I will say that the meeting was not related to this.
I will read the duly elected new board members and existing.
All maulared.
Danny Francis.
Barry Young.
Bill Stutz.
Mike Baker.
Brandon Snyder.
Jeffrey Neville on.
Patrick Hansen.
Steven Finco.
David McNutt.
Aaron Lauer.
Roxanne Lucian.
Hannah Hiller.
And Gary Kessner.
Now we will administer the oath.
So you'll have to stand and raise your right hands.
Hi.
Escape your hands.
Having been elected.
To the office of county board.
The office of county board.
We have not yet entered upon the duties thereof.
Swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States.
Swear the Constitution and the Constitution of the state of Wisconsin.
And the Constitution of the state of Wisconsin.
And I will faithfully discharge the duties of said office to the best in my ability.
And I will faithfully discharge the duties of said office to the best in my abilities.
So help me.
Get that out.
Okay, roll call.
Mallard.
Here.
Bernadis.
Here.
Francis.
Here.
Young.
Here.
Stutz.
Here.
Baker.
Nieder.
Here.
Neville.
Here.
Hanson.
Here.
Bingo.
Here.
McNutt.
Here.
Lower.
Here.
Now move on to the election of fourth chair.
Do we have any nominations?
Yes.
I nominate Larry Young.
We have any other nominations?
Any other nominations?
I'll make a motion to call donations in case the unanimous ballot for their vote.
Okay.
So we have a second.
Okay.
All right.
All in favor.
Opposed?
Motion carries.
Take your way.
Thank you all.
It will be an honor.
The privilege to serve as your board chair.
Just to let you go to just because I'm the board chair.
We all have one vote.
Which of us has a vote?
No matter where it's done.
You didn't get me the keys.
And I make sure that everybody knows that we're going.
Make sure all the board members all.
Sure.
Foreign under.
You know, we're both on.
I asked you.
But listen to your department heads.
You're good.
I guess I'll call for the.
Election of the vice chair.
I'm not going to do it.
The other nominations.
The other nomination.
Is there any other nominations?
Motion to call for the closing of the election.
All right.
All in favor.
All right.
Congratulations Jamie.
We will work well.
And then the election of the highway committee is next.
And for your new board members, the election.
The highway committee is done in this room.
It is chosen by your peers.
It's a five person board.
Highway.
All the committees in.
Here, I always run like a business.
Basically run like a business.
Casey needs help.
But if you know stuff, I'm going to put in.
All that right case.
So with that.
And another thing.
There's no first chair, second chair in here.
We picked five when they meet.
They decided it was going to meet the chair and waste chair.
So with that.
I do have our first meeting this Thursday.
And I have agendas in that emails.
And that's all.
If you're on the committee, I'll give you a agenda for our Thursday meeting.
For me to protect.
This is open enough black topics and stuff like that.
I'm going to get a little.
So with that, I call for.
Nomination.
The highway committee.
Other nominations.
Let me go one at a time.
Yeah.
The other nominations.
Really not.
So we have a sentence.
I'll make a motion to close the nominations for.
Person one of the highway committee.
Or favor.
Always.
Okay.
I need another one.
And answer.
Any other nominations.
Any others.
I think a motion to close the nominations for a person to vote the highway committee.
I'll second it.
All favor.
Aye.
Close.
Okay.
I need another one.
All right.
Pick up.
Any other nominations.
Any others.
Move the vote.
All in favor.
Aye.
And answer.
Please.
I think a motion to nominate Mr. Finkel.
The other nominations.
The others.
The other nominations.
Who's an amorations to be posted in a spell because the position on.
I would wish.
Second.
All favor.
Okay.
Was.
Other one.
There are the nominations.
Beyond the nominations.
N
Okay, second half.
Some favor.
All right.
Your pass.
All right.
Okay.
The next one is also not in this room.
It's only done by your peers and you go the extension.
Hey, we have five members on that one.
Our office manages that you programming in the community.
You know, funny as our educator and community development educators.
Miller.
He's the liaison to the Aaron Coney economic development committee.
And he also does programs within the community.
His role.
We also managed the higher party mobile country program.
And we have a state specialist Kathy Techman.
She's how it's in our office.
She works with the climate.
It's Institute for UW extension.
A lot of fun programming.
Okay.
We look side note.
Five people for that word.
We're going to open for a lot of attention to be on the extension.
We're going to have their nomination.
The others.
Any others.
I'm going to get a call.
I'm going to go to the nation for a lot of attention.
Second.
All in favor.
Any others.
Second.
All in favor.
No.
Okay.
Number three.
I think motion to have an exercise to be.
I did work.
Any other.
Any others.
All in favor.
All in favor, right.
Payers.
No 400.
No.
And the other nominations.
I move on to close the nominations and I can select my names and so on the steps.
Second.
All favor.
All right.
You're out in one direction.
The motion has been to practice.
We've now been hearing on the board.
You're in the other nominations.
The other nominations.
Second.
All favor.
All is.
And carries.
I move the minutes to the March 31st, 2026 as.
Second.
I'll make a motion.
My dollar.
Seconded by Mr. Baller.
All favor.
Allistic.
All voting.
Communications.
You have any questions.
I just wanted to go through.
The basics where they're going for graduation later.
official handbook. So that's there. We're very back to the new board members. There's
forms for you to fill out for payroll, for your gradients, and for the emails also for
more so if you can fill those out, get back to me as soon as possible, that would be appreciated.
Unless you have something that's changed with your
that you're entering that year. So those of us that are continuing to do not need to fill out any
of these papers in the lab. Unless there's something that you do not want to put in on the website or
you know, there's nothing changed. So thank you.
Okay and good for you is we all get an email address. If some of the old school or one
search was not the use that you discussed, Kristin, and she did you a paper. So we're
getting paid. You don't want to email someone. Some of us are really computer-related.
I mean, not probably one of them, but I know enough to get by.
The board and finance packets are usually done in Thursday and Friday before the meeting. So if
you need to come in and get your packet ahead of time, they'll be in my office. Otherwise they
get emailed in the afternoon to your company.
Yes. So if we could just say 40 is early, if they're not.
Rest of the committee, the chair appoints them. I'm going to hand it out at the end of this meeting
which you're on. If you feel that maybe you couldn't, I got you wrong. If you don't want me to
hesitate to tell me the switch it or what is something. If you have a fair date, trying to get
all of the most used and ask you if I'm just suffering or something you're interested in,
let me know. And Kristin found this out through the two other people that are on my end zoning
post throughout the beginning of the extension. Is that correct?
That's a lot of the land a lot of.
Okay, I know it's a lot of you guys all to take in. Jay was going to get what we
are going to wait for the next month which you guys get to feed underneath you. There's a lot
of information to get. None of us know everything, but every one of us knows something that's going
to help this move. So that's the way we operate. So everybody here, somebody here knows something
about something that we just use you. I do have a written report that I'm going to send everybody.
He's going to email it out. You can email it after you tell you it's just much. Yeah, well, it's
yeah, I plan on a lot of you what I'm working on. I provided background.
Writing so you read through with the process of what is the technical.
Okay, we got to adopt Robert's rule of order.
We have to make a motion in a second. We need a motion that will be.
Oh, my good.
Which of my follow-up. Second.
We're going to be Frances on favor.
designation of a legal code depository.
We have to make a motion for that. We can ship off, right?
We have to make a motion. We have to do that, but we also want to make a motion that will help
me.
So that's the local government investment pool. So almost every county along with other readers
values across the state uses to tend to pay a higher interest rate.
All right, now we're at 3.8 seconds. I think it was the last I saw.
It's also an opportunity for us to just.
Spread our money around.
Into which one you want to make.
One of the other benefits about the county's talk about is you can hold multiple accounts.
So you can have sub accounts. So the highway has highway funds.
We can put the highway funds in a high fund specific account.
It earns its own specific interest. It's easy to track.
Money loans automatically wire.
It's also important. I could add something for collateralization when it comes to the audit.
Having us money with multiple institutions.
Satisfied more.
That's true.
In fact, I talked about that with the auditors today and they said it's a good plan.
I think we took a lot of research service for us in the past.
I don't know why we would take away business from business that is taxes for us.
So why would I put my feelings on this up to you guys?
I made the motion that we designates what Valley Bank and it's our day-to-day bank.
We'll be in the LGIP as my business department.
I will support that.
The motion by right hand is a supportive way to improve energy.
All in favor?
Just to let you go to the auditor during the food on there.
We're all going to get into our books.
Okay.
We're going to be here for the day where we're yesterday today.
We're going to be here tomorrow, which is an interview.
It's good things to hear along there now.
So we're going in a redirection.
Designation on fiscal accounting newspaper.
Coach McCarolaw, I need a second.
Second.
Second by Roxanne.
So we're going to be buying an all in favor.
All those?
Scaries.
Designate corporate counsel.
Designate the day and time for the 24-year meeting.
It's usually a certain last day once.
It's six o'clock here.
We're going to go with that.
I'm going to make a motion.
Ready?
Second.
Take it one quick.
drafting committee all in favor.
All right.
May the rule is now Designate Corporate Council.
That's just what we did.
We went, we've done my skin all.
Some went back to as original Human Services,
child support, role related to your county
and we went with more Berker for more of the ordinances
and stuff like that because he's has made field in Ashland.
He's more, he's more into helping your keyword name too.
Yeah, it's more experienced.
Yeah.
He's got the experience and he's actually been a little bit more.
Okay, so that's all we're going to do.
We're going to split him down, throw him back.
So I need a motion for that if I could use it.
I think it's a motion that we have here from the team.
Alex, you want to call him?
It's more popular with Clark and Clark and Clark.
Unless it is.
Yeah, yes, yes.
It motioned by Roxanne.
Both of our friends and my friend and state are all in favor.
All right.
The committee department is a chair.
We need to meet.
We haven't been meeting after the election.
And we can't afford to support him.
Actually, I have a little bit of support of Health Sydney.
We had a hearing third place in the order of this other student
sound.
This is new meeting.
The candidate, the owner.
He lives in Florida.
You want to request it a hearing to appeal.
The he wanted to overturn the temporary closure
of the multi-altitude and multiple health and safety
violations.
It was a history of temporary closures since last summer.
There's no water sewer.
The things green, the things locked or some kind of issues
that have been going on for a long period of time.
And the defendant did not join the hearing.
He didn't join us.
If there were discussion by the workhouse,
we were both the license to operate the Silver Street Hotel.
The owner would need to obtain a new license and inspection
being compliant with regulations.
I like the solution to the city of California.
We have a sanitary license.
And we are both down.
I agree for a quality of it.
Yeah.
And there's the need.
We had actually revoked the license.
I think that's it.
It's going to happen.
Yeah.
OK.
Anybody else?
Did anybody else meet?
We had a memorial building meeting on dangerous ones.
We got a fence coming up.
And we actually got some of the interesting room in us.
So we're not for sure enough.
But they did a full change.
We can't hear the last few.
The kids are almost done with the wheels on the cannon.
And we're going to try to get the cannon put together by the morning.
The cannon wheels.
One of the cannon wheels and John got picked up this morning.
The other one there.
They're working.
It's really nice and possible to get a little fire.
We have to take the time to actually do that.
We'll point it out.
I want to call it.
I want to call it out.
I want to see if they're going to make a fence.
They are.
They really did it.
And everything.
They're going to have a fun time.
Yeah.
Hey.
Number 20.
Is there any public comment?
Are we going to get anything to say?
We have an airport meeting.
Okay.
And.
Right now.
The big thing under the agenda.
I hear.
There is one.
Oh.
Still.
In the process.
Oh.
Thank you.
They have to say is this.
What we need.
Once a month.
Put together.
Make sure whatever.
Take a little home.
That's right.
People in your district.
You're also representing.
It's going to be good for all of them.
I think it's going to be a.
People.
With the lies.
Some.
It's a movie of us.
We need the evidence in the way.
I'm going to do.
We think.
I'm all for it.
We have to have a better idea than we got going to bring it to our attention.
Okay.
What do you want to do is discuss.
I'm just going to quickly go through.
I'm just going to go through.
I'm just going to.
I'm just going to go through.
That's for years.
Okay.
So my name is Heather Palmquist.
I'm the community conservationist or department head for the land and water conservation department.
The department for, I think, 18 years.
And we have a pretty small department, but.
I just passed around our annual report for 2025.
This kind of gives the view overview of what we accomplished in 2025.
Talk about finances.
Kind of just our basic accomplishments throughout the year.
I'm not going to go through all of that with you.
I'm going to do a very brief introduction for those of you who are not on our committee and then those of you who are new to the board.
Because we're kind of not a not as well of a no one department necessarily like the health department or the highway department that are pretty self explained is great.
Oops.
Okay.
So staff and programming, basically, we have two full time people in the department.
Myself as the department head I handle administration, all the grant writing, budget, financing, plan writing, supervising our staff and programs.
I also operate as our technician.
So a lot of county departments live in water conservation departments have an administrator, but then they also have a technician and then they might have several other staff as well.
So I handle all of our cost share projects through the department.
So we work with farmers.
We work with municipalities on culvert replacements.
And we also work a lot on shoreline projects.
And we all go through some of those projects.
In a little bit more detail, but basically we can help we get a pot of money from.
The department of agriculture trade and consumer protection to implement these projects with throughout the county.
And then we also have a native plant sale that I manage as well.
We have a conservation specialist is the second position in our department.
That's full time.
And they are responsible for a lot of education and outreach, not only to adults, but also to the youth in the in the county.
They also handle our invasive species program, both terrestrial and aquatic invasive species and they coordinate our summer staff.
And then they also work hand in hand with our water quality volunteers conducting water quality surface water quality on our lakes and streams.
And they handle, like I said, our lt staff.
We hire anywhere from two to four limited term employees for the summer months to help with that invasive species program.
So one thing that I think our department stands out a lot is we are largely grant funded.
Okay, so the biggest contributor to our department is the department of agriculture trade and consumer protection or that cap.
So they fund 100% of the first position or my position in the county, including the benefit package.
So 100% of my cost to the county is is paid for.
And then they come up with 70% of the conservation specialist position funding as well.
And again, that includes the benefit package as well.
And then statutorily, they don't necessarily get here every year, depending on the state budget, but then they statutorily are supposed to hit 50% of a third position for the county.
And then they also give us the cost share funding that we get to implement annually with landowners.
We also.
Is that third position when we get the money enough to cover summer?
That would be if we had a full time position.
And historically, since I've been around, we haven't had enough money in the state budget to make it to this 50% position.
But good question. Yes. And I think you could then maybe do 50%. You get a percentage of that.
We also get a lot of funding from the DNR.
So we handle the wildlife damage program. That's for farmers who are experiencing crop damage.
And we contract that we basically act as the liaison where we contract that position out through USDA and AFIS.
And then we're reimbursed through the DNR for all of those kind of contracted costs.
And then we also get annual funding for LTE staff. So that is 100% paid for by a DNR grant and an additional grant.
And we constantly are getting other grants for big projects that come up as as needy.
And then we have a very low percent of our budget, which we'll go through that actually the county levy contributes.
So here's kind of a breakdown of 2025 where all of that money came from. You can see on the bottom right there that our total budget was $254,000.
So here you can see half of that is coming from that whole operating budget is coming from that cap for the staff support.
We've got cost here coming in at 14%, the wildlife damage program at 13%.
The county levy is here at 9%. So it's a very, very small portion of tax dollars of county tax dollars that are going to towards our department.
So a little bit about that cost share program. So we have a rule called ATP 50 and that outlines a bunch of different practices that we can help landowners with for soil and water quality help.
So I do work with a lot with municipalities on culvert replacement.
I can't just replace a culvert on a for a township or a county because their culvert is failing. There has to be a natural resource concern.
So everything that we're doing with our cost share dollars has to meet criteria set out in that at cap 50.
And it has to have a soil or water quality concern associated with the project for us to be able to put our state dollars on that.
So through that program, I go out and I do project surveys that do the actual design often with help from a state engineer and go through all the permitting process.
And then we're able to fund up to 50% or up to 70% depending on the project.
And that's all dictated through that ATP 50.
So the main projects that we can do are agriculture practices, stream crossings and different shoreline protection. So here's a couple of example, an example of a farm project that we had done in the town of Saxon.
Some of our stream crossing projects. So this is an issue that we might have and show up to this was actually with the town of Anderson.
And you can see that the in this case, the road is washing out depositing a bunch of gravel into the stream and black one adjacent.
Shoreline protection. So here we're having a bunch of erosion that would be causing sedimentation into in this case, a lake.
And so we can design something to mitigate that shoreline and erosion and protective.
Now, kind of that other part of our department, we do a ton of work within basis species. So both terrestrial and aquatics.
So you can see here, this was a day with along the Montreal River up here in Hurley, where we have early sixth graders that come out and pull a bunch of garlic mustard.
Every year we've been doing that partnership for probably about 18 years.
And we some of our invasive species. This is called wild parsnip and that has a health concern.
So if you get into that, and you're in the sunlight, the juices of the plant can cause a severe rash are worse than poison ivy as our highway worker found out.
And then we have the aquatic side where we do some management with aquatic invasive species as well. There's picture of us working on some curly leaf pond weed down in the town of Mercer.
And here is a flowerage, finding water flea that we had sampled and we're doing some data collection with water quality. So again, we monitor and actively work with volunteers and over 37 lakes across the county.
This year, just last week, I was at the Wisconsin Lakes Convention and one of our water quality volunteers got a state recognition, which is a very, very competitive.
Award, and he was awarded for all of his service for Wisconsin lakes, specifically his work on spider lake and Mercer.
And we do a ton of, like I said, a ton of outreach and education. So both adults, you can see here, we did a pontoon cruise so that people kind of understand some of their lake ecology and brought folks out to that lake to look at some of their concerns from DNR.
Here we did conservation on tap a few years back, just educating the public and different natural resource things and we do a lot of education and outreach in the schools.
We did a wound project and then we're talking about watersheds and healthy watersheds and then we run our conservation camp for high school students.
So if anybody ever has questions, our door is always open. Our office is in the forestry and highway building down on 30 Avenue.
And so, come and talk to us and figure out what we're doing.
Thank you.
The first another right.
Yes, this is our new Molly has been on the job for about four weeks. She's doing an excellent job.
She has a double masters coming from and out of Ann Arbor, but she's a Wisconsin.
So she's really excited to be up here in Northern Wisconsin.
Thank you.
Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you for the time.
Heather won an award last summer. She was running the best in the state.
Which was conservation of the year.
That was nice. So we have somebody to find his people working for us.
Okay.
That covers everything.
Communities like the john at the end of this.
Sorry.
Okay.
I think we are new to the board.
Would you please leave me outside that I can sit down and then?
Yeah.
Hi, there you go.
Can you go over here?
Thursday.
Thank you.
That was some real time.
I love you.
Yeah.
Thank you.
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