Flock
safety? Yes, yes, they have. Has Flock
safety caused harm?
Yes, just the opposite of the word
safety.
Is it better that 100 guilty persons
should escape than one innocent person
should suffer?
Another quote from Benjamin Franklin.
I've served my country for 23 years of
active duty military service, and I want
to continue to serve. Actually, I ran
for school board here in this county
just recently as well.
I'm very concerned that we're heading
down the wrong path by trusting our law
enforcement with a tool that was not
intended and is against our Fourth
Amendment rights. Thank you very much
for your time.
>> Thank you.
All right, moving on to special
business.
Uh we have Joanne Metsen here who's a
director of our special education and
she's going to present information on
the county special education program.
» Looks like my PowerPoint is on.
Um hi everyone. Thanks for having me uh
here today to talk about the Calumet
County special education program. I'd
like to give you a little overview of
what I hope to speak about today. I'm
going to introduce myself. I'm going to
give you a little background about our
program, tell you about some staffing
data, some student data, a little bit
about how our department functions and
what impact we make, and then I would
like to share with you some information
about our mental health grant, and I'll
ask if there are some questions.
So again, my name is Joanne Metsen. I'm
the director of special education for
Calumet County, and um I was a teacher
and principal happened to be uh in
Sunrise Elementary in in Darboy, which
um some of you would be familiar with uh
because of the connection to the county
back in 1996.
Um after working in the Kimberly Area
School District, I was an elementary
principal uh for 13 years in the
Manitowoc Public School District before
becoming
their director of pupil services for
about 10 years.
I had a short stint as the CESA 7
director of special education before we
made a shift over to Calumet County, and
I have been working for Calumet County
since March of 2023, uh supporting
special education programming across um
the five districts that we serve.
And so um that's a a little bit about
me. I'd like to tell you a little bit
about um our program.
Calumet County has been supporting
special education for
over 50 years. Some of you have may have
known of a gentleman named Nissan
Bar-Lev who had been the leader in that
programming for many many years. And so
these five school districts that work
together and that's Brillion, Chilton,
Hilbert, New Holstein, and Stockbridge
have been working to support individuals
with disabilities for many many years.
And
throughout that
collaboration,
we have maintained one of the only four
CDEPs, those are Children with
Disabilities Education Boards in the
state of Wisconsin.
So I think all of you know that we have
a wonderful board of supportive people
here who support special education. Some
of them are here tonight that serve on
that Calumet County Children with
Disabilities Education Board. There are
four other counties who have CDEPs or
Children with Disabilities Education
Boards. And for in case you're curious,
one of them is Brown County. Many of you
may have heard of the school called
Syble Hopp, that falls under the
umbrella of a CDEP. There's also a CDEP
in Marathon County and Walworth County
and then Calumet County.
And um
I'm very I feel very fortunate that we
have this opportunity in our county
so that
individuals with disabilities can have
the collaboration that we need
to meet their needs.
And so
not clicking my own
PowerPoint very well, but here we go
with some I want to tell you a little
bit about the staff that we have
available to serve our students.
Um
So we have
22 special education teachers,
six specialists, and those specialists
are people like speech and language
pathologists, a transition coordinator,
an autism consultant, and occupational
therapist, just to give you a sense, and
14 paraprofessionals. Those are the
people that um assist teachers in
serving needy students who have those
individual education plans,
or IEPs. There's also two courthouse
staff. I'm one of them, and and I have
an assistant. So, that's 44 staff
members that are focused on supporting
students with disabilities uh in our
county.
Um happy to say that we've had wonderful
longevity with our employees, and we had
um some staffing changes this past year,
so we did hire 17 uh positions. Uh we
worked to hire 17 positions uh over this
summer, and have been very successful.
So, what about the students that we
serve? I'd like to say tell you some
information about them. There are about
600 students who have IEPs, or are a
student with a disability, um in those
five districts total.
And so, um New Holstein and Chilton have
are are largest school districts that
have individuals with disabilities, and
they are at around 180 students in each
district that have um disabilities, and
therefore that specialized plan called
an IEP.
Uh Brillion follows up next, more in the
mid-120s, with Hilbert around a 75
number, and Stockbridge serving just
under 40 students approximately. Of
course, when we're working in a people
profession, people come and go. So, I
can it's difficult to give anybody an
exact number of students. Um when I was
the director of special education in
Manitowoc, there could be days that we
would get six new students in at a
single school that had
you know, an IEP. And so or people move
out, come in, it changes. So, those are
some approximate numbers for you based
on
an official count that takes place
through the Department of Public
Instruction.
So, one component of the work that we do
is that
in
for a long time Chilton has accepted
students who live in the residence of
the other four districts. So, just to
give you a for instance, there could be
a student who is living in the brilliant
attendance area who has needs that are
are better met in Chilton. And the that
team of people who meet about that
student's individual plan could choose
to place that child in Chilton.
It happens to be that there have been
between 10 and 15 of those students from
the other four districts who are
attending school in Chilton because of
that service.
And so,
we certainly staff Chilton appropriately
to meet the needs of those students. And
that is one
piece of student data that I wanted to
share with you that when you may hear
about that you know, students from the
other four districts can attend student
in you know, and have services in
Chilton. I wanted you to know
approximately what number that was. And
again, it's typically between 10 and 15
students who would be attending there.
We've got lots of
internal processes in place to be sure
that we're placing the right students
and having great conversations with
people, making sure the right people are
included. There's also a lot of
legal business around being in special
education. So, we follow all of those
rules as well when we're making any kind
of placement decision for students. And
I want to make sure you knew that we We
take that lightly.
So, when it comes to special education
in the county,
um
there are so many benefits to the
program that we are providing uh for
districts. One of the greatest things is
that we have
five districts who are able to work
together and collaborate with me around
how to best serve individuals with
disabilities.
And so, uh I meet regularly with
representatives from each of those
school districts. We're able to
troubleshoot individual student
problems, talk about legal changes, um
make uh decisions about programming, uh
etc.
Um certainly, one of our other impacts
is having the ability for smaller rural
districts to be able to have another
placement option for students. There are
times that that I call it the hub, but
the services that we provide in Chilton
are pretty necessary. Um they can get a
transfer in student, for example, who
has needs that they are they don't have
anyone like that student in their
district. They don't have a teacher
focusing on that, and that's when they
give a call and we start talking about
whether we need to discuss a possible
change in um placement. So, our program
provides staff, it provides supplies and
curriculum materials, equipment,
and so much more to meet the needs of
students with disabilities in our
county.
Um I also am very involved in the
supervision and evaluation of all of
those um
44, well, technically 40, cuz I don't
supervise or evaluate myself, that's 43
people.
Um
and um that has been fabulous, as well,
because we do that in collaboration with
the school districts, so we can support
teachers, help them grow,
um give them feedback, and um help them
make sure that they are the best people
they can be to serve the students with
disabilities in our in our county.
I'm excited about something new this
year.
Um we wrote and received a $4.1 million
mental health grant.
Um it's a federal grant and it allowed
us to hire four and a half school
psychologists.
Um
we are pretty close to filling all of
those positions. I may have all of them
filled by the end of the week. We're
very close.
Um and uh one mental health program
coordinator who I also hired. That's a
full-time position. So those additions
will impact every one of those five
districts where students will be able to
receive increased one-on-one and small
group mental health support
because that's the focus of the work
that our school psychologists are going
to do.
Um often times in school districts, they
call them school psychs or school
psychologists,
are
way overworked with special education
evaluations and other kinds of paperwork
things that are required and
unfortunately rarely have a chance to
actually interact and have
um one-on-one or small group time with
students. And so the fact that we're
able to provide an a full-time person in
Chilton, a full-time person maybe a
little more if I get somebody hired in
Reedsville, um an 80% person in New
Holstein, etc. We have, I think, making
a huge impact in mental health services
for kids across our county. And um I'm
feeling I'm feeling really good about
that. That grant runs through 20 29.
Um and one of the goals that we wrote in
the grant was to try to get one school
psychologist for every 500 students.
Um so we were taking into consideration
their current staffing when we moved
forward to determine
how much increased staffing that they
would receive.
So that is a real plus. So with um 44
special educators and six people hired
to the grant, we have about 50 staff
members that are part of our department.
There are about 600 kids with special
education needs and I'm very happy to be
doing this work because it's impacting
our county very specifically. I meet
students and teachers every day who are
having positive experiences because of
the work that the county is doing
supporting
individuals with disabilities in our
community. So those are some basic
things I wanted to share with you today
and I would welcome any questions if
there are any.
Question for her.
>> I
» I
>> Go ahead.
» Go ahead.
>> All right.
» All right.
Yes, thank you Madam Chair. I have two
questions. Two quick questions. Sure. Uh
the mental health grant that allows you
to hire these individuals, do they
service just children with disability or
any student in those schools?
>> Thank you for that question. Any student
» Thank you for that question. Any student
in those schools.
>> Oh, simple answer. That's great. I I
» Oh, simple answer. That's great. I I
appreciate that. The second question
is when we first took over from CESA 7
and and you came on board,
there was a concern by one of the school
districts that they weren't getting
their fair share. Has that been
resolved?
>> We did do some um staffing changes this
» We did do some um staffing changes this
past spring.
Um I shored up a system of staffing that
did uh require some changes. And so
there is a more equitable plan for
staffing across the five districts. So
my short answer to you is yes.
» Okay. Thank you very much for your
presentation.
>> Supervisor McCann.
» Thank you, Madam Chairman. I just I
I live in Appleton and it you know, part
of Calumet County. I was wondering about
the big school districts that are also
in Calumet County and serve kids. Do you
coordinate with them as well? I mean it
it for training or for any other
um
uh additional service that you can
provide and get some synergies?
>> Mhm.
» Mhm.
Yeah, thanks for that question. I feel
lucky that I have had experience in both
the Kimberly Area School District and
also the Manitowoc Public School
District because I gained a lot of
connections in in various parts and I
have uh connections with uh people in
Appleton, Kaukauna, etc. And although we
don't have any formal system where we
are getting together, we have a great
network of people that are able to reach
out and support each other um
throughout, you know, the work that
we're we're doing. And so, we do learn
from each other. There's a state
organization called WKASE. We're
connected to our local agency which is
CESA 7, a cooperative educational
service agency 7, a subset of DPI based
out of Green Bay. And so, we meet each
other there as well. Um but that would
probably be um how I would answer that.
Yeah, that'd be how I'd answer that
question.
>> All right.
» All right.
>> Supervisor Miller.
» Supervisor Miller.
>> Thank you, Madam Chairman.
» Thank you, Madam Chairman.
I'm curious about the level of education
that these
teachers are are most have degrees.
>> Mhm.
» Mhm.
>> Are many master degrees?
» Are many master degrees?
>> Yeah, that's a great question.
» Yeah, that's a great question.
Um I don't know if I can answer that.
They all definitely have bachelor's
degrees, but I haven't looked at that
piece of data recently to know of of our
22 teachers, how many of them have
master's degrees. I would have to look
up that information. I'm sorry, I don't
know.
>> Circling the wagon, how much experience
» Circling the wagon, how much experience
do most of these have
in
other areas of the country where they're
coming from?
>> Yeah. Um when you say other areas of the
» Yeah. Um when you say other areas of the
country, it threw me off a little bit,
but I think you're asking, do we have
experienced teachers? Is that Is that Am
I getting to the core of that? Okay. So,
we have teachers everywhere from this is
their very first experience um teaching
to people who have taught many years. Um
I believe we have a teacher who perhaps
I think she's at 32 years of teaching
and everything in between. And although
I didn't bring my list today with uh
exactly where everyone uh falls on that,
I am pleased to say that we we have had
wonderful retention in our in our
program, which means that people have
been here multiple years. And so
yeah.
Yes, I think that there's satisfaction
with not only the county, but their
local school districts. And educators
get into the work because they want to
impact kids, so they must be feeling uh
positive about that. I met with um all
of the educators today. They came in for
one of four meetings, and it's such a
joy to meet with them and be able to
hand out longevity um celebrations to
them. There's envelopes, a little
something in there for them, for
example. And they're they're excited.
Many of them had been previously
employed by CESA 7, which was also
funded through our C Deb. It gets a
little complicated to explain what was
happening before 2023, but many of those
staff members
are still with us today that were
employed by CESA 7.
Yeah.
>> Any other questions?
» Any other questions?
Okay. Thank you, Joanne.
>> Thank you very much. Thanks.
» All right, moving on to our resolutions.
We have resolution 2026-11.
» Resolution amending the 2026 budget for
the United States Environmental
Protection Agency Coalition Assessment
Grant introduced by the Administrative
Services Committee.
>> Do I have a motion to um ex
» Do I have a motion to um ex
>> Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. This is
» Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. This is
very straightforward. We need to amend
the budget uh because we're going to
have this grant available to us. So,
we're going to have increased revenue
and increased expenses uh to support
this. And I think this is the follow-on,
the second time we've gotten this grant,
if I remember correctly. So, admin
services uh passed unanimously. I hope
the board does as well. Thank you.
>> All right. Thank you, Supervisor
» All right. Thank you, Supervisor
Diedrich. Are there any questions
regarding this resolution?
If not, please vote your ballot.
See, I'm not I'm off again.
Yes, I'm voting yes.
All right. It's passed by 2/3 vote, 21
yes, zero nays. All right. Moving on to
resolution 2026-12.
» Resolution amending the 2026 budget for
the repair of the reverse osmosis system
at Calumet County Park, introduced by
the administrative services committee
and the parks commission.
>> All right. Do I have a motion, please? A
» All right. Do I have a motion, please? A
motion by Supervisor Steering and a
second by Supervisor Schwabenberg. And
Supervisor Diedrich, would you speak to
this resolution?
>> Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Uh this one
» Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Uh this one
is a little bit different. Uh we're
asking you to pass a resolution that
will take $28,000 of
uh unexpended sales tax revenue to pay
for repair to the reverse osmosis system
at Calumet County Park. Now, uh we had
basically a catastrophic
uh
unexpected failure of some of the
filters in the system and if we don't
repair them, we can't get water to over
2/3 of the people in the park.
Um so, we ask that you
pass this one so that our people can
enjoy all the amenities at the park with
healthy, safe drinking water. Thank you.
>> Supervisor Schwamberger, did you have
» Supervisor Schwamberger, did you have
anything to add?
Miss Chair.
>> Um just that
» Um just that
we have two systems and this is the
newest one that's going
uh the fixtures are brass
and if you we saw a picture, you could
see how brass turns green or whatever,
so they're going to be replaced with
plastic
pipes. Um
and our well is 600 ft deep
and it's
it's as Adam described it, prehistoric
water. It's
So, uh
I appreciate it if you vote for it.
Thank you.
>> Thank you, Supervisor Schwamberger.
» Thank you, Supervisor Schwamberger.
Supervisor Miller, you had a question.
>> Yes, I want to comment when we took the
» Yes, I want to comment when we took the
tour the other year, Adam was right
there and it was a group of us that
explained what was going on. So, I'm for
getting it repaired. I've got the same
thing in my home, reverse osmosis. Thank
you.
>> Thank you, Mr. Miller. If there are no
» Thank you, Mr. Miller. If there are no
other questions, please vote your
ballot.
21 yes, zero nay, that resolution has
been adopted. Moving on to resolution
2026-13.
>> Resolution approving changes to the
» Resolution approving changes to the
rural functional classification system
in Klamath County, introduced by the
highway committee.
>> All right, on a motion by Supervisor
» All right, on a motion by Supervisor
Stearns a second by Supervisor Miller
and Supervisor Booty, would you speak to
this resolution, please?
>> Thank you very much.
» Thank you very much.
Um so just to explain, uh, you've
probably read the, uh, the resolution
here, but I'll just
emphasize, even though it states that it
is a rural functional reclassification,
um, that is simply because this is
outside of a metropolitan planning
organization area.
Uh, the actual streets are within the
city of Chilton and city of New
Holstein.
Um, we are changing the functional
classification from local street to
major collector,
um, due to the presence of a hospital
and a high school, uh, respectively in
those cities.
Uh, thank you.
>> All right. Are there any questions
» All right. Are there any questions
regarding this resolution?
Seeing none, please vote your ballot.
We have 21 yes, zero nay, so that
resolution has been adopted.
Moving on to resolution 2026-14.
» Resolution authorizing Clean Boats,
Clean Waters application for Calumet
County, introduced by the Land and Water
Conservation Committee.
>> All right.
» All right.
I have a motion by Supervisor McCann and
a second by Supervisor Miller.
And
Supervisor Schwamberger, do you want to
speak to this one or
or Supervisor Hopberger?
>> Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.
» Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.
>> This program will fund a minimum of 200
» This program will fund a minimum of 200
hours for an intern to spend time
conducting watercraft inspections at two
boat landings in the county on Lake
Winnebago. Program allows intern to
spend time educating boaters,
collecting and reporting data, and
report on new or known aquatic invasive
species.
This program helps to prevent the
introduction of aquatic invasive species
and limit the spread of aquatic invasive
species that may already be present. We
are asking for permission to get a grant
from the Department of Natural
Resources. Thank you, Madam Chair.
>> Are there any other questions regarding
» Are there any other questions regarding
this resolution?
Seeing none,
please vote. Uh I have a question from
uh Supervisor Breeden.
>> Um yeah, I guess my question is just it
» Um yeah, I guess my question is just it
says um
now therefore let it be resolved that
the county has budgeted a sum to
sufficiently and fully and satisfactory
complete the project. Like what
I guess like what is that sum?
» So that's a it's a $4,000 grant. Um when
the budget is adopted in November that
it will be included in in in the budget.
>> Thank you.
» Thank you.
>> Thank you, Supervisor Breeden. Any other
» Thank you, Supervisor Breeden. Any other
questions? Don't see any here. All
right, please vote your ballot.
Supervisor Lock Marine, we have 21 yes,
zero nay. And so that resolution has
been adopted. All right, moving on to
supervisor reports. Anyone who's
attended any meetings or seminars have
anything to report, please press your
button to request to speak.
Supervisor Schwalenberg?
» Thank you, Madam Chair. Um
a little bit um I have some bad news and
some good news. Um
we went uh through the budget for human
services and unfortunately we have uh
uh two high cost juveniles that are
are going to be in the budget for a few
years and they are really very
expensive. They're both both in
um juvenile
facilities, I guess is the the term. Um
also, I just read tonight that uh
the measles count in the state has gone
from 30 or
up to 40. It was 15.
Uh 30 That's 38 with three probable, and
40 of those 41 children are
unvaccinated, and I believe they read
that two of them are hospitalized right
now.
Uh we'll move on to parks. We had a Boy
Scout, Eric Hoffmeyer, complete his
Eagle Scout project at County Park.
Um he replaced the cross, as I'm sure
some of you have seen that's been there
probably for 50 years, that uh was being
chewed up by carpenter ants,
and that area is also used for weddings.
Uh I think there may even be one there
this weekend. I'm not sure. So, so that
is done. We were happy to have him.
Um
if you've noticed our agenda that we had
the Brilliant Conservation Club has
approached uh the parks about taking
over their three
um
boat landings. Um one is on Becker Lake,
and the county owns land on the southern
part of Becker Lake. That's our one of
our parks.
Um the other one is Round Lake, which I
believe is in the town of Brilliant, and
from that one you can see, if you've
seen Aaron's barn,
you it's right across the lake from
there. And the other one is um
Boot Lake, I think, cuz there is another
lake that's there, too, that's called
Grass Lake. Um
we're still doing work, unfortunately,
on Ledgeview, that we've run into some
problems um
that need to be redone. specifically the
floor
is one of them.
Uh, and
I would like to thank you all for voting
for the arrow system
so that we can continue to supply water
to the southern end of the park and
maintenance.
And now, as I said, the really exciting
news in the Excuse me, I have to read
this. One of the staff wrote it for me.
Um,
a herd of goats recently joined the crew
at the Calumet County Parks Department.
The herd currently exists of 16 female
goats in a variety of breeds, colors,
and sizes.
They were brought in to assist with the
invasive species management.
Calumet County Park is affected by
buckthorn, phragmites, dame's rocket,
garlic mustard, all along with
other invasives.
The goats are
proven to be a great resource for
handling invasive plants. In fact,
during this past week, the goats at
County Park have been specifically
targeting and eating the buckthorn.
The goats are working in a designated
area with a GPS perimeter controlled by
Excuse me. a staff member.
Each goat is equipped with an electrical
collar similar to an invisible fence for
dogs.
They are very respectful of their
boundaries.
Excuse me again.
And we ask the public to maintain their
distance and neither feed nor pet the
goats. We are not a petting zoo. These
are working animals.
And uh, the the little time they've been
there, they've uh, really cleared quite
an area already. They really They like
to eat, good for them. And I understand
it's been on the paper and on TV and all
over the place, too, that these goats
are there. So,
we welcome them. We've been talking
about this for several years.
And uh, Adam has finally gotten them.
So, thank you.
>> Thank you, Supervisor Wallender.
» Thank you, Supervisor Wallender.
Um, you have the county um,
Oh, excuse me, Supervisor Breeden.
>> Um, yeah. Uh, back in July, I was
» Um, yeah. Uh, back in July, I was
reached out to by some constituents um,
because they had uh, Invenergy come to
their door and talk to them about
putting a natural gas power plant uh,
1,200 megawatts um, in on County Road K.
Um, that's one of the sites that they
were going to propose. Um, and they were
just So, they just reached out to me
with some concerns. Um, I was actually
able to meet with the project manager
for that. Um, he was a really nice guy.
I had a really good conversation with
him. Um, and I think the main concerns I
got from the constituents obviously were
um, just water, um, visual, sound,
light, and then just the values of their
properties.
Um, and that making sure that those
would be addressed. Um, and so, I I
brought those up with the project
manager when I met with him. Um, and he
was very good at addressing those. I
mean, some concerns he addressed I think
better than others. Um, but but overall
it was very good. Um, I did ask uh,
if he'd be willing to come and speak at
one of our our meetings. Um, and that's
I think TBD yet. He wasn't quite sure
what he would be able to do.
Um, but was was very great to work with.
Um, I'm just going to try and continue
to go to any meetings as
they kind of become available. So, that
way I can just continue to be informed
about this. So, I do know they went
knocked and knocked doors um, around
County Road K and they filed the
engineering report for
um, one spot um, in the town of
Woodville and then in the spot on County
Road K, which is in my district. So,
that's all I have.
>> Well, thank you for the information,
» Well, thank you for the information,
Supervisor Breeden.
Supervisor Booty.
» Thank you very much.
Um, one highway uh,
committee item to report here.
Um, County Trunk Highway B, uh, which
was a project funded
uh, through our BIL grant
is now open for traffic
um, from Sherwood to St. John. So, feel
free to give that one a drive.
Uh, that was funded, I believe, 80% with
federal funds.
And so, enjoy.
Um,
one other item, uh, from July 23rd and
24th, I attended the WCA
County Board Chairs training.
Um, we had a lengthy,
uh, mock County Board meeting hosted by
Sarah Detmer Kasdorf and Andy Phillips.
Uh, it was both interactive and engaging
and, dare I say, even somewhat
entertaining.
Um, if you are attending the WCA annual
conference, uh, this fall
and you have nothing else to do, I would
highly encourage you to attend the
double session,
uh, of the WCA, uh,
mock County Board meeting that they will
be having there. Thank you.
>> All right. Thank you, Supervisor Boney.
» All right. Thank you, Supervisor Boney.
Are there no other ones? So,
um,
do you have any questions regarding the
County Administrator's report?
All right. If none, we have some
appointees that need to be, um,
confirmed.
Appointment to Fox Valley Workforce
Development, recommend the appointment
of Sarah Cardinal to fill that vacancy.
Uh, the term will expire June 30th,
2029.
I need a motion to confirm. I have a
motion by Supervisor Diedrich and a
second by Supervisor Elliott. Are there
any questions regarding that?
If not, please vote your ballot.
All right. We have 21 yes, zero nays, so
that com- uh, appointy has been
confirmed.
Um, our next regular meeting
uh Supervisor Schwalenberg, you have
something to uh
ask?
>> Um I would like to make a motion to
» Um I would like to make a motion to
suspend the rules for the September 15th
meeting
to begin at 5:00 p.m.
in the Emergency Operations Center.
>> Is it your motion?
» Is it your motion?
>> It's my motion. Okay, sorry.
» All right, is there a second? I have a
motion by Supervisor Schwalenberg and a
second by Supervisor Elliott.
Um let me explain what's happening.
If this is approved um
the EOC director would like to invite
the board
to a
dinner
which would include pizza, chips, salad,
and cookies.
And we would meet prior to our County
Board meeting.
Um he would also like to include a
presentation at that event
talking about the March blizzard, the
April fool the floods, and the July 27th
tornado.
So, that's why we're asking for that to
be the time change.
Are there any questions regarding that?
If not, please vote your ballot.
Mr. Stuckman, would you vote, please?
Thank Thank you.
Here's shut off as well.
We'll have
Well, how would you vote?
Yes. Thank you.
One second.
Doesn't let me do it either.
>> Won't let you do it either.
» Jim.
It doesn't let me
put in my vote either.
>> do it either.
» do it either.
>> Usually I could just click here and it
» Usually I could just click here and it
would drop down but it doesn't do that.
Weird, huh?
>> Yeah.
» Yeah.
If we go back would that mess it up?
>> Um
» Um
we can try. I think it takes the voting
out.
>> Would we everyone have to re-vote?
» Would we everyone have to re-vote?
>> Yeah. That's okay.
All right. We're going to We have to
vote one more time.
>> All right.
» All right.
We're all right.
>> Okay. Try again.
» Okay. Try again.
>> All right.
» All right.
>> Please vote your ballot again.
» Please vote your ballot again.
>> Sorry.
» Supervisor Hoffbringer, thank you. 21
yes, zero nay.
All right. You will receive a invitation
from the clerk's office because you will
have to um RSVP by September 9th. So,
look for that on your emails.
It'll come from Amanda from the
administrator's office. So, look for
that
and respond to it so that
we know how many
are going to be served.
And with that
we have done everything on our agenda.
Please have a safe