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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Protection Committee 06-10-05 ST. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING AND AGENDA TO: Clarence Malick, St. Croix County Board FROM: Julie Speer, Chair COMMITTEE TITLE: Public Protection Committee DATE: June 10, 2005 TIME: 8:30 a.m. LOCATION: St Croix County Government Center, Hudson, WI ROLL CALL ADOPTION OF AGENDA ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES: May 13 2005 DATE OF NEXT MEETING: Regular Meeting July 8th, 2005 at 8:30 a.m. UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 1. Web Browser 2. Debt Service /Traffic Tickets 3. Storage Building, 10:30 a.m. NEW BUSINESS: 1. Bills and Vouchers 2. Capital Outlay/Maintenance Items 3. Personnel Request 4. Medical Examiner Cindy Litzel 5. Child Support Administrator, Katy Kapaun 6. District Attorney Eric Johnson, Victim Witness Ann Gustafson a. Drug Task Force 7. Sheriff Dennis Hillstead, Chief Deputy Bob Klanderman, Patrol Captain John Shilts Jail Captain Karen Humphrey, Office Manager Mary Martell a. Expenditures: Drug Fund/Confiscated Acct /Jail Assessment b. Inmate Debts c. Jail Nurse(s) d. Policies e. Resolution adopting State Statute 943.21 (1m) (d) L Resolution adopting an update of the wording in the Co. trespass ordinance g. Town of Troy Law Enforcement Contract ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING: ADJOURNMENT (Agenda not necessarily presented in this order.) SUBMITTED BY: Julie Speer Date: June 1, 2005 COPIES TO: County Board Office News Media/Notice Board County Clerk Committee Members Respective Dept. Heads *Additions /Changes /Corrections 6/2/2005 PUBLIC PROTECTION COMMITTEE MEETING June 10, 2005 MEMBERS PRESENT: Julie Speer, Lori Bernard, Mark Erickson, Denise Gunderson and Chuck Mehls. STAFF PRESENT: Sheriff Dennis Hillstead, Patrol Captain John Shilts, Jail Captain Karen Humphrey, Chief Deputy Bob Klanderman District Attorney Eric Johnson, Victim Witness Coordinator Ann Gustafson, Child Support Administrator Katy Kapaun, Mental Health/AODA Coordinator Ron Kiesler, Mental Health/AODA Clinical Services Supervisor Steve Kirt, Administrative Coordinator Chuck Whiting, Advisor Hank Paulson, Sr Architect from Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc Robert Sworski and Renee Carufel. Meeting called to order at 8:30 a.m. by Chairperson Speer. Motion by Bemard/Erickson to approve the agenda. Carried. Next regular meeting will be July 8th at 8:30 a.m. The meeting in August will be on the 12th. Motion by Mehls /Gunderson to approve the minutes of May 13th. Carried. MEDICAL EXAMINER'S REPORT: Speer informed the committee Eric Christianson has to complete the paperwork with Human Recourses before he can be hired as a deputy for the Medical Examiner's office. The County needs a memo of understandings between the Medical Examiner's office and providers of refrigerated vehicles, business's capacity of freezing ice, managers of municipal ice rinks in the event of a mass causality. Committee questioned the percentage of salary amount on the Medical Examiner's report. A more complete report of expenditures and specifically salaries is going to be required. Committee expected to have a report on data storage today. Consensus is that a follow up report of the first intern as of June 1", 2005 and what was accomplished for the County should be forthcoming. Motion by Mehls/Bernard to approve the bills of $2274.58. Carried. DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S REPORT Law student intern position was discussed. The University of Wisconsin in River Falls has a program that will cover 50% of the cost of an intern to work in the District Attorney's office. The cost to the County would be $2500. Johnson said he would cover this cost from his present budget and would like to budget this for next year. Motion by Bernard/Mehls to approve the LTE request for the law student intern for summer of 2006 as a budget item for $2500. Carried. Motion by Gunderson/Bernard to approve a temporary clerical staff position used when employees are out on medical leave or vacations for up to 400 hours for $6274.40. Carried. Johnson requested the office manager be reclassified from a grade seven to grade eight. Johnson presented reasons for the upgrade, which included increased responsibilities, training and grant writing. Motion by Erickson/Mehls to approve this upgrade. Carried. Johnson presented the need for a new photocopier and more storage space for the capital outlay for 2006. Electronic imaging was discussed. VICTIM WITNESS REPORT Gustafson requested a LTE restitution specialist position. Funding would be $19,718, which would be a pay grade 4. Hours would be 20 hr a week and would be half time. Hourly rate would be $15.82. Would like this position to begin in Jan and be for a whole year. Gustafson explained how restitution works prior to sentencing. Motion by Mehls /Speer to accept the LTE position for restitution specialist for the Victim Witness department. Gustafson explained why we cannot use just interns for this position. DA's bills: Motion by Bemard/Erickson to approve the bills of $1271.13. Carried. Speer presented a letter from the VictimWitness department regarding receiving a VOCA grant for $8717.00 for the period Jan 1 -March 31 2004. This represents reimbursement of 80% of the total cost of the program during that same time period. DRUG TASK FORCE Gunderson reported the panel reviewed the applicants and chose three persons to be on this task force. The panel met with the judges and discussed the possibility of having a drug court. Johnson reported WI Gov. James Doyle was in Hudson June 7 th to sign Senate Bill 78, which requires identification for the purchase of ingredients used in the production of methamphetamine. Doyle came to Hudson to sign the bill because St Croix County is one of the state's hot spots in meth prosecutions. He also thanked a variety of local authorities who have been instrumental in keeping the meth problem before the state Legislature and designing Senate Bill 78. CHILD SUPPORT REPORT: Kapaun reported hiring Chad Wolske as the new child support specialist starting June 27 . She informed the committee she has no capital outlay items at this time and the budget should come in lower than last year because of the staff decrease. Kapaun proposed.that the current Child Support Assistant be reclassified to the position of Child Support Administrative Assistant as a means of office efficiency and cost savings. Motion by Erickson/Bernard to approve the reclassification. Roll call vote- all yes. Motion by Mehls/Bernard to accept the expenses for the month of May of $2320.07. Carried. STORAGE SPACE Hank Paulson and Bob Sworski, representative of Short Elliott Hendrickson, Inc came before the committee to answer questions about the proposed storage building the County is considering. Short Elliott Hendrickson, Inc. built the storage building in Barron Co., which is very comparable to what we need. Mehls presented a floor plan for the new storage building that is being proposed. This plan included cold storage, winter storage, cold/humidified storage and vaulted, heated, humidity controlled storage. Sworski pointed out some code regulations that will have to be followed such as sprinkling systems instead of firewalls and larger space instead of using balcony storage. The Sheriff presented the space needs for his department. Space requirements depend on electronic imaging usage. Consensus is to wait for the surveys from different departments to be returned to see how much storage space will be needed. The approximate cost of the building would be $20 per square foot. METH & ALCOHOL TREATMENT IN JAIL: Ron Kiesler and Steve Kirt were present to discuss Meth and Alcohol treatment in the Jail. Kiesler explained we have educational groups and counselors coming to the Jail on a volunteer basis. These are not really treatment in nature. Kirt informed the committee that treatment cannot be used without invitation and explained the purpose of drug court. Judges have to order inmates to treatments. Psycho education is on a volunteer basis and treatment is mandated. Hillstead requested Kiesler and Kirt give an estimate of the cost of these plans and asked they communicate with Humphrey as to the needs in the Jail. Bills: Motion by Erickson/Bernard to approve the bills for the Jail of $88,608.20. Carried. Motion by Mehls /Speer to approve the bills of $70,900.09 for the Sheriff department for the month of May. Carried. Population for the Huber dorm was 52 for May; average daily population for the Jail was 116. Hillstead recommends that we create five corporal positions each in patrol and jail and allow them to remain in the union. The positions would be consistent with what is commonly referred to as a lead worker position. They would have the authority to make decisions, assignments and to ensure that those assignments are carried out. They would have the authority to review ongoing incidents and insure that the appropriate action is being taken. They would have the authority to relieve an employee from duty for cause, but would not have disciplinary authority. He recommends that they be paid $2.00 an hour more than their current hourly wage. This would increase each patrol corporal (lead workers) yearly wage by $5,585.70, plus approximately $2100 in benefits and overtime for a total increase of $7685.70. For five deputies this would amount to a budget increase of $38,428.50 for patrol and the same for jail wages for a total department budget increase of $77,479.94. One patrol sergeant's wage and benefit costs are approximately $105,000. We could add five patrol lead workers for $66,571.15 less than the cost of one patrol sergeant. The jail would be $49,981.87 less than the cost of one jail sergeant. Hillstead requested to reclassify the office manager position to grade 8, Accountant/Office Manager. With the increase in caseload, personnel and computer software this reclassification is justified. This would be a budget increase of $3,649.15 in 2006. Hillstead asked that the current three - quarter office position be increased to full time. He would like to start this position on or about September 6, 2005. This would be an increase in budget for 2005 of $5,741.17. However because of an unfilled position and upcoming unpaid maternity leave we will have an excess of $21,651.99 in the 2005 office staff wage line item budget. The 2006 budget increase for this position would be $17,932.64 for a total 2006 wage and benefit cost of $48,694.22. Hillstead requested a full time nurse in the jail, and as an employee of the Sheriff's Department, rather than a contract worker. We are additionally negotiating with the Hudson Clinic to consider taking over and/or supervising the jail nurse. He is asking to increase this position by $24,680 in 2006 for a total cost of $76,680. Motion to improve the all wage increases by Gunderson/Mehls for a total of $208,085. Carried. Hillstead reported on the Hudson Hospital reviewing the contract of the nursing position. They will recommend what we should do in the nursing contract for a cost of not to exceed $1000. Motion by Speer/Mehls to approve this expense for the Hudson Hospital review. Carried. TOWN OF TROY LAW ENFORCEMENTCONTRACT: Hillstead reported he gave the contract to Corporation Counsel and has not received it back yet. Troy would like 10 hrs of patrol and 10 hrs of enforcement per month from the County. The Trespass Ordinance has also been sent to Corporation Counsel. JAIL CAPTAIN REPORT Humphrey reported the Bradley shower system in the Jail is failing. The cost is $134,000 to replace this system. This will go into the capital outlay for 2006. PATROL CAPTAIN'S REPORT: Shilts reported the mobile phone contract will expire in July and would like to go wireless for computers in the future. No decision was made at this time. The Department needs to fully equip a squad car with Forfeited asset funds for $3000. Motion by Erickson/Mehis to approve this expense. Carried. Shilts reported last week we had the first fatality of the year, a motorcycle accident. Meeting adjourned 1:15 pm. Lori Bernard, Secretary Renee Carufel, Recording Secretary