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good morning and uh it's a little after

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8 30. and we're going to call the

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meeting of the operations committee

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and the annual budget hearing to order

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the first order of this business is to

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open the public hearing we are opening

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the public hearing now and the process

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we will use on that

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of course is we will give the overview

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of the budget

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and then we will ask for public uh where

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we ask for comments from the public

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and after that we'll

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basically close the public hearing and

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consider the two resolutions

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and i think trump's uh trent is going to

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read those

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jesus

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i'm sorry

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but anyway

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the uh

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point is that uh

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we'll

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advise the uh

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the two resolutions to the county board

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for passage

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[Applause]

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okay so the public hearing is open and

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the first thing we're going to do is go

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over the selling the summary of the

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budget

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the wood county tax levy for 2022

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is 30 million 721 658

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that's compared to twenty eight million

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one hundred and sixty four thousand and

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sixty four in 2021

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it's an increase of two million five

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hundred and fifty six

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thousand five hundred and ninety four

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dollars or eight point oh four

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the county tax rate levy increased

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mainly due to the increase in debt

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service living

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the estimated average equalized value

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for a home in the county is 132 000

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compared to 130

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300 a year ago

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that's up that means that a

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the county property tax on the average

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home

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is approximately 730

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or up from 699 last year about 31

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difference

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the total equal by equalized value of

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all the properties in wood county

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is 6 million 55 382 that's an increase

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of 332 million it's going to be at 6

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billion sorry

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um 332 million 145 500 or 5.8 percent

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and that that

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kept the

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rate down a little bit and we had more

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value of property

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uh so

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anyway

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that's pretty much where we're at the um

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the largest expenditures were as we said

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the capital improvements project and a

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lot of that is due to the jails matter of fact

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of the uh

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63 million up in in total uh

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expenditures

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that accounted for 90.1

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of it so that that did

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the rest of it was

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in uh mostly in salaries and

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benefits for the employees

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that was

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health and human services was the second

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highest increase

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at 2 million

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980 000

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of public safety i think it was uh

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let's say 8 55 855 000

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and conservation and recreation 482

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those are the top increases in the

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budget

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basically i'm going to yield the

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microphone to

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uh panea tanaya yang and she is going to

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give part of it and then

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we will have another summary

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good morning everyone hopefully you guys

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can hear me okay

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my name is pania ying and i'm the deputy

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finance director

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um i will before i jump into the budget

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summary i just wanted to thank all the

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wood county board supervisors

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the department heads and their stuff for

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all their hard work on the budget this

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year

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we started working on the budget at the

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end of july and now it's november so

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it's quite the process

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we felt it went very very well and on

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top of that it was a pleasant working

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with everyone that is involved

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in this process and so i just want to

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thank you all again for making it go

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smooth this year

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so we're going to jump right into our

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budget summary for 2022

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our budget revenues are estimated to be

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about

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177.7 million while expenditures are

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estimated to be about 180.5

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and um if you look at that bottom line

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in the table there that puts us at a

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deficit of 2.8 million

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um that is actually an improvement of

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about 1.7 million from 2021's deficit of

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4.5 million

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and we want to iterate that the county

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does have sufficient reserves to do so

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it was mentioned last year probably and

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we'll want to mention again this year

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that the county overall is in a sound

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financial position but we must remain

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diligent in our future just trying to

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improve our budget process overall

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and i feel that for this year on this

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year's budget we did do that seeing that

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our deficit was 2.8 million compared to

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what we normally see um you know what we

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have seen in the past from anywhere from

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four to six million and so um i just

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want to thank again all the committees

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and departments where we're working

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really hard on that and hopefully we

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continue going towards that direction

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and that's just a very short summary of

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our 2022 budget and i will give it back

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to ed wagner to go over our expenditures

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section okay thanks

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as i alluded to first in the initial

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presentation

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there were some major increases but

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there were some decreases in

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expenditures also that went into the

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budget

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uh as i said the budgeted expenditures are 185 180.5

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million

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or approximately 63.8 million above the

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2022.

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we mentioned that human health and human

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services increase was approximately 2.98

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million

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uh that the public health department

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increased by 715 000 due almost solely

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to wage a benefit

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in the in the pace

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uh edgewater in norwood and human

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services community increase is

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approximately 1.5 million and the bulk

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of that increase is attributable to the

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wage and benefit increase and the other

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increase increases result of a higher

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contract services rate of about 727 000

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public safety increased by approximately

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855 000 and that was uh in dispatch and

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corrections

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and the coal accounted for 603 000 of

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and the cost of communication and jail

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contract services increased by around

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fifty thousand dollars basically on the

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rising cost of the contracts

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public works actually decreased by 941

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thousand dollars and that was attributed

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to the cost allocations for highway

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machinery equipment

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including a reduction in capital outlet

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so there was there was something coming

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down there

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general government um that had an

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increase a very small increase of only

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forty one thousand dollars

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uh out for that and and that was mostly

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due these were smaller departments and

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basically the only thing they had going

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for that is salaries and benefits so

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that they that increased by

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295

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a thousand the input the increase was

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offset by lower cost of employees

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self-insured health benefits of

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approximately 259 000. so there was an

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offset there it worked out really well

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and there was also a reduction in

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capital projects of about seventy four

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thousand dollars

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um

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but that was all said also a lot of cost

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is an increase in supplies for about

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eighty 81 000.

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uh conservation and recreation um

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that's

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it shows an increase of 482 000 but

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that's deceptive

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because

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there's a there is going to be state

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grant funding from parks and forestry

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shelter construction up for 473 000 so

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that basically will offset that but we

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have to report it as an expenditure

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first before we before the grants are

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applied to it

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um capital projects expenditure

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increased by approximately 57.5 million

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as we stated

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and that is mainly because of the jail

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that's primarily that

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but there was some other financing for

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highway and there was also some

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financing for other capital improvement

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projects

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and that included more extensive

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renovation needs

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at the aging healthcare facilities and

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the courthouse

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and also adding a fourth courtroom which

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we know we're going to come up to here

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very shortly i think probably by

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mid-year next year we'll be responsible

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for doing that

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and then there will be more extensive

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in 2022

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section

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for 2022 um our budget revenues are

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approximately again

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177.7 million and that is an increase of

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65.5 million from 2021's budget

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with the next talking points i will

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quickly highlight where these increases

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are seen for revenue source

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property taxes that is our second

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largest revenue source

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it is up approximately 2.6 million

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and that's mainly due to an increase

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under our debt service levy

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for covering the principal and interest

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payments of the new jail project

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next intergovernmental revenues that

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increased approximately 2.52 million

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with the largest increase under human

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services for state and federal aids

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public charges for services that

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increased approximately 1.34 million and

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that is again due to an increase in

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human services public charges for mental

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health and edgewater private pay

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intergovernmental charges for services

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they actually show a decrease of about

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while workers have

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rates and liability liability insurance

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increased there was a decrease

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for health insurance enrollment in a

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decrease in rewards over at edgewater

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for private pay or i'm sorry over agile

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due to reduction in current leader

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census

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sales tax for

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2022 and we budgeted that for 6.9

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million and that is up 900 000 from

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2021's budget

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we did take a look at 2021 collections

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so far to date and uh what this date was

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projecting for determining that 6.9

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million figure

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proceeds from long-term borrowing that

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is our largest revenue source for 2022

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that increased about 57.5 million due to

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the funding that is needed for our new

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jail

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our hiring projects and our cip projects

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and then last but not least other

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revenues that increased about 815 000

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primarily due to higher proceeds for

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long-term borrowing

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and

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next i will give it to ed newton just

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for the quilting prints of our budget

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here

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good morning

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first of all i'd like to thank again all

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the supervisors department head managers

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operations committee and preparing the

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2022 budget i'd also like to thank pania

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for all her hard work this is her as

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everybody knows this is her first budget

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and she did an excellent job not only

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on the budget but working with other

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various departments so i just want to

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say thank you to her too as well

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so now i'm just going to we're going to

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look at

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what our challenges were the

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considerations

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most of you know that our operations

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levy is capped and it's based upon the

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economic growth of wood county

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we had a slightly over 2

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growth on it on our

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on economic growth

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and we know that's not enough to keep

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pace with uh inflation

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so we have to

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you know keep our services to the

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community and to all our citizens but we

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still need

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to be fiscal responsible about it so how

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do we do this we always have to look for

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additional funding sources such as

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grants or other monies that out there

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and we must maintain a strong fiscal

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discipline

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and this is where we rely on our

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supervisors as well as our department

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head and managers and i believe they do

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a good job

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again we have to look out for our head

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count because as noted earlier that is

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one of our largest expenses so i think

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we've done a good job this year really

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watching our head count being very

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diligent of replacing and keeping

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being able to keep the services that

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everybody expects from the county and

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the community

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and also

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we know that the supervisors and

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apartment heads has always strived for

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greater operational efficiency so even

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though you know we have to keep things

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at a minimum we still have to look and

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make sure that we're we have the

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efficiency there

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so then we started preparing our budget

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what are some of the considerations that

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we did

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as talked about earlier we increased our

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sales tax from 6.0

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to 6.9

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where did we come up for this number

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well ford analytics sends out a report

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and they were showing closer to seven

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just over seven million dollars but

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after discussion we felt to be a little

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conservative that we would do the 6.9

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million

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we felt that was a conservative approach

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even though right now for 2021 we are on

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pace probably to reach the 7 million

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mark on sales tax so we will be over

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that which is a good thing

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as part of a lot of this was discussed

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already earlier is our personnel cost

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we reflected a 2.5

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cola increase plus we had our annual

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step increase

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and part of that annual step increase is

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based upon the new structure when we did

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the salary that went into effect january

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2021. why do we do this

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we have to be competitive with all the

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other industry that's out there to make

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sure that we keep

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you know quality individuals you know

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quality help here so we want to be

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competitive but we also have to remember

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that we got to keep our wages

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under control and it's a tough task

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because

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we need people there's competition

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our limited budget on where we can get

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our money so

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again it's a difficult task but i think

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we're doing a pretty darn good job

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um

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continuing with wages the departments

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did a great job

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budgeting for their personnel as far as

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wages as hell as far as other

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contract labor costs that they'll need

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when we're unable to fill some positions

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and i think helping us out on the budget

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was our new software because we're able

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to

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utilize better information on the wages

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we're able to

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put different start date for individuals

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instead of having everybody which we

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used to start january 1. we knew you

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know not everybody hire is going to

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start january 1 and there's going to be

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some attrition back and forth so i think

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that helps us get more of an accurate

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budget

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so again that was a great shout out to the department heads

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managers for their hard work on that i

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know that's that's a tough task

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especially for the larger departments

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that have a lot of moving parts going on

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so thank you very much

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we also increased our health care costs

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by one percent which is a

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small increase considering all the

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everything else you hear about health

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care costs

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mainly this is due to favorable claims experience in the past

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years and a strong fund balance

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workers comp increase for 2022

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had an increase because we did a big

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significant decrease in 2021 after

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discussion with um risk management

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we felt that this increase was necessary

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to maintain a sufficient fund balance uh

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so hopefully next year 2023

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you know i don't think we'll see much of

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an increase at all i think we're at that

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level now where we can maintain and keep

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a healthy fund balance like you know

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having serious claims

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so then we've got to look at the

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uncertainties that is out there what are

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some of the uncertainties

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currently we have a new president

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uh there's been lots of interesting

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things going on in washington as far as

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a lot of money coming our way

446
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how to spend it's another uncertainty

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uh again

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you know we'll see what happens through

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the next years

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copen19 that's still around all the

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variants um how's that gonna affect us

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on personnel how does that affect us on

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medicaid with all the vaccine mandates

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time will tell so

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you know we've got to be wary of that 12

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and 19 also the other mandates is that

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going to increase some of our costs

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most likely uh but hopefully there's

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money out there to offset that

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we know now we know that we've had this

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labor shortage for cnas it's been there

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for a while

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we're also seeing

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various other labor shortages throughout

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the country throughout wisconsin rapids

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throughout wood county

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people are you know

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looking for the next higher paying jobs

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again that's where we have to keep our

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wages competitive make sure we have the

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proper benefits

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um vaccine mandate again falls into this

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picture if that comes in how will that

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affect our labor market so things that could affect

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the budget going forward that we still

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don't know

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supply chain issues we know there's uh

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that

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having the availability of products not

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isn't always there

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we have the rising cost of products

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that's good news because as products

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thrive that increases our sales tax base

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but on the bad side of course that

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affects us because we have to pay the

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higher cost

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so it's catch-22 but luckily we don't

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pay the sales tax

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uh we still have the closure of the

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wisconsin rapids mill

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i haven't heard much detail on it that's

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been pretty quiet last i heard was

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probably about three months ago that

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they're still in negotiations

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again i

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it would be great to hear more

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information on that but uh i haven't

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heard anything

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uh arpa we do have a lot of money

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sitting out there but

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we did not include any of that money in

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our budget reason is we're not sure how

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we can

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spend it properly

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a lot of

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webinars that i've attended says be

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patient

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so once we're able to figure out how to

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best spend it then

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we'll work that into as a budget

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resolution or however we feel necessary

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so thank you um do you have any

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questions for any of our team here

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thank you well asking again does anybody

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else have any questions concerning the

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budget

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no questions

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that uh being the case i will declare

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the public hearing portion close

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and

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before we consider the two resolutions

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we want to add something that that ed

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mentioned

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um

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yeah we

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i want to thank the staff and the other

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super supervisors and the other

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uh committee chairs for their help and

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cooperation in preparing this budget it

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went much smoother this year than it did

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in the years past and i'm very pleased

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with it and i want to thank you all from

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the bottom of my heart for your your

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cooperation

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and with that we'll go on to the

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consideration

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of the two resolutions the first one one one dash one

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is uh intent and synopsis to establish

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wood county's tax levy for 2021

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collectible in 2022 and i have a mobile

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motion by rosar second by fischer

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discussion

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they're being done all those in favor

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please say aye opposed

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motion carries

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the next item that is uh item 1-2

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intended synopsis adoption of the 2022

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wood county budget

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no mission is in order mr fire mr fisher

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all those in favor please say aye

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opposed so carried

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and with that ladies and gentlemen

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we are done with our presentation and we

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thank you for your cooperation and we

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stand to turn