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HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-07-2023 Public Protection & Judiciary Minutes MEETING MINUTES PUBLIC PROTECTION & JUDICIARY COMMITTEE September 7, 2023 8:00 AM St. Croix County Government Center -Room 1284 Government Center -1101 Carmichael Road, Hudson, Wisconsin CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL Attendee NameOrganizationTitleStatusArrived Cathy LeafSt. Croix CountySupervisorPresent Paul AdamsSt. Croix CountySupervisorExcused Bob FeidlerSt. Croix CountyChairPresent Mark CarlsonSt. Croix CountySupervisorLate8:27 AM Tim RambergSt. Croix CountySupervisorPresent Others in attendance; County Administrator, Ken Witt, Justice Support Services Director, Phil Galli, Sheriff Scott Knudson, Chief Deputy, Brent Standaert, Medical Examiner Patty Schachtner, Clerk of Court Kristi Severson, Judge Scott Needham, Child Support Administrator Lisa Plunkett, Corporation Counsel, Heather Amos, District Attorney Karl Anderson. meeting organizer, Janet Smith. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1.Public Protection & Judiciary Committee Regular Meeting August 3, 20238:00 AM Leaf/Ramberg to approve minutes RESULT:ACCEPTED PUBLIC COMMENT No Public Comments offered. BUSINESS ITEMS 1. Ordinance Creating Chapter 37 - Uniform Addressing and Road Naming System Moved to the first item on the agenda Supervisor's Ramberg and Leaf motion to send this ordinance back to the full county board. Planning and Land Information Administrator, Brett Budrow reported An email to the towns for comment was sent out and one was returned. Discussion on costs of street signs. All concerns were addressed. Motion passed. RESULT: RECOMMENDED \[UNANIMOUS\] Next: 10/3/2023 5:00 PM MOVER: Tim Ramberg, Supervisor SECONDER: Cathy Leaf, Supervisor AYES: Cathy Leaf, Bob Feidler, Mark Carlson, Tim Ramberg EXCUSED: Paul Adams 2. Financial Report for July 2023 County Administrator reported on the Financials. All budget numbers look good at this time. The Financial report is through July 2023. RESULT: DISCUSSED 3. Consideration of 2024 Requested Budgets for Public Protection & Judiciary Departments County Administrator Witt, reviewed the 2024 budget requests. for each reporting department Overall the requested budgets are 1.7 million over what is allowed. RESULT: DISCUSSED 4. Circuit Court Update Judge Needham appeared to report on current activities in the Circuit Court. RESULT: DISCUSSED 5. Drug Testing Expansion - Justice Support Services Justice Support Services Director, Phil Galli, reported on the attempt to offer testing in New Richmond. At least 50% of active testing participants have New Richmond addresses. RESULT: DISCUSSED 6. Update on staffing in the Sheriff's Office Sheriff Scott Knudson reported recruitment continues in the Sheriff's Office. Two open positions added to the approved 5 new positions. three hires are in recruit school (previously correction deputies) Now 3 openings in corrections with 4 in training with corrections. Some positions are gender specific. Dispatch is three short with two new hires are in training. Backgrounding of potential hires does take extensive time. For the sworn positions even more time, face to face interviews happen. Recruit school is 5 months much is reimbursed by state but the time and effort is great. Today's jail population was 117. Last month average population was 123. Last month had a high population of 150. Discussion. RESULT: DISCUSSED 7. Preparation for relocation of staff during building upgrade Chief Deputy Brent Standaert reported on the Building constructions affecting the Sheriff's Office. The previously discussed mezzanine fencing is scheduled to be delivered in the b eginning of October and installed shortly thereafter. The Office continues to work on current evidence moving to a new system which is scheduled to go live in December. Planning on the first of year move to temporary location for Sheriff staff. Temporary location is smaller than current space.. There will be staff working remotely. Similar to the schedule used during Covid There will be some at the Baldwin Office and the DD site with Patty. The warm storage building could also be utilized during this time. Hopefully, by next July we can move back into the new center. Discussion. RESULT: DISCUSSED 8. Resolution Increasing Fees Charged by the Medical Examiner Medical Examiner Patty Schachtner presented a resolution to increase ME fees. Supervisor Leaf moved to approve the 6% increase in Medical Examiner Fees; Supervisor, Carlson seconds. Motion passed. RESULT: APPROVED \[UNANIMOUS\] Next: 10/3/2023 5:00 PM MOVER: Cathy Leaf, Supervisor SECONDER: Mark Carlson, Supervisor AYES: Cathy Leaf, Bob Feidler, Mark Carlson, Tim Ramberg EXCUSED: Paul Adams 9. Medical Examiner's Office Update Medical Examiner, Patty Schachtner reported there is a new trend on lonliness. Single Men over the age of 50 are the majority of the trends. CT Scanning class in March. People in UW coming up for the training. Still working on obtaining RANDOX postmortem drug testing system. The RANDOX system would be$60,000. The system allows for post mortem drug testing with results in 20 minutes. RESULT: DISCUSSED REQUEST FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS None offered. ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE Sheriff Knudson announced September is National Preparedness Month. Benefit happening for the Katie Leising and fallen officer memorials Sept 17th at LaPointe in Stillwater and October 14 at the Rooster in New Richmond. ADJOURN Meeting adjourned at 9:07 AM DATE OF NEXT MEETING OCOTOBER 5, 2023