County Board of Supervisors
Transcript
| My nail is absent. | 00:00:00 | |
| I know OK, supervisor. My Nell is absent. | 00:00:03 | |
| What's your pleasure of the minutes from the November 12th meeting? | 00:00:09 | |
| 2. | 00:00:21 | |
| That's won't go. | 00:00:26 | |
| Have a motion by Supervisor Stager. Second by Supervisor Guckenberger. | 00:00:27 | |
| Any questions, comments, corrections? | 00:00:34 | |
| Hearing none. | 00:00:38 | |
| All in favor signify by aye. | 00:00:39 | |
| Aye, opposed that is carried. | 00:00:42 | |
| Communications on file. | 00:00:47 | |
| I have no communications on file. | 00:00:49 | |
| OK. And there's nobody signed up for public comment? | 00:00:51 | |
| Special order of business. | 00:00:56 | |
| I'd like to introduce. | 00:00:58 | |
| I'm Marie Witzel, our 4H. | 00:00:59 | |
| Youth development educator for the 4H key award recipients. | 00:01:01 | |
| I was trying to double check with a couple of you on the way up here. | 00:01:22 | |
| Supervisor. | 00:01:27 | |
| Johnson asked me to give you a little bit of a snapshot of where we are with the 4H program in Dodge County. | 00:01:28 | |
| We're right in the middle of enrollment time right now, so I'm going to tell you that 2024 and 25, hopefully you have this that | 00:01:36 | |
| you've seen on your desk. | 00:01:40 | |
| There are 643 members in the program in the county in 28 clubs or groups. | 00:01:45 | |
| With 135 certified adult leaders. | 00:01:51 | |
| That makes us in the top 10 numbers wise in the state. | 00:01:54 | |
| And the one of the things that I thought is really interesting as I look at the numbers. | 00:01:58 | |
| Is that we're split pretty closely. | 00:02:03 | |
| 45% males and 54% females in the program. | 00:02:06 | |
| And some of you may think. | 00:02:10 | |
| Well, you have to be on a farm to be in 4H, but if you look at our statistics, only 33% of our members are live on farms. | 00:02:12 | |
| 14% say they live in cities between 10 and 50,000 people, but the majority of them live in rural areas and smaller towns under | 00:02:20 | |
| 10,000 people. | 00:02:25 | |
| And the last thing that I just want to point out to you is about our enrollment numbers by project. | 00:02:30 | |
| And a lot of times again. | 00:02:37 | |
| You think you have to live on a farm, but our largest project is actually photography. I didn't bring it up here but I watched all | 00:02:39 | |
| of my 4H families in the back of the room. They have a. | 00:02:44 | |
| Phone in their hand and they're taking pictures, so photography has 181 members. | 00:02:50 | |
| And then when you look at the rest of them, we do have beef with 129. It's been growing over the years for those of you that. | 00:02:56 | |
| Maybe have heard about our little bit of a dilemma when it comes to fair time trying to get all those beef animals in a barn. | 00:03:02 | |
| There's 121 members in art. | 00:03:09 | |
| 114 in woodworking. | 00:03:11 | |
| 107 in drawing and painting. I just think that's amazing to have all of those young people doing drawing and painting at the fair. | 00:03:14 | |
| Or in their year. | 00:03:22 | |
| Clover Buds is our youngest member, so kindergarten through second graders. | 00:03:24 | |
| There was about 100 of those. | 00:03:28 | |
| Dairies. We still have a pretty sizable dairy program in Dodge County at 98. | 00:03:31 | |
| Our growing program is Legos with 97 members doing that. | 00:03:37 | |
| 95 young people. | 00:03:43 | |
| Like to have swine and about 80 people do scale models. So still a pretty big project with a variety of. | 00:03:45 | |
| Enrollments. | 00:03:53 | |
| So let's get on to the real. | 00:03:54 | |
| Thing that you're here to do. | 00:03:57 | |
| And notice, guys, I keep moving this down South. You know what that means when you come? I joked around with them when we got here | 00:03:58 | |
| is that they're about this tall. | 00:04:02 | |
| And I was standing in the middle of them. So yeah, you're gonna have to move the microphone. | 00:04:07 | |
| The Wisconsin Farm Bureau has been sponsoring the 4H Key Award program for more than 30 years. | 00:04:12 | |
| Having started their support in 1974. | 00:04:17 | |
| Over the years, 4H youth in every county received the Special Key Award recognition. | 00:04:21 | |
| Thanks to the Farm Bureau and the Farm Bureau Egg in the Classroom program. | 00:04:26 | |
| The Wisconsin 4H Key Award is the highest honor of 4H youth can receive. | 00:04:30 | |
| Recipients are selected at the county level. | 00:04:35 | |
| Based on the young person's consistent growth in the 4H. | 00:04:38 | |
| And their development and applied leadership skills. | 00:04:42 | |
| And their participation in activities in their club and the county. | 00:04:46 | |
| In the community. | 00:04:50 | |
| Each county is responsible for selecting their key award recipients in the area based on an evaluation of the candidates total 4H | 00:04:52 | |
| records so they. | 00:04:56 | |
| Complete an application and an interview process. | 00:05:01 | |
| Here in Dodge County. | 00:05:04 | |
| So that then they talk about their project work, their personal development. | 00:05:06 | |
| Leadership and community involvement. | 00:05:10 | |
| County awards are specific number of key awards based on the. | 00:05:12 | |
| Club enrollment in that county. So that's when I tell you that we have a high number of young people involved, involved. | 00:05:16 | |
| We can give a couple of keywords like we will be doing tonight. | 00:05:22 | |
| The candidates must have passed their 14th birthday on January 1st of the year that the recognition is given and must have | 00:05:26 | |
| completed at least three years of 4H and one year of youth leadership. | 00:05:31 | |
| Selection should be based on the evaluation of the candidates total. | 00:05:37 | |
| 4H Record membership project activities, leadership. | 00:05:41 | |
| Personal development and county and. | 00:05:45 | |
| Community involvement. | 00:05:48 | |
| Each key award. | 00:05:50 | |
| Member receives a certificate and a key award pin. | 00:05:51 | |
| This award is only given to 2% of the members in the state. | 00:05:55 | |
| And I know that these members need the support of their parents to help them achieve this involvement, so I'd like to have their | 00:05:58 | |
| parents stand as their child is comfortable. | 00:06:02 | |
| It's called to come forward and receive this award. I'm going to have both of you come up at the same time. | 00:06:07 | |
| But I will then. | 00:06:12 | |
| Have each of you speak individually. | 00:06:14 | |
| Our first recipient is Ryan Clark. | 00:06:16 | |
| Son of Randy and Wendy Clark. | 00:06:19 | |
| He graduated from the Dodge County 4H program. | 00:06:21 | |
| Ryan is currently at Iowa State University majoring in AG. | 00:06:24 | |
| Engineering and vehicle systems. | 00:06:29 | |
| He was involved in the Lomira Cloverleaf 4H. | 00:06:32 | |
| And is involved in crops. | 00:06:35 | |
| Mechanical Science. | 00:06:37 | |
| Self determined vegetables. | 00:06:38 | |
| And youth leadership, and we're excited that finals finished yesterday so he could be back in Dodge County tonight. | 00:06:40 | |
| Our second recipient is Max Ludkey. | 00:06:47 | |
| Son of Jason and Tracy Luedke. | 00:06:49 | |
| He's in his thirteen years. | 00:06:51 | |
| 13th year as a Dodge County 4H member. | 00:06:53 | |
| Max is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. | 00:06:56 | |
| Majoring in agricultural business management. | 00:07:00 | |
| He is a member of the Lipstick 4H Club and was involved in youth leadership. | 00:07:03 | |
| Food preservation, house plants and food and nutrition projects. | 00:07:07 | |
| So I'm going to have both of them come up and share a little bit with you as I. | 00:07:11 | |
| Share a couple of things that I have for them. | 00:07:15 | |
| So as they're coming forward, I will share the key award. | 00:07:18 | |
| Actually, the award comes in a. | 00:07:26 | |
| In a folder like this and it's the keyword for each of them signed by the Dean of extension and also. | 00:07:28 | |
| The. | 00:07:35 | |
| What is she calling her? The 4H program leader? I had to double check what she was calling herself. | 00:07:36 | |
| So I will let you go first. | 00:07:41 | |
| Hello everybody. | 00:07:48 | |
| I am Ryan Clark. | 00:07:49 | |
| I am. | 00:07:51 | |
| Currently attending Iowa State University. | 00:07:52 | |
| For agricultural engineering under the Vehicle systems option. | 00:07:55 | |
| I was a proud member of the Lomira Clover Leaves 4H Club for nine years. | 00:07:59 | |
| And this past year was the year I graduated so. | 00:08:04 | |
| I took it upon myself to apply for the 4H key award. | 00:08:08 | |
| And through the nine years of enrollment in the Lemire Clover leaves, I. | 00:08:11 | |
| Participated in a couple different activities. | 00:08:16 | |
| The main being the Dodge County Fair and at the fair I participated in many different types of projects shown. | 00:08:19 | |
| Couple of the projects that I did throughout the years was growing vegetables and crops. | 00:08:28 | |
| My dad helped me with a project where I learned how to wire a simple light bulb. | 00:08:34 | |
| I've made a plasma cut. | 00:08:39 | |
| Wall art sign display that I made, which ended up going to state this past year as kind of my final project at the fair. And so at | 00:08:41 | |
| the Dodge County Fair, I was able to. | 00:08:47 | |
| Kind of build upon my leadership, communication skills and confidence as well as meeting other members and people. | 00:08:52 | |
| Throughout the week in the. | 00:09:01 | |
| Past nine years. | 00:09:03 | |
| Another example of an activity that I did through 4H was camp up on woods. | 00:09:05 | |
| Where we went for a period of time and stayed at Camp Upham Woods with just other 4H members and leaders from all over the area, | 00:09:10 | |
| and that's actually where I first met Max. | 00:09:15 | |
| Which you'll hear from him later. | 00:09:21 | |
| And another one where I did was the Lemire Clover Leaves 4H Club. | 00:09:24 | |
| Family Learning Day. | 00:09:28 | |
| Which I. | 00:09:30 | |
| Participated by teaching. | 00:09:31 | |
| Some different classes to different 4H members. | 00:09:34 | |
| Typically a lot younger than me. | 00:09:37 | |
| Just on different skills. | 00:09:39 | |
| That are very helpful in their day-to-day lives. I taught members how to tie a tie. Tie fishing knots. | 00:09:40 | |
| And how to build model rockets, which I thoroughly enjoyed doing. | 00:09:47 | |
| On my years up and coming through 4H so. | 00:09:52 | |
| Everything that I've participated in 4H and the activities that I've done have ultimately built upon so many skills necessary in | 00:09:55 | |
| today's day and age. | 00:10:00 | |
| And I am grateful to say that I'm at Iowa State now. | 00:10:05 | |
| With all the skills and abilities that 4H taught me along the way. | 00:10:08 | |
| And I have already been using them for applying for internships and meeting new friends and talking to professors. | 00:10:12 | |
| And it ultimately has led me to become a better person and I really look forward to continuing my journey in a future career and I | 00:10:20 | |
| think that 4H has done a fantastic job preparing me for that today. | 00:10:26 | |
| Thank you. | 00:10:33 | |
| Ryan. | 00:10:46 | |
| Whereas Ryan Clark has achieved the highest award in 4H youth development. | 00:10:47 | |
| That being the Wisconsin Key Award. | 00:10:51 | |
| And whereas the 4H youth development program promotes the ideals of character conduct. | 00:10:53 | |
| Patriotism and service encouraging members to become productive and contributing citizens. | 00:10:59 | |
| And whereas Ryan Clark, a 4H member, represents our country's greatest research. | 00:11:05 | |
| Resource. | 00:11:11 | |
| That being our youth. | 00:11:11 | |
| And WHEREAS Ryan Clark continues the legacy of 4H youth development in the United States. | 00:11:13 | |
| And serves as a role model for young 4H members. | 00:11:18 | |
| And whereas Ryan Clark serves as an inspiration to all of us. | 00:11:22 | |
| Demonstrating that hard work and perseverance can make dreams come true. | 00:11:26 | |
| Now therefore be it resolved. | 00:11:30 | |
| That the Wisconsin 4H Key Award recipient. | 00:11:32 | |
| Ryan Clark be commended for his achievement. | 00:11:35 | |
| Of 4H youth development. | 00:11:38 | |
| Highest. | 00:11:39 | |
| Congratulations. | 00:11:42 | |
| I have a. | 00:11:53 | |
| A second item. | 00:11:54 | |
| That I have. | 00:11:56 | |
| To share with the with them. | 00:11:57 | |
| Each one of them. | 00:12:00 | |
| Is getting this from the United States House of Representatives from. | 00:12:02 | |
| Scott Fitzgerald's office. | 00:12:09 | |
| So it's a pretty cool thing. It's a pretty cool plaque to hang up when they get home. | 00:12:12 | |
| But he also sent a letter that I want to share. | 00:12:16 | |
| On behalf of the 5th Congregational District, I wanted to. | 00:12:20 | |
| Take a moment to extend my sincerest congratulations for being. | 00:12:23 | |
| Selected as a 4H key award recipient. | 00:12:27 | |
| This honor reflects your outstanding leadership. | 00:12:29 | |
| Dedication to service and commitment to personal growth. Qualities that not only strengthen your 4H community but also continue | 00:12:32 | |
| positively in our entire region. Earning the Key Award is no small achievement. It recognizes exceptional achievement across | 00:12:38 | |
| multiple years of learning, leading, and giving back. | 00:12:45 | |
| Your willingness to take on new challenges. | 00:12:51 | |
| Support your peers and invest in your community. | 00:12:54 | |
| Demonstrates maturity. | 00:12:57 | |
| And character well beyond your years. | 00:12:59 | |
| These are the very qualities that build strong communities and shape future leaders. | 00:13:02 | |
| As an elected official, I am proud to see young people like you stepping up, setting high standards and making meaningful impact. | 00:13:07 | |
| Your achievements are a testament to your hard work, and I'm confident that you will continue to excel in the years ahead. | 00:13:16 | |
| Please accept my sincerest congratulations once again and wish you the continued success in all of your future endeavors. | 00:13:21 | |
| I look forward to seeing your positive contributions you will undoubtedly make. | 00:13:28 | |
| Now we'll move on to Max. | 00:13:36 | |
| Hello everyone, as she said, my name is Max Lidkey. I am from the Lipstick 4H club in Beaver Dam and that's kind of where I | 00:13:41 | |
| started my 4H journey. I joined when I was in first grade and to be honest I kind of joined because my parents were in it and my | 00:13:46 | |
| sisters were both in it. | 00:13:51 | |
| 4H had set me up for success moving forward in life. | 00:14:26 | |
| And I look back to some of the other activities that I did. | 00:14:29 | |
| It taught me simple life skills such as taking care of house plants, how to keep a plant alive. | 00:14:33 | |
| And I'm helping my dad out in the garden and getting to show some of those vegetables. That was always a proud moment. As I've | 00:14:38 | |
| gotten older, I've really. | 00:14:42 | |
| Really taking advantage of the food preservation project here. I've learned how to can and dehydrate different fruit and really | 00:14:46 | |
| take. | 00:14:50 | |
| What my dad is growing in the garden, I stopped helping out a lot in that because I don't really like that. | 00:14:54 | |
| But. | 00:14:59 | |
| I help out with what he's doing, turning it into something that we can use year round, and through that I've been able to donate | 00:14:59 | |
| some of those items to different auctions to raise money for different charities. | 00:15:04 | |
| So that was really helpful. And I also think back to some of my experiences like going on the trips as Ryan had mentioned. | 00:15:09 | |
| I had the privilege to go to Huntsville, AL and. | 00:15:16 | |
| A trip called space camp where I learned about space and it was at a Space Center and we stayed in space themed dorms. | 00:15:20 | |
| And that was another opportunity that really got me out of my comfort zone as well. I was in 4th grade and I kind of hopped on a | 00:15:27 | |
| bus with no one that I knew and I had to meet all new people and I spent a week down in Huntsville, AL. | 00:15:33 | |
| History and get to learn more about that. | 00:16:09 | |
| And some of the friends that I made on that trip I still talked to today, and I know a lot of them are also doing great things. | 00:16:11 | |
| I think the greatest still that 4H has given me is just like the still to communicate and be a mentor for other people. | 00:16:18 | |
| As I look back to kindergarten for first grade Max when. | 00:16:24 | |
| The high schoolers in the 4H club, they were the leaders, they were the president standing up in front of the room. | 00:16:28 | |
| I wanted to be them and so they were mentors and I've really appreciated being able to give that back to the nightclub and | 00:16:33 | |
| community. When I served on the county 4H board as a youth representative, getting to kind of advocate for the youth side of | 00:16:38 | |
| things, and then also teaching at Family Learning Day different skills such as parliamentary procedures. So my sister and I, we | 00:16:43 | |
| taught a workshop on that. | 00:16:49 | |
| And because that's a skill that you'll use in life, whether you're serving in a position like that, a county board, or even just | 00:16:54 | |
| any meetings, a skill of parliamentary procedure is something really good to know. And I've also been able to, this past year, I | 00:16:59 | |
| had the privilege of teaching 4H officer training for the president and vice presidents. We talked a little bit about how to | 00:17:04 | |
| effectively lead our club, but then also honed in on Parli Pro there too, so that they really knew how to lead their meetings most | 00:17:09 | |
| effectively and efficiently. | 00:17:15 | |
| But I really just got to thank 4H for putting me in the position where I am today. | 00:17:20 | |
| Connecting me with so many career professionals and setting me up with skills to be successful in my future. So thank you all for | 00:17:24 | |
| being here and. | 00:17:27 | |
| Yeah. | 00:17:31 | |
| So there's two things that I want Max to share because I kind of put him on this. | 00:17:36 | |
| Spot a little bit this year 1. | 00:17:41 | |
| We have a. | 00:17:44 | |
| A lady that called me up randomly 10 years ago in 4H and said. | 00:17:46 | |
| I grew up in Dodge County 4H. | 00:17:51 | |
| I don't have any family members. | 00:17:53 | |
| I want to know how I can put 4H in my will. | 00:17:55 | |
| And then she and then she called me back a few days later and said I'm at my lawyer's office. | 00:17:59 | |
| And when I want to put you in the will. | 00:18:04 | |
| But. | 00:18:06 | |
| I'd like to start giving money now. | 00:18:06 | |
| And so she's been giving. | 00:18:08 | |
| Scholarships for the last 10 years. | 00:18:10 | |
| And I put Max a little bit on the spot this year because he was. | 00:18:13 | |
| One of those scholarship recipients. | 00:18:17 | |
| And we went. | 00:18:20 | |
| To Oshkosh. | 00:18:21 | |
| And met with a. | 00:18:22 | |
| 92 was she 92 ish 92 year old lady and talked about 4H so I wanted to put him on the spot about that and I also wanted him to | 00:18:24 | |
| share what came from. | 00:18:29 | |
| A senator before our meeting tonight. | 00:18:35 | |
| All right, yeah, So touching on the thing, the scholarship recipient, that was a super cool interaction in 4H. It was a nice lady. | 00:18:40 | |
| She was just cared so much about what 4H did for her and her family and what she had kind of seen. | 00:18:46 | |
| And so she was super impacted by seeing young people come into her house. And it was truly, she said it was the highlight of her | 00:18:53 | |
| year, just getting to talk with us, seeing what we're doing. And she was so happy to give the money. So it was just super cool to | 00:18:59 | |
| see the people who are supporting the future, supporting the youth. | 00:19:04 | |
| And being fulfilling to see the impact that we're having, but also thank her for the impact that she's having on us. | 00:19:10 | |
| And the other thing that Marie alluded to was this past weekend, I was gone. | 00:19:17 | |
| With some endeavor where? | 00:19:22 | |
| I was drawn for the weekend, but I came home and my parents, they're like, Max, you got a package. I was like a package and it | 00:19:25 | |
| came from John Jagler. And I was like, why is John Jager sending me a package? | 00:19:31 | |
| But I opened it up and inside of it, it was a Wisconsin State flag. | 00:19:37 | |
| And this Wisconsin State flag, it had a little bit of a, it had a certificate with it and it said this is to certify that the | 00:19:41 | |
| Wisconsin State flag was flown in honor of you at the Catwood at the Wisconsin Capitol on Wednesday, December 10th for being a 4H | 00:19:47 | |
| Key award recipient. So that was really cool to see the like the Wisconsin government recognizing how important 4H is to | 00:19:53 | |
| development and see us being recognized at the state for that too. | 00:20:00 | |
| Obviously this is very similar to the to the other Max salute key. | 00:20:18 | |
| Whereas Max Luke Key has achieved the highest award in 4H youth development, that being the Wisconsin Key Award. | 00:20:22 | |
| And whereas the 4H Youth Development program promotes the ideals of character, conduct, patriotism and service. | 00:20:28 | |
| Encouraging members to become productive and contributing citizens. | 00:20:36 | |
| And whereas Max Lutki, a 4H member, represents our country's greatest resource. | 00:20:40 | |
| That being our youth. | 00:20:45 | |
| And whereas Max Lutki continues a legacy of 4H youth development in the United States. | 00:20:46 | |
| And serves as a role model for young 4H members. | 00:20:52 | |
| And whereas Max Luke Key serves as an inspiration to all of us. | 00:20:55 | |
| Demonstrating that hard work and perseverance can make dreams come true. | 00:20:59 | |
| So now therefore be. | 00:21:03 | |
| Be it resolved. | 00:21:05 | |
| At Wisconsin, 4H Key Award recipient Max Lukey be commended for his achievement. | 00:21:07 | |
| Of 4H youth developments highest award. | 00:21:12 | |
| Congratulations. Thank you. | 00:21:16 | |
| So let's let's take them both around and take a picture. | 00:21:23 | |
| Here. | 00:21:26 | |
| OK. | 00:21:28 | |
| Thank you. | 00:21:47 | |
| This is why we're here. | 00:22:02 | |
| All right. The next special order of business is to confirm the reappointment. | 00:22:31 | |
| By the County Administrator of Harvey Lewis to the Veterans Service Commission for a three-year term to expire December 1st of | 00:22:36 | |
| 2028. | 00:22:40 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Hedrick and a second by Supervisor Miller. | 00:22:46 | |
| Any comments or questions? | 00:22:51 | |
| Let's do this is that. | 00:22:56 | |
| Wasteful or not? | 00:22:57 | |
| Yeah. | 00:22:58 | |
| All in favor signify by aye. | 00:23:00 | |
| Aye, opposed that is carried. | 00:23:03 | |
| Thank you. | 00:23:04 | |
| Resolutions on file. | 00:23:08 | |
| Resolution 2548. | 00:23:10 | |
| Commendation of John Bohannic. | 00:23:13 | |
| Whereas John Bohannon. | 00:23:17 | |
| Bohonic has contributed 30 T. | 00:23:19 | |
| Two years of dedicated service to Dodge County and the citizens of Dodge County. | 00:23:21 | |
| And whereas Dodge County and its citizens have been. | 00:23:26 | |
| Benefited from the services he has provided. | 00:23:28 | |
| And whereas John Bohannock has chosen to retire from his present position. | 00:23:31 | |
| Of county conservationists in the Dodge County land. | 00:23:36 | |
| Land and water. | 00:23:40 | |
| Conservation Department. | 00:23:41 | |
| Now they're. | 00:23:43 | |
| For be it resolved that we. | 00:23:44 | |
| The Dodge County Board of Supervisors pause in its deliberations to recognize and commend John Bohannon for 32 years of | 00:23:46 | |
| meritorious service. | 00:23:51 | |
| And be it further resolved, that on behalf of the citizens of Dodge County, this board does herewith extend. | 00:23:55 | |
| To his appreciation. | 00:24:01 | |
| For his many accomplishments and successes over the 32 years of service. | 00:24:03 | |
| And be it finally resolved that a copy of this resolution be entered into the official records of the Dodge County Board of | 00:24:08 | |
| Supervisors. | 00:24:11 | |
| And that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to John Bohannock as. | 00:24:15 | |
| Token of appreciation on part of this board. | 00:24:19 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December 2025, signed by five members of the Human Resources Committee. | 00:24:22 | |
| Please stand for a rising vote of acceptance. | 00:24:31 | |
| Thank you. | 00:24:41 | |
| Resolution 2549. | 00:24:44 | |
| Commendation of Arthur Elsner. | 00:24:47 | |
| WHEREAS, Arthur Elsner has contributed 24 years of dedicated service to Dodge County and the citizens of Dodge County. | 00:24:50 | |
| And whereas Dodge County and its citizens have benefited from the services he has provided. | 00:24:58 | |
| And whereas Arthur Elsner. | 00:25:03 | |
| Has chosen to retire from his current position of Correctional Sergeant with the Dodge County Sheriff's Office. | 00:25:05 | |
| And now, therefore, be it resolved that we, the Dodge County Board of Supervisors, pause in its deliberations to recognize and | 00:25:12 | |
| commend Arthur Elsner for his 24 years of meritorious service. | 00:25:17 | |
| And be it further resolved, that on behalf of the citizens of Dodge County, this board does herewith extend to his appreciation | 00:25:23 | |
| for as many accomplishments and successes. | 00:25:28 | |
| Over the 24 years of service. | 00:25:32 | |
| And be it finally resolved, that a copy of this resolution be entered into the official records of the Dodge County Board of | 00:25:34 | |
| Supervisors, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Arthur Elsner as a token of appreciation on part of this board. | 00:25:41 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December, signed by four members of. | 00:25:47 | |
| The Human Resources Committee. | 00:25:53 | |
| Please rise for a standing vote of acceptance. | 00:25:55 | |
| Resolution. | 00:26:09 | |
| 2550. | 00:26:10 | |
| Resolution altering the boundaries of Dodge County Supervisory districts #12 and 15 due to an annexation from Town of Theresa to | 00:26:13 | |
| the Village of Theresa. | 00:26:18 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December, 2025. | 00:26:24 | |
| Signed by six members of the Executive Committee. | 00:26:29 | |
| And there is no fiscal note. | 00:26:34 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Guckenberger and a second by Supervisor Beale. | 00:26:37 | |
| Any questions on this? | 00:26:42 | |
| Resolution. | 00:26:44 | |
| Any questions? | 00:26:45 | |
| If not. | 00:26:48 | |
| If you agree with the. | 00:26:49 | |
| Recommendation. | 00:26:51 | |
| Please vote yes if you do not. | 00:26:52 | |
| Vote no. | 00:26:54 | |
| You too, Todd. | 00:27:10 | |
| When we get back to. | 00:28:17 | |
| Everybody able to vote. | 00:28:19 | |
| I did skip an item on the agenda, so we will be having the presentation by Venture Architects. | 00:28:21 | |
| After this. | 00:28:27 | |
| Supervisor Ringle. | 00:29:18 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 00:29:21 | |
| Well, having passes by, having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 00:29:25 | |
| And now we'll go back and have the presentation by Venture Architects. | 00:29:30 | |
| OK. | 00:29:43 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chair, so as as Brad is heading up to the front. | 00:29:45 | |
| Members of the board, I want to present to you Brett Kozny. | 00:29:49 | |
| From Venture Architects, who will be sharing with you information tonight, this is. | 00:29:53 | |
| Of course, not a final presentation, but an opportunity to get some feedback from the county board as the process. | 00:29:58 | |
| The endeavors for. | 00:30:06 | |
| Fulfilling our our project goals and finalizing a. | 00:30:08 | |
| Facilities Master Plan. | 00:30:12 | |
| Continue moving forward. This is an opportunity for an interactive discussion. And so with that, I'll be quiet because Brad can. | 00:30:13 | |
| Do the rest, but we're very pleased to have him with us tonight, he presented to the building committee. | 00:30:20 | |
| A few nights ago or about a week ago? | 00:30:25 | |
| And he's been working closely with our physical facilities director, John Nels. | 00:30:27 | |
| On this process. | 00:30:31 | |
| Thank you. | 00:30:34 | |
| My name is Brad Kwasny with Venture Architects. | 00:30:35 | |
| I and. | 00:30:39 | |
| We had hoped. | 00:30:40 | |
| To be giving you a final presentation. | 00:30:41 | |
| A month ago. | 00:30:44 | |
| But. | 00:30:47 | |
| The complexity of options that we've come up with throughout this. | 00:30:48 | |
| Process uh. | 00:30:52 | |
| Has kind of delayed things and there's just there's a lot that I'm going to go through tonight. | 00:30:53 | |
| Again, this is not a final report, this is an update. | 00:30:59 | |
| Unfortunately I didn't say brief update. | 00:31:03 | |
| So I hope you're caffeinated. | 00:31:05 | |
| Because this will have some some loops in it. | 00:31:08 | |
| Also. | 00:31:11 | |
| Feel free to stop me and and ask questions along the way because there's a lot of different moving parts and if. | 00:31:12 | |
| If something that I say isn't quite. | 00:31:18 | |
| Clear. We're going to keep building on what I'm starting with and if something is unclear upfront. | 00:31:20 | |
| You'll only get more confused as as it goes on, so please. | 00:31:27 | |
| Interrupt me anytime along the way. | 00:31:30 | |
| So. | 00:31:33 | |
| To date, we have toured all of the buildings. | 00:31:36 | |
| Multiple times. | 00:31:39 | |
| We've had the engineers through and assess the. | 00:31:40 | |
| The mechanical systems. | 00:31:43 | |
| We have interviewed department heads. | 00:31:46 | |
| Key personnel. | 00:31:49 | |
| And. | 00:31:51 | |
| We have. | 00:31:52 | |
| Come to a few conclusions on our own that will be in the final report. So these are these are. | 00:31:54 | |
| Critical. | 00:32:00 | |
| To the. | 00:32:01 | |
| Where we're going with. | 00:32:02 | |
| The options that I'm going to present. | 00:32:04 | |
| First of all. | 00:32:07 | |
| The Henry Dodge building. | 00:32:08 | |
| It is structurally sound. It is a very solid building. | 00:32:10 | |
| Everything inside of it. | 00:32:14 | |
| Is terrible. | 00:32:16 | |
| All your mechanical systems. | 00:32:17 | |
| The plumbing, it's, it's it's all in need of replacement. | 00:32:20 | |
| The building is it's beyond its life expectancy. | 00:32:25 | |
| It it. | 00:32:31 | |
| Our our suggestion would be to vacate the building. | 00:32:32 | |
| And tear it down and have that. | 00:32:38 | |
| Property for your own use. | 00:32:40 | |
| Later. | 00:32:43 | |
| For for other projects. | 00:32:43 | |
| The administration building. | 00:32:47 | |
| Generally. | 00:32:51 | |
| All the departments in in this building. | 00:32:53 | |
| Have been moved. | 00:32:56 | |
| Several times. | 00:32:57 | |
| They're all in spaces that they're just making do. | 00:32:59 | |
| Some of the spaces are too. | 00:33:04 | |
| Many of the spaces are too big. | 00:33:05 | |
| For the departments. | 00:33:08 | |
| A few are probably too small. | 00:33:09 | |
| Especially when you take into account storage needs. | 00:33:12 | |
| Many departments are. | 00:33:15 | |
| Located on one floor and they have storage on. | 00:33:17 | |
| Two or three other floors. | 00:33:21 | |
| So it's very disjointed. | 00:33:24 | |
| But the building is in good shape and we believe. | 00:33:26 | |
| Renovations are all that's needed, and we can. | 00:33:29 | |
| Correct. What's going on here? Make everything much more efficient. | 00:33:31 | |
| The department. | 00:33:38 | |
| With the. | 00:33:39 | |
| Biggest need? | 00:33:40 | |
| The single department that has. | 00:33:41 | |
| Got just enormous needs. | 00:33:43 | |
| Some medical examiner. | 00:33:47 | |
| Currently. | 00:33:49 | |
| The medical examiner is housed on. | 00:33:50 | |
| Two different sides. | 00:33:52 | |
| Of a hallway. | 00:33:54 | |
| With facilities. | 00:33:55 | |
| In another building. | 00:33:57 | |
| And its facilities. | 00:33:59 | |
| In the Henry Dodge building. | 00:34:02 | |
| At best, could be described as a bismil. | 00:34:04 | |
| They're really just kind of. | 00:34:07 | |
| Thrown behind pallets of salt. | 00:34:10 | |
| It's it's a terrible conditions. | 00:34:13 | |
| The men's group home. | 00:34:18 | |
| Is. | 00:34:20 | |
| Which is located over by Henry Dodge. | 00:34:21 | |
| Is not ADA compliant. | 00:34:24 | |
| And there's very little you could do to that building. | 00:34:26 | |
| To bring it up to ADA compliance. | 00:34:30 | |
| It's got it's got a lot of damage inside, not from misuse. | 00:34:34 | |
| But just wheelchair damage. | 00:34:39 | |
| From just trying to maneuver through spaces. | 00:34:41 | |
| That. | 00:34:43 | |
| Are just too tight for a wheelchair. | 00:34:44 | |
| So we would. | 00:34:46 | |
| Recommend replacing that. | 00:34:47 | |
| That's the men's group home. | 00:34:55 | |
| It's sort of. | 00:34:57 | |
| Roughly underneath the water tower. | 00:34:58 | |
| That's not the one that hit. | 00:35:01 | |
| Tornado, right? Not the one with the tornado damage. | 00:35:03 | |
| An additional additionally, we. | 00:35:10 | |
| Were requested to investigate the idea of a county owned. | 00:35:13 | |
| Daycare, which was part of a previous long range. | 00:35:17 | |
| Plan that was done. | 00:35:20 | |
| The Sheriff's Department and jail. | 00:35:22 | |
| Are not as efficient as they could be. | 00:35:29 | |
| Because they are located. | 00:35:33 | |
| A block apart. | 00:35:35 | |
| It's not terrible. | 00:35:36 | |
| But they would be much more efficient. | 00:35:38 | |
| If they were joined together. | 00:35:40 | |
| The evidence storage building, which was. | 00:35:44 | |
| Damaged by the tornado. | 00:35:47 | |
| Probably. | 00:35:51 | |
| Could be. | 00:35:52 | |
| Relocated to a. | 00:35:53 | |
| Better spot. | 00:35:54 | |
| More useful. | 00:35:56 | |
| And open up that. | 00:35:57 | |
| Area where it sits right now for the highway departments use. | 00:35:58 | |
| The sheriff also could use. | 00:36:05 | |
| Vehicle storage. | 00:36:07 | |
| In one location. | 00:36:09 | |
| Right now it's it's got a little here and a little there and. | 00:36:11 | |
| And it's in some of its in the old jail building which. | 00:36:14 | |
| It's kind of a rough building. | 00:36:18 | |
| As well. | 00:36:19 | |
| That the old jail building. | 00:36:23 | |
| May be able to be renovated. | 00:36:27 | |
| But more than likely the. | 00:36:30 | |
| The best thing you could do at that location? | 00:36:32 | |
| Would be demolish. | 00:36:35 | |
| And and you could put something new there. | 00:36:37 | |
| It's just. | 00:36:39 | |
| It would take. | 00:36:41 | |
| The the cost of renovating that building. | 00:36:42 | |
| Because of the. | 00:36:45 | |
| Construction of the building. | 00:36:46 | |
| Might be greater. | 00:36:48 | |
| Than building a new building. | 00:36:49 | |
| So. | 00:36:52 | |
| With those. | 00:36:53 | |
| Conclusions. | 00:36:55 | |
| In mind. | 00:36:56 | |
| We have. | 00:36:58 | |
| Series of renovations and moves. | 00:36:59 | |
| And new construction. | 00:37:02 | |
| That we are investigating right now. | 00:37:05 | |
| To make. | 00:37:08 | |
| The entire county campus. | 00:37:09 | |
| More efficient. | 00:37:11 | |
| And more cost effective. | 00:37:13 | |
| Over the next several decades. | 00:37:16 | |
| It's important to note that. | 00:37:18 | |
| The county has in the past. | 00:37:20 | |
| Looked at several different options to resolve 1 issue here. | 00:37:23 | |
| And one issue there. | 00:37:27 | |
| And another issue here. | 00:37:29 | |
| And this we are looking at. | 00:37:31 | |
| The whole campus. | 00:37:33 | |
| So there's there's no part of the county on campus that we're not looking at. | 00:37:35 | |
| So. | 00:37:40 | |
| While some of these. | 00:37:41 | |
| Ideas you had discussed in the past. | 00:37:43 | |
| Were valid to resolve. | 00:37:46 | |
| A given issue. | 00:37:49 | |
| We're trying to look much more holistically. | 00:37:50 | |
| To make everything better. | 00:37:52 | |
| So. | 00:37:56 | |
| Let's start with. | 00:37:58 | |
| Henry Dodge. | 00:37:59 | |
| Since we believe that it's. | 00:38:01 | |
| It's at or beyond its useful life. | 00:38:03 | |
| Our recommendation is to. | 00:38:08 | |
| Vacate that building. | 00:38:10 | |
| As I said before. | 00:38:12 | |
| And demolish. | 00:38:13 | |
| And. | 00:38:15 | |
| What we would. | 00:38:16 | |
| Recommend doing so. There's there's. | 00:38:19 | |
| Two options. | 00:38:21 | |
| For. | 00:38:23 | |
| What we can do? | 00:38:24 | |
| With. | 00:38:25 | |
| Who is currently in Henry Dodge? | 00:38:26 | |
| Option one. | 00:38:29 | |
| Would be to. | 00:38:30 | |
| Build a new building. | 00:38:32 | |
| On the same site you could build. | 00:38:34 | |
| West of the Henry Dodge building. | 00:38:35 | |
| To house. | 00:38:38 | |
| Everything that's in there right now. | 00:38:39 | |
| Just put a brand new building. When the building is done, just move everyone over. | 00:38:42 | |
| At that time, we would. | 00:38:47 | |
| Take the. | 00:38:48 | |
| CBRF. | 00:38:50 | |
| And we could move that. | 00:38:52 | |
| Into Clearview. | 00:38:54 | |
| That makes a lot of sense to to make that move no matter what. | 00:38:55 | |
| Currently I believe. | 00:38:59 | |
| You have. | 00:39:01 | |
| 20 rooms in the CBRF and there are. | 00:39:02 | |
| 16 available rooms. | 00:39:06 | |
| In a vacant wing. | 00:39:08 | |
| Of Clearview, so we might have to put a small addition on to. | 00:39:10 | |
| To house. | 00:39:14 | |
| Everyone that's currently. | 00:39:15 | |
| There. | 00:39:17 | |
| But. | 00:39:18 | |
| That would be option one, new building. | 00:39:20 | |
| And then vacate. | 00:39:23 | |
| And and tear down. | 00:39:25 | |
| In addition to that as part of. | 00:39:27 | |
| We'll call it option 1A. | 00:39:30 | |
| It would be a renovation. | 00:39:33 | |
| Of this building. | 00:39:35 | |
| And. | 00:39:37 | |
| To accommodate. | 00:39:38 | |
| All the renovations. | 00:39:42 | |
| There is a room. | 00:39:44 | |
| A decent sized room. | 00:39:47 | |
| In the basement level. | 00:39:48 | |
| And. | 00:39:50 | |
| The first step would be to take that room. | 00:39:51 | |
| And build it out as a transitional office area. | 00:39:53 | |
| So any departments for you take. | 00:39:57 | |
| A department and you'd move them down there temporarily. | 00:40:00 | |
| And you'd renovate their space. | 00:40:03 | |
| And. | 00:40:06 | |
| And you, you know, move somebody into the renovated space. | 00:40:07 | |
| And, you know, just keep moving pieces. Someone goes into the temporary space. | 00:40:11 | |
| Space gets renovated. | 00:40:16 | |
| And somebody moves into the new space and you just it's a moving pieces. | 00:40:18 | |
| It will work. | 00:40:22 | |
| It can be done. | 00:40:23 | |
| It will be complex. | 00:40:24 | |
| It will be dusty. | 00:40:26 | |
| It will be dirty and it will take a couple years. | 00:40:27 | |
| It may not be the. | 00:40:31 | |
| Best way to go about it? | 00:40:34 | |
| But it's entirely doable. | 00:40:35 | |
| But it'll your staff will get. | 00:40:37 | |
| Tired of working in noise and dust? | 00:40:39 | |
| And then during that period of time. | 00:40:45 | |
| The you know, like I said, the building will remain occupied. | 00:40:49 | |
| Parking will become limited. | 00:40:55 | |
| Rather quickly. | 00:40:57 | |
| Because. | 00:40:58 | |
| There will be construction equipment. | 00:40:59 | |
| And construction materials that will just need place to be staged so you will lose parking. | 00:41:01 | |
| Probably for a couple years while the all the renovations happen. | 00:41:07 | |
| Now. | 00:41:11 | |
| Option 2. | 00:41:12 | |
| Instead of. | 00:41:14 | |
| Building a new. | 00:41:16 | |
| Building. | 00:41:18 | |
| Next to Henry Dodge. | 00:41:19 | |
| Vacating that. | 00:41:22 | |
| Renovating here. | 00:41:24 | |
| The option would be to. | 00:41:25 | |
| You could buy. | 00:41:27 | |
| A. An existing building. | 00:41:30 | |
| In the area. | 00:41:32 | |
| That's properly sized. | 00:41:35 | |
| Renovate that building. | 00:41:37 | |
| Move all the departments from here. | 00:41:39 | |
| Into the new space. | 00:41:42 | |
| Renovate this space. | 00:41:44 | |
| Move everyone from Henry Dodge. | 00:41:46 | |
| Into here. | 00:41:48 | |
| And then? | 00:41:50 | |
| Demo Henry Dodge. | 00:41:51 | |
| Everyone thoroughly confused by that? | 00:41:55 | |
| Are we good? | 00:41:57 | |
| OK, so. | 00:41:58 | |
| There would be a few. | 00:42:00 | |
| Departments. | 00:42:02 | |
| That, uh. | 00:42:03 | |
| Would not move. | 00:42:04 | |
| From here. | 00:42:06 | |
| Into this other space. | 00:42:07 | |
| I would recommend. | 00:42:10 | |
| That. | 00:42:11 | |
| Yep, moving maintenance doesn't make any sense. | 00:42:13 | |
| Keep them where they're at by the loading dock by receiving. Just keep that all the same. | 00:42:17 | |
| The Boardroom. | 00:42:23 | |
| There doesn't really seem to be a reason why. | 00:42:24 | |
| This room would have to. | 00:42:26 | |
| Move. | 00:42:28 | |
| It's It's set up well and seems to work for your needs. | 00:42:30 | |
| Corporation Counsel. | 00:42:36 | |
| It might make sense. | 00:42:39 | |
| To move them into. | 00:42:41 | |
| Current vacant space. | 00:42:43 | |
| In the Justice Building. | 00:42:46 | |
| There's a couple of. | 00:42:48 | |
| Spaces that were set aside. | 00:42:50 | |
| For courtrooms. | 00:42:52 | |
| I believe there's. | 00:42:54 | |
| 2 Space for room for two more courtrooms. | 00:42:54 | |
| If we used one of those. | 00:42:57 | |
| We could move corporate counsel over there. | 00:42:59 | |
| And that renovation could happen. | 00:43:01 | |
| As soon as I started renovating. | 00:43:03 | |
| This other building. | 00:43:06 | |
| The medical examiner. | 00:43:13 | |
| Again. | 00:43:17 | |
| They have. | 00:43:18 | |
| Terrible conditions. | 00:43:19 | |
| And they should be moved. | 00:43:22 | |
| And if you decide. | 00:43:24 | |
| To. | 00:43:26 | |
| Tear down the. | 00:43:27 | |
| It's the old portions of the jail. | 00:43:29 | |
| That would be a very good location to put a new medical examiner. | 00:43:32 | |
| We could still investigate renovating. | 00:43:37 | |
| That space. But like I said. | 00:43:40 | |
| That might be the type of building that will cost more to renovate than to. | 00:43:43 | |
| Demolish and and build new. | 00:43:47 | |
| Lastly. | 00:43:52 | |
| We've been doing a lot of. | 00:43:55 | |
| Moving spaces around. | 00:43:56 | |
| Just looking at departments square footage wise. | 00:43:59 | |
| And see what would fit where. | 00:44:01 | |
| And I. | 00:44:03 | |
| Veterans Services. | 00:44:05 | |
| Is one that because of adjacencies with. | 00:44:07 | |
| Other departments that it works closely with. | 00:44:11 | |
| Several of which would be. | 00:44:14 | |
| At the Henry Dodge Building. | 00:44:16 | |
| They would all be moving here. | 00:44:18 | |
| Under this plan. | 00:44:20 | |
| Would make sense. | 00:44:21 | |
| To. | 00:44:22 | |
| Keep. | 00:44:23 | |
| The veteran services in this building. | 00:44:24 | |
| They would probably want to be relocated temporarily. | 00:44:26 | |
| While all the renovation is going on. | 00:44:30 | |
| But they would. | 00:44:32 | |
| I in this plan they would come back here. | 00:44:33 | |
| When it's all said and done. | 00:44:36 | |
| Now. | 00:44:45 | |
| We we've talked about the medical examiner needing. | 00:44:47 | |
| New facility. | 00:44:50 | |
| We talked about the possibility. | 00:44:54 | |
| Of making that at. | 00:44:56 | |
| The old jail sites. | 00:44:58 | |
| There's also the possibility you could build a new building. | 00:45:01 | |
| Out at the Henry Dodge site, there's plenty of land there. | 00:45:05 | |
| Where you could put. | 00:45:07 | |
| A medical examiner out there. | 00:45:09 | |
| And you would still have that old. | 00:45:11 | |
| Part of the jail. | 00:45:13 | |
| Which is. | 00:45:14 | |
| Very underutilized right now. | 00:45:15 | |
| Sheriff uses it for a lot of training. | 00:45:18 | |
| And they have some storage space in there. | 00:45:20 | |
| And that's. | 00:45:23 | |
| About all that happens in there. | 00:45:25 | |
| So I'm trying to I'm trying to keep this in a coherent train of thoughts. I just got to find my spot in my notes. | 00:45:34 | |
| So the. | 00:45:45 | |
| The. | 00:45:46 | |
| Group home that we. | 00:45:47 | |
| Discussed. | 00:45:48 | |
| The one that's under the the water tower, basically. | 00:45:50 | |
| So that could be. | 00:45:54 | |
| There is room where it could be built somewhere on the Henry Dodge site. | 00:45:57 | |
| There's a lot of land there because you have that whole field. | 00:46:02 | |
| To the north. | 00:46:04 | |
| It could also. | 00:46:06 | |
| Be built. | 00:46:08 | |
| Kind of be squeezed in, but it could go. | 00:46:09 | |
| Near Clearview. | 00:46:11 | |
| Or if you wanted to kill two birds with one stone and. | 00:46:13 | |
| Get rid of. | 00:46:18 | |
| Sort of an eyesore of a property right now there's that. | 00:46:20 | |
| I don't know, was it a motel with all the tornado damage that's still just sitting there with their? | 00:46:23 | |
| Roof gone. You could purchase that property and. | 00:46:28 | |
| Put the group home there and have plenty more land. | 00:46:31 | |
| To meet other future needs. | 00:46:33 | |
| Then there was the request for the. | 00:46:41 | |
| County owned daycare center. | 00:46:45 | |
| There's a lot that goes into a daycare center. We know that there's the room out at the Henry Dodge site. | 00:46:47 | |
| For that. | 00:46:53 | |
| It it's there. | 00:46:54 | |
| Day cares. | 00:46:55 | |
| The size of a daycare is really driven by what age groups. | 00:46:57 | |
| You're dealing with. | 00:47:01 | |
| And and how many kids? There's a lot of different requirements. | 00:47:03 | |
| As you move through the age groups, so it's a little. | 00:47:06 | |
| We have to dive a little deeper into that to. | 00:47:09 | |
| To really get a good feel. | 00:47:12 | |
| For what that would be. | 00:47:14 | |
| I and I should. | 00:47:15 | |
| Back up and mention the. | 00:47:18 | |
| Evidence storage building. | 00:47:22 | |
| That was damaged by the tornado. | 00:47:23 | |
| That I thought. | 00:47:25 | |
| Could move. | 00:47:25 | |
| That. | 00:47:27 | |
| There's also room. | 00:47:28 | |
| East of the water tower by the Henry Dodge site where you could put that. | 00:47:31 | |
| And the sheriff's vehicle storage and keep those all. | 00:47:35 | |
| Together as one, since those would both. | 00:47:38 | |
| Essentially be. | 00:47:41 | |
| Sheriff's property. | 00:47:42 | |
| The last. | 00:47:48 | |
| Piece of the puzzle? | 00:47:50 | |
| Would be creating greater efficiency. | 00:47:53 | |
| For the sheriff and the jail. | 00:47:56 | |
| By moving the Sheriff's Office. | 00:47:58 | |
| To the jail property. | 00:48:00 | |
| That's a a trickier move. | 00:48:03 | |
| Because there's there's just not a lot of space where. | 00:48:07 | |
| Would be easy to add on. | 00:48:10 | |
| To put them there. | 00:48:12 | |
| It would probably need to be a multi story building. | 00:48:13 | |
| Which? | 00:48:16 | |
| Isn't. | 00:48:16 | |
| As efficient as a single story. | 00:48:17 | |
| But. | 00:48:20 | |
| Because of storm water. | 00:48:21 | |
| Retention pond that you have there. | 00:48:24 | |
| And residential. | 00:48:26 | |
| Neighborhood. | 00:48:28 | |
| That might be the only way. | 00:48:30 | |
| To go to. | 00:48:32 | |
| To streamline. | 00:48:33 | |
| That process. | 00:48:34 | |
| So with all those different. | 00:48:39 | |
| Moving pieces and parts and options. | 00:48:41 | |
| Our next step? | 00:48:46 | |
| Is going to be. | 00:48:47 | |
| To put prices. | 00:48:49 | |
| To each and every individual element. | 00:48:50 | |
| So you can look at it and say OK. | 00:48:54 | |
| We can do this piece. | 00:48:57 | |
| And then we'll do this piece in X number of years. | 00:48:59 | |
| And you can. | 00:49:02 | |
| Make a reasonable, informed decisions. | 00:49:03 | |
| For years to come. | 00:49:06 | |
| So that you don't. | 00:49:07 | |
| Trying to do everything in one shot. | 00:49:09 | |
| And you can try and keep it. | 00:49:12 | |
| Minimally affecting. | 00:49:15 | |
| Your taxes. | 00:49:17 | |
| So you've all been very quiet so far. | 00:49:21 | |
| So I'm guessing there may be a question or two. | 00:49:23 | |
| Yes. | 00:49:26 | |
| Shop the Mayville Highway building in front of that. | 00:49:30 | |
| We have visited all of the highway department buildings. | 00:49:34 | |
| The the highway department. | 00:49:40 | |
| Generally, they are very happy with their facilities. | 00:49:44 | |
| And their one need that, they said, was the most pressing. | 00:49:47 | |
| Is already in the budget for next year. | 00:49:51 | |
| I'm at this face in. | 00:49:54 | |
| The office space. There is office space there. | 00:50:00 | |
| And it's. | 00:50:04 | |
| It's in pretty good shape. | 00:50:05 | |
| The problem is. | 00:50:08 | |
| You have everything right here. | 00:50:10 | |
| So to locate something out there, make some completely remote. | 00:50:13 | |
| Away from everything else. | 00:50:18 | |
| So. | 00:50:19 | |
| What you would put there? | 00:50:21 | |
| That would make sense. | 00:50:23 | |
| And would make. | 00:50:25 | |
| The county campus efficient. | 00:50:26 | |
| Is. | 00:50:29 | |
| It's a tough. | 00:50:30 | |
| Figure umm. | 00:50:32 | |
| Medical examiner works. | 00:50:35 | |
| Relatively closely with the sheriff. | 00:50:37 | |
| Could it go there? Sure. | 00:50:41 | |
| But. | 00:50:44 | |
| It's not an optimal location. | 00:50:45 | |
| But yeah, it is. It is a nice space. | 00:50:49 | |
| It's got a nice conference room. It's got. | 00:50:52 | |
| Open offices it's got. | 00:50:54 | |
| Closed offices. It's pretty nice, but. | 00:50:56 | |
| I don't know what you do with it. | 00:50:59 | |
| Just because of location. | 00:51:01 | |
| Supervisor Belt. | 00:51:05 | |
| All right. Thank you. | 00:51:07 | |
| Mr. Chairman. | 00:51:08 | |
| And the question I had is, I didn't hear anything about. | 00:51:09 | |
| Parking any We need parking for a bunch of our. | 00:51:13 | |
| Vehicles. | 00:51:16 | |
| Have you done any research on any of the parking spaces? | 00:51:17 | |
| Yeah, so. | 00:51:21 | |
| The the biggest need for parking is the sheriff. | 00:51:22 | |
| And. | 00:51:27 | |
| And we've looked at. | 00:51:28 | |
| Obviously. | 00:51:34 | |
| The sheriff's vehicles that are currently housed in the. | 00:51:35 | |
| In the old jail. | 00:51:38 | |
| There's space for that but but. | 00:51:39 | |
| The vehicles that are on. | 00:51:40 | |
| In the. | 00:51:42 | |
| Like the courthouse parking lot? | 00:51:43 | |
| We would have to. | 00:51:45 | |
| Give some sort of. | 00:51:46 | |
| Structure. | 00:51:48 | |
| For for at least some of them. | 00:51:50 | |
| But again, that would be. | 00:51:54 | |
| Do we want to locate that? | 00:51:56 | |
| Where the sheriff is now, or where the sheriff might be. | 00:51:58 | |
| So it's all still under investigation. But yes, we have, we have looked at that because we've. | 00:52:04 | |
| We've been to the site many, many times. | 00:52:09 | |
| And we always tend to just take a quick count to see how many. | 00:52:12 | |
| Sheriff's vehicles are in the parking lot. | 00:52:15 | |
| Supervisor Frye Vault. | 00:52:21 | |
| Why are we talking about a county owned daycare? | 00:52:24 | |
| I'm just curious. It was. It was in a. | 00:52:27 | |
| Past long range plan. | 00:52:30 | |
| I I couldn't even tell you how many years ago he was just brought up to me and, and we said we would investigate it. | 00:52:33 | |
| Did you want to respond? | 00:52:40 | |
| Only to say that. | 00:52:44 | |
| That that is something that isn't because it's also right now. | 00:52:45 | |
| Something that has been. | 00:52:50 | |
| Identified as a need countrywide that we have. | 00:52:51 | |
| Very few childcare facilities. | 00:52:55 | |
| We also asked to. | 00:52:58 | |
| Just look and see how feasible. | 00:52:59 | |
| It could be to have something in Dodge County. | 00:53:02 | |
| So that's why that's brought up now, whether or not you would choose to do anything with it. | 00:53:06 | |
| It's entirely up for discussion. | 00:53:11 | |
| Supervisor bands answer. | 00:53:15 | |
| Yeah, to me, the most glaring thing is the fact. | 00:53:19 | |
| Of getting. | 00:53:23 | |
| People out of Henry Dodge. | 00:53:25 | |
| Because of the you don't want to pay anymore for repairs on there. | 00:53:27 | |
| The only thing that really seems to. | 00:53:31 | |
| I don't know if makes sense to me, but I think the smartest thing. | 00:53:34 | |
| For me to do would be to. | 00:53:37 | |
| Umm, do the renovations in the building that I think I know where you're talking about. | 00:53:40 | |
| Is that building? | 00:53:46 | |
| Big enough? | 00:53:48 | |
| To move the people from admin over to it. | 00:53:49 | |
| Yeah, we've we've looked at. | 00:53:54 | |
| The square footage. | 00:53:56 | |
| And just. | 00:53:58 | |
| As. | 00:53:59 | |
| And the projected square footage. | 00:54:00 | |
| For any growth that might be of the departments that would be moving there? | 00:54:02 | |
| And we would. | 00:54:06 | |
| Be able to fill that building. | 00:54:09 | |
| Keeping each department. | 00:54:11 | |
| On single floor, so none would be on this floor. | 00:54:13 | |
| And this one. | 00:54:16 | |
| And there would be some. | 00:54:17 | |
| Room available for growth? | 00:54:19 | |
| How long would that process take to renovate that? | 00:54:21 | |
| You know. | 00:54:28 | |
| Typically a renovation project like that. | 00:54:29 | |
| You know, we'd have to get in and really survey the the building to see what it looks like. | 00:54:32 | |
| But the construction itself. | 00:54:36 | |
| Is going to be. | 00:54:39 | |
| Eight months to a year. | 00:54:40 | |
| That's probably a year ahead of. | 00:54:42 | |
| The pace of getting a new building built out. | 00:54:45 | |
| On Henry Dodge site or? | 00:54:48 | |
| It would probably be. | 00:54:51 | |
| Six months faster for sure. | 00:54:53 | |
| I mean, it all depends on how. | 00:54:57 | |
| If if you're building a new building. | 00:54:59 | |
| What tends to happen is. | 00:55:02 | |
| During the process, people will say, well, you know, as long as we've got the space, we do that. | 00:55:05 | |
| What if we did this too? | 00:55:09 | |
| And what have we? | 00:55:11 | |
| As we're. | 00:55:11 | |
| Proposing it right now with just the functions for what's in Dodge. | 00:55:12 | |
| It would probably be. | 00:55:16 | |
| You know, a 1618 month process. | 00:55:19 | |
| For construction. | 00:55:22 | |
| Like I said, I think that makes the most sense to me is if we do that new building and renovate it. | 00:55:23 | |
| And move admin over there. | 00:55:29 | |
| Get people moving out of the Henry Dodge building. That could be a. | 00:55:33 | |
| Big expense magnet. | 00:55:38 | |
| And then we have options to do. | 00:55:40 | |
| A lot of things after that. | 00:55:43 | |
| Yeah, yeah, once, once you can tear down Henry Dodge. It gives you a very large piece of land. | 00:55:46 | |
| For any sort of future projects. | 00:55:52 | |
| Well, it's not even that, I mean. | 00:55:54 | |
| Just the fact of getting the people out of there. I mean, you can build next to it. | 00:55:57 | |
| Eventually or whatever you wanted to do. | 00:56:01 | |
| All right. Thanks. | 00:56:04 | |
| Supervisor Beal. | 00:56:06 | |
| I think the question when it was asked about parking though, isn't necessarily. | 00:56:08 | |
| Pertaining to. | 00:56:13 | |
| County owned vehicles. | 00:56:14 | |
| It was more. | 00:56:16 | |
| Geared towards employee parking. | 00:56:17 | |
| Like the parking lot here for the admin building is at Max every single day. | 00:56:20 | |
| Sometimes you got to circle it 2-3 times to find a spot. | 00:56:26 | |
| So that that's. | 00:56:30 | |
| Has parking address. | 00:56:32 | |
| For any. | 00:56:35 | |
| Additional moves down to the downtown area. | 00:56:38 | |
| We have we have not done a study. | 00:56:42 | |
| To see. | 00:56:45 | |
| How parking would be impacted? | 00:56:46 | |
| At this time. | 00:56:50 | |
| We can, we can look at that. | 00:56:53 | |
| But right now with multiple options. | 00:56:56 | |
| And and trying to figure out exactly the the easiest way to go about the all the different moving pieces. | 00:57:00 | |
| We haven't looked at. | 00:57:06 | |
| At the parking, to tell you the truth. | 00:57:08 | |
| But. | 00:57:09 | |
| It wouldn't be that hard to look at. | 00:57:11 | |
| How many employees are at? | 00:57:13 | |
| Henry Dodge. | 00:57:15 | |
| Versus how many employees are here? | 00:57:16 | |
| To see how that. | 00:57:20 | |
| Lays out. | 00:57:21 | |
| Because in my opinion, that's an important part of any. | 00:57:23 | |
| Building project. | 00:57:27 | |
| Every time you take a property off. | 00:57:29 | |
| The tax roll that has an impact on. | 00:57:31 | |
| City. | 00:57:34 | |
| Revenues for taxes being collected so. | 00:57:35 | |
| We don't want to think that we can just buy up five properties and tear them down and throw blacktop down. | 00:57:39 | |
| You know, maybe a parking ram. | 00:57:46 | |
| Would be. | 00:57:49 | |
| Something that would be more feasible than. | 00:57:51 | |
| Parking ramps get tricky. | 00:57:55 | |
| Especially when it comes to. | 00:57:58 | |
| Plowing snow from them. | 00:57:59 | |
| And ice in the winter. | 00:58:02 | |
| They're they're actually. | 00:58:05 | |
| A little more expensive. | 00:58:07 | |
| Than you would think, but yes we could. | 00:58:09 | |
| We could do a parking structure, we could investigate that. | 00:58:11 | |
| But it would. | 00:58:15 | |
| We would have to. | 00:58:16 | |
| It would it would make more sense to to really look at that as part of a design. | 00:58:19 | |
| Process as opposed to a master plan process. | 00:58:24 | |
| Supervisor Burbos. | 00:58:30 | |
| Thank you. | 00:58:32 | |
| I'm questioning the daycare also at the county level because of the YMCA in Beaver Dam right now is doing a huge. | 00:58:33 | |
| Expansion of their childcare and like a. | 00:58:41 | |
| Pickleball general basketball league to increase the. | 00:58:45 | |
| A shortage of quality childcare services in Dodge County and they've. | 00:58:51 | |
| Fundraise 3 and a half million with a one and a half million matching grant from Beaver Dam Community Hospital. | 00:58:54 | |
| So I'm a little concerned that we might be. | 00:59:00 | |
| Overlapping with an effort that's already underway. | 00:59:02 | |
| And. | 00:59:05 | |
| And then in direct competition. | 00:59:06 | |
| With with the Y for both childcare providers, employees and children. | 00:59:08 | |
| I don't know what the scope is, but that's kind of what. | 00:59:14 | |
| What came to mind? | 00:59:16 | |
| As a concern. | 00:59:18 | |
| Yeah. And and as I said, it was just something that was part of a previous. | 00:59:20 | |
| Long range plan. So we're just investigating. | 00:59:24 | |
| Nothing that we're. | 00:59:26 | |
| Presenting here tonight. | 00:59:28 | |
| Is set in stone. | 00:59:29 | |
| You have the final say. | 00:59:31 | |
| Supervisor Henry. | 00:59:36 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you so much for the presentation and all of these interesting things to contemplate. | 00:59:38 | |
| All of the time and effort you put into this I. | 00:59:44 | |
| To continue the conversation about parking. | 00:59:46 | |
| Maybe I'm curious, you were talking about parking at the Sheriff's Department? | 00:59:50 | |
| Did that also include contemplations for? | 00:59:54 | |
| Housing the emergency response vehicles or or getting them. | 00:59:58 | |
| Under roof. | 01:00:02 | |
| Somewhere. | 01:00:03 | |
| We would be. | 01:00:04 | |
| Trying to find space for all of the vehicles that are just sitting out, yeah. | 01:00:05 | |
| Thank you. | 01:00:10 | |
| Supervisor Dirt. | 01:00:12 | |
| I also want to thank. | 01:00:14 | |
| Thank you so much and obviously to the administrator for like looking at a big plan. | 01:00:17 | |
| This is the first time. | 01:00:23 | |
| I've been on a while that we've ever actually looked at. | 01:00:26 | |
| A general plan. | 01:00:29 | |
| County wide. | 01:00:31 | |
| For. | 01:00:33 | |
| You know. | 01:00:35 | |
| Redoing upgrading infrastructure. | 01:00:36 | |
| And when you look at it county wide. | 01:00:38 | |
| You constantly talked about efficiencies. | 01:00:41 | |
| And often. | 01:00:44 | |
| When? | 01:00:46 | |
| We don't see a change in the budget. | 01:00:47 | |
| We act as though it didn't cost anything. | 01:00:49 | |
| And so when you've got all your departments on the same floor and you've got departments that. | 01:00:52 | |
| Like make sense to work together, you you save the equivalent of just. | 01:00:57 | |
| Thousands and thousands of dollars. | 01:01:02 | |
| Over decades. | 01:01:05 | |
| Because of it being more efficient. | 01:01:07 | |
| And a higher level of service. | 01:01:09 | |
| And so that's what we've been missing because we're like, oh, we got to, we got to do the. | 01:01:12 | |
| Judicial justice facility, what I do this roof and then we got to do that roof and we got to fix that plumbing. | 01:01:16 | |
| And we always keep repairing and repairing. | 01:01:23 | |
| And until finally somebody says, Oh my God, you're. | 01:01:26 | |
| Spending more to repair and even then we don't. | 01:01:30 | |
| You know, pull the plug and. | 01:01:33 | |
| Say to redo it so it's. | 01:01:35 | |
| I know it's great. I'm just happy to see this process moving forward. I really, I, I really, really am glad and I think it's. | 01:01:38 | |
| Going to have a lasting impact. | 01:01:47 | |
| This board could have a lasting impact on. | 01:01:49 | |
| Tremendously better service for decades. | 01:01:51 | |
| Supervisor Steger. | 01:01:56 | |
| Thank you. Mr. Chairman. I just want to ask, which building are you talking about that you're going to renovate and move the | 01:01:58 | |
| offices from here? | 01:02:02 | |
| Until you said you always had a. | 01:02:06 | |
| You and Randy were talking about a building. | 01:02:08 | |
| That you were going to renovate? Which building are we talking about? | 01:02:10 | |
| To from to move from here. | 01:02:13 | |
| I'm sorry. | 01:02:16 | |
| OK, Yeah. | 01:02:21 | |
| OK, OK. | 01:02:22 | |
| So, Supervisor Steger that that building is not, it's not a property we want to disclose in a public meeting. | 01:02:24 | |
| Because we anticipate. | 01:02:29 | |
| A negotiation, it's not something that we own currently. | 01:02:32 | |
| Supervisor. | 01:02:37 | |
| Thank you again. I'd like to echo what supervisor door Dora said the the. | 01:02:39 | |
| Concept of a county campus and really thinking about this as the efficiencies of a county campus is, is wonderful. Thank you for | 01:02:44 | |
| bringing that to us. And and the the opportunity to look at this is a long, long term road map. | 01:02:51 | |
| And thinking of of distributing the the cost, the tax implications long term. | 01:02:59 | |
| Through this concept is is wonderful. Thank you. | 01:03:05 | |
| Anyone else? | 01:03:12 | |
| See anyone else? There will be. | 01:03:16 | |
| The board will have entry, you know. | 01:03:19 | |
| Can get ahold of Venture through John or through Cameron. | 01:03:22 | |
| And give your ideas. | 01:03:27 | |
| Very much appreciate that. | 01:03:29 | |
| Thank you. | 01:03:31 | |
| OK, back to resolutions on file. | 01:03:40 | |
| Resolution 2551. | 01:03:43 | |
| 2025 Dodge County District Attorney's Office budget amendment. | 01:03:48 | |
| Increase revenue from District Attorney trust. | 01:03:52 | |
| All of which just respectfully submitted the 16th day of December, signed by three members of the Judicial and Public Protection | 01:03:57 | |
| Committee. | 01:04:01 | |
| Fiscal note. | 01:04:07 | |
| The 2025 budget for the District Attorney Trust will increase by $20,000 in revenues. | 01:04:08 | |
| And expenses. | 01:04:15 | |
| And the District Attorney's office will increase by 5000 in revenues and expenses. | 01:04:17 | |
| Finance Committee Review date December 8th, 2025 initialed by Finance Committee Chair. | 01:04:22 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Guckenberger, second by Supervisor Beal. | 01:04:29 | |
| Questions or comments on this? | 01:04:33 | |
| Resolution. | 01:04:35 | |
| Any questions or comments? | 01:04:40 | |
| If you agree with the. | 01:04:44 | |
| Recommendation. | 01:04:46 | |
| From the JPP. | 01:04:47 | |
| Committee. | 01:04:50 | |
| Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:04:51 | |
| Supervisor Ringle. | 01:04:59 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:05:03 | |
| All having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:05:06 | |
| Resolution 2552. | 01:05:12 | |
| Authorization to apply for public safety interoperability communication grant. | 01:05:15 | |
| Dodge County Sheriff's Office. | 01:05:21 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted. | 01:05:24 | |
| The 16th day of December, signed by three members of the Justice and Public Protection Committee. | 01:05:26 | |
| Fiscal note. | 01:05:33 | |
| No fiscal impact at this time as this is an application for a grant and does not bind the county. | 01:05:34 | |
| For expenditure. | 01:05:41 | |
| This will be a budgeted expense in 2027 for the sheriff. | 01:05:42 | |
| And Emergency Management if the grant is approved. | 01:05:46 | |
| Finance Committee Review date December 8th, 2025 initialed by Finance Committee Chair. | 01:05:50 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Beal, seconded by Supervisor Gutenberger. | 01:05:56 | |
| Any questions or comments on this? | 01:06:01 | |
| Any questions? | 01:06:05 | |
| Supervisor Belk. | 01:06:09 | |
| So in 2027, how much are we talking about, if we? | 01:06:11 | |
| Were awarded this grant for. | 01:06:14 | |
| Extra expenses. | 01:06:16 | |
| I don't know that we know that number yet. I'm looking. | 01:06:20 | |
| Across my shoulder for Joe. Just one second. | 01:06:23 | |
| It's a 20% match. | 01:06:27 | |
| Thank you. | 01:06:32 | |
| 10,000 each department Joseph. | 01:06:34 | |
| So 20%. | 01:06:36 | |
| Of two different grants of 50,000. | 01:06:38 | |
| Any other questions? | 01:06:44 | |
| If you agree with the authorization to apply for the grant, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:06:47 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:06:59 | |
| Supervisor Ringle. | 01:07:02 | |
| All having voted, that passes 27 to 1. | 01:07:06 | |
| Resolution 2553. | 01:07:14 | |
| Authorization to apply for public safety interoperability communication grant. | 01:07:17 | |
| Dodge County Emergency Management. | 01:07:23 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December. | 01:07:27 | |
| Signed by three members of the Dodge County Justice and Public Protection Committee. | 01:07:32 | |
| Fiscal No, no fiscal impact at this time as this is an application for a grant and does not bind the county for expenditure. | 01:07:37 | |
| This will be a budgeted expense in 2027 for the Sheriff and Emergency Management if the grant is approved. Finance Committee | 01:07:45 | |
| review date December 8, 2025, initialed by Finance Committee chair. | 01:07:50 | |
| I have a motion by supervisor Cavazanjan and second by Supervisor Guckenberger. | 01:07:56 | |
| Any questions or comments on this resolution? | 01:08:02 | |
| Seeing none if you agree with the. | 01:08:11 | |
| Resolution Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:08:13 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:08:19 | |
| Yes, Supervisor Ringle. | 01:08:21 | |
| All having voted, it passes 26 to 2. | 01:08:26 | |
| Resolution 25. | 01:08:32 | |
| 54. | 01:08:34 | |
| 2025 Dodge County Emergency Management Department budget amendment. | 01:08:36 | |
| Emergency Management hazmat grants. | 01:08:41 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December 2025, signed by three members. | 01:08:46 | |
| Of the. | 01:08:52 | |
| Judicial and Public Protection Committee. | 01:08:53 | |
| Fiscal note The Emergency Management 2025 budget will increase. | 01:08:56 | |
| $3300 in revenues and expenses. | 01:09:01 | |
| Finance Committee review date December 8th, 2025. | 01:09:05 | |
| Initialed by Finance Committee chair. | 01:09:10 | |
| Have a motion by Supervisor Burnett, second by Supervisor Gukenberger. | 01:09:12 | |
| Any questions? | 01:09:17 | |
| On this resolution. | 01:09:18 | |
| Any questions? | 01:09:21 | |
| If you agree with the. | 01:09:24 | |
| Resolution. Please vote yes if you do not. | 01:09:26 | |
| Vote no. | 01:09:29 | |
| Supervisor. | 01:09:33 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:09:37 | |
| Yes. | 01:09:39 | |
| All having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:09:40 | |
| Resolution 2555. | 01:09:45 | |
| 2026 labor agreement between Dodge County and Dodge County Highway Association. | 01:09:48 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December, 2025. | 01:09:54 | |
| Signed by five members of the Human Resources Committee. | 01:09:59 | |
| Fiscal Note The 2026 Dodge County budget will have no fiscal impact as it was created based on. | 01:10:03 | |
| The wage rates included in the agreement. | 01:10:10 | |
| Finance Committee Review date December 8th, 2025 Fight. | 01:10:13 | |
| Initialed by Finance Committee chair. | 01:10:18 | |
| I have a motion by supervisor Beal, second by supervisor Stager. | 01:10:20 | |
| Any questions? | 01:10:25 | |
| Or comments. | 01:10:26 | |
| Any questions? | 01:10:29 | |
| If you agree with the recommendation of the committee to ratify the agreement, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:10:33 | |
| Supervisor Ringle. | 01:10:43 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:10:46 | |
| All having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:10:50 | |
| Resolution 2557. | 01:10:55 | |
| Advisory resolution in support. | 01:10:58 | |
| Of legislation to increase Wisconsin. | 01:11:01 | |
| Wisconsin Land Information Program grant funding agreement. Yeah. | 01:11:04 | |
| That's when you stayed 56. I apologize, I skipped 56. | 01:11:09 | |
| There's a problem up here tonight. | 01:11:14 | |
| I want to be just like you. | 01:11:18 | |
| OK authorize side agreement to the 20252027 labor agreement between Dodge County and Dodge County Sheriff's Office, Warn employees | 01:11:23 | |
| Local 120. | 01:11:29 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December 2025, signed by four members of the Human Resources Committee. | 01:11:36 | |
| Fiscal note there is no fiscal effect. | 01:11:44 | |
| Finance Committee Review date December 8th, 2025 initialed by Finance Committee Chair. | 01:11:47 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Beale, second by Supervisor Guckenberger. | 01:11:53 | |
| Any questions? | 01:11:57 | |
| Seeing none, if you agree with the site agreement, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:12:02 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:12:10 | |
| Aye, Supervisor Ringle. | 01:12:12 | |
| All having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:12:16 | |
| OK, now resolution. | 01:12:20 | |
| 2557. | 01:12:22 | |
| Advisory resolution in support of legislation to increase Wisconsin Land Information Program grant funding. | 01:12:25 | |
| 2025 Senate bill. | 01:12:32 | |
| 218 and 2025 Assembly Bill 216. | 01:12:35 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted. | 01:12:39 | |
| The 16th day of December, signed by five members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. | 01:12:43 | |
| And there is no fiscal note. | 01:12:50 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Breslow, a second by Supervisor Gutenberger. | 01:12:52 | |
| Any questions supervisor? | 01:12:57 | |
| Thank. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I would just. | 01:13:01 | |
| Like to strongly urge everybody to support this measure. What's? | 01:13:04 | |
| What it's about is. | 01:13:09 | |
| Getting support at the state level. | 01:13:10 | |
| For some bills that are going to be coming through to them. | 01:13:13 | |
| And it's. | 01:13:17 | |
| About sharing the revenue. | 01:13:19 | |
| Right now, when we're. | 01:13:21 | |
| Doing all the work in the county, we get 20% of it. | 01:13:23 | |
| Whereas if these bills. | 01:13:27 | |
| Get past. | 01:13:29 | |
| We will get a greater amount. | 01:13:30 | |
| Of money. | 01:13:32 | |
| Of the portion of the. | 01:13:34 | |
| Land transactions, recordings and stuff like that. | 01:13:35 | |
| And then there will also be increased grant money available to land information. | 01:13:39 | |
| And land information. I don't know if everybody realizes it or not, but. | 01:13:43 | |
| They do it quite a bit. | 01:13:48 | |
| In the county they all year. | 01:13:50 | |
| Maps and all that stuff, everything that you can find on the website, all your property informations and things like that. | 01:13:51 | |
| Land information has a lot to do with that so. | 01:13:58 | |
| I would ask that you support this. | 01:14:01 | |
| Thanks, Supervisor Sigmund. | 01:14:04 | |
| Yes, think I don't know if it's listed correctly on the screen. | 01:14:07 | |
| This resolution. | 01:14:13 | |
| Oh, it's not. We have the wrong title. | 01:14:15 | |
| Resolution. | 01:14:39 | |
| You can answer if somebody else wants to talk to them. | 01:14:56 | |
| No, just due to increase Wisconsin Land Information Program grant funding. | 01:15:02 | |
| So that will change now. | 01:15:21 | |
| It will get Yep. | 01:15:23 | |
| There we go. | 01:15:25 | |
| OK, Supervisor, do you have any other comment? | 01:15:28 | |
| Thank you. | 01:15:32 | |
| Bringing that up. | 01:15:34 | |
| Any other questions or comments? | 01:15:35 | |
| If you agree with the. | 01:15:39 | |
| Advisory. | 01:15:40 | |
| Resolution. | 01:15:43 | |
| Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:15:44 | |
| Supervisor Ringle. | 01:15:51 | |
| Subhit, did you vote Supervisor? OK? Yep. And Supervisor Miller? | 01:15:59 | |
| Perfect all having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:16:04 | |
| Resolution. | 01:16:09 | |
| 2558. | 01:16:11 | |
| Authorizing 2025. | 01:16:13 | |
| Dodge County Budget Amendment Risk Management Fund. | 01:16:16 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December, 2025. | 01:16:19 | |
| Signed by five members of the Finance Committee. | 01:16:25 | |
| Fiscal note. | 01:16:28 | |
| The 2025 County budget for Risk Management Fund will increase by $200,000 in revenues and expenses. | 01:16:30 | |
| The Risk Management Fund currently has 701. | 01:16:37 | |
| $1829.49 of fund balance. | 01:16:41 | |
| Finance Committee review date December 8, 2025. | 01:16:46 | |
| Initialed by Finance Committee chair. | 01:16:50 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Guckenberger, second by Supervisor Stager. | 01:16:53 | |
| Supervisor Belk. | 01:16:58 | |
| Yeah. Good morning. Or. | 01:17:01 | |
| Good morning. | 01:17:02 | |
| Good morning. | 01:17:04 | |
| Anyways, thank you, Mr. Chairman. | 01:17:06 | |
| Yeah, I need some clarification on this is for the fact that. | 01:17:08 | |
| On the risk management. | 01:17:11 | |
| I see we're going from 100,000. | 01:17:13 | |
| Through 300,000. | 01:17:15 | |
| But I'm kind of confused because typically with. | 01:17:18 | |
| We're dealing with legal issues. | 01:17:20 | |
| Don't we usually pay our insurance company the deductible? | 01:17:23 | |
| And then we go from there. Are we seeing we're going to have a lot more? | 01:17:26 | |
| Legal expenses and a lot more deductibles. That's why we're going to go up. | 01:17:29 | |
| To 300,000. | 01:17:32 | |
| I'm gonna let Kim if she. | 01:17:35 | |
| And hers should be on OK. So through our insurance company it is correct we have a. | 01:17:39 | |
| What's called an Sir? | 01:17:45 | |
| Self insured risk fund. | 01:17:46 | |
| And we are required as a part of the. | 01:17:48 | |
| Insurance that we have through Wimmick. | 01:17:51 | |
| As a member, we're required to have a $300,000. | 01:17:53 | |
| Sir Which? | 01:17:57 | |
| I don't want to call it a deductible, it's a. | 01:17:58 | |
| Self insured retainage fund so the first. | 01:18:01 | |
| 300,000 comes out of that fund. | 01:18:05 | |
| From a budgetary standpoint, I would just defer to the finance Director as to. | 01:18:08 | |
| The transfers between the funds. | 01:18:13 | |
| So. | 01:18:20 | |
| Typically, historically we budgeted about $100,000 and we've spent around $100,000 just this year. | 01:18:21 | |
| We've exceeded that amount and when we. | 01:18:29 | |
| Start to see that we're. | 01:18:32 | |
| Needing to use fund balance, we need to do the. | 01:18:33 | |
| The appropriate budget amendment. And so that's why this item is. | 01:18:36 | |
| Is before you. | 01:18:39 | |
| You want to follow up? Yeah, so. | 01:18:45 | |
| So just so I have this straight my head that. | 01:18:49 | |
| They're basically. | 01:18:52 | |
| Requiring us to have a $300,000 reserve. | 01:18:53 | |
| For future. | 01:18:56 | |
| All right. Thanks. | 01:18:58 | |
| Supervisor Houchin. | 01:19:00 | |
| Thank you SO. | 01:19:01 | |
| Are we spending the seven? | 01:19:03 | |
| 100,000 is that. | 01:19:04 | |
| The What's happening? | 01:19:06 | |
| And that's why we need. | 01:19:08 | |
| That is our. | 01:19:10 | |
| That's our undesignated fund balance. | 01:19:11 | |
| For the. | 01:19:13 | |
| Fund 750. | 01:19:15 | |
| Risk management fund. | 01:19:17 | |
| So that's that's where that number comes from in your materials. | 01:19:19 | |
| We're only what we're doing is drawing. | 01:19:23 | |
| 200. | 01:19:25 | |
| 1000 of that to refill the self insured retention line. | 01:19:25 | |
| I see. So how much is it? | 01:19:29 | |
| This but. | 01:19:32 | |
| Well, but. | 01:19:34 | |
| That amount? The seven. | 01:19:37 | |
| So the 701, I believe, yeah. | 01:19:38 | |
| Right, it'll be down to 501. | 01:19:40 | |
| Be 501, but it'll increase the other to 300. | 01:19:43 | |
| Yeah, yeah. Thank you. | 01:19:46 | |
| Supervisor. | 01:19:51 | |
| Thank you. | 01:19:53 | |
| We were told that committee, though, that this was. | 01:19:56 | |
| For expenditures. | 01:19:59 | |
| Not for the fund balance, the reserve that's needed by our insurance provider. | 01:20:00 | |
| That this was. | 01:20:06 | |
| Litigation on a case that we were defending. | 01:20:09 | |
| So we anticipate spending the. | 01:20:15 | |
| We don't know exactly how much we're going to be spending. | 01:20:17 | |
| Right. | 01:20:21 | |
| Well, I think it's to read. | 01:20:33 | |
| It's refill the. | 01:20:35 | |
| For money that was spent, is that correct? | 01:20:37 | |
| I believe so, I'll. | 01:20:40 | |
| So planets. | 01:20:42 | |
| So basically right now that that line item, the account that we're talking about, legal services has a budget of $100,000, we've | 01:20:43 | |
| exceeded that amount. So their actual expenditures that we need to cover. | 01:20:49 | |
| Were putting it at the $300,000 threshold. | 01:20:56 | |
| We do not anticipate or I'm hopeful that we're not going to see that. | 01:21:01 | |
| US hit that. | 01:21:06 | |
| Full $300,000, but so that we don't have to come back for another budget amendment which would. | 01:21:07 | |
| Be impossible anyways. | 01:21:12 | |
| By the end of the year. | 01:21:14 | |
| We're setting it at the $300,000 level. We don't anticipate that we're going to spend that much. | 01:21:16 | |
| But we have. | 01:21:22 | |
| Exceeded the the budgeted amount of the $100,000. | 01:21:25 | |
| OK. Any other questions? | 01:21:36 | |
| Any other questions? | 01:21:39 | |
| If you agree with the. | 01:21:41 | |
| Resolution. | 01:21:43 | |
| Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:21:44 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:21:53 | |
| Yes, Supervisor Ringle. | 01:21:55 | |
| All having voted, it passes 25 to 3. | 01:22:00 | |
| Resolution 2558. | 01:22:06 | |
| 2025 Dodge County Human Services and Health Department amend budget amendment. | 01:22:10 | |
| Public health local grant from Marshfield Clinic. | 01:22:16 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December, 2025. | 01:22:20 | |
| Signed by. | 01:22:27 | |
| Nine members of the Human Services and Health Board. | 01:22:29 | |
| Fiscal Note of 2025 Human Services and Health Budget will increase by $4100 in revenues and expenses. | 01:22:33 | |
| Finance Committee review date December 8th, 2025. | 01:22:40 | |
| Find initial by Finance Committee chair. | 01:22:44 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Hedrick and a second by Supervisor Burnett. | 01:22:48 | |
| Any questions on this resolution? | 01:22:52 | |
| Any questions? | 01:22:58 | |
| If you agree with the resolution to accept the grant, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:23:02 | |
| Supervisor Ringo. | 01:23:15 | |
| Yes. | 01:23:17 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:23:18 | |
| Yes. | 01:23:20 | |
| All having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:23:22 | |
| Resolution 2560. | 01:23:25 | |
| Authorizing capital. | 01:23:29 | |
| Fund Balance Fund 400. | 01:23:31 | |
| And 2025 Dodge County budget amendment for the highway department, County Trunk Highway A. | 01:23:33 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted. | 01:23:41 | |
| On the 16th day of December, signed by five members of the Highway Committee and five members of the Finance Committee. | 01:23:44 | |
| Note this project is budgeted in 2026. | 01:23:53 | |
| However, to prepare for the 2026 construction project, work needed to be completed in 2025. | 01:23:56 | |
| Therefore, our request is to use fund balance of $300,000 in 2025, but will be offset with the 2026 budget. | 01:24:03 | |
| The 2025 Dodge County budget for the Capital Project Fund in the Highway Fund will increase by 300,000 in revenues and expenses. | 01:24:13 | |
| The Capital Projects Fund currently has. | 01:24:21 | |
| 3 million. | 01:24:27 | |
| 51. | 01:24:29 | |
| $1163.32 of fund balance. | 01:24:31 | |
| And $800,000 of FAM. | 01:24:35 | |
| Fund balance. | 01:24:38 | |
| Budgeted. | 01:24:40 | |
| Finance Committee Review date December 8th, 2025 initialed by Finance Committee Chair. | 01:24:41 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Kevin Sanjan and a second by Supervisor Stager. | 01:24:47 | |
| Supervisor bubbles. | 01:24:54 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chair. | 01:24:56 | |
| I would just like to say that I am in favor of this because. | 01:24:57 | |
| It does make sense. | 01:25:01 | |
| To do it prior as long as the installation and the betting process is done correctly. | 01:25:03 | |
| But I am. | 01:25:12 | |
| Leery that later on next year. | 01:25:15 | |
| They're going to be coming and saying. | 01:25:20 | |
| We're $300,000 short. | 01:25:23 | |
| Because we've already. | 01:25:28 | |
| Use this money. | 01:25:30 | |
| So as long as that does not happen, I do think this is a wise choice. | 01:25:32 | |
| Thank you. | 01:25:38 | |
| Supervisor Houchin. | 01:25:39 | |
| Thank you, I agree that I'm a little worried about what will happen down the road. | 01:25:41 | |
| I didn't mean to say down row, but I did say down the road. | 01:25:45 | |
| The other thing I wondered about this? | 01:25:49 | |
| Do they have money in their enterprise fund that could be used to this, or why are we using the money? | 01:25:52 | |
| This way and not going to an enterprise fund. | 01:25:57 | |
| You're right. | 01:26:01 | |
| Just just to share SO. | 01:26:04 | |
| Could you restate I guess, the last part of that question, Kathy? | 01:26:06 | |
| Why are we not using? | 01:26:09 | |
| The Enterprise Fund. | 01:26:11 | |
| As opposed to. | 01:26:12 | |
| So we we actually are. | 01:26:14 | |
| So the work is being done by our highway department and their whole operation is in Fund 700. | 01:26:16 | |
| So when we as Dodge County budget for capital projects, we put those dollars in Fund 400. | 01:26:22 | |
| And then once there is an expense. | 01:26:28 | |
| In fund 700 by the highway department either. | 01:26:31 | |
| They need to pay their own people. | 01:26:34 | |
| Or they've contracted. | 01:26:35 | |
| Through to a third party, however, it. | 01:26:37 | |
| And to do this capital work. | 01:26:40 | |
| They need to invoice Dodge County. | 01:26:42 | |
| And so that's kind of the that's how the flow goes with things like this. | 01:26:44 | |
| The other thing I would just share is. | 01:26:49 | |
| A couple things. One is that. | 01:26:52 | |
| This is and. | 01:26:54 | |
| Nathan just reminded me we. | 01:26:56 | |
| This is a. | 01:26:58 | |
| A project that is. | 01:27:00 | |
| Has a state grant associated with it. | 01:27:01 | |
| So this is not necessarily dollars that we are. | 01:27:04 | |
| Losing now. | 01:27:07 | |
| Because we're advancing it. | 01:27:09 | |
| That we're going to be dealing with trying to fill a gap. | 01:27:11 | |
| At the end of next year. | 01:27:14 | |
| In addition, the dollars that we allocated for the project. | 01:27:16 | |
| For 2026. | 01:27:19 | |
| Should be the dollars that we're using. So the fact that we're. | 01:27:21 | |
| Putting some of that. | 01:27:25 | |
| Ahead now because we needed to do this preliminary work. | 01:27:26 | |
| Shouldn't. | 01:27:29 | |
| It doesn't. It should not leave us exposed. | 01:27:30 | |
| In 2026. | 01:27:33 | |
| If that makes sense. | 01:27:35 | |
| Any other questions? | 01:27:39 | |
| Any other questions? | 01:27:42 | |
| If you agree with the. | 01:27:45 | |
| Resolution has. | 01:27:46 | |
| Submitted Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:27:48 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:27:55 | |
| Yes. | 01:27:57 | |
| Supervisor Ringle. | 01:27:58 | |
| All having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:28:02 | |
| Ordinance 1187. | 01:28:11 | |
| Amend land use code Dennis Fleischner property, Town of Leroy. | 01:28:16 | |
| We, the Dodge County Land Resources and Parks Committee, hereby report favorably on the petition of Dennis Fleischner requesting | 01:28:23 | |
| amendment of Land Use Code. | 01:28:27 | |
| Dodge County, Wisconsin to rezone approximately 16.99 acres from. | 01:28:33 | |
| Of land from A1. | 01:28:39 | |
| Prime agriculture to aid to general agricultural. | 01:28:41 | |
| Respectfully submitted the 16th day of December 2025. Signed by five members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. | 01:28:46 | |
| I have a motion by supervisor Bubbles and a second by supervisor Bischoff. | 01:28:53 | |
| Supervisor Gruckenberg. | 01:28:59 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | 01:29:01 | |
| I I see the stated purpose is to create 2 non farm residential lots, but it appears as though there's already a single residential | 01:29:04 | |
| home on there. | 01:29:08 | |
| And then? | 01:29:13 | |
| Does somebody know, are they just going to reconfigure the property lines to have two parcels here? | 01:29:15 | |
| Or is there going to actually be? | 01:29:20 | |
| Like. | 01:29:22 | |
| 3 parcels. | 01:29:23 | |
| 2 parcels. | 01:29:31 | |
| Yeah, they're going to align in between. | 01:29:36 | |
| There's a. | 01:29:40 | |
| In the corner. | 01:29:42 | |
| So it could conceivably right rearrange property lines. | 01:29:43 | |
| But. | 01:29:49 | |
| Now I think that one is included as part of the addition. | 01:29:56 | |
| They're they're proposing A2 lot. | 01:29:59 | |
| Two lots creation, so that's smaller piece is part of lot 1. | 01:30:02 | |
| Reconfigure the line. | 01:30:07 | |
| Yeah. | 01:30:08 | |
| That's the way it appears. | 01:30:10 | |
| OK. Any other questions? | 01:30:12 | |
| Any other questions? | 01:30:15 | |
| If you agree with the recommendation of the committee, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:30:17 | |
| Supervisor Ringel. | 01:30:28 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:30:31 | |
| Yes. | 01:30:32 | |
| All having voted, it passes 26 to one with one abstention. | 01:30:35 | |
| What is on her? | 01:30:42 | |
| Yes, tonight on your desk. Do you have a 2024-2025 Wisconsin for Age by the Numbers information sheet? | 01:30:44 | |
| And also an AI training program. | 01:30:53 | |
| Being held by UW Extension flyer. | 01:30:58 | |
| Everyone is invited downstairs for a light holiday lunch. | 01:31:01 | |
| Appreciate your coming down. | 01:31:05 | |
| Supervisor Johnson. | 01:31:08 | |
| Motion to adjourn to the next meeting on Tuesday, January 20th. | 01:31:09 | |
| 2026 at 6:00 PM. | 01:31:13 | |
| I have a second by supervisor Minell. | 01:31:15 | |
| All in favor signify by aye. | 01:31:18 | |
| Aye, opposed. That is carried. Thank you everyone. | 01:31:20 | |
| Yeah. | 01:31:31 |
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| My nail is absent. | 00:00:00 | |
| I know OK, supervisor. My Nell is absent. | 00:00:03 | |
| What's your pleasure of the minutes from the November 12th meeting? | 00:00:09 | |
| 2. | 00:00:21 | |
| That's won't go. | 00:00:26 | |
| Have a motion by Supervisor Stager. Second by Supervisor Guckenberger. | 00:00:27 | |
| Any questions, comments, corrections? | 00:00:34 | |
| Hearing none. | 00:00:38 | |
| All in favor signify by aye. | 00:00:39 | |
| Aye, opposed that is carried. | 00:00:42 | |
| Communications on file. | 00:00:47 | |
| I have no communications on file. | 00:00:49 | |
| OK. And there's nobody signed up for public comment? | 00:00:51 | |
| Special order of business. | 00:00:56 | |
| I'd like to introduce. | 00:00:58 | |
| I'm Marie Witzel, our 4H. | 00:00:59 | |
| Youth development educator for the 4H key award recipients. | 00:01:01 | |
| I was trying to double check with a couple of you on the way up here. | 00:01:22 | |
| Supervisor. | 00:01:27 | |
| Johnson asked me to give you a little bit of a snapshot of where we are with the 4H program in Dodge County. | 00:01:28 | |
| We're right in the middle of enrollment time right now, so I'm going to tell you that 2024 and 25, hopefully you have this that | 00:01:36 | |
| you've seen on your desk. | 00:01:40 | |
| There are 643 members in the program in the county in 28 clubs or groups. | 00:01:45 | |
| With 135 certified adult leaders. | 00:01:51 | |
| That makes us in the top 10 numbers wise in the state. | 00:01:54 | |
| And the one of the things that I thought is really interesting as I look at the numbers. | 00:01:58 | |
| Is that we're split pretty closely. | 00:02:03 | |
| 45% males and 54% females in the program. | 00:02:06 | |
| And some of you may think. | 00:02:10 | |
| Well, you have to be on a farm to be in 4H, but if you look at our statistics, only 33% of our members are live on farms. | 00:02:12 | |
| 14% say they live in cities between 10 and 50,000 people, but the majority of them live in rural areas and smaller towns under | 00:02:20 | |
| 10,000 people. | 00:02:25 | |
| And the last thing that I just want to point out to you is about our enrollment numbers by project. | 00:02:30 | |
| And a lot of times again. | 00:02:37 | |
| You think you have to live on a farm, but our largest project is actually photography. I didn't bring it up here but I watched all | 00:02:39 | |
| of my 4H families in the back of the room. They have a. | 00:02:44 | |
| Phone in their hand and they're taking pictures, so photography has 181 members. | 00:02:50 | |
| And then when you look at the rest of them, we do have beef with 129. It's been growing over the years for those of you that. | 00:02:56 | |
| Maybe have heard about our little bit of a dilemma when it comes to fair time trying to get all those beef animals in a barn. | 00:03:02 | |
| There's 121 members in art. | 00:03:09 | |
| 114 in woodworking. | 00:03:11 | |
| 107 in drawing and painting. I just think that's amazing to have all of those young people doing drawing and painting at the fair. | 00:03:14 | |
| Or in their year. | 00:03:22 | |
| Clover Buds is our youngest member, so kindergarten through second graders. | 00:03:24 | |
| There was about 100 of those. | 00:03:28 | |
| Dairies. We still have a pretty sizable dairy program in Dodge County at 98. | 00:03:31 | |
| Our growing program is Legos with 97 members doing that. | 00:03:37 | |
| 95 young people. | 00:03:43 | |
| Like to have swine and about 80 people do scale models. So still a pretty big project with a variety of. | 00:03:45 | |
| Enrollments. | 00:03:53 | |
| So let's get on to the real. | 00:03:54 | |
| Thing that you're here to do. | 00:03:57 | |
| And notice, guys, I keep moving this down South. You know what that means when you come? I joked around with them when we got here | 00:03:58 | |
| is that they're about this tall. | 00:04:02 | |
| And I was standing in the middle of them. So yeah, you're gonna have to move the microphone. | 00:04:07 | |
| The Wisconsin Farm Bureau has been sponsoring the 4H Key Award program for more than 30 years. | 00:04:12 | |
| Having started their support in 1974. | 00:04:17 | |
| Over the years, 4H youth in every county received the Special Key Award recognition. | 00:04:21 | |
| Thanks to the Farm Bureau and the Farm Bureau Egg in the Classroom program. | 00:04:26 | |
| The Wisconsin 4H Key Award is the highest honor of 4H youth can receive. | 00:04:30 | |
| Recipients are selected at the county level. | 00:04:35 | |
| Based on the young person's consistent growth in the 4H. | 00:04:38 | |
| And their development and applied leadership skills. | 00:04:42 | |
| And their participation in activities in their club and the county. | 00:04:46 | |
| In the community. | 00:04:50 | |
| Each county is responsible for selecting their key award recipients in the area based on an evaluation of the candidates total 4H | 00:04:52 | |
| records so they. | 00:04:56 | |
| Complete an application and an interview process. | 00:05:01 | |
| Here in Dodge County. | 00:05:04 | |
| So that then they talk about their project work, their personal development. | 00:05:06 | |
| Leadership and community involvement. | 00:05:10 | |
| County awards are specific number of key awards based on the. | 00:05:12 | |
| Club enrollment in that county. So that's when I tell you that we have a high number of young people involved, involved. | 00:05:16 | |
| We can give a couple of keywords like we will be doing tonight. | 00:05:22 | |
| The candidates must have passed their 14th birthday on January 1st of the year that the recognition is given and must have | 00:05:26 | |
| completed at least three years of 4H and one year of youth leadership. | 00:05:31 | |
| Selection should be based on the evaluation of the candidates total. | 00:05:37 | |
| 4H Record membership project activities, leadership. | 00:05:41 | |
| Personal development and county and. | 00:05:45 | |
| Community involvement. | 00:05:48 | |
| Each key award. | 00:05:50 | |
| Member receives a certificate and a key award pin. | 00:05:51 | |
| This award is only given to 2% of the members in the state. | 00:05:55 | |
| And I know that these members need the support of their parents to help them achieve this involvement, so I'd like to have their | 00:05:58 | |
| parents stand as their child is comfortable. | 00:06:02 | |
| It's called to come forward and receive this award. I'm going to have both of you come up at the same time. | 00:06:07 | |
| But I will then. | 00:06:12 | |
| Have each of you speak individually. | 00:06:14 | |
| Our first recipient is Ryan Clark. | 00:06:16 | |
| Son of Randy and Wendy Clark. | 00:06:19 | |
| He graduated from the Dodge County 4H program. | 00:06:21 | |
| Ryan is currently at Iowa State University majoring in AG. | 00:06:24 | |
| Engineering and vehicle systems. | 00:06:29 | |
| He was involved in the Lomira Cloverleaf 4H. | 00:06:32 | |
| And is involved in crops. | 00:06:35 | |
| Mechanical Science. | 00:06:37 | |
| Self determined vegetables. | 00:06:38 | |
| And youth leadership, and we're excited that finals finished yesterday so he could be back in Dodge County tonight. | 00:06:40 | |
| Our second recipient is Max Ludkey. | 00:06:47 | |
| Son of Jason and Tracy Luedke. | 00:06:49 | |
| He's in his thirteen years. | 00:06:51 | |
| 13th year as a Dodge County 4H member. | 00:06:53 | |
| Max is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. | 00:06:56 | |
| Majoring in agricultural business management. | 00:07:00 | |
| He is a member of the Lipstick 4H Club and was involved in youth leadership. | 00:07:03 | |
| Food preservation, house plants and food and nutrition projects. | 00:07:07 | |
| So I'm going to have both of them come up and share a little bit with you as I. | 00:07:11 | |
| Share a couple of things that I have for them. | 00:07:15 | |
| So as they're coming forward, I will share the key award. | 00:07:18 | |
| Actually, the award comes in a. | 00:07:26 | |
| In a folder like this and it's the keyword for each of them signed by the Dean of extension and also. | 00:07:28 | |
| The. | 00:07:35 | |
| What is she calling her? The 4H program leader? I had to double check what she was calling herself. | 00:07:36 | |
| So I will let you go first. | 00:07:41 | |
| Hello everybody. | 00:07:48 | |
| I am Ryan Clark. | 00:07:49 | |
| I am. | 00:07:51 | |
| Currently attending Iowa State University. | 00:07:52 | |
| For agricultural engineering under the Vehicle systems option. | 00:07:55 | |
| I was a proud member of the Lomira Clover Leaves 4H Club for nine years. | 00:07:59 | |
| And this past year was the year I graduated so. | 00:08:04 | |
| I took it upon myself to apply for the 4H key award. | 00:08:08 | |
| And through the nine years of enrollment in the Lemire Clover leaves, I. | 00:08:11 | |
| Participated in a couple different activities. | 00:08:16 | |
| The main being the Dodge County Fair and at the fair I participated in many different types of projects shown. | 00:08:19 | |
| Couple of the projects that I did throughout the years was growing vegetables and crops. | 00:08:28 | |
| My dad helped me with a project where I learned how to wire a simple light bulb. | 00:08:34 | |
| I've made a plasma cut. | 00:08:39 | |
| Wall art sign display that I made, which ended up going to state this past year as kind of my final project at the fair. And so at | 00:08:41 | |
| the Dodge County Fair, I was able to. | 00:08:47 | |
| Kind of build upon my leadership, communication skills and confidence as well as meeting other members and people. | 00:08:52 | |
| Throughout the week in the. | 00:09:01 | |
| Past nine years. | 00:09:03 | |
| Another example of an activity that I did through 4H was camp up on woods. | 00:09:05 | |
| Where we went for a period of time and stayed at Camp Upham Woods with just other 4H members and leaders from all over the area, | 00:09:10 | |
| and that's actually where I first met Max. | 00:09:15 | |
| Which you'll hear from him later. | 00:09:21 | |
| And another one where I did was the Lemire Clover Leaves 4H Club. | 00:09:24 | |
| Family Learning Day. | 00:09:28 | |
| Which I. | 00:09:30 | |
| Participated by teaching. | 00:09:31 | |
| Some different classes to different 4H members. | 00:09:34 | |
| Typically a lot younger than me. | 00:09:37 | |
| Just on different skills. | 00:09:39 | |
| That are very helpful in their day-to-day lives. I taught members how to tie a tie. Tie fishing knots. | 00:09:40 | |
| And how to build model rockets, which I thoroughly enjoyed doing. | 00:09:47 | |
| On my years up and coming through 4H so. | 00:09:52 | |
| Everything that I've participated in 4H and the activities that I've done have ultimately built upon so many skills necessary in | 00:09:55 | |
| today's day and age. | 00:10:00 | |
| And I am grateful to say that I'm at Iowa State now. | 00:10:05 | |
| With all the skills and abilities that 4H taught me along the way. | 00:10:08 | |
| And I have already been using them for applying for internships and meeting new friends and talking to professors. | 00:10:12 | |
| And it ultimately has led me to become a better person and I really look forward to continuing my journey in a future career and I | 00:10:20 | |
| think that 4H has done a fantastic job preparing me for that today. | 00:10:26 | |
| Thank you. | 00:10:33 | |
| Ryan. | 00:10:46 | |
| Whereas Ryan Clark has achieved the highest award in 4H youth development. | 00:10:47 | |
| That being the Wisconsin Key Award. | 00:10:51 | |
| And whereas the 4H youth development program promotes the ideals of character conduct. | 00:10:53 | |
| Patriotism and service encouraging members to become productive and contributing citizens. | 00:10:59 | |
| And whereas Ryan Clark, a 4H member, represents our country's greatest research. | 00:11:05 | |
| Resource. | 00:11:11 | |
| That being our youth. | 00:11:11 | |
| And WHEREAS Ryan Clark continues the legacy of 4H youth development in the United States. | 00:11:13 | |
| And serves as a role model for young 4H members. | 00:11:18 | |
| And whereas Ryan Clark serves as an inspiration to all of us. | 00:11:22 | |
| Demonstrating that hard work and perseverance can make dreams come true. | 00:11:26 | |
| Now therefore be it resolved. | 00:11:30 | |
| That the Wisconsin 4H Key Award recipient. | 00:11:32 | |
| Ryan Clark be commended for his achievement. | 00:11:35 | |
| Of 4H youth development. | 00:11:38 | |
| Highest. | 00:11:39 | |
| Congratulations. | 00:11:42 | |
| I have a. | 00:11:53 | |
| A second item. | 00:11:54 | |
| That I have. | 00:11:56 | |
| To share with the with them. | 00:11:57 | |
| Each one of them. | 00:12:00 | |
| Is getting this from the United States House of Representatives from. | 00:12:02 | |
| Scott Fitzgerald's office. | 00:12:09 | |
| So it's a pretty cool thing. It's a pretty cool plaque to hang up when they get home. | 00:12:12 | |
| But he also sent a letter that I want to share. | 00:12:16 | |
| On behalf of the 5th Congregational District, I wanted to. | 00:12:20 | |
| Take a moment to extend my sincerest congratulations for being. | 00:12:23 | |
| Selected as a 4H key award recipient. | 00:12:27 | |
| This honor reflects your outstanding leadership. | 00:12:29 | |
| Dedication to service and commitment to personal growth. Qualities that not only strengthen your 4H community but also continue | 00:12:32 | |
| positively in our entire region. Earning the Key Award is no small achievement. It recognizes exceptional achievement across | 00:12:38 | |
| multiple years of learning, leading, and giving back. | 00:12:45 | |
| Your willingness to take on new challenges. | 00:12:51 | |
| Support your peers and invest in your community. | 00:12:54 | |
| Demonstrates maturity. | 00:12:57 | |
| And character well beyond your years. | 00:12:59 | |
| These are the very qualities that build strong communities and shape future leaders. | 00:13:02 | |
| As an elected official, I am proud to see young people like you stepping up, setting high standards and making meaningful impact. | 00:13:07 | |
| Your achievements are a testament to your hard work, and I'm confident that you will continue to excel in the years ahead. | 00:13:16 | |
| Please accept my sincerest congratulations once again and wish you the continued success in all of your future endeavors. | 00:13:21 | |
| I look forward to seeing your positive contributions you will undoubtedly make. | 00:13:28 | |
| Now we'll move on to Max. | 00:13:36 | |
| Hello everyone, as she said, my name is Max Lidkey. I am from the Lipstick 4H club in Beaver Dam and that's kind of where I | 00:13:41 | |
| started my 4H journey. I joined when I was in first grade and to be honest I kind of joined because my parents were in it and my | 00:13:46 | |
| sisters were both in it. | 00:13:51 | |
| 4H had set me up for success moving forward in life. | 00:14:26 | |
| And I look back to some of the other activities that I did. | 00:14:29 | |
| It taught me simple life skills such as taking care of house plants, how to keep a plant alive. | 00:14:33 | |
| And I'm helping my dad out in the garden and getting to show some of those vegetables. That was always a proud moment. As I've | 00:14:38 | |
| gotten older, I've really. | 00:14:42 | |
| Really taking advantage of the food preservation project here. I've learned how to can and dehydrate different fruit and really | 00:14:46 | |
| take. | 00:14:50 | |
| What my dad is growing in the garden, I stopped helping out a lot in that because I don't really like that. | 00:14:54 | |
| But. | 00:14:59 | |
| I help out with what he's doing, turning it into something that we can use year round, and through that I've been able to donate | 00:14:59 | |
| some of those items to different auctions to raise money for different charities. | 00:15:04 | |
| So that was really helpful. And I also think back to some of my experiences like going on the trips as Ryan had mentioned. | 00:15:09 | |
| I had the privilege to go to Huntsville, AL and. | 00:15:16 | |
| A trip called space camp where I learned about space and it was at a Space Center and we stayed in space themed dorms. | 00:15:20 | |
| And that was another opportunity that really got me out of my comfort zone as well. I was in 4th grade and I kind of hopped on a | 00:15:27 | |
| bus with no one that I knew and I had to meet all new people and I spent a week down in Huntsville, AL. | 00:15:33 | |
| History and get to learn more about that. | 00:16:09 | |
| And some of the friends that I made on that trip I still talked to today, and I know a lot of them are also doing great things. | 00:16:11 | |
| I think the greatest still that 4H has given me is just like the still to communicate and be a mentor for other people. | 00:16:18 | |
| As I look back to kindergarten for first grade Max when. | 00:16:24 | |
| The high schoolers in the 4H club, they were the leaders, they were the president standing up in front of the room. | 00:16:28 | |
| I wanted to be them and so they were mentors and I've really appreciated being able to give that back to the nightclub and | 00:16:33 | |
| community. When I served on the county 4H board as a youth representative, getting to kind of advocate for the youth side of | 00:16:38 | |
| things, and then also teaching at Family Learning Day different skills such as parliamentary procedures. So my sister and I, we | 00:16:43 | |
| taught a workshop on that. | 00:16:49 | |
| And because that's a skill that you'll use in life, whether you're serving in a position like that, a county board, or even just | 00:16:54 | |
| any meetings, a skill of parliamentary procedure is something really good to know. And I've also been able to, this past year, I | 00:16:59 | |
| had the privilege of teaching 4H officer training for the president and vice presidents. We talked a little bit about how to | 00:17:04 | |
| effectively lead our club, but then also honed in on Parli Pro there too, so that they really knew how to lead their meetings most | 00:17:09 | |
| effectively and efficiently. | 00:17:15 | |
| But I really just got to thank 4H for putting me in the position where I am today. | 00:17:20 | |
| Connecting me with so many career professionals and setting me up with skills to be successful in my future. So thank you all for | 00:17:24 | |
| being here and. | 00:17:27 | |
| Yeah. | 00:17:31 | |
| So there's two things that I want Max to share because I kind of put him on this. | 00:17:36 | |
| Spot a little bit this year 1. | 00:17:41 | |
| We have a. | 00:17:44 | |
| A lady that called me up randomly 10 years ago in 4H and said. | 00:17:46 | |
| I grew up in Dodge County 4H. | 00:17:51 | |
| I don't have any family members. | 00:17:53 | |
| I want to know how I can put 4H in my will. | 00:17:55 | |
| And then she and then she called me back a few days later and said I'm at my lawyer's office. | 00:17:59 | |
| And when I want to put you in the will. | 00:18:04 | |
| But. | 00:18:06 | |
| I'd like to start giving money now. | 00:18:06 | |
| And so she's been giving. | 00:18:08 | |
| Scholarships for the last 10 years. | 00:18:10 | |
| And I put Max a little bit on the spot this year because he was. | 00:18:13 | |
| One of those scholarship recipients. | 00:18:17 | |
| And we went. | 00:18:20 | |
| To Oshkosh. | 00:18:21 | |
| And met with a. | 00:18:22 | |
| 92 was she 92 ish 92 year old lady and talked about 4H so I wanted to put him on the spot about that and I also wanted him to | 00:18:24 | |
| share what came from. | 00:18:29 | |
| A senator before our meeting tonight. | 00:18:35 | |
| All right, yeah, So touching on the thing, the scholarship recipient, that was a super cool interaction in 4H. It was a nice lady. | 00:18:40 | |
| She was just cared so much about what 4H did for her and her family and what she had kind of seen. | 00:18:46 | |
| And so she was super impacted by seeing young people come into her house. And it was truly, she said it was the highlight of her | 00:18:53 | |
| year, just getting to talk with us, seeing what we're doing. And she was so happy to give the money. So it was just super cool to | 00:18:59 | |
| see the people who are supporting the future, supporting the youth. | 00:19:04 | |
| And being fulfilling to see the impact that we're having, but also thank her for the impact that she's having on us. | 00:19:10 | |
| And the other thing that Marie alluded to was this past weekend, I was gone. | 00:19:17 | |
| With some endeavor where? | 00:19:22 | |
| I was drawn for the weekend, but I came home and my parents, they're like, Max, you got a package. I was like a package and it | 00:19:25 | |
| came from John Jagler. And I was like, why is John Jager sending me a package? | 00:19:31 | |
| But I opened it up and inside of it, it was a Wisconsin State flag. | 00:19:37 | |
| And this Wisconsin State flag, it had a little bit of a, it had a certificate with it and it said this is to certify that the | 00:19:41 | |
| Wisconsin State flag was flown in honor of you at the Catwood at the Wisconsin Capitol on Wednesday, December 10th for being a 4H | 00:19:47 | |
| Key award recipient. So that was really cool to see the like the Wisconsin government recognizing how important 4H is to | 00:19:53 | |
| development and see us being recognized at the state for that too. | 00:20:00 | |
| Obviously this is very similar to the to the other Max salute key. | 00:20:18 | |
| Whereas Max Luke Key has achieved the highest award in 4H youth development, that being the Wisconsin Key Award. | 00:20:22 | |
| And whereas the 4H Youth Development program promotes the ideals of character, conduct, patriotism and service. | 00:20:28 | |
| Encouraging members to become productive and contributing citizens. | 00:20:36 | |
| And whereas Max Lutki, a 4H member, represents our country's greatest resource. | 00:20:40 | |
| That being our youth. | 00:20:45 | |
| And whereas Max Lutki continues a legacy of 4H youth development in the United States. | 00:20:46 | |
| And serves as a role model for young 4H members. | 00:20:52 | |
| And whereas Max Luke Key serves as an inspiration to all of us. | 00:20:55 | |
| Demonstrating that hard work and perseverance can make dreams come true. | 00:20:59 | |
| So now therefore be. | 00:21:03 | |
| Be it resolved. | 00:21:05 | |
| At Wisconsin, 4H Key Award recipient Max Lukey be commended for his achievement. | 00:21:07 | |
| Of 4H youth developments highest award. | 00:21:12 | |
| Congratulations. Thank you. | 00:21:16 | |
| So let's let's take them both around and take a picture. | 00:21:23 | |
| Here. | 00:21:26 | |
| OK. | 00:21:28 | |
| Thank you. | 00:21:47 | |
| This is why we're here. | 00:22:02 | |
| All right. The next special order of business is to confirm the reappointment. | 00:22:31 | |
| By the County Administrator of Harvey Lewis to the Veterans Service Commission for a three-year term to expire December 1st of | 00:22:36 | |
| 2028. | 00:22:40 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Hedrick and a second by Supervisor Miller. | 00:22:46 | |
| Any comments or questions? | 00:22:51 | |
| Let's do this is that. | 00:22:56 | |
| Wasteful or not? | 00:22:57 | |
| Yeah. | 00:22:58 | |
| All in favor signify by aye. | 00:23:00 | |
| Aye, opposed that is carried. | 00:23:03 | |
| Thank you. | 00:23:04 | |
| Resolutions on file. | 00:23:08 | |
| Resolution 2548. | 00:23:10 | |
| Commendation of John Bohannic. | 00:23:13 | |
| Whereas John Bohannon. | 00:23:17 | |
| Bohonic has contributed 30 T. | 00:23:19 | |
| Two years of dedicated service to Dodge County and the citizens of Dodge County. | 00:23:21 | |
| And whereas Dodge County and its citizens have been. | 00:23:26 | |
| Benefited from the services he has provided. | 00:23:28 | |
| And whereas John Bohannock has chosen to retire from his present position. | 00:23:31 | |
| Of county conservationists in the Dodge County land. | 00:23:36 | |
| Land and water. | 00:23:40 | |
| Conservation Department. | 00:23:41 | |
| Now they're. | 00:23:43 | |
| For be it resolved that we. | 00:23:44 | |
| The Dodge County Board of Supervisors pause in its deliberations to recognize and commend John Bohannon for 32 years of | 00:23:46 | |
| meritorious service. | 00:23:51 | |
| And be it further resolved, that on behalf of the citizens of Dodge County, this board does herewith extend. | 00:23:55 | |
| To his appreciation. | 00:24:01 | |
| For his many accomplishments and successes over the 32 years of service. | 00:24:03 | |
| And be it finally resolved that a copy of this resolution be entered into the official records of the Dodge County Board of | 00:24:08 | |
| Supervisors. | 00:24:11 | |
| And that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to John Bohannock as. | 00:24:15 | |
| Token of appreciation on part of this board. | 00:24:19 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December 2025, signed by five members of the Human Resources Committee. | 00:24:22 | |
| Please stand for a rising vote of acceptance. | 00:24:31 | |
| Thank you. | 00:24:41 | |
| Resolution 2549. | 00:24:44 | |
| Commendation of Arthur Elsner. | 00:24:47 | |
| WHEREAS, Arthur Elsner has contributed 24 years of dedicated service to Dodge County and the citizens of Dodge County. | 00:24:50 | |
| And whereas Dodge County and its citizens have benefited from the services he has provided. | 00:24:58 | |
| And whereas Arthur Elsner. | 00:25:03 | |
| Has chosen to retire from his current position of Correctional Sergeant with the Dodge County Sheriff's Office. | 00:25:05 | |
| And now, therefore, be it resolved that we, the Dodge County Board of Supervisors, pause in its deliberations to recognize and | 00:25:12 | |
| commend Arthur Elsner for his 24 years of meritorious service. | 00:25:17 | |
| And be it further resolved, that on behalf of the citizens of Dodge County, this board does herewith extend to his appreciation | 00:25:23 | |
| for as many accomplishments and successes. | 00:25:28 | |
| Over the 24 years of service. | 00:25:32 | |
| And be it finally resolved, that a copy of this resolution be entered into the official records of the Dodge County Board of | 00:25:34 | |
| Supervisors, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Arthur Elsner as a token of appreciation on part of this board. | 00:25:41 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December, signed by four members of. | 00:25:47 | |
| The Human Resources Committee. | 00:25:53 | |
| Please rise for a standing vote of acceptance. | 00:25:55 | |
| Resolution. | 00:26:09 | |
| 2550. | 00:26:10 | |
| Resolution altering the boundaries of Dodge County Supervisory districts #12 and 15 due to an annexation from Town of Theresa to | 00:26:13 | |
| the Village of Theresa. | 00:26:18 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December, 2025. | 00:26:24 | |
| Signed by six members of the Executive Committee. | 00:26:29 | |
| And there is no fiscal note. | 00:26:34 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Guckenberger and a second by Supervisor Beale. | 00:26:37 | |
| Any questions on this? | 00:26:42 | |
| Resolution. | 00:26:44 | |
| Any questions? | 00:26:45 | |
| If not. | 00:26:48 | |
| If you agree with the. | 00:26:49 | |
| Recommendation. | 00:26:51 | |
| Please vote yes if you do not. | 00:26:52 | |
| Vote no. | 00:26:54 | |
| You too, Todd. | 00:27:10 | |
| When we get back to. | 00:28:17 | |
| Everybody able to vote. | 00:28:19 | |
| I did skip an item on the agenda, so we will be having the presentation by Venture Architects. | 00:28:21 | |
| After this. | 00:28:27 | |
| Supervisor Ringle. | 00:29:18 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 00:29:21 | |
| Well, having passes by, having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 00:29:25 | |
| And now we'll go back and have the presentation by Venture Architects. | 00:29:30 | |
| OK. | 00:29:43 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chair, so as as Brad is heading up to the front. | 00:29:45 | |
| Members of the board, I want to present to you Brett Kozny. | 00:29:49 | |
| From Venture Architects, who will be sharing with you information tonight, this is. | 00:29:53 | |
| Of course, not a final presentation, but an opportunity to get some feedback from the county board as the process. | 00:29:58 | |
| The endeavors for. | 00:30:06 | |
| Fulfilling our our project goals and finalizing a. | 00:30:08 | |
| Facilities Master Plan. | 00:30:12 | |
| Continue moving forward. This is an opportunity for an interactive discussion. And so with that, I'll be quiet because Brad can. | 00:30:13 | |
| Do the rest, but we're very pleased to have him with us tonight, he presented to the building committee. | 00:30:20 | |
| A few nights ago or about a week ago? | 00:30:25 | |
| And he's been working closely with our physical facilities director, John Nels. | 00:30:27 | |
| On this process. | 00:30:31 | |
| Thank you. | 00:30:34 | |
| My name is Brad Kwasny with Venture Architects. | 00:30:35 | |
| I and. | 00:30:39 | |
| We had hoped. | 00:30:40 | |
| To be giving you a final presentation. | 00:30:41 | |
| A month ago. | 00:30:44 | |
| But. | 00:30:47 | |
| The complexity of options that we've come up with throughout this. | 00:30:48 | |
| Process uh. | 00:30:52 | |
| Has kind of delayed things and there's just there's a lot that I'm going to go through tonight. | 00:30:53 | |
| Again, this is not a final report, this is an update. | 00:30:59 | |
| Unfortunately I didn't say brief update. | 00:31:03 | |
| So I hope you're caffeinated. | 00:31:05 | |
| Because this will have some some loops in it. | 00:31:08 | |
| Also. | 00:31:11 | |
| Feel free to stop me and and ask questions along the way because there's a lot of different moving parts and if. | 00:31:12 | |
| If something that I say isn't quite. | 00:31:18 | |
| Clear. We're going to keep building on what I'm starting with and if something is unclear upfront. | 00:31:20 | |
| You'll only get more confused as as it goes on, so please. | 00:31:27 | |
| Interrupt me anytime along the way. | 00:31:30 | |
| So. | 00:31:33 | |
| To date, we have toured all of the buildings. | 00:31:36 | |
| Multiple times. | 00:31:39 | |
| We've had the engineers through and assess the. | 00:31:40 | |
| The mechanical systems. | 00:31:43 | |
| We have interviewed department heads. | 00:31:46 | |
| Key personnel. | 00:31:49 | |
| And. | 00:31:51 | |
| We have. | 00:31:52 | |
| Come to a few conclusions on our own that will be in the final report. So these are these are. | 00:31:54 | |
| Critical. | 00:32:00 | |
| To the. | 00:32:01 | |
| Where we're going with. | 00:32:02 | |
| The options that I'm going to present. | 00:32:04 | |
| First of all. | 00:32:07 | |
| The Henry Dodge building. | 00:32:08 | |
| It is structurally sound. It is a very solid building. | 00:32:10 | |
| Everything inside of it. | 00:32:14 | |
| Is terrible. | 00:32:16 | |
| All your mechanical systems. | 00:32:17 | |
| The plumbing, it's, it's it's all in need of replacement. | 00:32:20 | |
| The building is it's beyond its life expectancy. | 00:32:25 | |
| It it. | 00:32:31 | |
| Our our suggestion would be to vacate the building. | 00:32:32 | |
| And tear it down and have that. | 00:32:38 | |
| Property for your own use. | 00:32:40 | |
| Later. | 00:32:43 | |
| For for other projects. | 00:32:43 | |
| The administration building. | 00:32:47 | |
| Generally. | 00:32:51 | |
| All the departments in in this building. | 00:32:53 | |
| Have been moved. | 00:32:56 | |
| Several times. | 00:32:57 | |
| They're all in spaces that they're just making do. | 00:32:59 | |
| Some of the spaces are too. | 00:33:04 | |
| Many of the spaces are too big. | 00:33:05 | |
| For the departments. | 00:33:08 | |
| A few are probably too small. | 00:33:09 | |
| Especially when you take into account storage needs. | 00:33:12 | |
| Many departments are. | 00:33:15 | |
| Located on one floor and they have storage on. | 00:33:17 | |
| Two or three other floors. | 00:33:21 | |
| So it's very disjointed. | 00:33:24 | |
| But the building is in good shape and we believe. | 00:33:26 | |
| Renovations are all that's needed, and we can. | 00:33:29 | |
| Correct. What's going on here? Make everything much more efficient. | 00:33:31 | |
| The department. | 00:33:38 | |
| With the. | 00:33:39 | |
| Biggest need? | 00:33:40 | |
| The single department that has. | 00:33:41 | |
| Got just enormous needs. | 00:33:43 | |
| Some medical examiner. | 00:33:47 | |
| Currently. | 00:33:49 | |
| The medical examiner is housed on. | 00:33:50 | |
| Two different sides. | 00:33:52 | |
| Of a hallway. | 00:33:54 | |
| With facilities. | 00:33:55 | |
| In another building. | 00:33:57 | |
| And its facilities. | 00:33:59 | |
| In the Henry Dodge building. | 00:34:02 | |
| At best, could be described as a bismil. | 00:34:04 | |
| They're really just kind of. | 00:34:07 | |
| Thrown behind pallets of salt. | 00:34:10 | |
| It's it's a terrible conditions. | 00:34:13 | |
| The men's group home. | 00:34:18 | |
| Is. | 00:34:20 | |
| Which is located over by Henry Dodge. | 00:34:21 | |
| Is not ADA compliant. | 00:34:24 | |
| And there's very little you could do to that building. | 00:34:26 | |
| To bring it up to ADA compliance. | 00:34:30 | |
| It's got it's got a lot of damage inside, not from misuse. | 00:34:34 | |
| But just wheelchair damage. | 00:34:39 | |
| From just trying to maneuver through spaces. | 00:34:41 | |
| That. | 00:34:43 | |
| Are just too tight for a wheelchair. | 00:34:44 | |
| So we would. | 00:34:46 | |
| Recommend replacing that. | 00:34:47 | |
| That's the men's group home. | 00:34:55 | |
| It's sort of. | 00:34:57 | |
| Roughly underneath the water tower. | 00:34:58 | |
| That's not the one that hit. | 00:35:01 | |
| Tornado, right? Not the one with the tornado damage. | 00:35:03 | |
| An additional additionally, we. | 00:35:10 | |
| Were requested to investigate the idea of a county owned. | 00:35:13 | |
| Daycare, which was part of a previous long range. | 00:35:17 | |
| Plan that was done. | 00:35:20 | |
| The Sheriff's Department and jail. | 00:35:22 | |
| Are not as efficient as they could be. | 00:35:29 | |
| Because they are located. | 00:35:33 | |
| A block apart. | 00:35:35 | |
| It's not terrible. | 00:35:36 | |
| But they would be much more efficient. | 00:35:38 | |
| If they were joined together. | 00:35:40 | |
| The evidence storage building, which was. | 00:35:44 | |
| Damaged by the tornado. | 00:35:47 | |
| Probably. | 00:35:51 | |
| Could be. | 00:35:52 | |
| Relocated to a. | 00:35:53 | |
| Better spot. | 00:35:54 | |
| More useful. | 00:35:56 | |
| And open up that. | 00:35:57 | |
| Area where it sits right now for the highway departments use. | 00:35:58 | |
| The sheriff also could use. | 00:36:05 | |
| Vehicle storage. | 00:36:07 | |
| In one location. | 00:36:09 | |
| Right now it's it's got a little here and a little there and. | 00:36:11 | |
| And it's in some of its in the old jail building which. | 00:36:14 | |
| It's kind of a rough building. | 00:36:18 | |
| As well. | 00:36:19 | |
| That the old jail building. | 00:36:23 | |
| May be able to be renovated. | 00:36:27 | |
| But more than likely the. | 00:36:30 | |
| The best thing you could do at that location? | 00:36:32 | |
| Would be demolish. | 00:36:35 | |
| And and you could put something new there. | 00:36:37 | |
| It's just. | 00:36:39 | |
| It would take. | 00:36:41 | |
| The the cost of renovating that building. | 00:36:42 | |
| Because of the. | 00:36:45 | |
| Construction of the building. | 00:36:46 | |
| Might be greater. | 00:36:48 | |
| Than building a new building. | 00:36:49 | |
| So. | 00:36:52 | |
| With those. | 00:36:53 | |
| Conclusions. | 00:36:55 | |
| In mind. | 00:36:56 | |
| We have. | 00:36:58 | |
| Series of renovations and moves. | 00:36:59 | |
| And new construction. | 00:37:02 | |
| That we are investigating right now. | 00:37:05 | |
| To make. | 00:37:08 | |
| The entire county campus. | 00:37:09 | |
| More efficient. | 00:37:11 | |
| And more cost effective. | 00:37:13 | |
| Over the next several decades. | 00:37:16 | |
| It's important to note that. | 00:37:18 | |
| The county has in the past. | 00:37:20 | |
| Looked at several different options to resolve 1 issue here. | 00:37:23 | |
| And one issue there. | 00:37:27 | |
| And another issue here. | 00:37:29 | |
| And this we are looking at. | 00:37:31 | |
| The whole campus. | 00:37:33 | |
| So there's there's no part of the county on campus that we're not looking at. | 00:37:35 | |
| So. | 00:37:40 | |
| While some of these. | 00:37:41 | |
| Ideas you had discussed in the past. | 00:37:43 | |
| Were valid to resolve. | 00:37:46 | |
| A given issue. | 00:37:49 | |
| We're trying to look much more holistically. | 00:37:50 | |
| To make everything better. | 00:37:52 | |
| So. | 00:37:56 | |
| Let's start with. | 00:37:58 | |
| Henry Dodge. | 00:37:59 | |
| Since we believe that it's. | 00:38:01 | |
| It's at or beyond its useful life. | 00:38:03 | |
| Our recommendation is to. | 00:38:08 | |
| Vacate that building. | 00:38:10 | |
| As I said before. | 00:38:12 | |
| And demolish. | 00:38:13 | |
| And. | 00:38:15 | |
| What we would. | 00:38:16 | |
| Recommend doing so. There's there's. | 00:38:19 | |
| Two options. | 00:38:21 | |
| For. | 00:38:23 | |
| What we can do? | 00:38:24 | |
| With. | 00:38:25 | |
| Who is currently in Henry Dodge? | 00:38:26 | |
| Option one. | 00:38:29 | |
| Would be to. | 00:38:30 | |
| Build a new building. | 00:38:32 | |
| On the same site you could build. | 00:38:34 | |
| West of the Henry Dodge building. | 00:38:35 | |
| To house. | 00:38:38 | |
| Everything that's in there right now. | 00:38:39 | |
| Just put a brand new building. When the building is done, just move everyone over. | 00:38:42 | |
| At that time, we would. | 00:38:47 | |
| Take the. | 00:38:48 | |
| CBRF. | 00:38:50 | |
| And we could move that. | 00:38:52 | |
| Into Clearview. | 00:38:54 | |
| That makes a lot of sense to to make that move no matter what. | 00:38:55 | |
| Currently I believe. | 00:38:59 | |
| You have. | 00:39:01 | |
| 20 rooms in the CBRF and there are. | 00:39:02 | |
| 16 available rooms. | 00:39:06 | |
| In a vacant wing. | 00:39:08 | |
| Of Clearview, so we might have to put a small addition on to. | 00:39:10 | |
| To house. | 00:39:14 | |
| Everyone that's currently. | 00:39:15 | |
| There. | 00:39:17 | |
| But. | 00:39:18 | |
| That would be option one, new building. | 00:39:20 | |
| And then vacate. | 00:39:23 | |
| And and tear down. | 00:39:25 | |
| In addition to that as part of. | 00:39:27 | |
| We'll call it option 1A. | 00:39:30 | |
| It would be a renovation. | 00:39:33 | |
| Of this building. | 00:39:35 | |
| And. | 00:39:37 | |
| To accommodate. | 00:39:38 | |
| All the renovations. | 00:39:42 | |
| There is a room. | 00:39:44 | |
| A decent sized room. | 00:39:47 | |
| In the basement level. | 00:39:48 | |
| And. | 00:39:50 | |
| The first step would be to take that room. | 00:39:51 | |
| And build it out as a transitional office area. | 00:39:53 | |
| So any departments for you take. | 00:39:57 | |
| A department and you'd move them down there temporarily. | 00:40:00 | |
| And you'd renovate their space. | 00:40:03 | |
| And. | 00:40:06 | |
| And you, you know, move somebody into the renovated space. | 00:40:07 | |
| And, you know, just keep moving pieces. Someone goes into the temporary space. | 00:40:11 | |
| Space gets renovated. | 00:40:16 | |
| And somebody moves into the new space and you just it's a moving pieces. | 00:40:18 | |
| It will work. | 00:40:22 | |
| It can be done. | 00:40:23 | |
| It will be complex. | 00:40:24 | |
| It will be dusty. | 00:40:26 | |
| It will be dirty and it will take a couple years. | 00:40:27 | |
| It may not be the. | 00:40:31 | |
| Best way to go about it? | 00:40:34 | |
| But it's entirely doable. | 00:40:35 | |
| But it'll your staff will get. | 00:40:37 | |
| Tired of working in noise and dust? | 00:40:39 | |
| And then during that period of time. | 00:40:45 | |
| The you know, like I said, the building will remain occupied. | 00:40:49 | |
| Parking will become limited. | 00:40:55 | |
| Rather quickly. | 00:40:57 | |
| Because. | 00:40:58 | |
| There will be construction equipment. | 00:40:59 | |
| And construction materials that will just need place to be staged so you will lose parking. | 00:41:01 | |
| Probably for a couple years while the all the renovations happen. | 00:41:07 | |
| Now. | 00:41:11 | |
| Option 2. | 00:41:12 | |
| Instead of. | 00:41:14 | |
| Building a new. | 00:41:16 | |
| Building. | 00:41:18 | |
| Next to Henry Dodge. | 00:41:19 | |
| Vacating that. | 00:41:22 | |
| Renovating here. | 00:41:24 | |
| The option would be to. | 00:41:25 | |
| You could buy. | 00:41:27 | |
| A. An existing building. | 00:41:30 | |
| In the area. | 00:41:32 | |
| That's properly sized. | 00:41:35 | |
| Renovate that building. | 00:41:37 | |
| Move all the departments from here. | 00:41:39 | |
| Into the new space. | 00:41:42 | |
| Renovate this space. | 00:41:44 | |
| Move everyone from Henry Dodge. | 00:41:46 | |
| Into here. | 00:41:48 | |
| And then? | 00:41:50 | |
| Demo Henry Dodge. | 00:41:51 | |
| Everyone thoroughly confused by that? | 00:41:55 | |
| Are we good? | 00:41:57 | |
| OK, so. | 00:41:58 | |
| There would be a few. | 00:42:00 | |
| Departments. | 00:42:02 | |
| That, uh. | 00:42:03 | |
| Would not move. | 00:42:04 | |
| From here. | 00:42:06 | |
| Into this other space. | 00:42:07 | |
| I would recommend. | 00:42:10 | |
| That. | 00:42:11 | |
| Yep, moving maintenance doesn't make any sense. | 00:42:13 | |
| Keep them where they're at by the loading dock by receiving. Just keep that all the same. | 00:42:17 | |
| The Boardroom. | 00:42:23 | |
| There doesn't really seem to be a reason why. | 00:42:24 | |
| This room would have to. | 00:42:26 | |
| Move. | 00:42:28 | |
| It's It's set up well and seems to work for your needs. | 00:42:30 | |
| Corporation Counsel. | 00:42:36 | |
| It might make sense. | 00:42:39 | |
| To move them into. | 00:42:41 | |
| Current vacant space. | 00:42:43 | |
| In the Justice Building. | 00:42:46 | |
| There's a couple of. | 00:42:48 | |
| Spaces that were set aside. | 00:42:50 | |
| For courtrooms. | 00:42:52 | |
| I believe there's. | 00:42:54 | |
| 2 Space for room for two more courtrooms. | 00:42:54 | |
| If we used one of those. | 00:42:57 | |
| We could move corporate counsel over there. | 00:42:59 | |
| And that renovation could happen. | 00:43:01 | |
| As soon as I started renovating. | 00:43:03 | |
| This other building. | 00:43:06 | |
| The medical examiner. | 00:43:13 | |
| Again. | 00:43:17 | |
| They have. | 00:43:18 | |
| Terrible conditions. | 00:43:19 | |
| And they should be moved. | 00:43:22 | |
| And if you decide. | 00:43:24 | |
| To. | 00:43:26 | |
| Tear down the. | 00:43:27 | |
| It's the old portions of the jail. | 00:43:29 | |
| That would be a very good location to put a new medical examiner. | 00:43:32 | |
| We could still investigate renovating. | 00:43:37 | |
| That space. But like I said. | 00:43:40 | |
| That might be the type of building that will cost more to renovate than to. | 00:43:43 | |
| Demolish and and build new. | 00:43:47 | |
| Lastly. | 00:43:52 | |
| We've been doing a lot of. | 00:43:55 | |
| Moving spaces around. | 00:43:56 | |
| Just looking at departments square footage wise. | 00:43:59 | |
| And see what would fit where. | 00:44:01 | |
| And I. | 00:44:03 | |
| Veterans Services. | 00:44:05 | |
| Is one that because of adjacencies with. | 00:44:07 | |
| Other departments that it works closely with. | 00:44:11 | |
| Several of which would be. | 00:44:14 | |
| At the Henry Dodge Building. | 00:44:16 | |
| They would all be moving here. | 00:44:18 | |
| Under this plan. | 00:44:20 | |
| Would make sense. | 00:44:21 | |
| To. | 00:44:22 | |
| Keep. | 00:44:23 | |
| The veteran services in this building. | 00:44:24 | |
| They would probably want to be relocated temporarily. | 00:44:26 | |
| While all the renovation is going on. | 00:44:30 | |
| But they would. | 00:44:32 | |
| I in this plan they would come back here. | 00:44:33 | |
| When it's all said and done. | 00:44:36 | |
| Now. | 00:44:45 | |
| We we've talked about the medical examiner needing. | 00:44:47 | |
| New facility. | 00:44:50 | |
| We talked about the possibility. | 00:44:54 | |
| Of making that at. | 00:44:56 | |
| The old jail sites. | 00:44:58 | |
| There's also the possibility you could build a new building. | 00:45:01 | |
| Out at the Henry Dodge site, there's plenty of land there. | 00:45:05 | |
| Where you could put. | 00:45:07 | |
| A medical examiner out there. | 00:45:09 | |
| And you would still have that old. | 00:45:11 | |
| Part of the jail. | 00:45:13 | |
| Which is. | 00:45:14 | |
| Very underutilized right now. | 00:45:15 | |
| Sheriff uses it for a lot of training. | 00:45:18 | |
| And they have some storage space in there. | 00:45:20 | |
| And that's. | 00:45:23 | |
| About all that happens in there. | 00:45:25 | |
| So I'm trying to I'm trying to keep this in a coherent train of thoughts. I just got to find my spot in my notes. | 00:45:34 | |
| So the. | 00:45:45 | |
| The. | 00:45:46 | |
| Group home that we. | 00:45:47 | |
| Discussed. | 00:45:48 | |
| The one that's under the the water tower, basically. | 00:45:50 | |
| So that could be. | 00:45:54 | |
| There is room where it could be built somewhere on the Henry Dodge site. | 00:45:57 | |
| There's a lot of land there because you have that whole field. | 00:46:02 | |
| To the north. | 00:46:04 | |
| It could also. | 00:46:06 | |
| Be built. | 00:46:08 | |
| Kind of be squeezed in, but it could go. | 00:46:09 | |
| Near Clearview. | 00:46:11 | |
| Or if you wanted to kill two birds with one stone and. | 00:46:13 | |
| Get rid of. | 00:46:18 | |
| Sort of an eyesore of a property right now there's that. | 00:46:20 | |
| I don't know, was it a motel with all the tornado damage that's still just sitting there with their? | 00:46:23 | |
| Roof gone. You could purchase that property and. | 00:46:28 | |
| Put the group home there and have plenty more land. | 00:46:31 | |
| To meet other future needs. | 00:46:33 | |
| Then there was the request for the. | 00:46:41 | |
| County owned daycare center. | 00:46:45 | |
| There's a lot that goes into a daycare center. We know that there's the room out at the Henry Dodge site. | 00:46:47 | |
| For that. | 00:46:53 | |
| It it's there. | 00:46:54 | |
| Day cares. | 00:46:55 | |
| The size of a daycare is really driven by what age groups. | 00:46:57 | |
| You're dealing with. | 00:47:01 | |
| And and how many kids? There's a lot of different requirements. | 00:47:03 | |
| As you move through the age groups, so it's a little. | 00:47:06 | |
| We have to dive a little deeper into that to. | 00:47:09 | |
| To really get a good feel. | 00:47:12 | |
| For what that would be. | 00:47:14 | |
| I and I should. | 00:47:15 | |
| Back up and mention the. | 00:47:18 | |
| Evidence storage building. | 00:47:22 | |
| That was damaged by the tornado. | 00:47:23 | |
| That I thought. | 00:47:25 | |
| Could move. | 00:47:25 | |
| That. | 00:47:27 | |
| There's also room. | 00:47:28 | |
| East of the water tower by the Henry Dodge site where you could put that. | 00:47:31 | |
| And the sheriff's vehicle storage and keep those all. | 00:47:35 | |
| Together as one, since those would both. | 00:47:38 | |
| Essentially be. | 00:47:41 | |
| Sheriff's property. | 00:47:42 | |
| The last. | 00:47:48 | |
| Piece of the puzzle? | 00:47:50 | |
| Would be creating greater efficiency. | 00:47:53 | |
| For the sheriff and the jail. | 00:47:56 | |
| By moving the Sheriff's Office. | 00:47:58 | |
| To the jail property. | 00:48:00 | |
| That's a a trickier move. | 00:48:03 | |
| Because there's there's just not a lot of space where. | 00:48:07 | |
| Would be easy to add on. | 00:48:10 | |
| To put them there. | 00:48:12 | |
| It would probably need to be a multi story building. | 00:48:13 | |
| Which? | 00:48:16 | |
| Isn't. | 00:48:16 | |
| As efficient as a single story. | 00:48:17 | |
| But. | 00:48:20 | |
| Because of storm water. | 00:48:21 | |
| Retention pond that you have there. | 00:48:24 | |
| And residential. | 00:48:26 | |
| Neighborhood. | 00:48:28 | |
| That might be the only way. | 00:48:30 | |
| To go to. | 00:48:32 | |
| To streamline. | 00:48:33 | |
| That process. | 00:48:34 | |
| So with all those different. | 00:48:39 | |
| Moving pieces and parts and options. | 00:48:41 | |
| Our next step? | 00:48:46 | |
| Is going to be. | 00:48:47 | |
| To put prices. | 00:48:49 | |
| To each and every individual element. | 00:48:50 | |
| So you can look at it and say OK. | 00:48:54 | |
| We can do this piece. | 00:48:57 | |
| And then we'll do this piece in X number of years. | 00:48:59 | |
| And you can. | 00:49:02 | |
| Make a reasonable, informed decisions. | 00:49:03 | |
| For years to come. | 00:49:06 | |
| So that you don't. | 00:49:07 | |
| Trying to do everything in one shot. | 00:49:09 | |
| And you can try and keep it. | 00:49:12 | |
| Minimally affecting. | 00:49:15 | |
| Your taxes. | 00:49:17 | |
| So you've all been very quiet so far. | 00:49:21 | |
| So I'm guessing there may be a question or two. | 00:49:23 | |
| Yes. | 00:49:26 | |
| Shop the Mayville Highway building in front of that. | 00:49:30 | |
| We have visited all of the highway department buildings. | 00:49:34 | |
| The the highway department. | 00:49:40 | |
| Generally, they are very happy with their facilities. | 00:49:44 | |
| And their one need that, they said, was the most pressing. | 00:49:47 | |
| Is already in the budget for next year. | 00:49:51 | |
| I'm at this face in. | 00:49:54 | |
| The office space. There is office space there. | 00:50:00 | |
| And it's. | 00:50:04 | |
| It's in pretty good shape. | 00:50:05 | |
| The problem is. | 00:50:08 | |
| You have everything right here. | 00:50:10 | |
| So to locate something out there, make some completely remote. | 00:50:13 | |
| Away from everything else. | 00:50:18 | |
| So. | 00:50:19 | |
| What you would put there? | 00:50:21 | |
| That would make sense. | 00:50:23 | |
| And would make. | 00:50:25 | |
| The county campus efficient. | 00:50:26 | |
| Is. | 00:50:29 | |
| It's a tough. | 00:50:30 | |
| Figure umm. | 00:50:32 | |
| Medical examiner works. | 00:50:35 | |
| Relatively closely with the sheriff. | 00:50:37 | |
| Could it go there? Sure. | 00:50:41 | |
| But. | 00:50:44 | |
| It's not an optimal location. | 00:50:45 | |
| But yeah, it is. It is a nice space. | 00:50:49 | |
| It's got a nice conference room. It's got. | 00:50:52 | |
| Open offices it's got. | 00:50:54 | |
| Closed offices. It's pretty nice, but. | 00:50:56 | |
| I don't know what you do with it. | 00:50:59 | |
| Just because of location. | 00:51:01 | |
| Supervisor Belt. | 00:51:05 | |
| All right. Thank you. | 00:51:07 | |
| Mr. Chairman. | 00:51:08 | |
| And the question I had is, I didn't hear anything about. | 00:51:09 | |
| Parking any We need parking for a bunch of our. | 00:51:13 | |
| Vehicles. | 00:51:16 | |
| Have you done any research on any of the parking spaces? | 00:51:17 | |
| Yeah, so. | 00:51:21 | |
| The the biggest need for parking is the sheriff. | 00:51:22 | |
| And. | 00:51:27 | |
| And we've looked at. | 00:51:28 | |
| Obviously. | 00:51:34 | |
| The sheriff's vehicles that are currently housed in the. | 00:51:35 | |
| In the old jail. | 00:51:38 | |
| There's space for that but but. | 00:51:39 | |
| The vehicles that are on. | 00:51:40 | |
| In the. | 00:51:42 | |
| Like the courthouse parking lot? | 00:51:43 | |
| We would have to. | 00:51:45 | |
| Give some sort of. | 00:51:46 | |
| Structure. | 00:51:48 | |
| For for at least some of them. | 00:51:50 | |
| But again, that would be. | 00:51:54 | |
| Do we want to locate that? | 00:51:56 | |
| Where the sheriff is now, or where the sheriff might be. | 00:51:58 | |
| So it's all still under investigation. But yes, we have, we have looked at that because we've. | 00:52:04 | |
| We've been to the site many, many times. | 00:52:09 | |
| And we always tend to just take a quick count to see how many. | 00:52:12 | |
| Sheriff's vehicles are in the parking lot. | 00:52:15 | |
| Supervisor Frye Vault. | 00:52:21 | |
| Why are we talking about a county owned daycare? | 00:52:24 | |
| I'm just curious. It was. It was in a. | 00:52:27 | |
| Past long range plan. | 00:52:30 | |
| I I couldn't even tell you how many years ago he was just brought up to me and, and we said we would investigate it. | 00:52:33 | |
| Did you want to respond? | 00:52:40 | |
| Only to say that. | 00:52:44 | |
| That that is something that isn't because it's also right now. | 00:52:45 | |
| Something that has been. | 00:52:50 | |
| Identified as a need countrywide that we have. | 00:52:51 | |
| Very few childcare facilities. | 00:52:55 | |
| We also asked to. | 00:52:58 | |
| Just look and see how feasible. | 00:52:59 | |
| It could be to have something in Dodge County. | 00:53:02 | |
| So that's why that's brought up now, whether or not you would choose to do anything with it. | 00:53:06 | |
| It's entirely up for discussion. | 00:53:11 | |
| Supervisor bands answer. | 00:53:15 | |
| Yeah, to me, the most glaring thing is the fact. | 00:53:19 | |
| Of getting. | 00:53:23 | |
| People out of Henry Dodge. | 00:53:25 | |
| Because of the you don't want to pay anymore for repairs on there. | 00:53:27 | |
| The only thing that really seems to. | 00:53:31 | |
| I don't know if makes sense to me, but I think the smartest thing. | 00:53:34 | |
| For me to do would be to. | 00:53:37 | |
| Umm, do the renovations in the building that I think I know where you're talking about. | 00:53:40 | |
| Is that building? | 00:53:46 | |
| Big enough? | 00:53:48 | |
| To move the people from admin over to it. | 00:53:49 | |
| Yeah, we've we've looked at. | 00:53:54 | |
| The square footage. | 00:53:56 | |
| And just. | 00:53:58 | |
| As. | 00:53:59 | |
| And the projected square footage. | 00:54:00 | |
| For any growth that might be of the departments that would be moving there? | 00:54:02 | |
| And we would. | 00:54:06 | |
| Be able to fill that building. | 00:54:09 | |
| Keeping each department. | 00:54:11 | |
| On single floor, so none would be on this floor. | 00:54:13 | |
| And this one. | 00:54:16 | |
| And there would be some. | 00:54:17 | |
| Room available for growth? | 00:54:19 | |
| How long would that process take to renovate that? | 00:54:21 | |
| You know. | 00:54:28 | |
| Typically a renovation project like that. | 00:54:29 | |
| You know, we'd have to get in and really survey the the building to see what it looks like. | 00:54:32 | |
| But the construction itself. | 00:54:36 | |
| Is going to be. | 00:54:39 | |
| Eight months to a year. | 00:54:40 | |
| That's probably a year ahead of. | 00:54:42 | |
| The pace of getting a new building built out. | 00:54:45 | |
| On Henry Dodge site or? | 00:54:48 | |
| It would probably be. | 00:54:51 | |
| Six months faster for sure. | 00:54:53 | |
| I mean, it all depends on how. | 00:54:57 | |
| If if you're building a new building. | 00:54:59 | |
| What tends to happen is. | 00:55:02 | |
| During the process, people will say, well, you know, as long as we've got the space, we do that. | 00:55:05 | |
| What if we did this too? | 00:55:09 | |
| And what have we? | 00:55:11 | |
| As we're. | 00:55:11 | |
| Proposing it right now with just the functions for what's in Dodge. | 00:55:12 | |
| It would probably be. | 00:55:16 | |
| You know, a 1618 month process. | 00:55:19 | |
| For construction. | 00:55:22 | |
| Like I said, I think that makes the most sense to me is if we do that new building and renovate it. | 00:55:23 | |
| And move admin over there. | 00:55:29 | |
| Get people moving out of the Henry Dodge building. That could be a. | 00:55:33 | |
| Big expense magnet. | 00:55:38 | |
| And then we have options to do. | 00:55:40 | |
| A lot of things after that. | 00:55:43 | |
| Yeah, yeah, once, once you can tear down Henry Dodge. It gives you a very large piece of land. | 00:55:46 | |
| For any sort of future projects. | 00:55:52 | |
| Well, it's not even that, I mean. | 00:55:54 | |
| Just the fact of getting the people out of there. I mean, you can build next to it. | 00:55:57 | |
| Eventually or whatever you wanted to do. | 00:56:01 | |
| All right. Thanks. | 00:56:04 | |
| Supervisor Beal. | 00:56:06 | |
| I think the question when it was asked about parking though, isn't necessarily. | 00:56:08 | |
| Pertaining to. | 00:56:13 | |
| County owned vehicles. | 00:56:14 | |
| It was more. | 00:56:16 | |
| Geared towards employee parking. | 00:56:17 | |
| Like the parking lot here for the admin building is at Max every single day. | 00:56:20 | |
| Sometimes you got to circle it 2-3 times to find a spot. | 00:56:26 | |
| So that that's. | 00:56:30 | |
| Has parking address. | 00:56:32 | |
| For any. | 00:56:35 | |
| Additional moves down to the downtown area. | 00:56:38 | |
| We have we have not done a study. | 00:56:42 | |
| To see. | 00:56:45 | |
| How parking would be impacted? | 00:56:46 | |
| At this time. | 00:56:50 | |
| We can, we can look at that. | 00:56:53 | |
| But right now with multiple options. | 00:56:56 | |
| And and trying to figure out exactly the the easiest way to go about the all the different moving pieces. | 00:57:00 | |
| We haven't looked at. | 00:57:06 | |
| At the parking, to tell you the truth. | 00:57:08 | |
| But. | 00:57:09 | |
| It wouldn't be that hard to look at. | 00:57:11 | |
| How many employees are at? | 00:57:13 | |
| Henry Dodge. | 00:57:15 | |
| Versus how many employees are here? | 00:57:16 | |
| To see how that. | 00:57:20 | |
| Lays out. | 00:57:21 | |
| Because in my opinion, that's an important part of any. | 00:57:23 | |
| Building project. | 00:57:27 | |
| Every time you take a property off. | 00:57:29 | |
| The tax roll that has an impact on. | 00:57:31 | |
| City. | 00:57:34 | |
| Revenues for taxes being collected so. | 00:57:35 | |
| We don't want to think that we can just buy up five properties and tear them down and throw blacktop down. | 00:57:39 | |
| You know, maybe a parking ram. | 00:57:46 | |
| Would be. | 00:57:49 | |
| Something that would be more feasible than. | 00:57:51 | |
| Parking ramps get tricky. | 00:57:55 | |
| Especially when it comes to. | 00:57:58 | |
| Plowing snow from them. | 00:57:59 | |
| And ice in the winter. | 00:58:02 | |
| They're they're actually. | 00:58:05 | |
| A little more expensive. | 00:58:07 | |
| Than you would think, but yes we could. | 00:58:09 | |
| We could do a parking structure, we could investigate that. | 00:58:11 | |
| But it would. | 00:58:15 | |
| We would have to. | 00:58:16 | |
| It would it would make more sense to to really look at that as part of a design. | 00:58:19 | |
| Process as opposed to a master plan process. | 00:58:24 | |
| Supervisor Burbos. | 00:58:30 | |
| Thank you. | 00:58:32 | |
| I'm questioning the daycare also at the county level because of the YMCA in Beaver Dam right now is doing a huge. | 00:58:33 | |
| Expansion of their childcare and like a. | 00:58:41 | |
| Pickleball general basketball league to increase the. | 00:58:45 | |
| A shortage of quality childcare services in Dodge County and they've. | 00:58:51 | |
| Fundraise 3 and a half million with a one and a half million matching grant from Beaver Dam Community Hospital. | 00:58:54 | |
| So I'm a little concerned that we might be. | 00:59:00 | |
| Overlapping with an effort that's already underway. | 00:59:02 | |
| And. | 00:59:05 | |
| And then in direct competition. | 00:59:06 | |
| With with the Y for both childcare providers, employees and children. | 00:59:08 | |
| I don't know what the scope is, but that's kind of what. | 00:59:14 | |
| What came to mind? | 00:59:16 | |
| As a concern. | 00:59:18 | |
| Yeah. And and as I said, it was just something that was part of a previous. | 00:59:20 | |
| Long range plan. So we're just investigating. | 00:59:24 | |
| Nothing that we're. | 00:59:26 | |
| Presenting here tonight. | 00:59:28 | |
| Is set in stone. | 00:59:29 | |
| You have the final say. | 00:59:31 | |
| Supervisor Henry. | 00:59:36 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you so much for the presentation and all of these interesting things to contemplate. | 00:59:38 | |
| All of the time and effort you put into this I. | 00:59:44 | |
| To continue the conversation about parking. | 00:59:46 | |
| Maybe I'm curious, you were talking about parking at the Sheriff's Department? | 00:59:50 | |
| Did that also include contemplations for? | 00:59:54 | |
| Housing the emergency response vehicles or or getting them. | 00:59:58 | |
| Under roof. | 01:00:02 | |
| Somewhere. | 01:00:03 | |
| We would be. | 01:00:04 | |
| Trying to find space for all of the vehicles that are just sitting out, yeah. | 01:00:05 | |
| Thank you. | 01:00:10 | |
| Supervisor Dirt. | 01:00:12 | |
| I also want to thank. | 01:00:14 | |
| Thank you so much and obviously to the administrator for like looking at a big plan. | 01:00:17 | |
| This is the first time. | 01:00:23 | |
| I've been on a while that we've ever actually looked at. | 01:00:26 | |
| A general plan. | 01:00:29 | |
| County wide. | 01:00:31 | |
| For. | 01:00:33 | |
| You know. | 01:00:35 | |
| Redoing upgrading infrastructure. | 01:00:36 | |
| And when you look at it county wide. | 01:00:38 | |
| You constantly talked about efficiencies. | 01:00:41 | |
| And often. | 01:00:44 | |
| When? | 01:00:46 | |
| We don't see a change in the budget. | 01:00:47 | |
| We act as though it didn't cost anything. | 01:00:49 | |
| And so when you've got all your departments on the same floor and you've got departments that. | 01:00:52 | |
| Like make sense to work together, you you save the equivalent of just. | 01:00:57 | |
| Thousands and thousands of dollars. | 01:01:02 | |
| Over decades. | 01:01:05 | |
| Because of it being more efficient. | 01:01:07 | |
| And a higher level of service. | 01:01:09 | |
| And so that's what we've been missing because we're like, oh, we got to, we got to do the. | 01:01:12 | |
| Judicial justice facility, what I do this roof and then we got to do that roof and we got to fix that plumbing. | 01:01:16 | |
| And we always keep repairing and repairing. | 01:01:23 | |
| And until finally somebody says, Oh my God, you're. | 01:01:26 | |
| Spending more to repair and even then we don't. | 01:01:30 | |
| You know, pull the plug and. | 01:01:33 | |
| Say to redo it so it's. | 01:01:35 | |
| I know it's great. I'm just happy to see this process moving forward. I really, I, I really, really am glad and I think it's. | 01:01:38 | |
| Going to have a lasting impact. | 01:01:47 | |
| This board could have a lasting impact on. | 01:01:49 | |
| Tremendously better service for decades. | 01:01:51 | |
| Supervisor Steger. | 01:01:56 | |
| Thank you. Mr. Chairman. I just want to ask, which building are you talking about that you're going to renovate and move the | 01:01:58 | |
| offices from here? | 01:02:02 | |
| Until you said you always had a. | 01:02:06 | |
| You and Randy were talking about a building. | 01:02:08 | |
| That you were going to renovate? Which building are we talking about? | 01:02:10 | |
| To from to move from here. | 01:02:13 | |
| I'm sorry. | 01:02:16 | |
| OK, Yeah. | 01:02:21 | |
| OK, OK. | 01:02:22 | |
| So, Supervisor Steger that that building is not, it's not a property we want to disclose in a public meeting. | 01:02:24 | |
| Because we anticipate. | 01:02:29 | |
| A negotiation, it's not something that we own currently. | 01:02:32 | |
| Supervisor. | 01:02:37 | |
| Thank you again. I'd like to echo what supervisor door Dora said the the. | 01:02:39 | |
| Concept of a county campus and really thinking about this as the efficiencies of a county campus is, is wonderful. Thank you for | 01:02:44 | |
| bringing that to us. And and the the opportunity to look at this is a long, long term road map. | 01:02:51 | |
| And thinking of of distributing the the cost, the tax implications long term. | 01:02:59 | |
| Through this concept is is wonderful. Thank you. | 01:03:05 | |
| Anyone else? | 01:03:12 | |
| See anyone else? There will be. | 01:03:16 | |
| The board will have entry, you know. | 01:03:19 | |
| Can get ahold of Venture through John or through Cameron. | 01:03:22 | |
| And give your ideas. | 01:03:27 | |
| Very much appreciate that. | 01:03:29 | |
| Thank you. | 01:03:31 | |
| OK, back to resolutions on file. | 01:03:40 | |
| Resolution 2551. | 01:03:43 | |
| 2025 Dodge County District Attorney's Office budget amendment. | 01:03:48 | |
| Increase revenue from District Attorney trust. | 01:03:52 | |
| All of which just respectfully submitted the 16th day of December, signed by three members of the Judicial and Public Protection | 01:03:57 | |
| Committee. | 01:04:01 | |
| Fiscal note. | 01:04:07 | |
| The 2025 budget for the District Attorney Trust will increase by $20,000 in revenues. | 01:04:08 | |
| And expenses. | 01:04:15 | |
| And the District Attorney's office will increase by 5000 in revenues and expenses. | 01:04:17 | |
| Finance Committee Review date December 8th, 2025 initialed by Finance Committee Chair. | 01:04:22 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Guckenberger, second by Supervisor Beal. | 01:04:29 | |
| Questions or comments on this? | 01:04:33 | |
| Resolution. | 01:04:35 | |
| Any questions or comments? | 01:04:40 | |
| If you agree with the. | 01:04:44 | |
| Recommendation. | 01:04:46 | |
| From the JPP. | 01:04:47 | |
| Committee. | 01:04:50 | |
| Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:04:51 | |
| Supervisor Ringle. | 01:04:59 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:05:03 | |
| All having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:05:06 | |
| Resolution 2552. | 01:05:12 | |
| Authorization to apply for public safety interoperability communication grant. | 01:05:15 | |
| Dodge County Sheriff's Office. | 01:05:21 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted. | 01:05:24 | |
| The 16th day of December, signed by three members of the Justice and Public Protection Committee. | 01:05:26 | |
| Fiscal note. | 01:05:33 | |
| No fiscal impact at this time as this is an application for a grant and does not bind the county. | 01:05:34 | |
| For expenditure. | 01:05:41 | |
| This will be a budgeted expense in 2027 for the sheriff. | 01:05:42 | |
| And Emergency Management if the grant is approved. | 01:05:46 | |
| Finance Committee Review date December 8th, 2025 initialed by Finance Committee Chair. | 01:05:50 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Beal, seconded by Supervisor Gutenberger. | 01:05:56 | |
| Any questions or comments on this? | 01:06:01 | |
| Any questions? | 01:06:05 | |
| Supervisor Belk. | 01:06:09 | |
| So in 2027, how much are we talking about, if we? | 01:06:11 | |
| Were awarded this grant for. | 01:06:14 | |
| Extra expenses. | 01:06:16 | |
| I don't know that we know that number yet. I'm looking. | 01:06:20 | |
| Across my shoulder for Joe. Just one second. | 01:06:23 | |
| It's a 20% match. | 01:06:27 | |
| Thank you. | 01:06:32 | |
| 10,000 each department Joseph. | 01:06:34 | |
| So 20%. | 01:06:36 | |
| Of two different grants of 50,000. | 01:06:38 | |
| Any other questions? | 01:06:44 | |
| If you agree with the authorization to apply for the grant, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:06:47 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:06:59 | |
| Supervisor Ringle. | 01:07:02 | |
| All having voted, that passes 27 to 1. | 01:07:06 | |
| Resolution 2553. | 01:07:14 | |
| Authorization to apply for public safety interoperability communication grant. | 01:07:17 | |
| Dodge County Emergency Management. | 01:07:23 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December. | 01:07:27 | |
| Signed by three members of the Dodge County Justice and Public Protection Committee. | 01:07:32 | |
| Fiscal No, no fiscal impact at this time as this is an application for a grant and does not bind the county for expenditure. | 01:07:37 | |
| This will be a budgeted expense in 2027 for the Sheriff and Emergency Management if the grant is approved. Finance Committee | 01:07:45 | |
| review date December 8, 2025, initialed by Finance Committee chair. | 01:07:50 | |
| I have a motion by supervisor Cavazanjan and second by Supervisor Guckenberger. | 01:07:56 | |
| Any questions or comments on this resolution? | 01:08:02 | |
| Seeing none if you agree with the. | 01:08:11 | |
| Resolution Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:08:13 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:08:19 | |
| Yes, Supervisor Ringle. | 01:08:21 | |
| All having voted, it passes 26 to 2. | 01:08:26 | |
| Resolution 25. | 01:08:32 | |
| 54. | 01:08:34 | |
| 2025 Dodge County Emergency Management Department budget amendment. | 01:08:36 | |
| Emergency Management hazmat grants. | 01:08:41 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December 2025, signed by three members. | 01:08:46 | |
| Of the. | 01:08:52 | |
| Judicial and Public Protection Committee. | 01:08:53 | |
| Fiscal note The Emergency Management 2025 budget will increase. | 01:08:56 | |
| $3300 in revenues and expenses. | 01:09:01 | |
| Finance Committee review date December 8th, 2025. | 01:09:05 | |
| Initialed by Finance Committee chair. | 01:09:10 | |
| Have a motion by Supervisor Burnett, second by Supervisor Gukenberger. | 01:09:12 | |
| Any questions? | 01:09:17 | |
| On this resolution. | 01:09:18 | |
| Any questions? | 01:09:21 | |
| If you agree with the. | 01:09:24 | |
| Resolution. Please vote yes if you do not. | 01:09:26 | |
| Vote no. | 01:09:29 | |
| Supervisor. | 01:09:33 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:09:37 | |
| Yes. | 01:09:39 | |
| All having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:09:40 | |
| Resolution 2555. | 01:09:45 | |
| 2026 labor agreement between Dodge County and Dodge County Highway Association. | 01:09:48 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December, 2025. | 01:09:54 | |
| Signed by five members of the Human Resources Committee. | 01:09:59 | |
| Fiscal Note The 2026 Dodge County budget will have no fiscal impact as it was created based on. | 01:10:03 | |
| The wage rates included in the agreement. | 01:10:10 | |
| Finance Committee Review date December 8th, 2025 Fight. | 01:10:13 | |
| Initialed by Finance Committee chair. | 01:10:18 | |
| I have a motion by supervisor Beal, second by supervisor Stager. | 01:10:20 | |
| Any questions? | 01:10:25 | |
| Or comments. | 01:10:26 | |
| Any questions? | 01:10:29 | |
| If you agree with the recommendation of the committee to ratify the agreement, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:10:33 | |
| Supervisor Ringle. | 01:10:43 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:10:46 | |
| All having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:10:50 | |
| Resolution 2557. | 01:10:55 | |
| Advisory resolution in support. | 01:10:58 | |
| Of legislation to increase Wisconsin. | 01:11:01 | |
| Wisconsin Land Information Program grant funding agreement. Yeah. | 01:11:04 | |
| That's when you stayed 56. I apologize, I skipped 56. | 01:11:09 | |
| There's a problem up here tonight. | 01:11:14 | |
| I want to be just like you. | 01:11:18 | |
| OK authorize side agreement to the 20252027 labor agreement between Dodge County and Dodge County Sheriff's Office, Warn employees | 01:11:23 | |
| Local 120. | 01:11:29 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December 2025, signed by four members of the Human Resources Committee. | 01:11:36 | |
| Fiscal note there is no fiscal effect. | 01:11:44 | |
| Finance Committee Review date December 8th, 2025 initialed by Finance Committee Chair. | 01:11:47 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Beale, second by Supervisor Guckenberger. | 01:11:53 | |
| Any questions? | 01:11:57 | |
| Seeing none, if you agree with the site agreement, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:12:02 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:12:10 | |
| Aye, Supervisor Ringle. | 01:12:12 | |
| All having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:12:16 | |
| OK, now resolution. | 01:12:20 | |
| 2557. | 01:12:22 | |
| Advisory resolution in support of legislation to increase Wisconsin Land Information Program grant funding. | 01:12:25 | |
| 2025 Senate bill. | 01:12:32 | |
| 218 and 2025 Assembly Bill 216. | 01:12:35 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted. | 01:12:39 | |
| The 16th day of December, signed by five members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. | 01:12:43 | |
| And there is no fiscal note. | 01:12:50 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Breslow, a second by Supervisor Gutenberger. | 01:12:52 | |
| Any questions supervisor? | 01:12:57 | |
| Thank. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I would just. | 01:13:01 | |
| Like to strongly urge everybody to support this measure. What's? | 01:13:04 | |
| What it's about is. | 01:13:09 | |
| Getting support at the state level. | 01:13:10 | |
| For some bills that are going to be coming through to them. | 01:13:13 | |
| And it's. | 01:13:17 | |
| About sharing the revenue. | 01:13:19 | |
| Right now, when we're. | 01:13:21 | |
| Doing all the work in the county, we get 20% of it. | 01:13:23 | |
| Whereas if these bills. | 01:13:27 | |
| Get past. | 01:13:29 | |
| We will get a greater amount. | 01:13:30 | |
| Of money. | 01:13:32 | |
| Of the portion of the. | 01:13:34 | |
| Land transactions, recordings and stuff like that. | 01:13:35 | |
| And then there will also be increased grant money available to land information. | 01:13:39 | |
| And land information. I don't know if everybody realizes it or not, but. | 01:13:43 | |
| They do it quite a bit. | 01:13:48 | |
| In the county they all year. | 01:13:50 | |
| Maps and all that stuff, everything that you can find on the website, all your property informations and things like that. | 01:13:51 | |
| Land information has a lot to do with that so. | 01:13:58 | |
| I would ask that you support this. | 01:14:01 | |
| Thanks, Supervisor Sigmund. | 01:14:04 | |
| Yes, think I don't know if it's listed correctly on the screen. | 01:14:07 | |
| This resolution. | 01:14:13 | |
| Oh, it's not. We have the wrong title. | 01:14:15 | |
| Resolution. | 01:14:39 | |
| You can answer if somebody else wants to talk to them. | 01:14:56 | |
| No, just due to increase Wisconsin Land Information Program grant funding. | 01:15:02 | |
| So that will change now. | 01:15:21 | |
| It will get Yep. | 01:15:23 | |
| There we go. | 01:15:25 | |
| OK, Supervisor, do you have any other comment? | 01:15:28 | |
| Thank you. | 01:15:32 | |
| Bringing that up. | 01:15:34 | |
| Any other questions or comments? | 01:15:35 | |
| If you agree with the. | 01:15:39 | |
| Advisory. | 01:15:40 | |
| Resolution. | 01:15:43 | |
| Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:15:44 | |
| Supervisor Ringle. | 01:15:51 | |
| Subhit, did you vote Supervisor? OK? Yep. And Supervisor Miller? | 01:15:59 | |
| Perfect all having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:16:04 | |
| Resolution. | 01:16:09 | |
| 2558. | 01:16:11 | |
| Authorizing 2025. | 01:16:13 | |
| Dodge County Budget Amendment Risk Management Fund. | 01:16:16 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December, 2025. | 01:16:19 | |
| Signed by five members of the Finance Committee. | 01:16:25 | |
| Fiscal note. | 01:16:28 | |
| The 2025 County budget for Risk Management Fund will increase by $200,000 in revenues and expenses. | 01:16:30 | |
| The Risk Management Fund currently has 701. | 01:16:37 | |
| $1829.49 of fund balance. | 01:16:41 | |
| Finance Committee review date December 8, 2025. | 01:16:46 | |
| Initialed by Finance Committee chair. | 01:16:50 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Guckenberger, second by Supervisor Stager. | 01:16:53 | |
| Supervisor Belk. | 01:16:58 | |
| Yeah. Good morning. Or. | 01:17:01 | |
| Good morning. | 01:17:02 | |
| Good morning. | 01:17:04 | |
| Anyways, thank you, Mr. Chairman. | 01:17:06 | |
| Yeah, I need some clarification on this is for the fact that. | 01:17:08 | |
| On the risk management. | 01:17:11 | |
| I see we're going from 100,000. | 01:17:13 | |
| Through 300,000. | 01:17:15 | |
| But I'm kind of confused because typically with. | 01:17:18 | |
| We're dealing with legal issues. | 01:17:20 | |
| Don't we usually pay our insurance company the deductible? | 01:17:23 | |
| And then we go from there. Are we seeing we're going to have a lot more? | 01:17:26 | |
| Legal expenses and a lot more deductibles. That's why we're going to go up. | 01:17:29 | |
| To 300,000. | 01:17:32 | |
| I'm gonna let Kim if she. | 01:17:35 | |
| And hers should be on OK. So through our insurance company it is correct we have a. | 01:17:39 | |
| What's called an Sir? | 01:17:45 | |
| Self insured risk fund. | 01:17:46 | |
| And we are required as a part of the. | 01:17:48 | |
| Insurance that we have through Wimmick. | 01:17:51 | |
| As a member, we're required to have a $300,000. | 01:17:53 | |
| Sir Which? | 01:17:57 | |
| I don't want to call it a deductible, it's a. | 01:17:58 | |
| Self insured retainage fund so the first. | 01:18:01 | |
| 300,000 comes out of that fund. | 01:18:05 | |
| From a budgetary standpoint, I would just defer to the finance Director as to. | 01:18:08 | |
| The transfers between the funds. | 01:18:13 | |
| So. | 01:18:20 | |
| Typically, historically we budgeted about $100,000 and we've spent around $100,000 just this year. | 01:18:21 | |
| We've exceeded that amount and when we. | 01:18:29 | |
| Start to see that we're. | 01:18:32 | |
| Needing to use fund balance, we need to do the. | 01:18:33 | |
| The appropriate budget amendment. And so that's why this item is. | 01:18:36 | |
| Is before you. | 01:18:39 | |
| You want to follow up? Yeah, so. | 01:18:45 | |
| So just so I have this straight my head that. | 01:18:49 | |
| They're basically. | 01:18:52 | |
| Requiring us to have a $300,000 reserve. | 01:18:53 | |
| For future. | 01:18:56 | |
| All right. Thanks. | 01:18:58 | |
| Supervisor Houchin. | 01:19:00 | |
| Thank you SO. | 01:19:01 | |
| Are we spending the seven? | 01:19:03 | |
| 100,000 is that. | 01:19:04 | |
| The What's happening? | 01:19:06 | |
| And that's why we need. | 01:19:08 | |
| That is our. | 01:19:10 | |
| That's our undesignated fund balance. | 01:19:11 | |
| For the. | 01:19:13 | |
| Fund 750. | 01:19:15 | |
| Risk management fund. | 01:19:17 | |
| So that's that's where that number comes from in your materials. | 01:19:19 | |
| We're only what we're doing is drawing. | 01:19:23 | |
| 200. | 01:19:25 | |
| 1000 of that to refill the self insured retention line. | 01:19:25 | |
| I see. So how much is it? | 01:19:29 | |
| This but. | 01:19:32 | |
| Well, but. | 01:19:34 | |
| That amount? The seven. | 01:19:37 | |
| So the 701, I believe, yeah. | 01:19:38 | |
| Right, it'll be down to 501. | 01:19:40 | |
| Be 501, but it'll increase the other to 300. | 01:19:43 | |
| Yeah, yeah. Thank you. | 01:19:46 | |
| Supervisor. | 01:19:51 | |
| Thank you. | 01:19:53 | |
| We were told that committee, though, that this was. | 01:19:56 | |
| For expenditures. | 01:19:59 | |
| Not for the fund balance, the reserve that's needed by our insurance provider. | 01:20:00 | |
| That this was. | 01:20:06 | |
| Litigation on a case that we were defending. | 01:20:09 | |
| So we anticipate spending the. | 01:20:15 | |
| We don't know exactly how much we're going to be spending. | 01:20:17 | |
| Right. | 01:20:21 | |
| Well, I think it's to read. | 01:20:33 | |
| It's refill the. | 01:20:35 | |
| For money that was spent, is that correct? | 01:20:37 | |
| I believe so, I'll. | 01:20:40 | |
| So planets. | 01:20:42 | |
| So basically right now that that line item, the account that we're talking about, legal services has a budget of $100,000, we've | 01:20:43 | |
| exceeded that amount. So their actual expenditures that we need to cover. | 01:20:49 | |
| Were putting it at the $300,000 threshold. | 01:20:56 | |
| We do not anticipate or I'm hopeful that we're not going to see that. | 01:21:01 | |
| US hit that. | 01:21:06 | |
| Full $300,000, but so that we don't have to come back for another budget amendment which would. | 01:21:07 | |
| Be impossible anyways. | 01:21:12 | |
| By the end of the year. | 01:21:14 | |
| We're setting it at the $300,000 level. We don't anticipate that we're going to spend that much. | 01:21:16 | |
| But we have. | 01:21:22 | |
| Exceeded the the budgeted amount of the $100,000. | 01:21:25 | |
| OK. Any other questions? | 01:21:36 | |
| Any other questions? | 01:21:39 | |
| If you agree with the. | 01:21:41 | |
| Resolution. | 01:21:43 | |
| Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:21:44 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:21:53 | |
| Yes, Supervisor Ringle. | 01:21:55 | |
| All having voted, it passes 25 to 3. | 01:22:00 | |
| Resolution 2558. | 01:22:06 | |
| 2025 Dodge County Human Services and Health Department amend budget amendment. | 01:22:10 | |
| Public health local grant from Marshfield Clinic. | 01:22:16 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted the 16th day of December, 2025. | 01:22:20 | |
| Signed by. | 01:22:27 | |
| Nine members of the Human Services and Health Board. | 01:22:29 | |
| Fiscal Note of 2025 Human Services and Health Budget will increase by $4100 in revenues and expenses. | 01:22:33 | |
| Finance Committee review date December 8th, 2025. | 01:22:40 | |
| Find initial by Finance Committee chair. | 01:22:44 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Hedrick and a second by Supervisor Burnett. | 01:22:48 | |
| Any questions on this resolution? | 01:22:52 | |
| Any questions? | 01:22:58 | |
| If you agree with the resolution to accept the grant, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:23:02 | |
| Supervisor Ringo. | 01:23:15 | |
| Yes. | 01:23:17 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:23:18 | |
| Yes. | 01:23:20 | |
| All having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:23:22 | |
| Resolution 2560. | 01:23:25 | |
| Authorizing capital. | 01:23:29 | |
| Fund Balance Fund 400. | 01:23:31 | |
| And 2025 Dodge County budget amendment for the highway department, County Trunk Highway A. | 01:23:33 | |
| All of which is respectfully submitted. | 01:23:41 | |
| On the 16th day of December, signed by five members of the Highway Committee and five members of the Finance Committee. | 01:23:44 | |
| Note this project is budgeted in 2026. | 01:23:53 | |
| However, to prepare for the 2026 construction project, work needed to be completed in 2025. | 01:23:56 | |
| Therefore, our request is to use fund balance of $300,000 in 2025, but will be offset with the 2026 budget. | 01:24:03 | |
| The 2025 Dodge County budget for the Capital Project Fund in the Highway Fund will increase by 300,000 in revenues and expenses. | 01:24:13 | |
| The Capital Projects Fund currently has. | 01:24:21 | |
| 3 million. | 01:24:27 | |
| 51. | 01:24:29 | |
| $1163.32 of fund balance. | 01:24:31 | |
| And $800,000 of FAM. | 01:24:35 | |
| Fund balance. | 01:24:38 | |
| Budgeted. | 01:24:40 | |
| Finance Committee Review date December 8th, 2025 initialed by Finance Committee Chair. | 01:24:41 | |
| I have a motion by Supervisor Kevin Sanjan and a second by Supervisor Stager. | 01:24:47 | |
| Supervisor bubbles. | 01:24:54 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chair. | 01:24:56 | |
| I would just like to say that I am in favor of this because. | 01:24:57 | |
| It does make sense. | 01:25:01 | |
| To do it prior as long as the installation and the betting process is done correctly. | 01:25:03 | |
| But I am. | 01:25:12 | |
| Leery that later on next year. | 01:25:15 | |
| They're going to be coming and saying. | 01:25:20 | |
| We're $300,000 short. | 01:25:23 | |
| Because we've already. | 01:25:28 | |
| Use this money. | 01:25:30 | |
| So as long as that does not happen, I do think this is a wise choice. | 01:25:32 | |
| Thank you. | 01:25:38 | |
| Supervisor Houchin. | 01:25:39 | |
| Thank you, I agree that I'm a little worried about what will happen down the road. | 01:25:41 | |
| I didn't mean to say down row, but I did say down the road. | 01:25:45 | |
| The other thing I wondered about this? | 01:25:49 | |
| Do they have money in their enterprise fund that could be used to this, or why are we using the money? | 01:25:52 | |
| This way and not going to an enterprise fund. | 01:25:57 | |
| You're right. | 01:26:01 | |
| Just just to share SO. | 01:26:04 | |
| Could you restate I guess, the last part of that question, Kathy? | 01:26:06 | |
| Why are we not using? | 01:26:09 | |
| The Enterprise Fund. | 01:26:11 | |
| As opposed to. | 01:26:12 | |
| So we we actually are. | 01:26:14 | |
| So the work is being done by our highway department and their whole operation is in Fund 700. | 01:26:16 | |
| So when we as Dodge County budget for capital projects, we put those dollars in Fund 400. | 01:26:22 | |
| And then once there is an expense. | 01:26:28 | |
| In fund 700 by the highway department either. | 01:26:31 | |
| They need to pay their own people. | 01:26:34 | |
| Or they've contracted. | 01:26:35 | |
| Through to a third party, however, it. | 01:26:37 | |
| And to do this capital work. | 01:26:40 | |
| They need to invoice Dodge County. | 01:26:42 | |
| And so that's kind of the that's how the flow goes with things like this. | 01:26:44 | |
| The other thing I would just share is. | 01:26:49 | |
| A couple things. One is that. | 01:26:52 | |
| This is and. | 01:26:54 | |
| Nathan just reminded me we. | 01:26:56 | |
| This is a. | 01:26:58 | |
| A project that is. | 01:27:00 | |
| Has a state grant associated with it. | 01:27:01 | |
| So this is not necessarily dollars that we are. | 01:27:04 | |
| Losing now. | 01:27:07 | |
| Because we're advancing it. | 01:27:09 | |
| That we're going to be dealing with trying to fill a gap. | 01:27:11 | |
| At the end of next year. | 01:27:14 | |
| In addition, the dollars that we allocated for the project. | 01:27:16 | |
| For 2026. | 01:27:19 | |
| Should be the dollars that we're using. So the fact that we're. | 01:27:21 | |
| Putting some of that. | 01:27:25 | |
| Ahead now because we needed to do this preliminary work. | 01:27:26 | |
| Shouldn't. | 01:27:29 | |
| It doesn't. It should not leave us exposed. | 01:27:30 | |
| In 2026. | 01:27:33 | |
| If that makes sense. | 01:27:35 | |
| Any other questions? | 01:27:39 | |
| Any other questions? | 01:27:42 | |
| If you agree with the. | 01:27:45 | |
| Resolution has. | 01:27:46 | |
| Submitted Please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:27:48 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:27:55 | |
| Yes. | 01:27:57 | |
| Supervisor Ringle. | 01:27:58 | |
| All having voted, it passes 28 to 0. | 01:28:02 | |
| Ordinance 1187. | 01:28:11 | |
| Amend land use code Dennis Fleischner property, Town of Leroy. | 01:28:16 | |
| We, the Dodge County Land Resources and Parks Committee, hereby report favorably on the petition of Dennis Fleischner requesting | 01:28:23 | |
| amendment of Land Use Code. | 01:28:27 | |
| Dodge County, Wisconsin to rezone approximately 16.99 acres from. | 01:28:33 | |
| Of land from A1. | 01:28:39 | |
| Prime agriculture to aid to general agricultural. | 01:28:41 | |
| Respectfully submitted the 16th day of December 2025. Signed by five members of the Land, Resources and Parks Committee. | 01:28:46 | |
| I have a motion by supervisor Bubbles and a second by supervisor Bischoff. | 01:28:53 | |
| Supervisor Gruckenberg. | 01:28:59 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | 01:29:01 | |
| I I see the stated purpose is to create 2 non farm residential lots, but it appears as though there's already a single residential | 01:29:04 | |
| home on there. | 01:29:08 | |
| And then? | 01:29:13 | |
| Does somebody know, are they just going to reconfigure the property lines to have two parcels here? | 01:29:15 | |
| Or is there going to actually be? | 01:29:20 | |
| Like. | 01:29:22 | |
| 3 parcels. | 01:29:23 | |
| 2 parcels. | 01:29:31 | |
| Yeah, they're going to align in between. | 01:29:36 | |
| There's a. | 01:29:40 | |
| In the corner. | 01:29:42 | |
| So it could conceivably right rearrange property lines. | 01:29:43 | |
| But. | 01:29:49 | |
| Now I think that one is included as part of the addition. | 01:29:56 | |
| They're they're proposing A2 lot. | 01:29:59 | |
| Two lots creation, so that's smaller piece is part of lot 1. | 01:30:02 | |
| Reconfigure the line. | 01:30:07 | |
| Yeah. | 01:30:08 | |
| That's the way it appears. | 01:30:10 | |
| OK. Any other questions? | 01:30:12 | |
| Any other questions? | 01:30:15 | |
| If you agree with the recommendation of the committee, please vote yes. If you do not, please vote no. | 01:30:17 | |
| Supervisor Ringel. | 01:30:28 | |
| Supervisor Miller. | 01:30:31 | |
| Yes. | 01:30:32 | |
| All having voted, it passes 26 to one with one abstention. | 01:30:35 | |
| What is on her? | 01:30:42 | |
| Yes, tonight on your desk. Do you have a 2024-2025 Wisconsin for Age by the Numbers information sheet? | 01:30:44 | |
| And also an AI training program. | 01:30:53 | |
| Being held by UW Extension flyer. | 01:30:58 | |
| Everyone is invited downstairs for a light holiday lunch. | 01:31:01 | |
| Appreciate your coming down. | 01:31:05 | |
| Supervisor Johnson. | 01:31:08 | |
| Motion to adjourn to the next meeting on Tuesday, January 20th. | 01:31:09 | |
| 2026 at 6:00 PM. | 01:31:13 | |
| I have a second by supervisor Minell. | 01:31:15 | |
| All in favor signify by aye. | 01:31:18 | |
| Aye, opposed. That is carried. Thank you everyone. | 01:31:20 | |
| Yeah. | 01:31:31 |