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Home My WebLink About03-11-2016 Public Protection & Judiciary Minutes MEETING MINUTES PUBLIC PROTECTION & JUDICIARY COMMITTEE March 11, 2016 8:00 AM County Board Room-Government Center County Board Room - 1101 Carmichael Road, Hudson, Wisconsin CALL TO ORDER Meeting was called to order by Chairman Brinkman at 8:00 AM ROLL CALL Attendee Name Organization Title Status Arrived Andy Brinkman St. Croix County Chair Present Christopher Babbitt St. Croix County Supervisor Present Roger Larson St. Croix County Supervisor Present Scott Nelson St. Croix County Vice Chair Present Carah Koch St. Croix County Supervisor Present Others present: Administrator Patrick Thompson, CJCC Coordinator Mike O'Keefe, Chief Deputy Scott Knudson, Emergency Support Services Director Stephen J. T'Kach, Child Support Director Chad Wolske, Captain Jeff Klatt, Emergency Communications Manager Terry Andersen, Medical Examiner Patty Schachtner, Emergency Management Manager Kristen Sailer, members of the Public and meeting organizer Janet Smith APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Public Protection & Judiciary Committee – Regular Meeting – February 12, 2016 8:00 AM RESULT: ACCEPTED PUBLIC COMMENT No public comments were offered. BUSINESS ITEMS 1. Financial Reports Thompson addressed the January 2016 Financial reports. The 2015 preliminary year end reports should be ready for the next Public Protection & Judiciary committee meeting. RESULT: DISCUSSED 2. Community Justice Collaborating Council (CJCC) Coordinator Mike O'Keefe reported the TAD (Treatment Alternatives and Diversion) grant application will be released May 1st and due in June. The office is working on two tracks; if grant is awarded and if grant is not awarded. The grant amount available has increased but there is an increased number of programs eligible to apply. Last year $74,500 was awarded to St. Croix County. RESULT: DISCUSSED 3. Medical Examiner's Office Medical Examiner Patty Schachtner informed the committee of her participation in the "Mental Health America" conference on April 27 in Stevens Point. St. Croix County HHS and Medical examiner will both be giving presentations/workshops at the conference. AB867 passed on assembly floor 95-0. This bill requires all cremations be certified by medical doctor before the Medical Examiner can issue a permit and the cremation be completed. Currently there is a 48 hour waiting period before cremations can be carried out. This bill will require a medical doctor to sign the death certificate before a cremation can happen. This will have an impact on families who will need to wait until a certified death certificate is signed by a medical doctor. This impacts St. Croix County as only one funeral home has facilities for holding. If this bill passes there will need to be permits for embalming if there is a wait until Dr. Signs off on death certificate. These are things we are will need to discuss and be aware of. We will have to issue embalming permits if this bill passes. There is also a portion of the AB867 bill which allows all Medical Examiners to have rights to patient mental health records. RESULT: DISCUSSED 4. 9-1-1 Infrastructure Phase II Director T'Kach reported on Phase II status. The project remains below budget. Expenditures are approximately 1.2 million contracts out 1.3 million. Microwave contracts are being reviewed and are estimated the costs should around $1.7 million. The Radio portion will then be reviewed and RFP's sent out. Construction continues in Deer Park and Somerset. The New Richmond tower should being construction in two weeks. NEPA requirement for every time you build a tower requires a sign off by 20 Indian tribes. Two of the 28 tribes wanted to make a site visit which will cost around $2,500 each. Discussion on the 2 tribes requiring site visits and possibly other tribes requiring 2,500 a day for site visits. RESULT: DISCUSSED 5. 2016 Pre-Disaster Mitigation grant sub-application Emergency Management Manager Kristen Sailer reported on the All hazard Mitigation Plan. Having this plan in place allows municipalities to apply for mitigation funds. Within the last two years city of River Falls applied and received Grants for a storm shelter and Town of Richmond received weather radios all through this grant. This plan must be updated every 5 years. We are coming up on time to start updating this plan. Costs for updating the plan will be approximately $48,000. The grant is a 75/25 grant Fed is 70/12.5 is state funded/12.5 is county portion can be all in-kind matches from SCC staff and municipality staff who put in time working on this plan. The SCC LEPC acts as the steering committee for this project and Public Protection & Judiciary as oversight committee. Sailer has submitted the commitment letter to both Corporation Counsel and Finance for review and both not seen an issue with the letter. The plan takes approximately two years to update and this plan expires in 2018. Sailer requests for approval and letter of commitment from the Public Protection. A Nelson\Larson Motion to move ahead with the process of applying for the 2016 Pre-Disaster Mitigation grant sub-application. Carried. RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Scott Nelson, Vice Chair SECONDER: Roger Larson, Supervisor AYES: Andy Brinkman, Christopher Babbitt, Roger Larson, Scott Nelson, Carah Koch 6. Resolution approving Law Enforcement services agreement between the St. Croix County Sheriff and the Town of Troy Resolution for Law Enforcement services agreement and Town of Troy has been pulled from the agenda. The Town of Troy wants to further review the contract. RESULT: NO ACTION Next: 4/29/2016 8:00 AM REQUEST FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS There were no future agenda items offered. ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE Moral recognition seminar through District Attorney March 15th. Contact Andy if interested in participating in the webinar. Chair Brinkman announces this is the last Public Protection & Judiciary committee meeting before the elections. Chair Brinkman thanked the reporting departments Department Heads, Coordinators and Leadership. ADJOURN Meeting was adjourned at 8:42 AM. DATE OF NEXT MEETING - TO BE DETERMINED