HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Protection Committee 03-08-02ST CROIX COUNTY
PUBLIC PROTECTION COMMITTEE
TO: Thomas Dorsey
FROM: Julie Speer
DATE: March 8, 2002
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
LOCATION: Government Center
CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
ADOPTION OF AGENDA
DATE OF NEXT MEETING:
ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
1. Visions
2. Huber Charges Resolution
JOINT MEETING WITH FINANCE 10:30 A.M. Huber facility, Impound
and Garage Building with Brian Larson, Ayres Association.
Resolution to allow addl.Court Costs to Establish Court Security
Funds.
NEW BUSINESS:
1. Bills & Vouchers*
2. Medical Examiner's Report
3. District Attorney /Victim Witness Reports
4. Sheriff, Chief Deputy, Patrol Captain, Jail Captain
and Officer Manager.
A. Expenditure from Drug Fund
B. Jail Assessment
5. Child Support
6. Correspondence
7. Traffic Tickets Collection
8. Closed Session Per WI Stat.19.85 (1) (b) for
discussion of employ(s)
9. Reconvene into open session
*These will be presented by each Department at the time of their
report
ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE
POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING:
ADJOURNMENT
(Agenda not necessarily
SUBMITTED BY: Julie Speer
DATE: 02/22/02
COPIES TO: County Clerk
Notice Board /News
Committee Members
presented in this order)
Media
* *ADDITIONS /CHANGES /CORRECTIONS
PUBLIC PROTECTION COMMITTEE MEETING
MARCH 8, 2002
MEMBERS PRESENT: Julie Speer, Tom Rose, Esther Wentz and Bob
Gunderson. Chuck Mehls was excused.
STAFF AND OTHERS PRESENT: Sheriff Dennis Hillstead, Patrol Captain
Robert Klanderman, Jail Captain Karen Humphrey, Chief Deputy Ron
Volkert, Child Support Administrator Katy Kapaun and Renee Carufel.
Meeting called to order at 8:30 a.m. Motion by Wentz /Gunderson
to adopt the agenda. Carried. Date of the next meeting will be
April 9 at 8:30 a.m. Motion to approve the minutes of February 8th
by Rose /Gunderson. Carried.
HUBER CHARGES: Hillstead presented the ordinance establishing new
maintenance and boarding charges to the Huber inmate prisoners.
Huber charges will increase to $19 per day. This ordinance will be
presented to the County Board at their next meeting.
MEDICAL EXAMINER'S REPORT Motion by Rose /Wentz to accept the bills
of $8969. Carried.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S REPORT: Motion by Wentz /Speer to approve the
bills of $3375.18. Speer received a letter from Eric Johnson saying
he would like to be involved in the hiring of a new medical
examiner. She also read a letter from Victim Witness Coordinator Ann
Gustafson on the reimbursement for expenditures of $3747.37 from the
VOCO Grant for the period of Oct. through Dec.2001.
VISIONS Hillstead said we should start looking for a new computer
software program as Visions just isn't working out. We are not
satisfied with the results. We should build the new software
program into our capital outlay budget for next year. This program
is very complex as we have to have a multi - jurisdictional system.
He is looking at a company that is replacing Visions in the southern
states.
SHERIFF'S REPORT Hillstead reported we have received a new K -9 dog.
Deputy Knutson will be the canine officer. Training will begin
March 11th for 11 weeks. We have a guarantee on the dog. If it
does not work out, we can exchange it.
Female inmates are complaining about the temperature in the jail
cells. Hillstead actually went into a cell to test this and found
out it was rather cold. We need to control each cell rather than a
whole block.
Hillstead reported we have started patrolling in sectors. The
county is divided in three sectors enabling the patrol officers to
become familiar with all parts of the County, rotating around to
different areas all the time.
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CHILD SUPPORT REPORT: Kapaun reported on the status of the express
orders provision. According to new State law, each child support
case has to be changed to a fixed amounts rather than a percentage
of wages. In order to keep on schedule, the County must convert at
least 57 cases each month. In Jan. about half the agencies fell
short of this goal. We joined this group in Feb. Kapaun presented
an outline as to how we will meet this goal by the end of September.
She also proposed we enter into an agreement with the Family Court
Commissioner to increase court cases to 80 each month to finish on
time. The State will give us $33,000 to complete this conversion.
Child Support will work with Corporation Counsel to draft an
agreement between Child Support and the Court Commissioner's office
to develop a calendar for this process. She also explained the case
load assignments in her office.
SHERIFF'S REPORT CON'T: Hillstead reported Officer Belongia suffered
a stroke and will be on leave for at least six to eight months for
rehabilitation. Meantime, someone else will be process server. We
will bring one more person out of the jail to replace the vacant
position.
Discussed potential of what would happen if the Governor's budget
plan goes through in its entirety. We will have to start developing
a plan for budget reduction. The county inmates are now the higher
number of jail population which is a turn around from years ago.
CHIEF DEPUTY'S REPORT Volkert informed the committee he is getting
a safe for the drug officer to keep "buy money" in his office.
PATROL CAPTAIN'S REPORT: Klanderman reported the new cars are being
made road worthy. He also reported the seat belt grant will end the
last of June. There are a couple of other grants available. Survey
of seatbelt use, last month 71% of the people were using seatbelts.
Discussion was held on seatbelt fines.
JAIL CAPTAIN'S REPORT Humphrey reported our average daily county
inmate population has made a drastic increase in the last two years.
Number of felonies has increase by 300% in the last two years.
Drugs, sexual assaults, DWI's and theft's have increased. Judges
are more willing to place people in the jail because of the
educational opportunities they will receive.
BILLS & VOUCHERS Motion by Wentz /Gunderson to approve the bills for
the Jail of $42,666.50. Carried. Motion by Rose /Speer to accept
the Sheriff's bills of $35,214.88. Carried. Revenues for the month
of February were $44,681.81. 92% of the revenues went into the
general fund or specialized accounts.
Speer presented a letter from Chuck Mehls concerning delinquent
ticket collection. Eau Claire County is having great success with
this project. Hillstead recommends Mehls meet with the Clerk of
Court to discuss the actual cost of collections.
The Committee met jointly with the Finance Committee to discuss the
Huber facility and storage space needs.
After the joint meeting, the committee adjourned at 11:45 a.m.
Tom Rose, Secretary
Renee Carufel, Recording Secretary