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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExecutive Committee - Agenda - 3/11/2003117 East Fifth Street ▪ Washburn, WI 54891 ▪ markaa@bayfieldcounty.org Phone 715-373-6181 ▪ FAX 715-373-6183 BAYFIELD COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING John J. Blahnik Kenneth Jardine Harold Maki Marco Bichanich, Vice-Chair Brett T. Rondeau-Chair Delores Kittleson Dear Committee Members: This letter is written to inform you of the Bayfield County Executive Committee Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 4:00 p.m., in the County Board Room of the Bayfield County Courthouse, Washburn, Wisconsin. The agenda for this meeting is as follows: AGENDA 1. Call to Order; 2. Motion Regarding Minutes of January 14, 2003 Executive Committee Meeting; 3. Discussion and Possible Action regarding Juvenile Truancy Ordinance: Judge Priebe has requested that this issue be considered by the county. He has met with representatives of various schools and Human Services and has come up with a recommendation to improve the current school truancy procedure. Enclosed is our ordinance, section 11-1-1 that is the only reference in our ordinances to school truancy. This section refers back to State Law. I have included those two sections here as well. Judge Priebe is also planning to make copies of their proposal available for us to review. Possible action we could take would be to send this to Human Services or another committee or set a public hearing for public comment if necessary. Office of the Bayfield County Administrator Mark Abeles-Allison 117 East Fifth Street ▪ Washburn, WI 54891 ▪ markaa@bayfieldcounty.org Phone 715-373-6181 ▪ FAX 715-373-6183 4. Presentation by Cable Union Airport Commission. Fred Morke is the new chair of the Cable Union Airport. He asked to speak to the committee and let the county know about their future plans. He shared the data below. A copy of their five year plan will be available at the meeting. “The most recent data from the airport manager for 2002 is 1,631 flight operations (takeoffs and landings). Other sources show higher numbers closer to 10,000 but I believe the actual number to be 1,631 or slightly more. One of the main users is SC Johnson Co. They operate two Falcon 900 jets and a Cessna Citation Jet. At least 29 operations for the last quarter of 2002 (only period I have data for IFR operations). Their Falcon could obviously use a wider and longer runway (balance field length for a Falcon 900 is 4935'). There are three single engine aircraft based at the airport but requests have been received for 5 hanger sites.” 5. Tire Cleanup : Status Report on Participation : Tim Kane provided the information below. 5 yes, 2 no and 21 no response yet. We are hoping to receive more responses by next Tuesday. We will have a financial report at that time. As you recall we budgeted for the county to pay half and for the municipalities in the county to pay half. We also made a request to Pri-Ru-Ta through Verne to see if other assistance was available. “I have heard from the following municipalities who have budgeted funds to support a 2003 countywide tire cleanup: Town of Bayfield, Town of Drummond, Town of Russell, Town of Washburn, and Village of Mason I have also heard from the Cities of Bayfield and Washburn, whose City Council’s voted not to participate in a 2003 countywide tire cleanup.” 6. Discussion & Possible Action Regarding Forestry Land Acquisition Fund: See attached information. Attached is the proposal from forestry on raising funds for forest land purchases. Our current language is shown below with related changes. Forestry’s original proposal is attached the intent is very similar to what I show below. If approved a public hearing would be held to consider the ordinance modification. 117 East Fifth Street ▪ Washburn, WI 54891 ▪ markaa@bayfieldcounty.org Phone 715-373-6181 ▪ FAX 715-373-6183 For the purpose of financing land acquisition within the County Forest boundaries, there is hereby established a non-lapsing fund known as the County Forest Land Acquisition Fund. Said fund to consist of revenues from the following sources: (1) All net proceeds from the sale of lands withdrawn from the County Forest(s), subject to the limitations set forth herein below in Subsection (c)(2). (2) Whenever the balance in the County Forest Land Acquisition Fund is less than Forty Thousand Dollars ($40,000.00) (Change to $150,000) the Forestry Committee, with the concurrence of the Executive Committee, may direct that a maximum of ten percent (10%) of the net proceeds from County timber sales be deposited in said fund as they are collected, but only until a Fifty Thousand Dollar ($50,000.00) (Change to $150,000) balance in said fund has been attained, which last said amount shall be the maximum balance permitted to accumulate in said account. The only item I have some concern with is removing the executive committee from approving the allocation. I think some budget analysis / approval needs to be made besides just the oversight committee. 7. ITBEC Funding: Annual Dues for 2003 are $7272. We have $7000 covered through BCEDC and the Bayfield County Tourism Association. Attached is a summary of what ITBEC does. Financing for the remaining $272 would come from the County. The program would allow for Bayfield County to be the location for future ITBEC events in addition to allow us to directly participate in their Economic Development efforts. 8. Out of State Travel Procedures: An earlier memo discussed the need for committee approval for board member travel out of state. If acceptable we will include this in future county board policy modifications. 9. Report on Bioterrorism Preparedness: brief report at the meeting. 10. Approval to Sell Fleet Vehicles: Usually we depreciate out to 100,000 miles. Two of these vehicles are not there yet, but because of their age and condition are not getting used and are a liability to the county just sitting on the lot. I would recommend that we sell them. We will not need to replace these particular vehicles this year. As the health department lost two vehicles, they did take an older one from Human 117 East Fifth Street ▪ Washburn, WI 54891 ▪ markaa@bayfieldcounty.org Phone 715-373-6181 ▪ FAX 715-373-6183 Services that they were not using. I anticipate this borrowed vehicle to hit 100,000 miles next year and would be replaced then. Attached also is our vehicle replacement plan. 1992 Red S-10, Clerk of Courts, 89,000 miles 1993 Cavalier, Health Dept, 89,534 miles 1996 Cierra, #3, Health Dept, 121,769 miles 11. Finance: Budget, End of 2002 Fund Balance, Unfunded Liability and Policy Report. This information will go out with the Friday weekly. 12. Other Actions or Reports A. Iron River Incubator: Tom and I and Bill met with Northwest Regional Planning this week. They discussed the proposed business incubator, a center for new manufacturing businesses. They have a proposed $1,246,000 project to construct 23,000 square feet of space next to Bayfield Electric in Iron River. Of those 23,000 they have only 8,000 committed today. They need over 16,000 committed to make it cash flow. Without a commitment to additional space they have requested support from Bayfield County in the form of a buy in $200,000 and in the form of a loan ($209,000) towards the $409,000 local match they (NWRP) must provide. (I believe there is room for negotiation) We agreed that over the next two weeks we would try to find additional businesses who might commit to space in the future. NWRP needs a response by the end of the month. I will have more information at the meeting. No action is required but we do want to make sure everybody is aware that additional square footage is available in Iron River at the rate of approximately $3.00 a sq. foot per year. If you know of someone who is looking for space please have them contact Tom or I. 13. Adjournment. Should you have any questions in the meantime, please contact my office. Sincerely, Mark Abeles-Allison 117 East Fifth Street ▪ Washburn, WI 54891 ▪ markaa@bayfieldcounty.org Phone 715-373-6181 ▪ FAX 715-373-6183 Bayfield County Administrator MAA/kak Enc. cc: Mr. Thomas J. Gordon, Bayfield County Clerk Mr. William Bussey Bayfield County Board of Supervisors Ms. Kathryn J. Prenn Bayfield County Department Heads Mr. Mark Van Vlack Mr. Jim Radke, BCEDC The County Journal, via fax The Daily Press, via fax