HomeMy WebLinkAboutExecutive Committee - Minutes - 9/19/2011Minutes of the
Bayfield County Executive Committee Meeting
4:00 PM, September 19, 2011,
Emergency Operations Center (EOC), Bayfield County Annex Building, Washburn, WI
Members Present: Brett Rondeau, William Kacvinsky, Kenneth Jardine, Beth Meyers, Dee
Kittleson, Marco Bichanich
Others Present: John Bennett; Jim Crandall; Bill Bussey, Chief Deputy Dan Clark, Sheriff Paul
Susienka, Forest Administrator Jason Bodine, District Attorney Craig Haukaas, County
Administrator Mark Abeles-Allison
Meeting called to order at 4:00pm by Chairman Rondeau
Motion Kittleson, Bichanich to approve minutes of the September 13, 2011 meeting. Motion
Carried.
Sheriff’s Department Budget Presentation: Sheriff Paul Susienka reviewed a power point
presentation including:
• Department History, sworn officer’s constant since 1998.
• Lost one sworn officer with Jail Captain as this is not a sworn position.
• Unique cases and very complicated deaths
• Frequency reports presented, by agency, incidents, locations
• Reports show that numbers are increasing; but cases are complicated and very time consuming.
• New trends, white collar crime and internet
• Dispatch calls: 27,000 calls ytd, 12,500 calls assigned, 6500 sheriff’s dept. referrals, 514 case
reports started
o Increase in burglaries
o Two or more burglars
o More Marijuana gardens
o Increase in suicides
• Cell phone / texting usage impacts on accidents; distractions.
• State inmates reduction as of Jan 1. Lowered estimate from $140k to $70k.
• Recreation program; strive to record actual time spent on recreational incidents.
Forestry Department Budget Presentation: Forest Administrator Jason
• Working to achieve sustainable yield
• Was short 3000 hours. New forester accounting for 1450 hours of that.
• Revenues, projected increase up $200k, this is the result of allowable harvest and new forester.
$40k is moving to a 40 hour work week. $200k increase this year, $200k more next, $200k more
in 2014. Still getting premium prices.
• Sales are based on two years with two year extensions, greater time periods allows for timing of
markets, better prices.
• Users are mills, pulp and paper and pole companies.
• Estimates are market driven, but conservative.
• This year estimated $1.99 million, as of today at $2.1 million.
• Fund balance utilization: $138k
o Land purchase: $50k
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o Wildlife: $60k, DNR has input on how dollars are used. Reforestation plus other areas.
(Range from $16k - $2k). Dollars are declining.
o Town road aid: $23k
o Equipment use: $5k
• Reforestation grant, $51k, $35 used in 2012.
• Variable Acre loan, May – June, turn down due to high transactions cost and no need at present.
• Expenditures:
o 40 hour week, coming up to 3000 hour shortfall, 525 acre deficit, converts to $400k a
year. The 40 hour proposal will address 238 acres, = $180k. Cuts gap in half.
o Parks contractor up $1300 a month; increase $8200. Delta, Twin Bear, Big Rock, Atkins,
Host at Big Rock. For a new total; Maintenance at sites. Prior to combined expense
was $50k.
o Reforestation
o Payment to towns: increase
o Total expenses up $54,000.
o Net return up $215,000.
District Attorney Budget Presentation: District Attorney Craig Haukaas
New activities:
• Fewer copy fees with flash drive usage
• RRTC for OWI 3 and above, allows for imposed and stayed sentences. Carrot and stick
approach. Supervised by Brenda Spurlock.
• DPA program, deferred prosecution; allows for alternatives.
• Criminal referrals off the chart; as of today Ashland County has 80 year to date, in Ashland
County versus Bayfield County 11 of 106 for criminal filings, felony OWI every weekend this
year. This represents a doubling for Bayfield County. Partially this is due to law changes.
Bayfield County is up 20% over Ashland County YTD.
• If criminalizing first offense OWI, what would have to give? Bad Checks, first offense marijuana,
operating while intoxicated.
Budget Modification Spreadsheet: Abeles-Allison reviewed the budget change spreadsheet.
The committee discussed four categories:
Capital Improvement Modifications
• Coroner shelves/computer removed -$2000
• Annex sidewalk, - $10,000, $5000 retained for repairs, guard rail.
• Veteran Cabinets, -$1500
• Veteran Program, +$1400, Vetraspec
• Sheriff Tasers +$4800
• Sheriff ATV Trailer +$1000
• Discussion regarding tower and land purchases (2)
• Net -$6300
Human Services:
• Health Insurance savings, $7300, use for Senior Meals instead.
Highway:
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• Lower Equipment purchase from $450,000 to $400,000
General Fund
• Libraries, funding at the 100, 88 and 93% levels discussed.
o 100% = $207,699
o 93.6% = 194,406
o 88% = $182,775
o Actual amount in 2011, 2010 and 2009: $187,590
o In 2012 terms, $187,590 / $207,699 = 90.3%
• CJC Programs; +$11000 expense
• Reforestation grant, +$35000 revenue
• Forestry Mileage, +$24,300 expense
• Liability and WC insurance, -$40,000 expense
• Health Insurance General Fund, -$35,700 expense
• Revenue Sharing, +$16,373 revenue
• LWCD: -492 revenues
• Jail boarding, -70,000 revenue
Net: under budget by $21,281
Meeting adjourned at 5:55pm