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All right, Please remember to. 00:00:06
Pressure Attend. 00:00:09
Supervisors Molly Kauffeld and Conway are excused. 00:00:14
I'll just give you a little update on Supervisor Coffell. They spoke with him today and. 00:00:20
He was cleared. 00:00:25
Start to drive yesterday and so starting the 1st of June, he's planning on being back to committee meetings and, and back with us. 00:00:27
So that's really good news so. 00:00:32
I think Supervisor Benter is. 00:00:57
Is on virtually. 00:00:59
Yep, OK. 00:01:01
So you have to work. 00:01:03
Supervisor Gutenberger. 00:01:07
Thank you. 00:01:10
OK, hold on. 00:01:12
OK, now we're good. 00:01:16
All right. 00:01:18
What's your pleasure of the minutes from the April 15th meeting? 00:01:24
I have a motion by supervisor Yark and a second by Supervisor Miller. 00:01:32
Any questions or comments? 00:01:37
Corrections. 00:01:39
Hearing none, all in favor signify by aye. 00:01:41
Aye, opposed that is carried. 00:01:44
Communications on file. 00:01:47
I have no communications on file. 00:01:50
All right, public comment. 00:01:52
Just the one. 00:01:54
OK, umm. 00:01:55
Believed. 00:01:58
Mayor Supervisor Belk would like to speak as Mayor Belk, I believe. 00:02:01
All right. Thanks everybody. 00:02:12
Hey, I wanted to thank all you who reached out to me over this last week about the tornado in Mabel. I appreciate the kind words 00:02:15
and and. 00:02:19
And comments, I mean it's much appreciated. 00:02:24
I also want to thank all the. 00:02:26
Communities that are in the surrounding areas, they've all chipped in tremendously to help us out in our time of need is much 00:02:29
appreciated. 00:02:32
You wouldn't know how much. 00:02:36
Damage could actually be done by a. 00:02:38
Some small windstorm, but there was quite a bit, so thanks for that. 00:02:39
I also want to thank all the volunteers and businesses in the area for donating their time and food. 00:02:44
For the people that were helping out. 00:02:50
I also want to thank, you know, Dodge County. 00:02:52
Emergency services. 00:02:54
Including all the fire departments and EMS is in the area along with the Sheriff's Office. 00:02:56
And all the PD's in the area. 00:03:01
He did a tremendous job helping us out and keeping traffic away and. 00:03:02
Getting everything where it needs to be. So I thank everybody for that. 00:03:07
You know, there's an old saying it takes a village to raise a child, but you know, it really takes. 00:03:12
A whole county to help out communities in our time of need. So I want to thank everybody in all the communities. 00:03:17
For all that they've done for the city of Mabel. So thank you very much. 00:03:22
Thank you. Thank you, Ram. 00:03:25
All right #7 is special order of business and we have. 00:03:29
Emergency Management director Joe Maher and assistant Amanda Pulvermacher. 00:03:34
And I believe. 00:03:39
Sheriff Schmidt. 00:03:40
Should be on. 00:03:59
Now, OK, there we go. 00:04:02
So we were asked to put together a presentation just quickly on the events that happened. 00:04:04
On Thursday, so we're going to go over a little bit of a timeline. 00:04:10
For everyone to see. 00:04:14
So at 1749 we were first alerted by the National Weather Service that there was a radar confirmed tornado in Juneau. 00:04:17
So on the. 00:04:26
Side of the screen. 00:04:28
There's a little white circle that's circling the city of Juneau, so that is that radar indicated rotation. 00:04:31
And then at 7/15/15. 00:04:37
52. 00:04:39
They had seen another rotation north of Juneau, which would have been on each side of the airport. There were two rotations. 00:04:41
This is camera footage from the South Camera of Clearview. 00:04:51
Just so you can see how quickly. 00:04:56
The storm hit. 00:04:58
I don't know why it's replaying. 00:05:00
Here we go. 00:05:04
That would have been the tornado right there. 00:05:09
And gone. 00:05:18
During that time, the National Weather Service was also following that rotation South of Horicon. 00:05:24
And then at 1800, National Weather Service confirmed that there was more rotation. 00:05:31
Right outside of Mayville. 00:05:37
So there is one video here with the two vortexes. That is a video shown from someone's backyard in Mayville. 00:05:39
The other video is umm. 00:05:47
Just someone that reported the one from Juno. 00:05:51
Just to give you. 00:05:55
Visual. 00:05:57
At 8:15, we had been informed by National Weather Service that there was also possible rotation and tornado debris signature South 00:06:00
of Lomira. 00:06:04
And then as of today at about 2:30, the National Weather Service has officially confirmed 6 tornadoes with this weather event in 00:06:10
Dodge County. 00:06:14
So these are just going to be preliminary damage survey results from the National Weather Service. So it'll go over each one of 00:06:20
these tornado events, but this is the one. 00:06:25
Do you know that hit Clearview? It was an EF 2 with 120 mile per hour peak winds and it was on the ground for 11.76 miles. 00:06:31
This one is the this is the tornado that we do have the one injury for. It was just someone transported to. 00:06:40
The hospital if anyone has seen the very awesome news article with the body Cam footage from sheriff's. 00:06:47
Sheriff Schmidt, that was the individual that was transported. 00:06:55
Is the only injury also reported with this whole event so? 00:07:00
And then this is the preliminary damage for the 1 N Arjuna. This hit the airport. 00:07:04
And there were a few buildings. 00:07:09
Out there that were damaged, but it was an EF one with 95 mile per hour peak winds and a path of 4.26 miles. 00:07:11
The Mayville. 00:07:21
Tornado was also an EF 2 with 120 mile per hour peak winds. This one was 8.7 miles. 00:07:22
The Lamira tornado was a quick 1.55 miles and 95 mile per hour winds at an EF 1. I believe it damaged a. 00:07:31
Farm, which is how we got their report to have National Weather Service go out there. 00:07:41
Lowell was added yesterday late in the afternoon as an EF one with a 90 mile per hour winds and 6.71 miles of. 00:07:48
Travel. 00:07:57
This was a lot of rural wooded area that they got damage assessment from. There were some. 00:07:58
Damage to some roofs and farm structures. 00:08:05
And then this morning they added. 00:08:10
EF 100 mile per hour winds with a 2.11 miles. Again, this area is right off of the roundabout. It kind of goes up through a field. 00:08:13
There's some wooded areas that they were able to get some damage assessment from and then it did cross 41. 00:08:20
We did set up some sheltering locations during this event, so we initiated Dodgeland School to have. 00:08:29
A shelter for the Juno residents. 00:08:38
This was set up by our Health and Human services and public health workers. 00:08:40
And then they had some mental health workers alongside with our public health there. 00:08:46
And then while I was in route to Mayville, we had contact with American Red Cross, who set up. 00:08:50
A shelter at the Maybelle High School. 00:08:57
And then the Dodge County Mental Health also sent. 00:09:00
Some crisis workers over there for the night and then for the continued. 00:09:04
Sheltering that happened for Mayville along with Salvation Army. 00:09:08
The Dodgeland school was only open until about 11:00 on Thursday night because power was starting to get restored to some of the 00:09:13
areas. 00:09:17
So they did demobilize that shelter, but then they reopened it up Friday during the day for residents to come back to if needed. 00:09:22
And then it was demobilized after Friday, I think around 4:00. 00:09:28
Mayville was open all the way from Thursday night through Friday into Saturday, so they stayed open for a few days. 00:09:33
And then I will touch base quick that we did have Governor Evers visit Friday morning. Thank you. 00:09:44
Very much to both Mayville and Juno for helping me set that up in a very, very quick manner. 00:09:50
We got a very short time window to put together something, but he did roll through both cities and he did get to see the damage 00:09:57
first hand. He got to meet. 00:10:03
Some of our volunteers that were out and about cleaning up and then he got to meet Mayor Belk and Dave Beal and Sheriff so. 00:10:09
You see in the photos here he was talking to the Mayville school. 00:10:18
One of our crisis workers that was there from Health and Human Services. 00:10:23
And then pictured in the other photo is some representatives from Wisconsin Emergency Management who came with him. 00:10:27
So before I move on. 00:10:40
I am extremely proud of the work that Amanda Pulvermacher did. 00:10:43
While Joe was out on vacation and Joe likes to go on vacation, then we have fun stuff happen here. 00:10:48
But he was on the phone coordinating as well. But Amanda stepped up and did an absolutely amazing job. 00:10:53
Um, during and after for a couple days after. So just so you know, we have two outstanding. 00:11:02
Folks from Emergency Management standing next to me. 00:11:09
So the the response. 00:11:20
Was quick. 00:11:22
And in my opinion, very well coordinated by a lot of people. 00:11:24
We ended up with my standard operating procedure for me is anytime we get a tornado warning anywhere in the county. 00:11:29
I leave home. 00:11:36
My son loves that. 00:11:37
And and come to work and and so I was on my way over to Juno as this is is hitting Juno. 00:11:39
And in the middle of a very nasty. 00:11:46
Downpour of hail that just didn't want to quit. 00:11:49
So hail on top of all of this was a very, very powerful storm, not one that I had seen before. 00:11:52
I saw the Oakfield tornado from a distance, it was bigger but this one just seemed have a lot more dynamics to it. 00:11:58
So once I got here and I looked, turned down Main Street and saw what we had on Main Street, the disaster that we had on Main 00:12:05
Street, I immediately called for all available deputies to come into work whether there were on duty that day or not. 00:12:11
And and that turned out to be extremely helpful in the next couple hours. 00:12:17
And and so we we. 00:12:22
We had the damage here, we had the damage out at the airport. 00:12:25
One of the first things that asked our staff to do is clear the airport, because the last thing I needed was a plane to land on 00:12:28
top of some debris in the middle of all of this as well. 00:12:32
We set up two command posts. 00:12:36
We had our incident command, which you see up there is fully outfitted now with all the radio communication equipment that we 00:12:39
need. 00:12:42
We had Matt Bartle bring that out, put that over at Dodgeland School. 00:12:46
And that was. 00:12:49
Crucial. 00:12:50
In getting things coordinated as we were setting up a unified command here between. 00:12:51
Sheriff PD Fire. 00:12:56
And all other services. It was a location that we were able to have squad cars pull up to, fire trucks pull up to. I had my 00:12:58
lieutenants in there coordinating where we were going to be, sending squads around the county to shut off the city of Juneau to 00:13:04
assist Mayville and shutting off the off off access to their their affected areas. 00:13:11
And, and really by about 9:30 or 10:00, this all happened about 6630. 00:13:18
By about 9:30, ten o'clock. 00:13:24
We had this situation completely stabilized. 00:13:26
Umm, not cleaned up. 00:13:30
Don't get me wrong, but stabilize, we knew, we sent people door to door in Juneau to make sure that all those affected homes were 00:13:31
taken care of. I'm not sure what how they manage that in Mayville. That was a different, different scene. 00:13:37
But what I can say is, is Lieutenant Jeremy Johnson, who was really running command up there because. 00:13:43
The Chief. 00:13:50
Just had a medical procedure and it wasn't a lot of pain. He really couldn't be there to do what he needed to do. And Lieutenant 00:13:51
Johnson did a fantastic job from everybody that I've talked to in coordinating the events in the city of Mayville. 00:13:58
And and so we had two really well coordinated incident commands going on to make sure that the most affected areas were well taken 00:14:05
care of. 00:14:09
And and my staff assisted in both locations. Fire EMS responded very, very quickly. 00:14:13
And and we were able to get it under control very, very quickly. 00:14:20
Again, only the one injury here in Juneau. 00:14:25
We heard that there was one person that may have been minor very minor injury and may avail more after the fact. 00:14:27
But but incredible that that is all of the injury that we had in this incident. It was helpful that I was kind of kind of on the 00:14:33
outskirts of Juno. 00:14:37
I will tell you that one concern that I had as I'm driving this way, hearing that it's hitting Juneau. 00:14:42
Is. 00:14:47
My opinion, the most important room that in the county. 00:14:48
Dispatch, it's across the street. 00:14:51
And what if it was a direct hit there? 00:14:53
And they're on the 1st floor. That was a concern for me and, and something that that I've been concerned with for some time, 00:14:56
thankfully. 00:14:59
They were OK. 00:15:03
The jail was OK Number of county buildings were damaged. 00:15:04
As a result of all of this, were you covering that damage? 00:15:08
I can run through it quick. 00:15:11
I'll run through some of the damage for you so you have an idea of what it is. 00:15:13
Starting. 00:15:17
Excuse me in the jail. 00:15:19
We had flood damage, believe it or not, inside the jail. 00:15:21
It actually got into some of the pipes and then went down. 00:15:24
So we did have some watering running into the jail as a result of the massive downpours of water. 00:15:27
The maintenance did a fantastic job getting that under control, nothing long term. 00:15:32
The airport has a number of hangars that have been damaged. Those are not county owned hangers. They're owned by the owners of the 00:15:36
hangars, so that's their responsibility. But there was debris everywhere out out in the airport. 00:15:42
Highway did a great job of getting out there. After we cleared the runway, they got out there, cleared the rest of it and did a 00:15:48
great job out there. Clearview was damaged, had some damage to the to the window. Some of the structures trail view was struck 00:15:52
head on. 00:15:57
Umm we had damage at the highway shop the the covers for the salt sheds completely blown off. 00:16:02
My impound building the roof has been completely taken off. 00:16:09
And and. 00:16:13
I think that's for the most part the what we've got for major county building damage. 00:16:16
Most of that damage occurred on the Northside, the north northwest corner of Juneau. 00:16:23
And then across anything really north of North Street and north of S is what really the impacted area in Juneau? 00:16:29
The impacted areas in Mayville, really that Mac. 00:16:35
Gleason real area that's South Central portion of the city is really where that damage hit. 00:16:39
And and so I the one other thing item that we have identified. 00:16:45
That is a need. 00:16:50
That really is a good time to identify it because we're in the middle of a radio study. 00:16:52
Is that we did not have enough countrywide radio channels to go around. 00:16:57
Once we got into Juneau, once I identified we had two locations and all of the other calls are out in the county with with with a 00:17:01
lot of other damage. 00:17:05
I made the decision that our EM5 channel would be dedicated to the City of Juneau damage. 00:17:09
My sheriff channel would be dedicated to everything else around the county. 00:17:15
Turns out the fire department in Mayville had their frequency. 00:17:19
And their ground channels, but those aren't repeated channels, so they had a struggle that needed another channel. 00:17:23
To to operate on and we just didn't have another one. 00:17:29
So that is already something that I've talked to Joe Maher here about for that we discussed with this radio study to determine. 00:17:32
How many countrywide frequencies do we really need? Because had it been worse? 00:17:40
That would have been really bad. 00:17:44
That that we didn't have those additional abilities to communicate county wide. 00:17:46
And once you get fire, EMS, law enforcement, different law enforcement agencies. 00:17:50
And you bring in all of these other resources, you got to have a place for them to go to talk to each other. And we just don't 00:17:56
have that backbone to be able to support all of them in these big incidents like this. 00:18:01
So and I will thank you County Board for what you've got on the screen there. That command vehicle has been nothing short of 00:18:06
incredible. We were using it just about every week. Now that we have a piece of equipment that is that is that is usable. 00:18:13
And it was very, very. 00:18:20
Crucial in our response this last week. 00:18:23
And and certainly. 00:18:26
And now that we have the grant money, the $450,000 in grant. 00:18:28
Additions put into it. 00:18:32
It is a very, very. 00:18:34
A wonderful piece of equipment. So thank you for assisting in getting that complete. 00:18:37
And we did have two dispatchers in there. 00:18:42
Manning the 2 dispatch stations that are in there now. 00:18:44
So I believe that's all I have on the response. 00:18:47
All right. 00:18:54
Communication system. 00:18:55
So just to review. 00:18:57
We this is the backup runtime that we had on each one of our sites. 00:18:59
Per our monitoring system. 00:19:05
The site that took. 00:19:08
The most damage was actually the Mayville site. 00:19:10
You can see there that a trailer. 00:19:12
UMM actually fell alongside the generator, knocking it off from its mounting pedestal. 00:19:15
And that trailer actually jumped over the top of the LP tank that's there. 00:19:22
And the LP tank was was not touched. 00:19:27
And still continues to sit on its on its foundation. 00:19:30
I'll also have you just note the the stars there by dispatch because I'm going to talk a little bit further about that dispatch 00:19:36
and the criticalness of having. 00:19:40
Dispatch and maintenance updating that system. 00:19:44
A few years ago based on some lessons learned. 00:19:48
Because of the utility outages that were happening. 00:19:51
We would have potentially lost our dispatch center as a result of. 00:19:54
That that if you hadn't updated it. 00:19:59
So we had, when I say no harm, our radio system. 00:20:03
Maintained usefulness 100% of the time. The land mobile radio system did not let us down. 00:20:07
Um, with the widespread damage, as Dale explained, there weren't enough radio channels to go around, and we're going to address 00:20:14
that with our system consultant. 00:20:19
Land mobile radio system support provider. 00:20:25
Responded to review the the antennas on Friday morning. 00:20:27
Was not able to visually identify any issues. 00:20:31
They went over all of our alarms. They checked through our system. 00:20:35
And it continued to remain robust. 00:20:38
The City of Mayville Water Utility conducted a. 00:20:42
Conducted and shared with US water tower inspection. 00:20:45
And the contractor advised us that they saw no visual damage standing right next to the stuff at the top of the tower. 00:20:49
So that was a positive for us. 00:20:56
Multiple sites were automatically switched to the generator backup as you saw there was 57 plus hours. 00:20:59
That that backed up on our system to keep us up and going. 00:21:05
And. 00:21:08
Also with that, I didn't add it in here as I forgot I talked to Amanda about it, but we had intermittent cell phone provider. 00:21:12
Outages where we couldn't make phone calls, phone calls couldn't be, couldn't be heard. 00:21:20
I believe text messages were one of the better ways to respond and talk back and forth to one another. 00:21:26
But the loss of cell system. 00:21:32
Makes us even rely harder. 00:21:35
On or rely more. 00:21:37
On our county radio land mobile radio. 00:21:38
Successes of past work that further protected what I believe further protected our equipment. 00:21:42
Natural gas leaks and outages throughout the response. 00:21:47
It further solidifies the county's decision to utilize LP. 00:21:50
To support our sites. 00:21:55
If we're shutting off gas service again, we updated the one at dispatch as a result of lessons learned because we lost dispatch. 00:21:57
When we had a major gas line rupture outside the city here. 00:22:04
So that's kind of further solidified that. 00:22:09
And the after action review of minor wind events from 23 and 24. 00:22:12
Let us on to. 00:22:19
Requesting money from you in the amount of right around $30,000. 00:22:21
To put generators in at the Reeseville and Mayville water tower sites. 00:22:24
They were battery backed up. 00:22:30
I'm confident. 00:22:31
That the batteries would not have held up. 00:22:33
For the duration of time that was required. 00:22:36
So that was used. It was ARPA funding. 00:22:39
I couldn't have found a better spot for it. 00:22:42
The project was completed the end of last November and it was there and kept our system. 00:22:44
Assistance from recovery after the storm. 00:22:55
We've been getting a lot of questions about this. 00:22:57
Umm, the. 00:23:02
The number one thing that we will say to municipalities as well as homeowners. 00:23:04
And and anybody that sustained any damage is to contact. 00:23:10
Your let me see here. 00:23:14
Your insurance provider? Yep, most policies. 00:23:17
UMM in the state of Wisconsin covered damage related to wind events. 00:23:20
So you generally everything is covered. Yes, you have to deal with. 00:23:23
With. 00:23:28
I'm losing the. 00:23:30
That deductibles of your insurance. 00:23:32
But most everything should be covered. 00:23:35
Contact them and see what the the limits are and the specifics of what you can claim, how it can be cleaned up, et cetera. 00:23:37
The assistance to municipal government and utilities, we've been working quite a bit today on this. 00:23:47
It's additional assistance that might be available to municipalities for debris cleanup and emergency protective measures. 00:23:53
There is a fund called the Wisconsin Disaster Fund. 00:24:00
And it requires municipalities. 00:24:03
If they reach the $4.72 per capita. 00:24:05
Of their specific population. 00:24:11
They have the ability to apply for funding through Wisconsin Disaster Funds. 00:24:14
What you see here after that is the Dodge County threshold. So because of our our population, that is what the county would have 00:24:19
to meet for damage thresholds. 00:24:23
In order to ask for any funding through Wisconsin Disaster Fund. 00:24:28
If you're approved. 00:24:33
Through that and you meet those those fresh thresholds. 00:24:34
You're it's possible to receive 70% reimbursement for eligible expenses. 00:24:38
Now. 00:24:42
Lessons learned from past experience. 00:24:44
Is. 00:24:46
The governor. 00:24:48
Allows within the budget a certain amount of dollars depending on how many disasters we have throughout the state. 00:24:49
It dries up. 00:24:56
So then it's required to go back to the governor and ask for additional funding to refill that WDF. 00:24:57
So that is kind of a continuing. 00:25:04
Press that we have to the governor in increasing that amount so that municipalities can receive. 00:25:07
Some reimbursement for damages. 00:25:12
During disasters like these. 00:25:15
This breaks down the actual. 00:25:18
Expenses that can be recovered the category A is debris clearance, its removal of debris resulting from the disaster, so. 00:25:22
It's removing everything. 00:25:28
Off from the roadway, off from the utilities area. 00:25:30
If individuals bring debris to the road. 00:25:35
They have the ability to clear that debris out and get reimbursement for it. 00:25:39
The emergency protective measures that would be. 00:25:44
Costs involved, like for fire department response, law enforcement response. 00:25:47
Overtime costs for that type of stuff as well as equipment that's used and that's the same thing with category A. 00:25:51
We can request equipment. 00:25:59
Be reimbursed for usage, for instance, chainsaws, squad cars, highway trucks. 00:26:02
That type of thing. 00:26:08
That will assist us in the response and recovery to get things back to what safely to what they were before. 00:26:09
Category C Roads and bridges. I'm not aware of any category C. 00:26:17
That is going to be requested through this event, but it's certainly an option. 00:26:21
And covered under the 70% reimbursement through the disaster fund. 00:26:27
There's additional categories that are involved here too, all the way through Category FI believe it is. 00:26:31
And those can also fit into at least. 00:26:36
Meeting your threshold. 00:26:40
So if there's if there's something that they deem doesn't fit into one of these three categories, it may fit into one of the 00:26:41
others. 00:26:45
And that helps you reach your $4.72 percent, 472 I'm sorry, $4.72. 00:26:48
Cent per capita. 00:26:55
4. 00:26:57
So a lot of people might say, OK, is FEMA coming in? 00:27:01
Is there any FEMA assistance here? 00:27:06
It's not likely. 00:27:08
As we kind of, this is a really broad overview of FEMA public assistance and how the governor goes about. 00:27:10
Asking FEMA for assistance. 00:27:17
It would be a governors request to the President for a presidential declaration. 00:27:19
And. 00:27:24
In this case, which we've met before during some snowstorms and flooding events particularly. 00:27:25
But it's difficult to reach these because of insurance policies. 00:27:30
Again, check with your insurance company. 00:27:34
The county would have to reach a threshold of 421,949. 00:27:37
And the state must also reach a threshold of 11,000, or $11 million. 00:27:42
A little over one point, 11.1 million. 00:27:48
So that is not likely because that is this specific event. It's this specific storm moving through, so. 00:27:51
They do break it up and there's there's no way we reach that threshold. 00:27:59
If approved you would get 75% cost recovery. The state kicks in another 12.5 out of the WDF. 00:28:04
And then the local municipality would cover 12.5. 00:28:11
And then there's also FEMA individual assistance. We got it during flooding of 08. 00:28:15
That's uninsured damage assistance for cost recovery to private individuals and businesses for damages. 00:28:20
And after a request to the president, FEMA inspectors would come out and they'd have to find 582 homes. 00:28:26
With major or destroyed. 00:28:33
Umm, determination, and that's based on CFR 44 through FEMA if you're interested in looking at that. 00:28:37
And if approved. 00:28:42
It opens up housing assistance, federal assistance and other programs to individuals and businesses. 00:28:44
OK. So yeah, All in all. 00:28:52
Again, thank you Dale and Amanda for for. 00:28:55
Taking the brunt of. 00:28:57
Of everything and all the locals. 00:29:00
If you have any questions on any of this stuff, reach out to our office. 00:29:04
Amanda has been working a lot of lot of days so. 00:29:08
Hopefully can give her a little break here toward the end of the week. 00:29:11
And I really appreciate everyone's efforts. 00:29:14
Thank you. 00:29:17
Supervisor Hedrick. 00:29:19
You are also very much. 00:29:22
Yeah. 00:29:24
Without words or beyond words. 00:29:26
But and you did mention it briefly, but I wonder if you could also just mention a bit about the help of the Human Services and 00:29:28
health departments. My understanding they were. 00:29:33
Quite involved as well in the response. Yeah. And Amanda can talk about that 'cause I was a part of one of her slides. 00:29:39
Thank you. Yeah. So Human Services. 00:29:44
So initially how it happened is. 00:29:48
I was at home monitoring weather and. 00:29:51
When there was. 00:29:53
Tornado confirmed in Juneau we started response so Matt Bartle and I both. 00:29:55
Just kind of self deployed and he immediately called Roman Mullen from public health and asked them to. 00:30:00
Or asked him to at least start facilitating getting. 00:30:08
Human Services and public health employees to Dodge Lynn to open up a shelter. We already kind of have an agreement with Dodgeland 00:30:12
School that in the event of something like this that we could open up. We have really great working relationship with them so. 00:30:19
They got there right away to help open up the school. They were able to open that up and then they were open again, I think until. 00:30:26
About 11:00. Most people started going home at that point. 00:30:34
They did have. 00:30:38
Mental health workers at both sites. 00:30:40
Umm in Mayville and in Juneau, so because. 00:30:43
I knew that our county employees were opening up Juno's shelter. 00:30:47
I was able to make the determination to then move all of the Red Cross services to Mayville so that they also had a shelter 00:30:53
operation. 00:30:57
I'm not sure that we had enough people. We definitely didn't have enough Red Cross people to help sustain both. 00:31:01
But Red Cross did bring a whole nother disaster trailer to Juno, so that if we did have to set up long term sheltering here, we 00:31:08
had the additional cots. 00:31:13
But it was it was detrimental for me to be able to, to just know that Juno was taken care of so we could focus off. 00:31:19
Efforts at Mabel. 00:31:27
And then again, Mayville's shelter was open for multiple days just because of the power outage and some of the damage. There's was 00:31:28
a little bit more within the city. 00:31:34
And there were a lot of people with. 00:31:40
A lot more people with needs, I should say. 00:31:42
Umm, to my knowledge, I believe public health also helped 8. 00:31:45
Or 9 individuals get temporary housing for over the weekend. 00:31:49
So there were a few people that were displaced and they did give them vouchers or find them places to go for the weekend. So they 00:31:54
did put a lot of effort into this. 00:31:58
We haven't had our after action review so I I honestly don't even know everything that they were a part of. 00:32:02
But I know that they were. 00:32:08
Very involved. Another thing I just want to mention is that Mayville's. 00:32:10
EMS services really were they were very concerned about their oxygen. 00:32:15
Specific patients that were in the city, they knew they had a handful of them. 00:32:21
And. 00:32:24
The public health officer has the ability to request a report through the state of Wisconsin. 00:32:25
To get the names and addresses of those individuals. It is protected information, so it's it only gets. 00:32:32
Done through one person through the state of Wisconsin. 00:32:39
But Roman was able to request that and we did get that to Mayville EMS and they were able to go check on those patients and one of 00:32:43
them was brought to the shelter. 00:32:47
At some point so that they could continue their getting their. 00:32:51
Oxygen so. 00:32:55
Again, life saving efforts from them, very important. They had when I was in contact with Matt Bartle and Roman a lot on Thursday 00:32:57
night trying to make sure that everyone was taken care of but. 00:33:03
Yeah. Also we did sign a. 00:33:11
Declaration, emergency declaration as well of Mayville dead and I'm sure Juno did also. 00:33:16
At this time, we haven't brought it here for ratification. 00:33:23
We may need to do that if there's more information and the board needs to ratify that emergency declaration. 00:33:29
If if it can wait till next month, we will do it there. If it becomes time sensitive, we may have to call A. 00:33:35
Special board meeting to ratify the emergency declaration so. 00:33:44
Just a heads up. 00:33:49
Any other questions? 00:33:52
Cameron. 00:33:56
OK. So first, just just an additional comment. 00:34:02
And a thank you to. 00:34:05
Joe and to share Schmidt and to Amanda for your work and I'm. 00:34:07
I want you all to know how. 00:34:11
Proud I am to work for an organization with these three folks. 00:34:13
Involved. 00:34:16
I there's additional people I'm proud of, especially with this whole event. 00:34:17
And one of those is our director. 00:34:22
Of Clearview and I wondered. 00:34:25
Our focus for tonight was the presentation, kind of the macro level. 00:34:27
I don't want to put Ed on the spot, but I know he's had to answer. 00:34:31
Answer questions and he's had his. 00:34:33
Face on the news a couple times, but did you want to just maybe briefly from where you are? 00:34:35
If, Mr. Chair, if that's a. 00:34:40
All right, have that. Just give a brief overview of. 00:34:42
Clearview And the reason for that is I had, I had the opportunity first to be really impressed. 00:34:45
With the. 00:34:50
The emergency response. 00:34:52
From. 00:34:54
Our law enforcement, but as well Emergency Management. 00:34:55
And then after a couple hours with them and going around and observing. 00:34:58
Damage or checking on buildings here. 00:35:04
Had the chance. The last place I spent time on Thursday night was. 00:35:07
With Ed at Clearview. 00:35:12
And the work that was done to make sure that each and every resident. 00:35:13
Was safe. 00:35:18
And then that they beyond safe, making sure they had a good place to be. 00:35:19
For the rest of the night on Thursday. 00:35:25
Because they all have a variety have. 00:35:27
Very specific needs. 00:35:30
And they have. 00:35:32
Many, many of them, the ones that I saw were being very good sports about. 00:35:33
The upheaval to their life that was happening. 00:35:37
But also all of the care. 00:35:41
Employees that came in to respond. 00:35:44
In a couple cases. 00:35:47
Even after knowing there could or was damage to their own properties. 00:35:50
In that light, I should also add, though I'm sure you wouldn't want anybody to talk about it but our own. 00:35:55
Director of Physical Facilities. 00:36:00
Who after finding out about his own. 00:36:03
Family situation with. 00:36:06
Not homestead, but his family's farm, his wife Stanley's farm. 00:36:09
He still spent the time here. 00:36:12
Making sure all of our facilities were cared for and that generator generators had sufficient fuel. 00:36:15
So. 00:36:22
Very appreciative of that. I think that speaks to John's character. 00:36:24
More than other things, I would say we're glad he's part of our team. So with that, Mr. Chair, it's all right. I'd give time to 00:36:27
Ed. 00:36:30
First off, I'd like to thank all the first responders. It's just amazing the work they do. 00:36:35
You don't realize you need them till you need them and it. 00:36:39
It's just it's great to have them and. 00:36:42
Response was just. 00:36:44
You know, unbelievable. 00:36:46
We did some. 00:36:48
We did have considerable damage at Clearview. 00:36:50
I want to start with our group home and I want to point out the work of one of our employers, name is Maggie Stanford. 00:36:53
And if you're not familiar with Trail View group home we take care of developmentally disabled. 00:36:58
Females in that. 00:37:03
A particular group home. 00:37:04
And the time the tornado hit, we had one resident in particular who was resting in her room and. 00:37:06
Was wasn't willing to go in the basement. 00:37:12
And and Maggie literally carried her down to the basement. Justices tornado came through and ripped the roof off of the. 00:37:14
Of the house. 00:37:21
So, you know, Maggie, you know, maybe literally save lives in that instance and then in our. 00:37:22
Main facility be Gurky is our 2nd shift staff or nursing supervisor. 00:37:28
She's got, she's incredibly paranoid about storms and you know, we tease her about it, however. 00:37:33
She wants the tornado watch went into effect. She was watching that, you know, she had all the staff turn on the TV's, watch the 00:37:39
radar, listen to the weather radio and want to. 00:37:44
First tornado touched down. 00:37:49
In Columbus. 00:37:50
She had the staff pulling all the residents out. OK, we're going to a tornado warning before it was issued. She had all the 00:37:52
residents in the hallway, all the drapes pulled, all the doors closed. 00:37:56
And we had several windows that are. 00:38:00
Right close to 100 windows we lost, but many of them imploded into the rooms and rooms are just. 00:38:02
Thoroughly covered in broken glass. And had she not? 00:38:07
Acted to get all those residents out of there. You know, this would be a very different story I'm telling you today. 00:38:09
And then just the pride of having all the staff in the facility and the way they reacted to this whole event by the time I got 00:38:14
there. 00:38:18
At 6:30 I had to wait for the Tornadoes to clear my area. 00:38:21
And the staff is just really calm. The residents were all calm. They're all being very well cared for. We had about 15 rooms that 00:38:26
were no longer inhabitable that we had to find new places for the residents. 00:38:31
Get them locate relocated, get them settled in. 00:38:37
We had the group home residents we had to find places for in the building Cameron to come by at the time that we we. 00:38:40
We had to evacuate community group home because they'd lost power, brought them over. 00:38:46
But, you know, we were done. 00:38:50
By 10:30, so in four hours, I mean just the superhuman efforts of all the staff there. I mean, you should. I am incredibly proud 00:38:53
of the staff we have. You should be proud of the staff. You should be proud of the emergency services that Dodge County provides 00:38:57
to everyone. 00:39:01
We did lose our garage. 00:39:06
About 20 staff cars were destroyed in the tornado. 00:39:08
A lot of light poles went down, lots of trees. 00:39:12
Some of our rooftop units got lifted up and set to the side. 00:39:14
But ironically, the least damage was done to the four areas where remodeling that we're going to be talking about tonight. 00:39:18
But I. 00:39:25
Dawn and Cameron's office had the insurance and Kim was actually on site as well, taking pictures for the. 00:39:28
For the insurance. 00:39:34
Yeah. And then the insurance adjuster was out at about 11:00 on Friday. By 11:30, we had Paul Davis Systems there. 00:39:37
Working on the recovery at the at the facility, doing all the debris cleanup. 00:39:45
They got a temporary roof on. 00:39:50
Community on a trail view group home and then they had it tarped. 00:39:52
Right now, so it's a little more weather tight. 00:39:56
They have. 00:39:58
The entire house, the entire, they have temporary power to it and it's got dryers and heaters in there. 00:39:59
We got. 00:40:05
I was just kidding with him. They said they literally have because they're nationwide. They have warehouses full of these dryers 00:40:06
and. 00:40:09
Fans and everything, so they're able to deploy all this stuff out there and they're able to deploy Window. 00:40:12
You know, putting up the plywood over the windows and everything so. 00:40:19
It was just, it was just a tremendous response. I mean, the community should be incredibly proud of the response that the whole 00:40:23
community did. 00:40:26
The next day when we're outside. 00:40:30
Going around the grounds, I mean all, I mean everybody in the neighborhoods coming by asking is there anything we can do? 00:40:31
We had a lot of. 00:40:36
Organizations from. 00:40:38
Beaver Dam and from their surrounding areas calling me asking if there's anything they could do to assist us. 00:40:40
Matter, the regional field operations director for the state of Wisconsin. 00:40:46
The head of the survey team actually came out survey, you know, to take a look to see if there's anything she could do for us. And 00:40:49
she, I got a hug from a surveyor, which is first in my career. 00:40:54
So, so again, a really bad situation, but just a tremendous outcome and you know the. 00:40:58
When I got to the building. 00:41:05
Thursday night, just the feeling of pride I had and all the staff that just did the right thing. 00:41:07
All the time. And then today we did A and that was good enough to come by. We did an after action meeting. 00:41:11
You know, there's always things you can improve on. 00:41:16
But generally speaking, I mean, it went off without a hitch. And so just thank you to everybody and and. 00:41:18
Again, thank you to all our first responders. 00:41:24
It's just amazing work that they do. 00:41:26
You know you don't appreciate until you need them, so. 00:41:28
That's all I got. 00:41:32
Thank you. 00:41:36
One more shout out quick. 00:41:37
Your Juneau police chief. 00:41:42
Did an absolutely fantastic job. 00:41:45
He was here all day on Friday. 00:41:48
Friday was his birthday. 00:41:51
And I say this. 00:41:53
I say this without. 00:41:54
Humor. 00:41:56
It was probably one of the best birthdays that Dave Beale has ever had. 00:41:58
Because. 00:42:02
Dave Beale truly is that guy that is here for the community and loves doing things for his community. 00:42:03
And and so while he may he could have been out doing other things, I don't. 00:42:09
Really think there was anywhere he would have rather been on his birthday. 00:42:15
So thank you Dave for all your work too. 00:42:19
Next we have the confirmed reappointments by County Board chair and it's reappointing. There's a whole list here to the. 00:42:36
To the local emergency Planning Commission. 00:42:45
Entertain a motion to approve the reappointments. 00:42:49
Have a motion by Supervisor Krause and a soup second by Supervisor Steger. 00:42:54
Any questions? 00:42:59
If you agree with the appointments, please. 00:43:02
Say yes. 00:43:05
Yeah. If you do not, please say no. 00:43:07
Thank you. 00:43:13
Is confirmed. 00:43:13
Next one, we have confirmed the appointment. 00:43:16
By the county administrator of. 00:43:19
Kevin Nikolski to the IT director. 00:43:21
Cameron, you wanna? 00:43:25
You're good. 00:43:29
Should be on. 00:43:34
Let's try that one. 00:43:36
OK. 00:43:39
So yes, before you tonight is the decision. 00:43:40
Or opportunity or request to confirm an appointment. 00:43:43
So Kevin Nikilski, who's sitting in the back. 00:43:47
Umm, he was. 00:43:51
Asked if he should come tonight, he is ready and willing to come tonight. I said well, it depends, you know, on. 00:43:53
On the mood of everybody here, and I can't know that until you get here, so. 00:43:58
We went ahead and had him come. 00:44:03
But Kevin the Kill Ski has been with Dodge County now for over 12 years. 00:44:05
He has served in multiple multiple capacities. 00:44:09
As in the IT department as a lead and then? 00:44:12
In his current position prior to be appointed interim, so now he's interim director for. 00:44:17
Information Technology with Dodge County. 00:44:23
He is the top candidate. We did do a, we did solicit applications and did an initial screening and in that initial screening. 00:44:26
It was. It was clear that there was. 00:44:35
Not necessarily. 00:44:38
A batch of candidates we wanted to bring for further review. 00:44:40
And the known quantity is is Kevin and he's doing outstanding job so. 00:44:43
There's no information in your packet of materials. 00:44:49
Multiple reasons for that, not excluding our most recent events. 00:44:54
Thursday and Friday would have been when I prepared that and sent it out in an e-mail and that did not happen. 00:44:58
Anytime Friday, Thursday or the weekend. 00:45:03
But I can I can. 00:45:06
Share with you in addition that. 00:45:08
Oh, just that in the two months that he has served as interim. 00:45:13
He has proven his value in terms of communication. 00:45:17
And responsiveness. 00:45:20
To county employees and hopefully if you've had opportunities to interact with him. 00:45:21
You've seen that as well. 00:45:26
So we as our entire IT department. 00:45:28
As well as I think our department directors in general, our entire batch of department directors. 00:45:31
Very, very eager to have Kevin start filling this role. 00:45:37
I'm recommending him for appointment and have have made the decision to appoint him but seeking your confirmation at this time. 00:45:42
I have a motion by supervisor My Nell and a second by supervisor Gucci Burger to. 00:45:49
Confirm the appointment. 00:45:53
Any questions, comments? 00:45:56
If you agree with the to confirm the appointment, please say yes. 00:46:00
Yes, yes. 00:46:04
Any nose? 00:46:07
That is confirmed. Thank you. 00:46:10
Thank you. 00:46:12
Resolutions on file. 00:46:16
Resolution 2505. Commendation Accommodation Resolution for Robert Mindeman. 00:46:18
Do the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Whereas Robert Mindeman has contributed 28 years of dedicated 00:46:27
service to Dodge County. 00:46:31
And the citizens of Dodge County and whereas Dodge County and its citizens have benefited from the services he has provided. 00:46:36
And whereas. 00:46:44
Robert Mindeman has chosen to retire from his present position of Hwy. Maintenance Technician. 00:46:45
With the Dodge County Highway Department. 00:46:50
And now therefore be it resolved. 00:46:53
That we, the Dodge County Board of Supervisors, pause and its deliberations to recognize and commend Robert Mindeman. 00:46:55
For his 28 years of meritorious service. 00:47:03
Be it further resolved that on behalf of the citizens of Dodge County, this board does herewith extent to his appreciation for his 00:47:06
many accomplishments and successes over the 28 years of service. 00:47:13
And be it finally resolved, that a copy of this resolution be entered into the official records of the Dodge County Board of 00:47:20
Supervisors, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Robert Mindeman. 00:47:25
As a token of his appreciation on the part of this board. 00:47:32
All of which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, signed by three members of the Human Resources Committee. 00:47:36
Please rise for a standing vote of acceptance if you are able. 00:47:45
Thank you. 00:47:56
Resolution 25-06. 00:48:04
Resolution awarding bids and authorizing contracts for the Clearview Behavioral Health renovation project. 00:48:12
All of which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May, 2025. 00:48:23
Signed by four members of the Dodge County Building Committee. 00:48:29
And. 00:48:33
Seven members of the Human Services and Health Board. 00:48:35
Fiscal Note The Clearview renovation project was included in the 20242028 CIP and the 20252029 CIP with the funding source of 00:48:40
available Clearview fund balance. Clearview has adequate fund balance for this project. Finance Committee review date May 12, 00:48:47
2025. 00:48:54
Initialed by Finance Committee Vice Chair Jeff Kane. 00:49:02
I have a motion by Supervisor Klobuchar and a second by Supervisor Hedrick. 00:49:08
Any questions or comments on this resolution? 00:49:12
Any questions? 00:49:18
Seeing none, if you agree with the resolution, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 00:49:21
Supervisor Bunter. 00:49:33
Yes. 00:49:36
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 00:49:48
Resolution 25-07. 00:49:57
A resolution confirming and ratifying the authority of Council for Dodge County to add additional defendants to opioid litigation, 00:50:04
including. 00:50:09
In MDL 2804. 00:50:13
All of which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May, 2025, signed by six members of the Executive Committee. 00:50:18
I have a motion by supervisor Hedrick and a second by supervisor Bubbles. 00:50:30
Any questions? 00:50:34
This supervisor segment. 00:50:37
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just. 00:50:41
Some information. What basis did the defendants? 00:50:44
Used to question the necessary authority to add these defendants. Do you know? 00:50:47
As this litigation has been going on for nearly seven years now, the way it sounds. 00:50:54
In different ways. I was just kind of curious what came up now. 00:51:00
OK, super. 00:51:05
Corp Council. 00:51:06
The the claim by these defendants that were. 00:51:08
Proposed to be added is that. 00:51:13
The original litigation was really just authorized against manufacturers, distributors. 00:51:15
Later adding pharmacies to that. 00:51:22
So these defendants are claiming that. 00:51:24
The retainer agreement that was entered into by the counties. 00:51:28
And the other litigants did not authorize. 00:51:32
Having PBMS. 00:51:35
Which is. 00:51:37
The the Optum RX which is listed in the resolution. 00:51:39
Umm, to be added. So the claim is that the. 00:51:45
Retainer agreement wasn't specific enough. 00:51:48
But if you read the retainer agreement, it does also say any other additional defendants that. 00:51:51
Could be discovered based on the further investigation of the action. 00:51:57
So this resolution just really does clarify and ratify that the retainer agreement does authorize adding other defendants. 00:52:02
Provide the. 00:52:17
Authority to do so. I'm just trying to find that level. 00:52:19
If you understand, sure, initially Dodge County. 00:52:23
The Board of Supervisors. 00:52:27
Did adapt a resolution. 00:52:30
And that adoption of that resolution back in 2017? 00:52:32
Did. 00:52:36
Authorized entering into the retainer agreement with these law firms that are listed. 00:52:37
And it is that retainer agreement that I'm referring to that does say that. 00:52:42
Dodge County. 00:52:48
In entering into that retainer agreements, the retainer agreement does say that. 00:52:49
Through discovery in other investigation, other defendants might be added. 00:52:53
Does that answer your question? Yeah. Thank you very much. 00:52:58
OK. Any other questions? 00:53:04
If you agree with the recommendation of the Executive Committee to sign on, please vote yes. If you do not, vote no. 00:53:07
Supervisor Bunter. 00:53:18
Yes. 00:53:26
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 00:53:29
Resolution 2508. 00:53:37
Amend town zoning ordinance, Town of Beaver Dam. 00:53:41
Margie Camps property. 00:53:45
All of which is. 00:53:48
Respectfully submitted the 6th day of March, 2025. 00:53:49
Report by Dodge County Land Resources and Parks Committee. 00:53:55
They hereby report favorably on the petition of Margie Camps requesting amendment of the zoning ordinance. 00:53:59
Respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025. Signed by. 00:54:07
Four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 00:54:14
I have a motion by supervisor Cavazon Jen and a second by supervisor Bubbles. Any questions on this? 00:54:17
Any questions? 00:54:27
Hearing none if you agree with the. 00:54:31
Report Please vote yes if you do not vote no. 00:54:34
Supervisor Bunter. 00:54:44
Yes. 00:54:46
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 00:54:49
Resolution. 00:54:54
2509 amend town zoning ordinance, Town of Chester. 00:54:55
Ryan M Hop and Robert D Hop Property. 00:55:01
All of which is respectfully submitted and. 00:55:06
February 25th. 00:55:09
By supervisor Vanda's Andy. 00:55:11
Report from Land Resources and Parks Committee. 00:55:14
They hereby report favorably on the petition of Ryan M Hop and Robert D Hop. 00:55:17
Requesting amendment of the zoning ordinance. 00:55:23
Report which was respectfully submitted this 20th day of May, 2025, Signed by. 00:55:27
Four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 00:55:33
I have a motion by Supervisor Burnett and a second by Supervisor Miller. 00:55:36
Any questions or comments on this? 00:55:41
Any questions? 00:55:46
If you agree with the resolution, please vote yes. If you do not, vote no. 00:55:49
On the phone, Supervisor Bunter. 00:55:59
Yes. 00:56:02
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 00:56:04
Resolution 25-10. 00:56:09
A man Town zoning ordinance, Town of Hubbard. 00:56:14
Bid Properties LLC. 00:56:18
All of which is respectfully submitted this 27th day of February. 00:56:21
Supervisor Johnson. 00:56:26
Report from the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 00:56:28
They hereby report favorably on the petition of BIB Properties, LLC requesting an amendment of the zoning ordinance. 00:56:32
Respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, Signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 00:56:39
I have a motion by Supervisor Burnett, then a second by Supervisor Bischoff. 00:56:47
Any questions on this resolution? 00:56:52
Any questions? 00:56:57
If you agree with the resolution, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 00:56:59
Supervisor Bunter. 00:57:08
Yes. 00:57:10
All having voted, it passes 29 to 1. 00:57:12
Resolution. 00:57:17
2511 amend town zoning ordinance. Town of Chester Leroy and Michael Van de Slant property. 00:57:19
All of which was respectfully submitted 7th day of March. 00:57:28
Supervisor Vanda Zandy. 00:57:32
Report from Land Resources and Parks Committee. They report favorably on the petition of Leroy and Michael Vander Slant requesting 00:57:36
amendment of the zoning ordinance. 00:57:41
Which was respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, signed by three members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 00:57:46
I have a motion by Supervisor Vanderzandy and a second by Supervisor Klobuchar. 00:57:54
Any questions on this resolution? 00:57:59
Any questions? 00:58:04
If you agree with the. 00:58:06
Committee, please vote yes. If you do that, please vote no. 00:58:09
Supervisor. 00:58:19
Yes. 00:58:21
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 00:58:23
Report one. 00:58:27
Ordinance number 1168 amended Land Use Code. 00:58:29
Dean Rossi, junior agent for Declan Investment Group, LLC, Property. 00:58:34
Town of Asher Pin. 00:58:40
We, the Dodge County Land, Resources and Parks Committee, hereby report favorably on the petition of Dean Rossi, junior agent for 00:58:44
Declan Investment Group, LLC. 00:58:48
Requesting amendment of the land use code to rezone approximately 7.8 acres. 00:58:54
Of farmland from the our two family residential zoning to district to the C1 general commercial zoning district. 00:59:01
Respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, Signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 00:59:08
I have a motion by supervisor Sigmund and a second by supervisor Bubbles. 00:59:16
Any questions on this report? 00:59:21
Any questions? 00:59:26
Seeing none. If you agree, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 00:59:29
Supervisor Bunter. 00:59:41
Yes. 00:59:43
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 00:59:44
Report to Ordinance number 1169 Amend Land use code. 00:59:49
We, the Dodge County Land Resources and Parks Committee, hereby report favorably on the petition of Attorney Robert Rice, agent 00:59:57
for Marlon and Lorraine Mueller, Joint Living Trust, and order they be allowed to rezone approximately 25. 01:00:04
.3 acres of plant farmland. 01:00:12
From the A1 Prime Agriculture zoning district to the A2 General Agriculture zoning district. 01:00:15
All of which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks 01:00:21
Committee. 01:00:25
I have a motion by Supervisor Bischoff and a second by Supervisor Burnett. 01:00:30
Any questions or comments on this report? 01:00:35
Any questions? 01:00:40
Seeing none. If you agree, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:00:43
Supervisor Bunter. 01:00:52
Yes. 01:00:54
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 01:00:56
Report 3. Ordinance 1170 Amend land use code. 01:01:02
We, the Dodge County Land, Resources and Parks Committee, hereby report favorably. 01:01:08
On the petition of Kevin Rather, agent for Emmanuel Lutheran Congregation of Lebanon. 01:01:13
Requesting amendment of the Land Use Code, Dodge County to rezone approximately 5.8 acres of land from the R1 Single Family 01:01:19
Residential zoning District to the C1 General Commercial Zoning District. 01:01:27
Which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 01:01:34
I have a motion by Supervisor Bischoff and a second by Supervisor Burnett. 01:01:41
Any questions? 01:01:47
Comments on this? 01:01:49
Report. 01:01:52
Seeing none. If you agree, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:01:54
Supervisor Bunter. 01:02:02
Yes. 01:02:04
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 01:02:06
Report for Ordinance 1171 Amend land use code. 01:02:12
We, the Dodge County Land Resources and Parks Committee, hereby report favorably on the petition of Joe Wendorf, applicant for 01:02:19
Wendorf Enterprises to LLC, requesting amendment of the Land Use Code to rezone approximately 14 acres of land from. 01:02:28
And A to general agriculture zoning district to an R3 multi family residential zoning district. 01:02:37
All of which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, signed by 5 members of the Land Resources and Parks Committee. 01:02:45
I have a motion by Supervisor Bubbles and a second by Supervisor Burnett. 01:02:54
Questions. 01:02:59
On this report. 01:03:01
Any questions? 01:03:04
Seeing none. If you agree, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:03:06
Supervisor Bunter. 01:03:14
Yes. 01:03:17
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 01:03:18
Report 5. 01:03:24
Ordinance 1172 Amend land use code. 01:03:26
We, the Dodge County Land, Resources and Parks Committee, hereby report favorably on the petition of Lucas. 01:03:31
Lies lies well of general engineering company applicant for Walker Bros LLC. 01:03:39
Requesting amendment of the Land Use Code to rezone approximately 41 acres of land from an A to General Agriculture zoning 01:03:46
district. 01:03:51
To an I-1 light industrial zoning district. 01:03:55
All of which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, signed by 5 members of the Land Resources and Parks Committee. 01:04:01
I have a motion by supervisor Bubbles and a second by supervisor Yark. 01:04:10
Supervisor Guggenberger. 01:04:18
Does anybody have any comments on this as to what the intended purpose? Is this an industrial park? 01:04:22
Or is this just an expansion? 01:04:29
For. 01:04:32
A. A neighbor. 01:04:34
Of this parcel. 01:04:37
And I realize it's right on 151, so it's not like. 01:04:39
Housing. 01:04:43
Supervisor Sigmund. 01:04:45
Thank you. The applicant didn't say what his intentions were, obviously they just wanted to get to rezoned. 01:04:47
They have owned it for seven years. 01:04:55
Umm. 01:04:58
And this was sort of the next step in what they were planning. We looked over this very carefully. It was something that we 01:05:01
actually tabled and wanted more information from the town on. 01:05:06
And did receive it. 01:05:12
But it wasn't anything substantial. 01:05:14
What kind of was the kicker for me was. 01:05:17
They claim that their. 01:05:20
Comprehensive plan encourages maintenance of farmland. 01:05:22
But I. 01:05:26
I trailed down their personal town comp plan and I asked the individual who had it. What color is that parcel on your comp plan? 01:05:29
And it was purple 10 years ago. They already had planned that this would be moving towards some sort of industrial type of light 01:05:38
industrial type of stuff. So. 01:05:44
Umm, we're in agreement with the county, Dodge County's comp plan, land use code. We're in agreement with the town's own comp 01:05:50
plan. 01:05:54
And this is just something that had been planned for. 01:05:58
Years ago by the town itself and I just felt it was only right to. 01:06:02
Maintain that. 01:06:07
That's what comp plans are all about, and that's what we're about to make sure there's substantial reasons for. 01:06:09
Going through with this type of thing. 01:06:15
Thank you. 01:06:18
Supervisor clock off. 01:06:19
The only concern I have is I see that our farmland is disappearing, I mean just on our sheet tonight. 01:06:20
You know, umm. 01:06:26
I thought we had protections in the county for protecting farmland. 01:06:27
And I understand that. 01:06:32
That this was been in works for years but. 01:06:34
I'm just concerned I guess. I see all our farmland disappearing in. 01:06:38
Even though we are very rural. 01:06:43
Coney, I just. 01:06:45
A little bit at a time goes away and you don't get it back so. 01:06:46
I guess that's the only thing I wanted to see about it. 01:06:50
Supervisor. 01:06:54
I guess honestly super confusing to me. 01:06:58
When Umm. 01:07:01
Were saying. 01:07:02
That the criteria of section whatever of the land use code is met for this proposal. 01:07:04
And found that the proposal is consistent with the county comprehensive plan. How can you find it's consistent? 01:07:11
When you don't even know what they're building, we don't even know what. 01:07:18
Is. 01:07:21
Being done. 01:07:22
Like, I mean, light industrial covers a lot of stuff. 01:07:24
I'm just kind of surprised if you're talking about land use and conforming. 01:07:28
Right, it's conforming to the standards. 01:07:33
But how did you even apply those if you didn't know what the project was? 01:07:36
Other than just this general category. 01:07:40
So I I apologize but that's confusing to me. 01:07:43
Supervisor Steger. 01:07:49
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm kind of leery on this too. 01:07:51
With having solar farms going in our county. 01:07:54
And, you know, other things going in. 01:07:58
I kind of like to know too what. 01:08:01
What this company that's that's proposing this, what their background is, what kind of? 01:08:04
Manufacturing they. 01:08:10
Day back before I vote, you know. 01:08:12
To approve this. 01:08:15
Supervisor Sigmund. 01:08:18
Thank you all. Very good questions. Number one, it's not a company, it's it's a landowner. 01:08:20
Is doing this. 01:08:26
And this is being rezoned for a late industrial. There's I-1 and I2 and I2 is where anything goes. 01:08:28
I mean, you can do whatever you want industrial wise on it. You can have smoke, you can have mirrors, you can have whatever you 01:08:37
want. 01:08:40
But late industrial is very controlled. So no matter what might be coming on this, it's going to be very low level industrial 01:08:44
some. 01:08:48
Umm, minor manufacturing or? 01:08:53
Or anything like that that's going to be. 01:08:58
No smoke, no orders, no lights that are going to affect things. Umm. 01:09:00
It's a very low level light industrial. 01:09:05
Move. 01:09:10
And it's not some big corporation coming in to try to do anything. 01:09:11
That it isn't. 01:09:15
And I for one am also one for maintaining egg land and that everybody I'm sure knows when the solar. 01:09:16
Business was going on. 01:09:24
But we sat here at the board level 2 years ago maybe. 01:09:26
And said it's OK for Beaver Dam to just throw 350 acres of their farmland, prime farmland, into solar farms. And I couldn't 01:09:30
convince anybody that it wasn't OK. 01:09:35
And now we have 40 acres here that is already. 01:09:41
Aimed at industrial right on Hwy. 151. 01:09:46
Right across from where we just said it's OK for down to Beaver Dam to take 850 acres and turn it into industrial. 01:09:50
And now we're going to say that this 40 acres, we're going to try to save it. 01:09:59
It doesn't seem consistent to me, especially since the town of Trenton already has said we were looking to have this moved into 01:10:03
light industrial in the 1st place 10 years ago. 01:10:09
So that's why. 01:10:16
When I looked at all this. 01:10:18
I said, you know, to be consistent, to be fair and to be doing what's right here. 01:10:20
This really there is no problem. 01:10:27
I really don't believe so. The town of Trenton has the Township with the most acres of farmland. I think it's like 30,000 acres. 01:10:29
And so. 01:10:37
40 acres, according to their plan, was destined for light industrial and I think. 01:10:39
We don't have a substantial reason not to allow this to go through. 01:10:45
Thank you. 01:10:50
Supervisor Dur. 01:10:52
I appreciate that. 01:10:54
Explanation and I see that light industrials more for consumer. 01:10:55
Production rather than Heavy Industries. 01:11:00
I'm just. 01:11:03
I just hope that when the committee is looking at these that they have like just like five points of what your standards are, 01:11:07
because we can't just say we don't like solar and we do like consumers and we like, that's not applying the project to the 01:11:12
standards. 01:11:17
So everybody on that zoning board, I hope understands standards ABC and D and does this project meet the standard and what we 01:11:22
personally think. 01:11:27
Really shouldn't matter. 01:11:32
Right. It's just does it fit within the plan? 01:11:33
So I agree. 01:11:36
Mr. Supervisor Seaman has, you know, said this isn't super heavy industrial, it fits within their plan. 01:11:39
I'm fine with that. 01:11:45
Anyone else? 01:11:50
Anyone else if you agree with the? 01:11:54
Supervisor Belk. 01:11:56
All right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 01:11:59
With the modern building codes that we have nowadays for any kind of commercial. 01:12:02
Whether it's late industry or not. 01:12:07
You're going to have to have water. 01:12:09
And that comes with city services. So I think it's going to happen eventually if this is what is truly what they want to do is put 01:12:11
some kind of light manufacturing and they're gonna have to have city services. 01:12:16
To meet the Fire Protection codes of. 01:12:21
Today so. 01:12:24
I'm just a matter of time. I think this is going to be annexed in SO. 01:12:25
Thank you. 01:12:29
OK, if you agree. 01:12:32
With the report. 01:12:35
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:12:37
Supervisor Bunter. 01:12:49
Yes. 01:12:51
All having voted, it passes 25 to 4 with one abstention. 01:12:53
OK, on your desks tonight. 01:13:03
You have the second quarter newsletter of the ADRC Connections. 01:13:06
You also have a 2025 Dodge County. 01:13:13
Visitor guide as well. 01:13:17
Supervisor Johnson. 01:13:22
Like to make them. 01:13:24
Five at 6:00 PM. 01:13:29
I have a second by supervisor, my Nell. 01:13:31
All in favor signify by. 01:13:34
Aye. 01:13:38
Thank you. 01:13:39
June 17th. 01:13:42
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All right, Please remember to. 00:00:06
Pressure Attend. 00:00:09
Supervisors Molly Kauffeld and Conway are excused. 00:00:14
I'll just give you a little update on Supervisor Coffell. They spoke with him today and. 00:00:20
He was cleared. 00:00:25
Start to drive yesterday and so starting the 1st of June, he's planning on being back to committee meetings and, and back with us. 00:00:27
So that's really good news so. 00:00:32
I think Supervisor Benter is. 00:00:57
Is on virtually. 00:00:59
Yep, OK. 00:01:01
So you have to work. 00:01:03
Supervisor Gutenberger. 00:01:07
Thank you. 00:01:10
OK, hold on. 00:01:12
OK, now we're good. 00:01:16
All right. 00:01:18
What's your pleasure of the minutes from the April 15th meeting? 00:01:24
I have a motion by supervisor Yark and a second by Supervisor Miller. 00:01:32
Any questions or comments? 00:01:37
Corrections. 00:01:39
Hearing none, all in favor signify by aye. 00:01:41
Aye, opposed that is carried. 00:01:44
Communications on file. 00:01:47
I have no communications on file. 00:01:50
All right, public comment. 00:01:52
Just the one. 00:01:54
OK, umm. 00:01:55
Believed. 00:01:58
Mayor Supervisor Belk would like to speak as Mayor Belk, I believe. 00:02:01
All right. Thanks everybody. 00:02:12
Hey, I wanted to thank all you who reached out to me over this last week about the tornado in Mabel. I appreciate the kind words 00:02:15
and and. 00:02:19
And comments, I mean it's much appreciated. 00:02:24
I also want to thank all the. 00:02:26
Communities that are in the surrounding areas, they've all chipped in tremendously to help us out in our time of need is much 00:02:29
appreciated. 00:02:32
You wouldn't know how much. 00:02:36
Damage could actually be done by a. 00:02:38
Some small windstorm, but there was quite a bit, so thanks for that. 00:02:39
I also want to thank all the volunteers and businesses in the area for donating their time and food. 00:02:44
For the people that were helping out. 00:02:50
I also want to thank, you know, Dodge County. 00:02:52
Emergency services. 00:02:54
Including all the fire departments and EMS is in the area along with the Sheriff's Office. 00:02:56
And all the PD's in the area. 00:03:01
He did a tremendous job helping us out and keeping traffic away and. 00:03:02
Getting everything where it needs to be. So I thank everybody for that. 00:03:07
You know, there's an old saying it takes a village to raise a child, but you know, it really takes. 00:03:12
A whole county to help out communities in our time of need. So I want to thank everybody in all the communities. 00:03:17
For all that they've done for the city of Mabel. So thank you very much. 00:03:22
Thank you. Thank you, Ram. 00:03:25
All right #7 is special order of business and we have. 00:03:29
Emergency Management director Joe Maher and assistant Amanda Pulvermacher. 00:03:34
And I believe. 00:03:39
Sheriff Schmidt. 00:03:40
Should be on. 00:03:59
Now, OK, there we go. 00:04:02
So we were asked to put together a presentation just quickly on the events that happened. 00:04:04
On Thursday, so we're going to go over a little bit of a timeline. 00:04:10
For everyone to see. 00:04:14
So at 1749 we were first alerted by the National Weather Service that there was a radar confirmed tornado in Juneau. 00:04:17
So on the. 00:04:26
Side of the screen. 00:04:28
There's a little white circle that's circling the city of Juneau, so that is that radar indicated rotation. 00:04:31
And then at 7/15/15. 00:04:37
52. 00:04:39
They had seen another rotation north of Juneau, which would have been on each side of the airport. There were two rotations. 00:04:41
This is camera footage from the South Camera of Clearview. 00:04:51
Just so you can see how quickly. 00:04:56
The storm hit. 00:04:58
I don't know why it's replaying. 00:05:00
Here we go. 00:05:04
That would have been the tornado right there. 00:05:09
And gone. 00:05:18
During that time, the National Weather Service was also following that rotation South of Horicon. 00:05:24
And then at 1800, National Weather Service confirmed that there was more rotation. 00:05:31
Right outside of Mayville. 00:05:37
So there is one video here with the two vortexes. That is a video shown from someone's backyard in Mayville. 00:05:39
The other video is umm. 00:05:47
Just someone that reported the one from Juno. 00:05:51
Just to give you. 00:05:55
Visual. 00:05:57
At 8:15, we had been informed by National Weather Service that there was also possible rotation and tornado debris signature South 00:06:00
of Lomira. 00:06:04
And then as of today at about 2:30, the National Weather Service has officially confirmed 6 tornadoes with this weather event in 00:06:10
Dodge County. 00:06:14
So these are just going to be preliminary damage survey results from the National Weather Service. So it'll go over each one of 00:06:20
these tornado events, but this is the one. 00:06:25
Do you know that hit Clearview? It was an EF 2 with 120 mile per hour peak winds and it was on the ground for 11.76 miles. 00:06:31
This one is the this is the tornado that we do have the one injury for. It was just someone transported to. 00:06:40
The hospital if anyone has seen the very awesome news article with the body Cam footage from sheriff's. 00:06:47
Sheriff Schmidt, that was the individual that was transported. 00:06:55
Is the only injury also reported with this whole event so? 00:07:00
And then this is the preliminary damage for the 1 N Arjuna. This hit the airport. 00:07:04
And there were a few buildings. 00:07:09
Out there that were damaged, but it was an EF one with 95 mile per hour peak winds and a path of 4.26 miles. 00:07:11
The Mayville. 00:07:21
Tornado was also an EF 2 with 120 mile per hour peak winds. This one was 8.7 miles. 00:07:22
The Lamira tornado was a quick 1.55 miles and 95 mile per hour winds at an EF 1. I believe it damaged a. 00:07:31
Farm, which is how we got their report to have National Weather Service go out there. 00:07:41
Lowell was added yesterday late in the afternoon as an EF one with a 90 mile per hour winds and 6.71 miles of. 00:07:48
Travel. 00:07:57
This was a lot of rural wooded area that they got damage assessment from. There were some. 00:07:58
Damage to some roofs and farm structures. 00:08:05
And then this morning they added. 00:08:10
EF 100 mile per hour winds with a 2.11 miles. Again, this area is right off of the roundabout. It kind of goes up through a field. 00:08:13
There's some wooded areas that they were able to get some damage assessment from and then it did cross 41. 00:08:20
We did set up some sheltering locations during this event, so we initiated Dodgeland School to have. 00:08:29
A shelter for the Juno residents. 00:08:38
This was set up by our Health and Human services and public health workers. 00:08:40
And then they had some mental health workers alongside with our public health there. 00:08:46
And then while I was in route to Mayville, we had contact with American Red Cross, who set up. 00:08:50
A shelter at the Maybelle High School. 00:08:57
And then the Dodge County Mental Health also sent. 00:09:00
Some crisis workers over there for the night and then for the continued. 00:09:04
Sheltering that happened for Mayville along with Salvation Army. 00:09:08
The Dodgeland school was only open until about 11:00 on Thursday night because power was starting to get restored to some of the 00:09:13
areas. 00:09:17
So they did demobilize that shelter, but then they reopened it up Friday during the day for residents to come back to if needed. 00:09:22
And then it was demobilized after Friday, I think around 4:00. 00:09:28
Mayville was open all the way from Thursday night through Friday into Saturday, so they stayed open for a few days. 00:09:33
And then I will touch base quick that we did have Governor Evers visit Friday morning. Thank you. 00:09:44
Very much to both Mayville and Juno for helping me set that up in a very, very quick manner. 00:09:50
We got a very short time window to put together something, but he did roll through both cities and he did get to see the damage 00:09:57
first hand. He got to meet. 00:10:03
Some of our volunteers that were out and about cleaning up and then he got to meet Mayor Belk and Dave Beal and Sheriff so. 00:10:09
You see in the photos here he was talking to the Mayville school. 00:10:18
One of our crisis workers that was there from Health and Human Services. 00:10:23
And then pictured in the other photo is some representatives from Wisconsin Emergency Management who came with him. 00:10:27
So before I move on. 00:10:40
I am extremely proud of the work that Amanda Pulvermacher did. 00:10:43
While Joe was out on vacation and Joe likes to go on vacation, then we have fun stuff happen here. 00:10:48
But he was on the phone coordinating as well. But Amanda stepped up and did an absolutely amazing job. 00:10:53
Um, during and after for a couple days after. So just so you know, we have two outstanding. 00:11:02
Folks from Emergency Management standing next to me. 00:11:09
So the the response. 00:11:20
Was quick. 00:11:22
And in my opinion, very well coordinated by a lot of people. 00:11:24
We ended up with my standard operating procedure for me is anytime we get a tornado warning anywhere in the county. 00:11:29
I leave home. 00:11:36
My son loves that. 00:11:37
And and come to work and and so I was on my way over to Juno as this is is hitting Juno. 00:11:39
And in the middle of a very nasty. 00:11:46
Downpour of hail that just didn't want to quit. 00:11:49
So hail on top of all of this was a very, very powerful storm, not one that I had seen before. 00:11:52
I saw the Oakfield tornado from a distance, it was bigger but this one just seemed have a lot more dynamics to it. 00:11:58
So once I got here and I looked, turned down Main Street and saw what we had on Main Street, the disaster that we had on Main 00:12:05
Street, I immediately called for all available deputies to come into work whether there were on duty that day or not. 00:12:11
And and that turned out to be extremely helpful in the next couple hours. 00:12:17
And and so we we. 00:12:22
We had the damage here, we had the damage out at the airport. 00:12:25
One of the first things that asked our staff to do is clear the airport, because the last thing I needed was a plane to land on 00:12:28
top of some debris in the middle of all of this as well. 00:12:32
We set up two command posts. 00:12:36
We had our incident command, which you see up there is fully outfitted now with all the radio communication equipment that we 00:12:39
need. 00:12:42
We had Matt Bartle bring that out, put that over at Dodgeland School. 00:12:46
And that was. 00:12:49
Crucial. 00:12:50
In getting things coordinated as we were setting up a unified command here between. 00:12:51
Sheriff PD Fire. 00:12:56
And all other services. It was a location that we were able to have squad cars pull up to, fire trucks pull up to. I had my 00:12:58
lieutenants in there coordinating where we were going to be, sending squads around the county to shut off the city of Juneau to 00:13:04
assist Mayville and shutting off the off off access to their their affected areas. 00:13:11
And, and really by about 9:30 or 10:00, this all happened about 6630. 00:13:18
By about 9:30, ten o'clock. 00:13:24
We had this situation completely stabilized. 00:13:26
Umm, not cleaned up. 00:13:30
Don't get me wrong, but stabilize, we knew, we sent people door to door in Juneau to make sure that all those affected homes were 00:13:31
taken care of. I'm not sure what how they manage that in Mayville. That was a different, different scene. 00:13:37
But what I can say is, is Lieutenant Jeremy Johnson, who was really running command up there because. 00:13:43
The Chief. 00:13:50
Just had a medical procedure and it wasn't a lot of pain. He really couldn't be there to do what he needed to do. And Lieutenant 00:13:51
Johnson did a fantastic job from everybody that I've talked to in coordinating the events in the city of Mayville. 00:13:58
And and so we had two really well coordinated incident commands going on to make sure that the most affected areas were well taken 00:14:05
care of. 00:14:09
And and my staff assisted in both locations. Fire EMS responded very, very quickly. 00:14:13
And and we were able to get it under control very, very quickly. 00:14:20
Again, only the one injury here in Juneau. 00:14:25
We heard that there was one person that may have been minor very minor injury and may avail more after the fact. 00:14:27
But but incredible that that is all of the injury that we had in this incident. It was helpful that I was kind of kind of on the 00:14:33
outskirts of Juno. 00:14:37
I will tell you that one concern that I had as I'm driving this way, hearing that it's hitting Juneau. 00:14:42
Is. 00:14:47
My opinion, the most important room that in the county. 00:14:48
Dispatch, it's across the street. 00:14:51
And what if it was a direct hit there? 00:14:53
And they're on the 1st floor. That was a concern for me and, and something that that I've been concerned with for some time, 00:14:56
thankfully. 00:14:59
They were OK. 00:15:03
The jail was OK Number of county buildings were damaged. 00:15:04
As a result of all of this, were you covering that damage? 00:15:08
I can run through it quick. 00:15:11
I'll run through some of the damage for you so you have an idea of what it is. 00:15:13
Starting. 00:15:17
Excuse me in the jail. 00:15:19
We had flood damage, believe it or not, inside the jail. 00:15:21
It actually got into some of the pipes and then went down. 00:15:24
So we did have some watering running into the jail as a result of the massive downpours of water. 00:15:27
The maintenance did a fantastic job getting that under control, nothing long term. 00:15:32
The airport has a number of hangars that have been damaged. Those are not county owned hangers. They're owned by the owners of the 00:15:36
hangars, so that's their responsibility. But there was debris everywhere out out in the airport. 00:15:42
Highway did a great job of getting out there. After we cleared the runway, they got out there, cleared the rest of it and did a 00:15:48
great job out there. Clearview was damaged, had some damage to the to the window. Some of the structures trail view was struck 00:15:52
head on. 00:15:57
Umm we had damage at the highway shop the the covers for the salt sheds completely blown off. 00:16:02
My impound building the roof has been completely taken off. 00:16:09
And and. 00:16:13
I think that's for the most part the what we've got for major county building damage. 00:16:16
Most of that damage occurred on the Northside, the north northwest corner of Juneau. 00:16:23
And then across anything really north of North Street and north of S is what really the impacted area in Juneau? 00:16:29
The impacted areas in Mayville, really that Mac. 00:16:35
Gleason real area that's South Central portion of the city is really where that damage hit. 00:16:39
And and so I the one other thing item that we have identified. 00:16:45
That is a need. 00:16:50
That really is a good time to identify it because we're in the middle of a radio study. 00:16:52
Is that we did not have enough countrywide radio channels to go around. 00:16:57
Once we got into Juneau, once I identified we had two locations and all of the other calls are out in the county with with with a 00:17:01
lot of other damage. 00:17:05
I made the decision that our EM5 channel would be dedicated to the City of Juneau damage. 00:17:09
My sheriff channel would be dedicated to everything else around the county. 00:17:15
Turns out the fire department in Mayville had their frequency. 00:17:19
And their ground channels, but those aren't repeated channels, so they had a struggle that needed another channel. 00:17:23
To to operate on and we just didn't have another one. 00:17:29
So that is already something that I've talked to Joe Maher here about for that we discussed with this radio study to determine. 00:17:32
How many countrywide frequencies do we really need? Because had it been worse? 00:17:40
That would have been really bad. 00:17:44
That that we didn't have those additional abilities to communicate county wide. 00:17:46
And once you get fire, EMS, law enforcement, different law enforcement agencies. 00:17:50
And you bring in all of these other resources, you got to have a place for them to go to talk to each other. And we just don't 00:17:56
have that backbone to be able to support all of them in these big incidents like this. 00:18:01
So and I will thank you County Board for what you've got on the screen there. That command vehicle has been nothing short of 00:18:06
incredible. We were using it just about every week. Now that we have a piece of equipment that is that is that is usable. 00:18:13
And it was very, very. 00:18:20
Crucial in our response this last week. 00:18:23
And and certainly. 00:18:26
And now that we have the grant money, the $450,000 in grant. 00:18:28
Additions put into it. 00:18:32
It is a very, very. 00:18:34
A wonderful piece of equipment. So thank you for assisting in getting that complete. 00:18:37
And we did have two dispatchers in there. 00:18:42
Manning the 2 dispatch stations that are in there now. 00:18:44
So I believe that's all I have on the response. 00:18:47
All right. 00:18:54
Communication system. 00:18:55
So just to review. 00:18:57
We this is the backup runtime that we had on each one of our sites. 00:18:59
Per our monitoring system. 00:19:05
The site that took. 00:19:08
The most damage was actually the Mayville site. 00:19:10
You can see there that a trailer. 00:19:12
UMM actually fell alongside the generator, knocking it off from its mounting pedestal. 00:19:15
And that trailer actually jumped over the top of the LP tank that's there. 00:19:22
And the LP tank was was not touched. 00:19:27
And still continues to sit on its on its foundation. 00:19:30
I'll also have you just note the the stars there by dispatch because I'm going to talk a little bit further about that dispatch 00:19:36
and the criticalness of having. 00:19:40
Dispatch and maintenance updating that system. 00:19:44
A few years ago based on some lessons learned. 00:19:48
Because of the utility outages that were happening. 00:19:51
We would have potentially lost our dispatch center as a result of. 00:19:54
That that if you hadn't updated it. 00:19:59
So we had, when I say no harm, our radio system. 00:20:03
Maintained usefulness 100% of the time. The land mobile radio system did not let us down. 00:20:07
Um, with the widespread damage, as Dale explained, there weren't enough radio channels to go around, and we're going to address 00:20:14
that with our system consultant. 00:20:19
Land mobile radio system support provider. 00:20:25
Responded to review the the antennas on Friday morning. 00:20:27
Was not able to visually identify any issues. 00:20:31
They went over all of our alarms. They checked through our system. 00:20:35
And it continued to remain robust. 00:20:38
The City of Mayville Water Utility conducted a. 00:20:42
Conducted and shared with US water tower inspection. 00:20:45
And the contractor advised us that they saw no visual damage standing right next to the stuff at the top of the tower. 00:20:49
So that was a positive for us. 00:20:56
Multiple sites were automatically switched to the generator backup as you saw there was 57 plus hours. 00:20:59
That that backed up on our system to keep us up and going. 00:21:05
And. 00:21:08
Also with that, I didn't add it in here as I forgot I talked to Amanda about it, but we had intermittent cell phone provider. 00:21:12
Outages where we couldn't make phone calls, phone calls couldn't be, couldn't be heard. 00:21:20
I believe text messages were one of the better ways to respond and talk back and forth to one another. 00:21:26
But the loss of cell system. 00:21:32
Makes us even rely harder. 00:21:35
On or rely more. 00:21:37
On our county radio land mobile radio. 00:21:38
Successes of past work that further protected what I believe further protected our equipment. 00:21:42
Natural gas leaks and outages throughout the response. 00:21:47
It further solidifies the county's decision to utilize LP. 00:21:50
To support our sites. 00:21:55
If we're shutting off gas service again, we updated the one at dispatch as a result of lessons learned because we lost dispatch. 00:21:57
When we had a major gas line rupture outside the city here. 00:22:04
So that's kind of further solidified that. 00:22:09
And the after action review of minor wind events from 23 and 24. 00:22:12
Let us on to. 00:22:19
Requesting money from you in the amount of right around $30,000. 00:22:21
To put generators in at the Reeseville and Mayville water tower sites. 00:22:24
They were battery backed up. 00:22:30
I'm confident. 00:22:31
That the batteries would not have held up. 00:22:33
For the duration of time that was required. 00:22:36
So that was used. It was ARPA funding. 00:22:39
I couldn't have found a better spot for it. 00:22:42
The project was completed the end of last November and it was there and kept our system. 00:22:44
Assistance from recovery after the storm. 00:22:55
We've been getting a lot of questions about this. 00:22:57
Umm, the. 00:23:02
The number one thing that we will say to municipalities as well as homeowners. 00:23:04
And and anybody that sustained any damage is to contact. 00:23:10
Your let me see here. 00:23:14
Your insurance provider? Yep, most policies. 00:23:17
UMM in the state of Wisconsin covered damage related to wind events. 00:23:20
So you generally everything is covered. Yes, you have to deal with. 00:23:23
With. 00:23:28
I'm losing the. 00:23:30
That deductibles of your insurance. 00:23:32
But most everything should be covered. 00:23:35
Contact them and see what the the limits are and the specifics of what you can claim, how it can be cleaned up, et cetera. 00:23:37
The assistance to municipal government and utilities, we've been working quite a bit today on this. 00:23:47
It's additional assistance that might be available to municipalities for debris cleanup and emergency protective measures. 00:23:53
There is a fund called the Wisconsin Disaster Fund. 00:24:00
And it requires municipalities. 00:24:03
If they reach the $4.72 per capita. 00:24:05
Of their specific population. 00:24:11
They have the ability to apply for funding through Wisconsin Disaster Funds. 00:24:14
What you see here after that is the Dodge County threshold. So because of our our population, that is what the county would have 00:24:19
to meet for damage thresholds. 00:24:23
In order to ask for any funding through Wisconsin Disaster Fund. 00:24:28
If you're approved. 00:24:33
Through that and you meet those those fresh thresholds. 00:24:34
You're it's possible to receive 70% reimbursement for eligible expenses. 00:24:38
Now. 00:24:42
Lessons learned from past experience. 00:24:44
Is. 00:24:46
The governor. 00:24:48
Allows within the budget a certain amount of dollars depending on how many disasters we have throughout the state. 00:24:49
It dries up. 00:24:56
So then it's required to go back to the governor and ask for additional funding to refill that WDF. 00:24:57
So that is kind of a continuing. 00:25:04
Press that we have to the governor in increasing that amount so that municipalities can receive. 00:25:07
Some reimbursement for damages. 00:25:12
During disasters like these. 00:25:15
This breaks down the actual. 00:25:18
Expenses that can be recovered the category A is debris clearance, its removal of debris resulting from the disaster, so. 00:25:22
It's removing everything. 00:25:28
Off from the roadway, off from the utilities area. 00:25:30
If individuals bring debris to the road. 00:25:35
They have the ability to clear that debris out and get reimbursement for it. 00:25:39
The emergency protective measures that would be. 00:25:44
Costs involved, like for fire department response, law enforcement response. 00:25:47
Overtime costs for that type of stuff as well as equipment that's used and that's the same thing with category A. 00:25:51
We can request equipment. 00:25:59
Be reimbursed for usage, for instance, chainsaws, squad cars, highway trucks. 00:26:02
That type of thing. 00:26:08
That will assist us in the response and recovery to get things back to what safely to what they were before. 00:26:09
Category C Roads and bridges. I'm not aware of any category C. 00:26:17
That is going to be requested through this event, but it's certainly an option. 00:26:21
And covered under the 70% reimbursement through the disaster fund. 00:26:27
There's additional categories that are involved here too, all the way through Category FI believe it is. 00:26:31
And those can also fit into at least. 00:26:36
Meeting your threshold. 00:26:40
So if there's if there's something that they deem doesn't fit into one of these three categories, it may fit into one of the 00:26:41
others. 00:26:45
And that helps you reach your $4.72 percent, 472 I'm sorry, $4.72. 00:26:48
Cent per capita. 00:26:55
4. 00:26:57
So a lot of people might say, OK, is FEMA coming in? 00:27:01
Is there any FEMA assistance here? 00:27:06
It's not likely. 00:27:08
As we kind of, this is a really broad overview of FEMA public assistance and how the governor goes about. 00:27:10
Asking FEMA for assistance. 00:27:17
It would be a governors request to the President for a presidential declaration. 00:27:19
And. 00:27:24
In this case, which we've met before during some snowstorms and flooding events particularly. 00:27:25
But it's difficult to reach these because of insurance policies. 00:27:30
Again, check with your insurance company. 00:27:34
The county would have to reach a threshold of 421,949. 00:27:37
And the state must also reach a threshold of 11,000, or $11 million. 00:27:42
A little over one point, 11.1 million. 00:27:48
So that is not likely because that is this specific event. It's this specific storm moving through, so. 00:27:51
They do break it up and there's there's no way we reach that threshold. 00:27:59
If approved you would get 75% cost recovery. The state kicks in another 12.5 out of the WDF. 00:28:04
And then the local municipality would cover 12.5. 00:28:11
And then there's also FEMA individual assistance. We got it during flooding of 08. 00:28:15
That's uninsured damage assistance for cost recovery to private individuals and businesses for damages. 00:28:20
And after a request to the president, FEMA inspectors would come out and they'd have to find 582 homes. 00:28:26
With major or destroyed. 00:28:33
Umm, determination, and that's based on CFR 44 through FEMA if you're interested in looking at that. 00:28:37
And if approved. 00:28:42
It opens up housing assistance, federal assistance and other programs to individuals and businesses. 00:28:44
OK. So yeah, All in all. 00:28:52
Again, thank you Dale and Amanda for for. 00:28:55
Taking the brunt of. 00:28:57
Of everything and all the locals. 00:29:00
If you have any questions on any of this stuff, reach out to our office. 00:29:04
Amanda has been working a lot of lot of days so. 00:29:08
Hopefully can give her a little break here toward the end of the week. 00:29:11
And I really appreciate everyone's efforts. 00:29:14
Thank you. 00:29:17
Supervisor Hedrick. 00:29:19
You are also very much. 00:29:22
Yeah. 00:29:24
Without words or beyond words. 00:29:26
But and you did mention it briefly, but I wonder if you could also just mention a bit about the help of the Human Services and 00:29:28
health departments. My understanding they were. 00:29:33
Quite involved as well in the response. Yeah. And Amanda can talk about that 'cause I was a part of one of her slides. 00:29:39
Thank you. Yeah. So Human Services. 00:29:44
So initially how it happened is. 00:29:48
I was at home monitoring weather and. 00:29:51
When there was. 00:29:53
Tornado confirmed in Juneau we started response so Matt Bartle and I both. 00:29:55
Just kind of self deployed and he immediately called Roman Mullen from public health and asked them to. 00:30:00
Or asked him to at least start facilitating getting. 00:30:08
Human Services and public health employees to Dodge Lynn to open up a shelter. We already kind of have an agreement with Dodgeland 00:30:12
School that in the event of something like this that we could open up. We have really great working relationship with them so. 00:30:19
They got there right away to help open up the school. They were able to open that up and then they were open again, I think until. 00:30:26
About 11:00. Most people started going home at that point. 00:30:34
They did have. 00:30:38
Mental health workers at both sites. 00:30:40
Umm in Mayville and in Juneau, so because. 00:30:43
I knew that our county employees were opening up Juno's shelter. 00:30:47
I was able to make the determination to then move all of the Red Cross services to Mayville so that they also had a shelter 00:30:53
operation. 00:30:57
I'm not sure that we had enough people. We definitely didn't have enough Red Cross people to help sustain both. 00:31:01
But Red Cross did bring a whole nother disaster trailer to Juno, so that if we did have to set up long term sheltering here, we 00:31:08
had the additional cots. 00:31:13
But it was it was detrimental for me to be able to, to just know that Juno was taken care of so we could focus off. 00:31:19
Efforts at Mabel. 00:31:27
And then again, Mayville's shelter was open for multiple days just because of the power outage and some of the damage. There's was 00:31:28
a little bit more within the city. 00:31:34
And there were a lot of people with. 00:31:40
A lot more people with needs, I should say. 00:31:42
Umm, to my knowledge, I believe public health also helped 8. 00:31:45
Or 9 individuals get temporary housing for over the weekend. 00:31:49
So there were a few people that were displaced and they did give them vouchers or find them places to go for the weekend. So they 00:31:54
did put a lot of effort into this. 00:31:58
We haven't had our after action review so I I honestly don't even know everything that they were a part of. 00:32:02
But I know that they were. 00:32:08
Very involved. Another thing I just want to mention is that Mayville's. 00:32:10
EMS services really were they were very concerned about their oxygen. 00:32:15
Specific patients that were in the city, they knew they had a handful of them. 00:32:21
And. 00:32:24
The public health officer has the ability to request a report through the state of Wisconsin. 00:32:25
To get the names and addresses of those individuals. It is protected information, so it's it only gets. 00:32:32
Done through one person through the state of Wisconsin. 00:32:39
But Roman was able to request that and we did get that to Mayville EMS and they were able to go check on those patients and one of 00:32:43
them was brought to the shelter. 00:32:47
At some point so that they could continue their getting their. 00:32:51
Oxygen so. 00:32:55
Again, life saving efforts from them, very important. They had when I was in contact with Matt Bartle and Roman a lot on Thursday 00:32:57
night trying to make sure that everyone was taken care of but. 00:33:03
Yeah. Also we did sign a. 00:33:11
Declaration, emergency declaration as well of Mayville dead and I'm sure Juno did also. 00:33:16
At this time, we haven't brought it here for ratification. 00:33:23
We may need to do that if there's more information and the board needs to ratify that emergency declaration. 00:33:29
If if it can wait till next month, we will do it there. If it becomes time sensitive, we may have to call A. 00:33:35
Special board meeting to ratify the emergency declaration so. 00:33:44
Just a heads up. 00:33:49
Any other questions? 00:33:52
Cameron. 00:33:56
OK. So first, just just an additional comment. 00:34:02
And a thank you to. 00:34:05
Joe and to share Schmidt and to Amanda for your work and I'm. 00:34:07
I want you all to know how. 00:34:11
Proud I am to work for an organization with these three folks. 00:34:13
Involved. 00:34:16
I there's additional people I'm proud of, especially with this whole event. 00:34:17
And one of those is our director. 00:34:22
Of Clearview and I wondered. 00:34:25
Our focus for tonight was the presentation, kind of the macro level. 00:34:27
I don't want to put Ed on the spot, but I know he's had to answer. 00:34:31
Answer questions and he's had his. 00:34:33
Face on the news a couple times, but did you want to just maybe briefly from where you are? 00:34:35
If, Mr. Chair, if that's a. 00:34:40
All right, have that. Just give a brief overview of. 00:34:42
Clearview And the reason for that is I had, I had the opportunity first to be really impressed. 00:34:45
With the. 00:34:50
The emergency response. 00:34:52
From. 00:34:54
Our law enforcement, but as well Emergency Management. 00:34:55
And then after a couple hours with them and going around and observing. 00:34:58
Damage or checking on buildings here. 00:35:04
Had the chance. The last place I spent time on Thursday night was. 00:35:07
With Ed at Clearview. 00:35:12
And the work that was done to make sure that each and every resident. 00:35:13
Was safe. 00:35:18
And then that they beyond safe, making sure they had a good place to be. 00:35:19
For the rest of the night on Thursday. 00:35:25
Because they all have a variety have. 00:35:27
Very specific needs. 00:35:30
And they have. 00:35:32
Many, many of them, the ones that I saw were being very good sports about. 00:35:33
The upheaval to their life that was happening. 00:35:37
But also all of the care. 00:35:41
Employees that came in to respond. 00:35:44
In a couple cases. 00:35:47
Even after knowing there could or was damage to their own properties. 00:35:50
In that light, I should also add, though I'm sure you wouldn't want anybody to talk about it but our own. 00:35:55
Director of Physical Facilities. 00:36:00
Who after finding out about his own. 00:36:03
Family situation with. 00:36:06
Not homestead, but his family's farm, his wife Stanley's farm. 00:36:09
He still spent the time here. 00:36:12
Making sure all of our facilities were cared for and that generator generators had sufficient fuel. 00:36:15
So. 00:36:22
Very appreciative of that. I think that speaks to John's character. 00:36:24
More than other things, I would say we're glad he's part of our team. So with that, Mr. Chair, it's all right. I'd give time to 00:36:27
Ed. 00:36:30
First off, I'd like to thank all the first responders. It's just amazing the work they do. 00:36:35
You don't realize you need them till you need them and it. 00:36:39
It's just it's great to have them and. 00:36:42
Response was just. 00:36:44
You know, unbelievable. 00:36:46
We did some. 00:36:48
We did have considerable damage at Clearview. 00:36:50
I want to start with our group home and I want to point out the work of one of our employers, name is Maggie Stanford. 00:36:53
And if you're not familiar with Trail View group home we take care of developmentally disabled. 00:36:58
Females in that. 00:37:03
A particular group home. 00:37:04
And the time the tornado hit, we had one resident in particular who was resting in her room and. 00:37:06
Was wasn't willing to go in the basement. 00:37:12
And and Maggie literally carried her down to the basement. Justices tornado came through and ripped the roof off of the. 00:37:14
Of the house. 00:37:21
So, you know, Maggie, you know, maybe literally save lives in that instance and then in our. 00:37:22
Main facility be Gurky is our 2nd shift staff or nursing supervisor. 00:37:28
She's got, she's incredibly paranoid about storms and you know, we tease her about it, however. 00:37:33
She wants the tornado watch went into effect. She was watching that, you know, she had all the staff turn on the TV's, watch the 00:37:39
radar, listen to the weather radio and want to. 00:37:44
First tornado touched down. 00:37:49
In Columbus. 00:37:50
She had the staff pulling all the residents out. OK, we're going to a tornado warning before it was issued. She had all the 00:37:52
residents in the hallway, all the drapes pulled, all the doors closed. 00:37:56
And we had several windows that are. 00:38:00
Right close to 100 windows we lost, but many of them imploded into the rooms and rooms are just. 00:38:02
Thoroughly covered in broken glass. And had she not? 00:38:07
Acted to get all those residents out of there. You know, this would be a very different story I'm telling you today. 00:38:09
And then just the pride of having all the staff in the facility and the way they reacted to this whole event by the time I got 00:38:14
there. 00:38:18
At 6:30 I had to wait for the Tornadoes to clear my area. 00:38:21
And the staff is just really calm. The residents were all calm. They're all being very well cared for. We had about 15 rooms that 00:38:26
were no longer inhabitable that we had to find new places for the residents. 00:38:31
Get them locate relocated, get them settled in. 00:38:37
We had the group home residents we had to find places for in the building Cameron to come by at the time that we we. 00:38:40
We had to evacuate community group home because they'd lost power, brought them over. 00:38:46
But, you know, we were done. 00:38:50
By 10:30, so in four hours, I mean just the superhuman efforts of all the staff there. I mean, you should. I am incredibly proud 00:38:53
of the staff we have. You should be proud of the staff. You should be proud of the emergency services that Dodge County provides 00:38:57
to everyone. 00:39:01
We did lose our garage. 00:39:06
About 20 staff cars were destroyed in the tornado. 00:39:08
A lot of light poles went down, lots of trees. 00:39:12
Some of our rooftop units got lifted up and set to the side. 00:39:14
But ironically, the least damage was done to the four areas where remodeling that we're going to be talking about tonight. 00:39:18
But I. 00:39:25
Dawn and Cameron's office had the insurance and Kim was actually on site as well, taking pictures for the. 00:39:28
For the insurance. 00:39:34
Yeah. And then the insurance adjuster was out at about 11:00 on Friday. By 11:30, we had Paul Davis Systems there. 00:39:37
Working on the recovery at the at the facility, doing all the debris cleanup. 00:39:45
They got a temporary roof on. 00:39:50
Community on a trail view group home and then they had it tarped. 00:39:52
Right now, so it's a little more weather tight. 00:39:56
They have. 00:39:58
The entire house, the entire, they have temporary power to it and it's got dryers and heaters in there. 00:39:59
We got. 00:40:05
I was just kidding with him. They said they literally have because they're nationwide. They have warehouses full of these dryers 00:40:06
and. 00:40:09
Fans and everything, so they're able to deploy all this stuff out there and they're able to deploy Window. 00:40:12
You know, putting up the plywood over the windows and everything so. 00:40:19
It was just, it was just a tremendous response. I mean, the community should be incredibly proud of the response that the whole 00:40:23
community did. 00:40:26
The next day when we're outside. 00:40:30
Going around the grounds, I mean all, I mean everybody in the neighborhoods coming by asking is there anything we can do? 00:40:31
We had a lot of. 00:40:36
Organizations from. 00:40:38
Beaver Dam and from their surrounding areas calling me asking if there's anything they could do to assist us. 00:40:40
Matter, the regional field operations director for the state of Wisconsin. 00:40:46
The head of the survey team actually came out survey, you know, to take a look to see if there's anything she could do for us. And 00:40:49
she, I got a hug from a surveyor, which is first in my career. 00:40:54
So, so again, a really bad situation, but just a tremendous outcome and you know the. 00:40:58
When I got to the building. 00:41:05
Thursday night, just the feeling of pride I had and all the staff that just did the right thing. 00:41:07
All the time. And then today we did A and that was good enough to come by. We did an after action meeting. 00:41:11
You know, there's always things you can improve on. 00:41:16
But generally speaking, I mean, it went off without a hitch. And so just thank you to everybody and and. 00:41:18
Again, thank you to all our first responders. 00:41:24
It's just amazing work that they do. 00:41:26
You know you don't appreciate until you need them, so. 00:41:28
That's all I got. 00:41:32
Thank you. 00:41:36
One more shout out quick. 00:41:37
Your Juneau police chief. 00:41:42
Did an absolutely fantastic job. 00:41:45
He was here all day on Friday. 00:41:48
Friday was his birthday. 00:41:51
And I say this. 00:41:53
I say this without. 00:41:54
Humor. 00:41:56
It was probably one of the best birthdays that Dave Beale has ever had. 00:41:58
Because. 00:42:02
Dave Beale truly is that guy that is here for the community and loves doing things for his community. 00:42:03
And and so while he may he could have been out doing other things, I don't. 00:42:09
Really think there was anywhere he would have rather been on his birthday. 00:42:15
So thank you Dave for all your work too. 00:42:19
Next we have the confirmed reappointments by County Board chair and it's reappointing. There's a whole list here to the. 00:42:36
To the local emergency Planning Commission. 00:42:45
Entertain a motion to approve the reappointments. 00:42:49
Have a motion by Supervisor Krause and a soup second by Supervisor Steger. 00:42:54
Any questions? 00:42:59
If you agree with the appointments, please. 00:43:02
Say yes. 00:43:05
Yeah. If you do not, please say no. 00:43:07
Thank you. 00:43:13
Is confirmed. 00:43:13
Next one, we have confirmed the appointment. 00:43:16
By the county administrator of. 00:43:19
Kevin Nikolski to the IT director. 00:43:21
Cameron, you wanna? 00:43:25
You're good. 00:43:29
Should be on. 00:43:34
Let's try that one. 00:43:36
OK. 00:43:39
So yes, before you tonight is the decision. 00:43:40
Or opportunity or request to confirm an appointment. 00:43:43
So Kevin Nikilski, who's sitting in the back. 00:43:47
Umm, he was. 00:43:51
Asked if he should come tonight, he is ready and willing to come tonight. I said well, it depends, you know, on. 00:43:53
On the mood of everybody here, and I can't know that until you get here, so. 00:43:58
We went ahead and had him come. 00:44:03
But Kevin the Kill Ski has been with Dodge County now for over 12 years. 00:44:05
He has served in multiple multiple capacities. 00:44:09
As in the IT department as a lead and then? 00:44:12
In his current position prior to be appointed interim, so now he's interim director for. 00:44:17
Information Technology with Dodge County. 00:44:23
He is the top candidate. We did do a, we did solicit applications and did an initial screening and in that initial screening. 00:44:26
It was. It was clear that there was. 00:44:35
Not necessarily. 00:44:38
A batch of candidates we wanted to bring for further review. 00:44:40
And the known quantity is is Kevin and he's doing outstanding job so. 00:44:43
There's no information in your packet of materials. 00:44:49
Multiple reasons for that, not excluding our most recent events. 00:44:54
Thursday and Friday would have been when I prepared that and sent it out in an e-mail and that did not happen. 00:44:58
Anytime Friday, Thursday or the weekend. 00:45:03
But I can I can. 00:45:06
Share with you in addition that. 00:45:08
Oh, just that in the two months that he has served as interim. 00:45:13
He has proven his value in terms of communication. 00:45:17
And responsiveness. 00:45:20
To county employees and hopefully if you've had opportunities to interact with him. 00:45:21
You've seen that as well. 00:45:26
So we as our entire IT department. 00:45:28
As well as I think our department directors in general, our entire batch of department directors. 00:45:31
Very, very eager to have Kevin start filling this role. 00:45:37
I'm recommending him for appointment and have have made the decision to appoint him but seeking your confirmation at this time. 00:45:42
I have a motion by supervisor My Nell and a second by supervisor Gucci Burger to. 00:45:49
Confirm the appointment. 00:45:53
Any questions, comments? 00:45:56
If you agree with the to confirm the appointment, please say yes. 00:46:00
Yes, yes. 00:46:04
Any nose? 00:46:07
That is confirmed. Thank you. 00:46:10
Thank you. 00:46:12
Resolutions on file. 00:46:16
Resolution 2505. Commendation Accommodation Resolution for Robert Mindeman. 00:46:18
Do the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Whereas Robert Mindeman has contributed 28 years of dedicated 00:46:27
service to Dodge County. 00:46:31
And the citizens of Dodge County and whereas Dodge County and its citizens have benefited from the services he has provided. 00:46:36
And whereas. 00:46:44
Robert Mindeman has chosen to retire from his present position of Hwy. Maintenance Technician. 00:46:45
With the Dodge County Highway Department. 00:46:50
And now therefore be it resolved. 00:46:53
That we, the Dodge County Board of Supervisors, pause and its deliberations to recognize and commend Robert Mindeman. 00:46:55
For his 28 years of meritorious service. 00:47:03
Be it further resolved that on behalf of the citizens of Dodge County, this board does herewith extent to his appreciation for his 00:47:06
many accomplishments and successes over the 28 years of service. 00:47:13
And be it finally resolved, that a copy of this resolution be entered into the official records of the Dodge County Board of 00:47:20
Supervisors, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Robert Mindeman. 00:47:25
As a token of his appreciation on the part of this board. 00:47:32
All of which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, signed by three members of the Human Resources Committee. 00:47:36
Please rise for a standing vote of acceptance if you are able. 00:47:45
Thank you. 00:47:56
Resolution 25-06. 00:48:04
Resolution awarding bids and authorizing contracts for the Clearview Behavioral Health renovation project. 00:48:12
All of which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May, 2025. 00:48:23
Signed by four members of the Dodge County Building Committee. 00:48:29
And. 00:48:33
Seven members of the Human Services and Health Board. 00:48:35
Fiscal Note The Clearview renovation project was included in the 20242028 CIP and the 20252029 CIP with the funding source of 00:48:40
available Clearview fund balance. Clearview has adequate fund balance for this project. Finance Committee review date May 12, 00:48:47
2025. 00:48:54
Initialed by Finance Committee Vice Chair Jeff Kane. 00:49:02
I have a motion by Supervisor Klobuchar and a second by Supervisor Hedrick. 00:49:08
Any questions or comments on this resolution? 00:49:12
Any questions? 00:49:18
Seeing none, if you agree with the resolution, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 00:49:21
Supervisor Bunter. 00:49:33
Yes. 00:49:36
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 00:49:48
Resolution 25-07. 00:49:57
A resolution confirming and ratifying the authority of Council for Dodge County to add additional defendants to opioid litigation, 00:50:04
including. 00:50:09
In MDL 2804. 00:50:13
All of which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May, 2025, signed by six members of the Executive Committee. 00:50:18
I have a motion by supervisor Hedrick and a second by supervisor Bubbles. 00:50:30
Any questions? 00:50:34
This supervisor segment. 00:50:37
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just. 00:50:41
Some information. What basis did the defendants? 00:50:44
Used to question the necessary authority to add these defendants. Do you know? 00:50:47
As this litigation has been going on for nearly seven years now, the way it sounds. 00:50:54
In different ways. I was just kind of curious what came up now. 00:51:00
OK, super. 00:51:05
Corp Council. 00:51:06
The the claim by these defendants that were. 00:51:08
Proposed to be added is that. 00:51:13
The original litigation was really just authorized against manufacturers, distributors. 00:51:15
Later adding pharmacies to that. 00:51:22
So these defendants are claiming that. 00:51:24
The retainer agreement that was entered into by the counties. 00:51:28
And the other litigants did not authorize. 00:51:32
Having PBMS. 00:51:35
Which is. 00:51:37
The the Optum RX which is listed in the resolution. 00:51:39
Umm, to be added. So the claim is that the. 00:51:45
Retainer agreement wasn't specific enough. 00:51:48
But if you read the retainer agreement, it does also say any other additional defendants that. 00:51:51
Could be discovered based on the further investigation of the action. 00:51:57
So this resolution just really does clarify and ratify that the retainer agreement does authorize adding other defendants. 00:52:02
Provide the. 00:52:17
Authority to do so. I'm just trying to find that level. 00:52:19
If you understand, sure, initially Dodge County. 00:52:23
The Board of Supervisors. 00:52:27
Did adapt a resolution. 00:52:30
And that adoption of that resolution back in 2017? 00:52:32
Did. 00:52:36
Authorized entering into the retainer agreement with these law firms that are listed. 00:52:37
And it is that retainer agreement that I'm referring to that does say that. 00:52:42
Dodge County. 00:52:48
In entering into that retainer agreements, the retainer agreement does say that. 00:52:49
Through discovery in other investigation, other defendants might be added. 00:52:53
Does that answer your question? Yeah. Thank you very much. 00:52:58
OK. Any other questions? 00:53:04
If you agree with the recommendation of the Executive Committee to sign on, please vote yes. If you do not, vote no. 00:53:07
Supervisor Bunter. 00:53:18
Yes. 00:53:26
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 00:53:29
Resolution 2508. 00:53:37
Amend town zoning ordinance, Town of Beaver Dam. 00:53:41
Margie Camps property. 00:53:45
All of which is. 00:53:48
Respectfully submitted the 6th day of March, 2025. 00:53:49
Report by Dodge County Land Resources and Parks Committee. 00:53:55
They hereby report favorably on the petition of Margie Camps requesting amendment of the zoning ordinance. 00:53:59
Respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025. Signed by. 00:54:07
Four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 00:54:14
I have a motion by supervisor Cavazon Jen and a second by supervisor Bubbles. Any questions on this? 00:54:17
Any questions? 00:54:27
Hearing none if you agree with the. 00:54:31
Report Please vote yes if you do not vote no. 00:54:34
Supervisor Bunter. 00:54:44
Yes. 00:54:46
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 00:54:49
Resolution. 00:54:54
2509 amend town zoning ordinance, Town of Chester. 00:54:55
Ryan M Hop and Robert D Hop Property. 00:55:01
All of which is respectfully submitted and. 00:55:06
February 25th. 00:55:09
By supervisor Vanda's Andy. 00:55:11
Report from Land Resources and Parks Committee. 00:55:14
They hereby report favorably on the petition of Ryan M Hop and Robert D Hop. 00:55:17
Requesting amendment of the zoning ordinance. 00:55:23
Report which was respectfully submitted this 20th day of May, 2025, Signed by. 00:55:27
Four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 00:55:33
I have a motion by Supervisor Burnett and a second by Supervisor Miller. 00:55:36
Any questions or comments on this? 00:55:41
Any questions? 00:55:46
If you agree with the resolution, please vote yes. If you do not, vote no. 00:55:49
On the phone, Supervisor Bunter. 00:55:59
Yes. 00:56:02
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 00:56:04
Resolution 25-10. 00:56:09
A man Town zoning ordinance, Town of Hubbard. 00:56:14
Bid Properties LLC. 00:56:18
All of which is respectfully submitted this 27th day of February. 00:56:21
Supervisor Johnson. 00:56:26
Report from the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 00:56:28
They hereby report favorably on the petition of BIB Properties, LLC requesting an amendment of the zoning ordinance. 00:56:32
Respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, Signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 00:56:39
I have a motion by Supervisor Burnett, then a second by Supervisor Bischoff. 00:56:47
Any questions on this resolution? 00:56:52
Any questions? 00:56:57
If you agree with the resolution, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 00:56:59
Supervisor Bunter. 00:57:08
Yes. 00:57:10
All having voted, it passes 29 to 1. 00:57:12
Resolution. 00:57:17
2511 amend town zoning ordinance. Town of Chester Leroy and Michael Van de Slant property. 00:57:19
All of which was respectfully submitted 7th day of March. 00:57:28
Supervisor Vanda Zandy. 00:57:32
Report from Land Resources and Parks Committee. They report favorably on the petition of Leroy and Michael Vander Slant requesting 00:57:36
amendment of the zoning ordinance. 00:57:41
Which was respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, signed by three members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 00:57:46
I have a motion by Supervisor Vanderzandy and a second by Supervisor Klobuchar. 00:57:54
Any questions on this resolution? 00:57:59
Any questions? 00:58:04
If you agree with the. 00:58:06
Committee, please vote yes. If you do that, please vote no. 00:58:09
Supervisor. 00:58:19
Yes. 00:58:21
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 00:58:23
Report one. 00:58:27
Ordinance number 1168 amended Land Use Code. 00:58:29
Dean Rossi, junior agent for Declan Investment Group, LLC, Property. 00:58:34
Town of Asher Pin. 00:58:40
We, the Dodge County Land, Resources and Parks Committee, hereby report favorably on the petition of Dean Rossi, junior agent for 00:58:44
Declan Investment Group, LLC. 00:58:48
Requesting amendment of the land use code to rezone approximately 7.8 acres. 00:58:54
Of farmland from the our two family residential zoning to district to the C1 general commercial zoning district. 00:59:01
Respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, Signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 00:59:08
I have a motion by supervisor Sigmund and a second by supervisor Bubbles. 00:59:16
Any questions on this report? 00:59:21
Any questions? 00:59:26
Seeing none. If you agree, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 00:59:29
Supervisor Bunter. 00:59:41
Yes. 00:59:43
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 00:59:44
Report to Ordinance number 1169 Amend Land use code. 00:59:49
We, the Dodge County Land Resources and Parks Committee, hereby report favorably on the petition of Attorney Robert Rice, agent 00:59:57
for Marlon and Lorraine Mueller, Joint Living Trust, and order they be allowed to rezone approximately 25. 01:00:04
.3 acres of plant farmland. 01:00:12
From the A1 Prime Agriculture zoning district to the A2 General Agriculture zoning district. 01:00:15
All of which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks 01:00:21
Committee. 01:00:25
I have a motion by Supervisor Bischoff and a second by Supervisor Burnett. 01:00:30
Any questions or comments on this report? 01:00:35
Any questions? 01:00:40
Seeing none. If you agree, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:00:43
Supervisor Bunter. 01:00:52
Yes. 01:00:54
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 01:00:56
Report 3. Ordinance 1170 Amend land use code. 01:01:02
We, the Dodge County Land, Resources and Parks Committee, hereby report favorably. 01:01:08
On the petition of Kevin Rather, agent for Emmanuel Lutheran Congregation of Lebanon. 01:01:13
Requesting amendment of the Land Use Code, Dodge County to rezone approximately 5.8 acres of land from the R1 Single Family 01:01:19
Residential zoning District to the C1 General Commercial Zoning District. 01:01:27
Which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 01:01:34
I have a motion by Supervisor Bischoff and a second by Supervisor Burnett. 01:01:41
Any questions? 01:01:47
Comments on this? 01:01:49
Report. 01:01:52
Seeing none. If you agree, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:01:54
Supervisor Bunter. 01:02:02
Yes. 01:02:04
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 01:02:06
Report for Ordinance 1171 Amend land use code. 01:02:12
We, the Dodge County Land Resources and Parks Committee, hereby report favorably on the petition of Joe Wendorf, applicant for 01:02:19
Wendorf Enterprises to LLC, requesting amendment of the Land Use Code to rezone approximately 14 acres of land from. 01:02:28
And A to general agriculture zoning district to an R3 multi family residential zoning district. 01:02:37
All of which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, signed by 5 members of the Land Resources and Parks Committee. 01:02:45
I have a motion by Supervisor Bubbles and a second by Supervisor Burnett. 01:02:54
Questions. 01:02:59
On this report. 01:03:01
Any questions? 01:03:04
Seeing none. If you agree, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:03:06
Supervisor Bunter. 01:03:14
Yes. 01:03:17
All having voted, it passes 30 to 0. 01:03:18
Report 5. 01:03:24
Ordinance 1172 Amend land use code. 01:03:26
We, the Dodge County Land, Resources and Parks Committee, hereby report favorably on the petition of Lucas. 01:03:31
Lies lies well of general engineering company applicant for Walker Bros LLC. 01:03:39
Requesting amendment of the Land Use Code to rezone approximately 41 acres of land from an A to General Agriculture zoning 01:03:46
district. 01:03:51
To an I-1 light industrial zoning district. 01:03:55
All of which is respectfully submitted this 20th day of May 2025, signed by 5 members of the Land Resources and Parks Committee. 01:04:01
I have a motion by supervisor Bubbles and a second by supervisor Yark. 01:04:10
Supervisor Guggenberger. 01:04:18
Does anybody have any comments on this as to what the intended purpose? Is this an industrial park? 01:04:22
Or is this just an expansion? 01:04:29
For. 01:04:32
A. A neighbor. 01:04:34
Of this parcel. 01:04:37
And I realize it's right on 151, so it's not like. 01:04:39
Housing. 01:04:43
Supervisor Sigmund. 01:04:45
Thank you. The applicant didn't say what his intentions were, obviously they just wanted to get to rezoned. 01:04:47
They have owned it for seven years. 01:04:55
Umm. 01:04:58
And this was sort of the next step in what they were planning. We looked over this very carefully. It was something that we 01:05:01
actually tabled and wanted more information from the town on. 01:05:06
And did receive it. 01:05:12
But it wasn't anything substantial. 01:05:14
What kind of was the kicker for me was. 01:05:17
They claim that their. 01:05:20
Comprehensive plan encourages maintenance of farmland. 01:05:22
But I. 01:05:26
I trailed down their personal town comp plan and I asked the individual who had it. What color is that parcel on your comp plan? 01:05:29
And it was purple 10 years ago. They already had planned that this would be moving towards some sort of industrial type of light 01:05:38
industrial type of stuff. So. 01:05:44
Umm, we're in agreement with the county, Dodge County's comp plan, land use code. We're in agreement with the town's own comp 01:05:50
plan. 01:05:54
And this is just something that had been planned for. 01:05:58
Years ago by the town itself and I just felt it was only right to. 01:06:02
Maintain that. 01:06:07
That's what comp plans are all about, and that's what we're about to make sure there's substantial reasons for. 01:06:09
Going through with this type of thing. 01:06:15
Thank you. 01:06:18
Supervisor clock off. 01:06:19
The only concern I have is I see that our farmland is disappearing, I mean just on our sheet tonight. 01:06:20
You know, umm. 01:06:26
I thought we had protections in the county for protecting farmland. 01:06:27
And I understand that. 01:06:32
That this was been in works for years but. 01:06:34
I'm just concerned I guess. I see all our farmland disappearing in. 01:06:38
Even though we are very rural. 01:06:43
Coney, I just. 01:06:45
A little bit at a time goes away and you don't get it back so. 01:06:46
I guess that's the only thing I wanted to see about it. 01:06:50
Supervisor. 01:06:54
I guess honestly super confusing to me. 01:06:58
When Umm. 01:07:01
Were saying. 01:07:02
That the criteria of section whatever of the land use code is met for this proposal. 01:07:04
And found that the proposal is consistent with the county comprehensive plan. How can you find it's consistent? 01:07:11
When you don't even know what they're building, we don't even know what. 01:07:18
Is. 01:07:21
Being done. 01:07:22
Like, I mean, light industrial covers a lot of stuff. 01:07:24
I'm just kind of surprised if you're talking about land use and conforming. 01:07:28
Right, it's conforming to the standards. 01:07:33
But how did you even apply those if you didn't know what the project was? 01:07:36
Other than just this general category. 01:07:40
So I I apologize but that's confusing to me. 01:07:43
Supervisor Steger. 01:07:49
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm kind of leery on this too. 01:07:51
With having solar farms going in our county. 01:07:54
And, you know, other things going in. 01:07:58
I kind of like to know too what. 01:08:01
What this company that's that's proposing this, what their background is, what kind of? 01:08:04
Manufacturing they. 01:08:10
Day back before I vote, you know. 01:08:12
To approve this. 01:08:15
Supervisor Sigmund. 01:08:18
Thank you all. Very good questions. Number one, it's not a company, it's it's a landowner. 01:08:20
Is doing this. 01:08:26
And this is being rezoned for a late industrial. There's I-1 and I2 and I2 is where anything goes. 01:08:28
I mean, you can do whatever you want industrial wise on it. You can have smoke, you can have mirrors, you can have whatever you 01:08:37
want. 01:08:40
But late industrial is very controlled. So no matter what might be coming on this, it's going to be very low level industrial 01:08:44
some. 01:08:48
Umm, minor manufacturing or? 01:08:53
Or anything like that that's going to be. 01:08:58
No smoke, no orders, no lights that are going to affect things. Umm. 01:09:00
It's a very low level light industrial. 01:09:05
Move. 01:09:10
And it's not some big corporation coming in to try to do anything. 01:09:11
That it isn't. 01:09:15
And I for one am also one for maintaining egg land and that everybody I'm sure knows when the solar. 01:09:16
Business was going on. 01:09:24
But we sat here at the board level 2 years ago maybe. 01:09:26
And said it's OK for Beaver Dam to just throw 350 acres of their farmland, prime farmland, into solar farms. And I couldn't 01:09:30
convince anybody that it wasn't OK. 01:09:35
And now we have 40 acres here that is already. 01:09:41
Aimed at industrial right on Hwy. 151. 01:09:46
Right across from where we just said it's OK for down to Beaver Dam to take 850 acres and turn it into industrial. 01:09:50
And now we're going to say that this 40 acres, we're going to try to save it. 01:09:59
It doesn't seem consistent to me, especially since the town of Trenton already has said we were looking to have this moved into 01:10:03
light industrial in the 1st place 10 years ago. 01:10:09
So that's why. 01:10:16
When I looked at all this. 01:10:18
I said, you know, to be consistent, to be fair and to be doing what's right here. 01:10:20
This really there is no problem. 01:10:27
I really don't believe so. The town of Trenton has the Township with the most acres of farmland. I think it's like 30,000 acres. 01:10:29
And so. 01:10:37
40 acres, according to their plan, was destined for light industrial and I think. 01:10:39
We don't have a substantial reason not to allow this to go through. 01:10:45
Thank you. 01:10:50
Supervisor Dur. 01:10:52
I appreciate that. 01:10:54
Explanation and I see that light industrials more for consumer. 01:10:55
Production rather than Heavy Industries. 01:11:00
I'm just. 01:11:03
I just hope that when the committee is looking at these that they have like just like five points of what your standards are, 01:11:07
because we can't just say we don't like solar and we do like consumers and we like, that's not applying the project to the 01:11:12
standards. 01:11:17
So everybody on that zoning board, I hope understands standards ABC and D and does this project meet the standard and what we 01:11:22
personally think. 01:11:27
Really shouldn't matter. 01:11:32
Right. It's just does it fit within the plan? 01:11:33
So I agree. 01:11:36
Mr. Supervisor Seaman has, you know, said this isn't super heavy industrial, it fits within their plan. 01:11:39
I'm fine with that. 01:11:45
Anyone else? 01:11:50
Anyone else if you agree with the? 01:11:54
Supervisor Belk. 01:11:56
All right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 01:11:59
With the modern building codes that we have nowadays for any kind of commercial. 01:12:02
Whether it's late industry or not. 01:12:07
You're going to have to have water. 01:12:09
And that comes with city services. So I think it's going to happen eventually if this is what is truly what they want to do is put 01:12:11
some kind of light manufacturing and they're gonna have to have city services. 01:12:16
To meet the Fire Protection codes of. 01:12:21
Today so. 01:12:24
I'm just a matter of time. I think this is going to be annexed in SO. 01:12:25
Thank you. 01:12:29
OK, if you agree. 01:12:32
With the report. 01:12:35
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:12:37
Supervisor Bunter. 01:12:49
Yes. 01:12:51
All having voted, it passes 25 to 4 with one abstention. 01:12:53
OK, on your desks tonight. 01:13:03
You have the second quarter newsletter of the ADRC Connections. 01:13:06
You also have a 2025 Dodge County. 01:13:13
Visitor guide as well. 01:13:17
Supervisor Johnson. 01:13:22
Like to make them. 01:13:24
Five at 6:00 PM. 01:13:29
I have a second by supervisor, my Nell. 01:13:31
All in favor signify by. 01:13:34
Aye. 01:13:38
Thank you. 01:13:39
June 17th. 01:13:42