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Rosie Bauman. 00:00:04
In Danette, Reed will be right after if you can be ready. 00:00:06
In 2023 our farm was part of the ash. 00:00:23
Town of Ashburn proudly celebrating local family farms that have remained in the same family for over 100 years. 00:00:25
Our farm has actually been in our family since 1863. That's over 160 years of commitment, care and cultivation. 00:00:32
These farms are more than land. 00:00:39
They are the heart of our history, a testament to perseverance and a foundation for future generations. 00:00:41
They are not just agriculture. 00:00:47
But heritage, resilience and community roots. 00:00:48
Is our responsibility to protect? 00:00:51
These farm family farms from the growing pressures of development, consolidation and economic hardships. 00:00:53
It's our please help us ensure that our family farm remains viable for our children and our grandchildren. 00:01:00
Together we can make sure that the next generation not only remembers these farms, but can inherit them. 00:01:06
This golf course is. 00:01:12
Foregone conclusion You still have the power to do what is right for our family, our farmers and our heritage. Stand with our 00:01:13
farmers and vote against the rezoning of this land and against the development of this golf course. 00:01:19
Thank you. 00:01:24
Now we have Danette Reed. 00:01:31
Up next is Clayton Ruffno. 00:01:33
My name is Annette Reed. I live across from the proposed practice area. 00:01:37
We are here tonight to talk about. 00:01:42
The rezoning of 15 acres, it was owned A1 agriculture from the beginning and it should stay that way. Why can't we just follow the 00:01:45
zoning rules of Ashopen that was implemented? It's like we have no ethics or morals anymore. Anybody can do what they want that 00:01:50
fits them. 00:01:56
They have no consideration to no one but themselves. He bought that land knowing it was zoned A1. 00:02:01
Does that what? 00:02:07
Gives him the right to just come in and want to rezone things to whatever suits him. He doesn't. 00:02:08
Think he has to play by Asher? Penn rules. 00:02:14
Well, if you don't like our rules, he can leave. 00:02:18
It was a town meeting recently. A lady was complaining about the condos going up next door to her. She said I bought that property 00:02:20
for peace and quiet, not knowing the condors next door. 00:02:25
Then one of the board members from Ashburn said. 00:02:31
Maybe you should have. 00:02:34
Talk to your realtor or looked at the zoning before you bought it. 00:02:35
Why is this different for this lady compared to Brent Craig? 00:02:39
Golf Course. 00:02:42
Ashurban people care about our farmland. 00:02:45
Just look at how many Ashburn people are here. 00:02:48
Thank you. 00:02:50
Clayton. 00:02:54
Up next is Clayton Rupp now. 00:02:58
If Bob Gunther. 00:03:00
Can be ready next. 00:03:02
Hello, thank you all for being here. 00:03:04
Just a quick one. I'm here about the insurance proposal you guys want to look at and. 00:03:07
Amanda, do whatever with. I'm just here to say I disagree with it. 00:03:12
Because the percentages are not. 00:03:17
Factual. 00:03:19
It's 80 percentage of what? 00:03:21
The people that took the survey? 00:03:23
Not everybody in Dodge County that works for Dodge County. 00:03:25
Took the survey. 00:03:28
So the facts are not. 00:03:29
Correct. 00:03:31
Other than that. 00:03:33
I just want to get that out there. 00:03:34
Thank you all for listening. 00:03:36
Bob Gunther is up next. 00:03:44
And then after Bob, if we can have. 00:03:46
Mark. 00:03:49
Sherbal ready? 00:03:50
Thank you. As I said last month at the meeting, the town of Ashman is unique in Dodge County and how they do their zoning. 00:03:56
The zoning in the town of Ashburn is done by. 00:04:03
The soil type, so the best soils. 00:04:05
Our A1 soils, which is. 00:04:08
In this instance. 00:04:10
The parcel, that is. 00:04:11
Being changed from A1 to A2. 00:04:13
Mr. Craig has said at numerous meetings that the golf course will be built whether the zoning change is made or not. 00:04:15
But for the farmers? 00:04:22
This. 00:04:24
Zoning change is a need. We need the land to be able to and if we change this zoning. 00:04:24
What's the stop the next guy come in and say. 00:04:30
I want it changed. 00:04:33
One our need should supplant. 00:04:34
Want. 00:04:37
We need to defend our farmers and we need to defend the land. 00:04:38
And we've also. 00:04:42
Many times talked about farmland preservation and. 00:04:44
All the things that we should do to preserve farmland. 00:04:47
But when it comes to a vote, we seem to turn our back on those thoughts. 00:04:50
The zoning change should be based on facts. Now I'm sure that all of you have received. 00:04:55
A letter from a lawyer that's working with us and he stated the facts that are in your zoning. 00:05:00
Ordinances. 00:05:06
And referenced each fact and how. 00:05:08
It is. 00:05:11
Opposed to this zoning change. 00:05:11
And I'm hoping that you'll listen to them, you'll look at your zoning change. 00:05:14
This should not have anything to do with how you voted for before. 00:05:18
You know, I think it was mentioned at the last meeting that out of. 00:05:21
66 zoning changes You are 68. You change 66. 00:05:24
Well, out of those 68, only two were in the town of Ashland. That was a fact that. 00:05:29
Was not brought to your attention. So in town of Ashburn, we're trying to preserve farmland. 00:05:34
Being a multi generational farmer I want this to stay for my. 00:05:39
Family who farms and for all the generations to come. 00:05:42
And I hope you'll stand with the farmers of not only the town of Ash. 00:05:46
But for Dodge County? 00:05:49
And. 00:05:51
Deny this zoning change. 00:05:52
Thank you very much. 00:05:54
Next is. 00:05:59
Brad. 00:06:00
And if we can have Dale Redland ready. 00:06:02
Oh, Mark Scherbel. 00:06:09
And then Brad Kraut and Dale Redland. 00:06:12
You to be ready. 00:06:16
I'm here because I. 00:06:19
I bought land. 00:06:20
Just South. 00:06:21
Of the proposed. 00:06:22
Golf Course. 00:06:25
I got 39 acres down there. I strictly use it for honey. 00:06:26
It's wetland. 00:06:30
And. 00:06:31
Not mistaken, I looked that up. What a 1 is a preserve? 00:06:33
Wildlife or. 00:06:36
And everything else. And I would. 00:06:38
Totally go against this because I want. 00:06:39
To preserve that land just for wildlife. 00:06:42
And for the farmers sake. 00:06:44
Of that M. 00:06:46
That's all more unless I got. 00:06:47
Thank you. 00:06:49
Brad Kraut is up next. 00:06:52
Dale Redland. 00:06:54
Is after. 00:06:56
And Ron Blackledge, if you could be ready. 00:06:58
As a resident of landowner of Dodge County in the town of Ashpen, I request you to deny the zoning request for the 15.1 acres of a 00:07:03
one prime agricultural land. 00:07:08
To A to agricultural land. 00:07:13
Residents of rural Dodge County in the Town of Ashland have the right to maintain our rural lifestyle free from development and 00:07:16
conflicts. 00:07:19
That the area's agriculture that attacked the area's agriculture character. 00:07:22
We trust our elected officials to provide and protect these rural areas in our way of life. 00:07:26
As outlined in your code. 00:07:31
And your plans? 00:07:33
A1 Prime agricultural land needs to be protected. 00:07:35
Dodge County created protections in the Dodge County Land Use Code, the Dodge County Comprehensive Plan, and the Dodge County 00:07:38
Farmland Preservation Plan. 00:07:41
This requested zoning changes in violation, contrary to all of the aforementioned. 00:07:45
I'm not opposed to golf courses. I'm not opposed to development. 00:07:50
But I am object to these projects being put in. 00:07:53
Farmland and natural resource areas. 00:07:57
Golf course would damage both and doesn't fit the surrounding land. 00:07:59
This change in zoning should be. 00:08:04
Not be allowed because. 00:08:07
The change will not result in better use of the land. 00:08:09
Which is not allowed to be an A1 agricultural physic. 00:08:11
The rezoning is inconsistent with both the Dodge County Comprehensive Plan and the Dodge County Wisconsin Farmland Preservation 00:08:15
Plan. 00:08:18
The zoning will subsequently substantially impair or limit current or future agriculture use of land that is zoned for legally 00:08:22
restricted. 00:08:26
To agricultural use. 00:08:30
Overall. 00:08:33
Dodge County adopted plans related to agricultural land. 00:08:34
Which is zoning request is not compliant. 00:08:37
This zoning request is a clearly a violation of Dodge County Land Use Code. 00:08:47
The comprehensive plan and the county farmland. 00:08:52
Therefore. 00:08:58
It should be denied. 00:08:59
Thank you. 00:09:02
Deal. 00:09:04
I'm Dale Redland. I, along with my mother, operated dairy farm directly across the proposed golf course. 00:09:13
I'm asking you to all vote against rezoning it for. 00:09:19
Several reasons. One of the main reasons is if we. 00:09:23
Vote to change this. 00:09:26
What's you know, what's next in line? 00:09:28
Also. 00:09:31
If you're to change something. 00:09:33
Will make it for a worthy cause, like possibly a school hospital. 00:09:35
Some fire station, Something of. 00:09:39
More benefit to the general public as a whole. 00:09:42
I don't believe the golf course is really going to benefit. 00:09:45
The general population as a whole. So I suggest that you. 00:09:48
Vote against the rezoning. 00:09:52
Thank you. 00:09:54
Thank you. 00:09:55
Ron Blackledge is up, and then Cheryl Blackledge should be ready. 00:09:58
Good afternoon or evening, whichever it happens to be. 00:10:08
But we moved to Coolidge Rd. 18 years ago. 00:10:11
From Owosso, Oklahoma. 00:10:15
We picked our. 00:10:17
Home because it was out in the country. We're country folks, born and raised in Indiana on farms. 00:10:19
And we enjoy it. It's quiet. 00:10:24
It's very peaceful. 00:10:27
Very beautiful out there. 00:10:29
I have some questions though, that I hope you all have considered. I know you've seen a letter. 00:10:31
But has a DNR really studied the effects of the kettle forge? 00:10:35
On the watershed in the area, how about how will that affect the watershed? 00:10:40
Has the DNR and if not I would request they do so study the ability of the aquifer. 00:10:47
Provides our water. 00:10:53
Can it keep up? 00:10:55
With our houses and with the golf Kettle Forge golf range, OK. 00:10:56
That's a main concern. 00:11:02
Can they keep? Can it keep up? 00:11:04
Also. 00:11:06
With the DNR monitor that aquifer. 00:11:07
If Kettle Forge is approved, will they modify or will they monitor that aquifer? 00:11:10
To make sure. 00:11:17
That the water supply is there. 00:11:18
I would suggest they do at least every couple months. 00:11:20
And then what about taxes? Has there been anything said or any incentives given to Kettle Forge? 00:11:23
If so. 00:11:29
How much and why? 00:11:30
They don't need incentives. 00:11:32
And that's another issue. We have our town of Ashburn. 00:11:34
And these roads repaired, they need a. 00:11:37
A lot of things that require money. Will our tax base go up? 00:11:40
Just because of kettle forge? 00:11:44
Another thing that I found out was he wants to build cottages. 00:11:46
How many? 00:11:50
And how big? 00:11:51
What's the square footage of these going to be? 00:11:53
Will they qualify as a rental? 00:11:55
Or will they qualify as a residential? 00:11:57
Webster defines a cottage. 00:12:01
As a small house. 00:12:04
So. 00:12:05
If that's the case. 00:12:06
Will residential zoning? 00:12:09
Has it been mentioned? 00:12:11
Or will it be required? 00:12:12
That's something we need to find out. 00:12:14
Has one been requested? 00:12:16
So my request to you. 00:12:19
Is to keep it rule. 00:12:21
Thank you. 00:12:23
Cheryl Blackledge is next, and then Brian. 00:12:32
Sleevey should be ready. 00:12:36
My name is Cheryl Blackledge. 00:12:42
As my husband Ron said, we live. 00:12:44
On Coolidge Rd. 00:12:46
In the town of Ash Ashen. 00:12:48
We've been there 18 years. 00:12:50
I am speaking along with my husband in opposition. 00:12:53
To Kettle Forge Golf Course. 00:12:56
Mainly because of the loss of. 00:12:59
Farmland. 00:13:02
And beautiful timber. 00:13:03
Another main concern is. 00:13:06
Our roads. 00:13:08
Our little. 00:13:10
Country roads. 00:13:11
Are not. 00:13:12
Built or were not built. 00:13:13
For increased traffic. 00:13:15
And most of this traffic, since we live on Coolidge Rd. would go right by our house. 00:13:18
There also are not built for any construction equipment. 00:13:23
That would be needed. 00:13:28
To build this golf course. 00:13:29
Another main concern of mine is water usage. 00:13:32
We all. 00:13:37
Each property in this area have our own wells. 00:13:38
The United States Golf Association. 00:13:42
Estimates the average water consumption of an 18 hole golf course. 00:13:45
Is 200 million gallons of water a year? 00:13:50
How's this going to affect our wells? 00:13:54
We also don't care for wildlife to be disturbed. 00:13:58
There's numerous sandhill crane nests. 00:14:01
In property that borders this golf course. 00:14:04
And we regularly see all kinds of wildlife like Turkey, fox, pheasant. 00:14:07
Dear Also, Ron and I are avid stargazers. 00:14:12
We do not want anymore. 00:14:17
Light pollution in our area. 00:14:19
And no more noise pollution. 00:14:22
To me. 00:14:25
It's kind of a slap in the face. 00:14:26
To be told how gorgeous and beautiful and spectacular this golf course is going to be. 00:14:29
But I can't use it. 00:14:36
Because it's a. 00:14:38
Private golf course. 00:14:39
There's a lot of money involved if I want to be a member of this golf course. 00:14:41
Our neighbors are are people that work hard. 00:14:47
For their money. 00:14:50
You're you're up to your time limit. 00:14:52
Thank you. 00:14:54
Thank you. 00:14:55
Brian. 00:14:57
Is next and then Jody Kell should be ready. 00:15:00
All right. Thank you. 00:15:09
My name is Brian Schlevy, I live in the town of Ashburn on the corner of Washington and Coolidge Rd. 00:15:10
With the potential golf course going in my backyard. 00:15:17
I am concerned on many. 00:15:20
Things about this? 00:15:22
But not including, but not limited to water usage runoff. 00:15:23
Increased traffic. 00:15:27
The effect on our neighboring farms. 00:15:30
Kennels and pheasant farm. 00:15:33
However, tonight, we're not here to talk about that. 00:15:35
We're talking about. 00:15:38
The rezoning of. 00:15:39
15 acres. 00:15:40
I am opposed to. 00:15:43
The county granting approval of this conversion. 00:15:45
I believe it goes against our town and counties farmland. 00:15:49
Per preservation goals. 00:15:54
A lot of work has been put into those goals. 00:15:56
And. 00:15:59
I think it's important that we maintain those and keep our farms. 00:16:00
And farmland. 00:16:03
Prospering. 00:16:05
You know if if it does go through, it really opens the door. 00:16:07
For what's next? 00:16:10
A1 Anything in the county. 00:16:13
You know, I think you guys are talking about all. 00:16:15
A campground. 00:16:18
That you've denied. 00:16:20
There's so many things that can't. 00:16:21
Be presented. 00:16:23
To. 00:16:25
Prime beautiful egg land. 00:16:26
That we have really very little of. 00:16:28
Into. 00:16:31
Residential commercial property. 00:16:32
Yeah, as you've heard through the process over the past couple months. 00:16:36
You know, there's much opposition to it. 00:16:40
And you know, I would hope that and appreciate that you maintain the zoning as it is. 00:16:43
Thank you. 00:16:48
Thank you. 00:16:49
Jody Kell is next. 00:16:51
And Jessica M Key should be ready. 00:16:54
Hello, I am Jody Kale. 00:17:03
I own Cackle Creek game preserve. 00:17:05
Which is a business just. 00:17:07
My closest field is about 300 yards away from the golf course. 00:17:09
There's three things that I need. 00:17:14
To make to be successful in my business and 1 is good birds. 00:17:16
Good cover. 00:17:20
And good neighbors. It takes a community I have. I have wonderful neighbors. 00:17:21
And with a golf course. 00:17:25
I have no idea who's coming in. There could be hundreds of people that I don't know and what kind of people these are. It concerns 00:17:27
me. 00:17:30
And and then in the future, what about? 00:17:34
The future development it sounds like they're trying to fit. 00:17:37
10 lbs into a 5 LB bag. 00:17:40
So. 00:17:42
I think. 00:17:43
The the I I stand for. 00:17:44
You know, agriculture and and. 00:17:46
I thought Ashepin stood for, you know, preservation of agriculture and farm fields and, and keeping things rural. The more 00:17:48
neighbors we get in here, this is like green lighting. They let this happen. They, they, you know, twist the rules around to let 00:17:53
this happen. They're going to let anything fly. And before you know it, our farm fields are going to turn into more subdivisions 00:17:57
and. 00:18:02
The more the more people in the area is just going to mean a. 00:18:07
A main devastation to our farmers and and trying for for a game farm to it. 00:18:11
The more neighbors is not good. We need to things to stay wild and natural and. 00:18:17
Preserve that way. Thank you. 00:18:21
Jessica Emke. 00:18:27
Hi there. 00:18:36
I'm not here to talk about Ashpens Golf Course. I'm here to talk about my own resolution on tonight's docket. 00:18:37
My name is Jessica Emke, I'm the owner of the property, and I am here to express support for the rezoning petition. 00:18:44
And respectfully challenge the committee's conclusion that it conflicts with the Dodge County. 00:18:50
Comprehensive plan and farmland preservation plan. 00:18:55
On the August 25th meeting. 00:18:58
Per their transcript. 00:19:00
Dodge County. 00:19:01
Stated that the proposal is consistent with the Dodge County Comprehensive Plan and Farmland Preservation Plan. 00:19:03
But yeah, when it came time to the final vote they claimed it was not consistent with these. The future land use map allows for 00:19:09
limited non farm uses under A2 zoning, including transitional low impact developments. 00:19:14
Like the proposed glamping campground, I'm not proposing a high density or industrial project. It's a small scale eco friendly 00:19:20
initiative that complements the rural character of the area. 00:19:26
The A2 General Agricultural Zoning District was created for this kind of use. My vision includes somewhere between 5:00 and 10:00 00:19:31
structures. 00:19:35
And a shared bathroom and shower house. I want to plant more trees and flowers and make the lot more private from Rd. traffic. 00:19:39
The committee emphasized the soil quality. 00:19:46
But it's important to note that the proposed structures, yurts, tiny homes, glamping tents are temporary and removable. 00:19:49
The Land's agricultural potential is not permanently impaired, in fact it can be restored to farming if needed. The lot is not 00:19:56
currently being farmed, it's just grass and not being used for anything. 00:20:02
The staff review also found the proposal meets the requirements of section 2.3, Point 4, Point I of the Land Use Code and 00:20:08
Wisconsin Statutes 91.48 Ignoring this analysis undermines the integrity of the review process. 00:20:15
Finally, the committee failed to consider the economic and community benefits. This project would generate income, attract tourism 00:20:22
and support local businesses. 00:20:26
All of preserving the rural landscape. 00:20:30
In closing, I urge the committee to reconsider. This proposal reflects A balanced, forward thinking approach to land use, one that 00:20:32
respects farmland preservation while embracing sustainable rural development. Thank you. 00:20:38
Thank you. 00:20:45
Any others? 00:20:47
None others out there correct? 00:20:50
We were closed public comment. 00:20:54
Next, we have special orders of business. 00:20:58
Confirm appointments by the county administrator. 00:21:02
To appoint Patty Evans to serve on the Commission on Aging and Disability Services for a three-year term. 00:21:05
To expire July 1st, 2028. 00:21:13
Do we have a motion for approval? 00:21:17
Have a motion by Supervisor Belk. 00:21:26
Second by supervisor Beal. 00:21:28
All in favor, please signify by aye. 00:21:32
Aye, opposed. 00:21:35
That is carried. 00:21:36
Reappoint Mary Reek. 00:21:38
To the Housing Authority for a five year term to expire September 30th, 2030. 00:21:40
Do I have a motion to approve? 00:21:47
Motion. Motion by. 00:21:49
Supervisor my nail and a second by Supervisor Hedrick. 00:21:51
All in favor signify by aye. 00:21:55
Aye, opposed. 00:21:58
That is scary. 00:22:00
Next we'll have a. We're going to have a presentation. 00:22:04
By Kevin Masaryk, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. 00:22:08
With a final summary of the 2020 to 2025 well water testing study. 00:22:11
John, you're gonna. 00:22:17
Preface it. 00:22:19
I'm John Bahonic. I'm the Director of Land Water Conservation Department. 00:22:28
Dodge County between our department and UW Extension has been testing groundwater. 00:22:31
From private wells for. 00:22:36
20-30 years. 00:22:38
But it's usually been at a Township level. 00:22:40
And we rotated around. 00:22:43
And while we get some. 00:22:45
Some good data from that. 00:22:46
We felt it was more beneficial to go to a countrywide well testing program. 00:22:48
I've heard Kevin talk at some different conferences and we thought that was a good way to go, so we entered into a program with 00:22:54
him five years ago. 00:22:58
To where we would test. 00:23:02
The entire county. 00:23:03
I'll let him explain that a little more. We just completed the program here this last fall. 00:23:05
So now. 00:23:10
The committee has been in conversations with. 00:23:12
Where do we go from here? So I'll discuss that a little later, but. 00:23:15
Thanks, John. 00:23:22
Is it? 00:23:25
While we're waiting for. 00:23:31
The screen to pop up. I just want to thank. 00:23:33
Dodge County Land Conservation Department and the County board. 00:23:37
Who agreed to fund this work? You might not. 00:23:40
Realize you know when this program started, but it was five years ago. 00:23:43
When we started this so most of you are. 00:23:48
Some of you may not have been here at that time. 00:23:50
Those of you that were, thank you for supporting this program. 00:23:52
As a reminder, anybody that lives out in rural areas. 00:23:56
Private. Well, those are largely unregulated water supplies if you live in the city. 00:23:59
Somebody working to test that water, ensure it's safe to drink. So this program really was about helping Dodge County better 00:24:04
understand rural. 00:24:08
Private drinking water, specifically with the question of. 00:24:12
How is water quality? 00:24:15
Changing overtime, we have great baseline data due to the efforts of Dodge County previously. 00:24:17
But increasingly, we've been getting the question of is our? 00:24:22
Groundwater Is our well water quality getting better or worse? 00:24:25
And this project really set out to answer that question. Very few communities in the state. 00:24:28
Are doing this type of extensive routine testing. 00:24:34
If it's changing, what can we learn about it? Where and why? 00:24:38
I've. 00:24:42
Advertise this as kind of the Dow Jones Index for water quality and in Dodge County. 00:24:43
Which works best if the wells are representative of the diversity of geology, land use and soils? 00:24:49
And also if it tests the same wells every year. 00:24:55
So we recruited wells that had good. 00:24:59
Well, construction information. 00:25:02
We attempted to make sure that they were spatially distributed. 00:25:04
And all things being equal, we gave preference to people that participated in previous efforts. 00:25:07
Once we have those wells, we sent out recruitment materials and we had a great response rate. 00:25:12
About, I think 35 to 40% of the individuals we reached out to. 00:25:18
Indicated their willingness to submit a sample annually for that five year period. We did plan for some attrition. Homes transfer 00:25:22
hands. 00:25:27
People pass away. 00:25:32
There's a variety of reasons why. 00:25:33
That attrition occurs, but we were successful in testing our goal number of wells at the end of the project. 00:25:35
We mailed kits out. 00:25:42
To individuals. 00:25:44
They collected the sample. They mailed them back where they were analyzed at the state certified lab at UW Stevens Point. 00:25:45
And every individual was mailed a copy of their individual results annually. 00:25:52
And those results are also uploaded to a dashboard that maintains the privacy of the participants. So 907 land owners were sent 00:25:58
recruitment materials. 00:26:03
In that first year. 00:26:08
We tested 374 wells in Year 5. 00:26:10
We tested 281. 00:26:13
Wells. 00:26:15
What tests were performed? Nitrate and chloride give us an indication of how land use is impacting groundwater. There's other 00:26:18
things like hardness, alkalinity, pH that are more related to the soils or the geology. 00:26:23
But help us vet are these treated samples? 00:26:29
They give us some indication of the degree to which weather. 00:26:32
Or weather variability from year to year may be impacting somebody's well, but these were the the basic tests that we performed. 00:26:35
Nitrate being the most important. 00:26:42
Because there are health effects associated with that. 00:26:45
Infants less than six months of age are prone to met hemoglobinemia. 00:26:48
Women who are may become pregnant. 00:26:53
Are susceptible to birth, birth defects or miscarriages. 00:26:56
And then all populations. Long term exposure may impact thyroid function. 00:27:00
Or increase the risk of certain cancers. 00:27:05
Sources are fertilizers, animal waste or biosolids, septic systems. 00:27:08
Or lawn fertilizers that are spread. 00:27:12
On fields or lawns. 00:27:15
The safe drinking water level is 10 milligrams per liter. Anything below that we consider suitable for drinking for all 00:27:18
populations. 00:27:22
Less than one is kind of natural or background level, so any. 00:27:26
Concentrations. 00:27:30
Above 1 give us some evidence that the land use is impacting. 00:27:31
Water quality in that particular well. 00:27:35
These maps are all available through the dashboard, so I know they're a little bit difficult to see. The map on the upper left is 00:27:39
showing the individual. 00:27:44
Well, locations. The different colors represent the different concentrations blue. 00:27:48
Essentially, our background are natural. 00:27:53
The red. 00:27:55
Dots would be those that exceed the drinking water standard. 00:27:56
And then that lower map is just showing the average concentration by municipality, so the north. 00:28:00
Western. 00:28:07
Corner has higher, generally speaking. 00:28:08
Nitrate levels. The town of Lomaira is also an area. 00:28:11
With historically higher levels of nitrate. 00:28:15
By and large, Dodge County is is quite a bit better than what we see statewide with respect to this particular compound. 00:28:18
You'll see if we look at the average from year to year, it doesn't change. 00:28:25
Dramatically. 00:28:29
Neither does the percentage that are greater than 10. 00:28:31
Ranging between 4 and 7%. 00:28:34
If we compare that to the state of Wisconsin, about 9% of private wells statewide exceed that drinking water standard. So Dodge 00:28:37
County is slightly better. 00:28:42
Than the state as a whole with respect to this particular element. 00:28:47
But notice that it's not distributed equally across the county, so again, there are certain parts of the county. 00:28:51
That are more vulnerable or more prone to finding nitrate in the groundwater. 00:28:57
When we look at the combined data set, if we combine all the wells into kind of a big. 00:29:02
Pot and take those averages, it's really difficult to see. 00:29:07
Where groundwater quality might be changing groundwater quality. 00:29:12
Is actually quite a local resource, so oftentimes we need to be a little bit more. 00:29:16
Site specific in terms of analyzing that data for trends. 00:29:22
Hence looking at the same wells every year. 00:29:26
This is just information breaking it down by the individual towns. 00:29:29
And the average? 00:29:33
Concentrations. 00:29:35
But I mentioned it's great for understanding land use impacts. 00:29:38
So the other thing we did? 00:29:41
Is we utilize that data? Do we created a model? 00:29:43
Of nitrate susceptibility. 00:29:47
Where is Dodge County more prone to finding elevated nitrate? 00:29:49
In this essentially assigns a risk value. 00:29:53
To every parcel. 00:29:58
In Dodge County with respect to nitrate. 00:29:59
So the blue areas we'd expect relatively low potential. 00:30:02
Of finding nitrate. 00:30:05
The orange is slightly elevated, the red are the highest risk. 00:30:07
That was one product from this proposal. 00:30:11
Or from this work. 00:30:14
And you'll see that it lines up really well with historical data. 00:30:15
For nitrate and in the Wisconsin Well Water Viewer, which contains. 00:30:19
Thousands of samples. 00:30:24
That have been analyzed over the last. 00:30:26
20 to 30 years. 00:30:28
This is the map showing trends. So if we're looking at changes over time, the good news is that 93% of the wells. 00:30:31
Are not showing any change. 00:30:39
Of those that are. 00:30:41
Indicating changes there's about equal. 00:30:43
Numbers that are increasing as opposed to decreasing. 00:30:46
The blue dots are wells that are decreasing. The red symbols show increasing levels. 00:30:50
And the size of that symbol indicates the rate of change. So the larger the circle, the faster the the more significant that year 00:30:55
to year increase or decrease is indicating. So by and large, trends for nitrate do not appear to be extensive in the county. 00:31:04
Chloride is similar in that there's land use impacts. 00:31:14
Potash fertilizers is one source. 00:31:17
Subject system, drain fields and then Rd. salt activity is another major contributor. 00:31:20
There's no health effects associated with chloride, but. 00:31:26
Naturally, we would expect these concentrations to be fairly low. 00:31:29
If we look at chloride trends. 00:31:33
We'll see that. 00:31:35
85% are indicating no change. 00:31:37
There are in this case more increasing, so 12%. 00:31:40
Showing increases. 00:31:43
3% showing decreases. 00:31:45
It's not surprising that a lot of those increases are occurring near major urban areas or near major roadways. 00:31:47
Road salting is one of the major. 00:31:54
Factors for chloride. 00:31:57
And just the historical increase? 00:31:59
In use over the years and the the length of time it takes for things at the surface to reach somebody's well. 00:32:02
Is likely contributing to these changes or these trends. 00:32:09
This is a chloride risk map. 00:32:13
So the yellow. 00:32:15
Our medium risk. 00:32:16
The red. 00:32:17
Our higher risk. 00:32:18
And those higher risk areas do tend to occur around more urbanized areas, more impervious surfaces. 00:32:20
Again because of Rd. salt activities. So summary, the majority of wells are not showing trends with respect to land use, nitrate 00:32:26
and chloride. 00:32:31
Wells and portions of Dodge County are more likely to contain these elements. 00:32:36
Than others just based on the soils. 00:32:40
In the land use that occur in certain areas, even though wells may not have trends. 00:32:43
It does highlight the importance of routine testing of private wells. 00:32:49
Each, well, is unique. 00:32:53
And the only way to understand if a site specific well is changing with. 00:32:55
Respect to time is to do some sort of more methodical testing once every 20 years. 00:32:59
Will not give you the type of information that you're seeing here. 00:33:05
So what's next? I know Dodge County is discussing options for for how to proceed. 00:33:09
That was the data I presented. Was the technically the end of the project for that? 00:33:15
Significant number of wells. 00:33:21
The dashboard is available. 00:33:23
Online. 00:33:25
And we are working on a final report that will be available available soon. 00:33:26
To summarize those results. 00:33:31
Just want to again thank the board. 00:33:34
The different departments within Dodge County that have provided assistance. 00:33:36
I'll leave my contact information there if people have questions. 00:33:41
Any questions for Kevin while he's still here? 00:33:48
Yep. Can you press in? 00:33:50
I need you to. 00:33:56
Request to speak. 00:33:56
Did you? 00:33:58
I hear you. 00:34:00
Here we go. 00:34:02
Hey, the question I have is that this is all good. 00:34:03
But how can we decide to do any kind of testing for VOC's? I know we have a landfill. 00:34:06
In our county, that. 00:34:12
Wells are already contaminating VOC, so I guess how come we didn't? 00:34:14
Test for them. So from a countrywide perspective, VOC's are a fairly expensive test. 00:34:17
And. 00:34:24
We wouldn't expect to find them in most. 00:34:26
Portions of of Dodge County. 00:34:28
There's recommendations to test for VOC's if you live within close proximity of a landfill. 00:34:31
That radius is usually about 1/4 of a mile. 00:34:36
So just for cost reasons. 00:34:39
Testing for Vocs at this scale. 00:34:41
Would have spent a lot of money and I don't think we would have learned. 00:34:44
That much? 00:34:48
This was specifically looking at those compounds that were widespread and helping us paint that picture of. 00:34:50
Nitrate, which is the most widespread groundwater contaminant in the state. 00:34:57
Looking to do that at a more detailed level county wide. 00:35:01
There may be a need for things like VOC's and OP Foss are in the news a lot. 00:35:05
Those would require different strategies that might be more targeted or site specific. 00:35:10
In the interest of saving money. 00:35:15
Thank you. 00:35:18
Supervisor clock, OH. 00:35:20
Can you go back four or five? 00:35:22
There you go, right there. 00:35:25
Back one. 00:35:27
There you go, that big red dot you have right there. 00:35:28
That by chance, climbing. 00:35:31
I have no idea in terms of. 00:35:33
Being able to decipher whose? Well that is here. 00:35:37
We did try to maintain people's. 00:35:40
Privacy. 00:35:42
So the the level of detail on these maps is slightly vague. 00:35:44
But one of the goals would be to look at. 00:35:49
What's happening within? 00:35:53
You know, probably a half mile or a mile buffer. That could likely explain these increases or decreases when I looked. 00:35:55
A lot of the. 00:36:02
The trending chloride wells. 00:36:03
We're near roadways. 00:36:05
Or more urbanized areas. 00:36:07
So I don't know that site specific one. 00:36:09
But we could. 00:36:12
Look into that. 00:36:13
I was just curious because. 00:36:14
I drive past High Road which is just up over highway A&W. 00:36:16
And United Waste dumps out there constantly. 00:36:20
And I don't know if it's regulated. 00:36:23
Because. 00:36:26
When you go up there. 00:36:27
Twice a year. 00:36:28
They will have a hopper at the top of the hill. 00:36:30
And they pump with like a six inch hose that goes diagonally all the way down to the woods. It's on Hwy. S. 00:36:32
And they dump truck. 00:36:38
After truck, after truck. 00:36:39
Right, one right after the other. 00:36:42
And I don't know how they do that because when I took my fertilizer test and pesticide test, you could only put so much down per 00:36:43
square inch. I don't know how they're getting away with that so. 00:36:48
But they're contaminating groundwater. Somewhere they had the waters. 00:36:52
That their. 00:36:56
Pumping has to be going somewhere. 00:36:58
Any anything we do on the land surface as a potential to impact the resource below. 00:37:00
The more we apply chloride is a fairly conservative ion. Plants don't take it up. 00:37:05
It doesn't breakdown in the soil, so it's generally. 00:37:11
Speaking probably a more conservative tracer. 00:37:14
Or indicator. 00:37:17
Of land use impacts nitrate. 00:37:18
Can breakdown because of microbial activity? 00:37:21
But that's something we could look into in more detail. 00:37:24
Thank you. 00:37:27
Supervisor Hedrick. 00:37:29
Sorry, thank you, Mr. Chairman and thank you for presenting this and very interesting. My question would be I, I did want to ask 00:37:33
about PFAS you, you covered that but also. 00:37:37
What is going to happen now with with this information? 00:37:43
Are we going to follow up on this and? 00:37:46
And if so, how? 00:37:49
Thank you. 00:37:50
You know what my plan is for this is this winter? 00:37:53
Will be holding some. 00:37:56
Localized meetings. 00:37:58
Sharing the information. 00:38:00
So we talked amongst the committee and myself. What do we do next? 00:38:02
You know, we got this testing done. Do we continue testing? How do we test or what do we do? So Kevin gave us some some scenarios. 00:38:06
We can continue testing the entire county. 00:38:13
As we are now. 00:38:15
Which? 00:38:16
Looking at the samples. 00:38:17
I think it's a waste of time and waste of money because majority of the wells are fine. 00:38:19
There's nothing wrong. 00:38:23
So we. 00:38:25
He gave us two other presentations. You'll have a resolution coming to you next month with the one that the county the department 00:38:26
chose. 00:38:29
To where we're going to look at. 00:38:33
The towns of Fox Lake. 00:38:35
Trenton and Lamya because that's where the majority. 00:38:36
Of these wells are. 00:38:40
And then any well that tested 1 milligram per liter or higher throughout the rest of the county. 00:38:42
That's what's going to come to you next month. 00:38:48
So it's less than half of the number of wells that we are currently testing now. 00:38:50
But then my thought also is. 00:38:55
Is if I can get. 00:38:58
Because. 00:38:59
These samples are. 00:39:00
Private through the UW System. 00:39:03
I have an idea where they are, but I don't know who the actual owner is. 00:39:05
So I'm talking to Kevin about sending letters out to those individuals. 00:39:09
That they can contact us and then I can go out to their site. I can see where their well is, what the property layout is, what 00:39:13
the. 00:39:16
Practices are around there and then my staff and I can talk. Is there something that we can do? 00:39:19
In the area. 00:39:25
That can reduce this. 00:39:26
That can reduce the input towards it. 00:39:28
You know, nitrates are in the ground. It's not something if you eliminate the source, it's not going to clean up tomorrow. 00:39:30
It takes a while to clean up. 00:39:37
But if we can find out. 00:39:38
Where the potential source is coming from and. 00:39:40
Reduce that. 00:39:43
That's going a long way. 00:39:44
And that well that you were looking at here. 00:39:48
Looking at the map. 00:39:50
That's. 00:39:51
Town of Hershey. 00:39:52
Southern part of Usenford, not climate. 00:39:54
Supervisor Derrick. 00:39:57
I was going to say some of that, but I think John has. 00:40:00
Done the majority of it. 00:40:03
I do think. 00:40:05
It's not a waste of time to continue to do the whole county, it's just I think it's more efficient. 00:40:06
I think it's more efficient to just look at the problem areas, so we're trying to strike a balance. 00:40:16
Between. 00:40:21
Being. 00:40:23
Effective. 00:40:24
Reasonable cost and making sure. 00:40:25
That we. 00:40:28
Are still covering the areas. 00:40:29
That. 00:40:31
Clearly have problems over 10 milligrams of nitrogen. 00:40:32
Anyone else? 00:40:38
Thank you. 00:40:41
Thank you. 00:40:42
Next, we'll have a presentation on the new county website by Megan. 00:40:47
Are we up on the screen or do I need to pull up? 00:41:05
All right. 00:41:11
Do you want to do any interest? 00:41:12
Good evening. My name is Kevin Nikowski, the director of IT, and I have the. 00:41:15
Pleasure of introducing the next presentation. Some of you are aware that the county is enduring a new website migration project 00:41:20
and just for a little bit of background on that before we get started with the presentation. Our current website is approximately 00:41:25
6 years old since it was last redesigned. Some of you are familiar with that project at the time. 00:41:31
We back in September of 2024. 00:41:38
Is when the county went to RFP to look at new vendor options for our website. 00:41:42
Host. 00:41:47
And content management system and we have selected final site, which is a project that we've been working towards over the last 00:41:48
several months now. 00:41:52
And. 00:41:57
Without further ado, I want to introduce to you. 00:41:58
Megan Sheridan, who is our PR and communications coordinator at Dodge County. 00:42:01
Some of you have the privilege of knowing her and working with her closely. 00:42:06
We are very lucky to have her here, she has been. 00:42:09
Working very hard on this project and keeping us on time and on task with all of the complexities we have within our departments. 00:42:12
For the public facing. 00:42:19
Departments, that is for. 00:42:21
Our website and so I would like to introduce you to her so she can get started with. 00:42:23
Giving a little demo. 00:42:27
Thank you, Megan. 00:42:28
Hi, everyone. Thank you for having me. I'm just going to give you a little overview on timeline and kind of where we're at in this 00:42:31
process. 00:42:34
And then give you a little bit of a preview of the website so. 00:42:38
Like Kevin said. 00:42:41
Our current website has kind of gotten to a point where it's time for a little bit of a facelift. 00:42:42
So really when we approach this project, we wanted to find something that would offer. 00:42:48
Some modern professional design, simpler navigation, better functionality, something that's a little bit more constituent focused 00:42:53
so that when our citizens and our visitors come to our website. 00:42:58
They can find exactly what they need quickly and get in touch with us in a way that was beneficial to them. 00:43:03
Another big piece of this was having a website that was mobile friendly, so we are now at a point where we have more visitors 00:43:09
coming to our website. 00:43:13
On their smartphones than we do on the desktop. 00:43:18
And if you've been on our current website recently on your smartphone? 00:43:21
It doesn't look like our desktop version, in fact, it doesn't even have the county name at the top, so you don't even technically 00:43:25
know it's Dodge County unless you know the logo. So lots of pieces missing there in that mobile section. So in moving to a new 00:43:30
website and choosing to take on this project, we wanted to find a provider that was really mobile friendly so that when people go 00:43:35
to us on our phones, they can get what they need. 00:43:41
Easily. 00:43:46
Just a little overview on this project timeline. So we started almost a year ago when we opened up that RFP. 00:43:48
Received I want to say like 12 different options to choose from. 00:43:55
And we had a team that kind of had a nice cross section of the county, so it was a part of that group. 00:43:59
The clerk's office, LRP, So a little bit of everybody just to get that feedback of what was going to work well for them. 00:44:06
We finalized that contract in April. We started migration in May. We actually started staff training today. 00:44:13
And that will go on in the next two to three weeks and then we plan on launching in October. So tentative launch date is October 00:44:20
22nd, so a little over a month away. 00:44:25
A1 Important note. I know that as we go live into this new website, it's going to be a little confusing with how. 00:44:31
Our website communicates with Google. 00:44:38
Think of Google as like a. 00:44:41
A library card system. 00:44:43
All of our current website is in that library card system. 00:44:44
And when we flip the switch to our new website. 00:44:48
All of those cards are going to be outdated. 00:44:51
Right. So it's going to take a little bit of time for our website to tell Google, hey, we got new pages, we got a new layout, we 00:44:53
got a new site map. So that'll take a little bit of time. So when you see stuff pop up on Google, that's our county, and you click 00:44:58
on it, it says page not found. 00:45:03
Don't worry. 00:45:09
It's slowly figuring that out and we did build a really nice, we call it a 404 page, but when a page isn't found, we have a page 00:45:09
that comes up on the news site that says, hey, we have a new website. 00:45:15
Things have moved around. 00:45:21
Here is. 00:45:22
Exactly what you need to search to find what you need to get to. So we've kind of planned ahead for that. 00:45:23
So we're going to pull it up so. 00:45:30
This is the landing page to our new website. We will be maintaining our same URL. So we're still going to be that co.dodge.wi.gov 00:45:32
and we're still going to be dodge countysheriff.com but. 00:45:38
Everything's going to point to this new website in October. So a few of the newer, bigger changes here is we have this really nice 00:45:43
carousel. We have way more opportunities to communicate to our public than we did before. So for stuff that needs to live on our 00:45:49
website for maybe a month or two, we have a. 00:45:54
You know, information coming up on an event or our county budget, for instance, we can have that kind of front and center. 00:46:00
In a rotational basis for information that needs to stay and live on our website for just a little bit of time. 00:46:07
We Scroll down, we have that same icon bar that we're used to on the old website. So there is some familiar pieces here. And all 00:46:13
of that information is really based on website ranking. So the stuff that people visit on our website the most, that's what's 00:46:18
sitting here. That's what decided what kind of ended up on here. 00:46:24
Below that we have front and center our news and events. 00:46:30
For you folks here on the county board. 00:46:33
It's really nice. We have all of our events nice in front and center here and we can scroll through them so we can see what's 00:46:37
coming up in the next couple of days or the next week. 00:46:41
And when we click on anyone of these, it takes you right to the information, the time, and then a link to that sweet one link that 00:46:44
will bring you to the agenda in the live recording. 00:46:49
One of the other things I did specifically want to show this group is when we click on View full calendar. 00:46:54
And I will send out directions to all of you on this so you can utilize it if you want. 00:47:01
But. 00:47:05
We have a full calendar of all of our committees and meetings. We have this little button up here that will allow you to. 00:47:06
Take a live link of this calendar and add it to your personal calendar so you can have a little switch off and on on your personal 00:47:13
calendar for all of your committees and meetings. 00:47:18
If a meeting happens to change time. 00:47:23
Or. 00:47:26
Or gets canceled. That live link feeds that information to your calendar as well. So kind of a nice feature there specifically for 00:47:27
you guys, but also for the general public so that they can stay up to date on our upcoming events, committees and meetings. 00:47:33
So if we keep scrolling down, then we have a nice services section. So we have all of these little kind of pop-ups of. 00:47:41
Different pages that aren't sitting super high level on our site map, but our stuff that we know when people come to our website, 00:47:48
they're looking to get married. They're looking for one thing and one thing only. So let's put it on the front page for them so 00:47:53
it's easy to find. So we have some of those ranked here. We got one that we haven't published yet. 00:47:58
But that's going to sit in a nice little group there where you can mouse over. It'll give you a little information when you click 00:48:04
on it. 00:48:06
It will take you to that page. 00:48:10
Then down here we have a nice little infographic section and this is something that. 00:48:14
You know, we can put in whatever information we want, but when we want to showcase data. 00:48:19
Or facts about the county that we're really proud of. We can put them in here. 00:48:23
And they do rotate so we can actually click through. 00:48:27
And then we have our footer at the bottom. 00:48:31
So that's what a landing page looks like for the new website. 00:48:33
And then you can see we have our drop downs like you would with a normal website navigation. So you can see all of our. 00:48:36
Regular government departments that you're come to expect are sitting there. We have a section for businesses where. 00:48:42
We have our community development. 00:48:48
We have a nice little clean link to doing business with us for our RFP's and that sort of information, a link for visitors and 00:48:51
stuff for residents. We also have some quick links here. 00:48:56
One of the newer features, and it's a little shoved up here. 00:49:01
Is a translation tool that. 00:49:05
Let's zoom in a little bit. 00:49:07
All of our website. 00:49:11
Is now translation capable so regardless of what language you need our website to be in, there's a nice little drop down and you 00:49:12
can change it to I think about 175 different languages. So that is something that is new to our website predominantly most of our 00:49:18
visitors if they're coming in with a dual language or a different language, it's usually Spanish, but. 00:49:24
They're all there if anybody needs them. So some of our larger departments are also going to have landing pages that look like 00:49:30
this. So it's a little bit more formal and more organized. 00:49:34
Sheriff, if you don't mind, I'm going to click into the Dodge County Sheriff's Office. 00:49:39
We click here. 00:49:44
And let me. 00:49:46
This little resize, there we go. 00:49:47
So you can see here that that sheriff's landing page also has that very similar style, but it has all of their information in 00:49:51
those nice drop downs. So now when somebody comes to our website and they need to get something from the Sheriff's Office, they 00:49:56
don't have to click and click and click, they just go, OK. 00:50:01
There's the Sheriff's Office and then all of that information is right there in those drop downs for them to Scroll down to, so 00:50:06
you can see a lot of that. 00:50:09
Similar design. 00:50:12
All of those services. 00:50:14
The number piece and the footer. 00:50:16
And then if we go to and I want to just show you quick what a regular sub pages and then if you guys have any questions, feel free 00:50:19
to ask. 00:50:23
So we're going to head over to. 00:50:27
The county clerk. 00:50:29
So our regular subpages for our. 00:50:33
You know, slightly smaller departments will have a nice clean page that's easy to scroll. 00:50:35
And easy to find information so. 00:50:41
And now what size is appropriately? There's that translate button that drops down. 00:50:46
So does anybody have any questions? 00:50:49
Supervisor Bishop. 00:50:54
Sorry. 00:50:57
Supervisor Cafe's engine. 00:50:59
You said this. 00:51:01
Website is optimized for Google. 00:51:03
But we know a lot of people now are using AI and Gemini or something else. 00:51:06
Have you looked at doing that and will we in be back here in a year or two and. 00:51:12
Need to redo this website to optimize it. 00:51:17
Sure. 00:51:20
I would say generally no SO. 00:51:21
As as we. 00:51:25
As we connect Google with us as we you know when we've switched over to that new website and ask Google to re index it. 00:51:26
We're not just using Google for that, right? So there's lots of different search engines that people utilize to access our 00:51:32
information. So when we make that switch, we'll tell them, hey, there's that information. As it stands, there is not any AI 00:51:39
incorporated into our website at this point. We don't have any plans for that. We have a lot of folks that. 00:51:45
Manage our website and they're very hands on in terms of making sure information is accurate, updated and easy to explain. 00:51:52
So at that point, I don't think we'll need to utilize AI in that way, but of course it is. It is a valuable tool that a lot of 00:51:58
people are using. 00:52:02
Supervisor Burnett. 00:52:08
Thank you. Is this going to be screen readable? 00:52:10
For the blind, yeah, actually, that's one of the great features about the new website is that we are so. 00:52:13
All counties. 00:52:20
Depending on their size have a requirement for ADA compliance. There's like a formal deadline for us because of our size. It's 00:52:21
April 2026. So I think in 2024 the federal government set. 00:52:27
Forth some guidelines that all municipalities, county, school districts have to adhere to because of our size. April 2026 is that 00:52:33
kind of deadline. But as we went through training today, we had that conversation with all of our our back end web editors about 00:52:39
that ad a compliance piece. So the website itself is screen readable by a screen reader. 00:52:45
All of the documents that go on to our website, we're working to ensure that those are also readable by a screen reader, because 00:52:52
not all PDF's are. 00:52:55
Right. 00:52:59
So if you're scanning in a PDF and you scan it in as an image, it's not readable by a screen reader, right? 00:53:00
But there are tools, even if somebody scans something and sends it to us and it's not our thing, we can still make it screen 00:53:06
readable. So we had that conversation with our first group of trainers today about how to ensure not just the website, but all the 00:53:12
stuff that goes on to our website either has alt text, right? All of our images need to have alt text now. 00:53:17
And that all of our documents are going to be readable by a screen reader. So thank you for bringing that up. 00:53:23
Anyone else? 00:53:30
OK, Supervisor Hedrick. 00:53:34
Thank you. I just want to thank you. 00:53:37
For all the work you've put into this, you've clearly. 00:53:39
Really. 00:53:41
Thought thought through this and really are making this very user friendly and. 00:53:42
Really appreciate it. Thank you. 00:53:47
And I did appreciate your suggestions at executives, so we. 00:53:48
Kevin and I worked through that a little bit of like, what's the right language to choose for some of the stuff that we used to be 00:53:52
inclusive and and make sure that people understand. 00:53:56
Whose services are for who and who can have access to XY and Z things. So I really do appreciate that feedback. That's super 00:53:59
helpful. And just so all of you are aware, I will be sending out a live link to our development site so you guys can poke around. 00:54:06
I would love to get feedback from you all, both as our county board supervisors as well as our. 00:54:12
Constituents too, right? Like you're all, you all live here as well, so. 00:54:19
I just want to see how you guys navigate the website and get that feedback from you as well. I think that will be very beneficial 00:54:23
before we go live. 00:54:26
Anyone else? 00:54:31
Thank you. 00:54:35
Yeah, we're gonna. 00:54:35
Close out of these guys. 00:54:38
All right. Thanks. 00:54:39
And next we have. 00:54:42
I have a request to allow the County Board chair to send a letter to the National Transportation Safety Board regarding the 00:54:45
Canadian National train derailment. 00:54:50
I do not have a copy of the. 00:54:55
Letter. 00:54:58
Draft yet? 00:54:59
Emergency Management is working on that, but. 00:55:00
Over the appreciate the. 00:55:03
Board. 00:55:08
Giving me the authority to send a letter to the. 00:55:10
National Transportation Safety Board about the. 00:55:13
Reese feel train derailment. 00:55:16
To quote. 00:55:20
Supervisor Kane. 00:55:21
We do not want to be East Palestine. OH, and. 00:55:23
We could have been. 00:55:26
And supervisor King, just a point of clarification the. 00:55:28
That derailment? 00:55:33
Was the. 00:55:35
See Railroad can't. 00:55:37
Canadian Pacific. 00:55:38
Not the Canadian National. 00:55:39
Yeah, OK. Thanks. I can get you. 00:55:42
More information as to. 00:55:44
Where to send that and what to do so I've got contact information through my involvement with all of this. 00:55:47
I have a motion by a supervisor Kane and a second by supervisor Cavazanjan. 00:55:56
Any other questions or? 00:56:02
Comments. 00:56:04
If you agree to allow. 00:56:08
A letter to be sent. Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. You got a voice vote on this one. OK, Voice vote. 00:56:10
If if you agree, please please vote aye. 00:56:18
Opposed. 00:56:22
That is carried. Thank you. 00:56:24
The next one is to authorize the county Board chair to send a letter to the members of Congress. 00:56:30
Supporting the coalition against bigger trucks. 00:56:36
I did. There should be a copy of that letter in your packet. 00:56:40
I did talk with Brian from Hwy. about that and he has supported that in the past. 00:56:46
I supported it individually, but what we're looking for is. 00:56:53
Support from the county board to. 00:56:57
Go on record. 00:57:01
Against the bigger trucks. 00:57:03
Yeah, the the downside is that we have. 00:57:05
A large number of bridges. 00:57:09
That do not qualify in the state of Wisconsin and. 00:57:13
It would take a. 00:57:17
A lot of money to. 00:57:18
Rebuild the bridges to a. 00:57:20
Accept the bigger trucks and. 00:57:23
So we are. 00:57:26
Against this at the county levels. 00:57:27
So I have a motion by supervisor Beal, a second by supervisor Kraus. 00:57:30
Supervisor Houchin. 00:57:37
Thank you. What is a bigger truck? Are you talking heavier or are you talking like? 00:57:39
Tandem what are you talking, 91,000 lbs. 00:57:43
And 60 feet, Brian. 00:57:47
Actually proposed larger at All in all capacities, especially in frozen conditions. 00:57:51
So if I was driving down the highway and I saw. 00:58:08
Like I've been seeing that they've been quarrying a bunch of huge rocks and. 00:58:12
Those big rock collars. 00:58:15
They're going to weigh more than that. 00:58:17
That's what they're asking for. 00:58:19
Yeah. 00:58:22
Anyone else? 00:58:25
Just from voice vote also. 00:58:28
OK, if you agree to. 00:58:29
For me to sign on to their to the letter. 00:58:33
Please vote yes. 00:58:37
It's it's, it's going to be a voice vote, so. 00:58:41
Voice vote it would be yes. 00:58:44
And if you disagree, please vote no. 00:58:51
At passes. Thank you. 00:58:54
All right, we are at resolution #2528. 00:58:58
Resolution. 00:59:03
2528. 00:59:05
A resolution authorizing Dodge County. 00:59:09
Accept authorizing Dodge County to accept the proposal from Wisconsin Counties Association Group Health Trust. 00:59:12
For the provision of 2026 health insurance coverage for eligible Dodge County employees. 00:59:19
Fiscal note. 00:59:26
2026 Dodge County budget will reflect present. 00:59:28
Reflect percent increase of 12.9%. 00:59:32
And the premium share of 84.5%. 00:59:37
15.5% split. 00:59:41
There is a. 00:59:44
Surplus from Dean to WCA. 00:59:44
GHT. 00:59:47
Is 301. 00:59:49
$1015.32 and an employer surplus of $58,188.17. 00:59:51
With the adjustment of the premium share Finance Committee meeting. 01:00:00
Date September 8th, 2025 Initialed by Finance Committee chair. 01:00:05
All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of September. 01:00:10
Signed by four members of the Human Resources Committee. 01:00:15
Have a motion by Supervisor Beal and a second by supervisor Bob Holtz. 01:00:18
Any questions or comments on this? 01:00:23
Any questions? 01:00:28
Supervisor. 01:00:35
So is. 01:00:36
The amount employees going are going to pay, is that already been decided for the next budget? 01:00:38
I think that's part of this resolution that if so, when we do this and we're putting that. 01:00:46
In the next budget. 01:00:51
Yeah, that is correct. 01:00:55
So the county is going to pay. 01:00:57
Correct. 01:01:04
Well. 01:01:06
Yeah, we. 01:01:06
I will just correct to the fact that we are, yes, we are paying more. 01:01:08
There there are rate increases across the. 01:01:11
Across the board for any of the options. 01:01:14
That were evaluated is that we were asking Kathy. 01:01:17
No. OK, so. 01:01:19
The percentage that. 01:01:21
One second, I'm gonna. 01:01:32
Turn to our HR director to help me answer that. 01:01:33
Sorry, yes, that is what was being proposed so right now. 01:01:44
It's 80. 01:01:49
5%. 01:01:51
And no, I'm sorry. 01:01:53
Yes, 86% and 14% and looking to go down that half percent to be the same as what the Union representatives have. 01:01:55
The the increase of going to. 01:02:06
If we would stay with Dean, health would be more. 01:02:09
Than what this proposal is. 01:02:12
Because. 01:02:14
It's only 12.9% increase. 01:02:15
Even with the increased half percent. 01:02:18
Employer Share. 01:02:21
Super Fraser Houchin. 01:02:30
I don't have a problem with switching the insurance companies. 01:02:31
I mean, I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem over this half percent because we know our budget is tight. 01:02:35
And we keep thinking this money is growing on trees and we're going to get it somewhere. 01:02:41
How much difference does that half percent make? 01:02:46
Financially in. 01:02:49
Like I'm, yeah, I'm looking through right now, but I am, I believe it's about $58,000, Yeah. 01:02:51
Am I correct in that time? 01:03:00
Yeah. 01:03:02
To the 55 that was, that was in the Finance Committee. 01:03:04
Fiscal note. 01:03:08
I will I. 01:03:18
And for this change, but I'm not for this second part, so I'm going to vote no simply on the part that I think we need to figure 01:03:19
out. 01:03:22
What we could afford and. 01:03:26
And how it's going to work. 01:03:29
Anyone else? 01:03:33
Anyone else? 01:03:37
OK, if you agree with the committee. 01:03:41
Recommendation. 01:03:43
To go with the group health trust and the split as. 01:03:44
In the fiscal note. 01:03:48
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:03:49
Supervisor Free Vault. 01:04:01
Supervisor Free Vault. 01:04:09
Just mark out. 01:04:33
So that we can go. 01:04:36
All having voted it. 01:04:43
Passes 25 to 2 with 1 abstinent abstention. 01:04:46
OK. 01:04:58
Resolution 2529. 01:05:01
A resolution adopting the Dodge County procurement policy. 01:05:09
All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of September. 01:05:14
2025. 01:05:18
Signed by. 01:05:19
Seven members of the executive committee. 01:05:23
OK, do I have a motion? 01:05:32
Motion by Supervisor Hedrick. Second by Supervisor Bubbles. 01:05:37
Any questions or comments on? 01:05:41
This resolution. 01:05:43
Any questions? 01:05:48
Supervisor. 01:05:51
Yes. Thank you very much. 01:05:53
Unless I'm missing something, it looks like in Section 4. 01:05:55
D that we are going to be voting ourselves out of any. 01:06:01
Direct involvement in purchases. 01:06:05
Of any level before they. 01:06:08
Happen. 01:06:10
Because all the levels. 01:06:12
Are in there and anything $400,000 or more? 01:06:14
Up to. 01:06:18
Infinity. 01:06:19
All we have to be is. 01:06:21
Sent a letter. 01:06:23
I don't think that's wise, being we are the representatives of all the. 01:06:25
Constituents in our county. 01:06:30
I would like to amend that section. 01:06:33
To change the. 01:06:37
SEC 2D to 200,000 to 3. 01:06:38
200,000. 01:06:41
To 200,099 to get that. 01:06:42
In there. 01:06:46
And then add E to. 01:06:47
Say 300,000 plus requires documented approval from the department directors. 01:06:49
Director, county administrator, and committee of jurisdiction. 01:06:55
And approval by resolution of the county Board of Supervisors. 01:06:59
So that we actually are more involved with these big number. 01:07:03
Items. 01:07:08
Do I have a second? 01:07:14
Supervisor Hochen. 01:07:20
How do you have that in writing right? 01:07:23
Yep, OK. 01:07:25
Umm, so men. 01:07:28
Amendment. 01:07:31
Page 1. 01:07:35
B Policy 3B I'm sorry excuse me but I gave you 2 places there if. 01:07:37
4 DE passes. I believe we should then add 3B on Page 1. 01:07:44
That says. 01:07:49
It adds the wording while maintaining the strong and long time established duty and responsibility of fiscal oversight by the 01:07:51
Dodge County Board of Supervisors. This is under. 01:07:56
Policy so. 01:08:01
One is like the the goals and one is more what the policy is. 01:08:04
I would like to add 2. 01:08:09
E to the procurement. 01:08:11
Guidelines and approvals and then. 01:08:13
Back on page one under policy letter B. 01:08:16
Would be sort of a. 01:08:19
Explanation of why that is. 01:08:21
We're putting the amendment up on the screen for you guys to see. 01:08:24
Make it big. 01:08:29
If you look at Page 1. 01:08:30
Be under policy. 01:08:32
Or make the AT3B we would just add. 01:08:34
While maintaining the strong and long time established duty and responsibility of fiscal oversight. 01:08:37
By the Dodge County Board of Supervisors just to. 01:08:43
Explain. 01:08:46
What our responsibilities are and why. Page 4D guideline approvals. 01:08:47
I would like to see changed. 01:08:53
To add E anything over $300,000 still requires an approval by resolution by the county Board of Supervisors. 01:08:55
We will discuss discussion on the amendment. 01:09:11
Supervisor Staker, is that what you would like to speak on? 01:09:15
OK, well, we'll work on the Amendment 1st and we'll. 01:09:22
We'll go back. 01:09:26
Supervisor Beal, did you want to speak on the amendment? 01:09:28
Well, as far as the reason why this was changed. 01:09:36
Was that? 01:09:41
When the budget gets approved. 01:09:44
These requests. 01:09:46
Are in the budget. 01:09:48
So we. 01:09:50
Motion and approve. 01:09:51
The budget. 01:09:54
But these projects in. 01:09:55
So. 01:09:59
It's kind of like, why do we vote a second time? 01:10:00
I'm something that we already approved. 01:10:05
Anyone else? 01:10:11
Mr. Clapper. 01:10:16
I actually was raising for Kim, but I can. 01:10:19
She can speak. 01:10:22
I can switch. 01:10:23
OK. 01:10:24
I think I can. 01:10:26
Try that. 01:10:28
There it goes. OK. 01:10:33
All right, so. 01:10:35
As to the issue of. 01:10:38
Inserting a new threshold. 01:10:41
I just want to prompt if I may. 01:10:43
The executive committee. 01:10:46
Because the executive committee did have that discussion. 01:10:48
And debate about those thresholds. 01:10:51
And with supervisor Beale did mention is that. 01:10:53
The discussion. 01:10:57
Centered on the issue of. 01:10:58
The projects that are coming forth. 01:11:00
In terms of the thresholds. 01:11:03
And above the 200,000 originally it did have that resolution requirement. 01:11:04
But as I said, the Executive Committee did discuss and debate that. 01:11:09
And landed on the. 01:11:14
Focused on the issue of these are. 01:11:16
Projects or equipment or purchases that are. 01:11:18
Approved via the budget. 01:11:22
So it would be really duplicative. 01:11:23
On the part of the board to bring it back in the form of a resolution. And So what the. 01:11:27
Executive Committee recommended and. 01:11:31
What is in the current proposal before you? 01:11:34
Is that there needs to be at least a written report? 01:11:37
From the county administrator and we have an internal process for making sure that that happens. 01:11:40
To the board. 01:11:46
Regarding these already budgeted purchases. 01:11:47
So that was. 01:11:51
That was really the focus of the executive committee. 01:11:52
And the other point that I would make is that if you read. 01:11:55
In the procurement policy. 01:11:59
Just preceding that threshold section. 01:12:02
Departments can't begin procurement the procurement process. 01:12:06
And it's not explicitly stated here, so I'm just I'm pointing this out to. 01:12:11
Supervisor Sigmund. 01:12:15
Departments can't. 01:12:17
Start procurement and start acquiring goods and services and go out to RFB or RFP. 01:12:19
Unless. 01:12:24
The the. 01:12:25
Item is funded in the budget so you can't even start procurement unless you are assuring. 01:12:27
And there's a process for this assuring the purchasing agent. 01:12:33
That. 01:12:36
The the. 01:12:37
Project or item that you're trying to procure? 01:12:38
Or need to procure is budgeted and funded. 01:12:41
So you can't even go through that process if it's an unbudgeted item. 01:12:44
Then it needs to come to the county board. 01:12:48
At a certain level. 01:12:51
And that that's all within the budget control policy. 01:12:53
And that that's that preceding sentence. 01:12:55
Or section D1. 01:12:58
So if it's unfunded? 01:13:01
You'll see those items. 01:13:02
Because the department has to go in. 01:13:04
Find the funding source. 01:13:06
If it's in the budget, it's in the budget and you can start procurement and there's assurance given to the purchasing agent by the 01:13:08
department prior to procurement. 01:13:12
That Yep, this is the budgeted item. She can the department points to where its budgeted. It's already been approved by the board. 01:13:16
So that's a little background about how those thresholds and the debates and discussion that occurred at the Executive committee 01:13:23
and why it was changed to remove that resolution requirement. 01:13:28
I would just offer the suggestion to the board here. 01:13:33
If you're gonna drill down into details about this policy. 01:13:37
It's best that you refer back to the committee for that work. 01:13:40
It's not. 01:13:43
To be spent on the floor of the board to. 01:13:45
Get into the wordsmithing and details of the policy. 01:13:47
Supervisor Derr. 01:13:53
I when I started over. 01:13:56
10 years ago I thought being a supervisor was that I should be supervising. 01:13:58
You know various departments for the benefit of. 01:14:03
Dodge County citizens. 01:14:07
And then I went to a few. 01:14:09
Conferences. 01:14:10
And I learned. 01:14:12
Some of the speakers said it's really unfortunate. 01:14:13
That we call ourselves supervisors. 01:14:15
Because it's not our duty to supervise. 01:14:18
We're legislative body. 01:14:20
We pass ordinances. 01:14:22
We passed budgets. 01:14:24
We don't. 01:14:27
Literally supervise. 01:14:29
Things like. 01:14:31
Procurement because that that falls under day-to-day operations. 01:14:32
Of. 01:14:37
The government. 01:14:38
And. 01:14:39
In addition, sometimes procurement is really time sensitive and if you had to wait for the county board, you might. 01:14:40
Lose that. 01:14:47
Best offer? 01:14:48
So I think we're covered. 01:14:50
That's why the budget is so important. 01:14:52
That that is our policy. When we set the budget, we are prioritizing our policies. But. 01:14:54
Procurement. 01:14:59
Is enactment. 01:15:00
Anyone else want to speak on the amendment? 01:15:04
Anyone else? 01:15:10
OK. If you agree with the amendment to make the changes, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:15:12
Supervisor Freebolt, and if you can hear me, please unmute yourself. 01:15:19
Supervisor free. 01:15:34
Yes or no? 01:15:38
He's unmuted, but we can't hear him. 01:15:56
Are you hearing? 01:16:19
Supervisor Conway can Do you hear him or is he texting you? 01:16:21
He just texted me and said. 01:16:25
Hello. 01:16:59
Supervisor Freeval. 01:17:01
Yes, how are you? 01:17:03
Good. 01:17:05
So voting on. 01:17:07
The amendment to Resolution 2529, yes or no? 01:17:10
All having voted, it fails 7 to 22. 01:17:19
We are back to the original motion. 01:17:27
Supervisor Steger, you had mentioned you wanted to. 01:17:34
Talk on this original motion, Yeah. 01:17:38
Thank you, Chairman. They already said what I was going to say. I didn't know if I could. 01:17:41
OK. 01:17:46
Anyone else? 01:17:49
If you agree with the. 01:17:54
Motion as originally presented. 01:17:56
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:17:59
Supervisor free. 01:18:05
Yes. 01:18:07
All having voted, it passes 25 to 4. 01:18:11
This one's no longer valid because procurement passed. 01:18:23
So due to the approval of the Procurement Policy Resolution 2530. 01:18:29
IS will now be considered a written report to the board. 01:18:35
Under their procurement policy, this resolution is no longer needed for action. 01:18:39
Resolution. 01:18:47
2531. 01:18:48
Dodge County Capital Improvement Plan for 2026 to 2030. 01:18:50
All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of September, 2025. 01:18:56
Signed by four members of the Dodge County Finance Committee. 01:19:02
Fiscal note. 01:19:07
There is no fiscal impact at this time as this document serves as a plan. 01:19:08
All CIP items recommended. 01:19:13
By the Administrator will be incorporated into the 2026 Dodge County budget. 01:19:15
Finance Committee meeting date September 8th, 2025 initialed by Finance Committee Chair. 01:19:20
OK, I have a motion by Supervisor Kane. 01:19:26
In a second by supervisor Yarrick. 01:19:30
And so Mr. Clapper will come up in. 01:19:33
Give us some details. 01:19:38
Mr. Chair, thank you. 01:19:52
And thank you all. 01:19:53
For your time tonight. 01:19:55
I'm pleased to share some information regarding the capital improvement plan. 01:19:57
As proposed for. 01:20:01
2026. 01:20:02
And I am. 01:20:04
One moment while I get. 01:20:07
The screen up here. 01:20:09
Danielle, do you have it there or do I need to? 01:20:16
Sign in here. 01:20:18
Yeah, I see Kevin coming up. Thank you, Kevin. 01:20:24
Waiting. Get it on time. 01:20:32
Oh, that's right. 01:20:37
So the documents. 01:20:48
Should have been or were included in your packet of materials for tonight. 01:20:51
But I will. 01:20:56
Bring up this. 01:20:58
Presentation to go through with everyone. 01:20:59
As well. 01:21:02
Well, are you all seeing it on the screen? 01:21:07
All right. 01:21:11
Milestone #1 accomplished for the evening. It's up on the screen. 01:21:14
All right, So what what you have before you and as I mentioned, it's included in your packet. 01:21:17
Is not only the capital improvement plan is. 01:21:23
Opposed, but I also want to talk a little bit about. 01:21:26
The survey. 01:21:29
And I thought we'd. 01:21:30
Just start right off, beginning with the end in mind. 01:21:31
What we're ultimately staff. 01:21:34
What I am presenting tonight, and we are. 01:21:36
And the request. 01:21:39
From staff before you is to adopt the resolution to approve the 2026 through. 01:21:40
20-30 Capital improvement plan. 01:21:45
As proposed. 01:21:47
And you'll note as we go forward, there are items in that plan that currently are unfunded, meaning we do not have. 01:21:49
Available dollars that we know of or that we feel comfortable projecting to have in hand. 01:21:56
To cover. 01:22:02
Costs for some of the projects. So there's more that I'm going to share about that as we move forward. 01:22:03
But knowing that. 01:22:09
That brings about goal number 2. So if you. 01:22:12
As a body are amenable to approving or adopting the resolution. 01:22:14
Approve this capital improvement plan. 01:22:18
As proposed then. 01:22:21
The next step will be staff myself. 01:22:22
Included coming back going. 01:22:26
Getting additional information, some of which we've we've received but haven't had it. 01:22:29
Proper amount of time to prepare for. 01:22:33
Presentation tonight. 01:22:35
But additional information and and. 01:22:37
A plan and some alternatives for how we address the. 01:22:39
Projects that are. 01:22:43
Unfunded in this plan. 01:22:44
So. 01:22:47
Some details about the Capital Improvement Plan survey. Thank you to everybody that participated in the survey. 01:22:48
We did have. 01:22:54
An overall response rate. 01:22:56
15. 01:22:58
Given the time of year when it's sent out. 01:22:59
I can appreciate why that may not have been. 01:23:02
A complete response from everyone, but to those that did respond, thank you. 01:23:05
The list of projects as originally proposed. 01:23:10
Yeah, asking me provided was 65. 01:23:12
And there's the breakdown you can see of the various projects. 01:23:15
And. 01:23:19
What, what, how they were going to be? 01:23:20
Even funded noted down at the bottom. 01:23:24
Of existing funds. 01:23:25
So the plan though? 01:23:28
That you have. 01:23:32
In your documents. 01:23:33
Is. 01:23:35
Includes. 01:23:36
25 projects that are actually. 01:23:38
Proposed for funding. 01:23:41
There were some items originally proposed and even included in the survey that after further review. 01:23:44
We realized don't really fit the capital improvement plan definition. So they are O&M costs and those have been removed. 01:23:50
There are other projects that have been. 01:23:56
Slated or moved over to be? 01:24:00
To better fit within the. 01:24:02
Their appropriate enterprise fund. 01:24:04
And so those those dollars are are pulled off of. 01:24:06
The. 01:24:10
The amount of sales tax, I guess I would say. 01:24:11
That we would. 01:24:13
Plan on allocating in the first place. 01:24:14
Two projects. 01:24:17
So of the. 01:24:18
Of the survey. 01:24:20
Projects, though, that were ranked in the top 10. 01:24:21
As well as the overall you see there, the highway, road and bridge projects funded 6 out of 15. 01:24:26
Of those projects and then total 8 miles to be covered by those. 01:24:33
Projects that were funded, which includes some bridges, is 8.1 miles. 01:24:38
And then, as I mentioned, the unfunded projects. 01:24:44
21. 01:24:46
I see here I might have omitted the piece about the the top ten of the rankings, but there were we. 01:24:47
We endeavored to keep everything still within the realm of the statistics or from the rankings, from the survey itself. 01:24:53
But because of the cost of some of the projects and the nature of some of the projects. 01:25:01
They were omitted. 01:25:06
And left to be or. 01:25:08
Left to be unfunded, not omitted from the plan, just not funded. 01:25:09
In the plan. 01:25:12
So I wanted to direct your attention though to strategic priorities, so. 01:25:14
I did not provide this document to you as part of the. 01:25:19
Packet but you. 01:25:22
Many of you will recall the strategic planning process that took place a few years ago. 01:25:24
And as part of that strategic plan, we listed. 01:25:29
Some strategic priorities, and there were. 01:25:32
Additional details and objectives and. 01:25:35
Short term goals that were listed in that strategic plan. 01:25:37
But we've gone back or with the help of our communications, our PR, and. 01:25:40
Communications coordinator Megan Sheridan, whom you've heard from tonight. 01:25:46
We put together. 01:25:50
A a page of the strategic priorities and so these are it essentially focusing on. 01:25:51
You'll see there the four. 01:25:59
The four main areas. 01:26:01
And below those 4 main areas. 01:26:02
Kind of the. 01:26:05
The more specific elements included. 01:26:06
I'll just list the. 01:26:09
I won't. I won't read anything here. You can see for yourselves. 01:26:11
Any questions on this though this piece? 01:26:15
And the strategic priorities? 01:26:17
To this point. 01:26:19
If not, we'll continue. So when we think about those strategic priorities and the actual projects that have been. 01:26:22
Selected to receive funding. 01:26:28
So those that are the big list is more. 01:26:32
More than just projects that we want. 01:26:35
That we have dollars for that we do want to pursue. 01:26:37
But those that actually did also receive dollars on that list. 01:26:41
That's this list of projects and each one. 01:26:45
Either directly or indirectly fits within. 01:26:48
One of those 4 strategic priority areas. 01:26:52
So just so that you're aware of that. 01:26:56
When we think about what we have. 01:26:59
Included in what we have funded. 01:27:01
They all fit within this strategic strategic priority areas. And why is that important? 01:27:02
I'm sharing that with you now because. 01:27:08
One of our objectives as a county is to maintain 22 miles. 01:27:10
Of resurfaced projects annually within our. 01:27:15
Highway system so that we can have a. 01:27:18
25 year rotation. 01:27:20
Of cycling through and making sure that we're. 01:27:22
Repairing, resurfacing each of our. 01:27:26
Each of our. 01:27:28
Highways. 01:27:29
That's not possible with the current funding amount as. 01:27:31
As we'll get into further details, so we did stick with things that. 01:27:34
Were eligible and and that we've thought fit within our strategic priorities. 01:27:38
As a county. 01:27:44
But not all 22 miles of Rd. lanes are funded at this time. 01:27:45
So when you think about. 01:27:50
Where and how things are funded in the. 01:27:52
Proposed plan. 01:27:54
This is just a breakdown of numbers. So we have 5.8 million. 01:27:56
That is coming out of our capital Improvement fund, Fund 400 that is primarily sales tax. That's where the sales tax goes and then 01:28:00
from there gets distributed to cover various projects in the county. 01:28:05
We are going to receive as. 01:28:11
As part of. 01:28:14
A number of these projects state and federal dollars. 01:28:15
We have available up to 9.3 million, a little over $9.3 million. 01:28:18
Of funds from state and federal grants and additionally have half a million of other source dollars. 01:28:24
From other parties that would be. 01:28:30
Either involved in a cost share or some other way associated with the project. 01:28:32
And you can see if if you're interested or. 01:28:37
Have questions about it as I. 01:28:39
As I go through these details. 01:28:41
If you're looking at your big. 01:28:43
Spreadsheets that were included. 01:28:45
When I'm talking about those grants, that's. 01:28:47
That's the yellow columns over here. The first one is state and federal grants, followed by. 01:28:50
Fund balances that may exist already that we're carrying over or applying to a project. 01:28:54
And then the other category is those additional dollars, so. 01:28:59
That's what I'm talking about when I say grants and other sources. 01:29:03
And state and federal grants. 01:29:06
As well as fund balances applied. 01:29:08
However, the. 01:29:10
To date. 01:29:11
We have, you'll note, 31 million. 01:29:13
$260,000 worth of project work. 01:29:15
That is currently not funded. 01:29:19
Part of that. 01:29:21
Before you. 01:29:23
You allow yourself to suffer from any sticker shock with that number. 01:29:24
Part of that is 21 million, that is. 01:29:28
Physical facilities projects. 01:29:31
If you approve. 01:29:33
The physical facilities master plan. 01:29:35
When ultimately is presented to this body. 01:29:37
Then. 01:29:41
That number will change. 01:29:42
Will be will be essentially wiping that off the slate and having a new discussion about. 01:29:44
What's our timeline and what do we need to address first based on that plan to prioritize our physical facilities? 01:29:50
And any improvements to physical facilities if not? 01:29:56
Those are dollars that would be spent on projects that we know we need to accomplish now. 01:30:00
If everything else remains the same. 01:30:05
So that had. 01:30:08
Is that clear? Could I explain that? 01:30:09
Well, OK. 01:30:11
In in addition to that, 21 million of those physical facility projects which are there for you to be aware of. 01:30:14
But I want to make that distinction. 01:30:20
To in some ways carve out of our discussion today. 01:30:22
There are $10 million worth of. 01:30:27
Roadway Projects. 01:30:29
So aside from 8.1 miles of roads that I mentioned in the prior slide. 01:30:30
The rest of that 22 miles of Rd. 01:30:35
Is included here. 01:30:38
In these projects. 01:30:39
If. 01:30:41
Excuse me if we do. 01:30:42
Not. 01:30:43
And I'll mention it. I'll mention it specifically. 01:30:45
If the project. 01:30:48
Where's my number? 01:30:54
Oh, there it is. 01:30:55
Highway resurfacing of County P from State Highway 60 to State Highway 33. 01:30:56
It's a total of seven point. 01:31:01
4 miles of resurfacing. 01:31:02
On our highways. 01:31:04
If that project does not come to pass in 2026. 01:31:06
The dollars from the state. 01:31:09
State or federal dollars? 01:31:12
Totals 924. 01:31:13
1389 those are local Rd. improvement funds. 01:31:15
From the state. 01:31:19
That's what we would be missing out on. 01:31:21
In 2026 to help fund that project that. 01:31:24
You talk more details later about whether those dollars will be available in a future year. I just want you to be aware that's 01:31:28
what it's saying down at the bottom of the slide, grants a stake if we don't fund. 01:31:32
Are $924,000 of. 01:31:38
Local Rd. improvement money. 01:31:40
And there it is. 01:31:42
Again. 01:31:43
So. 01:31:44
Key things that I wanted to touch on tonight outside of. 01:31:45
Just the capital improvement plan itself and maybe. 01:31:49
Maybe before I go here. 01:31:52
Does anyone have any questions on? 01:31:55
Anything specific? 01:31:58
Related to. 01:32:00
These two spreadsheets. 01:32:02
And the list of projects there. 01:32:04
OK. All right. 01:32:10
Supervisor kill. 01:32:11
Supervisor Keel. 01:32:13
Yes, I just. 01:32:15
If you go back to the. 01:32:17
Screen where you had. 01:32:19
Funding sources. 01:32:20
That yes, that one. 01:32:22
I don't. 01:32:26
Quite understandable. 01:32:27
But. 01:32:29
When you say capital fund. 01:32:30
5.8 million. 01:32:34
You're not saying existent. 01:32:38
Fund balance. You don't list any sales tax. 01:32:40
As of. 01:32:43
Funding source. 01:32:44
Correct. Is that what? 01:32:46
Is in. 01:32:47
Fund 400. 01:32:49
Really is. 01:32:50
Sales tax, yes. 01:32:52
Yes, it is and thank you for asking. I'm happy to clarify SO. 01:32:54
I'm wanting to get away from whether something is sales tax or property tax. I think it's important. 01:32:59
That's not getting away from the fact that we use sales tax on capital items in general. It's safe to assume that if it's coming 01:33:04
from Fund 400. 01:33:08
That it is indeed sales tax dollars. 01:33:12
It's funded in fund 404 hundred. 01:33:14
Doesn't have an existing fund balance. 01:33:19
Of. 01:33:21
5.3 that's. 01:33:22
Probably Clearview. 01:33:25
For their project. 01:33:27
Some of it is Clearview. 01:33:29
Are you talking about Fund 400 Capital Fund? 01:33:31
Yeah, the yeah, the 5.8. 01:33:33
Million is. 01:33:36
Based on projected revenues from sales tax in 2020 from sales tax. 01:33:38
I mean, I'd like to see. 01:33:42
I'd like to see how much of it is sales tax, How much is funding? 01:33:47
From. 01:33:52
Existing fund balance. 01:33:55
Maybe they're somewhere else, but I mean. 01:33:57
Airport operations also isn't. 01:34:00
Right when we talk about and so. 01:34:03
I'll share one thing and then I'm going to. 01:34:06
As Mr. Chair, if you'd. 01:34:09
Make Nathan's mic act. 01:34:12
Active. 01:34:13
So in looking at we listed on the actual plan itself as well Fund 221. 01:34:14
Which covers the airport. 01:34:21
We have labeled as sales tax. 01:34:23
In that column because it is anything that we contribute. 01:34:25
Does come from sales tax? 01:34:29
When it comes to Fund 400, it is also. 01:34:31
Sales tax. 01:34:34
I I don't like just saying sales tax because I leave open the idea that there could be other. 01:34:37
Dollars coming into that fund, for example. 01:34:42
Right if we did. 01:34:44
Well, we have grants parsed out, but if we did do a. 01:34:47
Have some kind of financing? 01:34:50
On a project that would also go in Capital Fund 400. 01:34:51
You touched on it. I just wanted to point out that the. 01:34:58
Clearview Enterprise Fund, the 2.836 million that is utilizing operating funds from Clearview. So that is enterprise fund related. 01:35:02
Same thing with the highway. 01:35:14
That is, the 300,000 is enterprise. 01:35:16
But we're currently right now as you indicated, Cameron, the. 01:35:20
The Capital Fund. 01:35:24
As of right now, that 5.8 is. 01:35:26
Is sales tax is the the funding source? 01:35:29
Thank you. 01:35:33
Thank you. Is that? 01:35:34
Cover. 01:35:36
That cover your question surprise you. 01:35:38
And I can. 01:35:40
Maybe make it clearer in future presentations. 01:35:41
They're not repeated. 01:35:47
Up in the numbers above. 01:35:51
So. 01:35:54
The existing fund balance when you say 5.3 million? 01:35:57
That. 01:36:02
Is. 01:36:03
Probably Clearview. 01:36:05
You're talking about which fund? I'm sorry. 01:36:09
In part, not all of it. 01:36:11
But you see it's repeated, it's some of its general funding itself. That is the one computed above 2.8 is current operation. 01:36:13
Yes. 01:36:26
Yes. The rest of yes. 01:36:28
Correct. 01:36:31
They have fund balance. 01:36:32
But that is not what that's that's talking about. 01:36:33
Part yeah, part of the 5.3 of the existing fund balance is. 01:36:41
Is. 01:36:46
Carry forward. 01:36:46
For current projects for Clearview. 01:36:48
There's about. 01:36:50
33 million, some odd million that. 01:36:51
That. 01:36:55
We've already budgeted. 01:36:55
For Clearview, it hasn't been. 01:36:57
Expended yet? And so that will be a carry forward into the into the following year. 01:37:01
Correct. 01:37:05
And that should be. 01:37:06
We're nitpicking at this at the slide, but this detail is on the spreadsheets. 01:37:09
Yeah, and Supervisor Kelly apologized. I just realized. 01:37:15
Specifically what you're talking about when you were talking about the 3.9. 01:37:19
Or the the fund balances. So thank you. 01:37:23
Thank you. 01:37:25
Back to David. Other questions. Other questions. Yeah, Supervisor Houchin. 01:37:25
Thank you. A couple things I'd like to. 01:37:30
To know. 01:37:32
The Highway Enterprise Fund, we don't know how it's going. We've not been up. 01:37:34
Dated and maybe the next for me. Maybe you can tell us where it exactly stands. 01:37:38
And how these things will fit in. 01:37:43
With roads. 01:37:45
Whatever, because we have no idea. 01:37:46
#2. 01:37:48
This. 01:37:53
At stake? 01:37:54
The road you talked about, it raked 4th in the in the survey. 01:37:55
I don't know why. 01:37:59
Why we would put it? 01:38:01
Is unfounded and why it wouldn't have been one, it would have been pushed up higher. 01:38:03
Since there's already funding and we would lose it. 01:38:06
So I don't understand that. 01:38:08
And I will get into that very point. 01:38:11
Maybe a little bit later on, if I may. OK, regarding the other the first part. 01:38:13
Would you repeat it again? Number one concern. 01:38:18
I'd like to know how the highway department stands now. 01:38:20
With the enterprise if it's working. 01:38:23
If it's gotta finish. 01:38:25
You know. 01:38:26
How we're going to end. 01:38:27
Enterprise. Oh yeah. So it it. 01:38:30
Right the. 01:38:34
We're this is our first year of getting off the ground in. 01:38:34
In treating that fund. 01:38:37
Appropriately. 01:38:40
We've always had it. 01:38:40
But it has been used in the right way. 01:38:42
We do have information I don't have it handy tonight to provide. 01:38:44
Updates on where things are but. 01:38:48
Anything that has to do with? 01:38:51
Operations of the Highway department. 01:38:53
Really at this point in time. 01:38:56
Who might be speaking more broadly than I'm sure there's we could. 01:38:59
Could split hairs and find a few things that don't, but in general everything that is operations for the highway department. 01:39:02
Fits there and is recovered. 01:39:09
The costs of. 01:39:11
To operate are recovered through the highway department's fees. 01:39:13
So. 01:39:16
Yeah. So in the case of right now, I appreciate you bringing it up. We can definitely come back and share additional details. 01:39:18
So. 01:39:26
Any other questions regarding? 01:39:27
Supervisor Gruken Burger. 01:39:28
Yeah, I. 01:39:32
Yes, I punched in when Karen was asking about the. 01:39:33
Existing fund balance, because it's really not fund balance like we think of the fund balance that we're applying it's. 01:39:36
You know what I see in there is a. 01:39:43
Land, resources and parks. 01:39:47
Has some carry forward. 01:39:50
And then a Clearview carry forward. So we're really not applying fund balance. 01:39:52
To the budget, at least at this point in. 01:39:57
In, that's consistent with what you presented. 01:39:59
To finance, correct? 01:40:02
That is correct. 01:40:04
And is. 01:40:04
The report that I'm looking at here, the spreadsheet in this document is the same as what came to finance without any edits, 01:40:06
right? But the other one has the. 01:40:10
26 to 30. 01:40:15
Entries. 01:40:17
Correct, Correct. OK. Yes, thank you. 01:40:18
Thank you. 01:40:21
Any other question? Anyone else? 01:40:22
Right at this point, all right. 01:40:25
So. 01:40:28
As noted so the the question about. 01:40:29
The project that was ranked 4th which was the county highway P resurfacing. 01:40:32
What I would share with that as I move to the next slide. 01:40:37
Is and I want to talk about. 01:40:43
Capital improvement project funding and also. 01:40:45
At least a little bit. 01:40:49
To give you a. 01:40:50
Picture of. 01:40:51
How is Dodge County doing in terms of? 01:40:52
You know the cost for our capital projects. 01:40:55
How many dollars are we allocating? 01:40:58
On an on an annual basis. 01:41:00
To capital projects. 01:41:02
I think that information is important when we talk about how we. 01:41:04
Potentially would need to fund. 01:41:07
Some of those projects. 01:41:09
I'm avoiding certain words tonight, but I think you all know what those words are. 01:41:11
And we're probably going to have to. 01:41:15
Have to have a deeper dive discussion on a. 01:41:17
At another meeting. 01:41:20
About that very thing. 01:41:21
But to the point regarding these projects, each of the projects that was. 01:41:23
That is listed as unfunded. 01:41:28
You will note that physical facilities projects and then the roadway projects. 01:41:31
These are all projects. 01:41:34
That. 01:41:36
Based on what they are. 01:41:37
They they would qualify as something that is. 01:41:39
Significant in terms of size and scope and cost. 01:41:43
Having a life, a useful life of 2030. 01:41:48
50 years. 01:41:51
These are the things that. 01:41:53
Fall within the best practice. 01:41:54
For financing through. 01:41:56
Borrowing, going out to market and obtaining debt. 01:41:58
To to fund. 01:42:01
This is. 01:42:03
That's so I said that he would that's count them. 01:42:04
Maybe someone? 01:42:07
Hash mark how many times I say the D word tonight, but the. 01:42:08
The various items that we have listed there, the reason that they were not included. 01:42:12
To Supervisor Hutchins question. 01:42:17
And the reason why they're sitting unfunded is because when we get down the list a few spaces, we begin to. 01:42:19
Have. 01:42:25
We have to make some choices. 01:42:27
Between 1:00 or the other. 01:42:28
We recognized that there were a number of projects. 01:42:30
That would still fall within the purview. 01:42:33
Of our strategic priorities. 01:42:37
And they were items that were relatively. 01:42:39
If not urgent. 01:42:43
Just overall. 01:42:44
Important to accomplish. 01:42:45
The network infrastructure refresh for one. 01:42:47
Every time we're dealing with microphones. 01:42:50
And blips in this room. 01:42:52
I can't promise everything would be changed, but I know that one of the reasons why those happen. 01:42:55
Is because of the wires in our walls and ceilings. 01:43:00
That's part of this network refresh. There's much more to it than that, but that's just an example. 01:43:03
Those projects would we could certainly take in. 01:43:08
County Highway P but that. 01:43:12
Is going to result in a use of $3.4 million from our sales tax fund and we begin to wipe away. 01:43:14
All these other projects on the main page and the projects that we would wipe away are not necessarily projects. 01:43:21
That I would recommend. 01:43:27
Financing. 01:43:28
So that is that's. 01:43:30
Gets at that point about explaining. 01:43:32
The question suppressor. 01:43:35
Supervisor Hatch and hopefully. 01:43:36
Have explained it well enough. 01:43:38
For now. 01:43:39
So looking at the. 01:43:40
The chart you see before you. 01:43:42
Why is this? 01:43:44
Up there and why is it important? So you'll notice we're looking at years 2022 through 2026. 01:43:46
And we're looking at. 01:43:51
Overall. 01:43:53
Dollars. 01:43:54
Put toward capital projects. 01:43:55
What we used in capital plans in prior years. 01:43:58
To fund our various activities. 01:44:02
So you'll see in 2022, we started right off with ARPA. 01:44:04
In the grey, then we've got other sources in the orange. So that's the state, federal grants, donations, other things that again 01:44:08
would be primarily in your yellow column. 01:44:12
On the spreadsheets that you received. 01:44:17
And then you have the sales tax dollars, which is? 01:44:19
Up to. 01:44:23
2025 Really. Sales tax dollars are. 01:44:24
Synonymous with. 01:44:28
Fund 400. 01:44:29
And. 01:44:31
Even. 01:44:32
Some other funds. 01:44:32
Efforts with the highway department as well as. 01:44:33
Work at the airport. 01:44:38
But you'll notice. 01:44:40
That when we look across. 01:44:41
All years. And when you look at the blue, the. 01:44:43
Contributions from sales tax. 01:44:47
We are, we have not. 01:44:49
Far deviated. 01:44:52
In 2026, what's being proposed? 01:44:53
From what we actually spent. 01:44:55
Or allocated in 2022. 01:44:57
I think one possible difference. 01:45:00
Is we will likely have more sales tax than what we're. 01:45:02
Putting in here. 01:45:06
But it would not be necessarily responsible for us to. 01:45:07
Put those numbers. 01:45:11
In this plan right now. 01:45:12
So what we're looking to allocate? 01:45:15
In that regard. 01:45:17
Is very similar. 01:45:18
I will say. 01:45:19
To my comment about getting more even if we ended up with a higher amount of sales tax than we're anticipating for 2026. 01:45:20
We would not be able to attain a level of. 01:45:29
Sales tax revenue sufficient to keep pace with. 01:45:32
The needs for our. 01:45:35
Our roadways. 01:45:37
Or. 01:45:38
What may come out of a physical facilities master plan? 01:45:39
Analysis. 01:45:42
Or. 01:45:43
What you've heard about most recently with our. 01:45:44
Issue with radios for public safety and whether or not we need to build anymore towers in Dodge County. 01:45:47
The I will note you see. 01:45:57
2025 good gets a little bigger there. That was an effort to draw down. We had some, we had some fund balance. 01:45:59
We drew it down. What that does not include here I will point out. We also had a change with our sales tax policy. You will 01:46:05
recall, many of you will recall. 01:46:10
And so we utilize sales tax for some other. 01:46:15
Components of our operation. 01:46:19
Than just specifically capital projects. 01:46:20
Things that we've allocated dollars toward, areas that. 01:46:23
Also. 01:46:27
Bring in or would potentially bring in. 01:46:28
Dollars to the county, our parks, our veterans services, our community development, but those that information. 01:46:30
Those dollars are not included. 01:46:37
Here. So that's not part of that increase there. That's just a drawdown. 01:46:40
Of our fund balance. 01:46:43
So moving to the next slide, this is just looking at property tax and. 01:46:47
I should mention I meant to say at the beginning. 01:46:51
This information that is coming to you tonight is. 01:46:53
We've worked on it as a team, but I want to credit our our finance director and finance staff. 01:46:57
As well as. 01:47:02
Court counsel and others that have been involved in. 01:47:04
Gathering the data and then finance with putting this together for tonight. 01:47:08
Our finance director. 01:47:12
So. 01:47:13
What we're looking at here. 01:47:14
Is let's take a look at the dollars we're spending in 2026. Are we proposed to spend in 2026? 01:47:16
And let's look at inflation. 01:47:22
And the change in the consumer price index from 2016. 01:47:25
To 2026. 01:47:28
And so. 01:47:30
We'll take a look back at 2016, but now we'll adjust and look at 2016. 01:47:31
As it would appear. 01:47:37
If all else was equal. 01:47:39
With what a dollar is worth today. 01:47:41
So if you look back to 2016. 01:47:44
From where we are now. 01:47:48
I said 26 we're. 01:47:50
Talking through 2025 in the chart. 01:47:52
This is our total tax levy. 01:47:55
So we. 01:47:57
Property taxes to an amount of 36.9 million. 01:47:59
In 2016. 01:48:03
That. 01:48:06
A dollar amount. An equivalent dollar amount would be 43.3. 01:48:07
Million. So that's what we were. 01:48:10
That's what we were taxing. 01:48:13
In 2016. 01:48:15
So we are already reducing. 01:48:17
What we are taxing. 01:48:19
What we're the burden that we're putting in terms of tax dollars on residents of. 01:48:21
Dodge County, it's gone down. 01:48:25
Over that 10 year period and I think that's important. 01:48:27
To note here. So you see the orange line showing that the blue line. 01:48:30
As reference is. 01:48:34
Just looking at straight up dollars as posted. 01:48:36
Without adjusting for inflation. 01:48:38
Median tax payment or median? 01:48:41
Homeowner payment. 01:48:43
I need to qualify here. 01:48:46
Because I listen when Supervisor Burger mentions it. It's important for you all to remember that the median homeowner. 01:48:48
Tax payment. 01:48:56
Person, uh. 01:48:57
Is fictitious. 01:48:58
We have. 01:48:59
Many. 01:49:00
Property assessment jurisdictions in Dodge County and assessment ratios vary from community to community, so. 01:49:01
We can't pin down an exact number. We'd be giving you a whole page of numbers or more if we did that. So looking at overall, we 01:49:08
can use. 01:49:13
The median. The median tax payment. The median homeowner payment of tax. 01:49:18
As an indicator. 01:49:24
Even though it's not a real person in 2025. 01:49:25
But the same same rules apply adjusting for the consumer price index for inflation. 01:49:28
If we take a look back from 2025 at $975. 01:49:33
As the median. 01:49:38
Homeowner tax payment. 01:49:40
The same. 01:49:43
Costs same operations in 20/20/16. 01:49:44
They were paying. 01:49:48
Essentially in equivalency to 1.1. 01:49:49
Or one. 01:49:52
$1138 so again. 01:49:53
Pointing out the slope. 01:49:57
We're going down. 01:49:58
In terms of what we're demanding or exacting from our. 01:49:59
Residents. 01:50:03
On the flip side. 01:50:04
What this slide can show you is. 01:50:05
Our values. 01:50:08
And costs, as we well know. 01:50:09
Are going up. 01:50:11
So it's. 01:50:12
Reductions. 01:50:14
Gained through cuts or efficiencies, that is. 01:50:15
Resulting in the US maintaining. 01:50:18
Or going down in terms of what we are actually. 01:50:21
Our actual cost. 01:50:24
In today's. 01:50:26
2 residents. 01:50:27
And I wanted to point that out here because because of this gap, so. 01:50:29
The blue line here is actually showing. 01:50:34
County debt capacity or the blue mass is showing county debt capacity. 01:50:36
That's an indicator of property value increases because a portion of our overall asset value is is. 01:50:41
Sits inside what our overall limit and capacity is for. 01:50:46
Borrowing dollars The orange. 01:50:50
Mass. 01:50:53
Along the chart is. 01:50:54
Actual. 01:50:56
General obligation debt that we have. 01:50:57
Gone entered into obligations to pay back. 01:51:00
Over the course of years. 01:51:03
And we go through and show some of those payments and payment schedules in our budget document annually. But what I want to point 01:51:06
out here. 01:51:09
With this chart. 01:51:13
First and foremost. 01:51:15
Is. 01:51:17
That. 01:51:18
We have our overall limit today is. 01:51:18
The limits set by law is 497 million. 01:51:21
4097.5 Almost 497,600,000. 01:51:25
Our overall capacity then as well, which is less than that limit what we're. 01:51:30
Are capable of. 01:51:34
Of drawing on. 01:51:35
Is 474 million. 01:51:37
392,000. 01:51:40
And then our current debt that we're paying off, so principal and interest where we are right now. 01:51:41
We have 23.2 million. 01:51:47
That we're still paying on. 01:51:49
But that that payment every year we don't. 01:51:51
Don't borrow goes down and So what you see here. 01:51:53
Is in 2016 the overall capacity utilized so the amount of orange. 01:51:56
At the 2016 year mark. 01:52:03
Was 10.87%, so we were. 01:52:05
We were. 01:52:08
We had. 01:52:09
Accumulated debt. 01:52:10
That we needed to pay back. 01:52:12
Of 10.87% of what we could. 01:52:13
Potentially. 01:52:17
Go out if we wanted to just. 01:52:18
By the moon. 01:52:20
Today. 01:52:21
Because of payments. 01:52:22
Paying that that amount down and also because of property value and asset values going up. 01:52:24
We are paying. 01:52:31
Our debt overall is 4.66%. 01:52:33
So it's been reduced from 10.87 to 4.6. The point with sharing this with you is. 01:52:36
Our capacity continues to grow. 01:52:42
And we are not. 01:52:44
We we're going down. What would be ideal is for us to establish a plan for. 01:52:45
Borrowing. 01:52:51
That would keep us at a steady. 01:52:52
Flat rate. 01:52:54
And do the same thing every year so that we are not having overtime. 01:52:55
A dramatic impact on. 01:53:00
Taxpayers, where we're all agreeing on what we're borrowing for and. 01:53:02
We're just paying that. 01:53:07
Keeping a flat percentage. 01:53:08
I'm going to skip the forward analytics part, but I would recommend that you go there. If you were to go to this link you can go 01:53:11
through. 01:53:14
The WWC a site or directly to forward analytics. 01:53:18
And you can look at their interactive maps. 01:53:21
Where they go into further details for each county, you'll find where we rank. 01:53:24
In comparison to other counties. 01:53:29
And we're sitting very well when it comes to. 01:53:31
So how much we cost? 01:53:35
To our residents. 01:53:37
All right, so here we are. 01:53:39
We've you've received the plan. 01:53:41
We've talked about it briefly. 01:53:43
Because it's there for you to be able to see. I'm happy to answer more questions if you have them, but the request tonight is for 01:53:45
that. 01:53:48
Vote to approve. 01:53:52
The resolution as proposed. 01:53:54
Understanding that. 01:53:56
We're not asking you to obligate in any way toward any the funding of any of these unfunded projects nor are we asking or does the 01:53:58
resolution action tonight say that there. 01:54:04
Not important at all. It just means. 01:54:10
We're going to come back once the physical facilities plan is done and once we've had a chance to work with. 01:54:12
Some of our. 01:54:18
Our partners in in financing and other resources that can give us additional finance details, financial details we can share with 01:54:20
you and we'll come back and talk further about how we go about funding those projects. 01:54:25
Any questions questions. 01:54:32
Supervisor Houch. 01:54:36
Thank you. Do we have any debt that's going to be falling off soon? Do you know when? 01:54:37
When is the first thing going to fall off? 01:54:42
That's a great question. I don't have the debt schedule in front of me. I don't know if that's something that. 01:54:45
Nathan has handy in the back, he's looking it up so he's not on his head. We can find that out for you. 01:54:50
In just a second. 01:54:55
Any other questions? 01:54:59
Other questions? 01:55:05
No, I haven't. 01:55:07
So. 01:55:10
Right now we have a A10 year. I believe there's a a Rd. 01:55:13
A debt service that will fall off in 2036. 01:55:18
Your next. 01:55:23
Oh, wait. 01:55:25
Sorry. 01:55:26
I apologize. 01:55:35
If I'm looking. 01:55:40
Currently, your current debts, any debt that you have existing is going to. 01:55:47
Be done in 2031. 01:55:51
Thank you. 01:55:53
So. 01:55:55
If we did nothing else, everything's gone. 01:55:56
2031. 01:55:58
Anyone else? 01:56:02
OK. All right. Thank you. 01:56:06
Any questions on the? 01:56:13
CIP has proposed. 01:56:15
If you have. 01:56:21
Agree with the. 01:56:22
If you agree with the. 01:56:26
Resolution as proposed, please. 01:56:28
Or yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:56:30
OK. 01:56:33
Would you push a button please? 01:56:35
You already got the voting in, okay. 01:56:39
All right. It's the capital improvement plan for 2026 through 2030. 01:56:42
We're voting on all five years. 01:56:49
The plan lists out specific financial wealth. 01:56:52
We have a number of exhibits. 01:56:55
You're voting on 2026? 01:56:57
That's what's. 01:56:59
You're acknowledging the rest of the plan is there. 01:57:00
But the only year with authorization to act is 27. 01:57:02
OK. 01:57:08
So if you agree with the. 01:57:09
With the resolution as proposed, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:57:10
Supervisor Free Vault. 01:57:17
Yes. 01:57:21
All having voted, it passes 25 to 4. 01:57:24
Resolution. 01:57:29
2532. 01:57:30
Resolution denying an amendment. 01:57:32
To the official zoning map for the town of Lomira. 01:57:35
Adopted with the land use code Dodge County. 01:57:38
To rezone certain lands in section 18. 01:57:41
In town of Lomira. 01:57:44
All of which is respectfully submitted. 01:57:49
This. 01:57:53
It was submitted in August, 19th day of August, signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 01:57:54
And there's no fiscal note. 01:58:03
Do I have a motion? 01:58:06
I have a motion by Supervisor Bob Holtz and a second by Supervisor Burnett. 01:58:12
Supervisor Van de Zen. 01:58:17
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 01:58:21
I was just looking over this denial. 01:58:24
And I don't remember them talking about this in the in the meeting, but it says. 01:58:27
Denial on the. 01:58:33
Chapter 9146 which is. 01:58:34
To be, I think. 01:58:37
Saying that this creates 1/5 non farm. 01:58:39
Residential lot. 01:58:42
Can they explain that? 01:58:43
Because, uh. 01:58:45
Campground and. 01:58:47
Campground lots are not considered a dwelling. 01:58:48
Kim, do you want or to Terry? 01:58:57
They they list as a reason for denying. 01:59:09
This. 01:59:12
Application. 01:59:13
That it creates 1/5. 01:59:15
Non farm residential lot. 01:59:17
A campground is not considered a dwelling or residential lot. It's temporary. 01:59:20
So so I believe what was. 01:59:57
What they're trying to do was their. 01:59:59
There they were only rezoning a. 02:00:03
Portion of it. 02:00:05
Yeah. 02:00:16
Supervisor Belk. 02:00:23
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Did the Town Board approve this? 02:00:25
They they did not. 02:00:29
Supervisor segment. 02:00:36
The town board recommended not approving this. They wanted their farmland to stay in farmland. 02:00:37
Supervisor. 02:00:48
I mean, that really doesn't matter because. 02:00:50
You're listing the reason for denial as a statute. 02:00:52
That it doesn't apply to. 02:00:56
Anyone else? 02:01:02
Anyone else? 02:01:05
Supervisor. 02:01:08
Thank you. 02:01:10
What I found is that this land is very good egg land. It's what's called a thoracic silt loam. 02:01:11
And. 02:01:18
Even though it is. 02:01:19
Been told us that it. 02:01:21
Isn't producing anything. I'd say that's the farmers problem and not the soils problem. 02:01:22
And I would recommend getting a different farmer in there that could maybe. 02:01:28
Use that soil the way it's intended to be used. 02:01:31
But. 02:01:34
The town board recommended the disapproval and as I looked at the farmland preservation plan and our constant and our 02:01:35
comprehensive plan. 02:01:39
This just does not. 02:01:44
Get supported by either one. 02:01:45
Or the town board. 02:01:48
So we recommend a disapproval because this is some of the prime egg land that we are supposedly trying to protect in Dodge County. 02:01:51
Supervisor Houchin. 02:01:59
Is is any of the land farmed now? 02:02:01
Or is it all? 02:02:04
This is all farm. 02:02:05
This this. 02:02:08
It's it's in grass because the farmer isn't farming it. 02:02:10
But it is the rest of silt loam which would. 02:02:14
Grow just as good a crops as what is just to the West of it. 02:02:17
Hang on. 02:02:28
All right. 02:02:31
Any other questions? 02:02:33
Supervisor Conway. 02:02:35
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think the question though that. 02:02:38
I would bring up as. 02:02:40
Are we in fact? 02:02:43
The recommendation whether it's good soil, good loom. 02:02:45
All those other things. 02:02:48
The recommendation was. 02:02:50
Following a statute. 02:02:51
And I think before we would make a decision, we should find out. 02:02:53
Whether or not that. 02:02:56
Statute actually comes into play. 02:02:57
Or not. 02:03:01
Thank you. 02:03:03
Terry, did you get any more information? 02:03:07
We're trying to get your mic. 02:03:19
There, try it. 02:03:20
So so the. 02:03:24
That statement on the report is incorrect. 02:03:26
The 5th non farm residential lot. 02:03:29
That's not supposed to be on that report, unfortunately. 02:03:32
Supervisor Durr. 02:03:40
This is really difficult because. 02:03:42
We're not making an initial determination on any of these zoning things. 02:03:44
And. 02:03:48
I really wish somebody had given us a public statement about. 02:03:50
How the 10 bout? 02:03:54
Town Board. 02:03:56
In either case. 02:03:57
Did not either follow the correct procedure. 02:03:59
Or. 02:04:03
Ignored obvious. 02:04:04
Evidence that would. 02:04:06
Have supported. 02:04:08
A denial. 02:04:09
And they are like a trial court. 02:04:11
And we're like the Court of Appeals. 02:04:14
We don't retry the case so. 02:04:16
I just wish. 02:04:20
I'd heard. 02:04:21
This is why. 02:04:22
They failed. 02:04:24
To do the procedure or they failed to. 02:04:26
Apply the standard. 02:04:29
Because we don't just get to. 02:04:31
Flip something upside down because we don't like it, right? 02:04:33
Because that would be. 02:04:36
Different decisions happening all over all the time. 02:04:38
Right, We're supposed to be following standards and so this part is confusing for me. 02:04:41
Because. 02:04:47
It sounds like. 02:04:48
They denied it. 02:04:49
Based on a statement. 02:04:51
That was incorrect. 02:04:53
Is that right? 02:04:55
Not right. Can you explain that to me, somebody? 02:04:57
Supervisor segment. 02:05:00
Thank you. The reason I deferred it is because. 02:05:02
We didn't talk about that. 02:05:05
And when I read it I go OK. 02:05:08
Well, I told you why we rejected this. We rejected this because it definitely does not. 02:05:10
To the requirements of the Land Use Code, the Farmland Preservation Plan and the Comprehensive Plan. 02:05:16
So that's the simple story. 02:05:23
There were more issues regarding. 02:05:26
Restrooms and everything that would have to be in place. 02:05:30
And on top of that, the town board said no, we do not want this because we want this to stay in egg land. 02:05:34
It may be between a cemetery and a house, but there's plenty of room between the cemetery and the house, and farmers can farm 02:05:40
that. 02:05:44
Seriously, if you get the farmer in there that wants to farm it, if you just cut it every year and. 02:05:47
Don't put any fertilizer on. 02:05:52
The best land is not going to. 02:05:54
Be the best land, but it is there and that's what we are supposed to protect. 02:05:56
Advisor dear, did you want to? I just want to. 02:06:02
Clarify. 02:06:05
I appreciate. 02:06:06
That people understand that. 02:06:08
One of the requirements is that it meets the Land Comprehensive Plan. 02:06:10
But whether it's coming from a supervisor or public comments. 02:06:13
You have to tell us how. 02:06:17
You have to tell us why. 02:06:19
What are the facts? 02:06:20
Of this that show it doesn't meet the plan and it's really frustrating because that's. 02:06:22
That's all we can vote on. 02:06:28
We can't just say I like farmland and I'm gonna do it. We're not. 02:06:30
Legally allowed to do that. 02:06:34
Riser band is Anne. 02:06:38
I think she kind of. 02:06:41
Said what I needed to say too. But like I said, this is. 02:06:44
And this was not, I don't think this was brought up in that committee meeting. 02:06:47
The street action, the statute, and all of a sudden I saw that I'm like, where did that come from? And then I was, I looked it up 02:06:53
and it's. 02:06:56
You you can't say that you denied it based on something that's incorrect. 02:07:00
Corp Council. 02:07:06
I just want to clarify for everyone and I think what you're referring to isn't that language in the report, that one sentence 02:07:07
there? 02:07:10
Correct. 02:07:13
Breaking off the I gave my report away, but that one sentence. 02:07:15
What Terry is saying is that sentence doesn't belong in that report at all. It was completely a typo. 02:07:21
So please ignore that sentence. 02:07:26
It does not weigh in on this discussion. It's this debate. And Supervisor Sigmund certainly was at. 02:07:28
I mean, he's the chair of that committee and. 02:07:34
He's reporting to you what? 02:07:36
Took place at committee. And As for what the town of Lomira. 02:07:38
Did. 02:07:43
That that's in the. 02:07:43
The The Front End report. 02:07:45
That's always part of the staff report that they always indicate what what did the town. 02:07:47
Do why did they decide to do what? 02:07:52
They did. 02:07:55
So. 02:07:56
So please in that report that's with this resolution. 02:07:56
Ignore that statement. 02:08:00
Total typo, not applicable at all to this discussion. 02:08:01
OK. Anyone else? 02:08:07
Anyone else? 02:08:09
Supervisor Ringle. 02:08:10
The owner does not farm it, and they don't intend to. 02:08:13
To rent that 5 acres to any farmer. 02:08:16
In a neighborhood. 02:08:18
It's their property and it's grass. 02:08:20
A day mall. 02:08:23
Anyone else? 02:08:29
If you agree with the recommendation of the committee. 02:08:31
Please vote yes. The recommendation is to deny. If you do not agree with that, please vote no. 02:08:35
Supervisor Free Vault. 02:08:58
Yes. 02:09:00
Having voted, it passes 20 to 8 with 1 abstention. 02:09:04
Resolution. 02:09:10
2533. 02:09:11
Amend. 02:09:20
Amend town zoning ordinance The Jones Purna property Town of Hubbard. 02:09:24
Be the Dodge County Land, Resources and Parks Committee hereby report favorably on the petition of Jones, Bruno requesting 02:09:30
amendment of the zoning ordinance. 02:09:34
All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of September 2025. Signed by five members of the Land, Resources and Parks 02:09:39
Committee. 02:09:43
I have a motion by supervisor Sigmund, second by supervisor Bubbles. 02:09:48
Any questions or comments on this? 02:09:53
In this resolution. 02:09:57
Any questions? 02:09:59
If you agree with the committee, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:10:04
Supervisor Free Vault. 02:10:20
Yes. 02:10:28
All having voted, it passes 28 to 1. 02:10:31
Resolution 2534. 02:10:36
Authorized Dodge County to enter into a lease agreement for a county research. 02:10:39
Demonstration Farm. 02:10:45
All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of September, 2025. 02:10:48
Signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 02:10:53
Fiscal note. 02:10:59
Eric, I apologize. Conservation Education Committee. 02:11:01
Fiscal Note This resolution recognizes A4 year agreement valued at $214,400. 02:11:05
Within annual amount of. 02:11:13
$53,600 Revenues associated with this agreement will be incorporated into the budget during 8. 02:11:16
Each respective year. 02:11:23
Finance Committee review date September 16, 2025 signed. 02:11:25
By Finance Committee chair. 02:11:29
I need a motion. 02:11:32
Please. 02:11:33
I have a motion by Supervisor Burnett and second by Supervisor Johnson. 02:11:37
We have a question from. 02:11:44
Couple of questions, but we do have a presentation about it and maybe we'll answer the questions if. 02:11:47
John. 02:11:53
OK, trying to bring you up to speed on why we're. 02:12:03
We're looking at going in this direction. 02:12:06
In 2024. 02:12:09
Three or four of the committee members from Conservation Extension Committee myself. 02:12:11
We toured the county farm in Rock County. 02:12:15
And they have a portion down there that they've been doing research plots on for many years. 02:12:18
Along with UW Madison extension office. 02:12:24
And the. 02:12:28
They were also looking for other sites within the. 02:12:29
State. 02:12:32
That would be interested in doing that. 02:12:33
So. 02:12:35
Conversations with committee and myself and with Will from the extension was. 02:12:36
What can we do at the? 02:12:41
At our airport farm, that would. 02:12:43
Potentially mimic that or. 02:12:45
Or even go farther than that that would benefit. 02:12:48
Farmers in Dodge County, we looked at several different options and the options that. 02:12:51
We felt were the. 02:12:57
Easiest for us to handle. 02:13:00
Is the one that's presented to you tonight. 02:13:02
So I'll let will kind of explain that. 02:13:06
Recommendation a little better. 02:13:09
Hi there, folks. 02:13:14
Thanks for asking me to. 02:13:15
Talk tonight a bit about this proposal. 02:13:17
Like John said, this was kind of something that. 02:13:21
The committee had. 02:13:24
Come up with this idea to try and have. 02:13:26
Public land. 02:13:28
Land owned by Dodge County. 02:13:29
Be used for a demonstration farm. 02:13:31
And I think the route that we have taken, like John said, it was easiest from our perspective, but it also is more of a farmer 02:13:33
centric. 02:13:37
Approach than the one used at Rock County Farm. 02:13:40
That farm is run by. 02:13:43
Operated by Land Conservation and Extension and does a lot of small plot research to give it some perspective. Some of the stuff 02:13:45
that's done at the research stations that UW Madison owns and operates. 02:13:50
All across the state. 02:13:55
So the route that we went was to have it be open for proposals from farmers themselves about what type of research. 02:13:56
That they would like to see on this land at the airport and what? 02:14:03
Types of. 02:14:07
How they would do that? 02:14:08
And so the proposal that you have in front of you. 02:14:09
Or I've read previously. 02:14:13
That was one of three that was submitted. 02:14:14
The There were several members of the Extension Land Conservation Committee that got together, all of whom were farmers. 02:14:17
And receive these proposals blind in that. 02:14:23
They weren't planned folded, but. 02:14:26
All of the names are taken off and struck from those, so there was number indication as to who submitted those proposals, and they 02:14:28
were chosen based off the merits of the proposals themselves. 02:14:32
The proposal that you have here. 02:14:37
I was I was impressed with from the robustness of the research that's being proposed. 02:14:40
This was. 02:14:45
Kind of devised in conversations with farmers, but this proposal is really coming from. 02:14:46
The farmers interest themselves. 02:14:50
We had meetings with all the different farmers who submitted those Perfol. 02:14:52
Proposals. 02:14:55
And I would like to highlight kind of different areas where I think that this proposal does well. 02:14:57
Mostly that. 02:15:04
It really focuses on the agronomics. 02:15:06
And the economics of farming. 02:15:08
Is trying to answer several key questions and proposing a. 02:15:11
Value driven approach, a UW recommendation system approach, and a performance driven approach approach. 02:15:15
And so the idea is to open. 02:15:22
Up their books in a sense, and look at what are the economics of doing these different approaches and how do they perform 02:15:24
agronomically answering key questions that are. 02:15:27
Pertinent to Dodge County farmers. 02:15:32
Like where can I cut costs especially in a low margin year? 02:15:34
For commodities like we have this year, that's a really critical question. 02:15:37
RUW recommendations accurate in Dodge County? That is a question I get a lot in my work. Is this actually what we should be doing 02:15:41
in this county and this is putting it to the test? 02:15:46
And I'll to comment on. 02:15:50
More in a little bit about. 02:15:51
The scale of it and why that's important. 02:15:53
And then finally. 02:15:55
Which of these approaches? 02:15:56
Yields the largest profit. 02:15:58
And I think their willingness to be open in their economics and how they're farming this and their returns from that and what 02:15:59
they're putting into it really bolsters the proposal and kind of providing more educational opportunities. 02:16:05
For Dodge County farmers to learn about different approaches to agriculture. 02:16:11
In the county. 02:16:15
And one of the things that these questions really. 02:16:19
Highlight is the need for more local research. 02:16:22
How is this? 02:16:25
Pertinent to my soil? How is this pertinent to my county not? 02:16:26
How does this workout in Arlington? 02:16:29
How does this work in Lancaster or other AG research stations? 02:16:31
And what's important about this is the scale of it. It's on a farm scale, a farm, a field scale, not on small, small plots or 02:16:34
strip trials. 02:16:38
Like, I do a lot of strip trials with farmers. It's great, you know, we get to take up a little portion of the farm, run our 02:16:42
experiments, see what it happens. 02:16:45
On the farm. 02:16:49
In on Dodge County soils, but. 02:16:50
Farmers, when they're managing their fields, aren't thinking, oh, on this tiny little strip I've got here, I'm going to do it just 02:16:52
like this. No, it's on a field level. So what this. 02:16:55
Allows us for farmers to see. 02:16:58
How are these different approaches? 02:17:00
Being done and management styles on the field that I'm thinking about with respect to my my farm management. 02:17:02
And finally. 02:17:09
What I also appreciate about the approach was the willingness to for field days and educational opportunities. 02:17:10
I work in the field of education. 02:17:15
I work and present at workshops and what this gives is a space for more educational opportunities for. 02:17:17
Other farmers to come in, ask questions about the different approaches and the research that's being done there. 02:17:23
So in some. 02:17:28
I think this gives us. 02:17:29
A potential for more local research here on Dodge in Dodge County that's farmer centric that's. 02:17:31
Been put forward by farmers. 02:17:36
From the county and that. 02:17:38
Someone for me, an extension, can help collaborate with these farmers to deepen that research. 02:17:40
To help in sampling and also writing up of research reports and presenting. 02:17:44
This as educational opportunities. 02:17:49
Thanks. 02:17:51
And I'm happy to answer any questions. 02:17:52
OK, Supervisor Cavazanjay. 02:17:54
Yeah, thank you very much. I as a local farmer, I. 02:17:58
Applaud the effort and. 02:18:02
To try and do some more local research, I do have a couple questions. 02:18:05
Knowing that we're going to generate a lot of data. 02:18:10
And data is very important right now to the farming community. It's a really sensitive issue. For the record, I'd like to make 02:18:13
sure that. 02:18:16
Going forward, the lease specifies that the county owns all the data. 02:18:20
That's generated by this. 02:18:26
By this farm and the operation because. 02:18:29
You can sell data now. Data is worth something. 02:18:32
The other. 02:18:36
Thing I wondered about was who has the oversight? 02:18:37
To make sure to verify. 02:18:41
That the work is actually being done the way it's planned. 02:18:43
As far as what's written in the agreement, if this proposal is accepted, a contract will be written. 02:18:50
Up that they will have to sign similar to what they're doing now and we'll we'll make that contract appropriate. 02:18:57
As far as who is the oversight? 02:19:02
And talking with Mr. Froling and that the. 02:19:05
The. 02:19:08
Control of the farm. 02:19:09
Currently has been with the highway department. 02:19:10
Mr. Froling and Cameron Clapper has been talking about moving that to the land Conservation Department because that's what we do. 02:19:14
So we would be. 02:19:20
The oversight. 02:19:22
For the operations out there, if that actually takes place. 02:19:23
Land Conservation Committee. 02:19:30
Well, the staff would be in would be. 02:19:32
Following it up, but the the reports and stuff would come to the committee, correct? 02:19:35
Along with the assistance of extension, obviously with a lot of the research side of it. 02:19:41
Supervisor band is in. 02:19:47
Thanks, Mr. Chairman. 02:19:51
He answered a lot of it what I was going to ask, but. 02:19:53
So there is. 02:19:56
Like I said, who? Who? 02:19:58
Who's gonna actually be planting this and and watching and maintaining this? 02:19:59
Yeah. So this. 02:20:04
One of the reasons why we went with this approach is because the onus is on the farmer. 02:20:05
This is land that they are renting. They're farming it. 02:20:09
But they're also doing research on that, so that way it's not falling to John or I to get out there and plant these. It's the 02:20:12
farmer. They're farming it. 02:20:16
All the management is on them rather than on. 02:20:19
County employees. 02:20:22
So you do have a farmer picked out already that's going to be. 02:20:24
It's in the proposal. Yeah, yeah. 02:20:29
2 farmers actually. 02:20:31
OK. 02:20:32
Supervisor Sigmund. 02:20:34
Yes, thank you. Is there an approach called an organic approach that you have included in this too? 02:20:36
It is not included in the in the proposal at the moment. 02:20:42
Do you do that anywhere? 02:20:45
In your other plots. 02:20:47
I do work with organic farmers. 02:20:50
Yes, in my in some of my research. Is that something you would do for Dodge County organic farmers too? 02:20:51
Yeah, I'm always willing to work with any types of farmers. 02:20:57
Well, as long as they're farming row crops and forage crops, because that's my, that's my lane. 02:21:00
What kind? Row crops and forage crops? 02:21:05
So, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that is in your plan or you might consider it. 02:21:07
It's not currently in this proposal because. 02:21:12
The approach that we had was to put it out for proposals from farmers themselves rather than. 02:21:14
Come up with an idea of how to manage the farm. 02:21:19
We as employees. 02:21:22
And that way it also maintains kind of. 02:21:23
Continuity and that. 02:21:27
For some reason, if I were to not be here, suddenly it's not just dropped. 02:21:29
And someone has to step in to manage that, but it's the farmer that is the one that is doing the managing of the land. 02:21:33
Thank you. 02:21:40
Anyone else? 02:21:43
Supervisor Johnson. 02:21:46
Yeah. I just want to make a note that the committee unanimously approved this just the way it was written, John and I had to come 02:21:48
back later in the day to sign it, but the committee did unanimously approve it. And I just like to say a couple things. This this 02:21:53
is something this we've talked about for for a long time, for over a year. 02:21:59
And this aligns very in a broad sense aligns with our county Board strategic plan, I mean business support. I appreciate what 02:22:05
Nancy just said. This is a farmer driven program. I don't people realize we have 330,000 acres of. 02:22:12
Crop farmland in Dodge County, we are the 4th largest in the state and for us to have a farmer LED group and and and take a real 02:22:20
interest and investment in this and and really our investments nominal and we own this land, it's by the airport. It's really just 02:22:26
incredible. And we're still going to get money money for this actually out of this as far as what will referred to as compared to 02:22:33
Janesville. We didn't have to buy any equipment or have any responsibility. 02:22:40
Moving equipment was an issue we talked a lot about. 02:22:47
And so this is a really clean way to to get the benefit far as the county's management of it. 02:22:51
This also aligns with our water quality goals, implementing best conservative practices, reducing the rate of nutrient sediment in 02:22:59
our waterways. 02:23:03
And quite frankly, the positive impact on our county's image. 02:23:07
Our our staff and our our. 02:23:13
Just it's is so positive. The whole this whole thing is, is just been such a positive impact I think throughout our our committee 02:23:16
and both extension and conservation involves both both departments. So I strongly support it and I would a lot of works been done 02:23:22
on this and I urge you to support this. Thank you. 02:23:29
Supervisor Sigmund. 02:23:36
Thank you. Just also wondering what was the rent per acre we were receiving last year or the last contract? 02:23:37
The last contract is $360.00 an acre. 02:23:44
The same person bid this time at $260.00 an acre. 02:23:48
OK. And this is going to be for 200, for 200? 02:23:54
Right when the proposals were sent out. 02:23:57
We were looking more at the research side and the benefits that would come back to Dodge County. 02:24:02
And then the three, the three proposals that came in, they submitted what they would be willing to pay for rent. 02:24:09
With their program. 02:24:15
This was the lower of the other of all three. 02:24:17
For the the proposals that came in. 02:24:21
But the research that this individual is willing to do far exceeded what the other two were interested in in applying out there. 02:24:23
I do want to clarify one thing that Andrew said. 02:24:32
He mentioned the farmer LED group. 02:24:37
There is a. 02:24:38
Farmer LED group in Dodge County and we both work very closely with that group. 02:24:39
This proposal has nothing to do with that group. 02:24:44
This proposal was submitted by two individual farmers, not. 02:24:47
The farmer LED group of Dodge County. 02:24:51
Thank you. 02:24:54
Supervisor Band. 02:24:56
Yeah, just a dance point. I did run the numbers on that and. 02:24:58
The there was two other people that. 02:25:02
Did the conservation farm? 02:25:06
Bid and that would come out to. 02:25:08
53,600 for four years. 02:25:10
There was one person that. 02:25:13
Just submitted to the highway non conservation farm. 02:25:15
And that ran out to like $68,000 / 4 years. 02:25:18
But me personally, I think the information gained is worth it. 02:25:23
Anyone else? 02:25:31
Anyone else? 02:25:33
If you agree with the recommendation to. 02:25:35
Enter into an agreement. 02:25:38
With Egg Unlimited. 02:25:40
Farming and research. 02:25:42
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:25:44
Supervisor free. 02:25:50
Yes. 02:25:53
All having voted, it passes 29 to 0. 02:25:55
Resolution. 02:26:00
2535. 02:26:02
Authorizing capital fund balance fund 400. 02:26:05
And 2025 Dodge County budget amendment for the highway department. 02:26:09
County Trunk highway De Bit bridge replacement. 02:26:13
All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of September. 02:26:18
Signed by five members of the Highway Committee and four members of the Finance Committee. 02:26:23
Finance Review. 02:26:29
Date September 16th, 2025. 02:26:31
Fiscal note. 02:26:36
This the project will be funded using the Capital project fund balance. 02:26:38
With an authorized expenditure limit of $800,000, reimbursement for all related expenses will be made to the Highway Fund. 02:26:42
As of end of fiscal year 2024, the available fund balance is $3,000,051. 02:26:51
163. 02:26:59
I have a motion by supervisor Beal and a second by supervisor Stager. Any questions on this? 02:27:02
Supervisor Krause. 02:27:11
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 02:27:13
I totally support this. This bridge happens to be in my district and actually in the Township I'm the town chairman on. 02:27:16
And it's been closed just about a year from now on and. 02:27:23
And. 02:27:26
Been getting a lot of calls about when it's going to get done and it's been a lengthy process. 02:27:27
The bridge is bad underneath. 02:27:32
The highway department looked at fixing it. 02:27:34
It was basically cost prohibitive because it was damaged in the middle, which is how I understand the most. 02:27:38
The worst place in. 02:27:44
Bridge can be damaged. 02:27:45
So. 02:27:48
The money wasn't spent today. I was closed down for the winter. It also goes over the Kalamas Creek, so there's permitting. 02:27:49
With a window, with fish and all that stuff that has to be dealt with. 02:27:55
And then there's engineering plans. And Long story short, we finally. 02:27:59
The highway the highway commissioner finally got option to do. 02:28:03
To do it and. 02:28:07
This road is highly traveled. 02:28:09
The the residents of my district have been very patient, but the urgency to get it done is rising. 02:28:14
So the road is highly traveled. Harvest seasons upon us. 02:28:22
I've had a couple conversations with the school district and Beaver Dam. They're wondering when we're going to get it open. 02:28:26
And. 02:28:31
We have United Cooperative in our in that area that's a mile down the road that uses a couple miles on the road, uses that highway 02:28:32
quite a bit. So I encourage everyone to please. 02:28:37
Authorize this. 02:28:41
Fund transfer in the budget and. 02:28:43
Hopefully when we get the bids come in and everything here in a couple weeks that everything falls in with this dollar amount. 02:28:46
And that we can get a structure in and hopefully get it in by this fall. Otherwise we're probably looking at at least to the 02:28:52
middle summer again, in my opinion, before even gets looked at again. And to me, that's just way too long. 02:28:57
Thank you. 02:29:03
Anyone else? 02:29:04
Anyone else? 02:29:07
If you agree with the recommendation of the committee. 02:29:09
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:29:12
Supervisor Free Vault. 02:29:18
Yes. 02:29:21
All having voted, it passes 29 to 0. 02:29:23
Report one. 02:29:29
Ordinance. 02:29:31
1177. 02:29:33
The 2000 official Dodge County zoning map for the town of. 02:29:38
Or I apologize. 02:29:42
So amend land use code Joseph Rake property town of Calamus. 02:29:45
We're just respectfully submitted the 16th day of September, signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 02:29:52
I have a motion by supervisor Bubble to second by supervisor Kraus. 02:30:01
Any questions on this report? 02:30:06
Any questions? 02:30:11
If you agree with the report, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:30:14
Supervisor Free Vault. 02:30:22
Yes. 02:30:24
All having voted, it passes 28 to 1. 02:30:28
Ordinance 1178IN Ordinance amending Chapter 7, section. 02:30:33
7.04 Speed limits of the Dodge County Code of Ordinances. 02:30:38
All of which is respectfully submitted. 02:30:45
The second day of September 2025, signed by three members of the Highway Committee. 02:30:48
I have a motion by supervisor Beal second by supervisor. 02:30:54
Any questions on? 02:30:58
This. 02:31:01
Ordinance. 02:31:02
Supervisor Breslow. 02:31:04
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I would like to amend this ordinance. 02:31:05
As it's written. 02:31:10
I believe the reason that they're requesting the speed limit change. 02:31:12
Is because of the construction in the area and there's going to be traffic signals. 02:31:17
There during the construction. 02:31:20
So I'm asking that we amend it. 02:31:23
To sunset. 02:31:26
The speed limit to backs where it's at now. 02:31:27
Upon removal of the traffic signals. 02:31:31
Just do all that. 02:31:34
OK, do we have a second? 02:31:35
Give me a second by Supervisor Belk. 02:31:38
So. 02:32:07
Ready to come up? 02:32:17
Oh yeah. Oh yeah, we're in. 02:32:25
Are you ready to vote? 02:32:27
Well, I just. 02:32:29
Does everybody see the? 02:32:30
Motion to amend. Yeah, I don't see the contact sign here. Is it on that screen? 02:32:32
Sunset speed limit at which time traffic came down here. All right, the motion is to sunset. 02:32:41
The speed limit when the traffic. 02:32:48
When the construction is over in the traffic lights are gone. Is that correct? 02:32:51
All right. Any discussion on the amendment? 02:32:56
Hearing none. If you agree with the amendment to Sunset, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:33:00
Supervisor Free Vault. 02:33:14
Yes. 02:33:16
All having voted, the amendment passes 24 to 5. 02:33:20
We are now back to the. 02:33:32
Resolution as amended. 02:33:34
Any questions? 02:33:37
Any questions? 02:33:42
If you agree with the resolution as amended, please vote yes. 02:33:45
If you do not, please vote no. 02:33:49
Supervisor Bob Voltz. 02:34:04
Thank you Supervisor. Free Vault. 02:34:07
Yes. 02:34:10
All having voted, it passes 29 to 0. 02:34:13
Ordinance 1179. 02:34:18
An ordinance amending the 2000 official zoning map for the town of Ashapen. 02:34:22
Adopted with the land use code. 02:34:28
All of which is respectfully submitted this 8th day of September 2025. Signed by two members of the Land Resources and Parks 02:34:32
Committee. 02:34:36
I have a motion by Supervisor Burnett, second by Supervisor Bubbles. 02:34:42
Questions. 02:34:47
Comments on this? 02:34:48
Ordinance. 02:34:50
Any questions or comments on this ordinance? 02:34:54
Supervisor segment. 02:34:58
Thank you. 02:35:01
I shared information. 02:35:02
In the past giving you 20 or so inconsistencies related to this rezoning in the town of Ashepon. 02:35:04
And those who tell you it is consistent. 02:35:10
Do not show you why I give facts. 02:35:13
They give opinions. 02:35:16
So I just ask, are we as a majority of the board? 02:35:18
Really going to throw? 02:35:21
Our good residents, so many who came this evening again. 02:35:24
Many who have to work harder to get here than we. 02:35:27
Most of us do. 02:35:30
I even had a call that. 02:35:32
Said I can't make it. Everything fell apart on me on the farm. They really care about this. 02:35:34
So I hope that we as a majority of the board really. 02:35:39
Are not going to throw them under the. 02:35:42
Bus again. 02:35:44
Even. 02:35:46
When their beliefs align with. 02:35:47
Our comprehensive plan and farmland preservation plan. 02:35:50
Both of which we have voted to accept and to follow as a board. 02:35:54
Thank you. 02:35:59
Supervisor Durr. 02:36:01
We aren't the final. 02:36:03
We aren't the final thing here, right? 02:36:05
So. 02:36:07
That golf course has already spent plenty of money. 02:36:07
And if we? 02:36:10
Say well. 02:36:12
We're going to overrule the Towning Board. 02:36:15
Town Board. 02:36:17
That's fine. 02:36:18
And then they go to the Circuit Court. 02:36:19
And Circuit Court is going to do exactly what I said we should be doing. It's also a reviewing court. 02:36:21
Did they have jurisdiction? 02:36:26
Yes. 02:36:28
Did they follow the proper procedures? 02:36:29
No one has told me they didn't. 02:36:31
Where was their action arbitrary? 02:36:35
Was it unreasonable based on the facts? Nobody's told me. 02:36:37
What? 02:36:42
The Town Board said. 02:36:43
What facts they had. 02:36:45
And why it didn't fit? 02:36:47
And and then understand that the circuit. 02:36:49
Court doesn't want to redo anything. 02:36:53
They don't want to do. 02:36:55
Redo everything, just like we shouldn't redo everything. So they're going to give a lot of discretion. 02:36:56
To the town board. 02:37:01
And so. 02:37:03
We're kind of a middle layer. 02:37:04
If if they haven't done what they're supposed to do. 02:37:05
Then then we can't support it and I. 02:37:10
Am feeling really sad about that because if I were on the town board. 02:37:14
I would have approved it. 02:37:19
But I'm not. 02:37:21
And and if we're just going to say that. 02:37:23
Whoever comes to talk. 02:37:26
That we're going to overrule. 02:37:27
A committee that's supposedly doing their job. 02:37:29
Well, they can just appeal it. 02:37:33
They're a golf course. 02:37:35
They'll just appeal it. 02:37:36
Right. 02:37:37
So it's frustrating. 02:37:41
Anyone else? 02:37:44
Corp Council. 02:37:47
If I may, I just want to clarify the procedure here. 02:37:49
So the board at the last meeting. 02:37:52
Approve the rezone and by our county code. 02:37:55
This. 02:37:58
This body then. 02:38:00
Needs to be presented with an ordinance. That's what you have here today. 02:38:01
It is a procedural ordinance. 02:38:06
And I will read to you the county code that says. 02:38:08
That upon. 02:38:11
The committee or upon the county board approving the rezone. 02:38:13
Which again, that was done in August. 02:38:17
Then the board directs the committee to bring forth. 02:38:20
And present an ordinance. That's what you have here today. 02:38:24
And just for. 02:38:27
Clarification. 02:38:29
So that. 02:38:30
Everyone is on the same page and the board is aware. 02:38:31
The town of Asteron did approve. 02:38:34
The rezone. 02:38:37
So, umm. 02:38:38
The Town of Asher Pins supported it. 02:38:39
And sent it forward to the board. 02:38:41
Back in August. 02:38:43
So this is a procedural ordinance. 02:38:45
That will then officially amend the. 02:38:47
Anyone else? 02:38:54
Supervisor Hedrick. 02:38:57
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 02:39:00
I I've had a stomach ache about this one since since it came before us last month. 02:39:02
I. 02:39:08
I will. I won't go against what the town. 02:39:10
Decided. 02:39:14
I don't feel that's my role. 02:39:15
But I also come from an agricultural background. 02:39:18
And I know what this would be. 02:39:21
For the farmers. 02:39:23
This, this does give me a stomach ache. This happened. This started with the golf course. The you know, the, the big. 02:39:24
Golf course is 15.1 acres is. 02:39:30
Just a small portion of the. 02:39:33
The huge. 02:39:35
The golf course itself. 02:39:36
They've said they're going to go ahead either way. 02:39:37
It it takes me back to our. 02:39:42
Umm, strategic goals, one of which being. 02:39:44
One of which we said we want to. 02:39:48
Really, look at. 02:39:51
Our. 02:39:53
Zoning. 02:39:55
Procedures. 02:39:56
And really? 02:39:57
Make them consistent. 02:39:59
And I just want to emphasize that. 02:40:01
I I think also about the. 02:40:04
Data center, which I know we we. 02:40:06
Didn't have any say in. 02:40:08
But. 02:40:10
I I would. 02:40:13
Ask that we do keep that in mind that one of our strategic goals is to. 02:40:14
Make our. 02:40:19
Zoning. 02:40:20
Procedures very consistent. 02:40:21
And. 02:40:23
Yeah, they're. 02:40:26
We see there are ways around them. 02:40:27
Nothing we can do about that. I guess I just had to share that. 02:40:30
Thank you. 02:40:33
Anyone else? 02:40:36
If you agree with the ordinance as presented. 02:40:40
Amend the. 02:40:46
Land use. 02:40:48
Map to. 02:40:49
To reflect. 02:40:51
The vote that was taken last month. 02:40:52
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:40:54
Supervisor Freevault. 02:41:03
No. 02:41:05
All having voted, it passes 22 to 7. 02:41:08
Claim one. 02:41:14
On the recommendation of the Dodge County Corporation Council in consultation with Wisconsin Municipal. 02:41:17
Municipal unit. 02:41:23
Mutual Insurance Company. 02:41:25
We, the Dodge County Executive Committee, recommend that the Dodge County Board of Supervisors disallow the claim made by Dennis 02:41:27
Stilling. 02:41:31
Dated August 12, 2025, alleging. 02:41:34
Damage to the front of a fifth wheel camper. 02:41:38
Have a motion by Supervisor Guckenberger and second by Supervisor Beal. 02:41:42
Supervisor segment. Hi, thank you. I just have a question, did they hit it or not? 02:41:49
It seems pretty. 02:41:55
I mean we have a lot of work going on around our road and they have back through fences and never told us. 02:41:56
The animals tell us. 02:42:03
They meet us in our front yard. 02:42:05
But there there there is a picture of damage. The question is so. 02:42:08
It didn't happen. It did happen. If it did, why wasn't? 02:42:14
The highway department. 02:42:19
Open the eye. This is kind of raises a question mark in my mind because saying things do happen and if it if we did it, we should. 02:42:20
Make good on it. Thank you. 02:42:27
Speak Brain. 02:42:31
Can we turn turn the mic on back there from the right? 02:42:33
Train Track. 02:42:43
OK. 02:42:45
Thank you. 02:42:46
I can explain some of this. 02:42:46
It was one of our supervisors that noticed the damage to this. 02:42:48
5th wheel camper that's parked adjacent to the right away on our county trunk highway. K job. 02:42:51
There's many, many trucks in and out of that area. Some are highways, some are contractors. 02:42:56
Nobody. 02:43:01
Record acknowledge that they hit this thing. 02:43:02
And in the size of it. 02:43:05
Tri axle dump truck. 02:43:07
And the very minute damage to this thing, it is possible. 02:43:08
That somebody did contact that camper and not even know it. 02:43:12
We have no idea who hit it. It was one of our supervisors that. 02:43:15
Approached the owner and said I want to make you aware of this. 02:43:18
I don't know who or one of that. 02:43:21
Who did it or when it happened but. 02:43:22
Want you to be aware of it. 02:43:25
He could have just drove by like so many others had, but he. 02:43:26
He took the High Road and. 02:43:29
And I made the owner aware of it. 02:43:31
So that's how it started. We have no idea who hit it, no way of knowing that. 02:43:33
But the owner did choose to file a claim. 02:43:37
And the insurance company. 02:43:40
And probably be contacted. 02:43:42
Do the job. 02:43:46
Fraser, Dur. 02:43:50
We are not. 02:43:53
A court. 02:43:54
It's not our job to find out. 02:43:55
What? What happened? 02:43:57
Even if it's obvious, this is a procedural step that any attorney must make before they file a negligence case or a personal 02:43:59
injury or anything where the county is a defendant. So this is routine. 02:44:06
We hit no, we reject it, and then they get to start their suit. Then they'll start negotiating. 02:44:13
Or they'll appeal it or whatever. 02:44:18
But that's what this step is. It's just. 02:44:20
It's just no. 02:44:24
Anyone else? 02:44:27
Anyone else? 02:44:29
OK, if you agree with the recommendation. 02:44:32
To deny the claim. 02:44:37
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:44:39
Supervisor free. 02:44:48
Yes. 02:44:50
All having voted, it passes 28 to 1. 02:44:53
What do we have on the desk tonight? There is nothing to report on desks. 02:44:59
Supervisor Johnson. 02:45:07
I have a second. 02:45:16
All in favor signify by aye. 02:45:17
Aye. 02:45:19
Opposed, that is. 02:45:21
Thank you. 02:45:23
Thank you supervisor. Free fault. Have a good night. 02:45:24
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Rosie Bauman. 00:00:04
In Danette, Reed will be right after if you can be ready. 00:00:06
In 2023 our farm was part of the ash. 00:00:23
Town of Ashburn proudly celebrating local family farms that have remained in the same family for over 100 years. 00:00:25
Our farm has actually been in our family since 1863. That's over 160 years of commitment, care and cultivation. 00:00:32
These farms are more than land. 00:00:39
They are the heart of our history, a testament to perseverance and a foundation for future generations. 00:00:41
They are not just agriculture. 00:00:47
But heritage, resilience and community roots. 00:00:48
Is our responsibility to protect? 00:00:51
These farm family farms from the growing pressures of development, consolidation and economic hardships. 00:00:53
It's our please help us ensure that our family farm remains viable for our children and our grandchildren. 00:01:00
Together we can make sure that the next generation not only remembers these farms, but can inherit them. 00:01:06
This golf course is. 00:01:12
Foregone conclusion You still have the power to do what is right for our family, our farmers and our heritage. Stand with our 00:01:13
farmers and vote against the rezoning of this land and against the development of this golf course. 00:01:19
Thank you. 00:01:24
Now we have Danette Reed. 00:01:31
Up next is Clayton Ruffno. 00:01:33
My name is Annette Reed. I live across from the proposed practice area. 00:01:37
We are here tonight to talk about. 00:01:42
The rezoning of 15 acres, it was owned A1 agriculture from the beginning and it should stay that way. Why can't we just follow the 00:01:45
zoning rules of Ashopen that was implemented? It's like we have no ethics or morals anymore. Anybody can do what they want that 00:01:50
fits them. 00:01:56
They have no consideration to no one but themselves. He bought that land knowing it was zoned A1. 00:02:01
Does that what? 00:02:07
Gives him the right to just come in and want to rezone things to whatever suits him. He doesn't. 00:02:08
Think he has to play by Asher? Penn rules. 00:02:14
Well, if you don't like our rules, he can leave. 00:02:18
It was a town meeting recently. A lady was complaining about the condos going up next door to her. She said I bought that property 00:02:20
for peace and quiet, not knowing the condors next door. 00:02:25
Then one of the board members from Ashburn said. 00:02:31
Maybe you should have. 00:02:34
Talk to your realtor or looked at the zoning before you bought it. 00:02:35
Why is this different for this lady compared to Brent Craig? 00:02:39
Golf Course. 00:02:42
Ashurban people care about our farmland. 00:02:45
Just look at how many Ashburn people are here. 00:02:48
Thank you. 00:02:50
Clayton. 00:02:54
Up next is Clayton Rupp now. 00:02:58
If Bob Gunther. 00:03:00
Can be ready next. 00:03:02
Hello, thank you all for being here. 00:03:04
Just a quick one. I'm here about the insurance proposal you guys want to look at and. 00:03:07
Amanda, do whatever with. I'm just here to say I disagree with it. 00:03:12
Because the percentages are not. 00:03:17
Factual. 00:03:19
It's 80 percentage of what? 00:03:21
The people that took the survey? 00:03:23
Not everybody in Dodge County that works for Dodge County. 00:03:25
Took the survey. 00:03:28
So the facts are not. 00:03:29
Correct. 00:03:31
Other than that. 00:03:33
I just want to get that out there. 00:03:34
Thank you all for listening. 00:03:36
Bob Gunther is up next. 00:03:44
And then after Bob, if we can have. 00:03:46
Mark. 00:03:49
Sherbal ready? 00:03:50
Thank you. As I said last month at the meeting, the town of Ashman is unique in Dodge County and how they do their zoning. 00:03:56
The zoning in the town of Ashburn is done by. 00:04:03
The soil type, so the best soils. 00:04:05
Our A1 soils, which is. 00:04:08
In this instance. 00:04:10
The parcel, that is. 00:04:11
Being changed from A1 to A2. 00:04:13
Mr. Craig has said at numerous meetings that the golf course will be built whether the zoning change is made or not. 00:04:15
But for the farmers? 00:04:22
This. 00:04:24
Zoning change is a need. We need the land to be able to and if we change this zoning. 00:04:24
What's the stop the next guy come in and say. 00:04:30
I want it changed. 00:04:33
One our need should supplant. 00:04:34
Want. 00:04:37
We need to defend our farmers and we need to defend the land. 00:04:38
And we've also. 00:04:42
Many times talked about farmland preservation and. 00:04:44
All the things that we should do to preserve farmland. 00:04:47
But when it comes to a vote, we seem to turn our back on those thoughts. 00:04:50
The zoning change should be based on facts. Now I'm sure that all of you have received. 00:04:55
A letter from a lawyer that's working with us and he stated the facts that are in your zoning. 00:05:00
Ordinances. 00:05:06
And referenced each fact and how. 00:05:08
It is. 00:05:11
Opposed to this zoning change. 00:05:11
And I'm hoping that you'll listen to them, you'll look at your zoning change. 00:05:14
This should not have anything to do with how you voted for before. 00:05:18
You know, I think it was mentioned at the last meeting that out of. 00:05:21
66 zoning changes You are 68. You change 66. 00:05:24
Well, out of those 68, only two were in the town of Ashland. That was a fact that. 00:05:29
Was not brought to your attention. So in town of Ashburn, we're trying to preserve farmland. 00:05:34
Being a multi generational farmer I want this to stay for my. 00:05:39
Family who farms and for all the generations to come. 00:05:42
And I hope you'll stand with the farmers of not only the town of Ash. 00:05:46
But for Dodge County? 00:05:49
And. 00:05:51
Deny this zoning change. 00:05:52
Thank you very much. 00:05:54
Next is. 00:05:59
Brad. 00:06:00
And if we can have Dale Redland ready. 00:06:02
Oh, Mark Scherbel. 00:06:09
And then Brad Kraut and Dale Redland. 00:06:12
You to be ready. 00:06:16
I'm here because I. 00:06:19
I bought land. 00:06:20
Just South. 00:06:21
Of the proposed. 00:06:22
Golf Course. 00:06:25
I got 39 acres down there. I strictly use it for honey. 00:06:26
It's wetland. 00:06:30
And. 00:06:31
Not mistaken, I looked that up. What a 1 is a preserve? 00:06:33
Wildlife or. 00:06:36
And everything else. And I would. 00:06:38
Totally go against this because I want. 00:06:39
To preserve that land just for wildlife. 00:06:42
And for the farmers sake. 00:06:44
Of that M. 00:06:46
That's all more unless I got. 00:06:47
Thank you. 00:06:49
Brad Kraut is up next. 00:06:52
Dale Redland. 00:06:54
Is after. 00:06:56
And Ron Blackledge, if you could be ready. 00:06:58
As a resident of landowner of Dodge County in the town of Ashpen, I request you to deny the zoning request for the 15.1 acres of a 00:07:03
one prime agricultural land. 00:07:08
To A to agricultural land. 00:07:13
Residents of rural Dodge County in the Town of Ashland have the right to maintain our rural lifestyle free from development and 00:07:16
conflicts. 00:07:19
That the area's agriculture that attacked the area's agriculture character. 00:07:22
We trust our elected officials to provide and protect these rural areas in our way of life. 00:07:26
As outlined in your code. 00:07:31
And your plans? 00:07:33
A1 Prime agricultural land needs to be protected. 00:07:35
Dodge County created protections in the Dodge County Land Use Code, the Dodge County Comprehensive Plan, and the Dodge County 00:07:38
Farmland Preservation Plan. 00:07:41
This requested zoning changes in violation, contrary to all of the aforementioned. 00:07:45
I'm not opposed to golf courses. I'm not opposed to development. 00:07:50
But I am object to these projects being put in. 00:07:53
Farmland and natural resource areas. 00:07:57
Golf course would damage both and doesn't fit the surrounding land. 00:07:59
This change in zoning should be. 00:08:04
Not be allowed because. 00:08:07
The change will not result in better use of the land. 00:08:09
Which is not allowed to be an A1 agricultural physic. 00:08:11
The rezoning is inconsistent with both the Dodge County Comprehensive Plan and the Dodge County Wisconsin Farmland Preservation 00:08:15
Plan. 00:08:18
The zoning will subsequently substantially impair or limit current or future agriculture use of land that is zoned for legally 00:08:22
restricted. 00:08:26
To agricultural use. 00:08:30
Overall. 00:08:33
Dodge County adopted plans related to agricultural land. 00:08:34
Which is zoning request is not compliant. 00:08:37
This zoning request is a clearly a violation of Dodge County Land Use Code. 00:08:47
The comprehensive plan and the county farmland. 00:08:52
Therefore. 00:08:58
It should be denied. 00:08:59
Thank you. 00:09:02
Deal. 00:09:04
I'm Dale Redland. I, along with my mother, operated dairy farm directly across the proposed golf course. 00:09:13
I'm asking you to all vote against rezoning it for. 00:09:19
Several reasons. One of the main reasons is if we. 00:09:23
Vote to change this. 00:09:26
What's you know, what's next in line? 00:09:28
Also. 00:09:31
If you're to change something. 00:09:33
Will make it for a worthy cause, like possibly a school hospital. 00:09:35
Some fire station, Something of. 00:09:39
More benefit to the general public as a whole. 00:09:42
I don't believe the golf course is really going to benefit. 00:09:45
The general population as a whole. So I suggest that you. 00:09:48
Vote against the rezoning. 00:09:52
Thank you. 00:09:54
Thank you. 00:09:55
Ron Blackledge is up, and then Cheryl Blackledge should be ready. 00:09:58
Good afternoon or evening, whichever it happens to be. 00:10:08
But we moved to Coolidge Rd. 18 years ago. 00:10:11
From Owosso, Oklahoma. 00:10:15
We picked our. 00:10:17
Home because it was out in the country. We're country folks, born and raised in Indiana on farms. 00:10:19
And we enjoy it. It's quiet. 00:10:24
It's very peaceful. 00:10:27
Very beautiful out there. 00:10:29
I have some questions though, that I hope you all have considered. I know you've seen a letter. 00:10:31
But has a DNR really studied the effects of the kettle forge? 00:10:35
On the watershed in the area, how about how will that affect the watershed? 00:10:40
Has the DNR and if not I would request they do so study the ability of the aquifer. 00:10:47
Provides our water. 00:10:53
Can it keep up? 00:10:55
With our houses and with the golf Kettle Forge golf range, OK. 00:10:56
That's a main concern. 00:11:02
Can they keep? Can it keep up? 00:11:04
Also. 00:11:06
With the DNR monitor that aquifer. 00:11:07
If Kettle Forge is approved, will they modify or will they monitor that aquifer? 00:11:10
To make sure. 00:11:17
That the water supply is there. 00:11:18
I would suggest they do at least every couple months. 00:11:20
And then what about taxes? Has there been anything said or any incentives given to Kettle Forge? 00:11:23
If so. 00:11:29
How much and why? 00:11:30
They don't need incentives. 00:11:32
And that's another issue. We have our town of Ashburn. 00:11:34
And these roads repaired, they need a. 00:11:37
A lot of things that require money. Will our tax base go up? 00:11:40
Just because of kettle forge? 00:11:44
Another thing that I found out was he wants to build cottages. 00:11:46
How many? 00:11:50
And how big? 00:11:51
What's the square footage of these going to be? 00:11:53
Will they qualify as a rental? 00:11:55
Or will they qualify as a residential? 00:11:57
Webster defines a cottage. 00:12:01
As a small house. 00:12:04
So. 00:12:05
If that's the case. 00:12:06
Will residential zoning? 00:12:09
Has it been mentioned? 00:12:11
Or will it be required? 00:12:12
That's something we need to find out. 00:12:14
Has one been requested? 00:12:16
So my request to you. 00:12:19
Is to keep it rule. 00:12:21
Thank you. 00:12:23
Cheryl Blackledge is next, and then Brian. 00:12:32
Sleevey should be ready. 00:12:36
My name is Cheryl Blackledge. 00:12:42
As my husband Ron said, we live. 00:12:44
On Coolidge Rd. 00:12:46
In the town of Ash Ashen. 00:12:48
We've been there 18 years. 00:12:50
I am speaking along with my husband in opposition. 00:12:53
To Kettle Forge Golf Course. 00:12:56
Mainly because of the loss of. 00:12:59
Farmland. 00:13:02
And beautiful timber. 00:13:03
Another main concern is. 00:13:06
Our roads. 00:13:08
Our little. 00:13:10
Country roads. 00:13:11
Are not. 00:13:12
Built or were not built. 00:13:13
For increased traffic. 00:13:15
And most of this traffic, since we live on Coolidge Rd. would go right by our house. 00:13:18
There also are not built for any construction equipment. 00:13:23
That would be needed. 00:13:28
To build this golf course. 00:13:29
Another main concern of mine is water usage. 00:13:32
We all. 00:13:37
Each property in this area have our own wells. 00:13:38
The United States Golf Association. 00:13:42
Estimates the average water consumption of an 18 hole golf course. 00:13:45
Is 200 million gallons of water a year? 00:13:50
How's this going to affect our wells? 00:13:54
We also don't care for wildlife to be disturbed. 00:13:58
There's numerous sandhill crane nests. 00:14:01
In property that borders this golf course. 00:14:04
And we regularly see all kinds of wildlife like Turkey, fox, pheasant. 00:14:07
Dear Also, Ron and I are avid stargazers. 00:14:12
We do not want anymore. 00:14:17
Light pollution in our area. 00:14:19
And no more noise pollution. 00:14:22
To me. 00:14:25
It's kind of a slap in the face. 00:14:26
To be told how gorgeous and beautiful and spectacular this golf course is going to be. 00:14:29
But I can't use it. 00:14:36
Because it's a. 00:14:38
Private golf course. 00:14:39
There's a lot of money involved if I want to be a member of this golf course. 00:14:41
Our neighbors are are people that work hard. 00:14:47
For their money. 00:14:50
You're you're up to your time limit. 00:14:52
Thank you. 00:14:54
Thank you. 00:14:55
Brian. 00:14:57
Is next and then Jody Kell should be ready. 00:15:00
All right. Thank you. 00:15:09
My name is Brian Schlevy, I live in the town of Ashburn on the corner of Washington and Coolidge Rd. 00:15:10
With the potential golf course going in my backyard. 00:15:17
I am concerned on many. 00:15:20
Things about this? 00:15:22
But not including, but not limited to water usage runoff. 00:15:23
Increased traffic. 00:15:27
The effect on our neighboring farms. 00:15:30
Kennels and pheasant farm. 00:15:33
However, tonight, we're not here to talk about that. 00:15:35
We're talking about. 00:15:38
The rezoning of. 00:15:39
15 acres. 00:15:40
I am opposed to. 00:15:43
The county granting approval of this conversion. 00:15:45
I believe it goes against our town and counties farmland. 00:15:49
Per preservation goals. 00:15:54
A lot of work has been put into those goals. 00:15:56
And. 00:15:59
I think it's important that we maintain those and keep our farms. 00:16:00
And farmland. 00:16:03
Prospering. 00:16:05
You know if if it does go through, it really opens the door. 00:16:07
For what's next? 00:16:10
A1 Anything in the county. 00:16:13
You know, I think you guys are talking about all. 00:16:15
A campground. 00:16:18
That you've denied. 00:16:20
There's so many things that can't. 00:16:21
Be presented. 00:16:23
To. 00:16:25
Prime beautiful egg land. 00:16:26
That we have really very little of. 00:16:28
Into. 00:16:31
Residential commercial property. 00:16:32
Yeah, as you've heard through the process over the past couple months. 00:16:36
You know, there's much opposition to it. 00:16:40
And you know, I would hope that and appreciate that you maintain the zoning as it is. 00:16:43
Thank you. 00:16:48
Thank you. 00:16:49
Jody Kell is next. 00:16:51
And Jessica M Key should be ready. 00:16:54
Hello, I am Jody Kale. 00:17:03
I own Cackle Creek game preserve. 00:17:05
Which is a business just. 00:17:07
My closest field is about 300 yards away from the golf course. 00:17:09
There's three things that I need. 00:17:14
To make to be successful in my business and 1 is good birds. 00:17:16
Good cover. 00:17:20
And good neighbors. It takes a community I have. I have wonderful neighbors. 00:17:21
And with a golf course. 00:17:25
I have no idea who's coming in. There could be hundreds of people that I don't know and what kind of people these are. It concerns 00:17:27
me. 00:17:30
And and then in the future, what about? 00:17:34
The future development it sounds like they're trying to fit. 00:17:37
10 lbs into a 5 LB bag. 00:17:40
So. 00:17:42
I think. 00:17:43
The the I I stand for. 00:17:44
You know, agriculture and and. 00:17:46
I thought Ashepin stood for, you know, preservation of agriculture and farm fields and, and keeping things rural. The more 00:17:48
neighbors we get in here, this is like green lighting. They let this happen. They, they, you know, twist the rules around to let 00:17:53
this happen. They're going to let anything fly. And before you know it, our farm fields are going to turn into more subdivisions 00:17:57
and. 00:18:02
The more the more people in the area is just going to mean a. 00:18:07
A main devastation to our farmers and and trying for for a game farm to it. 00:18:11
The more neighbors is not good. We need to things to stay wild and natural and. 00:18:17
Preserve that way. Thank you. 00:18:21
Jessica Emke. 00:18:27
Hi there. 00:18:36
I'm not here to talk about Ashpens Golf Course. I'm here to talk about my own resolution on tonight's docket. 00:18:37
My name is Jessica Emke, I'm the owner of the property, and I am here to express support for the rezoning petition. 00:18:44
And respectfully challenge the committee's conclusion that it conflicts with the Dodge County. 00:18:50
Comprehensive plan and farmland preservation plan. 00:18:55
On the August 25th meeting. 00:18:58
Per their transcript. 00:19:00
Dodge County. 00:19:01
Stated that the proposal is consistent with the Dodge County Comprehensive Plan and Farmland Preservation Plan. 00:19:03
But yeah, when it came time to the final vote they claimed it was not consistent with these. The future land use map allows for 00:19:09
limited non farm uses under A2 zoning, including transitional low impact developments. 00:19:14
Like the proposed glamping campground, I'm not proposing a high density or industrial project. It's a small scale eco friendly 00:19:20
initiative that complements the rural character of the area. 00:19:26
The A2 General Agricultural Zoning District was created for this kind of use. My vision includes somewhere between 5:00 and 10:00 00:19:31
structures. 00:19:35
And a shared bathroom and shower house. I want to plant more trees and flowers and make the lot more private from Rd. traffic. 00:19:39
The committee emphasized the soil quality. 00:19:46
But it's important to note that the proposed structures, yurts, tiny homes, glamping tents are temporary and removable. 00:19:49
The Land's agricultural potential is not permanently impaired, in fact it can be restored to farming if needed. The lot is not 00:19:56
currently being farmed, it's just grass and not being used for anything. 00:20:02
The staff review also found the proposal meets the requirements of section 2.3, Point 4, Point I of the Land Use Code and 00:20:08
Wisconsin Statutes 91.48 Ignoring this analysis undermines the integrity of the review process. 00:20:15
Finally, the committee failed to consider the economic and community benefits. This project would generate income, attract tourism 00:20:22
and support local businesses. 00:20:26
All of preserving the rural landscape. 00:20:30
In closing, I urge the committee to reconsider. This proposal reflects A balanced, forward thinking approach to land use, one that 00:20:32
respects farmland preservation while embracing sustainable rural development. Thank you. 00:20:38
Thank you. 00:20:45
Any others? 00:20:47
None others out there correct? 00:20:50
We were closed public comment. 00:20:54
Next, we have special orders of business. 00:20:58
Confirm appointments by the county administrator. 00:21:02
To appoint Patty Evans to serve on the Commission on Aging and Disability Services for a three-year term. 00:21:05
To expire July 1st, 2028. 00:21:13
Do we have a motion for approval? 00:21:17
Have a motion by Supervisor Belk. 00:21:26
Second by supervisor Beal. 00:21:28
All in favor, please signify by aye. 00:21:32
Aye, opposed. 00:21:35
That is carried. 00:21:36
Reappoint Mary Reek. 00:21:38
To the Housing Authority for a five year term to expire September 30th, 2030. 00:21:40
Do I have a motion to approve? 00:21:47
Motion. Motion by. 00:21:49
Supervisor my nail and a second by Supervisor Hedrick. 00:21:51
All in favor signify by aye. 00:21:55
Aye, opposed. 00:21:58
That is scary. 00:22:00
Next we'll have a. We're going to have a presentation. 00:22:04
By Kevin Masaryk, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. 00:22:08
With a final summary of the 2020 to 2025 well water testing study. 00:22:11
John, you're gonna. 00:22:17
Preface it. 00:22:19
I'm John Bahonic. I'm the Director of Land Water Conservation Department. 00:22:28
Dodge County between our department and UW Extension has been testing groundwater. 00:22:31
From private wells for. 00:22:36
20-30 years. 00:22:38
But it's usually been at a Township level. 00:22:40
And we rotated around. 00:22:43
And while we get some. 00:22:45
Some good data from that. 00:22:46
We felt it was more beneficial to go to a countrywide well testing program. 00:22:48
I've heard Kevin talk at some different conferences and we thought that was a good way to go, so we entered into a program with 00:22:54
him five years ago. 00:22:58
To where we would test. 00:23:02
The entire county. 00:23:03
I'll let him explain that a little more. We just completed the program here this last fall. 00:23:05
So now. 00:23:10
The committee has been in conversations with. 00:23:12
Where do we go from here? So I'll discuss that a little later, but. 00:23:15
Thanks, John. 00:23:22
Is it? 00:23:25
While we're waiting for. 00:23:31
The screen to pop up. I just want to thank. 00:23:33
Dodge County Land Conservation Department and the County board. 00:23:37
Who agreed to fund this work? You might not. 00:23:40
Realize you know when this program started, but it was five years ago. 00:23:43
When we started this so most of you are. 00:23:48
Some of you may not have been here at that time. 00:23:50
Those of you that were, thank you for supporting this program. 00:23:52
As a reminder, anybody that lives out in rural areas. 00:23:56
Private. Well, those are largely unregulated water supplies if you live in the city. 00:23:59
Somebody working to test that water, ensure it's safe to drink. So this program really was about helping Dodge County better 00:24:04
understand rural. 00:24:08
Private drinking water, specifically with the question of. 00:24:12
How is water quality? 00:24:15
Changing overtime, we have great baseline data due to the efforts of Dodge County previously. 00:24:17
But increasingly, we've been getting the question of is our? 00:24:22
Groundwater Is our well water quality getting better or worse? 00:24:25
And this project really set out to answer that question. Very few communities in the state. 00:24:28
Are doing this type of extensive routine testing. 00:24:34
If it's changing, what can we learn about it? Where and why? 00:24:38
I've. 00:24:42
Advertise this as kind of the Dow Jones Index for water quality and in Dodge County. 00:24:43
Which works best if the wells are representative of the diversity of geology, land use and soils? 00:24:49
And also if it tests the same wells every year. 00:24:55
So we recruited wells that had good. 00:24:59
Well, construction information. 00:25:02
We attempted to make sure that they were spatially distributed. 00:25:04
And all things being equal, we gave preference to people that participated in previous efforts. 00:25:07
Once we have those wells, we sent out recruitment materials and we had a great response rate. 00:25:12
About, I think 35 to 40% of the individuals we reached out to. 00:25:18
Indicated their willingness to submit a sample annually for that five year period. We did plan for some attrition. Homes transfer 00:25:22
hands. 00:25:27
People pass away. 00:25:32
There's a variety of reasons why. 00:25:33
That attrition occurs, but we were successful in testing our goal number of wells at the end of the project. 00:25:35
We mailed kits out. 00:25:42
To individuals. 00:25:44
They collected the sample. They mailed them back where they were analyzed at the state certified lab at UW Stevens Point. 00:25:45
And every individual was mailed a copy of their individual results annually. 00:25:52
And those results are also uploaded to a dashboard that maintains the privacy of the participants. So 907 land owners were sent 00:25:58
recruitment materials. 00:26:03
In that first year. 00:26:08
We tested 374 wells in Year 5. 00:26:10
We tested 281. 00:26:13
Wells. 00:26:15
What tests were performed? Nitrate and chloride give us an indication of how land use is impacting groundwater. There's other 00:26:18
things like hardness, alkalinity, pH that are more related to the soils or the geology. 00:26:23
But help us vet are these treated samples? 00:26:29
They give us some indication of the degree to which weather. 00:26:32
Or weather variability from year to year may be impacting somebody's well, but these were the the basic tests that we performed. 00:26:35
Nitrate being the most important. 00:26:42
Because there are health effects associated with that. 00:26:45
Infants less than six months of age are prone to met hemoglobinemia. 00:26:48
Women who are may become pregnant. 00:26:53
Are susceptible to birth, birth defects or miscarriages. 00:26:56
And then all populations. Long term exposure may impact thyroid function. 00:27:00
Or increase the risk of certain cancers. 00:27:05
Sources are fertilizers, animal waste or biosolids, septic systems. 00:27:08
Or lawn fertilizers that are spread. 00:27:12
On fields or lawns. 00:27:15
The safe drinking water level is 10 milligrams per liter. Anything below that we consider suitable for drinking for all 00:27:18
populations. 00:27:22
Less than one is kind of natural or background level, so any. 00:27:26
Concentrations. 00:27:30
Above 1 give us some evidence that the land use is impacting. 00:27:31
Water quality in that particular well. 00:27:35
These maps are all available through the dashboard, so I know they're a little bit difficult to see. The map on the upper left is 00:27:39
showing the individual. 00:27:44
Well, locations. The different colors represent the different concentrations blue. 00:27:48
Essentially, our background are natural. 00:27:53
The red. 00:27:55
Dots would be those that exceed the drinking water standard. 00:27:56
And then that lower map is just showing the average concentration by municipality, so the north. 00:28:00
Western. 00:28:07
Corner has higher, generally speaking. 00:28:08
Nitrate levels. The town of Lomaira is also an area. 00:28:11
With historically higher levels of nitrate. 00:28:15
By and large, Dodge County is is quite a bit better than what we see statewide with respect to this particular compound. 00:28:18
You'll see if we look at the average from year to year, it doesn't change. 00:28:25
Dramatically. 00:28:29
Neither does the percentage that are greater than 10. 00:28:31
Ranging between 4 and 7%. 00:28:34
If we compare that to the state of Wisconsin, about 9% of private wells statewide exceed that drinking water standard. So Dodge 00:28:37
County is slightly better. 00:28:42
Than the state as a whole with respect to this particular element. 00:28:47
But notice that it's not distributed equally across the county, so again, there are certain parts of the county. 00:28:51
That are more vulnerable or more prone to finding nitrate in the groundwater. 00:28:57
When we look at the combined data set, if we combine all the wells into kind of a big. 00:29:02
Pot and take those averages, it's really difficult to see. 00:29:07
Where groundwater quality might be changing groundwater quality. 00:29:12
Is actually quite a local resource, so oftentimes we need to be a little bit more. 00:29:16
Site specific in terms of analyzing that data for trends. 00:29:22
Hence looking at the same wells every year. 00:29:26
This is just information breaking it down by the individual towns. 00:29:29
And the average? 00:29:33
Concentrations. 00:29:35
But I mentioned it's great for understanding land use impacts. 00:29:38
So the other thing we did? 00:29:41
Is we utilize that data? Do we created a model? 00:29:43
Of nitrate susceptibility. 00:29:47
Where is Dodge County more prone to finding elevated nitrate? 00:29:49
In this essentially assigns a risk value. 00:29:53
To every parcel. 00:29:58
In Dodge County with respect to nitrate. 00:29:59
So the blue areas we'd expect relatively low potential. 00:30:02
Of finding nitrate. 00:30:05
The orange is slightly elevated, the red are the highest risk. 00:30:07
That was one product from this proposal. 00:30:11
Or from this work. 00:30:14
And you'll see that it lines up really well with historical data. 00:30:15
For nitrate and in the Wisconsin Well Water Viewer, which contains. 00:30:19
Thousands of samples. 00:30:24
That have been analyzed over the last. 00:30:26
20 to 30 years. 00:30:28
This is the map showing trends. So if we're looking at changes over time, the good news is that 93% of the wells. 00:30:31
Are not showing any change. 00:30:39
Of those that are. 00:30:41
Indicating changes there's about equal. 00:30:43
Numbers that are increasing as opposed to decreasing. 00:30:46
The blue dots are wells that are decreasing. The red symbols show increasing levels. 00:30:50
And the size of that symbol indicates the rate of change. So the larger the circle, the faster the the more significant that year 00:30:55
to year increase or decrease is indicating. So by and large, trends for nitrate do not appear to be extensive in the county. 00:31:04
Chloride is similar in that there's land use impacts. 00:31:14
Potash fertilizers is one source. 00:31:17
Subject system, drain fields and then Rd. salt activity is another major contributor. 00:31:20
There's no health effects associated with chloride, but. 00:31:26
Naturally, we would expect these concentrations to be fairly low. 00:31:29
If we look at chloride trends. 00:31:33
We'll see that. 00:31:35
85% are indicating no change. 00:31:37
There are in this case more increasing, so 12%. 00:31:40
Showing increases. 00:31:43
3% showing decreases. 00:31:45
It's not surprising that a lot of those increases are occurring near major urban areas or near major roadways. 00:31:47
Road salting is one of the major. 00:31:54
Factors for chloride. 00:31:57
And just the historical increase? 00:31:59
In use over the years and the the length of time it takes for things at the surface to reach somebody's well. 00:32:02
Is likely contributing to these changes or these trends. 00:32:09
This is a chloride risk map. 00:32:13
So the yellow. 00:32:15
Our medium risk. 00:32:16
The red. 00:32:17
Our higher risk. 00:32:18
And those higher risk areas do tend to occur around more urbanized areas, more impervious surfaces. 00:32:20
Again because of Rd. salt activities. So summary, the majority of wells are not showing trends with respect to land use, nitrate 00:32:26
and chloride. 00:32:31
Wells and portions of Dodge County are more likely to contain these elements. 00:32:36
Than others just based on the soils. 00:32:40
In the land use that occur in certain areas, even though wells may not have trends. 00:32:43
It does highlight the importance of routine testing of private wells. 00:32:49
Each, well, is unique. 00:32:53
And the only way to understand if a site specific well is changing with. 00:32:55
Respect to time is to do some sort of more methodical testing once every 20 years. 00:32:59
Will not give you the type of information that you're seeing here. 00:33:05
So what's next? I know Dodge County is discussing options for for how to proceed. 00:33:09
That was the data I presented. Was the technically the end of the project for that? 00:33:15
Significant number of wells. 00:33:21
The dashboard is available. 00:33:23
Online. 00:33:25
And we are working on a final report that will be available available soon. 00:33:26
To summarize those results. 00:33:31
Just want to again thank the board. 00:33:34
The different departments within Dodge County that have provided assistance. 00:33:36
I'll leave my contact information there if people have questions. 00:33:41
Any questions for Kevin while he's still here? 00:33:48
Yep. Can you press in? 00:33:50
I need you to. 00:33:56
Request to speak. 00:33:56
Did you? 00:33:58
I hear you. 00:34:00
Here we go. 00:34:02
Hey, the question I have is that this is all good. 00:34:03
But how can we decide to do any kind of testing for VOC's? I know we have a landfill. 00:34:06
In our county, that. 00:34:12
Wells are already contaminating VOC, so I guess how come we didn't? 00:34:14
Test for them. So from a countrywide perspective, VOC's are a fairly expensive test. 00:34:17
And. 00:34:24
We wouldn't expect to find them in most. 00:34:26
Portions of of Dodge County. 00:34:28
There's recommendations to test for VOC's if you live within close proximity of a landfill. 00:34:31
That radius is usually about 1/4 of a mile. 00:34:36
So just for cost reasons. 00:34:39
Testing for Vocs at this scale. 00:34:41
Would have spent a lot of money and I don't think we would have learned. 00:34:44
That much? 00:34:48
This was specifically looking at those compounds that were widespread and helping us paint that picture of. 00:34:50
Nitrate, which is the most widespread groundwater contaminant in the state. 00:34:57
Looking to do that at a more detailed level county wide. 00:35:01
There may be a need for things like VOC's and OP Foss are in the news a lot. 00:35:05
Those would require different strategies that might be more targeted or site specific. 00:35:10
In the interest of saving money. 00:35:15
Thank you. 00:35:18
Supervisor clock, OH. 00:35:20
Can you go back four or five? 00:35:22
There you go, right there. 00:35:25
Back one. 00:35:27
There you go, that big red dot you have right there. 00:35:28
That by chance, climbing. 00:35:31
I have no idea in terms of. 00:35:33
Being able to decipher whose? Well that is here. 00:35:37
We did try to maintain people's. 00:35:40
Privacy. 00:35:42
So the the level of detail on these maps is slightly vague. 00:35:44
But one of the goals would be to look at. 00:35:49
What's happening within? 00:35:53
You know, probably a half mile or a mile buffer. That could likely explain these increases or decreases when I looked. 00:35:55
A lot of the. 00:36:02
The trending chloride wells. 00:36:03
We're near roadways. 00:36:05
Or more urbanized areas. 00:36:07
So I don't know that site specific one. 00:36:09
But we could. 00:36:12
Look into that. 00:36:13
I was just curious because. 00:36:14
I drive past High Road which is just up over highway A&W. 00:36:16
And United Waste dumps out there constantly. 00:36:20
And I don't know if it's regulated. 00:36:23
Because. 00:36:26
When you go up there. 00:36:27
Twice a year. 00:36:28
They will have a hopper at the top of the hill. 00:36:30
And they pump with like a six inch hose that goes diagonally all the way down to the woods. It's on Hwy. S. 00:36:32
And they dump truck. 00:36:38
After truck, after truck. 00:36:39
Right, one right after the other. 00:36:42
And I don't know how they do that because when I took my fertilizer test and pesticide test, you could only put so much down per 00:36:43
square inch. I don't know how they're getting away with that so. 00:36:48
But they're contaminating groundwater. Somewhere they had the waters. 00:36:52
That their. 00:36:56
Pumping has to be going somewhere. 00:36:58
Any anything we do on the land surface as a potential to impact the resource below. 00:37:00
The more we apply chloride is a fairly conservative ion. Plants don't take it up. 00:37:05
It doesn't breakdown in the soil, so it's generally. 00:37:11
Speaking probably a more conservative tracer. 00:37:14
Or indicator. 00:37:17
Of land use impacts nitrate. 00:37:18
Can breakdown because of microbial activity? 00:37:21
But that's something we could look into in more detail. 00:37:24
Thank you. 00:37:27
Supervisor Hedrick. 00:37:29
Sorry, thank you, Mr. Chairman and thank you for presenting this and very interesting. My question would be I, I did want to ask 00:37:33
about PFAS you, you covered that but also. 00:37:37
What is going to happen now with with this information? 00:37:43
Are we going to follow up on this and? 00:37:46
And if so, how? 00:37:49
Thank you. 00:37:50
You know what my plan is for this is this winter? 00:37:53
Will be holding some. 00:37:56
Localized meetings. 00:37:58
Sharing the information. 00:38:00
So we talked amongst the committee and myself. What do we do next? 00:38:02
You know, we got this testing done. Do we continue testing? How do we test or what do we do? So Kevin gave us some some scenarios. 00:38:06
We can continue testing the entire county. 00:38:13
As we are now. 00:38:15
Which? 00:38:16
Looking at the samples. 00:38:17
I think it's a waste of time and waste of money because majority of the wells are fine. 00:38:19
There's nothing wrong. 00:38:23
So we. 00:38:25
He gave us two other presentations. You'll have a resolution coming to you next month with the one that the county the department 00:38:26
chose. 00:38:29
To where we're going to look at. 00:38:33
The towns of Fox Lake. 00:38:35
Trenton and Lamya because that's where the majority. 00:38:36
Of these wells are. 00:38:40
And then any well that tested 1 milligram per liter or higher throughout the rest of the county. 00:38:42
That's what's going to come to you next month. 00:38:48
So it's less than half of the number of wells that we are currently testing now. 00:38:50
But then my thought also is. 00:38:55
Is if I can get. 00:38:58
Because. 00:38:59
These samples are. 00:39:00
Private through the UW System. 00:39:03
I have an idea where they are, but I don't know who the actual owner is. 00:39:05
So I'm talking to Kevin about sending letters out to those individuals. 00:39:09
That they can contact us and then I can go out to their site. I can see where their well is, what the property layout is, what 00:39:13
the. 00:39:16
Practices are around there and then my staff and I can talk. Is there something that we can do? 00:39:19
In the area. 00:39:25
That can reduce this. 00:39:26
That can reduce the input towards it. 00:39:28
You know, nitrates are in the ground. It's not something if you eliminate the source, it's not going to clean up tomorrow. 00:39:30
It takes a while to clean up. 00:39:37
But if we can find out. 00:39:38
Where the potential source is coming from and. 00:39:40
Reduce that. 00:39:43
That's going a long way. 00:39:44
And that well that you were looking at here. 00:39:48
Looking at the map. 00:39:50
That's. 00:39:51
Town of Hershey. 00:39:52
Southern part of Usenford, not climate. 00:39:54
Supervisor Derrick. 00:39:57
I was going to say some of that, but I think John has. 00:40:00
Done the majority of it. 00:40:03
I do think. 00:40:05
It's not a waste of time to continue to do the whole county, it's just I think it's more efficient. 00:40:06
I think it's more efficient to just look at the problem areas, so we're trying to strike a balance. 00:40:16
Between. 00:40:21
Being. 00:40:23
Effective. 00:40:24
Reasonable cost and making sure. 00:40:25
That we. 00:40:28
Are still covering the areas. 00:40:29
That. 00:40:31
Clearly have problems over 10 milligrams of nitrogen. 00:40:32
Anyone else? 00:40:38
Thank you. 00:40:41
Thank you. 00:40:42
Next, we'll have a presentation on the new county website by Megan. 00:40:47
Are we up on the screen or do I need to pull up? 00:41:05
All right. 00:41:11
Do you want to do any interest? 00:41:12
Good evening. My name is Kevin Nikowski, the director of IT, and I have the. 00:41:15
Pleasure of introducing the next presentation. Some of you are aware that the county is enduring a new website migration project 00:41:20
and just for a little bit of background on that before we get started with the presentation. Our current website is approximately 00:41:25
6 years old since it was last redesigned. Some of you are familiar with that project at the time. 00:41:31
We back in September of 2024. 00:41:38
Is when the county went to RFP to look at new vendor options for our website. 00:41:42
Host. 00:41:47
And content management system and we have selected final site, which is a project that we've been working towards over the last 00:41:48
several months now. 00:41:52
And. 00:41:57
Without further ado, I want to introduce to you. 00:41:58
Megan Sheridan, who is our PR and communications coordinator at Dodge County. 00:42:01
Some of you have the privilege of knowing her and working with her closely. 00:42:06
We are very lucky to have her here, she has been. 00:42:09
Working very hard on this project and keeping us on time and on task with all of the complexities we have within our departments. 00:42:12
For the public facing. 00:42:19
Departments, that is for. 00:42:21
Our website and so I would like to introduce you to her so she can get started with. 00:42:23
Giving a little demo. 00:42:27
Thank you, Megan. 00:42:28
Hi, everyone. Thank you for having me. I'm just going to give you a little overview on timeline and kind of where we're at in this 00:42:31
process. 00:42:34
And then give you a little bit of a preview of the website so. 00:42:38
Like Kevin said. 00:42:41
Our current website has kind of gotten to a point where it's time for a little bit of a facelift. 00:42:42
So really when we approach this project, we wanted to find something that would offer. 00:42:48
Some modern professional design, simpler navigation, better functionality, something that's a little bit more constituent focused 00:42:53
so that when our citizens and our visitors come to our website. 00:42:58
They can find exactly what they need quickly and get in touch with us in a way that was beneficial to them. 00:43:03
Another big piece of this was having a website that was mobile friendly, so we are now at a point where we have more visitors 00:43:09
coming to our website. 00:43:13
On their smartphones than we do on the desktop. 00:43:18
And if you've been on our current website recently on your smartphone? 00:43:21
It doesn't look like our desktop version, in fact, it doesn't even have the county name at the top, so you don't even technically 00:43:25
know it's Dodge County unless you know the logo. So lots of pieces missing there in that mobile section. So in moving to a new 00:43:30
website and choosing to take on this project, we wanted to find a provider that was really mobile friendly so that when people go 00:43:35
to us on our phones, they can get what they need. 00:43:41
Easily. 00:43:46
Just a little overview on this project timeline. So we started almost a year ago when we opened up that RFP. 00:43:48
Received I want to say like 12 different options to choose from. 00:43:55
And we had a team that kind of had a nice cross section of the county, so it was a part of that group. 00:43:59
The clerk's office, LRP, So a little bit of everybody just to get that feedback of what was going to work well for them. 00:44:06
We finalized that contract in April. We started migration in May. We actually started staff training today. 00:44:13
And that will go on in the next two to three weeks and then we plan on launching in October. So tentative launch date is October 00:44:20
22nd, so a little over a month away. 00:44:25
A1 Important note. I know that as we go live into this new website, it's going to be a little confusing with how. 00:44:31
Our website communicates with Google. 00:44:38
Think of Google as like a. 00:44:41
A library card system. 00:44:43
All of our current website is in that library card system. 00:44:44
And when we flip the switch to our new website. 00:44:48
All of those cards are going to be outdated. 00:44:51
Right. So it's going to take a little bit of time for our website to tell Google, hey, we got new pages, we got a new layout, we 00:44:53
got a new site map. So that'll take a little bit of time. So when you see stuff pop up on Google, that's our county, and you click 00:44:58
on it, it says page not found. 00:45:03
Don't worry. 00:45:09
It's slowly figuring that out and we did build a really nice, we call it a 404 page, but when a page isn't found, we have a page 00:45:09
that comes up on the news site that says, hey, we have a new website. 00:45:15
Things have moved around. 00:45:21
Here is. 00:45:22
Exactly what you need to search to find what you need to get to. So we've kind of planned ahead for that. 00:45:23
So we're going to pull it up so. 00:45:30
This is the landing page to our new website. We will be maintaining our same URL. So we're still going to be that co.dodge.wi.gov 00:45:32
and we're still going to be dodge countysheriff.com but. 00:45:38
Everything's going to point to this new website in October. So a few of the newer, bigger changes here is we have this really nice 00:45:43
carousel. We have way more opportunities to communicate to our public than we did before. So for stuff that needs to live on our 00:45:49
website for maybe a month or two, we have a. 00:45:54
You know, information coming up on an event or our county budget, for instance, we can have that kind of front and center. 00:46:00
In a rotational basis for information that needs to stay and live on our website for just a little bit of time. 00:46:07
We Scroll down, we have that same icon bar that we're used to on the old website. So there is some familiar pieces here. And all 00:46:13
of that information is really based on website ranking. So the stuff that people visit on our website the most, that's what's 00:46:18
sitting here. That's what decided what kind of ended up on here. 00:46:24
Below that we have front and center our news and events. 00:46:30
For you folks here on the county board. 00:46:33
It's really nice. We have all of our events nice in front and center here and we can scroll through them so we can see what's 00:46:37
coming up in the next couple of days or the next week. 00:46:41
And when we click on anyone of these, it takes you right to the information, the time, and then a link to that sweet one link that 00:46:44
will bring you to the agenda in the live recording. 00:46:49
One of the other things I did specifically want to show this group is when we click on View full calendar. 00:46:54
And I will send out directions to all of you on this so you can utilize it if you want. 00:47:01
But. 00:47:05
We have a full calendar of all of our committees and meetings. We have this little button up here that will allow you to. 00:47:06
Take a live link of this calendar and add it to your personal calendar so you can have a little switch off and on on your personal 00:47:13
calendar for all of your committees and meetings. 00:47:18
If a meeting happens to change time. 00:47:23
Or. 00:47:26
Or gets canceled. That live link feeds that information to your calendar as well. So kind of a nice feature there specifically for 00:47:27
you guys, but also for the general public so that they can stay up to date on our upcoming events, committees and meetings. 00:47:33
So if we keep scrolling down, then we have a nice services section. So we have all of these little kind of pop-ups of. 00:47:41
Different pages that aren't sitting super high level on our site map, but our stuff that we know when people come to our website, 00:47:48
they're looking to get married. They're looking for one thing and one thing only. So let's put it on the front page for them so 00:47:53
it's easy to find. So we have some of those ranked here. We got one that we haven't published yet. 00:47:58
But that's going to sit in a nice little group there where you can mouse over. It'll give you a little information when you click 00:48:04
on it. 00:48:06
It will take you to that page. 00:48:10
Then down here we have a nice little infographic section and this is something that. 00:48:14
You know, we can put in whatever information we want, but when we want to showcase data. 00:48:19
Or facts about the county that we're really proud of. We can put them in here. 00:48:23
And they do rotate so we can actually click through. 00:48:27
And then we have our footer at the bottom. 00:48:31
So that's what a landing page looks like for the new website. 00:48:33
And then you can see we have our drop downs like you would with a normal website navigation. So you can see all of our. 00:48:36
Regular government departments that you're come to expect are sitting there. We have a section for businesses where. 00:48:42
We have our community development. 00:48:48
We have a nice little clean link to doing business with us for our RFP's and that sort of information, a link for visitors and 00:48:51
stuff for residents. We also have some quick links here. 00:48:56
One of the newer features, and it's a little shoved up here. 00:49:01
Is a translation tool that. 00:49:05
Let's zoom in a little bit. 00:49:07
All of our website. 00:49:11
Is now translation capable so regardless of what language you need our website to be in, there's a nice little drop down and you 00:49:12
can change it to I think about 175 different languages. So that is something that is new to our website predominantly most of our 00:49:18
visitors if they're coming in with a dual language or a different language, it's usually Spanish, but. 00:49:24
They're all there if anybody needs them. So some of our larger departments are also going to have landing pages that look like 00:49:30
this. So it's a little bit more formal and more organized. 00:49:34
Sheriff, if you don't mind, I'm going to click into the Dodge County Sheriff's Office. 00:49:39
We click here. 00:49:44
And let me. 00:49:46
This little resize, there we go. 00:49:47
So you can see here that that sheriff's landing page also has that very similar style, but it has all of their information in 00:49:51
those nice drop downs. So now when somebody comes to our website and they need to get something from the Sheriff's Office, they 00:49:56
don't have to click and click and click, they just go, OK. 00:50:01
There's the Sheriff's Office and then all of that information is right there in those drop downs for them to Scroll down to, so 00:50:06
you can see a lot of that. 00:50:09
Similar design. 00:50:12
All of those services. 00:50:14
The number piece and the footer. 00:50:16
And then if we go to and I want to just show you quick what a regular sub pages and then if you guys have any questions, feel free 00:50:19
to ask. 00:50:23
So we're going to head over to. 00:50:27
The county clerk. 00:50:29
So our regular subpages for our. 00:50:33
You know, slightly smaller departments will have a nice clean page that's easy to scroll. 00:50:35
And easy to find information so. 00:50:41
And now what size is appropriately? There's that translate button that drops down. 00:50:46
So does anybody have any questions? 00:50:49
Supervisor Bishop. 00:50:54
Sorry. 00:50:57
Supervisor Cafe's engine. 00:50:59
You said this. 00:51:01
Website is optimized for Google. 00:51:03
But we know a lot of people now are using AI and Gemini or something else. 00:51:06
Have you looked at doing that and will we in be back here in a year or two and. 00:51:12
Need to redo this website to optimize it. 00:51:17
Sure. 00:51:20
I would say generally no SO. 00:51:21
As as we. 00:51:25
As we connect Google with us as we you know when we've switched over to that new website and ask Google to re index it. 00:51:26
We're not just using Google for that, right? So there's lots of different search engines that people utilize to access our 00:51:32
information. So when we make that switch, we'll tell them, hey, there's that information. As it stands, there is not any AI 00:51:39
incorporated into our website at this point. We don't have any plans for that. We have a lot of folks that. 00:51:45
Manage our website and they're very hands on in terms of making sure information is accurate, updated and easy to explain. 00:51:52
So at that point, I don't think we'll need to utilize AI in that way, but of course it is. It is a valuable tool that a lot of 00:51:58
people are using. 00:52:02
Supervisor Burnett. 00:52:08
Thank you. Is this going to be screen readable? 00:52:10
For the blind, yeah, actually, that's one of the great features about the new website is that we are so. 00:52:13
All counties. 00:52:20
Depending on their size have a requirement for ADA compliance. There's like a formal deadline for us because of our size. It's 00:52:21
April 2026. So I think in 2024 the federal government set. 00:52:27
Forth some guidelines that all municipalities, county, school districts have to adhere to because of our size. April 2026 is that 00:52:33
kind of deadline. But as we went through training today, we had that conversation with all of our our back end web editors about 00:52:39
that ad a compliance piece. So the website itself is screen readable by a screen reader. 00:52:45
All of the documents that go on to our website, we're working to ensure that those are also readable by a screen reader, because 00:52:52
not all PDF's are. 00:52:55
Right. 00:52:59
So if you're scanning in a PDF and you scan it in as an image, it's not readable by a screen reader, right? 00:53:00
But there are tools, even if somebody scans something and sends it to us and it's not our thing, we can still make it screen 00:53:06
readable. So we had that conversation with our first group of trainers today about how to ensure not just the website, but all the 00:53:12
stuff that goes on to our website either has alt text, right? All of our images need to have alt text now. 00:53:17
And that all of our documents are going to be readable by a screen reader. So thank you for bringing that up. 00:53:23
Anyone else? 00:53:30
OK, Supervisor Hedrick. 00:53:34
Thank you. I just want to thank you. 00:53:37
For all the work you've put into this, you've clearly. 00:53:39
Really. 00:53:41
Thought thought through this and really are making this very user friendly and. 00:53:42
Really appreciate it. Thank you. 00:53:47
And I did appreciate your suggestions at executives, so we. 00:53:48
Kevin and I worked through that a little bit of like, what's the right language to choose for some of the stuff that we used to be 00:53:52
inclusive and and make sure that people understand. 00:53:56
Whose services are for who and who can have access to XY and Z things. So I really do appreciate that feedback. That's super 00:53:59
helpful. And just so all of you are aware, I will be sending out a live link to our development site so you guys can poke around. 00:54:06
I would love to get feedback from you all, both as our county board supervisors as well as our. 00:54:12
Constituents too, right? Like you're all, you all live here as well, so. 00:54:19
I just want to see how you guys navigate the website and get that feedback from you as well. I think that will be very beneficial 00:54:23
before we go live. 00:54:26
Anyone else? 00:54:31
Thank you. 00:54:35
Yeah, we're gonna. 00:54:35
Close out of these guys. 00:54:38
All right. Thanks. 00:54:39
And next we have. 00:54:42
I have a request to allow the County Board chair to send a letter to the National Transportation Safety Board regarding the 00:54:45
Canadian National train derailment. 00:54:50
I do not have a copy of the. 00:54:55
Letter. 00:54:58
Draft yet? 00:54:59
Emergency Management is working on that, but. 00:55:00
Over the appreciate the. 00:55:03
Board. 00:55:08
Giving me the authority to send a letter to the. 00:55:10
National Transportation Safety Board about the. 00:55:13
Reese feel train derailment. 00:55:16
To quote. 00:55:20
Supervisor Kane. 00:55:21
We do not want to be East Palestine. OH, and. 00:55:23
We could have been. 00:55:26
And supervisor King, just a point of clarification the. 00:55:28
That derailment? 00:55:33
Was the. 00:55:35
See Railroad can't. 00:55:37
Canadian Pacific. 00:55:38
Not the Canadian National. 00:55:39
Yeah, OK. Thanks. I can get you. 00:55:42
More information as to. 00:55:44
Where to send that and what to do so I've got contact information through my involvement with all of this. 00:55:47
I have a motion by a supervisor Kane and a second by supervisor Cavazanjan. 00:55:56
Any other questions or? 00:56:02
Comments. 00:56:04
If you agree to allow. 00:56:08
A letter to be sent. Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. You got a voice vote on this one. OK, Voice vote. 00:56:10
If if you agree, please please vote aye. 00:56:18
Opposed. 00:56:22
That is carried. Thank you. 00:56:24
The next one is to authorize the county Board chair to send a letter to the members of Congress. 00:56:30
Supporting the coalition against bigger trucks. 00:56:36
I did. There should be a copy of that letter in your packet. 00:56:40
I did talk with Brian from Hwy. about that and he has supported that in the past. 00:56:46
I supported it individually, but what we're looking for is. 00:56:53
Support from the county board to. 00:56:57
Go on record. 00:57:01
Against the bigger trucks. 00:57:03
Yeah, the the downside is that we have. 00:57:05
A large number of bridges. 00:57:09
That do not qualify in the state of Wisconsin and. 00:57:13
It would take a. 00:57:17
A lot of money to. 00:57:18
Rebuild the bridges to a. 00:57:20
Accept the bigger trucks and. 00:57:23
So we are. 00:57:26
Against this at the county levels. 00:57:27
So I have a motion by supervisor Beal, a second by supervisor Kraus. 00:57:30
Supervisor Houchin. 00:57:37
Thank you. What is a bigger truck? Are you talking heavier or are you talking like? 00:57:39
Tandem what are you talking, 91,000 lbs. 00:57:43
And 60 feet, Brian. 00:57:47
Actually proposed larger at All in all capacities, especially in frozen conditions. 00:57:51
So if I was driving down the highway and I saw. 00:58:08
Like I've been seeing that they've been quarrying a bunch of huge rocks and. 00:58:12
Those big rock collars. 00:58:15
They're going to weigh more than that. 00:58:17
That's what they're asking for. 00:58:19
Yeah. 00:58:22
Anyone else? 00:58:25
Just from voice vote also. 00:58:28
OK, if you agree to. 00:58:29
For me to sign on to their to the letter. 00:58:33
Please vote yes. 00:58:37
It's it's, it's going to be a voice vote, so. 00:58:41
Voice vote it would be yes. 00:58:44
And if you disagree, please vote no. 00:58:51
At passes. Thank you. 00:58:54
All right, we are at resolution #2528. 00:58:58
Resolution. 00:59:03
2528. 00:59:05
A resolution authorizing Dodge County. 00:59:09
Accept authorizing Dodge County to accept the proposal from Wisconsin Counties Association Group Health Trust. 00:59:12
For the provision of 2026 health insurance coverage for eligible Dodge County employees. 00:59:19
Fiscal note. 00:59:26
2026 Dodge County budget will reflect present. 00:59:28
Reflect percent increase of 12.9%. 00:59:32
And the premium share of 84.5%. 00:59:37
15.5% split. 00:59:41
There is a. 00:59:44
Surplus from Dean to WCA. 00:59:44
GHT. 00:59:47
Is 301. 00:59:49
$1015.32 and an employer surplus of $58,188.17. 00:59:51
With the adjustment of the premium share Finance Committee meeting. 01:00:00
Date September 8th, 2025 Initialed by Finance Committee chair. 01:00:05
All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of September. 01:00:10
Signed by four members of the Human Resources Committee. 01:00:15
Have a motion by Supervisor Beal and a second by supervisor Bob Holtz. 01:00:18
Any questions or comments on this? 01:00:23
Any questions? 01:00:28
Supervisor. 01:00:35
So is. 01:00:36
The amount employees going are going to pay, is that already been decided for the next budget? 01:00:38
I think that's part of this resolution that if so, when we do this and we're putting that. 01:00:46
In the next budget. 01:00:51
Yeah, that is correct. 01:00:55
So the county is going to pay. 01:00:57
Correct. 01:01:04
Well. 01:01:06
Yeah, we. 01:01:06
I will just correct to the fact that we are, yes, we are paying more. 01:01:08
There there are rate increases across the. 01:01:11
Across the board for any of the options. 01:01:14
That were evaluated is that we were asking Kathy. 01:01:17
No. OK, so. 01:01:19
The percentage that. 01:01:21
One second, I'm gonna. 01:01:32
Turn to our HR director to help me answer that. 01:01:33
Sorry, yes, that is what was being proposed so right now. 01:01:44
It's 80. 01:01:49
5%. 01:01:51
And no, I'm sorry. 01:01:53
Yes, 86% and 14% and looking to go down that half percent to be the same as what the Union representatives have. 01:01:55
The the increase of going to. 01:02:06
If we would stay with Dean, health would be more. 01:02:09
Than what this proposal is. 01:02:12
Because. 01:02:14
It's only 12.9% increase. 01:02:15
Even with the increased half percent. 01:02:18
Employer Share. 01:02:21
Super Fraser Houchin. 01:02:30
I don't have a problem with switching the insurance companies. 01:02:31
I mean, I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem over this half percent because we know our budget is tight. 01:02:35
And we keep thinking this money is growing on trees and we're going to get it somewhere. 01:02:41
How much difference does that half percent make? 01:02:46
Financially in. 01:02:49
Like I'm, yeah, I'm looking through right now, but I am, I believe it's about $58,000, Yeah. 01:02:51
Am I correct in that time? 01:03:00
Yeah. 01:03:02
To the 55 that was, that was in the Finance Committee. 01:03:04
Fiscal note. 01:03:08
I will I. 01:03:18
And for this change, but I'm not for this second part, so I'm going to vote no simply on the part that I think we need to figure 01:03:19
out. 01:03:22
What we could afford and. 01:03:26
And how it's going to work. 01:03:29
Anyone else? 01:03:33
Anyone else? 01:03:37
OK, if you agree with the committee. 01:03:41
Recommendation. 01:03:43
To go with the group health trust and the split as. 01:03:44
In the fiscal note. 01:03:48
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:03:49
Supervisor Free Vault. 01:04:01
Supervisor Free Vault. 01:04:09
Just mark out. 01:04:33
So that we can go. 01:04:36
All having voted it. 01:04:43
Passes 25 to 2 with 1 abstinent abstention. 01:04:46
OK. 01:04:58
Resolution 2529. 01:05:01
A resolution adopting the Dodge County procurement policy. 01:05:09
All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of September. 01:05:14
2025. 01:05:18
Signed by. 01:05:19
Seven members of the executive committee. 01:05:23
OK, do I have a motion? 01:05:32
Motion by Supervisor Hedrick. Second by Supervisor Bubbles. 01:05:37
Any questions or comments on? 01:05:41
This resolution. 01:05:43
Any questions? 01:05:48
Supervisor. 01:05:51
Yes. Thank you very much. 01:05:53
Unless I'm missing something, it looks like in Section 4. 01:05:55
D that we are going to be voting ourselves out of any. 01:06:01
Direct involvement in purchases. 01:06:05
Of any level before they. 01:06:08
Happen. 01:06:10
Because all the levels. 01:06:12
Are in there and anything $400,000 or more? 01:06:14
Up to. 01:06:18
Infinity. 01:06:19
All we have to be is. 01:06:21
Sent a letter. 01:06:23
I don't think that's wise, being we are the representatives of all the. 01:06:25
Constituents in our county. 01:06:30
I would like to amend that section. 01:06:33
To change the. 01:06:37
SEC 2D to 200,000 to 3. 01:06:38
200,000. 01:06:41
To 200,099 to get that. 01:06:42
In there. 01:06:46
And then add E to. 01:06:47
Say 300,000 plus requires documented approval from the department directors. 01:06:49
Director, county administrator, and committee of jurisdiction. 01:06:55
And approval by resolution of the county Board of Supervisors. 01:06:59
So that we actually are more involved with these big number. 01:07:03
Items. 01:07:08
Do I have a second? 01:07:14
Supervisor Hochen. 01:07:20
How do you have that in writing right? 01:07:23
Yep, OK. 01:07:25
Umm, so men. 01:07:28
Amendment. 01:07:31
Page 1. 01:07:35
B Policy 3B I'm sorry excuse me but I gave you 2 places there if. 01:07:37
4 DE passes. I believe we should then add 3B on Page 1. 01:07:44
That says. 01:07:49
It adds the wording while maintaining the strong and long time established duty and responsibility of fiscal oversight by the 01:07:51
Dodge County Board of Supervisors. This is under. 01:07:56
Policy so. 01:08:01
One is like the the goals and one is more what the policy is. 01:08:04
I would like to add 2. 01:08:09
E to the procurement. 01:08:11
Guidelines and approvals and then. 01:08:13
Back on page one under policy letter B. 01:08:16
Would be sort of a. 01:08:19
Explanation of why that is. 01:08:21
We're putting the amendment up on the screen for you guys to see. 01:08:24
Make it big. 01:08:29
If you look at Page 1. 01:08:30
Be under policy. 01:08:32
Or make the AT3B we would just add. 01:08:34
While maintaining the strong and long time established duty and responsibility of fiscal oversight. 01:08:37
By the Dodge County Board of Supervisors just to. 01:08:43
Explain. 01:08:46
What our responsibilities are and why. Page 4D guideline approvals. 01:08:47
I would like to see changed. 01:08:53
To add E anything over $300,000 still requires an approval by resolution by the county Board of Supervisors. 01:08:55
We will discuss discussion on the amendment. 01:09:11
Supervisor Staker, is that what you would like to speak on? 01:09:15
OK, well, we'll work on the Amendment 1st and we'll. 01:09:22
We'll go back. 01:09:26
Supervisor Beal, did you want to speak on the amendment? 01:09:28
Well, as far as the reason why this was changed. 01:09:36
Was that? 01:09:41
When the budget gets approved. 01:09:44
These requests. 01:09:46
Are in the budget. 01:09:48
So we. 01:09:50
Motion and approve. 01:09:51
The budget. 01:09:54
But these projects in. 01:09:55
So. 01:09:59
It's kind of like, why do we vote a second time? 01:10:00
I'm something that we already approved. 01:10:05
Anyone else? 01:10:11
Mr. Clapper. 01:10:16
I actually was raising for Kim, but I can. 01:10:19
She can speak. 01:10:22
I can switch. 01:10:23
OK. 01:10:24
I think I can. 01:10:26
Try that. 01:10:28
There it goes. OK. 01:10:33
All right, so. 01:10:35
As to the issue of. 01:10:38
Inserting a new threshold. 01:10:41
I just want to prompt if I may. 01:10:43
The executive committee. 01:10:46
Because the executive committee did have that discussion. 01:10:48
And debate about those thresholds. 01:10:51
And with supervisor Beale did mention is that. 01:10:53
The discussion. 01:10:57
Centered on the issue of. 01:10:58
The projects that are coming forth. 01:11:00
In terms of the thresholds. 01:11:03
And above the 200,000 originally it did have that resolution requirement. 01:11:04
But as I said, the Executive Committee did discuss and debate that. 01:11:09
And landed on the. 01:11:14
Focused on the issue of these are. 01:11:16
Projects or equipment or purchases that are. 01:11:18
Approved via the budget. 01:11:22
So it would be really duplicative. 01:11:23
On the part of the board to bring it back in the form of a resolution. And So what the. 01:11:27
Executive Committee recommended and. 01:11:31
What is in the current proposal before you? 01:11:34
Is that there needs to be at least a written report? 01:11:37
From the county administrator and we have an internal process for making sure that that happens. 01:11:40
To the board. 01:11:46
Regarding these already budgeted purchases. 01:11:47
So that was. 01:11:51
That was really the focus of the executive committee. 01:11:52
And the other point that I would make is that if you read. 01:11:55
In the procurement policy. 01:11:59
Just preceding that threshold section. 01:12:02
Departments can't begin procurement the procurement process. 01:12:06
And it's not explicitly stated here, so I'm just I'm pointing this out to. 01:12:11
Supervisor Sigmund. 01:12:15
Departments can't. 01:12:17
Start procurement and start acquiring goods and services and go out to RFB or RFP. 01:12:19
Unless. 01:12:24
The the. 01:12:25
Item is funded in the budget so you can't even start procurement unless you are assuring. 01:12:27
And there's a process for this assuring the purchasing agent. 01:12:33
That. 01:12:36
The the. 01:12:37
Project or item that you're trying to procure? 01:12:38
Or need to procure is budgeted and funded. 01:12:41
So you can't even go through that process if it's an unbudgeted item. 01:12:44
Then it needs to come to the county board. 01:12:48
At a certain level. 01:12:51
And that that's all within the budget control policy. 01:12:53
And that that's that preceding sentence. 01:12:55
Or section D1. 01:12:58
So if it's unfunded? 01:13:01
You'll see those items. 01:13:02
Because the department has to go in. 01:13:04
Find the funding source. 01:13:06
If it's in the budget, it's in the budget and you can start procurement and there's assurance given to the purchasing agent by the 01:13:08
department prior to procurement. 01:13:12
That Yep, this is the budgeted item. She can the department points to where its budgeted. It's already been approved by the board. 01:13:16
So that's a little background about how those thresholds and the debates and discussion that occurred at the Executive committee 01:13:23
and why it was changed to remove that resolution requirement. 01:13:28
I would just offer the suggestion to the board here. 01:13:33
If you're gonna drill down into details about this policy. 01:13:37
It's best that you refer back to the committee for that work. 01:13:40
It's not. 01:13:43
To be spent on the floor of the board to. 01:13:45
Get into the wordsmithing and details of the policy. 01:13:47
Supervisor Derr. 01:13:53
I when I started over. 01:13:56
10 years ago I thought being a supervisor was that I should be supervising. 01:13:58
You know various departments for the benefit of. 01:14:03
Dodge County citizens. 01:14:07
And then I went to a few. 01:14:09
Conferences. 01:14:10
And I learned. 01:14:12
Some of the speakers said it's really unfortunate. 01:14:13
That we call ourselves supervisors. 01:14:15
Because it's not our duty to supervise. 01:14:18
We're legislative body. 01:14:20
We pass ordinances. 01:14:22
We passed budgets. 01:14:24
We don't. 01:14:27
Literally supervise. 01:14:29
Things like. 01:14:31
Procurement because that that falls under day-to-day operations. 01:14:32
Of. 01:14:37
The government. 01:14:38
And. 01:14:39
In addition, sometimes procurement is really time sensitive and if you had to wait for the county board, you might. 01:14:40
Lose that. 01:14:47
Best offer? 01:14:48
So I think we're covered. 01:14:50
That's why the budget is so important. 01:14:52
That that is our policy. When we set the budget, we are prioritizing our policies. But. 01:14:54
Procurement. 01:14:59
Is enactment. 01:15:00
Anyone else want to speak on the amendment? 01:15:04
Anyone else? 01:15:10
OK. If you agree with the amendment to make the changes, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:15:12
Supervisor Freebolt, and if you can hear me, please unmute yourself. 01:15:19
Supervisor free. 01:15:34
Yes or no? 01:15:38
He's unmuted, but we can't hear him. 01:15:56
Are you hearing? 01:16:19
Supervisor Conway can Do you hear him or is he texting you? 01:16:21
He just texted me and said. 01:16:25
Hello. 01:16:59
Supervisor Freeval. 01:17:01
Yes, how are you? 01:17:03
Good. 01:17:05
So voting on. 01:17:07
The amendment to Resolution 2529, yes or no? 01:17:10
All having voted, it fails 7 to 22. 01:17:19
We are back to the original motion. 01:17:27
Supervisor Steger, you had mentioned you wanted to. 01:17:34
Talk on this original motion, Yeah. 01:17:38
Thank you, Chairman. They already said what I was going to say. I didn't know if I could. 01:17:41
OK. 01:17:46
Anyone else? 01:17:49
If you agree with the. 01:17:54
Motion as originally presented. 01:17:56
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:17:59
Supervisor free. 01:18:05
Yes. 01:18:07
All having voted, it passes 25 to 4. 01:18:11
This one's no longer valid because procurement passed. 01:18:23
So due to the approval of the Procurement Policy Resolution 2530. 01:18:29
IS will now be considered a written report to the board. 01:18:35
Under their procurement policy, this resolution is no longer needed for action. 01:18:39
Resolution. 01:18:47
2531. 01:18:48
Dodge County Capital Improvement Plan for 2026 to 2030. 01:18:50
All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of September, 2025. 01:18:56
Signed by four members of the Dodge County Finance Committee. 01:19:02
Fiscal note. 01:19:07
There is no fiscal impact at this time as this document serves as a plan. 01:19:08
All CIP items recommended. 01:19:13
By the Administrator will be incorporated into the 2026 Dodge County budget. 01:19:15
Finance Committee meeting date September 8th, 2025 initialed by Finance Committee Chair. 01:19:20
OK, I have a motion by Supervisor Kane. 01:19:26
In a second by supervisor Yarrick. 01:19:30
And so Mr. Clapper will come up in. 01:19:33
Give us some details. 01:19:38
Mr. Chair, thank you. 01:19:52
And thank you all. 01:19:53
For your time tonight. 01:19:55
I'm pleased to share some information regarding the capital improvement plan. 01:19:57
As proposed for. 01:20:01
2026. 01:20:02
And I am. 01:20:04
One moment while I get. 01:20:07
The screen up here. 01:20:09
Danielle, do you have it there or do I need to? 01:20:16
Sign in here. 01:20:18
Yeah, I see Kevin coming up. Thank you, Kevin. 01:20:24
Waiting. Get it on time. 01:20:32
Oh, that's right. 01:20:37
So the documents. 01:20:48
Should have been or were included in your packet of materials for tonight. 01:20:51
But I will. 01:20:56
Bring up this. 01:20:58
Presentation to go through with everyone. 01:20:59
As well. 01:21:02
Well, are you all seeing it on the screen? 01:21:07
All right. 01:21:11
Milestone #1 accomplished for the evening. It's up on the screen. 01:21:14
All right, So what what you have before you and as I mentioned, it's included in your packet. 01:21:17
Is not only the capital improvement plan is. 01:21:23
Opposed, but I also want to talk a little bit about. 01:21:26
The survey. 01:21:29
And I thought we'd. 01:21:30
Just start right off, beginning with the end in mind. 01:21:31
What we're ultimately staff. 01:21:34
What I am presenting tonight, and we are. 01:21:36
And the request. 01:21:39
From staff before you is to adopt the resolution to approve the 2026 through. 01:21:40
20-30 Capital improvement plan. 01:21:45
As proposed. 01:21:47
And you'll note as we go forward, there are items in that plan that currently are unfunded, meaning we do not have. 01:21:49
Available dollars that we know of or that we feel comfortable projecting to have in hand. 01:21:56
To cover. 01:22:02
Costs for some of the projects. So there's more that I'm going to share about that as we move forward. 01:22:03
But knowing that. 01:22:09
That brings about goal number 2. So if you. 01:22:12
As a body are amenable to approving or adopting the resolution. 01:22:14
Approve this capital improvement plan. 01:22:18
As proposed then. 01:22:21
The next step will be staff myself. 01:22:22
Included coming back going. 01:22:26
Getting additional information, some of which we've we've received but haven't had it. 01:22:29
Proper amount of time to prepare for. 01:22:33
Presentation tonight. 01:22:35
But additional information and and. 01:22:37
A plan and some alternatives for how we address the. 01:22:39
Projects that are. 01:22:43
Unfunded in this plan. 01:22:44
So. 01:22:47
Some details about the Capital Improvement Plan survey. Thank you to everybody that participated in the survey. 01:22:48
We did have. 01:22:54
An overall response rate. 01:22:56
15. 01:22:58
Given the time of year when it's sent out. 01:22:59
I can appreciate why that may not have been. 01:23:02
A complete response from everyone, but to those that did respond, thank you. 01:23:05
The list of projects as originally proposed. 01:23:10
Yeah, asking me provided was 65. 01:23:12
And there's the breakdown you can see of the various projects. 01:23:15
And. 01:23:19
What, what, how they were going to be? 01:23:20
Even funded noted down at the bottom. 01:23:24
Of existing funds. 01:23:25
So the plan though? 01:23:28
That you have. 01:23:32
In your documents. 01:23:33
Is. 01:23:35
Includes. 01:23:36
25 projects that are actually. 01:23:38
Proposed for funding. 01:23:41
There were some items originally proposed and even included in the survey that after further review. 01:23:44
We realized don't really fit the capital improvement plan definition. So they are O&M costs and those have been removed. 01:23:50
There are other projects that have been. 01:23:56
Slated or moved over to be? 01:24:00
To better fit within the. 01:24:02
Their appropriate enterprise fund. 01:24:04
And so those those dollars are are pulled off of. 01:24:06
The. 01:24:10
The amount of sales tax, I guess I would say. 01:24:11
That we would. 01:24:13
Plan on allocating in the first place. 01:24:14
Two projects. 01:24:17
So of the. 01:24:18
Of the survey. 01:24:20
Projects, though, that were ranked in the top 10. 01:24:21
As well as the overall you see there, the highway, road and bridge projects funded 6 out of 15. 01:24:26
Of those projects and then total 8 miles to be covered by those. 01:24:33
Projects that were funded, which includes some bridges, is 8.1 miles. 01:24:38
And then, as I mentioned, the unfunded projects. 01:24:44
21. 01:24:46
I see here I might have omitted the piece about the the top ten of the rankings, but there were we. 01:24:47
We endeavored to keep everything still within the realm of the statistics or from the rankings, from the survey itself. 01:24:53
But because of the cost of some of the projects and the nature of some of the projects. 01:25:01
They were omitted. 01:25:06
And left to be or. 01:25:08
Left to be unfunded, not omitted from the plan, just not funded. 01:25:09
In the plan. 01:25:12
So I wanted to direct your attention though to strategic priorities, so. 01:25:14
I did not provide this document to you as part of the. 01:25:19
Packet but you. 01:25:22
Many of you will recall the strategic planning process that took place a few years ago. 01:25:24
And as part of that strategic plan, we listed. 01:25:29
Some strategic priorities, and there were. 01:25:32
Additional details and objectives and. 01:25:35
Short term goals that were listed in that strategic plan. 01:25:37
But we've gone back or with the help of our communications, our PR, and. 01:25:40
Communications coordinator Megan Sheridan, whom you've heard from tonight. 01:25:46
We put together. 01:25:50
A a page of the strategic priorities and so these are it essentially focusing on. 01:25:51
You'll see there the four. 01:25:59
The four main areas. 01:26:01
And below those 4 main areas. 01:26:02
Kind of the. 01:26:05
The more specific elements included. 01:26:06
I'll just list the. 01:26:09
I won't. I won't read anything here. You can see for yourselves. 01:26:11
Any questions on this though this piece? 01:26:15
And the strategic priorities? 01:26:17
To this point. 01:26:19
If not, we'll continue. So when we think about those strategic priorities and the actual projects that have been. 01:26:22
Selected to receive funding. 01:26:28
So those that are the big list is more. 01:26:32
More than just projects that we want. 01:26:35
That we have dollars for that we do want to pursue. 01:26:37
But those that actually did also receive dollars on that list. 01:26:41
That's this list of projects and each one. 01:26:45
Either directly or indirectly fits within. 01:26:48
One of those 4 strategic priority areas. 01:26:52
So just so that you're aware of that. 01:26:56
When we think about what we have. 01:26:59
Included in what we have funded. 01:27:01
They all fit within this strategic strategic priority areas. And why is that important? 01:27:02
I'm sharing that with you now because. 01:27:08
One of our objectives as a county is to maintain 22 miles. 01:27:10
Of resurfaced projects annually within our. 01:27:15
Highway system so that we can have a. 01:27:18
25 year rotation. 01:27:20
Of cycling through and making sure that we're. 01:27:22
Repairing, resurfacing each of our. 01:27:26
Each of our. 01:27:28
Highways. 01:27:29
That's not possible with the current funding amount as. 01:27:31
As we'll get into further details, so we did stick with things that. 01:27:34
Were eligible and and that we've thought fit within our strategic priorities. 01:27:38
As a county. 01:27:44
But not all 22 miles of Rd. lanes are funded at this time. 01:27:45
So when you think about. 01:27:50
Where and how things are funded in the. 01:27:52
Proposed plan. 01:27:54
This is just a breakdown of numbers. So we have 5.8 million. 01:27:56
That is coming out of our capital Improvement fund, Fund 400 that is primarily sales tax. That's where the sales tax goes and then 01:28:00
from there gets distributed to cover various projects in the county. 01:28:05
We are going to receive as. 01:28:11
As part of. 01:28:14
A number of these projects state and federal dollars. 01:28:15
We have available up to 9.3 million, a little over $9.3 million. 01:28:18
Of funds from state and federal grants and additionally have half a million of other source dollars. 01:28:24
From other parties that would be. 01:28:30
Either involved in a cost share or some other way associated with the project. 01:28:32
And you can see if if you're interested or. 01:28:37
Have questions about it as I. 01:28:39
As I go through these details. 01:28:41
If you're looking at your big. 01:28:43
Spreadsheets that were included. 01:28:45
When I'm talking about those grants, that's. 01:28:47
That's the yellow columns over here. The first one is state and federal grants, followed by. 01:28:50
Fund balances that may exist already that we're carrying over or applying to a project. 01:28:54
And then the other category is those additional dollars, so. 01:28:59
That's what I'm talking about when I say grants and other sources. 01:29:03
And state and federal grants. 01:29:06
As well as fund balances applied. 01:29:08
However, the. 01:29:10
To date. 01:29:11
We have, you'll note, 31 million. 01:29:13
$260,000 worth of project work. 01:29:15
That is currently not funded. 01:29:19
Part of that. 01:29:21
Before you. 01:29:23
You allow yourself to suffer from any sticker shock with that number. 01:29:24
Part of that is 21 million, that is. 01:29:28
Physical facilities projects. 01:29:31
If you approve. 01:29:33
The physical facilities master plan. 01:29:35
When ultimately is presented to this body. 01:29:37
Then. 01:29:41
That number will change. 01:29:42
Will be will be essentially wiping that off the slate and having a new discussion about. 01:29:44
What's our timeline and what do we need to address first based on that plan to prioritize our physical facilities? 01:29:50
And any improvements to physical facilities if not? 01:29:56
Those are dollars that would be spent on projects that we know we need to accomplish now. 01:30:00
If everything else remains the same. 01:30:05
So that had. 01:30:08
Is that clear? Could I explain that? 01:30:09
Well, OK. 01:30:11
In in addition to that, 21 million of those physical facility projects which are there for you to be aware of. 01:30:14
But I want to make that distinction. 01:30:20
To in some ways carve out of our discussion today. 01:30:22
There are $10 million worth of. 01:30:27
Roadway Projects. 01:30:29
So aside from 8.1 miles of roads that I mentioned in the prior slide. 01:30:30
The rest of that 22 miles of Rd. 01:30:35
Is included here. 01:30:38
In these projects. 01:30:39
If. 01:30:41
Excuse me if we do. 01:30:42
Not. 01:30:43
And I'll mention it. I'll mention it specifically. 01:30:45
If the project. 01:30:48
Where's my number? 01:30:54
Oh, there it is. 01:30:55
Highway resurfacing of County P from State Highway 60 to State Highway 33. 01:30:56
It's a total of seven point. 01:31:01
4 miles of resurfacing. 01:31:02
On our highways. 01:31:04
If that project does not come to pass in 2026. 01:31:06
The dollars from the state. 01:31:09
State or federal dollars? 01:31:12
Totals 924. 01:31:13
1389 those are local Rd. improvement funds. 01:31:15
From the state. 01:31:19
That's what we would be missing out on. 01:31:21
In 2026 to help fund that project that. 01:31:24
You talk more details later about whether those dollars will be available in a future year. I just want you to be aware that's 01:31:28
what it's saying down at the bottom of the slide, grants a stake if we don't fund. 01:31:32
Are $924,000 of. 01:31:38
Local Rd. improvement money. 01:31:40
And there it is. 01:31:42
Again. 01:31:43
So. 01:31:44
Key things that I wanted to touch on tonight outside of. 01:31:45
Just the capital improvement plan itself and maybe. 01:31:49
Maybe before I go here. 01:31:52
Does anyone have any questions on? 01:31:55
Anything specific? 01:31:58
Related to. 01:32:00
These two spreadsheets. 01:32:02
And the list of projects there. 01:32:04
OK. All right. 01:32:10
Supervisor kill. 01:32:11
Supervisor Keel. 01:32:13
Yes, I just. 01:32:15
If you go back to the. 01:32:17
Screen where you had. 01:32:19
Funding sources. 01:32:20
That yes, that one. 01:32:22
I don't. 01:32:26
Quite understandable. 01:32:27
But. 01:32:29
When you say capital fund. 01:32:30
5.8 million. 01:32:34
You're not saying existent. 01:32:38
Fund balance. You don't list any sales tax. 01:32:40
As of. 01:32:43
Funding source. 01:32:44
Correct. Is that what? 01:32:46
Is in. 01:32:47
Fund 400. 01:32:49
Really is. 01:32:50
Sales tax, yes. 01:32:52
Yes, it is and thank you for asking. I'm happy to clarify SO. 01:32:54
I'm wanting to get away from whether something is sales tax or property tax. I think it's important. 01:32:59
That's not getting away from the fact that we use sales tax on capital items in general. It's safe to assume that if it's coming 01:33:04
from Fund 400. 01:33:08
That it is indeed sales tax dollars. 01:33:12
It's funded in fund 404 hundred. 01:33:14
Doesn't have an existing fund balance. 01:33:19
Of. 01:33:21
5.3 that's. 01:33:22
Probably Clearview. 01:33:25
For their project. 01:33:27
Some of it is Clearview. 01:33:29
Are you talking about Fund 400 Capital Fund? 01:33:31
Yeah, the yeah, the 5.8. 01:33:33
Million is. 01:33:36
Based on projected revenues from sales tax in 2020 from sales tax. 01:33:38
I mean, I'd like to see. 01:33:42
I'd like to see how much of it is sales tax, How much is funding? 01:33:47
From. 01:33:52
Existing fund balance. 01:33:55
Maybe they're somewhere else, but I mean. 01:33:57
Airport operations also isn't. 01:34:00
Right when we talk about and so. 01:34:03
I'll share one thing and then I'm going to. 01:34:06
As Mr. Chair, if you'd. 01:34:09
Make Nathan's mic act. 01:34:12
Active. 01:34:13
So in looking at we listed on the actual plan itself as well Fund 221. 01:34:14
Which covers the airport. 01:34:21
We have labeled as sales tax. 01:34:23
In that column because it is anything that we contribute. 01:34:25
Does come from sales tax? 01:34:29
When it comes to Fund 400, it is also. 01:34:31
Sales tax. 01:34:34
I I don't like just saying sales tax because I leave open the idea that there could be other. 01:34:37
Dollars coming into that fund, for example. 01:34:42
Right if we did. 01:34:44
Well, we have grants parsed out, but if we did do a. 01:34:47
Have some kind of financing? 01:34:50
On a project that would also go in Capital Fund 400. 01:34:51
You touched on it. I just wanted to point out that the. 01:34:58
Clearview Enterprise Fund, the 2.836 million that is utilizing operating funds from Clearview. So that is enterprise fund related. 01:35:02
Same thing with the highway. 01:35:14
That is, the 300,000 is enterprise. 01:35:16
But we're currently right now as you indicated, Cameron, the. 01:35:20
The Capital Fund. 01:35:24
As of right now, that 5.8 is. 01:35:26
Is sales tax is the the funding source? 01:35:29
Thank you. 01:35:33
Thank you. Is that? 01:35:34
Cover. 01:35:36
That cover your question surprise you. 01:35:38
And I can. 01:35:40
Maybe make it clearer in future presentations. 01:35:41
They're not repeated. 01:35:47
Up in the numbers above. 01:35:51
So. 01:35:54
The existing fund balance when you say 5.3 million? 01:35:57
That. 01:36:02
Is. 01:36:03
Probably Clearview. 01:36:05
You're talking about which fund? I'm sorry. 01:36:09
In part, not all of it. 01:36:11
But you see it's repeated, it's some of its general funding itself. That is the one computed above 2.8 is current operation. 01:36:13
Yes. 01:36:26
Yes. The rest of yes. 01:36:28
Correct. 01:36:31
They have fund balance. 01:36:32
But that is not what that's that's talking about. 01:36:33
Part yeah, part of the 5.3 of the existing fund balance is. 01:36:41
Is. 01:36:46
Carry forward. 01:36:46
For current projects for Clearview. 01:36:48
There's about. 01:36:50
33 million, some odd million that. 01:36:51
That. 01:36:55
We've already budgeted. 01:36:55
For Clearview, it hasn't been. 01:36:57
Expended yet? And so that will be a carry forward into the into the following year. 01:37:01
Correct. 01:37:05
And that should be. 01:37:06
We're nitpicking at this at the slide, but this detail is on the spreadsheets. 01:37:09
Yeah, and Supervisor Kelly apologized. I just realized. 01:37:15
Specifically what you're talking about when you were talking about the 3.9. 01:37:19
Or the the fund balances. So thank you. 01:37:23
Thank you. 01:37:25
Back to David. Other questions. Other questions. Yeah, Supervisor Houchin. 01:37:25
Thank you. A couple things I'd like to. 01:37:30
To know. 01:37:32
The Highway Enterprise Fund, we don't know how it's going. We've not been up. 01:37:34
Dated and maybe the next for me. Maybe you can tell us where it exactly stands. 01:37:38
And how these things will fit in. 01:37:43
With roads. 01:37:45
Whatever, because we have no idea. 01:37:46
#2. 01:37:48
This. 01:37:53
At stake? 01:37:54
The road you talked about, it raked 4th in the in the survey. 01:37:55
I don't know why. 01:37:59
Why we would put it? 01:38:01
Is unfounded and why it wouldn't have been one, it would have been pushed up higher. 01:38:03
Since there's already funding and we would lose it. 01:38:06
So I don't understand that. 01:38:08
And I will get into that very point. 01:38:11
Maybe a little bit later on, if I may. OK, regarding the other the first part. 01:38:13
Would you repeat it again? Number one concern. 01:38:18
I'd like to know how the highway department stands now. 01:38:20
With the enterprise if it's working. 01:38:23
If it's gotta finish. 01:38:25
You know. 01:38:26
How we're going to end. 01:38:27
Enterprise. Oh yeah. So it it. 01:38:30
Right the. 01:38:34
We're this is our first year of getting off the ground in. 01:38:34
In treating that fund. 01:38:37
Appropriately. 01:38:40
We've always had it. 01:38:40
But it has been used in the right way. 01:38:42
We do have information I don't have it handy tonight to provide. 01:38:44
Updates on where things are but. 01:38:48
Anything that has to do with? 01:38:51
Operations of the Highway department. 01:38:53
Really at this point in time. 01:38:56
Who might be speaking more broadly than I'm sure there's we could. 01:38:59
Could split hairs and find a few things that don't, but in general everything that is operations for the highway department. 01:39:02
Fits there and is recovered. 01:39:09
The costs of. 01:39:11
To operate are recovered through the highway department's fees. 01:39:13
So. 01:39:16
Yeah. So in the case of right now, I appreciate you bringing it up. We can definitely come back and share additional details. 01:39:18
So. 01:39:26
Any other questions regarding? 01:39:27
Supervisor Gruken Burger. 01:39:28
Yeah, I. 01:39:32
Yes, I punched in when Karen was asking about the. 01:39:33
Existing fund balance, because it's really not fund balance like we think of the fund balance that we're applying it's. 01:39:36
You know what I see in there is a. 01:39:43
Land, resources and parks. 01:39:47
Has some carry forward. 01:39:50
And then a Clearview carry forward. So we're really not applying fund balance. 01:39:52
To the budget, at least at this point in. 01:39:57
In, that's consistent with what you presented. 01:39:59
To finance, correct? 01:40:02
That is correct. 01:40:04
And is. 01:40:04
The report that I'm looking at here, the spreadsheet in this document is the same as what came to finance without any edits, 01:40:06
right? But the other one has the. 01:40:10
26 to 30. 01:40:15
Entries. 01:40:17
Correct, Correct. OK. Yes, thank you. 01:40:18
Thank you. 01:40:21
Any other question? Anyone else? 01:40:22
Right at this point, all right. 01:40:25
So. 01:40:28
As noted so the the question about. 01:40:29
The project that was ranked 4th which was the county highway P resurfacing. 01:40:32
What I would share with that as I move to the next slide. 01:40:37
Is and I want to talk about. 01:40:43
Capital improvement project funding and also. 01:40:45
At least a little bit. 01:40:49
To give you a. 01:40:50
Picture of. 01:40:51
How is Dodge County doing in terms of? 01:40:52
You know the cost for our capital projects. 01:40:55
How many dollars are we allocating? 01:40:58
On an on an annual basis. 01:41:00
To capital projects. 01:41:02
I think that information is important when we talk about how we. 01:41:04
Potentially would need to fund. 01:41:07
Some of those projects. 01:41:09
I'm avoiding certain words tonight, but I think you all know what those words are. 01:41:11
And we're probably going to have to. 01:41:15
Have to have a deeper dive discussion on a. 01:41:17
At another meeting. 01:41:20
About that very thing. 01:41:21
But to the point regarding these projects, each of the projects that was. 01:41:23
That is listed as unfunded. 01:41:28
You will note that physical facilities projects and then the roadway projects. 01:41:31
These are all projects. 01:41:34
That. 01:41:36
Based on what they are. 01:41:37
They they would qualify as something that is. 01:41:39
Significant in terms of size and scope and cost. 01:41:43
Having a life, a useful life of 2030. 01:41:48
50 years. 01:41:51
These are the things that. 01:41:53
Fall within the best practice. 01:41:54
For financing through. 01:41:56
Borrowing, going out to market and obtaining debt. 01:41:58
To to fund. 01:42:01
This is. 01:42:03
That's so I said that he would that's count them. 01:42:04
Maybe someone? 01:42:07
Hash mark how many times I say the D word tonight, but the. 01:42:08
The various items that we have listed there, the reason that they were not included. 01:42:12
To Supervisor Hutchins question. 01:42:17
And the reason why they're sitting unfunded is because when we get down the list a few spaces, we begin to. 01:42:19
Have. 01:42:25
We have to make some choices. 01:42:27
Between 1:00 or the other. 01:42:28
We recognized that there were a number of projects. 01:42:30
That would still fall within the purview. 01:42:33
Of our strategic priorities. 01:42:37
And they were items that were relatively. 01:42:39
If not urgent. 01:42:43
Just overall. 01:42:44
Important to accomplish. 01:42:45
The network infrastructure refresh for one. 01:42:47
Every time we're dealing with microphones. 01:42:50
And blips in this room. 01:42:52
I can't promise everything would be changed, but I know that one of the reasons why those happen. 01:42:55
Is because of the wires in our walls and ceilings. 01:43:00
That's part of this network refresh. There's much more to it than that, but that's just an example. 01:43:03
Those projects would we could certainly take in. 01:43:08
County Highway P but that. 01:43:12
Is going to result in a use of $3.4 million from our sales tax fund and we begin to wipe away. 01:43:14
All these other projects on the main page and the projects that we would wipe away are not necessarily projects. 01:43:21
That I would recommend. 01:43:27
Financing. 01:43:28
So that is that's. 01:43:30
Gets at that point about explaining. 01:43:32
The question suppressor. 01:43:35
Supervisor Hatch and hopefully. 01:43:36
Have explained it well enough. 01:43:38
For now. 01:43:39
So looking at the. 01:43:40
The chart you see before you. 01:43:42
Why is this? 01:43:44
Up there and why is it important? So you'll notice we're looking at years 2022 through 2026. 01:43:46
And we're looking at. 01:43:51
Overall. 01:43:53
Dollars. 01:43:54
Put toward capital projects. 01:43:55
What we used in capital plans in prior years. 01:43:58
To fund our various activities. 01:44:02
So you'll see in 2022, we started right off with ARPA. 01:44:04
In the grey, then we've got other sources in the orange. So that's the state, federal grants, donations, other things that again 01:44:08
would be primarily in your yellow column. 01:44:12
On the spreadsheets that you received. 01:44:17
And then you have the sales tax dollars, which is? 01:44:19
Up to. 01:44:23
2025 Really. Sales tax dollars are. 01:44:24
Synonymous with. 01:44:28
Fund 400. 01:44:29
And. 01:44:31
Even. 01:44:32
Some other funds. 01:44:32
Efforts with the highway department as well as. 01:44:33
Work at the airport. 01:44:38
But you'll notice. 01:44:40
That when we look across. 01:44:41
All years. And when you look at the blue, the. 01:44:43
Contributions from sales tax. 01:44:47
We are, we have not. 01:44:49
Far deviated. 01:44:52
In 2026, what's being proposed? 01:44:53
From what we actually spent. 01:44:55
Or allocated in 2022. 01:44:57
I think one possible difference. 01:45:00
Is we will likely have more sales tax than what we're. 01:45:02
Putting in here. 01:45:06
But it would not be necessarily responsible for us to. 01:45:07
Put those numbers. 01:45:11
In this plan right now. 01:45:12
So what we're looking to allocate? 01:45:15
In that regard. 01:45:17
Is very similar. 01:45:18
I will say. 01:45:19
To my comment about getting more even if we ended up with a higher amount of sales tax than we're anticipating for 2026. 01:45:20
We would not be able to attain a level of. 01:45:29
Sales tax revenue sufficient to keep pace with. 01:45:32
The needs for our. 01:45:35
Our roadways. 01:45:37
Or. 01:45:38
What may come out of a physical facilities master plan? 01:45:39
Analysis. 01:45:42
Or. 01:45:43
What you've heard about most recently with our. 01:45:44
Issue with radios for public safety and whether or not we need to build anymore towers in Dodge County. 01:45:47
The I will note you see. 01:45:57
2025 good gets a little bigger there. That was an effort to draw down. We had some, we had some fund balance. 01:45:59
We drew it down. What that does not include here I will point out. We also had a change with our sales tax policy. You will 01:46:05
recall, many of you will recall. 01:46:10
And so we utilize sales tax for some other. 01:46:15
Components of our operation. 01:46:19
Than just specifically capital projects. 01:46:20
Things that we've allocated dollars toward, areas that. 01:46:23
Also. 01:46:27
Bring in or would potentially bring in. 01:46:28
Dollars to the county, our parks, our veterans services, our community development, but those that information. 01:46:30
Those dollars are not included. 01:46:37
Here. So that's not part of that increase there. That's just a drawdown. 01:46:40
Of our fund balance. 01:46:43
So moving to the next slide, this is just looking at property tax and. 01:46:47
I should mention I meant to say at the beginning. 01:46:51
This information that is coming to you tonight is. 01:46:53
We've worked on it as a team, but I want to credit our our finance director and finance staff. 01:46:57
As well as. 01:47:02
Court counsel and others that have been involved in. 01:47:04
Gathering the data and then finance with putting this together for tonight. 01:47:08
Our finance director. 01:47:12
So. 01:47:13
What we're looking at here. 01:47:14
Is let's take a look at the dollars we're spending in 2026. Are we proposed to spend in 2026? 01:47:16
And let's look at inflation. 01:47:22
And the change in the consumer price index from 2016. 01:47:25
To 2026. 01:47:28
And so. 01:47:30
We'll take a look back at 2016, but now we'll adjust and look at 2016. 01:47:31
As it would appear. 01:47:37
If all else was equal. 01:47:39
With what a dollar is worth today. 01:47:41
So if you look back to 2016. 01:47:44
From where we are now. 01:47:48
I said 26 we're. 01:47:50
Talking through 2025 in the chart. 01:47:52
This is our total tax levy. 01:47:55
So we. 01:47:57
Property taxes to an amount of 36.9 million. 01:47:59
In 2016. 01:48:03
That. 01:48:06
A dollar amount. An equivalent dollar amount would be 43.3. 01:48:07
Million. So that's what we were. 01:48:10
That's what we were taxing. 01:48:13
In 2016. 01:48:15
So we are already reducing. 01:48:17
What we are taxing. 01:48:19
What we're the burden that we're putting in terms of tax dollars on residents of. 01:48:21
Dodge County, it's gone down. 01:48:25
Over that 10 year period and I think that's important. 01:48:27
To note here. So you see the orange line showing that the blue line. 01:48:30
As reference is. 01:48:34
Just looking at straight up dollars as posted. 01:48:36
Without adjusting for inflation. 01:48:38
Median tax payment or median? 01:48:41
Homeowner payment. 01:48:43
I need to qualify here. 01:48:46
Because I listen when Supervisor Burger mentions it. It's important for you all to remember that the median homeowner. 01:48:48
Tax payment. 01:48:56
Person, uh. 01:48:57
Is fictitious. 01:48:58
We have. 01:48:59
Many. 01:49:00
Property assessment jurisdictions in Dodge County and assessment ratios vary from community to community, so. 01:49:01
We can't pin down an exact number. We'd be giving you a whole page of numbers or more if we did that. So looking at overall, we 01:49:08
can use. 01:49:13
The median. The median tax payment. The median homeowner payment of tax. 01:49:18
As an indicator. 01:49:24
Even though it's not a real person in 2025. 01:49:25
But the same same rules apply adjusting for the consumer price index for inflation. 01:49:28
If we take a look back from 2025 at $975. 01:49:33
As the median. 01:49:38
Homeowner tax payment. 01:49:40
The same. 01:49:43
Costs same operations in 20/20/16. 01:49:44
They were paying. 01:49:48
Essentially in equivalency to 1.1. 01:49:49
Or one. 01:49:52
$1138 so again. 01:49:53
Pointing out the slope. 01:49:57
We're going down. 01:49:58
In terms of what we're demanding or exacting from our. 01:49:59
Residents. 01:50:03
On the flip side. 01:50:04
What this slide can show you is. 01:50:05
Our values. 01:50:08
And costs, as we well know. 01:50:09
Are going up. 01:50:11
So it's. 01:50:12
Reductions. 01:50:14
Gained through cuts or efficiencies, that is. 01:50:15
Resulting in the US maintaining. 01:50:18
Or going down in terms of what we are actually. 01:50:21
Our actual cost. 01:50:24
In today's. 01:50:26
2 residents. 01:50:27
And I wanted to point that out here because because of this gap, so. 01:50:29
The blue line here is actually showing. 01:50:34
County debt capacity or the blue mass is showing county debt capacity. 01:50:36
That's an indicator of property value increases because a portion of our overall asset value is is. 01:50:41
Sits inside what our overall limit and capacity is for. 01:50:46
Borrowing dollars The orange. 01:50:50
Mass. 01:50:53
Along the chart is. 01:50:54
Actual. 01:50:56
General obligation debt that we have. 01:50:57
Gone entered into obligations to pay back. 01:51:00
Over the course of years. 01:51:03
And we go through and show some of those payments and payment schedules in our budget document annually. But what I want to point 01:51:06
out here. 01:51:09
With this chart. 01:51:13
First and foremost. 01:51:15
Is. 01:51:17
That. 01:51:18
We have our overall limit today is. 01:51:18
The limits set by law is 497 million. 01:51:21
4097.5 Almost 497,600,000. 01:51:25
Our overall capacity then as well, which is less than that limit what we're. 01:51:30
Are capable of. 01:51:34
Of drawing on. 01:51:35
Is 474 million. 01:51:37
392,000. 01:51:40
And then our current debt that we're paying off, so principal and interest where we are right now. 01:51:41
We have 23.2 million. 01:51:47
That we're still paying on. 01:51:49
But that that payment every year we don't. 01:51:51
Don't borrow goes down and So what you see here. 01:51:53
Is in 2016 the overall capacity utilized so the amount of orange. 01:51:56
At the 2016 year mark. 01:52:03
Was 10.87%, so we were. 01:52:05
We were. 01:52:08
We had. 01:52:09
Accumulated debt. 01:52:10
That we needed to pay back. 01:52:12
Of 10.87% of what we could. 01:52:13
Potentially. 01:52:17
Go out if we wanted to just. 01:52:18
By the moon. 01:52:20
Today. 01:52:21
Because of payments. 01:52:22
Paying that that amount down and also because of property value and asset values going up. 01:52:24
We are paying. 01:52:31
Our debt overall is 4.66%. 01:52:33
So it's been reduced from 10.87 to 4.6. The point with sharing this with you is. 01:52:36
Our capacity continues to grow. 01:52:42
And we are not. 01:52:44
We we're going down. What would be ideal is for us to establish a plan for. 01:52:45
Borrowing. 01:52:51
That would keep us at a steady. 01:52:52
Flat rate. 01:52:54
And do the same thing every year so that we are not having overtime. 01:52:55
A dramatic impact on. 01:53:00
Taxpayers, where we're all agreeing on what we're borrowing for and. 01:53:02
We're just paying that. 01:53:07
Keeping a flat percentage. 01:53:08
I'm going to skip the forward analytics part, but I would recommend that you go there. If you were to go to this link you can go 01:53:11
through. 01:53:14
The WWC a site or directly to forward analytics. 01:53:18
And you can look at their interactive maps. 01:53:21
Where they go into further details for each county, you'll find where we rank. 01:53:24
In comparison to other counties. 01:53:29
And we're sitting very well when it comes to. 01:53:31
So how much we cost? 01:53:35
To our residents. 01:53:37
All right, so here we are. 01:53:39
We've you've received the plan. 01:53:41
We've talked about it briefly. 01:53:43
Because it's there for you to be able to see. I'm happy to answer more questions if you have them, but the request tonight is for 01:53:45
that. 01:53:48
Vote to approve. 01:53:52
The resolution as proposed. 01:53:54
Understanding that. 01:53:56
We're not asking you to obligate in any way toward any the funding of any of these unfunded projects nor are we asking or does the 01:53:58
resolution action tonight say that there. 01:54:04
Not important at all. It just means. 01:54:10
We're going to come back once the physical facilities plan is done and once we've had a chance to work with. 01:54:12
Some of our. 01:54:18
Our partners in in financing and other resources that can give us additional finance details, financial details we can share with 01:54:20
you and we'll come back and talk further about how we go about funding those projects. 01:54:25
Any questions questions. 01:54:32
Supervisor Houch. 01:54:36
Thank you. Do we have any debt that's going to be falling off soon? Do you know when? 01:54:37
When is the first thing going to fall off? 01:54:42
That's a great question. I don't have the debt schedule in front of me. I don't know if that's something that. 01:54:45
Nathan has handy in the back, he's looking it up so he's not on his head. We can find that out for you. 01:54:50
In just a second. 01:54:55
Any other questions? 01:54:59
Other questions? 01:55:05
No, I haven't. 01:55:07
So. 01:55:10
Right now we have a A10 year. I believe there's a a Rd. 01:55:13
A debt service that will fall off in 2036. 01:55:18
Your next. 01:55:23
Oh, wait. 01:55:25
Sorry. 01:55:26
I apologize. 01:55:35
If I'm looking. 01:55:40
Currently, your current debts, any debt that you have existing is going to. 01:55:47
Be done in 2031. 01:55:51
Thank you. 01:55:53
So. 01:55:55
If we did nothing else, everything's gone. 01:55:56
2031. 01:55:58
Anyone else? 01:56:02
OK. All right. Thank you. 01:56:06
Any questions on the? 01:56:13
CIP has proposed. 01:56:15
If you have. 01:56:21
Agree with the. 01:56:22
If you agree with the. 01:56:26
Resolution as proposed, please. 01:56:28
Or yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:56:30
OK. 01:56:33
Would you push a button please? 01:56:35
You already got the voting in, okay. 01:56:39
All right. It's the capital improvement plan for 2026 through 2030. 01:56:42
We're voting on all five years. 01:56:49
The plan lists out specific financial wealth. 01:56:52
We have a number of exhibits. 01:56:55
You're voting on 2026? 01:56:57
That's what's. 01:56:59
You're acknowledging the rest of the plan is there. 01:57:00
But the only year with authorization to act is 27. 01:57:02
OK. 01:57:08
So if you agree with the. 01:57:09
With the resolution as proposed, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 01:57:10
Supervisor Free Vault. 01:57:17
Yes. 01:57:21
All having voted, it passes 25 to 4. 01:57:24
Resolution. 01:57:29
2532. 01:57:30
Resolution denying an amendment. 01:57:32
To the official zoning map for the town of Lomira. 01:57:35
Adopted with the land use code Dodge County. 01:57:38
To rezone certain lands in section 18. 01:57:41
In town of Lomira. 01:57:44
All of which is respectfully submitted. 01:57:49
This. 01:57:53
It was submitted in August, 19th day of August, signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 01:57:54
And there's no fiscal note. 01:58:03
Do I have a motion? 01:58:06
I have a motion by Supervisor Bob Holtz and a second by Supervisor Burnett. 01:58:12
Supervisor Van de Zen. 01:58:17
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 01:58:21
I was just looking over this denial. 01:58:24
And I don't remember them talking about this in the in the meeting, but it says. 01:58:27
Denial on the. 01:58:33
Chapter 9146 which is. 01:58:34
To be, I think. 01:58:37
Saying that this creates 1/5 non farm. 01:58:39
Residential lot. 01:58:42
Can they explain that? 01:58:43
Because, uh. 01:58:45
Campground and. 01:58:47
Campground lots are not considered a dwelling. 01:58:48
Kim, do you want or to Terry? 01:58:57
They they list as a reason for denying. 01:59:09
This. 01:59:12
Application. 01:59:13
That it creates 1/5. 01:59:15
Non farm residential lot. 01:59:17
A campground is not considered a dwelling or residential lot. It's temporary. 01:59:20
So so I believe what was. 01:59:57
What they're trying to do was their. 01:59:59
There they were only rezoning a. 02:00:03
Portion of it. 02:00:05
Yeah. 02:00:16
Supervisor Belk. 02:00:23
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Did the Town Board approve this? 02:00:25
They they did not. 02:00:29
Supervisor segment. 02:00:36
The town board recommended not approving this. They wanted their farmland to stay in farmland. 02:00:37
Supervisor. 02:00:48
I mean, that really doesn't matter because. 02:00:50
You're listing the reason for denial as a statute. 02:00:52
That it doesn't apply to. 02:00:56
Anyone else? 02:01:02
Anyone else? 02:01:05
Supervisor. 02:01:08
Thank you. 02:01:10
What I found is that this land is very good egg land. It's what's called a thoracic silt loam. 02:01:11
And. 02:01:18
Even though it is. 02:01:19
Been told us that it. 02:01:21
Isn't producing anything. I'd say that's the farmers problem and not the soils problem. 02:01:22
And I would recommend getting a different farmer in there that could maybe. 02:01:28
Use that soil the way it's intended to be used. 02:01:31
But. 02:01:34
The town board recommended the disapproval and as I looked at the farmland preservation plan and our constant and our 02:01:35
comprehensive plan. 02:01:39
This just does not. 02:01:44
Get supported by either one. 02:01:45
Or the town board. 02:01:48
So we recommend a disapproval because this is some of the prime egg land that we are supposedly trying to protect in Dodge County. 02:01:51
Supervisor Houchin. 02:01:59
Is is any of the land farmed now? 02:02:01
Or is it all? 02:02:04
This is all farm. 02:02:05
This this. 02:02:08
It's it's in grass because the farmer isn't farming it. 02:02:10
But it is the rest of silt loam which would. 02:02:14
Grow just as good a crops as what is just to the West of it. 02:02:17
Hang on. 02:02:28
All right. 02:02:31
Any other questions? 02:02:33
Supervisor Conway. 02:02:35
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think the question though that. 02:02:38
I would bring up as. 02:02:40
Are we in fact? 02:02:43
The recommendation whether it's good soil, good loom. 02:02:45
All those other things. 02:02:48
The recommendation was. 02:02:50
Following a statute. 02:02:51
And I think before we would make a decision, we should find out. 02:02:53
Whether or not that. 02:02:56
Statute actually comes into play. 02:02:57
Or not. 02:03:01
Thank you. 02:03:03
Terry, did you get any more information? 02:03:07
We're trying to get your mic. 02:03:19
There, try it. 02:03:20
So so the. 02:03:24
That statement on the report is incorrect. 02:03:26
The 5th non farm residential lot. 02:03:29
That's not supposed to be on that report, unfortunately. 02:03:32
Supervisor Durr. 02:03:40
This is really difficult because. 02:03:42
We're not making an initial determination on any of these zoning things. 02:03:44
And. 02:03:48
I really wish somebody had given us a public statement about. 02:03:50
How the 10 bout? 02:03:54
Town Board. 02:03:56
In either case. 02:03:57
Did not either follow the correct procedure. 02:03:59
Or. 02:04:03
Ignored obvious. 02:04:04
Evidence that would. 02:04:06
Have supported. 02:04:08
A denial. 02:04:09
And they are like a trial court. 02:04:11
And we're like the Court of Appeals. 02:04:14
We don't retry the case so. 02:04:16
I just wish. 02:04:20
I'd heard. 02:04:21
This is why. 02:04:22
They failed. 02:04:24
To do the procedure or they failed to. 02:04:26
Apply the standard. 02:04:29
Because we don't just get to. 02:04:31
Flip something upside down because we don't like it, right? 02:04:33
Because that would be. 02:04:36
Different decisions happening all over all the time. 02:04:38
Right, We're supposed to be following standards and so this part is confusing for me. 02:04:41
Because. 02:04:47
It sounds like. 02:04:48
They denied it. 02:04:49
Based on a statement. 02:04:51
That was incorrect. 02:04:53
Is that right? 02:04:55
Not right. Can you explain that to me, somebody? 02:04:57
Supervisor segment. 02:05:00
Thank you. The reason I deferred it is because. 02:05:02
We didn't talk about that. 02:05:05
And when I read it I go OK. 02:05:08
Well, I told you why we rejected this. We rejected this because it definitely does not. 02:05:10
To the requirements of the Land Use Code, the Farmland Preservation Plan and the Comprehensive Plan. 02:05:16
So that's the simple story. 02:05:23
There were more issues regarding. 02:05:26
Restrooms and everything that would have to be in place. 02:05:30
And on top of that, the town board said no, we do not want this because we want this to stay in egg land. 02:05:34
It may be between a cemetery and a house, but there's plenty of room between the cemetery and the house, and farmers can farm 02:05:40
that. 02:05:44
Seriously, if you get the farmer in there that wants to farm it, if you just cut it every year and. 02:05:47
Don't put any fertilizer on. 02:05:52
The best land is not going to. 02:05:54
Be the best land, but it is there and that's what we are supposed to protect. 02:05:56
Advisor dear, did you want to? I just want to. 02:06:02
Clarify. 02:06:05
I appreciate. 02:06:06
That people understand that. 02:06:08
One of the requirements is that it meets the Land Comprehensive Plan. 02:06:10
But whether it's coming from a supervisor or public comments. 02:06:13
You have to tell us how. 02:06:17
You have to tell us why. 02:06:19
What are the facts? 02:06:20
Of this that show it doesn't meet the plan and it's really frustrating because that's. 02:06:22
That's all we can vote on. 02:06:28
We can't just say I like farmland and I'm gonna do it. We're not. 02:06:30
Legally allowed to do that. 02:06:34
Riser band is Anne. 02:06:38
I think she kind of. 02:06:41
Said what I needed to say too. But like I said, this is. 02:06:44
And this was not, I don't think this was brought up in that committee meeting. 02:06:47
The street action, the statute, and all of a sudden I saw that I'm like, where did that come from? And then I was, I looked it up 02:06:53
and it's. 02:06:56
You you can't say that you denied it based on something that's incorrect. 02:07:00
Corp Council. 02:07:06
I just want to clarify for everyone and I think what you're referring to isn't that language in the report, that one sentence 02:07:07
there? 02:07:10
Correct. 02:07:13
Breaking off the I gave my report away, but that one sentence. 02:07:15
What Terry is saying is that sentence doesn't belong in that report at all. It was completely a typo. 02:07:21
So please ignore that sentence. 02:07:26
It does not weigh in on this discussion. It's this debate. And Supervisor Sigmund certainly was at. 02:07:28
I mean, he's the chair of that committee and. 02:07:34
He's reporting to you what? 02:07:36
Took place at committee. And As for what the town of Lomira. 02:07:38
Did. 02:07:43
That that's in the. 02:07:43
The The Front End report. 02:07:45
That's always part of the staff report that they always indicate what what did the town. 02:07:47
Do why did they decide to do what? 02:07:52
They did. 02:07:55
So. 02:07:56
So please in that report that's with this resolution. 02:07:56
Ignore that statement. 02:08:00
Total typo, not applicable at all to this discussion. 02:08:01
OK. Anyone else? 02:08:07
Anyone else? 02:08:09
Supervisor Ringle. 02:08:10
The owner does not farm it, and they don't intend to. 02:08:13
To rent that 5 acres to any farmer. 02:08:16
In a neighborhood. 02:08:18
It's their property and it's grass. 02:08:20
A day mall. 02:08:23
Anyone else? 02:08:29
If you agree with the recommendation of the committee. 02:08:31
Please vote yes. The recommendation is to deny. If you do not agree with that, please vote no. 02:08:35
Supervisor Free Vault. 02:08:58
Yes. 02:09:00
Having voted, it passes 20 to 8 with 1 abstention. 02:09:04
Resolution. 02:09:10
2533. 02:09:11
Amend. 02:09:20
Amend town zoning ordinance The Jones Purna property Town of Hubbard. 02:09:24
Be the Dodge County Land, Resources and Parks Committee hereby report favorably on the petition of Jones, Bruno requesting 02:09:30
amendment of the zoning ordinance. 02:09:34
All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of September 2025. Signed by five members of the Land, Resources and Parks 02:09:39
Committee. 02:09:43
I have a motion by supervisor Sigmund, second by supervisor Bubbles. 02:09:48
Any questions or comments on this? 02:09:53
In this resolution. 02:09:57
Any questions? 02:09:59
If you agree with the committee, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:10:04
Supervisor Free Vault. 02:10:20
Yes. 02:10:28
All having voted, it passes 28 to 1. 02:10:31
Resolution 2534. 02:10:36
Authorized Dodge County to enter into a lease agreement for a county research. 02:10:39
Demonstration Farm. 02:10:45
All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of September, 2025. 02:10:48
Signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 02:10:53
Fiscal note. 02:10:59
Eric, I apologize. Conservation Education Committee. 02:11:01
Fiscal Note This resolution recognizes A4 year agreement valued at $214,400. 02:11:05
Within annual amount of. 02:11:13
$53,600 Revenues associated with this agreement will be incorporated into the budget during 8. 02:11:16
Each respective year. 02:11:23
Finance Committee review date September 16, 2025 signed. 02:11:25
By Finance Committee chair. 02:11:29
I need a motion. 02:11:32
Please. 02:11:33
I have a motion by Supervisor Burnett and second by Supervisor Johnson. 02:11:37
We have a question from. 02:11:44
Couple of questions, but we do have a presentation about it and maybe we'll answer the questions if. 02:11:47
John. 02:11:53
OK, trying to bring you up to speed on why we're. 02:12:03
We're looking at going in this direction. 02:12:06
In 2024. 02:12:09
Three or four of the committee members from Conservation Extension Committee myself. 02:12:11
We toured the county farm in Rock County. 02:12:15
And they have a portion down there that they've been doing research plots on for many years. 02:12:18
Along with UW Madison extension office. 02:12:24
And the. 02:12:28
They were also looking for other sites within the. 02:12:29
State. 02:12:32
That would be interested in doing that. 02:12:33
So. 02:12:35
Conversations with committee and myself and with Will from the extension was. 02:12:36
What can we do at the? 02:12:41
At our airport farm, that would. 02:12:43
Potentially mimic that or. 02:12:45
Or even go farther than that that would benefit. 02:12:48
Farmers in Dodge County, we looked at several different options and the options that. 02:12:51
We felt were the. 02:12:57
Easiest for us to handle. 02:13:00
Is the one that's presented to you tonight. 02:13:02
So I'll let will kind of explain that. 02:13:06
Recommendation a little better. 02:13:09
Hi there, folks. 02:13:14
Thanks for asking me to. 02:13:15
Talk tonight a bit about this proposal. 02:13:17
Like John said, this was kind of something that. 02:13:21
The committee had. 02:13:24
Come up with this idea to try and have. 02:13:26
Public land. 02:13:28
Land owned by Dodge County. 02:13:29
Be used for a demonstration farm. 02:13:31
And I think the route that we have taken, like John said, it was easiest from our perspective, but it also is more of a farmer 02:13:33
centric. 02:13:37
Approach than the one used at Rock County Farm. 02:13:40
That farm is run by. 02:13:43
Operated by Land Conservation and Extension and does a lot of small plot research to give it some perspective. Some of the stuff 02:13:45
that's done at the research stations that UW Madison owns and operates. 02:13:50
All across the state. 02:13:55
So the route that we went was to have it be open for proposals from farmers themselves about what type of research. 02:13:56
That they would like to see on this land at the airport and what? 02:14:03
Types of. 02:14:07
How they would do that? 02:14:08
And so the proposal that you have in front of you. 02:14:09
Or I've read previously. 02:14:13
That was one of three that was submitted. 02:14:14
The There were several members of the Extension Land Conservation Committee that got together, all of whom were farmers. 02:14:17
And receive these proposals blind in that. 02:14:23
They weren't planned folded, but. 02:14:26
All of the names are taken off and struck from those, so there was number indication as to who submitted those proposals, and they 02:14:28
were chosen based off the merits of the proposals themselves. 02:14:32
The proposal that you have here. 02:14:37
I was I was impressed with from the robustness of the research that's being proposed. 02:14:40
This was. 02:14:45
Kind of devised in conversations with farmers, but this proposal is really coming from. 02:14:46
The farmers interest themselves. 02:14:50
We had meetings with all the different farmers who submitted those Perfol. 02:14:52
Proposals. 02:14:55
And I would like to highlight kind of different areas where I think that this proposal does well. 02:14:57
Mostly that. 02:15:04
It really focuses on the agronomics. 02:15:06
And the economics of farming. 02:15:08
Is trying to answer several key questions and proposing a. 02:15:11
Value driven approach, a UW recommendation system approach, and a performance driven approach approach. 02:15:15
And so the idea is to open. 02:15:22
Up their books in a sense, and look at what are the economics of doing these different approaches and how do they perform 02:15:24
agronomically answering key questions that are. 02:15:27
Pertinent to Dodge County farmers. 02:15:32
Like where can I cut costs especially in a low margin year? 02:15:34
For commodities like we have this year, that's a really critical question. 02:15:37
RUW recommendations accurate in Dodge County? That is a question I get a lot in my work. Is this actually what we should be doing 02:15:41
in this county and this is putting it to the test? 02:15:46
And I'll to comment on. 02:15:50
More in a little bit about. 02:15:51
The scale of it and why that's important. 02:15:53
And then finally. 02:15:55
Which of these approaches? 02:15:56
Yields the largest profit. 02:15:58
And I think their willingness to be open in their economics and how they're farming this and their returns from that and what 02:15:59
they're putting into it really bolsters the proposal and kind of providing more educational opportunities. 02:16:05
For Dodge County farmers to learn about different approaches to agriculture. 02:16:11
In the county. 02:16:15
And one of the things that these questions really. 02:16:19
Highlight is the need for more local research. 02:16:22
How is this? 02:16:25
Pertinent to my soil? How is this pertinent to my county not? 02:16:26
How does this workout in Arlington? 02:16:29
How does this work in Lancaster or other AG research stations? 02:16:31
And what's important about this is the scale of it. It's on a farm scale, a farm, a field scale, not on small, small plots or 02:16:34
strip trials. 02:16:38
Like, I do a lot of strip trials with farmers. It's great, you know, we get to take up a little portion of the farm, run our 02:16:42
experiments, see what it happens. 02:16:45
On the farm. 02:16:49
In on Dodge County soils, but. 02:16:50
Farmers, when they're managing their fields, aren't thinking, oh, on this tiny little strip I've got here, I'm going to do it just 02:16:52
like this. No, it's on a field level. So what this. 02:16:55
Allows us for farmers to see. 02:16:58
How are these different approaches? 02:17:00
Being done and management styles on the field that I'm thinking about with respect to my my farm management. 02:17:02
And finally. 02:17:09
What I also appreciate about the approach was the willingness to for field days and educational opportunities. 02:17:10
I work in the field of education. 02:17:15
I work and present at workshops and what this gives is a space for more educational opportunities for. 02:17:17
Other farmers to come in, ask questions about the different approaches and the research that's being done there. 02:17:23
So in some. 02:17:28
I think this gives us. 02:17:29
A potential for more local research here on Dodge in Dodge County that's farmer centric that's. 02:17:31
Been put forward by farmers. 02:17:36
From the county and that. 02:17:38
Someone for me, an extension, can help collaborate with these farmers to deepen that research. 02:17:40
To help in sampling and also writing up of research reports and presenting. 02:17:44
This as educational opportunities. 02:17:49
Thanks. 02:17:51
And I'm happy to answer any questions. 02:17:52
OK, Supervisor Cavazanjay. 02:17:54
Yeah, thank you very much. I as a local farmer, I. 02:17:58
Applaud the effort and. 02:18:02
To try and do some more local research, I do have a couple questions. 02:18:05
Knowing that we're going to generate a lot of data. 02:18:10
And data is very important right now to the farming community. It's a really sensitive issue. For the record, I'd like to make 02:18:13
sure that. 02:18:16
Going forward, the lease specifies that the county owns all the data. 02:18:20
That's generated by this. 02:18:26
By this farm and the operation because. 02:18:29
You can sell data now. Data is worth something. 02:18:32
The other. 02:18:36
Thing I wondered about was who has the oversight? 02:18:37
To make sure to verify. 02:18:41
That the work is actually being done the way it's planned. 02:18:43
As far as what's written in the agreement, if this proposal is accepted, a contract will be written. 02:18:50
Up that they will have to sign similar to what they're doing now and we'll we'll make that contract appropriate. 02:18:57
As far as who is the oversight? 02:19:02
And talking with Mr. Froling and that the. 02:19:05
The. 02:19:08
Control of the farm. 02:19:09
Currently has been with the highway department. 02:19:10
Mr. Froling and Cameron Clapper has been talking about moving that to the land Conservation Department because that's what we do. 02:19:14
So we would be. 02:19:20
The oversight. 02:19:22
For the operations out there, if that actually takes place. 02:19:23
Land Conservation Committee. 02:19:30
Well, the staff would be in would be. 02:19:32
Following it up, but the the reports and stuff would come to the committee, correct? 02:19:35
Along with the assistance of extension, obviously with a lot of the research side of it. 02:19:41
Supervisor band is in. 02:19:47
Thanks, Mr. Chairman. 02:19:51
He answered a lot of it what I was going to ask, but. 02:19:53
So there is. 02:19:56
Like I said, who? Who? 02:19:58
Who's gonna actually be planting this and and watching and maintaining this? 02:19:59
Yeah. So this. 02:20:04
One of the reasons why we went with this approach is because the onus is on the farmer. 02:20:05
This is land that they are renting. They're farming it. 02:20:09
But they're also doing research on that, so that way it's not falling to John or I to get out there and plant these. It's the 02:20:12
farmer. They're farming it. 02:20:16
All the management is on them rather than on. 02:20:19
County employees. 02:20:22
So you do have a farmer picked out already that's going to be. 02:20:24
It's in the proposal. Yeah, yeah. 02:20:29
2 farmers actually. 02:20:31
OK. 02:20:32
Supervisor Sigmund. 02:20:34
Yes, thank you. Is there an approach called an organic approach that you have included in this too? 02:20:36
It is not included in the in the proposal at the moment. 02:20:42
Do you do that anywhere? 02:20:45
In your other plots. 02:20:47
I do work with organic farmers. 02:20:50
Yes, in my in some of my research. Is that something you would do for Dodge County organic farmers too? 02:20:51
Yeah, I'm always willing to work with any types of farmers. 02:20:57
Well, as long as they're farming row crops and forage crops, because that's my, that's my lane. 02:21:00
What kind? Row crops and forage crops? 02:21:05
So, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that is in your plan or you might consider it. 02:21:07
It's not currently in this proposal because. 02:21:12
The approach that we had was to put it out for proposals from farmers themselves rather than. 02:21:14
Come up with an idea of how to manage the farm. 02:21:19
We as employees. 02:21:22
And that way it also maintains kind of. 02:21:23
Continuity and that. 02:21:27
For some reason, if I were to not be here, suddenly it's not just dropped. 02:21:29
And someone has to step in to manage that, but it's the farmer that is the one that is doing the managing of the land. 02:21:33
Thank you. 02:21:40
Anyone else? 02:21:43
Supervisor Johnson. 02:21:46
Yeah. I just want to make a note that the committee unanimously approved this just the way it was written, John and I had to come 02:21:48
back later in the day to sign it, but the committee did unanimously approve it. And I just like to say a couple things. This this 02:21:53
is something this we've talked about for for a long time, for over a year. 02:21:59
And this aligns very in a broad sense aligns with our county Board strategic plan, I mean business support. I appreciate what 02:22:05
Nancy just said. This is a farmer driven program. I don't people realize we have 330,000 acres of. 02:22:12
Crop farmland in Dodge County, we are the 4th largest in the state and for us to have a farmer LED group and and and take a real 02:22:20
interest and investment in this and and really our investments nominal and we own this land, it's by the airport. It's really just 02:22:26
incredible. And we're still going to get money money for this actually out of this as far as what will referred to as compared to 02:22:33
Janesville. We didn't have to buy any equipment or have any responsibility. 02:22:40
Moving equipment was an issue we talked a lot about. 02:22:47
And so this is a really clean way to to get the benefit far as the county's management of it. 02:22:51
This also aligns with our water quality goals, implementing best conservative practices, reducing the rate of nutrient sediment in 02:22:59
our waterways. 02:23:03
And quite frankly, the positive impact on our county's image. 02:23:07
Our our staff and our our. 02:23:13
Just it's is so positive. The whole this whole thing is, is just been such a positive impact I think throughout our our committee 02:23:16
and both extension and conservation involves both both departments. So I strongly support it and I would a lot of works been done 02:23:22
on this and I urge you to support this. Thank you. 02:23:29
Supervisor Sigmund. 02:23:36
Thank you. Just also wondering what was the rent per acre we were receiving last year or the last contract? 02:23:37
The last contract is $360.00 an acre. 02:23:44
The same person bid this time at $260.00 an acre. 02:23:48
OK. And this is going to be for 200, for 200? 02:23:54
Right when the proposals were sent out. 02:23:57
We were looking more at the research side and the benefits that would come back to Dodge County. 02:24:02
And then the three, the three proposals that came in, they submitted what they would be willing to pay for rent. 02:24:09
With their program. 02:24:15
This was the lower of the other of all three. 02:24:17
For the the proposals that came in. 02:24:21
But the research that this individual is willing to do far exceeded what the other two were interested in in applying out there. 02:24:23
I do want to clarify one thing that Andrew said. 02:24:32
He mentioned the farmer LED group. 02:24:37
There is a. 02:24:38
Farmer LED group in Dodge County and we both work very closely with that group. 02:24:39
This proposal has nothing to do with that group. 02:24:44
This proposal was submitted by two individual farmers, not. 02:24:47
The farmer LED group of Dodge County. 02:24:51
Thank you. 02:24:54
Supervisor Band. 02:24:56
Yeah, just a dance point. I did run the numbers on that and. 02:24:58
The there was two other people that. 02:25:02
Did the conservation farm? 02:25:06
Bid and that would come out to. 02:25:08
53,600 for four years. 02:25:10
There was one person that. 02:25:13
Just submitted to the highway non conservation farm. 02:25:15
And that ran out to like $68,000 / 4 years. 02:25:18
But me personally, I think the information gained is worth it. 02:25:23
Anyone else? 02:25:31
Anyone else? 02:25:33
If you agree with the recommendation to. 02:25:35
Enter into an agreement. 02:25:38
With Egg Unlimited. 02:25:40
Farming and research. 02:25:42
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:25:44
Supervisor free. 02:25:50
Yes. 02:25:53
All having voted, it passes 29 to 0. 02:25:55
Resolution. 02:26:00
2535. 02:26:02
Authorizing capital fund balance fund 400. 02:26:05
And 2025 Dodge County budget amendment for the highway department. 02:26:09
County Trunk highway De Bit bridge replacement. 02:26:13
All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of September. 02:26:18
Signed by five members of the Highway Committee and four members of the Finance Committee. 02:26:23
Finance Review. 02:26:29
Date September 16th, 2025. 02:26:31
Fiscal note. 02:26:36
This the project will be funded using the Capital project fund balance. 02:26:38
With an authorized expenditure limit of $800,000, reimbursement for all related expenses will be made to the Highway Fund. 02:26:42
As of end of fiscal year 2024, the available fund balance is $3,000,051. 02:26:51
163. 02:26:59
I have a motion by supervisor Beal and a second by supervisor Stager. Any questions on this? 02:27:02
Supervisor Krause. 02:27:11
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 02:27:13
I totally support this. This bridge happens to be in my district and actually in the Township I'm the town chairman on. 02:27:16
And it's been closed just about a year from now on and. 02:27:23
And. 02:27:26
Been getting a lot of calls about when it's going to get done and it's been a lengthy process. 02:27:27
The bridge is bad underneath. 02:27:32
The highway department looked at fixing it. 02:27:34
It was basically cost prohibitive because it was damaged in the middle, which is how I understand the most. 02:27:38
The worst place in. 02:27:44
Bridge can be damaged. 02:27:45
So. 02:27:48
The money wasn't spent today. I was closed down for the winter. It also goes over the Kalamas Creek, so there's permitting. 02:27:49
With a window, with fish and all that stuff that has to be dealt with. 02:27:55
And then there's engineering plans. And Long story short, we finally. 02:27:59
The highway the highway commissioner finally got option to do. 02:28:03
To do it and. 02:28:07
This road is highly traveled. 02:28:09
The the residents of my district have been very patient, but the urgency to get it done is rising. 02:28:14
So the road is highly traveled. Harvest seasons upon us. 02:28:22
I've had a couple conversations with the school district and Beaver Dam. They're wondering when we're going to get it open. 02:28:26
And. 02:28:31
We have United Cooperative in our in that area that's a mile down the road that uses a couple miles on the road, uses that highway 02:28:32
quite a bit. So I encourage everyone to please. 02:28:37
Authorize this. 02:28:41
Fund transfer in the budget and. 02:28:43
Hopefully when we get the bids come in and everything here in a couple weeks that everything falls in with this dollar amount. 02:28:46
And that we can get a structure in and hopefully get it in by this fall. Otherwise we're probably looking at at least to the 02:28:52
middle summer again, in my opinion, before even gets looked at again. And to me, that's just way too long. 02:28:57
Thank you. 02:29:03
Anyone else? 02:29:04
Anyone else? 02:29:07
If you agree with the recommendation of the committee. 02:29:09
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:29:12
Supervisor Free Vault. 02:29:18
Yes. 02:29:21
All having voted, it passes 29 to 0. 02:29:23
Report one. 02:29:29
Ordinance. 02:29:31
1177. 02:29:33
The 2000 official Dodge County zoning map for the town of. 02:29:38
Or I apologize. 02:29:42
So amend land use code Joseph Rake property town of Calamus. 02:29:45
We're just respectfully submitted the 16th day of September, signed by four members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. 02:29:52
I have a motion by supervisor Bubble to second by supervisor Kraus. 02:30:01
Any questions on this report? 02:30:06
Any questions? 02:30:11
If you agree with the report, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:30:14
Supervisor Free Vault. 02:30:22
Yes. 02:30:24
All having voted, it passes 28 to 1. 02:30:28
Ordinance 1178IN Ordinance amending Chapter 7, section. 02:30:33
7.04 Speed limits of the Dodge County Code of Ordinances. 02:30:38
All of which is respectfully submitted. 02:30:45
The second day of September 2025, signed by three members of the Highway Committee. 02:30:48
I have a motion by supervisor Beal second by supervisor. 02:30:54
Any questions on? 02:30:58
This. 02:31:01
Ordinance. 02:31:02
Supervisor Breslow. 02:31:04
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I would like to amend this ordinance. 02:31:05
As it's written. 02:31:10
I believe the reason that they're requesting the speed limit change. 02:31:12
Is because of the construction in the area and there's going to be traffic signals. 02:31:17
There during the construction. 02:31:20
So I'm asking that we amend it. 02:31:23
To sunset. 02:31:26
The speed limit to backs where it's at now. 02:31:27
Upon removal of the traffic signals. 02:31:31
Just do all that. 02:31:34
OK, do we have a second? 02:31:35
Give me a second by Supervisor Belk. 02:31:38
So. 02:32:07
Ready to come up? 02:32:17
Oh yeah. Oh yeah, we're in. 02:32:25
Are you ready to vote? 02:32:27
Well, I just. 02:32:29
Does everybody see the? 02:32:30
Motion to amend. Yeah, I don't see the contact sign here. Is it on that screen? 02:32:32
Sunset speed limit at which time traffic came down here. All right, the motion is to sunset. 02:32:41
The speed limit when the traffic. 02:32:48
When the construction is over in the traffic lights are gone. Is that correct? 02:32:51
All right. Any discussion on the amendment? 02:32:56
Hearing none. If you agree with the amendment to Sunset, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:33:00
Supervisor Free Vault. 02:33:14
Yes. 02:33:16
All having voted, the amendment passes 24 to 5. 02:33:20
We are now back to the. 02:33:32
Resolution as amended. 02:33:34
Any questions? 02:33:37
Any questions? 02:33:42
If you agree with the resolution as amended, please vote yes. 02:33:45
If you do not, please vote no. 02:33:49
Supervisor Bob Voltz. 02:34:04
Thank you Supervisor. Free Vault. 02:34:07
Yes. 02:34:10
All having voted, it passes 29 to 0. 02:34:13
Ordinance 1179. 02:34:18
An ordinance amending the 2000 official zoning map for the town of Ashapen. 02:34:22
Adopted with the land use code. 02:34:28
All of which is respectfully submitted this 8th day of September 2025. Signed by two members of the Land Resources and Parks 02:34:32
Committee. 02:34:36
I have a motion by Supervisor Burnett, second by Supervisor Bubbles. 02:34:42
Questions. 02:34:47
Comments on this? 02:34:48
Ordinance. 02:34:50
Any questions or comments on this ordinance? 02:34:54
Supervisor segment. 02:34:58
Thank you. 02:35:01
I shared information. 02:35:02
In the past giving you 20 or so inconsistencies related to this rezoning in the town of Ashepon. 02:35:04
And those who tell you it is consistent. 02:35:10
Do not show you why I give facts. 02:35:13
They give opinions. 02:35:16
So I just ask, are we as a majority of the board? 02:35:18
Really going to throw? 02:35:21
Our good residents, so many who came this evening again. 02:35:24
Many who have to work harder to get here than we. 02:35:27
Most of us do. 02:35:30
I even had a call that. 02:35:32
Said I can't make it. Everything fell apart on me on the farm. They really care about this. 02:35:34
So I hope that we as a majority of the board really. 02:35:39
Are not going to throw them under the. 02:35:42
Bus again. 02:35:44
Even. 02:35:46
When their beliefs align with. 02:35:47
Our comprehensive plan and farmland preservation plan. 02:35:50
Both of which we have voted to accept and to follow as a board. 02:35:54
Thank you. 02:35:59
Supervisor Durr. 02:36:01
We aren't the final. 02:36:03
We aren't the final thing here, right? 02:36:05
So. 02:36:07
That golf course has already spent plenty of money. 02:36:07
And if we? 02:36:10
Say well. 02:36:12
We're going to overrule the Towning Board. 02:36:15
Town Board. 02:36:17
That's fine. 02:36:18
And then they go to the Circuit Court. 02:36:19
And Circuit Court is going to do exactly what I said we should be doing. It's also a reviewing court. 02:36:21
Did they have jurisdiction? 02:36:26
Yes. 02:36:28
Did they follow the proper procedures? 02:36:29
No one has told me they didn't. 02:36:31
Where was their action arbitrary? 02:36:35
Was it unreasonable based on the facts? Nobody's told me. 02:36:37
What? 02:36:42
The Town Board said. 02:36:43
What facts they had. 02:36:45
And why it didn't fit? 02:36:47
And and then understand that the circuit. 02:36:49
Court doesn't want to redo anything. 02:36:53
They don't want to do. 02:36:55
Redo everything, just like we shouldn't redo everything. So they're going to give a lot of discretion. 02:36:56
To the town board. 02:37:01
And so. 02:37:03
We're kind of a middle layer. 02:37:04
If if they haven't done what they're supposed to do. 02:37:05
Then then we can't support it and I. 02:37:10
Am feeling really sad about that because if I were on the town board. 02:37:14
I would have approved it. 02:37:19
But I'm not. 02:37:21
And and if we're just going to say that. 02:37:23
Whoever comes to talk. 02:37:26
That we're going to overrule. 02:37:27
A committee that's supposedly doing their job. 02:37:29
Well, they can just appeal it. 02:37:33
They're a golf course. 02:37:35
They'll just appeal it. 02:37:36
Right. 02:37:37
So it's frustrating. 02:37:41
Anyone else? 02:37:44
Corp Council. 02:37:47
If I may, I just want to clarify the procedure here. 02:37:49
So the board at the last meeting. 02:37:52
Approve the rezone and by our county code. 02:37:55
This. 02:37:58
This body then. 02:38:00
Needs to be presented with an ordinance. That's what you have here today. 02:38:01
It is a procedural ordinance. 02:38:06
And I will read to you the county code that says. 02:38:08
That upon. 02:38:11
The committee or upon the county board approving the rezone. 02:38:13
Which again, that was done in August. 02:38:17
Then the board directs the committee to bring forth. 02:38:20
And present an ordinance. That's what you have here today. 02:38:24
And just for. 02:38:27
Clarification. 02:38:29
So that. 02:38:30
Everyone is on the same page and the board is aware. 02:38:31
The town of Asteron did approve. 02:38:34
The rezone. 02:38:37
So, umm. 02:38:38
The Town of Asher Pins supported it. 02:38:39
And sent it forward to the board. 02:38:41
Back in August. 02:38:43
So this is a procedural ordinance. 02:38:45
That will then officially amend the. 02:38:47
Anyone else? 02:38:54
Supervisor Hedrick. 02:38:57
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 02:39:00
I I've had a stomach ache about this one since since it came before us last month. 02:39:02
I. 02:39:08
I will. I won't go against what the town. 02:39:10
Decided. 02:39:14
I don't feel that's my role. 02:39:15
But I also come from an agricultural background. 02:39:18
And I know what this would be. 02:39:21
For the farmers. 02:39:23
This, this does give me a stomach ache. This happened. This started with the golf course. The you know, the, the big. 02:39:24
Golf course is 15.1 acres is. 02:39:30
Just a small portion of the. 02:39:33
The huge. 02:39:35
The golf course itself. 02:39:36
They've said they're going to go ahead either way. 02:39:37
It it takes me back to our. 02:39:42
Umm, strategic goals, one of which being. 02:39:44
One of which we said we want to. 02:39:48
Really, look at. 02:39:51
Our. 02:39:53
Zoning. 02:39:55
Procedures. 02:39:56
And really? 02:39:57
Make them consistent. 02:39:59
And I just want to emphasize that. 02:40:01
I I think also about the. 02:40:04
Data center, which I know we we. 02:40:06
Didn't have any say in. 02:40:08
But. 02:40:10
I I would. 02:40:13
Ask that we do keep that in mind that one of our strategic goals is to. 02:40:14
Make our. 02:40:19
Zoning. 02:40:20
Procedures very consistent. 02:40:21
And. 02:40:23
Yeah, they're. 02:40:26
We see there are ways around them. 02:40:27
Nothing we can do about that. I guess I just had to share that. 02:40:30
Thank you. 02:40:33
Anyone else? 02:40:36
If you agree with the ordinance as presented. 02:40:40
Amend the. 02:40:46
Land use. 02:40:48
Map to. 02:40:49
To reflect. 02:40:51
The vote that was taken last month. 02:40:52
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:40:54
Supervisor Freevault. 02:41:03
No. 02:41:05
All having voted, it passes 22 to 7. 02:41:08
Claim one. 02:41:14
On the recommendation of the Dodge County Corporation Council in consultation with Wisconsin Municipal. 02:41:17
Municipal unit. 02:41:23
Mutual Insurance Company. 02:41:25
We, the Dodge County Executive Committee, recommend that the Dodge County Board of Supervisors disallow the claim made by Dennis 02:41:27
Stilling. 02:41:31
Dated August 12, 2025, alleging. 02:41:34
Damage to the front of a fifth wheel camper. 02:41:38
Have a motion by Supervisor Guckenberger and second by Supervisor Beal. 02:41:42
Supervisor segment. Hi, thank you. I just have a question, did they hit it or not? 02:41:49
It seems pretty. 02:41:55
I mean we have a lot of work going on around our road and they have back through fences and never told us. 02:41:56
The animals tell us. 02:42:03
They meet us in our front yard. 02:42:05
But there there there is a picture of damage. The question is so. 02:42:08
It didn't happen. It did happen. If it did, why wasn't? 02:42:14
The highway department. 02:42:19
Open the eye. This is kind of raises a question mark in my mind because saying things do happen and if it if we did it, we should. 02:42:20
Make good on it. Thank you. 02:42:27
Speak Brain. 02:42:31
Can we turn turn the mic on back there from the right? 02:42:33
Train Track. 02:42:43
OK. 02:42:45
Thank you. 02:42:46
I can explain some of this. 02:42:46
It was one of our supervisors that noticed the damage to this. 02:42:48
5th wheel camper that's parked adjacent to the right away on our county trunk highway. K job. 02:42:51
There's many, many trucks in and out of that area. Some are highways, some are contractors. 02:42:56
Nobody. 02:43:01
Record acknowledge that they hit this thing. 02:43:02
And in the size of it. 02:43:05
Tri axle dump truck. 02:43:07
And the very minute damage to this thing, it is possible. 02:43:08
That somebody did contact that camper and not even know it. 02:43:12
We have no idea who hit it. It was one of our supervisors that. 02:43:15
Approached the owner and said I want to make you aware of this. 02:43:18
I don't know who or one of that. 02:43:21
Who did it or when it happened but. 02:43:22
Want you to be aware of it. 02:43:25
He could have just drove by like so many others had, but he. 02:43:26
He took the High Road and. 02:43:29
And I made the owner aware of it. 02:43:31
So that's how it started. We have no idea who hit it, no way of knowing that. 02:43:33
But the owner did choose to file a claim. 02:43:37
And the insurance company. 02:43:40
And probably be contacted. 02:43:42
Do the job. 02:43:46
Fraser, Dur. 02:43:50
We are not. 02:43:53
A court. 02:43:54
It's not our job to find out. 02:43:55
What? What happened? 02:43:57
Even if it's obvious, this is a procedural step that any attorney must make before they file a negligence case or a personal 02:43:59
injury or anything where the county is a defendant. So this is routine. 02:44:06
We hit no, we reject it, and then they get to start their suit. Then they'll start negotiating. 02:44:13
Or they'll appeal it or whatever. 02:44:18
But that's what this step is. It's just. 02:44:20
It's just no. 02:44:24
Anyone else? 02:44:27
Anyone else? 02:44:29
OK, if you agree with the recommendation. 02:44:32
To deny the claim. 02:44:37
Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. 02:44:39
Supervisor free. 02:44:48
Yes. 02:44:50
All having voted, it passes 28 to 1. 02:44:53
What do we have on the desk tonight? There is nothing to report on desks. 02:44:59
Supervisor Johnson. 02:45:07
I have a second. 02:45:16
All in favor signify by aye. 02:45:17
Aye. 02:45:19
Opposed, that is. 02:45:21
Thank you. 02:45:23
Thank you supervisor. Free fault. Have a good night. 02:45:24