[0:00] It's 2026 meeting in the Final Act County Board of Supervisors. As is our tradition, we will have the presentation of colors, followed by a moment of silence, followed in turn, in turn by the pledge of allegiance.

[0:12] This evening, we have the Campbell-Sport Fire Department presenting colors.

[0:16] Please rise.

[1:37] Thank

[2:07] you, gentlemen.

[2:28] Thank you, gentlemen.

[2:28] Okay, the role this evening, we have 23 supervisors present with supervisor Van Heisen

[2:33] and Hayes being excused.

[2:37] The first item on the agenda is to approve a supplementary supplementary agenda that you should have gotten with your packet.

[2:47] Is there a motion to approve motion by supervisor Darnbrook, second by supervisor Ricker.

[2:54] We will place that on the agenda at the end of the agenda.

[3:04] All those any discussion I guess before we move to the vote.

[3:10] I don't see any, so we'll move to the vote.

[3:13] All those in favor, press your button.

[3:14] I oppose nay.

[3:27] Okay, the agenda has been approved,

[3:29] 23 in favor, and none opposed.

[3:34] Next item on the agenda is to approve the minutes

[3:36] of the August 18th, 2026 meeting

[3:39] of the Final Act County Board.

[3:41] Is there a motion to approve?

[3:43] Motion by a supervisor,

[3:44] a fender, a second by a supervisor, Simon.

[3:49] Any questions, errors, emissions to the minutes?

[3:57] I don't see any, so we'll move to the vote.

[3:59] All those in favor, press your button.

[4:01] And I,

[4:03] once it pops up here,

[4:09] those in favor, press your button.

[4:10] I, a poll is an A.

[4:21] Jeff, you want to,

[4:26] I'm assuming it was a yes.

[4:34] Okay.

[4:35] The minutes have been approved to 21 in favor.

[4:38] And none of the poll is with supervisors, Madigan and Beer both abstaining.

[4:50] Next item on the agenda now is in the appointment.

[4:54] We have a recommendation.

[4:58] .

[4:59] .

[5:00] Executive Sam Coffman for the appointment of Michael J. Streeder to the Final Iconi Historic Society Board of Directors.

[5:07] You'll notice the updated appointment on your desk tonight with the correct spelling of Mr.

[5:13] Please, please, please don't vote. I know it popped up on your screens already, but we're not that far yet.

[5:23] Okay, is there a motion to approve the appointment? Motion by supervisor Ryan, second by supervisor Beer.

[5:31] any questions or comments on the appointment and

[5:38] don't see any, so move right to the vote.

[5:40] All those in favor, press your button. I oppose nay.

[6:04] Carol, her, I'm sorry, Angela. Good.

[6:07] Yep.

[6:12] The appointment has been approved.

[6:14] 22 in favor and none of the polls would supervise her street or abstaining.

[6:25] Our next item on the agenda is a communication.

[6:28] It's a recommendation by a corporation council,

[6:30] Megan McNamara for the disallowance of a claim filed on behalf of Rebecca.

[6:36] Jay Holdsman.

[6:40] Okay, is there a motion to approve before we go to discussion? Motion by

[6:43] supervisor, kindly, second by supervisor, hurl ash.

[6:53] Okay.

[6:54] Evening everybody, this is associated with our county VV Pioneer Road Project. This is a

[7:04] claim that came in and it's somewhat convoluted, but initially we were requesting a temporary

[7:09] limited easement to do some of the work along that quarter on Pioneer Road and this resident

[7:17] was objecting to that and also in the process there was the removal of a tree.

[7:25] So in essence we tendered what was initially some correspondence from their council

[7:33] to our liability carrier who indicated that they would decline this claim.

[7:38] These parties actually have sued the city of Final Act.

[7:43] We're not part of that suit, but in conjunction with that,

[7:48] we have been looped in in the correspondence,

[7:51] and essentially are being treated as if we are a party to some degree.

[7:56] So to deal with part of their claim amount for the removal of a tree,

[8:02] we're asking that the board to allow that claim.

[8:05] They haven't followed the statute for tundering claims against the county, and so that is why we are also asking that this claim be disallowed.

[8:17] And in part, they were essentially asserting damages of almost $300,000 for a tree, just for perspective damages would be kept under the statute at $50,000.

[8:34] And I highly doubt they'd reach that for a tree, but anyway, by disallowing this claim,

[8:41] you would limit their time frame to sue us for the tree to six months versus a longer period

[8:47] of time.

[8:49] So that is why I'm requesting that this board disallow that.

[8:53] Are there any questions for Corp Council while she's up here?

[9:00] Okay, I don't see any.

[9:01] Thank you, Megan.

[9:04] Any discussion before we move to the vote?

[9:08] Okay, I don't see any. So move to the vote. All those in favor, press your button. I oppose

[9:14] nay.

[9:24] Okay, the communication has been approved. 23 in favor and not opposed, not opposed.

[9:32] Our next item on the agenda is removing to the reports section four, 2025 annual reports of the

[9:42] final account. Any medical examiner's office by medical examiner Adam Kovetch.

[9:49] Hey, are there any questions or comments on the report?

[9:53] I do not see Adam here this evening.

[9:56] So,

[9:59] I guess if you have any comments.

[10:04] May I just want to make a comment? So, on page 8 of the report, he mentioned the number of suicides we've seen in the final account in 2025, which was 30 of significantly from 2024, which was 13, and the 10 year average was 10, and what's really troubling is he said the age ranges of those people were 12 years old to 90 years old.

[10:28] So, I just think that's a really important statistic that we need to keep in mind as we're making decisions, especially because September is currently suicide awareness month.

[10:42] He mentions in his report that the reason for the shock increases unknown.

[10:47] So obviously there's a lot of factors that could be to blame for this huge increase, but it is really troubling.

[10:54] I just wanted to draw some attention to it.

[10:56] Okay, thank you.

[10:58] Any other comments on the report?

[11:02] Okay, I don't see any, so we'll place this on file.

[11:10] Our next report is the report of the finance personnel

[11:13] and economic development committee on mileage

[11:15] per DM in expenses for August, 2026.

[11:19] As our traditional read the totals per DM,

[11:22] $1,530 mileage, $898 in 77 cents.

[11:28] There are no expenses,

[11:30] and $2,428 in 77 cents both claimed and allowed.

[11:35] Is there a motion to approve?

[11:37] Motion by supervisor.

[11:38] Major Chuck, second by supervisor Dean Will.

[11:45] Any questions or comments on the report?

[11:50] I don't see any, so we'll move right to the vote.

[11:52] All those in favor, press your button.

[11:54] I oppose nay.

[12:04] Report has been approved, 23 in favor, and none opposed.

[12:16] All right.

[12:17] We'll be moving on to our resolutions for this evening.

[12:19] Item 5A is a resolution authorizing the re-organization of Fondalacconi crisis intervention services as outlined in the attached re-organization chart within the clinical services division of the Department of Human Services effective November 1, 2026.

[12:39] This is submitted jointly by Finance Personnel and Economic Development Committee and the Health and Human Development Committee.

[12:46] Okay, the fiscal note states that we are amending the Department of Health and Human

[12:50] Department of Human Services adopted 2026 budget.

[12:55] Therefore, this resolution requires the approval of at least two-thirds of the members

[12:59] elect of the county board.

[13:01] The total cost to hire a hiring three clinical therapist with wages and fringe benefits on November

[13:09] first, 2026 is $47,730.

[13:13] dollars. The balance remaining in salary fringe contingency reserve account after the removal

[13:19] of the $47,000 is $3,183,841. Is there a motion to approve?

[13:29] Motion by supervisor Depperman, second by supervisor Ryan.

[13:36] Okay, are there any questions or comments on the resolution?

[13:44] supervisor Ryan. Just a question if Jerry could come down real quick. The question

[13:53] has to do with, no, obviously this is part of the reorganization and the

[13:58] transition of the acute center. And I just wonder Jerry, if I'm an implementation

[14:03] standpoint, you're going to phase this as a way I understand it, right?

[14:08] Correct.

[14:10] Can you hear me?

[14:11] Yeah.

[14:11] So the three positions, beginning November 1st, are so that we can train the crisis intervention

[14:16] specialists, so that by January 1st they're able to be working on their own in the field.

[14:24] The fourth position, which was approved was the co-response position, and that will come

[14:28] a little bit later in the plan.

[14:30] For part-time positions, we'll also begin January 1st.

[14:34] We will maintain our pool positions that we currently have and those folks will fill in hours as needed until we get the part-time folks hired and trained.

[14:44] Well, these type of workers are able to maybe impact some of these reference to the suicides.

[14:51] You know, I mean, are they able to impact that?

[14:54] I mean, we have an acute center now and we've already up on suicides.

[14:58] I don't think I ever...

[15:00] So a new approach, maybe going to allow us to maybe impact that, or do you have a feel for that?

[15:06] I mean, I'd hope so. Again, having more of a footprint in the community, more presence being

[15:13] able to respond to individuals sooner. You know, we already do have a group, it's called the

[15:29] get together in every quarter and they do review these deaths to see if there's any changes or

[15:35] anything that we could have done differently. In some cases we don't, you know, and this is

[15:40] Fandalat County and SSM is part of this group. In some cases we don't know those folks.

[15:46] So, you know, we don't know that they're hurting or that they're needing help,

[15:51] unless, you know, it comes to our attention somehow, right? Whether that be them, law enforcement

[15:55] family. So again, hopefully the attention that we have gotten this year on this topic alone,

[16:03] people will, and we last year we had a campaign for crisis intervention. So hopefully people

[16:08] will know that we're here and we're here to help and they will know how to get a hold of us and

[16:11] where to call and that we can, you know, maybe make a difference there. A bigger difference.

[16:18] And then candidates for these type of positions are the ample amount. How do you recruit

[16:24] And do you think that you're going to get your timeline you're going to be able to meet your timelines?

[16:29] I'm hopeful that we have a few individuals that currently work on the inpatient unit that will be interested in these positions or two of the positions at least.

[16:40] And you know, the crisis intervention can be staffed by somebody with a bachelor's degree or a master's degree.

[16:47] The preference would be that higher clinical level.

[16:50] They require less supervision and usually are a little bit

[16:55] about their able to respond to these situations a little bit quicker

[16:59] and differently.

[17:01] So that's our hope.

[17:02] But again, we can do that.

[17:03] We then just offer them more support and guidance from a clinical lens.

[17:08] Thank you.

[17:10] Any other questions or comments will jerry's up here?

[17:16] Yeah, I don't see any.

[17:17] Thank you.

[17:18] Well, last second, your supervisor, Griffith, she'd hold it right to the end.

[17:23] Sorry. I'm wondering if you could explain anything if you know how the 911

[17:31] abortions people, among the different parts of this system, because they could send people to the

[17:39] PD, they could send people to the sheriff's office, they could send, right? I mean, how does that work?

[17:43] I don't I don't know that I understand so are you saying if somebody calls 911 and says I need help, this is what's happening or

[17:52] Right, I presume that that at least I mean the 911 calls are going to be some of the calls that would trigger the co-response people

[18:02] Maybe not directly, but I guess I'm just not quite sure how how the 911 calls are even a portion between the city and the county.

[18:09] I mean, I don't work in 911, I don't exactly know how they deploy individuals, but my assumption is when somebody calls 911 and they have an emergency, the first responder is law enforcement in that case.

[18:23] The coal response teams, they do have access to that dispatch log and I think sometimes they deploy themselves.

[18:29] if they see that is a crisis call for a suicide attempt or a self-harm or harm to others.

[18:35] Other times, they get called by an officer and are asked to, you know, participate with them.

[18:44] But in most cases, again, they're not, I mean, 9-1-1 would not call crisis directly.

[18:50] And while I shouldn't even say that, there might be a warm handoff right where if it's somebody who just

[18:55] is looking for somebody to talk to and they call 911 because they don't know to call

[19:00] 988 or they don't know what the crisis number is.

[19:03] That might be just a warm handoff to our crisis department.

[19:06] So I think it would depend on this situation.

[19:12] Thank you.

[19:13] So, please raise our brawl.

[19:15] So, my question isn't specifically for Jerry.

[19:17] I mean, if you want to answer this, you can, but I was not able to be at the last Human Services

[19:22] board meeting and it's my understanding that police chief Goldstein from the City of

[19:27] Fondalac made some comments and I was wondering if you want to take this you can but otherwise

[19:31] if one of the members of that board could talk about what he said in his public comments.

[19:39] If you don't want to that's fine, I'm just asking are there any other questions for specifically for Jerry while she's up here?

[19:45] Yep, that's fine.

[19:48] Okay, since Jerry's up here, I'll come back to you in a second.

[19:53] Go ahead Tom. Jerry, you mentioned 988 when someone from Fondalee County calls 988.

[20:00] 288, do they in turn reach out to your department or your on call workers so let them know there's somebody in suffering mentally at that time and in jeopardy of harming themselves or does 988 keep it confidential if that's with the person requests?

[20:19] I think that that's exactly it depends on the situation. So if they are calling 988, they may ask them if they're aware if they have a local, you know, you're aware that you have a local crisis department.

[20:29] And do you know the full number, all of those kinds of things?

[20:31] So they can, again, do a warm hand off call us.

[20:34] We'll do a three-way call.

[20:35] We take that call and then we carry it on from there.

[20:38] Sometimes, they just want to talk, and that's what

[20:41] 1980s is there for.

[20:42] So they can certainly do that.

[20:43] They do keep stats on where the call is are coming from,

[20:48] if they have access to that data.

[20:51] So you can look that up on the website for 1980s.

[20:54] That's called public knowledge.

[20:55] And do you know, like, does this year department have web page or the web page of

[21:00] Health Department have 988 on there, so that they, you know, sometimes they don't like talking to local people,

[21:07] because they fear that their information might be shared?

[21:12] Yeah, you know, I don't know if it does or not, but I will look into that.

[21:15] And we are in the process of redoing our website to make it a little bit more consumer friendly

[21:20] for all of those reasons, so if it's not, we'll make sure to put it on there.

[21:24] Thank you.

[21:25] All right, that's it for you, Jerry, I think, thank you for coming up.

[21:31] So, um, two visor-fenderic, would you like to respond, uh, two visor-browlts question?

[21:37] Sure, so the, uh, at the public comment period, chief Goldstein asked if we could allocate,

[21:48] I would say, another crisis worker for the city, um, due to two thirds of the calls are for the city.

[21:57] Mr. Kaufman is, do you have any other comments for that one?

[22:02] Yeah.

[22:03] So I mean, that's basically what it was asked by us.

[22:10] Okay.

[22:10] So yeah.

[22:11] And I just wanted to draw attention to that, because I mean,

[22:13] I wasn't there, so I didn't get to hear exactly what he said.

[22:16] But I know that he made it clear that,

[22:18] especially in the city of Fonda, like there is a need.

[22:21] And so as we work through the additional phases,

[22:25] we should remember that this resolution is just the first.

[22:28] piece of this, but I'm hoping we listen to our law enforcement officers who are saying,

[22:33] you know, that there's more need within those embedded crisis worker positions within their departments.

[22:41] Because I also just wanted to draw attention.

[22:42] We also have a mental health action team.

[22:45] It's led by our county health department.

[22:48] I've been kind of a periphery member of it because I don't work in a mental health field,

[22:54] and I don't work in one of our non-profits that can do some of the work, but they've been

[23:01] convening a lot of good people from our county that do do that work and they've been doing a

[23:07] lot of work that focuses on advocacy and awareness of mental health concerns, but I think the

[23:13] piece that we still really need a lot more of is access to care.

[23:21] So there are definitely some

[23:24] big concerns within our county that closing the

[23:26] impatient unit is losing a big access to local care while we will

[23:31] have these crisis workers if we approve this resolution.

[23:34] There's still I think a lot more work to do.

[23:36] So I just want to make sure that we're keeping that in mind,

[23:38] especially knowing that Chief Goldstein specifically went to

[23:41] the board to request that.

[23:43] And that was not added to this resolution.

[23:46] OK, thank you.

[23:48] Any other questions or comments before we move to the vote?

[23:52] Okay, I don't see any, but move to the vote, all those in favor, press your button, I oppose nay.

[24:10] Okay, the resolution has been approved, 23 in favor, and none opposed.

[24:19] The next resolution is a resolution redirecting use of $50,000 in opioid funds,

[24:24] Allocated in Resolution No. 7-7-24 from the Final Act

[24:29] County Drug Court Treatment Program to the Gratitude Club

[24:32] in the construction of the Phoenix Nest.

[24:34] This is also submitted jointly by Finance Personnel

[24:38] in Economic Development Committee and Health

[24:41] in Human Development Committee.

[24:43] The fiscal note states that we are

[24:45] amending the Department of Human Services adopted 2026 budget.

[24:49] Therefore, this resolution requires the approval of at least

[24:52] two-thirds of the members elect of the county board.

[24:55] Is there a motion to approve?

[24:57] Motion by supervisor, Senator.

[24:58] Fenderack, second by supervisor.

[25:05] Any questions or comments on the resolution?

[25:10] Supervisor Griffith.

[25:12] Yeah, I would just like to say that I'm really glad to see this finally coming before us.

[25:15] It's been a long time coming, and I want to say that I talked with a lot of law enforcement professionals before bringing this to the finance committee about a year ago.

[25:26] And they were all absolutely 100% in favor of it. Several of them wrote letters and comments because they felt so strongly about it.

[25:34] felt like this was one of the best and cheapest and most impactful things that we could do in

[25:38] the county to support so we're living so in their whole recovery community so I'm really glad

[25:44] it's here. Thank you. Rise or brawl? Thank you. I mean I just want to echo what's

[25:51] Rise or Griffith said I'm very excited that we are able to allocate this funds to the Phoenix

[25:56] nest but I was wondering if there's someone who would answer this question. The resolution mentions

[26:02] that at the end of 2025, the drug court treatment program

[26:05] ceased accepting new participants.

[26:08] So that's where the funding is coming from.

[26:11] And as we've been talking about the jail,

[26:13] one of the things we've been talking about is things

[26:15] that we could do to try to keep people out of jail drug

[26:18] treatment court is something that other counties are doing

[26:21] successfully.

[26:22] So I don't know if is there anybody here who kind of just

[26:24] speak to why that's ending.

[26:25] Mr. Kaufman, I think maybe you qualified to answer this

[26:31] The drug court program has not been successful in our county, and the reason why is because

[26:37] there has not been an agreement between the judges, the DA, and the public defender's office,

[26:42] and all the participants, as to who is entitled to be part of it, we are a very unique

[26:46] county is that the DA's office had authority to veto participants in the program. I attempted to

[26:52] renegotiate the agreement between the parties. They could not come to an agreement when the DA's

[26:57] us finally, did agree. The public's front is office, wouldn't agree. So because of that, when

[27:02] I spoke to the judges, we realized the best opportunity would be just to go ahead and end

[27:08] the program. But the same time, the judges still have the abilities, part of their sentencing,

[27:13] to go ahead, have a person completed treatment program through department human services, that

[27:18] could they could factor into part of their sentencing till. So we thought that that was the best way

[27:21] around it at this point. I'm open to it to come back again someday, but unfortunately, we were only

[27:26] graduating to the two or three, two or three people out of the program, and it just wasn't

[27:31] and we're spending six figures on this, and it just wasn't worth it for that amount of money.

[27:35] We'd rather spend the money instead of the programs to directly help them.

[27:39] Thank you.

[27:40] All right. Thank you. Any other questions or comments?

[27:45] I don't see any. We'll move to the vote. All those in favor, press your button. I oppose

[27:49] nay.

[27:54] Resolution has been approved, 23 in favor, and none opposed.

[27:57] We're

[28:04] on to the next committee of jurisdiction with Resolution 6A Resolution amending.

[28:12] Ordnance chapter two administration, Article 6, City County Government Center, Division 2, City

[28:21] County Building Board, sections 2, dash 201 through 205, Final Accounting Code of Ordnances.

[28:30] This is submitted by the Highway Airport and Facilities Committee.

[28:35] Thank you.

[28:35] Is there a motion to approve?

[28:37] Motion by supervisor Mike Wells, second by supervisor Simon.

[28:45] I will make note that it's a advisor beer has been excused for the remainder of the meeting.

[28:53] It's a supervisor Simon.

[28:58] Thank you.

[28:59] All right.

[29:01] Are there any questions or comments on the resolution?

[29:07] This is, I don't want to say, a formality, but it's something that came up in the county board.

[29:13] City county building board meetings as a way to get the 7th, 7th member on there.

[29:18] We need to clarify it.

[29:22] So, Corporation Council has drafted the appropriate documents to make that happen.

[29:28] There are no questions or comments.

[29:30] We'll move to the vote, all those in favor, press your button.

[29:32] I oppose nay.

[29:44] Resolution has been approved 22 in favor and not opposed.

[29:50] Our next resolution submitted by Highway Airport and Facilities Committee is a resolution

[29:54] authorizing the proper colony officials to execute an easement for placement.

[30:00] Have a forward, fiber communication cabinet with when LLC?

[30:08] Is there a motion to approve? Motion by suit,

[30:12] second by suit,

[30:17] any questions or comments on the resolution?

[30:30] Questions or comments? I don't see any, so we'll write to the vote. All those in favor, presser,

[30:35] button, aye, oppose, nay.

[30:44] Resolution has been approved, 22 in favor, and not opposed.

[30:46] We

[30:54] have a resolution authorizing the property officials to terminate an airport private hanger

[30:59] lease with Carl Penal and enter into a new lease agreement with KT2LLC for the same hanger space

[31:08] lot SE-06.

[31:11] This is submitted by Highway Airport and Facilities Committee.

[31:15] Is there a motion to approve motion by Supervisor Madagun second by Supervisor Rick or Conway?

[31:21] I'm sorry.

[31:23] I's in the names that go together.

[31:27] Questions or comments on the resolution?

[31:37] Questions or comments?

[31:38] I don't see any.

[31:39] So we'll move to the vote.

[31:40] All those in favor.

[31:41] Pressure button.

[31:42] I oppose nay.

[31:51] Resolution has been approved.

[31:52] 22 in favor and not opposed.

[31:56] Next item is also submitted by Highway Airport

[31:59] and Facilities Committee.

[32:01] Resolution authorizing the property officials.

[32:04] Determinate an airport hanger lease.

[32:06] with Gregory Stratz, an enter into a new lease agreement with Greg Stratz, living trust.

[32:12] For the same hangar space, lot SE-04.

[32:16] Okay, is there a motion to approve motion by supervisor,

[32:19] street or second by supervisor, record?

[32:24] Any questions or comments on this one?

[32:30] Survisor, Mayor Chuck.

[32:32] Can I just get some clarification on what,

[32:34] as I've always seen a living trust,

[32:36] the owner of a hanger and just some clarification is that all the other is different than an LLC.

[32:46] I'm going to ask corporation council to clarify.

[32:50] It doesn't mind.

[32:53] I'm not sure I heard your question.

[32:55] So you're wondering if a living trust should be an LLC?

[32:59] It's personal never seeing it not be an LLC or an individual person.

[33:03] I just want to see if I can get some clarification on what the difference is between the living

[33:08] trust versus an LLC and how a living trust can have ownership of a hanger.

[33:15] Well, any asset can be put into a trust. If you're doing a state planning or you have certain assets

[33:22] that you want to transfer upon your death, you can do advanced planning and advanced

[33:27] directives to do that. So an LLC is essentially a form of a

[33:33] incorporated entity where a living trust, this is his living trust is my

[33:40] understanding. I don't know if time had any discussions with Brian or

[33:45] airport manager about this, but for this Greg Stratz is still alive, he's

[33:51] just transferring the asset of the hanger. It seems to me to be into a

[33:56] having trust and so we need to amend the lease or reflect that.

[34:01] It's never seen a lease used like that before.

[34:07] Okay.

[34:08] I think we've had a couple actually.

[34:12] Holder ones, their older leases,

[34:14] they're probably in like there are finally years of a 20 year lease.

[34:20] Yeah.

[34:23] Is that, are you good?

[34:24] Yeah, okay.

[34:25] Thank you.

[34:26] Any other questions or comments?

[34:28] I don't see any, so we'll move to the boat, all those in favor, press for button.

[34:33] I oppose nay.

[34:46] Resolution has been approved, 22 in favor, and not opposed.

[34:51] Next, I am on the agenda for Resolution was submitted by Committee on Committees.

[34:56] Resolution amending, County Board rule 15.

[35:00] Second, B, 2, A, City County Building Board.

[35:06] Okay, is there a motion to approve?

[35:11] Motion by a supervisor, Mike. Well, second by a supervisor, hurl ash.

[35:17] Any questions or comments?

[35:19] This is basically a continuation of the first, the resolution we had a few moments ago.

[35:29] Yeah, I don't see any questions or comments, so we'll move to the vote, all those in favor, pressure button, aye, opposed, nay.

[35:49] Resolution has been approved 22 in favor and non-opposed.

[36:14] Next item is being submitted by the Public Safety Committee.

[36:20] We have a resolution, a Mending Chapter 34, Law Enforcement,

[36:25] Article 2, Deputy Reserve, Section 34, through 31, to 34, through 34,

[36:32] and Chapter 43, Fairgrounds, Section 43,

[36:35] B-9, C-4, fees and charges.

[36:39] On the Lacone code of ordinances, and I'm sorry this is jointly also with the UW Extension

[36:44] Education, Agriculture, and Recreation Committee.

[36:49] Okay, is there a motion to approve?

[36:51] Motion by Survisor, Conway, second by Supervisor, Brault?

[36:57] Any questions or comments on the resolution?

[37:03] Questions or comments?

[37:04] I don't see any, so move to the vote.

[37:06] All those in favor, press your button, aye.

[37:22] Resolution has been approved 22 in favor and not opposed.

[37:38] And we have a resolution from UW Extension Education,

[37:44] Agriculture and Recreation Committee,

[37:46] Resolution Amending, Chapter 42,

[37:49] Final Act Colony Parks and Recreation Ordnance,

[37:52] Final Act Colony Code of Ordnances.

[37:55] Is there a motion to approve?

[37:58] Motion by supervisor,

[37:59] or street or second by Supervisor Dornbrook.

[38:06] Any questions or comments on the resolution?

[38:10] Supervisor Brult.

[38:12] Thank you.

[38:13] I agree with the ordinance changes,

[38:17] and I agree with the vast majority

[38:19] of what is in the Veterans Park policy

[38:21] that is referred to in the resolution,

[38:25] but I'm gonna be voting no on the resolution

[38:29] because I have a very fundamental disagreement

[38:32] with a piece of the Veterans Park Special Events Policy.

[38:36] I think the vast majority of the policy is excellent.

[38:39] There was so much work done in its thank you to county staff, committee members, veterans

[38:45] groups.

[38:46] There were so many people that had a hand in creating this policy, but the piece that I find a

[38:50] bit troubling is on page six to have a special event at the park.

[38:56] this is in the Special Events Policy, somebody would need to get endorsement from a nationally

[39:02] recognized Veterans Organization located in Finalite County in order to have an event that's

[39:08] not hosted by the county. Because of some of our concerns about that, they did add the caveat in

[39:15] this piece of the policy that if a Veterans Organization is not able to endorse and otherwise appropriate

[39:20] event, the county executive or land information director, reserve the right to approve the permit application.

[39:27] But I just have a philosophical disagreement with this that because Veterans Park is still a county park.

[39:36] By having a requirement of an endorsement by an outside group, even though I support the idea of wanting to make sure that our veterans groups are.

[39:47] comfortable with any events that are happening in the park. I just don't agree with the

[39:53] endorsement process. I had asked if perhaps we could have just had a representative from

[39:59] our veteran service.

[40:00] This is office on the team that would look at the special events permit requests. And I was told

[40:08] that it was seen that perhaps that office doesn't really hold on.

[40:16] It is unclear whether the veteran

[40:19] service's office formally reflects the collective position of the veteran groups themselves. And so

[40:25] I also found that a little troubling that we're not trusting our own county department to have

[40:29] hand in what's happened what's going on with our veteran's groups. I would feel much more comfortable

[40:34] if we had a county employee that was part of the review process rather than outside groups

[40:41] because we have the oversight over what happens within the county and our county employees. So

[40:47] because of that difference despite there being a lot of really good work that happened on this I'm

[40:51] voting no on the resolution.

[40:53] Thank you.

[40:54] Subvisor Leary.

[41:02] I have a few things just to say about this.

[41:05] First of all, the purpose of this ordinance is for us to have a standing set of rules governing the daily public use of all the county parks and

[41:16] So that would be all of the 20 parks.

[41:21] So if we don't vote on this tonight,

[41:24] like if we don't pass this,

[41:26] this affects all of our county parks.

[41:29] Also, the purpose of the special events policy

[41:33] is developed implemented by land information,

[41:37] the department, the land information department of veterans park.

[41:43] It is a, it's basically a framework for managing temporary organized activities that require additional oversight, for example, events that go beyond normal park use.

[41:56] In summary, this ordinance regulates daily normal park use while the special events policy governance, the exceptions such as organized activities that require additional oversight beyond the park rules.

[42:12] I mean people have been working on this since this run of a, since the renovation of this park

[42:19] began like a Vatchron's park in particular, and we've stuck $1.2 million, $1.2 million

[42:28] million was invested into this park by the county and the donors.

[42:33] The park is ideally located in the downtown, as everyone knows, it's an asset to our downtown

[42:42] here in the city of Fondalac and to our its an asset to our businesses. Some of those business

[42:49] owners have donated and hopes that we begin using the park and the stage and drop people in.

[42:58] The stage in this park is currently mainly used at a minimum two times per year,

[43:04] Memorial Day and Veterans Day, it would make sense for more events to be able to occur in this

[43:11] park. And again, remember, this is a change to the ordinance and not the policy. This can

[43:18] always be modified in the future if it's necessary. And like with all things, I think it's a given

[43:29] take in negotiations, so when people bring something controversial the way to get things done

[43:38] or moving to benefit everyone is a given take, because we want to respect our veterans and

[43:46] I think that this is a good idea.

[43:50] Okay.

[43:52] Thank you. Any other questions or comments?

[43:57] Supervisor Strider.

[43:59] Yeah. Thank you. I'm Mr. Scherd.

[44:01] I think the policy is written really well.

[44:05] Sarah did a really nice job.

[44:07] Do a lot of research.

[44:08] I'm then.

[44:09] I think it's.

[44:11] I think it's cool to.

[44:13] Include.

[44:14] So the Legion on no our commander and.

[44:16] Our executive committee.

[44:18] pretty honored about being a part of that, and I think Tiffany also mentioned that, you know,

[44:24] it's really up to the parts department, if you know it's more of a courtesy. I mean, they can,

[44:28] they can say they wouldn't, you know, want something to occur at that part, but it's really not

[44:33] up to them. I think if you're going to, you know, have this park and spend all this money on it,

[44:38] and to honor veterans and have them in that loop, I think that's pretty cool, and they feel like

[44:44] part of that, and a lot of folks, you know, bought bricks there, and I don't know, I think

[44:50] they just feel more of a part of that being, you know, being in that loop. So, I don't

[44:55] be voting tonight for the ordinance to be approved.

[44:59] Okay, thank you, thank you.

[45:00] Any other questions or comments?

[45:05] I don't see any, so we'll move to the vote. All those in favor, press your button. I oppose nay.

[45:17] The resolution has been approved. 21 in favor, and one of Paul is the supervisor, brought to abstain. I'm sorry, voting nay. It's almost set of extension.

[45:32] Next resolution is submitted by County Board Chair, Steven A. Able, Resolution, recommending

[45:39] actions on the resolutions to be considered at the 2026 Wisconsin County's Association

[45:45] Annual Business Meeting.

[45:48] Thank you.

[45:48] Is there a motion to approve?

[45:50] Motion by a supervisor, Depperman, second by a supervisor record?

[45:57] I'll give a brief explanation.

[45:59] You guys have heard me say this for the last.

[46:01] on a how many years now I did have a conversation with the newest board member, the supervisor

[46:07] Monsmoder, I bring him up to speed so briefly this everything done in the WCA resolutions

[46:15] that you have seen is done by unanimous consent. They will pull a couple out counties can request

[46:22] to have them voted on separately, which does occur and depending upon what happens there by

[46:27] voting node of this resolution that gives me the ability to act on those individually.

[46:34] So, summarize it, basically, I'm asking everybody to vote no on this, but if not, I will vote

[46:39] yes by on everything, if that's what you so choose.

[46:45] So, any questions or comments?

[46:50] Okay, all those in favor of the resolution, press your button, I oppose nay.

[46:56] Remember voting nae is better this time.

[47:01] It's intense.

[47:06] Oh.

[47:13] It's work.

[47:17] Everybody is voted.

[47:19] System doesn't want to own

[47:23] it.

[47:24] Somebody vote yes, then.

[47:25] That's fine.

[47:26] I can change my in quick.

[47:27] If that's.

[47:28] Try again.

[47:29] I'm sorry.

[47:29] I don't know why the system shows not.

[47:35] Do it one more time.

[47:37] Not sure what happened.

[47:41] Okay.

[47:41] All right, the resolution has failed one to twenty-one with Supervisor Depperman voting in favor.

[48:01] Oh, I'm sorry, Supervisor Montsman, you were waiting to talk.

[48:06] Oh, it's okay. Okay.

[48:11] We're good. All right, thank you.

[48:14] All right, our final resolution for the evening is resolution is the supplementary agenda resolution.

[48:23] It's a resolution authorizing the property officials to accept a $1,850,000 offer to purchase of 7.8820 acres of vacant land from CMK properties LLC and all your supplementary agenda.

[48:42] for years is falling on your desk.

[48:46] Thank you.

[48:47] The fiscal note says that we are not.

[48:50] It does not require an appropriation from the county general fund.

[48:54] However, we are amending the adopted 2026 on the lack county FCC budget.

[49:00] Therefore, this resolution requires the approval of at least two thirds of the members elect of the board.

[49:05] The proceeds will amend the final-like county FCC budget to transfer 1.43 million back to the sales tax revenue account,

[49:15] and 370,000 included in the FCC budget to offset the expenses of construction from 2025.

[49:25] After the appropriation of this resolution, there will be $5,616,684 in the reserve, unapplied sales tax account.

[49:38] Is there a motion to approve motion by a supervisor?

[49:42] Fendreck, second by a supervisor, Ryan.

[49:50] Any questions or comments?

[49:53] Raise a Ryan?

[49:55] Sure, I think we have some new members to it.

[49:57] It might be just helpful for us to understand.

[50:00] Here's the answer on how the revenue from this, where it ends up and trying to keep the campus off the

[50:05] levy and sales like this are important. So, it's just a good reminder for us. Sam, would you mind?

[50:15] The, the rugby field land that's unharmed, like a Johnson Street in the university, that is part of the UW campus.

[50:23] So, the former UW campus, which is owned by the county, when we went through and was looking to do the construction

[50:31] We had the money from the state, but we were about 1.4 million short.

[50:36] To complete the project, the County Board allocated those funds with the understanding

[50:40] that once land is being sold or the rugby field was sold, that those funds from the

[50:45] rugby field sale would go back to work for partially sales tax account or return those

[50:50] funds back to that.

[50:51] Any additional funds that would go back into the FCC budget, which is part of the campus

[50:56] at all.

[50:57] reason why we do that is because we use those funds for operations in order to keep the

[51:03] campus off the tax level. They have not been on tax level 26 and right now they will not be

[51:07] on the level 27 either. Thank you. Thank you. So, raise a brawl.

[51:15] Thank you. I was just wondering if it would be appropriate. Just for the public, it might be

[51:19] interested to know what the seller intends to do with the land?

[51:23] Yeah, Mr. Coffman.

[51:25] The only thing I can't disclose at this time is that the primary developer is looking

[51:30] to place a tractor supply store on one of the parcels.

[51:34] Another parcel would be posted retail in another grocery store.

[51:39] Thank you.

[51:41] Thank you.

[51:41] Any other questions or comments?

[51:45] Questions or comments?

[51:46] I don't see any.

[51:47] So we'll move to the vote.

[51:48] All those in favor, pressur button.

[51:50] I oppose nay.

[51:56] The resolution has been approved 22 in favor and not opposed.

[52:02] You want to, I'll give you the opportunity, even though you're a little late, go ahead.

[52:07] That we, there were two bids for this property.

[52:11] And the Finance Committee took the highest bid and also the best,

[52:15] what we thought was the best use for that parcel of land.

[52:19] Okay, thank you.

[52:25] All right, before we get to adjournment, here we got a couple of housekeeping things.

[52:31] I have one in the clerk has one as well.

[52:34] I wanted to update the county board on where we are at with the jail,

[52:40] design and presentation.

[52:43] After having a meeting with Samuel's group,

[52:47] We have decided that we will do a presentation in closed session at the October 27th board meeting.

[52:57] A couple of reasons for that. Let me explain that. We are going to the reason for the closed session

[53:03] is for security purposes. We can't release the pictures or several of those things of the design part

[53:10] of it to the public for security reasons and the sheriff would probably echo that in the back of the room.

[53:16] So we have decided to do that in closed session at 430 on October 27th, as the night of the public hearing for the budget.

[53:26] So we are going to have the meeting, we'll call the meeting to order at 430, go directly into closed session.

[53:34] They will have board set up around this room, they'll do their presentation, but you'll be able to look at things on boards, ask questions,

[53:43] things like that, we will call the meeting, we'll come out of closed session, go into our regular meeting,

[53:51] have our regular meeting at 6 o'clock and have the, I believe the public hearing is going to be at 630 that night.

[54:00] So, and then, so beyond that, let me move to the next steps here. So that's how we're going to handle the October 27th meeting.

[54:09] Early November, they will have the communication plan finished and ready to release to the

[54:16] public.

[54:17] That is when the public will get to actually check things out.

[54:21] They are going to have the website finished, all the financial stuff will be able to release

[54:26] that to the public and then because of the holidays and the way everything is kind of falling

[54:34] here with the budget, everything we have decided that early January is when we're going to have the

[54:39] public listening sessions. It gets away from the holidays. It allows as many people from the

[54:44] public as possible to attend. And the plan is to have approximately five meetings around the county.

[54:52] I'm not necessarily on the city, but we're going to try and get as many around the county as possible.

[54:57] ..

[54:58] ..

[55:00] The meetings will happen over a two-week period, so that'll give people if they can't make one meeting, they can make another.

[55:05] So, and that's where, after that, they will compile everything we hear from the public, give that back to the county board, and then I anticipate in February that we will start discussions as a county board on the jail.

[55:20] So, I just wanted to explain the close session and the reason for that strictly for security.

[55:27] We're not trying to hide anything from the public, but then the next set of documents that will get released to the public.

[55:33] We'll have those security things removed.

[55:38] So, there are any questions about that before we move on to Lisa's.

[55:44] Okay, I don't see any equal head Lisa.

[55:45] Okay, and those that are attending the Wisconsin Colonies Association conference coming up on Sunday.

[55:51] You did get some information on your desk, just there's a note about checking in that you will have to use your personal credit card for incidentals.

[56:00] Last year we did have some issues with those credit cards, so please check your credit card bill.

[56:06] Your statement immediately after and if you have any issues with that, please let me know.

[56:11] And we'll get it through with Leah.

[56:13] You also have reservation information at the Kala-Hari.

[56:18] Supervisor Mansma, just you'll check in

[56:20] because we did get you a Roman everything.

[56:24] Information with WCA as all of you that have been to that,

[56:29] anytime on Sunday night or Monday morning,

[56:31] you can go down and get your credentials.

[56:34] And if you have a guest with you that they have those credentials

[56:38] that you paid for and everything.

[56:39] So just make sure to check in at some point to get your credentials and then at the back

[56:45] I know some of you laugh at this, but I did put an extra meeting slip on each one of yours as a friendly reminder to please

[56:53] Get those to us in a timely manner and don't expect us to chase like we have for the last couple years so that you can laugh

[57:00] But make sure you know your board rules tell us that you're supposed to get them to us by the end of the current month

[57:07] And then of course if you have any a meal from Sunday night that you attach that receipts and everything

[57:13] So I really would appreciate your help with getting that turned into us in the timely manner and we're not chasing you down for it

[57:21] So other than that, I will see all of you down there at some points also on Sunday and or Monday at the conference and safe travels getting there

[57:32] Okay, thank you any other announcements for the good of the order.

[57:38] I don't see any

[57:39] So with that I'll entertain a motion to adjourn, motion by a supervisor kindly, second by a supervisor Simon, that is not debatable, all those in favor, pressure button I, oppose nay,

[57:58] that has been a past 22 in favor, none opposed, we stand adjourned.

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