[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
[56:37] [Music]
[56:50] [Music]
ready
[56:59] one
two three take a
[57:05] bite
[57:09] [Music]
[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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