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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAdministration Committee 11-07-2000 AMENDED ST. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING TO: Tom Dorsey, Chairman St . Croix County Board FROM: Nancy Bieraugel, Chair COMMITTEE TITLE: Administration Committee DATE: Tuesday, November 7, 2000 TIME: 9 : 00 A.M. LOCATION: Government Center CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING: December 5, 2000 ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 1 . Rules and By-Laws 2 . Statewide Legislative Issues 3 . Redistricting 4 . Number of Supervisory Districts 5 . Committee Restructure *6 . Content of County Web Page NEW BUSINESS: 1 . Resolution Opposing WCA Lobbying for Gambling Industry ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING: ADJOURNMENT (Agenda not necessarily presented in this order) I' SUBMITTED BY: Nancy Bieraugel DATE: 11/01/00 COPIES TO: County Board Office County Clerk News Media/Notice Board Committee Members Tom Dorsey, Greg Timmerman and Lorin Sather *ADDITIONS/CHANGES/CORRECTIONS 11/03/00 13:42 $` COUNTY CLERK Q001 ACTIVITY REPORT xx:k TRANSMISSION OK TX/RX NO. 8821 CONNECTION TEL 917156982952 CONNECTION ID The Best Press START TIME 11/03 13:41 USAGE TIME 00'33 PAGES 1 RESULT OK AMENDED 5T. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING TO: Tom Dorsey, Chairman St. Croix County Board FRom; Nancy Bieraugel, Chair CONUXTTEE TITLE: Administration Committee DATE: Tuesday, November 7, 2000 TIME: 9 : 00 A.M. LOCATION: Government Center CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING; December 5, 2000 ACTION ON PREVIOUS Mri UTES UNFINISRED BUSINESS: 1 . Rules and By-Laws 2 . Statewide Legislative Issues 3 . Redistricting 4 . Number of Supervisory Districts S . Committee Restructure *S . Content of County Web Page NEW BUSINESS: 1 . Resolution Opposing WCA Lobbying for Gambling Industry ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE PDSSYBT,E AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEET11VG: ADJOURNMENT (Agenda not necessarily presented .in this order) 11/03/00 13:50 $ COUNTY CLERK 0 001 i kx::k ACTIVITY REPORT xc�c k TRANSMISSION OK TX/RX NO. 8822 CONNECTION TEL 92467090 CONNECTION ID START TIME 11/03 13:49 USAGE TIME 00'41 PAGES 1 RESULT OK AMENDED ST. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING TO: TOM Dorsey, Chairman St. Croix County Board FROM: Nancy Bieraugel, Chair COLMMITTEE TITLE= Administration Committee DATE; Tuesday, November 7, 2000 TIME: 9 :00 A.M. LOCATION: Government Center CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL ADOPT-TOM OF AGENDA DATE QY NEXT MEETING: December 5, 2000 ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 1 . Rules and By-Laws 2 . Statewide Legislative Issues 3 . Redistricting 4 . Number of Supervisory Districts 5 . Committee Restructure *6. Content of County Web Page NEW BUSINESS: 1. Resolution Opposing WCA Lobbying for Gambling Industry ANNOUNCRAMNTS & CORRESPONDENCE POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT NEETYNG: ADJOUMBIENT (Agenda not necessarily presented in this order) r - X ST. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING TO: Tom Dorsey, Chairman St . Croix County Board FROM: Nancy Bieraugel, Chair COMMITTEE TITLE: Administration Committee DATE: Tuesday, November 7, 2000 TIME: 9 : 00 A.M. LOCATION: Government Center CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING: December 5, 2000 ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 1 . Rules and By-Laws 2 . Statewide Legislative Issues 3 . Redistricting 4 . Number of Supervisory Districts 5 . Committee Restructure NEW BUSINESS: 1 . Resolution Opposing WCA Lobbying for Gambling Industry ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING: ADJOURNMENT (Agenda not necessarily presented in this order) SUBMITTED BY: Nancy Bieraugel DATE: 11/01/00 COPIES TO: County Board Office County Clerk News Media/Notice Board Committee Members Tom Dorsey, Greg Timmerman and Lorin Sather *ADDITIONS/CHANGES/CORRECTIONS ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE November 7, 2000 JA v , w lCO J 1.) Meeting called to order by Chair Bieraugel. Members Present: Nancy Bieraugel, Linda Luckey, Gerald Peterson and Daryl Standafer. Tom O'Connell absent. Others Present: Administrative Coordinator Chuck Whiting, Supr. Julie Speer and Planning Director Ellen Denzer at 9:45 A.M. Adoption of Agenda: Motion by Standafer, 2nd by Peterson to accept the agenda as published. Carried. Adoption of Minutes: Motion by Luckey, 2nd by Standafer to adopt the October 3, 2000 minutes. Carried. Date of Next Meeting: December 5, 2000 9:00 A.M. Unfinished Business: Rules and By-Laws: Supr. O'Connell has volunteered to be removed from the Information Services Committee. The committee is now back to 2 County Board Supervisors as originally set up. Legislative Issues: Chair Bieraugel is in opposition to education being funded by the state rather than by local property tax. We would be loosing too much local control. She thinks a resolution expressing our opposition should be presented to the state. Supr. Standafer said it is a trial balloon. It is only an idea and we should wait with a resolution. Redistricting: Planner Ellen Denzer is unable to give us a WISE computer demonstration at this time. Supervisory Districts: Supr. Peterson wants to know exactly why we want to change the board size. Would like to be better informed to explain why a change would be beneficial. Sound reasons are needed to support the change. Fewer supervisors could do County work effectively and efficiently. A smaller board would be a better informed board. Better communication between board members. Supr. Standafer feels we need to do anything to enhance the value of the position of the supervisors. Focus needs to be on individual committees not on all committee functions. Supr. Luckey thinks reduction of size would have to be drastic to get an informed and communicative board. Chair Bieraugel stated committees are unaware of what other committees needs are. Smaller is more efficient. Motion by Bieraugel, 2nd by Standafer to present a resolution to county board at the December 12th meeting reducing the size of the board from 31 members to 25 members. More discussion followed. Supr. Peterson would like to know how much more efficient a 25 member board would be. Chair Bieraugel questioned whether all supervisor are doing their jobs or are they just on a committee to be on a committee? Supr. Luckey stated the number doesn't give us the quality of the effort. Standafer said a significant reduction would maximize the macro view of what we are trying to do. Motion carried. Planner Denzer arrived at 9:45 A.M. and showed the committee some tentative district maps working with 25 county supervisors. Districts and supervisors can't determine each other. The question is how many supervisors do we need to do the county work? Committee Restructure: Supr. Luckey stated that the Committee of Committee idea has never worked in the past and she doesn't think it will work now. Supervisor numbers need to be determined before the committee can start the restructuring of committees. Web Page: Supr. Standafer shared a copy of Dane County's web page with the committee. He would like to see something like this implemented in St. Croix County. He also feels that if we run for public office, we should have our numbers available to our constituents. We need to make ourselves available. It is a disservice if we don't. Chair Bieraugel thinks County E-Mail could take care of those who do not want their personal numbers listed. Supr. Luckey is very much against personal information and numbers on the web page. Why put yourself at risk to any pervert that might want to do you harm? There are other ways to deal with this. County E-Mail would work. The web page was created to make supervisors accessible. Supr. Peterson feels it should be an individual choice of what they want on the web page. A policy needs to be put in place as to how the web page should be handled. A form for each supervisor to fill out with the information they want on the web page would be the first thing to do. Then a(County E-Mail) resolution to make it a policy for the rules and by-laws of the board. This issue will be revisited at the December meeting. Resolution Opposing WCA Lobbying for Gambling Industry: WCA has become a r lobbying arm for Indian gaming. A statement has to be made that we are against this sort of thing. WCA should be representing counties as a whole, rather than individual counties. Administrative Coordinator Chuck Whiting will contact the Board of Directors of WCA and request a letter of explanation of what has happened and why did it happen. It will then be brought back to the committee for further discussion and action in December. The committee also discussed the idea of policy guidelines for negotiations. This will be reviewed at a future meeting. Meeting adjourned at 11:10 A.M. Marilyn Antiel Recording Secretary ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE November 7,2000 Meeting called to order by Chair Bieraugel. Members Present: Nancy Bieraugel,Linda Luckey, Gerald Peterson and Daryl Standafer. Tom O'Connell excused. Others Present: Administrative Coordinator Chuck Whiting, Supr. Julie Speer and Planner Ellen Denzer at 9:45 a.m. Adoption of Agenda: Motion by Standafer, 2nd by Peterson to accept the agenda as published. Carried. Adoption of Minutes: Motion by Luckey, 2nd by Standafer to adopt the October 3,2000 minutes. Carried. Date of Next Meeting: December 5,2000, 9:00 a.m. Unfinished Business: Rules and By-Laws: Supr. O'Connell has volunteered to be removed from the Information Services Committee. The committee is now back to 2 committee members and conforms with SCC Rules and By-Laws. County Chair Dorsey made the announcement at the Oct. County Board meeting. Legislative Issues: Chait Bieraugel initiated discussion about a proposal to remove all costs associated with the schools from the property tax in Wisconsin over a five-year period. A memo from Mark Rogacki,Executive Director of WCA expressed several reasons for opposition. A resolution opposing the plan was discussed. Supr. Standafer said that at this time the proposal was just a trial balloon and we should wait and see if it goes any further before we submit a resolution to the full board for consideration. Supervisory Districts: Chair Bieraugel said we should put forward to the full board in December a new resolution with our recommendation on the number of Supervisory Districts—if we want to stay on track with our proposed"timeline"to give everyone time to finalize the redistricting plan for the public hearings. Supervisor Peterson wanted our committee to articulate the sound reasons for reducing the size of the board. Many citizens and other board members want to understand"Why reduce the County Board?". Discussion followed,listing the reasons of having a more efficient county government, better communication,and enhancing the value of each supervisory position. Supr. Bieraugel said that some Supervisors have very little responsibility—and that even keeping the committee structure we currently have we could easily handle the work with 25. Motion by Bieraugel,2nd by Standafer to present a resolution to the County Board reducing the size of the board from 31 members to 25 members. Motion carried 4-0. Redistricting: Planner Denzer arrived at 9:45 and showed the committee some tenative district maps working with 25 county supervisors. Because of computer program gliches Ellen was unable to give us a demonstration of how the WISE program works. She hopes to do so at our Dec. meeting. Committee Restructure: The merits of having an Executive Committee composed of other committee chairs was discussed. This committee would also handle the budget. Supr. Luckey stated that this idea has been discussed in the past and that one of the reasons it was rejected was that it gave one committee too much power—and reduced the power of the individual committees. It was decided that before we can look at improving the committee structures we need to determine the number of Supervisory Districts. Web Page: Supr. Luckey is concerned about personal information—such as private home phone numbers and addresses being put forth on the World Wide Web. She suggested that Supervisors be able to choose what information is broadcast on the web and that a County e-mail address for each Supervisor be an option. Supr. Standafer shared a copy of Dane County's web page with the committee. He would like to see something like this:implemented in St. Croix County. A policy needs to be developed as to how the web page should be handled. This will be discussed at the Dec. meeting. Resolution Opposing WCA Lobbying for Gambling Industry WCA has become a lobbying arm for Indian gaming in exchange for big money. Supr. Bieraugel believes this is hypocritical—since they strongly want campaign finance reform to eliminate special interest groups from controling our State Legislature. By taking money from tribes to lobby for an off-reservation casino—they are not going to be objective and in fact are doing a disservice to communities that are opposed to off-reservation casinos. Admin. Coordinator Chuck Whiting was asked to get more information about the lobbying effort by WCA and report back at the Dec. meeting. We will then determine whether or not we will present a resolution to the full board. Policy guidelines for union negotiations Deb Kathan and Chuck Whiting both outlined suggestions for coordinating the Personnel Committee functions with the Finance Department to make sure we budget appropriately and that communication with the Finance Committee and full County Board is excellent. Their memos were distributed. Discussion will continue in Dec. Meeting adjourned at 11:10 a.m.