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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Protection 11-12-04 ST. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING Amended TO: Chair Clarence Malick St. Croix County Board FROM: Julie Speer, Chair COMMITTEE TITLE: Public Protection Committee DATE: November 12, 2004 TIME: 8:30 a.m. LOCATION: St Croix County Government Center Room 1281 ROLL CALL ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING: Regular Meeting December 12 8:30 a.m. ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES October 8 2004 UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 1. Web Browser 2. Traffic Ticket Collections 3. Video Conferencing NEW BUSINESS: 1. Bills and Vouchers* 2. 2005 Budgets* 3. Medical Examiner Cindy Litzel 4. Child Support Administrator, Katy Kapaun 5. District Attorney Eric Johnson, Victim Witness Ann Gustafson 6. *Marzolf- expenses incurred by President's Visit 10:00 a.m. 7. Sheriff Dennis Hillstead, Chief Deputy Ron Volkert, Patrol Captain Bob Klanderman, Jail Captain Karen Humphrey, Office Manager Mary Martell a. Expenditures: Drug Fund/Confiscated Acct/Jail Assessment b. Inmate Debts c. Automatic Pawn Shop System Resolution d. Storage Building 7. Closed Session per Wisconsin State Statute 19.85 (1) (c) considering performance evaluation ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE POSSIBLE AGENDA TIEMS FOR NEXT MEETING: ADJOURNMENT (Agenda not necessarily presented in this order.) SUBMITTED BY: Julie Speer Date: October 20, & Nov. 8 2004 COPIES TO: County Board Office News Media/Notice Board County Clerk Committee Members Respective Dept. Heads *Additions /Changes /Corrections 11/8/2004 PUBLIC PROTECTION COMMITTEE MEETING November 12, 2004 MEMBERS PRESENT: Julie Speer, Denise Gunderson, Lori Bernard, Mark Erickson and Chuck Mehls. STAFF PRESENT: Sheriff Dennis Hillstead, Chief Deputy Ron Volkert, Jail Captain Karen Humphrey, Child Support Administrator Katy Kapaun, District Attorney Eric Johnson, District Attorney's Office Manager Kathy Halverson, County Board Supervisors Richard Marzolf & Charles Struemke and Renee Carufel Meeting called to order at 8:30 a.m. by Chairperson Speer. Motion by Gunderson /Erickson to approve the agenda. Carried. Next meeting will be December 10th at 8:30 a.m. The January meeting is scheduled for January 14 at 8:30 am. Motion to approve the minutes of October 8th by Erickson /Speer. Carried. MEDICAL EXAMINER'S REPORT Speer reported Logan Baker, senior from the UW of River Falls, who plans on pursuing a career in the medical field, will be working with the Medical Examiner's staff to enter old data on the computer as an intern. She will be starting in January 2005. Motion by Gunderson / Mehls to approve the bills of $264.02. Carried. CHILD SUPPORT REPORT Kapaun presented the caseload report. She also explained a new system for processing paternity cases. Budget status report was reviewed. Overall, no item will be over budget by the end of the year. She also reported on the revenues received. The State is proposing capping the funds the County receives from the State for performance standards. St. Croix County may loose about $40,000 over a two year period. Kapaun asked if it would be possible to increase the part -time employee's time by adding one hour per day until the work is completed. This would not be a permanent position. She would like to add technical support duties to the Child Support Assistant position. Training would be necessary. These new duties would fill about 20% of the time. Because of adding new duties to this position, the wage should be increased about $1.30 an hour. Motion by Gunderson / Mehls to upgrade the Child Support Assistant position. Carried. Motion to approve the bills of $3095.50 for Child Support by Erickson /Bernard. Carried. DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S REPORT: Johnson explained receiving the $50,000 grant for the diversion program. This program would permit first time offenders a second chance to redeem their record. It is a rehabilitation program to straighten out their lives. Every expense would be paid from the grant. The position would pay $15.00 per hour without benefits. Hopefully, after a year this program would be self - sustaining. There would be a charge of $150 for each individual to participate. The fee would have to be paid before the person could enter the program. Johnson reported a law school from Madison would like to have students work in the District Attorney's office. Each student would work for a ten -week period for a cost of about $2200 to the County. He will take this money from somewhere else in the budget and feels it would be very beneficial to the department. Johnson explained the Drug Endangered Children program. He will bring more information about this in the future. Motion by Gunderson / Mehls to approve the bills of $5525.28 for the month of October. Carried. VICTIM WITNESS Speer reported the County received a check from the VOCA grant for $10,891.00 from the State for the period from July 1 through September 30, 2004 for expenditures in the Victim Witness program. MARZOLF- EXPENSES OF PRESIDENT'S VISIT: County Board Supervisor Marzolf came before the committee concerning the cost of security incurred by President Bush's visit to campaign in the area. Discussion has held. Motion by Speer /Gunderson not to approve the resolution to bill each election candidate or his /her campaign for overtime and related expenses incurred in providing security for the candidate. Lori Bernard abstained from voting. Speer, Gunderson and Mehls voted yes and Erickson voted no. SHERIFF'S REPORT Hillstead reported overall meth is the biggest problem in the County. Home burglaries have taken a drop in the past year. The Department has recovered so much stolen property storage is becoming a problem. Hillstead said a squad car was reported stolen from two Jailers who were in training Milwaukee but was found the next day. Discussion of stolen property and recovery of these items was held. He also reported the County has had the thirteenth fatality as of last week. Chair Speer questioned Hillstead if he has received anything from Corporation Counsel regarding the pawnshop resolution or Jail policies. Hillstead indicated nothing has been received to date. JAIL ASSESSMENT FUND: Humphrey reported on the need to purchase a new audio system for $27,500 in the Jail. Motion by Mehls /Erickson to approve this cost from the Jail assessment fund. Carried. Discussion of charging other counties for serving subpoenas was held as they began charging us. Mary Martell will contact other counties regarding this billing. WEB BROWSER Martell reported we are looking at different options. There is something coming from the State that we might be able to use. This should be in place by Feb.2005. VIDEO CONFERENCING Hillstead reported there has been no response to date from the court system to use video conferencing. There might be some wiring to do in the Jail in order to use video conferencing. Hillstead has been in contact with Tom Boron regarding this and will bring the cost to the next meeting. Humphrey presented the policy for strip search. She explained how the new policy is being implemented. Hillstead is meeting with inmates who represent each cellblock every month to hear any concerns they have about conditions in the jail. Some changes have been made because of these meetings. BILLS & VOUCHERS Motion by Bernard /Gunderson to approve the Sheriff's bills of $27,812.34. Carried. Motion by Mehls /Speer to approve the Jail bills of $88,989.11. Carried. Discussion of Jail population was held. Hillstead advised that within three years we will have to rent jail space for County inmates. Speer advised Hillstead to place a cost of a new addition /pod to the jail in the capital expense fund for the year 2007. Hillstead is glad to have Humphrey back in her position and said she is doing well. Motion to go into closed session by Mehls /Bernard per Wisconsin State Statute 19.85 (1)(c) considering performance evaluation. All voted yes. Motion by Bernard /Erickson to come out of closed session at 11:57 a.m. Carried. Mehls discussed the traffic ticket collections. There will be a meeting on December 15 at 8:30 a.m. in room 1281 for the Sheriff, District Attorney, Corporation Counsel, Judges, two members of Finance, Public Protection committee and Administrative Coordinator for discussion on how to proceed with the traffic ticket collections. Motion to adjourn by Mehls /Erickson. Lori Bernard, Secretary Renee Carufel, Recording Secretary