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[0:46] 830, I'm going to call this meeting to the court and ask the meeting of the faculty members.

[0:50] Yeah.

[0:51] Any trouble with comments?

[0:53] Questions?

[0:54] Yeah.

[0:55] I'm hearing none.

[0:57] I'm going to move on to the good one minutes for August 6th.

[1:02] Move to the good.

[1:03] Much, much more smooth vibes.

[1:05] I'm going to take a second.

[1:06] This is the question.

[1:07] All right.

[1:07] All the bear say aye.

[1:08] Aye.

[1:09] All right.

[1:10] I'm discussion.

[1:12] 2027 budget recommendations.

[1:14] Jason?

[1:15] Yeah.

[1:15] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

[1:17] I'm happy to talk through the budget here.

[1:22] You know, in general, I think as you've heard me say,

[1:25] that's kind of status quo for all these departments,

[1:29] you know, compensation health insurance,

[1:32] IT Chargers kind of driving things in a lot of these departments.

[1:36] So there are some additional revenues, adjustments,

[1:41] you know, based on experience.

[1:43] and we'll kind of talk to those at the departmental level.

[1:47] You know, we started out with the Parks Capital Improvement Plan.

[1:51] You know, in general, none of these items are included included in these finances.

[1:57] We held them separately unless they're grant supported.

[2:01] So I don't know if there's any specific questions on anything on these projects,

[2:08] but this is just kind of a five-year plan.

[2:17] I will move on to our land information office.

[2:22] So, obviously we move the sustainable and apartment.

[2:27] As we discussed, we have approved with the board the proposed tax

[2:30] that is about $127,000.

[2:33] That's an increase of about $50,000.

[2:35] So that's due to the new staffing model we put in place.

[2:39] Now having two full-time, we will have two full-time employees in that office.

[2:45] The land information officer and the GIS technician, so we had budgeted a full time in like

[2:53] a point four and then we moved that point four to a full time sort of mid stream this

[2:58] year upon the retirement of our previous land information officer's no really no expansion

[3:04] requests or any capital projects in that department.

[3:07] I don't know if there's any questions on that.

[3:12] Just some questions.

[3:14] Do you have a question?

[3:16] JAS does that.

[3:18] My motivation on does work for other municipalities?

[3:22] Can we do that?

[3:24] We do not, though.

[3:25] We talked about that in fact.

[3:31] Probably a subject for discussion.

[3:33] I think maybe once we get the staff in place and things are settled.

[3:38] charge for that? Yeah, I don't think so.

[3:43] Land and water management side.

[3:46] Levy there's about $820,000 again about a $50,000 increase. Again,

[3:53] sellers and benefits are the drivers here. Health insurance costs. We have some

[3:57] police which health insurance plans that always increase costs there. $77,000

[4:04] expenses $28,000 in additional revenues. We did remove some funding equivalent to one

[4:11] intern position. Now we're not saying historically they had two interns. We're not saying don't have

[4:18] two interns. We're just saying, you know, when we budget 30,000 and spend 15,000 on interns,

[4:24] we're going to dial that back a little bit. So we're not asking them to do less. We're just trying

[4:28] kind of get the expenses in line there, you know we've increased some of the sanitation and zoning

[4:35] revenues kind of based on experience, you know there was some additional state funding that came

[4:42] through in the last budget so those are reflected here so you know approximately half of the overall

[4:48] departmental expenditures of this department are funded through outside programs and not

[4:53] tax law they know again status quo no expansion requests or anything significant

[4:59] there the register deed as always kind of helps our general fund their

[5:04] revenue generator gen does she's out there yeah chasing those deeds down

[5:10] every day but you know so we'll have a just under $500,000 in more than

[5:18] revenue so those revenues go right into the general fund and offset property

[5:21] taxes. We did increase them slightly, about just over $60,000. Kind of reflect what we've seen in

[5:28] the last year and a half for years. So, you know, we have to talk about this mean a couple times,

[5:35] you know, we haven't been over a million dollars, except for the last couple years. So, we've

[5:40] put into a little bit more revenue there. So, as I kind of discussed with the board yesterday,

[5:44] a little more aggressive on the revenue side. They continue to do a lot of work down there. So,

[5:51] So we're pretty comfortable with that.

[5:52] The drivers here, again, are salaries and benefits and IT chargers.

[5:57] So no expansion requests or no capital projects in land information.

[6:02] I think with the land information office parents are now at that, that's a good question.

[6:08] Not really because they're always kind of budgeted separately anyway.

[6:12] So there really wasn't much, there's no separation there.

[6:16] Maybe at one time we'd allocated a portion.

[6:19] Do we allocate a portion of your time?

[6:20] maybe a portion of Ron's time at one point but a general or step or call allocated to the

[6:29] registered deeds office budget. Planning of Parkside levees about $1.36 million in price

[6:36] about $50,000 or 4%. Salars and benefits here. Some operating costs with our ever expanding

[6:46] planning park system kind of took the same approach here in terms of funding on intern

[6:51] positions just kind of looking at what we spent historically last couple years and

[6:57] dialing back some of those funds to reflect what we've seen actual. We did increase the

[7:03] transfer from the Gulf course fund by $10,000. So I believe that's $140,000. So $140,000 of

[7:11] The golf course revenue goes into the planning and course environment to offset their levy and supports their their parks operations so there's actually a lot more that happens between two in terms of staffing and things with this can replace that that was put in place.

[7:27] Boy, a number of years ago, it's sort of like a payment in lieu of taxes, just to kind of demonstrate to some of the private course operators out there that we we pay taxes.

[7:37] of course. $11,000 increase in camping revenues, assuming that the new campground at Hawthorne

[7:45] Hills Park will come online. No expansion requests, status quo, and I talked about the five-year

[7:53] plan that you saw there. It talks about future parking, infrastructure and things, but much

[7:58] of that is either supported through grants or will be looked at through our capital planning

[8:04] and funding process that takes place early in 2027.

[8:10] You know, the expanding,

[8:11] you're expanding permit.

[8:14] Is it going to be pressure to make the increase staff

[8:16] as some of these things are perfect?

[8:20] I think at some point, yes.

[8:21] Although we've made a number of capital improvements,

[8:25] I put it in those automatic gates

[8:27] and things that kind of decrease some

[8:29] of those operational costs.

[8:31] So yeah, I think and really there's you know there's a handful of full-time

[8:38] parks employees but most of them are sort of you know seasonal seasonal staff

[8:43] that work obviously work more this time of year than they do in the winter.

[8:51] On the extension side Levy there is just over a quarter million dollars

[8:55] $13,000, about 6%, again, so a couple things, it's the staffing IT costs and benefit costs

[9:03] and then we also assume that additional funding for the egg position that was shared

[9:11] between four counties and now shared between three counties and I think there was a 6% increase

[9:16] about three thousand dollars. So their revenues are flat. I'm sorry, $4,000 for that state contract

[9:23] and employee. But that is included in the budget there. Very, very status quo across the board.

[9:31] Golf courses. Again, fully supported. Obviously, no property tax. Let me go to support the

[9:37] of course, operations, $2.65 million in revenues to offset the expenses there, and again,

[9:48] I think I said $140,000, actually $150,000 payment in Louis, Texas, from the golf courses,

[9:54] which is included in the expenses there. So obviously, we've done well the last number

[10:03] of years, you know, $400,000 in 2024, $300,000 in 2025, and we're doing very well operation.

[10:11] We have the golf courses this year, and if you think about the significant capital improvements

[10:16] that we've done specifically, the irrigation systems at both the courses, I think it really

[10:21] reflects the overall kind of strong financial position that we have at the golf courses.

[10:26] So, again, very much status quo here, some additional revenues and some areas and some minor

[10:36] expense reductions, but really not impacting the core team that we have working in all

[10:42] these departments.

[10:43] So, current level service budget, current service level budget.

[10:49] It's an offer I can't hear from other golfers, it's important to note that, again, like

[10:54] and mention this is probably funded by CalPERS,

[10:58] not 10 players, kind of nice to see that

[11:01] all these record count-how in the year of last year,

[11:05] what five consecutive years you've had record numbers

[11:07] is keep bringing that this committee

[11:09] and the Board of County continues to re-invest

[11:12] in the CalPERS rather than rap Peter to take

[11:15] calls somewhere else and the CalPERS

[11:17] you're spending money out there,

[11:18] we're re-investing in the CalPERS

[11:20] and it's really showing that the CalPERS

[11:22] is a partner out to the assumption of that pilot, that money goes to the parts because

[11:31] the parts we contribute to the fault pushes it away, I think it's somewhat of a symbiotic

[11:37] relationship, but it is a revenue that goes right to offset the property tax in the parks.

[11:44] When did we talk about the capital projects for this?

[11:48] So that would be January. Yeah. Yeah. In the budget, the whole budget, you said there's

[11:55] going to be net income structures like 530,000. Yeah, right around there. Pretty much. We're

[12:03] going to be using that to make things work countywide obviously. Yeah. So again, we're still

[12:18] insurance is a bit of an unknown.

[12:20] We got a little bit of clarity on that this week.

[12:23] Okay.

[12:24] Yeah.

[12:24] And again, most we have budgeted a 10% increase.

[12:28] And we anticipate we'll be hopefully a little bit under that,

[12:31] but right around that 10% increase for 2026.

[12:36] So we said that to 90, it's only one point,

[12:40] but that's a big number.

[12:41] So one point is a big number.

[12:42] Yeah.

[12:43] Yeah.

[12:44] And I think every point in health and trust county wise, about $75,000 in tax liabilities.

[12:49] So, I think it ends here, and you're helping to keep the cost down.

[12:55] Any other questions for Jason, but I'll make a presentation a couple of weeks, and then

[13:02] this will go to executive committee on October 7th, I don't know.

[13:07] All right.

[13:07] Cool.

[13:09] All right.

[13:24] I'll draw your attention to some of the attachments that were provided for you, our August

[13:31] 2026 Extension Reports, where Paul reported that he's working with Cedarburg Festival,

[13:38] He's done a couple of strategic plans for them.

[13:41] Manuel is trapping along and I'm going to let Abby speak for herself in just a moment.

[13:46] And then we included our monthly budget report and there are no major changes or any anomalies

[13:55] on that, but I'll enter to questions and try to answer as best I can.

[14:00] Okay.

[14:00] All right.

[14:01] And then I just wanted to give you just an update, informational update.

[14:04] We, our crops and soils position, the 0.33% crops and soils, the position ends today.

[14:14] We're taking applications through the end of business day today.

[14:17] We've got about 20 solid applications.

[14:19] The screening process is going to happen over the course of next week.

[14:23] And we're bringing in preliminary interviews and final interviews.

[14:27] If any of you are interested in sitting in on final interviews, you are welcome to do.

[14:32] so we have tentatively September 18th, so I'm pushing this along and my goal is to have this

[14:39] person in office by around October 15th. Provided, I can work with UW-Madison HR to really

[14:47] get this thing going because we've been waiting on this refill for a while. So any questions there?

[14:56] Yeah, great thank you and I'm gonna turn it over to

[15:00] Happy for her educator report. Thank you. So it's nice to see all of you after County Board Exchange. Are you loved that? So I appreciate you attending and talking with. Some of the things we just started our new 2026, 27, 40 to year. So enrollment open yesterday. We already have 37 kiddos enrolled. So that's pretty awesome. And we ended up just over 500 last year. And we're looking at hitting about 515 this year. So we're going strong. We had about 190.

[15:29] 78 volunteers and I want at least 100 this year so I've been reaching out to a couple new folks and we're hoping to get them in board.

[15:38] We have a couple new programs that we're going to be doing and a few that we launched this year that's going to continue.

[15:43] We have our Clover bus which is K through second grade that I did county wise and we had.

[15:48] Excuse me, we had three different programs throughout the summer for them and the response rate on that was 100% bring this back so let's do it again.

[15:55] So I get to put on my creative hat and figure out how we can make it even more fun for

[15:59] next year because they really enjoy doing hot learn hills and the nature centers out

[16:04] there.

[16:04] They enjoy the car products and crafts and the auditorium and running around with the

[16:08] building.

[16:09] So if you guys heard them, I apologize that they really enjoy learning about the county building.

[16:14] And then we have a lot of kids who are in that third grade range, so third through fifth

[16:18] grade and they want something like this for them.

[16:20] So I will be creating a new program for them this next year as well as expanding

[16:25] our older youth programming. So the high school age where we see our hardest retention drop-off,

[16:30] it's difficult when you have sports and everything. So we want to create a little bit more of a

[16:34] niche easier enrollment opportunity for them with some programming that they can do without such a

[16:40] heavy load. Overall, it's going well. When the kids were at the last meeting, I thought the numbers

[16:48] were down, the morning's many kids here as well. We have a lot of kids who are in private schools this

[16:53] And they started that week and then we also had a lot of kids that stayed fair coming back that way.

[16:58] Okay, the king and queen, they weren't really good at school.

[17:04] I just wanted to talk about it.

[17:07] On part two, I like that two days later, I think, I tried it on some days.

[17:12] There's Saturdays to the farmers market.

[17:14] So like the broccoli?

[17:15] Yeah, and I saw like three of them that like I'd actually talk to them.

[17:18] Those kind of part of them.

[17:20] I have to tell you, too, as our oversight committee and as our county administrator, Abby is a rock star in the Wisconsin State 4AQ Development Area.

[17:33] I was so honored to sit in on the performance reviews. This year, our annual performance reviews and this woman has single-handedly raised her participation levels.

[17:46] and her and she is above state averages way above state averages in her recruitment and

[17:54] her leadership and forage and I'm I mean you all should be very proud. I'm very proud

[17:59] of her. It was just such such a treat to sit in on these performance reviews and listen

[18:03] to her program manager, Drone on a boulder. I'm not already but it was just such an awesome

[18:15] experience. So you're welcome. The kids make it easy. Parents are a little bit more difficult,

[18:20] but the kids are cool.

[18:23] When you know your rocks have a baby vision and your tears,

[18:26] yeah, you're welcome. So any other questions for extension? Thank you. Okay. Thank you.

[18:37] All right. My information is not only here right now. Oh, since I'm the

[18:43] When information officer from the county right now, maybe I'll at least

[18:49] the name, I'll give you a little bit of what's going on in terms of recruitment.

[18:55] So, obviously we went through a recruitment process.

[18:59] We actually keyed in a very qualified candidate kind of did the dance with that person for a number of weeks

[19:07] and then they ultimately said, you know, things but no thanks.

[19:11] They lived not in the area and had to move and things.

[19:17] You know, I think looking back, maybe we would have pulled the pin on that a little earlier than we did, but, you know, this was a really a plug-and-play candidate that we had.

[19:28] And they didn't take the position.

[19:30] So then we brought in our second candidate.

[19:33] That person started and walked off the job after a week.

[19:37] so we found ourselves a physician without a land information officer. I think

[19:42] luckily with Liz Jen and our HR department's health obviously, you know, we've

[19:47] coordinated with Washington County, we've coordinated with some outside contractors

[19:50] and we actually had a candidate that that that we had an interview and is very

[19:58] qualified. He's worked for Bureau land management. He worked for Army Corps and

[20:02] other areas and he'll start on the 21st of this month so he actually he lives

[20:07] about a fuck he lives over by 20 kind of like a five-minute walk away here so we'll

[20:13] be very excited to have to have him on board and get things going so things are

[20:19] sort of we've been slogging through but I you know I feel like we're we're in a

[20:24] good spot and we'll be able to get things moving until that person starts on the

[20:28] 21st. So we're going to stop and see if we're going to share your help off as well.

[20:32] A nice set.

[20:35] Yeah. So, yeah, I like, you know, Kua's to Jen and her team, and I was the Kua's to our HR department for kind of getting the recruitment going.

[20:44] And again, I know we some click the fan slowed down, but we've got a plan in place to keep them moving.

[20:51] And so we work with the contractor.

[20:53] They're going to help sort of on a time and materials basis and kind of hot items that we have to do.

[20:59] And they'll also be available to train the new land information officer as needed.

[21:05] So kind of let him get his feet under him and see what he needs and set him up for success.

[21:12] Yes, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, I would by hopes, I hope so, we're pretty, we're

[21:25] pretty confident that he will be he seemed pretty excited about about the opportunities and

[21:31] again, it comes with comes with a great amount of of GIS experience. So moving good shape there.

[21:38] All right. Thank you. We'll be on the register of these.

[21:45] All right. Good morning, Ben.

[21:49] I don't really have too much to report.

[21:51] No big changes in our office.

[21:53] Other than information, which Jason already talked about,

[21:56] we're continuing to do property fraud alert outreach

[22:01] since the vacant land owned by out of state property owners.

[22:05] That seems to be a trend where fraudsters

[22:07] are targeting them. We kind of looked at the whole thing and decided to do a mailing to all

[22:13] of the out-of-state property owners, you know kind of explaining what property fraudler is,

[22:18] how easy it is to sign up, and give them instructions. So we've had a lot of very positive feedback

[22:24] about that, phone calls, emails, people stopping in saying, you know, thank you so much for doing

[22:30] this. We went to wear this program. And in the report I had put, we had 458 new sign-ups and type

[22:37] I sent out that mailing and now we're up to 515 new signups.

[22:41] So a lot of people are very interested in that program

[22:44] and very happy to have the information.

[22:49] So yeah, I think that's really always good.

[22:52] I have a question about that.

[22:53] Yeah, I was, I signed up for it.

[22:55] Right.

[22:56] It was just a transfer and death thing.

[22:59] I got to know some, my daughter did too,

[23:02] but because she was, let's say, the beneficiary.

[23:04] that normally helps them that everybody that's, I mean, any name that's on the thing comes

[23:10] up and gets sent to the notice. So not only if you sign up, so only if she's signed up.

[23:15] Yeah, if she's signed up for property fraudeler, then she would get a notice. Otherwise,

[23:18] if you're, even if you're on the document, if you're not signed up, you wouldn't get a notice.

[23:23] So there ever be any kind of what I thought about is, what if I didn't want her to know that

[23:36] It's hard to get off of the list, so fraudsters can't just remove Tony from the list, so he doesn't find out that his property is being sold.

[23:46] So they make it a little bit of a process, which is good.

[23:51] You have to send them proof, though.

[23:54] Yeah, so you have to send them some type of proof.

[23:59] Yeah.

[24:03] Any questions again?

[24:05] Not.

[24:06] Thank you very much.

[24:07] All right, thank you.

[24:08] Thanks.

[24:08] Have a good day.

[24:11] Moving on, the land and water is perfect.

[24:13] Good.

[24:14] Good.

[24:15] Good.

[24:17] Nationative resolutions.

[24:18] The middle of acceptance.

[24:19] The Wisconsin Department of National Research.

[24:21] A couple years into the bulk.

[24:23] A week grant to support establishment of a recovery.

[24:26] one more key to your comments.

[24:31] Correct, now.

[24:34] Look, Sir.

[24:36] Or should Miyage

[24:38] Please refer to ourselves.

[24:41] Not on favor to.

[24:43] Everything.

[24:46] Management manchmal.Em��五.

[24:49] Nothing stringed or

[24:51] anything,

[24:51] no new grants or anything like that.

[24:54] Okay. Any questions?

[24:57] Out of your plant sale on scene sale, though.

[25:00] The plant sale went good.

[25:02] Yeah, I think it was like a little over 7,000 individual plants were sold.

[25:07] So that went well.

[25:10] And then after that, we had the clean sweep and other than that,

[25:14] we're just kind of gearing up for the tree sale next.

[25:18] Okay.

[25:19] That'll start sometime in mid-fall.

[25:21] Well, did you get any takers on the big

[25:24] for nursing the acreage people?

[25:29] No, that stuff is kind of pricey,

[25:32] so we sell a lot of the like quarter acres,

[25:35] but the bigger plots, no.

[25:38] Okay.

[25:38] No.

[25:39] All right.

[25:42] Okay.

[25:43] Thank you.

[25:44] All right, move that to the mining part.

[25:47] I'm going to start with the next one.

[25:49] I'm actually going to do one.

[25:52] Then in time frame, I'm going to go through

[25:54] our equipment to replace this internal equipment

[25:56] of the compound type.

[26:01] I'm going to move the motion to the front.

[26:04] I'm going to go through.

[26:05] Motion by supervisor Volga.

[26:07] I'll say seconded by supervisor Haynes.

[26:11] Any questions?

[26:12] That'll be our question on Davis AI.

[26:15] All right.

[26:16] Motion carries.

[26:17] I'm going to go on the concept of professional services for environmental site assessments

[26:24] that personal 040281200 and 040212120, and Tom Aquedonia for implementation of

[26:38] Wisconsin, Canada Development, Corporation, Brownfield, Site Assessment Grant,

[26:47] Emotioned

[26:48] Vice President Cheso, second Vice President Deterra.

[26:54] Any thoughts?

[26:55] Not, I would call the question on the favor.

[26:57] Say hi.

[26:58] Hi.

[26:59] Motion carries.

[27:01] All right, we can add the discussion.

[27:03] I'm just updating on finally part of the capital projects

[27:05] and finally the parts that are in July to fall.

[27:10] Sure, just real briefly.

[27:12] We do have two youth conservation course

[27:14] starting next week in the following

[27:16] the AmeriCorps team.

[27:18] We'll be staying with us for a good chunk

[27:19] to the fall, and then we also have a Wisconsin Youth Conservation Corps team, so they provide

[27:24] us a lot of help with the restoration projects, tree planting, native seeding, et cetera,

[27:30] sort of in conjunction with our fish passage and work with our highway department.

[27:34] So that's one big thing we have coming up.

[27:37] And otherwise, you're probably all aware of the County Highway W Reconstruction Project

[27:42] we're in the midst of, in conjunction with highway and the village of Sockville, and that's

[27:47] moving along.

[27:48] Um, um, was turning out really well. That's where we're creating that

[27:51] oxbow channel with the wetlands and, um, uh, I hope to get that online pretty soon.

[27:56] So we're raising the road up a little bit. Yes. Um, I don't know.

[28:00] The, I think two or three feet will be the highways. Uh, so we have a private

[28:04] contractor is working on the roadway part under highway and then highway

[28:09] department, um, with our grant funds is doing the restoration work in conjunction.

[28:13] So it's a symbiotic relationship, there's some activities that need to kind of weigh down the highway contractor, but yeah, we're moving along.

[28:23] We need work to do when we've got work for them, right?

[28:26] Exactly.

[28:29] All right, any questions from anybody?

[28:34] I guess.

[28:36] Thank you.

[28:37] Thank you.

[28:37] And I think that's strange.

[28:39] I think we can't like...

[28:41] Yeah.

[28:42] I can't believe that.

[28:44] This is what I'm using with the reality.

[28:47] Yeah.

[28:47] I don't know if I can see that.

[28:49] Matt just got a promotion.

[28:51] Yeah.

[28:52] I've heard you've got a wide involved before.

[28:55] We are on the issues with that.

[28:57] Yeah.

[28:59] The next main thing is I could have a eight.

[29:01] And with that, I would put a move on the issue too.

[29:05] I'm not sure if you guys can write it, but tell us a second, let's see if you guys can

[29:08] write it.

[29:09] It's just a little bit of a favor to say hi.

[29:10] Hi.

[29:11] I'm here.

[29:12] I'm here.

[29:13] I'm here.

[29:15] Hi.

[29:16] Hi.

[29:17] Hi.

[29:17] I mean, that's a, that's a,

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