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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Protection 08-07-98ST CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING TO: Thomas Dorsey FROM: Julie Speer COMMITTEE TITLE: Public Protection DATE: August 7, 1998 TIME: 8:30 A.M. NOTE TIME CHANGE LOCATION: Government Center CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING: ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES UNFINISHED BUSINESS: 1. Neumann Case/Change Death Certificate 2. Randy Lang/ Jail Panel Contracts NEW BUSINESS: 1. Medical Examiner's Report 2. Reports: Sheriff's, Chief Deputy, Patrol & Jail 3. District Attorney's Report 4. Child Support Report A. Reconsider previous motion on Child Support 5. Bills & Vouchers* 6. Building Security Review 7. Jail Assessment Captain Position * 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 presented in this order) SUBMITTED BY: Julie Speer DATE: 7/09 & 8/3 COPIES TO: County Clerk Notice Board/News Media Committee Members *ADDITIONS/CHANGES/CORRECTION PUBLIC PROTECTION COMMITTEE MEETING August 7, 1998 MEMBERS PRESENT: Julie Speer, Chuck Mehls, Bill Krueger, Tom Irwin and Bob Gunderson. STAFF PRESENT: Sheriff Paul Burch, Jail Captain Karen Humphrey, Chief Deputy Ron Volkert, Patrol Captain Robert Klanderman, Child 'Support Administrator Lynn Holmes, Medical Examiner Marty .Shanklin, Corporation Counsel Greg Timmerman,. Clerk of Court Lori Meyer Frascht and Renee Carufel. Meeting called to order at 8:30 a.m. by Chairman Speer. Motion to adopt the agenda as published Krueger/Mehls. Carried. Date of the next regular meeting is Sept. 8th at 9:00 a.m. Next special meeting will be August 19th at 9:00 a.m. to work on the budgets. Motion to approve the minutes of July 7th by Speer/Irwin. Carried. Motion to approve the minutes of July 30th by Irwin/Gunderson. Carried. MEDICAL EXAMINER'S REPORT• Shanklin reported the Jane Neumann case was first treated as a homicide but the manner of death was suicide. Marty still feels it was suicide. He also reported you must establish true facts to change the death certificate. Timmerman came into the meeting and advised the committee the Supreme Court case shows that our Circuit Court did not follow the correct procedure to change the death certificate. He suggested a letter be sent to Judge Lundell and Attorney Gherty to see if they would like to bring new evidence concerning this case back to court to be able to change the death certificate legally. Motion by Krueger to authorize Greg Timmerman to write a letter to Judge Lundell and Mark Gherty to ask if they would like to respond to the change in the death certificate in light of the Sullivan case stating that we are concerned that the correct procedure was not followed and ask for their response. Second by Mehls. Carried. Gherty was in attendance and said the investigation and the Medical Examiner's work were very proper. Shanklin reported on the two autopsies; the first one was a 43 yr. old male with no medical history whose death was heart related and also a female about the same age who died of natural causes. Motion to approve the bills of $5426.08 by Gunderson/Krueger. Carried. RANDY LANG/JAIL PANEL CONTRACTS• Randy Lang from Lang and Associates presented the two bids that were received for the repair of the jail panels and reported both had bid bonds. Com-Tec's of Appleton, WI, bid was $446,700 with $16,800 for the security management system. Accurate Controls from Ripon, WI bid was $285,000 with $12,100 for the security management system. Lang recommended the county accept the bid from Accurate.Controls. The Committee questioned Accurate Controls credentials. Motion by Krueger to award the contract to Accurate Controls from Ripon, WI, for $285,000 plus the alternate #1 for $12,150. Second by Mehls. Carried. Lang will prepare the contract, send to the contractor for his signature, and then send to County for signatures. PATROL CAPTAIN'S REPORT: Burch introduced the new Patrol Captain Robert Klanderman. Klanderman reported the department got through the Oz Fest in Somerset the week -end of July 18th and have another concert coming up in September. He also reported he has received a request from the Star Prairie Town Chairman regarding a stop sign at the intersection of double CC and 210th. Chairman Heintz asked if an officer could patrol this intersection more than in the past. Klanderman reported that St. _Croix Co. has had it's loth and llth traffic fatality this past month. -..One was.a. -hit and .run by River Falls and the other was a traffic accident by .the Laurel in New Richmond. SHERIFF'S REPORT: Burch reported on the suicide that occurred in the Jail this past month. The State Department will come next Thursday to investigate and it will be independent of other investigations. Everything was done properly. Burch reported the body of boy who drowned about three weeks ago was recovered Sunday morning. The body was spotted by a citizen from shore. Dave Johnson recovered it with the County boat. There will be some extra expense with this case because of the 20 day search that was required. He also reported on an attempted suicide by a middle aged man whose gun discharged as our officer was trying to take it away from him. He was transported to Mendota Mental Hospital from which he was released a few hours later. Motion by Krueger/Speer to approve the bills of $10,750.73 for the Sheriff's Department. Carried. JAIL CAPTAIN'S REPORT: The average daily population of the Jail for the month of July was 97. Immigration Naturalization Service still wants to know if we are considering their offer to build an addition to the jail. No action was taken at this time. Captain Humphrey requested a transfer of $4024 from the Jail Assessment fund for the following items: $429 for a 16 cu. ft. refrigerator for the Huber inmates to store their lunches as they leave for work each day, $1095 for mailboxes for officers to receive various papers during the day and up to $2500 for 30 new drawers to hold files including installation. Anderson Cabinets from No. St. Paul gave us a bid. Bob Koehnen came before the board to answer why the Maintenance Department could not fix the drawer slides in the Jail. He. explained the reason they cannot do carpenter work is because they do not have the proper tools to remodel the drawers. Irwin would like to see more than one bid and Bob will see if he can get more bids. Motion by Irwin to get two more bids on the drawer situation and approve up to $2100 for drawers, $429 for the refrigerator and $1095 for the mail boxes. Second by Krueger. Carried. JAIL BILLS: Motion by Mehls to approve the Jail bills of $39,991.84 with second by Krueger. The revenue for the Jail for July was $126,257.97. Burch reported on US Marshal, Larry Lindberg's findings on the building security. This was the 31st court house that he has evaluated. Burch explained some of his concerns. He will prepare and send a report to the Sheriff, at which time the Sheriff can share this with the committee. DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S REPORT: Chair Speer presented a letter from Victim Witness Coordinator Ann Gustafson reporting we have received a check in the amount of $27,451.85 from the State of Wisconsin for the reimbursement for the cost of the Victim/Witness Assistance Program. This represents a rate of 81.5% for the six-month period from Jan. 1 through June 30, 1998. Motion by. Irwin/Krueger to approve the bills of $708.04. Carried. CHILD SUPPORT REPORT: Clerk of Court Lori Meyer Frascht was called into the meeting to explain what duties her office would be relinquishing with the new receipt and disbursement of child support payments and cases. She reported she would be giving up a position on June 1, 1999. Although some duties will transfer to Child Support she thought most of the calls during the first months of -1999 would still be going through her office because the people are used to calling her office. When asked if she felt Child Support needed an extra person to handle cases that would be transferred she stated, "no." Onsite support staff are scheduled to spend two weeks in a county to assist with the transition. The financial functions that child support agencies will assume include: court order entry, receipting collections, manual adjustments, working the suspense file and providing customer service for the 690 non IV-D cases now served by the Clerk of Court. We expect that some counties will hire new staff to assume these responsibilities. In this situation, counties must allow enough time for new staff to attend the KIDS CR & D training. This plan does not allow enough time for onsite support staff to train new workers who have had little or no exposure to KIDS. Holmes explained the dates of training as there seemed to be some confusion as to when this was needed for the new position she was requesting. New worker training for the Child Support Specialist is designed for people with less than four months on the job. The comprehensive class is broken into modules which integrate hands-on use of the KIDS system and an in-depth overview of programs, policies and procedures. Starting Jan. 1 there will be more work in the child support office due to a change in office procedure. Discussion was held as to whether it would be advantageous to start the new position as of Oct. 1, 1998 rather than Jan. 1, 1999. Motion by Mehls to reinstate that position in Child Support as of Oct 1, 1998 , second by Krueger. Roll call vote: Krueger, yes, Speer yes, Mehls yes, Gunderson yes, Irwin -no. Motion carried. Holmes also reported on some computer equipment changes that will have to be made to have them work after the year 2000. Motion by Mehls/Speer to adjourn at 12:15 p.m. Tom Irwin, Secretary Renee Carufel, Recording Secretary