[0:00] I was out there for a week and they had a a

[0:03] big b program building that you could visit that was really

[0:15] impressive I'll call this meeting to order it's 7

[0:20] o'clock roll call by the

[0:27] clerk got jurisdiction you

[0:33] want we have 25 present and five absent thank you uh Pledge of Allegiance

[0:43] Mr brogger could you please lead us

[0:50] today oh okay I pledge Alle to the flag of the United States of America and to

[0:57] the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with

[1:03] liberty and justice for all take a moment to think about your

[1:13] evening thank you very much please be seated thank you thank you for coming

[1:17] getting your picture taken

[1:22] tonight all right we're in compliance to open meetings law we are Mr chair okay I

[1:27] will entertain a motion for approval of the agenda so move so moved by Mr

[1:33] Jac uh seconded by Mr backlin any additions subtractions

[1:39] anything need to be moved seeing none all in favor say I I I

[1:44] opposed hearing none the agenda is approved approval of May 14th meeting

[1:50] minutes Mr Wii I would move uh approval of the May 14th 2024 meeting minutes is

[1:58] presented second second by Meg okay um anybody see any additions or

[2:06] subtractions any mistakes seeing none all in favor say I I opposed hearing

[2:14] none minutes are approved special order of business Proclamation M Mr

[2:21] L thank you Mr chair practical Mason number

[2:26] 2024 four four whereas the Lakeside Lutheran High

[2:32] School boys track team won the Wisconsin inter Scholastic Athletic Association

[2:36] Division 2 State Track Championship held from May 31st to June 1st

[2:42] 2024 and whereas the Lakeside Lutheran High School boys track team won the WIA

[2:48] division 2 State Track Championship with a score of 81 points which is a division

[2:53] 2 record and whereas the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors supports

[2:57] achievement in athletics and extracurricular activities as well as

[3:01] academic achievement among the County's Youth now therefore be it proclaimed

[3:06] that the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors assembled this 11th day of

[3:10] June 2024 extends its hearty congratulations to the Lakeside Lutheran

[3:14] High School boys track team coaches parents staff students and fans for the

[3:20] WIA State Track championship and wishes them success and good health in their

[3:26] future athletic and academic Pursuits Mr chair I move approval of this

[3:30] Proclamation move by Mr Lon do I have a second second by Mr

[3:34] backin all in favor say I I opposed hearing none the proclamation

[3:43] passes resolution recognizing the life-saving uh efforts of Deputy Ashley

[3:49] Nasi Deputy jar Mia I'm sorry Deputy Pete batansky Sergeant Eli Weeden Feld

[3:56] LPN Melissa moss and LPN Lissa s Mr

[4:05] danana resolution

[4:10] 14 resolution 20 2414 whereas on September 29th 203 2023 a 41-year-old

[4:18] inmate of the Jefferson County Jail was experienced a medical emergency within H

[4:23] unit and whereas Deputy nski or

[4:28] [Laughter] advised of a medical emergency in hpod

[4:33] at 12:06 p.m. regard an inmate who was sitting on the day room floor with his

[4:37] head slumped over the inmate fell backward and hit his head on the

[4:41] concrete floor Deputy

[4:46] n nanowski sorry about that thank you security each uh pod by locking down

[4:53] other inmates who were in the unit and whereas Deputy Mahia secured the inmates

[4:58] head and noticed that the inmate had blood coming from a laceration on the

[5:02] top of the head the lips were turning blue there was no chest rise or fall and

[5:07] the eyes were partially rolled back and whereas Sergeant wiedenfeld utilized an

[5:11] AED and advised no shock he and LPN statel initiated sear and administered

[5:17] breasts utilizing bag valve mask Deputy pansky began providing chest

[5:23] compressions the inmate then be began to move and breathe on his own LPN m

[5:29] administered dose of Narcan with no significant Improvement in the inmates

[5:34] condition Deputy pansky administer administered a second dose of Narcan and

[5:38] the inmate began breathing more readily on his own and his condition was

[5:43] improved and whereas Jefferson County EMS took over patient care and the

[5:47] inmate was transported to Fort Atkinson Memorial health uh Hospital treated and

[5:51] later released and whereas Jefferson County Sheriff Paul S mbath hereby asked

[5:57] that the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors formerly recognized the

[5:59] above individuals by adopting this recognition and awarding the above

[6:04] individuals with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office life saving

[6:09] award uh now therefore be it resolved that Jeffs County Board of Supervisors

[6:14] formerly recognizes the actions of De Deputy netan nanowski

[6:19] Mia bansky Sergeant Weeden Feld and LPN moss in statel who were directly

[6:25] involved in life-saving efforts to resuscitate an inmate of the Jeffs

[6:30] County Jail their efforts resulted in saving the life of this person and

[6:34] demonstrated professionalism exemplary service and dedication to duty which

[6:38] reflect great credit upon themselves the Jeffers County Sheriff's Office and

[6:43] Jefferson County be it further resolve that the above individuals be awarded

[6:47] the Jeffers County Sheriff's Office life saving award Mr chair I move for

[6:52] adoption of this resolution move by Mr Trina do I have a second second by Mr

[6:57] jacel all in favor say I

[7:04] opposed our sheriff and and Chief Deputy

[7:09] will add to this

[7:37] right so uh on behalf of the Sheriff's Office and Sheriff milbrath it's my

[7:43] distinct privilege to be able to be part of presenting the life saving award to

[7:49] staff that definitely answered the call and helped save a life so the

[7:53] life-saving awards awarded to any uh Sheriff's Office member whether on duty

[7:58] or off who is responsible for saving a human life through the rendering of

[8:03] Medical Aid or other actions that directly contribute to the saving of a

[8:07] human life this award is recognized through a crystal award that

[8:14] commemorates the date and a commendation bar that is the red and white of the

[8:20] life saving it's a symbol that's easily recognized as a life-saving symbol also

[8:26] I want to be sure that I thank the law enforcement committee for hearing this

[8:31] and feeling that it needed to go to the County Board and also all the County

[8:35] Board supervisors for uh recognizing this and helping us

[8:43] celebrate it's uh certainly clear that cohesive teamwork that happened that day

[8:48] and attention to detail and quick actions helped save and mitigate a

[8:52] situation which led to the successful resuscitation and preservation of this

[8:57] inmate's life

[9:06] all right so we

[9:09] have Deputy

[9:14] [Applause]

[9:25] neosi Deputy Mahia [Applause]

[9:45] Deputy Peter batansky [Applause]

[9:57] and Sergeant Eli

[10:04] Feld LPN Melissa [Applause]

[10:15] moss and alpn Lissa St statel

[10:31] and just to briefly reiterate on part of what was the Proclamation obviously the

[10:35] actions that they took on that day uh led to the direct saving of life and

[10:40] reflects great credit upon the Sheriff's Office and Jefferson County as a whole

[10:45] [Applause]

[11:23] you I'm helping out crunch together

[11:42] yeah smile I don't think it did no it didn't

[11:48] he said it was recording a video want to do a video it won

[11:54] two yeah we don't want to hear about that

[12:05] all right BL them in I hit him out of the park way it

[12:21] works and I'm on behalf of the Jefferson County Board thank you ever so much

[12:27] [Applause]

[12:38] and then item C presentation of the 2023 results of Clifton L Larson

[12:45] Allen and that is

[12:52] online you're on yes good evening can you hear can you

[12:56] hear me okay yes we can excellent well I appreciate you giving

[13:01] me a few minutes of time here uh I promised to be brief here and uh just

[13:06] share the audit results um and I'm going to try to share my screen here briefly

[13:13] if you can bear with me got just a a very short uh PowerPoint

[13:18] presentation that I'd like to go through with you just to share the results um of

[13:23] the audit results are you able to see the PowerPoint

[13:27] yes excellent all right so I'll just walk us through very briefly um just w w

[13:33] by way of introduction here um my name is Jake Lenell I'm representing CLA

[13:39] that's your external audit team so our role as it relates to um the the county

[13:45] is really performing an audit of the financial statements that are prepared

[13:49] by your team as well as the a an audit of federal and state Grant programs in

[13:55] accordance with the various regulations that the federal and State Grant

[14:00] authorities have related to those dollars so we perform audits for similar

[14:05] organizations all across uh Wisconsin we work with over half of the counties here

[14:10] in Wisconsin in a very similar similar role um and we work with over 500

[14:16] municipalities as a whole across across the state so we also have a national

[14:21] practice but really the the point of sharing this background information with

[14:24] you as it relates to your audit team is is just to share with you that this uh

[14:29] perspective that we have is is really based in the Wisconsin local government

[14:35] uh environment and uh we try to bring that to our audit approach and share

[14:41] those best practices that we have both in in performing our work as well as if

[14:45] we see opportunities to improve efficiencies uh with your staff as

[14:50] well um so I do want to share with you uh the the results of the audit work so

[14:54] the the work that we performed is related to the 12312 23 calendar year uh

[15:01] we've completed our audit of that work um that involves really testing all of

[15:07] the financial information that your team brings together in terms of the

[15:12] financial statements and related disclosures and Performing sampling and

[15:17] testing around those balances to see that they're appropriately supported by

[15:22] the underlying supporting documentation that they're consistent with what we'd

[15:26] expect to see uh based on that information provided and and based on

[15:30] what we see within the industry as a whole uh so the result of that work is

[15:35] we issue an opinion on those financial statements that opinion is unmodified

[15:39] opinion or what's commonly referred to as a clean opinion that's the highest

[15:44] level of assurance we can provide you as your Auditors uh that those financial

[15:48] statements are free of any material misstatement that they appropriately

[15:52] reflect the activities of the county as a

[15:55] whole um also included as part of our work we issue a letter that covers some

[16:01] of the required Communications around the audit process one of those matters

[16:06] focuses on accounting policies um in particular as it relates to new

[16:11] requirements proposed by the financial statement Community um so gasby 96 is a

[16:18] new standard requiring the evaluation of uh Information Technology contracts and

[16:25] evaluating um the long-term nature of those contracts and determining if

[16:29] there's any additional disclosures required as a result of those new

[16:34] standards uh so we were able to review the work that your uh management team

[16:39] performed in terms of being able to implement that new policy and procedure

[16:45] and had no objections to the way in which that had been

[16:48] implemented um also included in our letters is is a description of the

[16:53] accounting estimates involved in in preparing those financial statements so

[16:57] as as this information is being brought to a close as of December 31st uh it

[17:02] involves Pro um providing some estimates included in the financial statements and

[17:08] our work is really surrounding uh evaluating those um estimates and in

[17:15] determining that they're appropriate and consistent with what the County's

[17:19] experience has been as well as consistent with what the industry

[17:22] standards um would would be uh portraying as well so again no no

[17:28] changes to the way in which those methodologies and those estimates have

[17:32] been brought into the financial statements um we had no difficulties in

[17:38] counter performing the audit um the one area in which we uh I'm sorry it was

[17:44] there a question I don't I don't see okay Sor

[17:50] sorry I thought I had heard someone pipe in for a question but um the uh

[17:55] uncorrected misstatements what this relates to is it as we evaluate valate

[18:00] um some of the balances that are are are reported within the financial statements

[18:04] if there's anything that is uh a small difference in terms of what the

[18:09] standards would would report versus what's included within your fund

[18:13] financial statements we we identify those amounts to you and um really what

[18:18] these two matters relate to are the two new standards one which I just talked

[18:23] about as it relates to uh Information Technology contracts um similarly last

[18:29] year there was a new standard related to long-term leases and if any of those um

[18:37] balances had been material or significant enough to bring into the

[18:40] financial statements then you'd be required to do that but because they are

[18:45] insignificant uh you're able to to leave them as they've always been reported

[18:50] which is really on on really the cash basis of how those activities are

[18:54] reported it's how you budget for it and it's how you track it so it may Mak

[18:59] sense it's um something where you've got flexibility around it and makes it a

[19:02] little bit more efficient to bring your financial statements to close so your

[19:05] management team has uh gone through the work to evaluate what the impact of

[19:09] those would be and um we were able to perform work around that to say uh we

[19:14] agree that those amounts are insignificant and do not require any

[19:18] further work or any further effort on the county side so we do include those

[19:23] amounts just so that you're aware that those were missed there those are

[19:27] conscious decisions Within in the financial statement process um what's

[19:31] not included on this slide and which is actually significant is that we didn't

[19:35] have any corrected misstatements so if we had corrected misstatements we'd also

[19:40] identify those to you as well um and that would what that would mean is that

[19:44] as we're performing our work we're finding things that need to get changed

[19:48] that need to get altered to be in compliance with the reporting standards

[19:52] but that's not the case when we perform our work with the county um the

[19:56] financial information that we're re receiving is consistent with what needs

[20:00] to be done for for external reporting and that's important for you to know um

[20:06] in in your roles in that the financial information that you're receiving

[20:10] throughout the year we're not coming in at the end and making a bunch of changes

[20:14] to that information to get it in accordance with the standards it's

[20:17] already in the proper reporting format structure and um and methodologies so

[20:25] that that's important to note it's it's kind of a thing with Auditors where no

[20:28] new news is good news and that's why we don't have any information for you on

[20:32] any on any corrections that we had to make uh no disagreements with management

[20:38] um also included within the letters is Management's representation letter which

[20:43] is really management accepting responsibility for the financial

[20:46] statements and indicating to us that uh they've provided us with everything that

[20:51] they know to be true for the financials as well as all of the supporting

[20:55] documentation in terms of being complete and accurate as well and no

[21:00] consultations with other accountants as we performed our

[21:03] work um also as part of our our work with the county we perform review of um

[21:10] major federal and major State programs as required by the federal and state

[21:15] agencies and as we perform that work we're required to test for certain

[21:21] uh sorry was there a question there you're good Jake okay I might be getting

[21:27] a little bit of feedback on my ear P sorry about that

[21:31] um as as we perform our work on the federal and state programs um we will

[21:36] continue to work through that process that that uh timing of that work isn't

[21:41] uh due until the end of September um we're working through that actively now

[21:45] with your team and uh are are making great progress we'll be well ahead of

[21:50] that kind of timeline of of that September 30th deadline so um just in

[21:55] good in good State there but um the one thing I'll note is that there are new

[21:59] programs uh this year as it relates to the requirements and that's really just

[22:03] dictated by the level of the funding that the county was able to get uh once

[22:08] you once you get over a certain level of funding um and if it hasn't been tested

[22:13] in a in a while the fed or the state agency will require that testing so um

[22:18] it's not um it's not uh a bad thing that these programs are subject to testing

[22:22] it's really just a function of the cycle in which they they arrive but you do

[22:26] have new programs this year that we will be working with your team uh to to uh

[22:31] complete that

[22:34] work and then um as always we will continue to work through any upcoming uh

[22:40] areas um gasby 101 focuses on compensated absences so similar to what

[22:45] we've done with the past few uh new requirements we'll we'll work with your

[22:50] management team to see that those um those standards have been evaluated that

[22:55] if any are any new changes are required that they've been implemented um and

[23:00] we'll continue to focus on on those additional Grant dollars as they come

[23:04] through to and and rotate our testing as required by those federal and state

[23:10] agencies um so really in summary I'll share that we we shared the same uh

[23:14] feedback with the finance committee uh early last week as well um we we do

[23:20] intend this to be a a an area where you um have that open Outreach and open

[23:26] communication with us if there's other areas in which um you know from from a

[23:32] planning perspective or from uh a future audit plan perspective uh there were

[23:37] anything that the the governing bodies would want to talk about um we could um

[23:42] talk through that here or or set up another time we want to be available to

[23:45] you um as you have questions and and and be a resource to you as

[23:51] well uh so with that I'll I'll ask if there's any questions on the information

[23:55] I presented

[23:58] any questions any questions from board members I see none thank you very much

[24:06] Jake thank you I appreciate you allowing me to join remotely here um it is a big

[24:12] help with the schedule this week and um enjoy the rest of your night thank you

[24:17] very much it moves us on to Communications

[24:23] treasurer's monthly report that should be in go

[24:26] ahead um the will find a certificate of excellent letter that the child support

[24:32] agency received we also have some retirement recognitions as well as the

[24:37] zoning committee's notice of public hearing which will be June 20th 2024 at

[24:42] 7 p.m. Terry she's here Terry for the

[24:49] retirement uh recognition

[25:00] good evening everyone we had four retirements in the last quarter um total

[25:06] the total a total of 100 years of service between the four of them

[25:11] unfortunately I don't think any of them are here tonight I know three of them

[25:15] are currently out of state whether they moved or

[25:18] vacationing um uh so the first one is Mary bender she was a registered nurse

[25:24] with our Public Health Nur uh Public Health Department for just a little a

[25:28] little bit over nine years and then we jump into some of the

[25:32] bigger numbers uh Mike Hennis was uh worked in Our IT department he started

[25:38] about the same same time I did so it was a little bit over 24 years and he was

[25:43] actually part of I think the ICC group that was um for those of you who have

[25:49] been around around that long there used to be our it Department combined of

[25:54] several different uh depart or counties um Deputy Michael cherity of

[26:00] the Sheriff's Office uh he was there almost 32

[26:04] years and then our long termer Lori Anderson uh retired from the DA's office

[26:11] after a little over 35 years so um a lot of years of service again and it's

[26:17] something that you're going to continue to see so I'll probably see you again in

[26:21] a another few months thank you Terry and thank you to

[26:26] all those those retirees and good luck in their

[26:31] retirement all right public comment is there any public comment pertaining to

[26:37] things on the agenda tonight seeing

[26:42] none we will move on to annual reports Human Services Brent

[26:56] relo all right good good evening my name is Brent relo and I'm the Director of

[27:01] Human Services and it's really my pleasure to present our 2023 annual

[27:07] report before I dive into it I just want to send a big thank you to our Cony

[27:11] Board of Supervisors our Cony board chair Ben way Meyer our administrator as

[27:16] well as our Human Services Board chair and our Human Services Board without

[27:20] everybody's cooperation we wouldn't be able to remain Nimble and fluid and

[27:23] really do the things that are expected of us at Human Services and for our

[27:27] committee so thank you very very much I wanted just to point out our

[27:31] mission statement and indicate that that really is our North Star and enhancing

[27:35] the quality of life uh for our individuals and families in Jefferson

[27:38] County is really what we are here to do and we take it very serious that's what

[27:41] we use to make our decisions that's what we use in terms of uh applying for

[27:45] Grants and really gathering around what is our mission and what is the best

[27:48] thing we are we are to do um everybody should have a copy of our annual report

[27:53] if you are looking for some light reading or can't sleep at night it is

[27:56] 166 pages and and um it is filled with all the typical qualitative and

[28:01] quantitative data we're very proud of that um we have our key outcome

[28:04] indicators which really drive the work that we do and we use that for our

[28:08] measurements um this year I decided to go in a different direction we won't

[28:11] present some of that data rather what I want to do is spend some time really

[28:15] talking about our rebranding if you will what I mean by that is hopefully you've

[28:20] noticed uh additional articles in the newspaper about our activities at Human

[28:23] Services um additional posts via Facebook and Instagram we're in a number

[28:28] of newsletters uh across various Hospitals and Clinics in the area and

[28:31] the idea really is is to share with the community what we do at Human Services

[28:35] in a proactive Manner and decrease that stigma around potentially for some folks

[28:40] anyway coming to Human Services so that really has been an explicit focus of of

[28:44] ours the last year and a half or so so I'd like to spend a little bit of time

[28:47] uh sharing some of those details tonight by way of background at Human

[28:52] Services we have five divisions we have about 247 employees and that includes

[28:56] our pool and part- timr and we have a little over $36 million in

[29:02] Revenue one of the first things our Management Group got together to talk

[29:05] about uh to kick off 2023 was how do we spread the word on what we're doing uh

[29:10] locally and Statewide and and what you see there is just a couple example of

[29:14] some Statewide conferences on the left you see Holly Pagel she's our Behavioral

[29:18] Health division manager she's presenting there at Wisconsin County Human Services

[29:22] Association on best practice and and we've been invited back next year as

[29:26] well in the middle you see our youth Justice team as well as a a national uh

[29:31] presenter Cedric Howard who came to be a part of our first ever youth Justice

[29:37] Summit and on the far right there of the middle photo you see assistant district

[29:41] attorney Brook Tober who's been a strong advocate of Youth Justice for years and

[29:45] what we really did is gather up our local stakeholders and really talk about

[29:48] what is youth Justice and what isn't youth Justice and really compare and

[29:52] contrast about what you might see about youth Justice on TV nationally and what

[29:55] are we doing here locally and we're able to really spread the word with um local

[30:00] school districts and law enforcement stakeholders clinics and hospitals and

[30:03] and really have a good conversation a number of our staff presented a variety

[30:07] of our initiatives and DCF was able to attend as well and then the last one

[30:12] it's just a third example of a conference is myself and judge Brandt

[30:15] Meer uh presenting at the Child Welfare conference in the Dells it's a Statewide

[30:20] conference presented every year we able to not only moderate that two-day

[30:23] conference but spend some time talking about our judicial engagement teams in

[30:28] the mechanism that we have used in our juvenile court uh for others then to

[30:32] potentially take a look at keeping with the theme of wanting to

[30:36] spread the word about what we do at Human Services um a couple bullet points

[30:40] I wanted to share and that's that we were able to open up a branch location

[30:44] of Human Services um as part of our all patient clinic in Watertown at the

[30:48] collective and we've since been able to add a second office and we really feel

[30:52] like if we can embed ourselves in the community become a part of the community

[30:55] decrease Transportation we're able to to offer more and more services to Folks at

[31:00] kind of an easier uh open door policy Our Community Support Program who serve

[31:06] severe and p uh persistent mental illness uh patients uh we hired a

[31:10] full-time nurse last year and really what that allows us to do is provide

[31:14] medication management some injectable medications as well as uh folks may know

[31:19] but our severe and persistent mental illness population often has physical

[31:23] health issues that accompany uh those those mental health diagnosis so were

[31:28] able to do some education around diabetes uh heart conditions uh things

[31:31] of that nature so that's been great and then our County was one of the first in

[31:36] the state of Wisconsin to develop a compliance department and this last year

[31:40] we're able to really operationalize that compliance Department by uh forming a

[31:44] compliance committee working with other departments enrolling our policy

[31:47] agency-wide which has been great and the last thing I'll mention on this slide

[31:51] again to that Outreach mechanism is our adrc was able to attend 27 community

[31:57] events last year to really invite folks to come forth and use the services we

[32:02] have here such as attending the farmers market children share and caref far in

[32:06] Fort ainson in Watertown um we also targeted a number of Spanish speaking

[32:11] events which has been very helpful as we do have two Spanish speaking members of

[32:14] of that department it's been very very helpful the next slide people will

[32:19] recognize we really appreciate everybody's support here with the

[32:22] opening of our mat Center um we were able to collaborate with the Department

[32:25] of Health Services and the greater water Community Health Foundation to open up

[32:29] the m center we used 100% DHS funding to do so and we were able to celebrate that

[32:34] in in uh jul excuse me January with the the photo on the right there we were

[32:39] able to have Senator John jagler there we had representative Barbara dedrich

[32:43] Tina crave you see Ben as well as a number of folks from Human Services uh

[32:48] board there and we also had the deputy secretary of DHS Deb Standridge to do

[32:53] the the ribbon cutting so that was a great day we got a lot of really good

[32:56] coverage and we continue to get coverage on a week-by-week basis a big thanks to

[33:00] Michael for all his help and and helping us coordinate that as

[33:04] well another couple high points here is we implemented an appointment uh

[33:09] software program to remind folks about their upun appointments so if anybody's

[33:13] had a doctor's appointment late lately or even an oil change you're getting

[33:16] text about that upcoming appointment we did a quality uh Improvement walkth

[33:21] through of our Nosh shows and at first what we had is Staff calling folks to

[33:25] remind them of appointments and that clearly is timec consuming so now we use

[33:29] a a texting software just like your local Clinic does to remind people of

[33:33] their appointments and we've been able to really decrease no sh shows which

[33:37] increase uh increases Services frankly and also our revenue and ability to

[33:42] Bill our economic support area answered over 11,000 calls in 2023 really linking

[33:47] people up with food share medical assistance and Badger Care and then

[33:52] again to highlight our aging and disability Resource Center otherwise

[33:55] known as our adrc they had over 8,000 contacts in 2023 to enroll individuals

[34:00] into Family Care provide General counseling and get folks linked up with

[34:04] public

[34:07] benefits recently we were able to attend the secretaries pudding family's first

[34:12] award ceremony in Madison at the capital um each year there is a an award

[34:17] ceremony dedicated to child welfare staff and individuals around the state

[34:21] of Wisconsin this last year was the first year ever they had a community

[34:24] partner award so at Human Services we put together nomination for Tina crave

[34:29] president and CEO of the greater Watertown Community Health foundation

[34:32] for all of her work to support child welfare for example the mat Center that

[34:35] we just talked about and so we're able to submit her nomination and she was the

[34:39] first ever recipient of that Community partner award so you see um our Human

[34:44] Services Board uh dick Jones as well as on the left there at secretary Emily

[34:48] ainson and the governor presenting that award to the foundation that is not Tina

[34:52] Crave in the middle however she was out of the country and we arranged for her

[34:56] to receive that at a uh a recent human services board

[35:01] meeting one of our other initiatives last year was Human Services day at the

[35:05] capital so we believe in advocating for what is right in human services but also

[35:10] that means every B Anum we really work closely with legislators to advocate for

[35:15] how to increase and get our items on the agenda so they're considered by the

[35:20] governor's for his his budget in in this case and we're able to spend time with

[35:24] all of our local legislators and representatives and here's a picture

[35:27] with representative Barbara dedri Gina ranelli from our board as well as Holly

[35:31] Pagel who accompanied us um from our Behavioral Health division because many

[35:35] of our initiatives in our asks of the budget came from our Behavioral Health

[35:39] Division and so we're actually already working on the next bium and what we'll

[35:43] be asking for in the next budget and then last here is our playground um if

[35:48] anybody had been to Human Service in the last number of years you've noticed the

[35:51] playground up back it began to look a bit shabby a bit unsafe and what we're

[35:56] able to do is uh for the use by headart berth the 3 our buyb preschool is secure

[36:03] some Child Care funds and work with headart to put together that uh

[36:07] playground right there which is great and a big thank you to our highway

[36:09] department they did all the ground work for us Kevin at parks gave us uh name of

[36:14] a number of vendors and and made a number of suggestions about what's

[36:17] worked at hit the parks locally here in Jefferson County so again we couldn't do

[36:21] all this without everybody's support I thank you all for your support

[36:26] year round and I want to thank all of our staff back at

[36:29] Human Services because without our staff supervisors and managers I simply

[36:33] wouldn't stand here and talk about these these things that we're able to to do on

[36:36] a year-by-year basis so thank you and I'm open for any questions questions for

[36:42] Brent Mr BR thank you for all your work could you give us a little more update

[36:46] on the m center how it's going I sure can thank you for asking so far the m

[36:50] center has been operational we started by opening just the girl side our m

[36:55] center is reminder serves ages 10 to 17 for youth experiencing a mental health

[37:00] crisis to decrease their potential stay at a long-term hospital and so we have

[37:04] opened up the girl side depending on census we have accepted a couple of Mals

[37:09] um but right now our census is right where we would expect it to be we are

[37:13] fully staff for the girl side and we hope by the first week in July to open

[37:17] up the the male side as well um we just actually had a regional meeting there

[37:21] where we invited in all the regional counties to come do a walkthr get a

[37:26] presentation and we're now up to about 15 contracts with local counties um

[37:32] Statewide thank you for asking I appreciate

[37:36] that other questions other questions see none thank

[37:42] you Brent thank you next is Corporation councel Danielle

[37:53] Thompson good evening Danielle Thompson Corporation Council um the written

[37:58] report that I previously submitted outlines all of the major

[38:01] responsibilities of our office along with our case load um but I appreciate

[38:05] the opportunity to supplement that report today and answer any questions

[38:09] you may have um depending upon how long you've been on this board or what

[38:14] committees you serve on you um may be more familiar than others with the

[38:18] services that Corporation council's office provides uh but generally we

[38:23] serve as the chief legal adviser to you that being the County Board

[38:28] um all committees department heads and County staff on civil matters so that's

[38:33] our statutory mandate um essentially our job is to provide legal advice to assist

[38:38] the county in making policy decisions and then legal support to help you

[38:42] implement and facilitate those decisions um as you can imagine this involves a

[38:48] diverse array of legal issues every day in our office is different um which is

[38:53] both why I took this job and why it can be challenging at times um but our

[38:57] office is involved in virtually all facets of County government and we

[39:01] interact to some degree with all departments um whether that involves

[39:05] open meetings open records uh Contracting and

[39:09] purchasing uh all resolutions and ordinances that come before you come

[39:13] through our office um a number of tasks um most of you probably recognize me as

[39:21] I have the pleasure of attending all of these meetings with you monthly um but

[39:25] there are five attorneys that work in my office and one

[39:29] pargal um in 2023 that was a year of transition in our office I replaced

[39:35] attorney ward in October due to his retirement uh a great deal of credit

[39:40] goes to my staff and to Blair for helping to make that uh transition

[39:43] relatively seamless um in our office we take a collaborative approach anybody

[39:49] who walks through there would often see um Jordan and Y Elena and I huddled

[39:54] around our file cabinet talking about difficult cases um but there are uh each

[40:00] attorney generally has a specialty in primary

[40:03] obligations um and for me that's General government services labor and employment

[40:09] matters Contracting real estate Etc um in our office we have attorney yena

[40:15] zarwell whose primary responsibility is mental health commitments guardianships

[40:19] and protective placements uh she also Handles open records responses and she

[40:24] is our resident hipa compliance expert um we also have Jordan Lippard he

[40:30] handles um litigation on behalf of children that being chips cases which is

[40:35] the acronym for children in need of protection and services um and then

[40:39] other General litigation matters as they come up uh there are two attorneys Tom

[40:45] anline and Kendall Wick who um work basically exclusively in child support

[40:50] so they are in court daily um establishing paternity establishing

[40:55] child support orders handling enfor and collection when necessary um and then as

[41:00] I mentioned we have one pargal Serena you all recognize her she's also the

[41:04] County Board reporter um a daily she is the assistant to Jordan yena and I so

[41:10] she keeps three attorneys on track which is not an easy task um but she does it

[41:14] well um newer members of the board are likely familiar with the advisory or

[41:21] transactional side of our office um but you may be surprised to learn that a

[41:26] large portion of what happens in our office is litigation um the attorneys in

[41:30] my office are in court on a daily um basis sometimes multiple times per day

[41:37] um and those are cases where we are statutorily charged to represent the

[41:42] public interest in civil matters so it's very similar or akin to the DA being

[41:47] required to represent the public interest in criminal cases um as I

[41:52] mentioned y Elena is in charge of mental health commitments guardianships and

[41:56] protective placements so those cases can involve both adults and minors it's her

[42:01] job to represent the public interest um when we are doing an involuntary mental

[42:06] health commitment we do those uh when it's believed that an individual is

[42:09] dangerous to themselves or others generally this is an individual

[42:13] experiencing a mental health crisis um chapter 51 of the Wisconsin statutes

[42:18] allows the county to detain an individual against their will for mental

[42:22] health treatment um so that is one of her

[42:25] tasks similarly um she gets involved in Guardianship and protective placement

[42:31] cases which involve protecting developmentally disabled and incompetent

[42:35] individuals who are unable to make decisions for themselves or care for

[42:39] themselves independently um so those cases involve having a guardian

[42:43] appointed and sometimes having that individual placed in a facility for care

[42:47] these cases often involve uh elderly citizens Jordan uh liard on the other

[42:54] hand his cases involve exclusively children uh children in need of

[42:58] protection and services cases involve uh children who are the victims of abuse

[43:03] Andor neglect and those cases involve putting uh court orders in place to

[43:07] protect children either in the home or removing the children from their homes

[43:11] when it's necessary and then we work through the court process to try to

[43:15] return children home when it's safe to do so uh he's also involved in

[43:20] termination of parental rights cases or tprs those come into play when children

[43:25] have been placed outside of of the home for an extended period of time often

[43:29] several years um and parents have not met the court ordered conditions to have

[43:34] those children returned um a tpr would permanently sever legal ties between a

[43:39] parent and a child so very serious um civil actions the cases that Jordan and

[43:46] Y Elena are primarily responsible for involve close consultation with human

[43:50] services so on a daily basis uh we are working with several departments over

[43:55] there including emergency Health Services APS and their CPS teams they

[44:01] are also very time sensitive both legally and from a safety standpoint uh

[44:06] they often require hearings within 48 to 72 hours depending upon the case type um

[44:12] and they require some extensive preparation uh as I mentioned these are

[44:17] these types of cases are generally regarded as the most serious types of

[44:21] civil cases that a a party can be involved in um and so they have a very

[44:26] high legal burden and significant dup process rights are afforded to the

[44:30] litigants um obviously that's due to the sanctity of the rights that are

[44:35] implicated obviously your right to be free uh your right to parent your

[44:40] children um those are important things and so uh we have to do extensive

[44:44] preparation in order to prove up the case or to meet our legal burden while

[44:49] still ensuring that the due process rights of the litigants are protected so

[44:53] that the court order stands um as you'll see from the written report the numbers

[44:59] of cases filed in these types of areas is relatively stable from year to year

[45:04] however the complexity of the cases continues to increase um that is because

[45:08] these cases are getting a lot of attention in the court of appeals uh

[45:12] which generally results in heightening legal standards uh so they continue to

[45:16] keep our office very busy uh in addition to the regular daily

[45:22] obligations I'm working on several more long-term projects some of those

[45:27] inherited from my predecessor one being the codification of County ordinances so

[45:33] we've talked about this before but currently the county has a collection of

[45:37] ordinances on its website but no uniform system of numbering they are not easily

[45:42] searchable some have not been updated um so we are working on the process of

[45:47] updating those ordinances compiling them and putting them into a system um where

[45:52] they can be easily uh searched we are working with a company to do that the

[45:57] second draft I expect will be here in the Summer with the hope that it will be

[46:02] completed and operational by the end of the year um the other long-term project

[46:08] that I inherited from Blair uh is a zoning appeal you all are probably

[46:14] recall the property in the town of Concord where the county approved a

[46:17] rezone some citizens were upset about that they uh took it to Circuit Court

[46:22] Blair handled the case at the circuit court level and then a decision was made

[46:27] to appeal that case um we are in that process I have drafted all of the briefs

[46:32] on behalf of the county briefing is closed and we're just currently awaiting

[46:37] a decision from the court of appeals to determine next steps hope is that that

[46:42] decision will also arrive sometime this summer um I'm also in the process of

[46:47] redrafting the tax foreclosure policy is most of you know my office is in charge

[46:52] of foreclosing on uh property tax leans when individuals don't pay their taxes

[46:58] uh because of changing the law we've had to update our policy as to how the sale

[47:03] of those properties are handled uh I think that highlights the

[47:07] main functions of my office but I welcome any questions you may have of

[47:11] course my door is always open for questions as

[47:14] well questions for

[47:18] Danielle question see none thank you

[47:24] Danielle next is you extend Chrissy

[47:36] W good evening my name is Chrissy Wen and I'm an area extension director for

[47:41] the W Madison division of extension I have um three offices that I cover so I

[47:47] cover Jefferson and rock and Walworth counties as um main point of contact and

[47:52] supervisor for staff within those extension offices so I'm really honored

[47:56] to be here tonight I'm going to show a short video in a little while of um what

[47:59] you might see when you're in an extension program but um wanted to share

[48:04] a little bit about our mission and about the partnership that we have with

[48:08] Jefferson County so extension's mission is to connect the people of Wisconsin

[48:14] people of Jefferson County with the latest information that's coming out

[48:17] from the University and we do this in very practical ways we deliver it on

[48:22] farms we deliver it to communities we deliver it to families we deliver it to

[48:26] parents to youth um and our programming we want it to be accessible to everyone

[48:31] we strive really um one of our one of our uh main uh guiding posts that we

[48:39] that we lean into is making sure that our program is accept accept accessible

[48:43] to everyone within Wisconsin and we strive to ensure that what the

[48:47] information they're getting the people feel empowered to use that to make their

[48:51] choice for their own life and to make their lives better so are we are unique

[48:57] and that you're hearing me say University of Wisconsin University of

[48:59] Wisconsin but we're also part of the county um and a County department so uh

[49:04] we function in a lot of different ways um our Educators you saw a report that

[49:07] was given to you that looked similar looked just like this and you got to see

[49:12] a list of our Educators and staff and some of their highlights that they've

[49:15] been working on uh throughout 20 uh 23 so our the Educators come with a ton of

[49:21] content knowledge um and an entire support system not only through the

[49:26] university but also through the county that supports the behind the scenes

[49:29] support that they need to make our programming uh the best it can be so we

[49:34] have everything from evaluation Specialists we have Specialists that

[49:38] will translate um into different uh languages for us uh we have our support

[49:43] staff here at the county Kim and or Caitlyn and Megan and they do really

[49:47] wonderful work just to give us that General support that we need for our

[49:51] programming so this leads me to share a little bit of a snapshot about extension

[49:55] um and just like you heard tonight from the other County departments uh I'm

[49:59] excited to share a little bit so um Jerry wisinski is our 4 educator he

[50:05] focuses on the 4 thriving model he provides leadership to the entire 4

[50:10] Community here in Jefferson County and supports some of our Statewide work

[50:13] that's going on within 4 so we have 563 youth that are involved in 4 uh in 20203

[50:21] and uh we focus really on that thrive model so we really want youth to be able

[50:26] to put in into practical experience Hands-On learning so that they can

[50:30] gather little what we call Sparks so they might it might be a spark in um

[50:34] science it might be a spark in leadership it might be um something that

[50:38] Sparks their attention for other Career Development as they move along so Jerry

[50:44] uh Megan Caitlyn all of our volunteers really share that desire um to work with

[50:50] young people and are really dedicated to our mission to create a safe space for

[50:54] youth to learn and grow and and if there's anybody here that's a volunteer

[50:58] or anybody listening online that's volunteer we really want to thank you

[51:02] for everything that you do uh to make our 4 uh the 4 experience for our youth

[51:07] um tremendously successful we have several Regional

[51:12] Educators in our office uh Allison f is our bilingual Dairy educator and

[51:17] currently working in a lot of dairy operations and she covers five counties

[51:21] currently so she has Jefferson Rock wallworth Dane and Dodge County

[51:26] she is an expert in Dairy nutrition um she's currently working with several

[51:30] dairy farms here in Jefferson County I I went along with her to do a um a proper

[51:37] administration of vaccines uh down at hordes farm and uh that was a really

[51:42] great experience she also does a lot with cow care and a specific education

[51:47] focused solely on our Spanish-speaking Latino Workforce um so she's uh really

[51:53] an interesting person if you have a chance to meet her uh she's just really

[51:57] um uh just has the spirit of wanting to teach in our communities especially

[52:03] around um Dairy so as along with agriculture Josh camps is our was hired

[52:08] last fall as our regional crop educator he serves Three Counties so he has

[52:13] Jefferson Rock and W Walworth counties uh he's an expert in anything Pest

[52:17] Management crop systems uh General Crop Production uh he works along with local

[52:24] producers crop advisors uh the soil Builders here and then the Rock River

[52:28] regenerative grazers also so if you have a crop question please go to Josh don't

[52:34] come to me is what uh also related to agriculture but

[52:39] in a different way is Julie Hill she is a horiculture Outreach specialist she is

[52:44] an expert in all things gardening so Julie's um also really fascinating she

[52:49] also covers Three Counties Jefferson Rock and wallworth and while she only

[52:53] has a 0.1 FTE here in Jefferson County she

[52:57] answers so many Garden questions you you wouldn't believe it so um she's given

[53:03] several presentations as you saw in our written document and um she is reaching

[53:08] tens of thousands of people through her virtual education she people come to her

[53:14] all the time for those gardening questions that you have so if you have a

[53:18] garden question if your plant is dying if your tree has a disease please go to

[53:22] Julie she will connect you with not only herself and her knowledge but also with

[53:26] the the vast knowledge that's at the University along with

[53:29] that uh Steve sheski uh is our community development educator he shared only with

[53:35] two counties so it's only Jefferson and wesaw that he shared with but he focuses

[53:39] his work on organizational leadership development and Community Development uh

[53:43] last year Steve led the fort tinson local government Academy and uh is

[53:47] looking forward to expand that program in the

[53:50] future so my last program I'm going to share about is our food wise program and

[53:55] this is where I'm going to share share video Lisa croo is also bilingual she is

[53:59] our foodwise coordinator uh we also have a bilingual foodwise educator that

[54:03] shares in the space and this program covers both Jefferson and Walworth

[54:08] counties and because of the partnership that we have with Jefferson County we

[54:12] are really able to provide this service at minimal cost to the county it's

[54:16] federally funded through Snap dollars and so we are able to bring this uh

[54:20] bring this program into the county at very little uh cost to the county so you

[54:26] will find uh you'll find foodwise working in our health with the health

[54:30] department the Bread Basket uh food pantry uh you've included um some

[54:34] handouts in your packet there was some asparagus recipes you may have seen one

[54:38] was in English one was in Spanish we typically do that with all of our

[54:41] handouts that we can and they're really serving our the low-income people within

[54:45] the community to make healthier choices uh food choices not only that but they

[54:50] also do taichi they also they do some fun things with um citizens to really

[54:54] give them some healthy options now I think you maybe remember a little clip

[54:59] that you got with your packet um and if you wonder why in the world would she

[55:02] give me a foodwise clip that looks like a chip clip it's Lisa told me so don't

[55:06] tell them it's a chip clip say it's for their carrots or for their magnet to put

[55:10] on for their asparagus recipe on their on their uh refrigerator so um anyways I

[55:17] just wanted to share a little something with you for that but I want to share a

[55:20] little bit of an example so you just heard stuff about a head start um and

[55:25] what's going on there so I'm going to show you a video of what you might see

[55:29] if you were a participant or a family in a foodwise um class and so um this is

[55:35] not our Educators that we have but just an example of what you see in any

[55:39] foodwise uh class that you may

[55:43] have good morning so do you guys want to make a recipe with me today

[56:01] if you introduce things one way to do it is introduce it in a meal where they

[56:06] have other foods that they like and then you can try it

[56:24] together so they can do the work for us later that's very

[56:31] smart see

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[57:24] oo thank you all right thanks for watching that along with me was

[57:28] efficient one so I wanted to provide a snapshot of our accomplishments in 2023

[57:32] for uh the extension office here in Jefferson County we have partnered with

[57:36] 37 Community organizations including many of departments within Jefferson

[57:41] County there's a list of those near the back of the um handout that you got last

[57:46] month I believe we've had 98 educational programs hosted by our Educators uh here

[57:52] in the county we've reached over thousand Jefferson County youth we've

[57:57] supported 180 volunteers to carry out our mission and Statewide the Educators

[58:03] that you support through our partnership had over 50,000 people across Wisconsin

[58:08] engage in Virtual inperson and social media

[58:11] connections on the last page of the annual report we we highlighted the

[58:15] contributions that extension has made to the Strategic

[58:19] plan um now before I wrap up tonight I have two asks of you um and I know this

[58:25] report might not be in front of you anymore but that's okay uh if you're so

[58:30] inclined to do so um there are two sections on the last page of the report

[58:36] it looks like this you'll see here's our um the actions that we've had towards

[58:40] the Strategic plan and then we're actually looking for some input we're

[58:45] doing a community uh more or less a community needs assessment um to help us

[58:51] focus on our marketing plan so if you wanted to scan this and take a quick

[58:56] assessment of what you're seeing in your community and share with us so we could

[59:00] identify some further needs that would be amazing I would appreciate that and

[59:04] then also uh if you want to know what's going on in extension I would encourage

[59:08] you to this bottom QR code here we'll link you right to uh a link that gives

[59:13] you our quarterly Statewide newsletter so you can get it in your inbox I know

[59:18] inboxes are full a lot of times but if you just want to say like yeah I wonder

[59:22] what what the University's extension is up to I'd encourage you to um go to this

[59:28] QR code and uh sign up for our

[59:32] newsletter are there any questions about extension and the work that we're doing

[59:37] in Jefferson County questions for Chris

[59:43] questions Mr gross yes I have one question but um I'm thinking you

[59:48] probably won't be able to ask U it's about uh different things about

[59:54] asparagus believe believe it or not I was a horiculture educator before this R

[59:58] that's true oh okay so you might be these are some basic questions okay uh

[1:00:04] when's the best time to transplant I believe it's in the fall

[1:00:08] for asparagus okay are you testing me I feel like this might be a test no no

[1:00:14] because there's a lot of different opinions out there that's why okay and I

[1:00:19] I would agree with you to try doing it in the fall okay and then when's the

[1:00:23] best time to stop cutting it oh that's a good question I think it's

[1:00:28] already passed by now but uh perhaps not I don't know it depends on your soil

[1:00:33] temperatures and things like that but that would be a question for Julie if

[1:00:36] you wanted to contact Julie okay because I'm still cutting all right okay right

[1:00:42] and then uh there's multiple different ways to uh control the weeds MH which

[1:00:48] way would you prefer in an asparagus patch as patch yeah I guess it depends

[1:00:54] on which kind of weed it is so um perennial annual weeds you know things

[1:01:00] like that so I mean controlling anything going to seed would be best but um that

[1:01:04] might also be a question for Julie I don't want to take her thunder away from

[1:01:07] her but these are exactly the types of questions that Julie gets daily but feel

[1:01:11] free to reach out to her are you fine with doing the rock salt uh I'm more of

[1:01:15] a polling manually type of gardener but uh you know that might be too hard in a

[1:01:20] large patch of asparagus but all right yeah I don't know if Julie would I don't

[1:01:24] know what Julie would say but uh certainly please feel free to contact

[1:01:30] her any other questions Garden related or not

[1:01:35] questions seeing none thank you Chris thank

[1:01:42] you and that t and that takes us to Economic Development Consortium Deborah

[1:01:53] rinol thank you all I'll try and keep it short Terry's at Terry's

[1:01:59] request hi for those of you who don't know me I'm Deb Rin bold I lead the

[1:02:02] economic development work for Jefferson County um also for those of you that are

[1:02:07] newer to the board uh might also be interesting to know that not only do we

[1:02:10] serve you all but we also have two other boards that we serve the Jefferson

[1:02:14] County Economic Development Consortium which is our public sector and then

[1:02:17] Thrive Economic Development which is our private so here are our areas of focus

[1:02:24] so about two years ago we updated our strategic plan to include not only our

[1:02:27] traditional Economic Development work and business retention expansion and

[1:02:30] attraction but also to include diverse housing and an activated Workforce and

[1:02:36] the only way we can do that is through trust in

[1:02:40] Partnerships so this is 2023 activity so you can see there's $511 million in

[1:02:45] investment there um that does not include Kuman that's this that'll come

[1:02:50] in next year's report so um 10 different businesses of that 511 million 500

[1:02:56] million of that is one company that's asalan bio we'll get into that in a

[1:03:00] little bit but you also see 285 plus jobs so the reason I'm mentioning that

[1:03:05] that 500 million is one company is because we work with a lot of smaller

[1:03:09] companies it's just that we've been very lucky to work with some of these larger

[1:03:12] projects coming here into Jefferson

[1:03:16] County yeah some of these headlines have uh have been coming out recently we've

[1:03:21] um Jefferson County lands more than $1 billion in New forign owned company

[1:03:26] investment that headline came out in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel I think it

[1:03:30] was a week and a half ago and also came out online about two weeks um two weeks

[1:03:35] prior um asked Len bio as we had just mentioned that's an irish-owned company

[1:03:41] and they came here and took over the former Valero facility they currently

[1:03:45] have 77 employees and next Monday is their open house if any of you have

[1:03:49] signed up or if you're interested in signing up let me know I can probably

[1:03:52] still get you in um pmo as you see on the right they came into Jefferson

[1:03:56] County in uh the cold storage facility over in Collins um if you don't mind

[1:04:01] next slide and as we're looking to grow uh we

[1:04:06] are looking at uh there's four different areas that the county really has a focus

[1:04:10] on um Agra business uh food and beverage um biotech

[1:04:17] is something that we're getting into and that's the slide here in BIO forward and

[1:04:21] then also Advanced manufacturing and so the reason that we're looking at biotech

[1:04:26] you can see there's two primary concentrations and we're located right

[1:04:29] in the middle between the two um primarily they're located in both

[1:04:33] Madison and then in the Milwaukee area and so as part of that we've been we

[1:04:37] have joined an organization in Madison called biof forward so that we can

[1:04:42] better situate ourselves uh better position ourselves for that type of

[1:04:45] growth here and the reason that we're looking at that type of growth is um one

[1:04:50] because we have such a large concentration of food and beverage

[1:04:52] manufacturers a lot of the supply chain is similar if you think about some of

[1:04:56] the tanks that they use in food and beverage manufacturing they use a lot of

[1:04:59] the same in in uh biotech as well and the wages there are extremely good

[1:05:04] paying wages and so those are the types of jobs that we're trying to attract

[1:05:06] here into the

[1:05:09] county so I mentioned before food and beverage um we also have joined an

[1:05:14] organization out of Milwaukee area called Fab Wisconsin that it focuses on

[1:05:19] food and beverage and as you see we're positioning ourselves as the county I

[1:05:23] know that the county owns land and we'll get to that in just a little bit that uh

[1:05:27] you know we've got Kiko menis coming and being our anchor tenant but we as a

[1:05:31] county are really well positioned to attract food and beverage manufacturers

[1:05:34] and so this is an ad that we placed in Fab Wisconsin in their annual report uh

[1:05:40] that came out in January to all of their

[1:05:44] businesses so here of course all of you are familiar with the old County Farm

[1:05:50] and uh kikoman as most of you I think you've at least been invited tomorrow is

[1:05:54] their groundbreaking and as you all well aware $563 million

[1:06:00] investment um and that's just the initial $220,000 foot phase and it also

[1:06:06] then launches our food and beverage Innovation campus which allows for an

[1:06:10] additional 65 acres uh for more food and beverage

[1:06:16] manufacturers housing is another one of the strategies that we highlighted

[1:06:19] earlier uh last fall we had our um actually I should start with last may we

[1:06:25] had the launch of our live local Development Fund at our our housing

[1:06:30] Summit and we had 150ish people attend that meeting out in Lake Mills and again

[1:06:37] we launched what we call the live local Development Fund and I thank all of you

[1:06:40] for supporting that fund um we recognize in that in Jefferson County it's

[1:06:45] difficult um it's difficult to get the rents that you get say in Daye County or

[1:06:50] in wershaw county and the performers right now are really difficult for

[1:06:54] developers to come we have a huge need for housing within the county as you all

[1:06:57] know it's one of your uh your strategic goals as well and so this fund allows

[1:07:02] for up to $25,000 per unit for an investor that we can lend out to them

[1:07:06] and they have to complete a Prof fora so that we can see exactly where all of

[1:07:10] their funds are going and make sure that if there's any additional funding

[1:07:13] sources uh that they can use for their project their ask of our public dollars

[1:07:17] are are reduced so we created that live local Development Fund we've already

[1:07:22] gotten a number of applications um those those funds are last funds into the deal

[1:07:27] and so we haven't deployed any of them but our committee has considered three

[1:07:31] of those um performas in order uh to move those projects forward um the

[1:07:38] investors in those funds again Jefferson County uh with $2 million greater

[1:07:42] Watertown Community Health Foundation at two and exonia bank has now added to

[1:07:46] that at another million and a half we also have in our pipeline I would say at

[1:07:51] least three possibly four million which I would anticipate by the end of this

[1:07:54] year and then last fall we had our housing

[1:07:58] Summit I'm sorry our annual meeting and we called it

[1:08:02] uh creating roofs and roots and what we did there we had uh three different

[1:08:07] organizations come in and speak it was a panel and so we had someone from WEA we

[1:08:12] they were talking about some of the state funds that are available available

[1:08:15] to support Housing Development Habitat for Humanity for those of you that

[1:08:19] aren't aware Habitat for Humanity of wakasa county has now expanded into

[1:08:22] Jefferson County their first project I believe will be in Fort ainson and

[1:08:26] they've got another um that's a duplex unit that they'll be building and then

[1:08:30] they'll also have a couple of lots up in the city of Watertown as well owned by

[1:08:35] the um Madison Area Technical College and then we also had a speaker from HUD

[1:08:41] come in as well and the reason for that is because we as a county as of January

[1:08:45] 29th are now HUD certified and that allows us to use counseling services so

[1:08:50] roxan witty in our office she's been with the county for 20 some years um she

[1:08:55] is is our counselor and it allows people to gain access to up to $220,000 worth

[1:09:00] of Grants if they make less than 80% of the county median income that they can

[1:09:04] use towards purchasing a home it doesn't have to be a first-time home it also

[1:09:08] allows them access to 0% interest financing again for people who make less

[1:09:12] than 80% of the county median income they can get 0% interest loans to rehab

[1:09:17] their home uh that includes things structural items such as roofs Windows

[1:09:23] um furnaces air condition that type of thing at 0% and no payments until time

[1:09:29] of transfer so if they pass away or if they sell their home that's when that

[1:09:32] loan comes

[1:09:35] to and that's what I just described there sorry activated Workforce so our

[1:09:41] or our uh our office has worked with the Latino Academy of Workforce Development

[1:09:46] we see that a lot of people are uh staying in their homes longer we're

[1:09:50] seeing that uh the number of people in their homes um are going down I think

[1:09:55] the a is about one and a half people in our in a home now so uh we're seeing

[1:09:59] people are staying in their homes which means that they're Aging in place um and

[1:10:04] so the largest uh largest growth that we're seeing in our county is through

[1:10:08] our Latino population and so that's why we've engaged with the Latino Academy of

[1:10:12] Workforce Development and we hosted three career affirs in the last year and

[1:10:15] a half with them the latest down in Whitewater you can see JC herma which is

[1:10:19] the Jefferson County Sherm or society for human resource management we've been

[1:10:23] working with them uh they actually are going to be hosting a um a a conference

[1:10:30] I guess you could say on August 6th where they are going to be working on um

[1:10:35] they are bringing together a group of people to discuss how to legally hire

[1:10:40] people from outside of the country so you could call them immigrants there are

[1:10:43] some refugees but uh we've been working with them on partnering uh for that

[1:10:47] conference and then finally wedc has asked me to be a uh Talent attraction

[1:10:53] Ambassador so they have a uh Nationwide marketing campaign to try

[1:10:59] and bring people into the state of Wisconsin and I can tell you that I've

[1:11:02] already fed about seven calls from people and it's really interesting to me

[1:11:06] I'm thinking about one specifically from Pittsburgh who reached out and they said

[1:11:10] that they were they were really nervous about coming out here but they were

[1:11:13] trying to find a place they've got a seven-year-old um and they wanted to

[1:11:17] find a place to live that has great quality schools a place that's

[1:11:20] affordable they have a budget of $300,000 for a home they would never be

[1:11:24] able to find home out there she said my challenge is I've got to try and try and

[1:11:28] get my husband to come out here and he's really used to going to New York which

[1:11:32] is 3 and a half hours away and I said well do you recognize or do you realize

[1:11:36] we're an hour and a half from Chicago and she thought that was a real game

[1:11:39] changer people just don't know so upcoming events that we have state of

[1:11:44] the county so lucky uh Ben weire will be uh giving a State of the State if you

[1:11:50] will on July 25th conversations with Thrive Economic Development uh that we

[1:11:54] host at a um area business that'll be on August 7th we don't have a lo location

[1:11:59] identified yet and then we have our annual meeting coming up on October 10th

[1:12:04] there we'll actually be bringing in the site selector who helped work on the

[1:12:07] kikan project and she'll be telling everyone why they picked Jefferson

[1:12:12] County uh for their site and also how can we best position ourselves as a

[1:12:16] county to win other projects so that's all I oh that's a

[1:12:21] list of all of our investors just in case those of you uh who are here aren't

[1:12:24] aware of who's investing in our organization from the private sector as

[1:12:28] well as the public sector so our municipalities are listed there all of

[1:12:31] our cities and villages with the exception of

[1:12:35] Sullivan any questions questions for

[1:12:42] Deb questions see none thank you very much Deb thank you

[1:12:51] all thank you move on to committee reports resolutions ordinances executive

[1:12:56] committee amending the Jefferson County Board supervisory District plan to

[1:12:59] incorporate newly created Ward 4 in the town of Ashen supervisor

[1:13:04] Wii okay in February of 2024 the Wisconsin uh

[1:13:11] legislature uh created new Wisconsin Assembly and state senate

[1:13:16] districts uh pursuant to state law no W line can cross the State Assembly

[1:13:21] districts or supervisor District but in the and we were good in every respect

[1:13:27] except in the town of aelin where their ward

[1:13:31] 3 contain both or two Senate and Assembly districts so they were

[1:13:39] uh they complied with that by dividing the three words into four words and what

[1:13:47] this resolution does is amends the County Supervisor District PL plan to

[1:13:53] incorporate the newly created town Asin Ward 4 into the supervisor District it

[1:13:59] uh does not affect population does not affect supervisory lines and has no

[1:14:04] fiscal impact to the county uh so Mr chair I move approval of this resolution

[1:14:10] move by Mr wicki do I have a second second by Mr

[1:14:14] Paulson questions discussion seeing none all in favor say

[1:14:21] I I opposed hearing none resolution passes takes us to item 12 finance

[1:14:30] committee resolution initial resolution approving Revenue Bond financing for bug

[1:14:34] tussle Wireless LLC supervisor Jones Thank you Mr chair the initial

[1:14:40] resolution authorizing J County to participate with other counties in an

[1:14:43] intergovernmental agreement to finance a project for the acquisition construction

[1:14:47] and installation of certain communic telecommunication infrastructure for the

[1:14:51] purpose of providing wireless internet and telephone communic Communication

[1:14:55] Service the business governmental units and residents of rural counties where

[1:14:59] such Services currently unavailable or prohibitively expensive Pac County will

[1:15:04] serve as the cont bond issuer for Revenue Bond Revenue Bond financing for

[1:15:09] the B bug tussle Wireless LLC which includes cost for projects located in

[1:15:14] JIS County in the amount not to exceed $5 million this resolution reflect je

[1:15:20] County's intent to participate in conduit Bond financing with fond County

[1:15:24] serving as the issue County issuing revenue bonds in the amount not to

[1:15:28] exceed $250 million of which up to 500 million could be on behalf up and

[1:15:34] guaranteed by derson county and the remainder guaranteed by other

[1:15:37] participating counties bug tussle Wireless LLC and its SP company Hilbert

[1:15:42] Communications have the primary obligation to pay debt service on the

[1:15:46] bonds and each participating County will required to guarantee the payment of its

[1:15:51] proportionated rate share of the bonds should the fail to make payment the

[1:15:56] initial resolution also reflects Jefferson County's intent to proceed

[1:15:59] with negotiation of the related agreements

[1:16:03] necessary to the financing including the intergovernmental agreement and

[1:16:06] guarantee these Agreements are expressly conditioned upon final approval by the

[1:16:11] count County Board by means of a final resolution at a future meeting of the

[1:16:15] jeers County Board of Supervisors this initial resolution expressly states that

[1:16:19] the bonds will never constitute an indebtedness of the county or a charge

[1:16:24] against its creditor taxing powers and that all County costs in connection with

[1:16:28] the issuance of the bonds will be paid by the borer bug tussle W Wireless L and

[1:16:33] its parent Corporation Hilbert Communications in addition Jeffers

[1:16:37] County will receive an annual guarantee fee from the borrow race on the amount

[1:16:42] of the guarantee provided the Jefferson County finance committee approved this

[1:16:46] resolution at its meeting on June 4th 2024 and recommended forward to the

[1:16:50] county board for approval

[1:16:55] fiscal note under this agreement Jefferson County would be a secondary

[1:16:59] guarant guor of up to 5 million of bonds issued by the Fondulac County the bonds

[1:17:05] issued by fondel County are not a direct obligation of Jefferson County the bonds

[1:17:09] are initially paid by bug tussle wiress LLC in the event of a default by bug

[1:17:13] tussle bug tussle parent company Hilbert Communications LLC would then guarantee

[1:17:18] the debt if both these ENT entities default then Jefferson County would be

[1:17:22] next to guarantee payment Jefferson County will receive an annual fee of 20

[1:17:26] basis points on the outstanding debt for its promised to guarantee for the

[1:17:31] County's 5 million share this equates to the beginning fee of $10,000 which would

[1:17:35] decline over time as principal is paid on the debt Mr chair I move for passage

[1:17:39] of this resolution moveed by supervisor Jones second by supervisor backlin any

[1:17:45] questions discussion supervisor Broger where does the annual guarantee fee land

[1:17:51] in our budget scheme right now it is going to

[1:17:55] basically a General Revenue fund um process uh for those who have been

[1:18:01] modering the finance committee um we've been using a few about a year ago we

[1:18:07] allocate a certain portion of that guaranteed fee to help pay for offset

[1:18:11] cost or um the audio visual of this project so the first like three years

[1:18:15] are going to this project and the remainder will go into General Revenue

[1:18:18] to be allocated in the

[1:18:22] future other questions Canard um I was Wonder are we going to

[1:18:28] get updates from these guys as far as how this is going how they progressing

[1:18:34] what they've got completed what's live what's not I guess so I can start a

[1:18:39] little bit and um mitchson is here who's a the de Chief development officer in

[1:18:43] general Corporation counsel so I'll give a quick update and kind of where this

[1:18:46] project is heading and let him also um add it

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Jefferson County Board Meeting (June 11th, 2024)

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