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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
January 10, 2019
The Executive Committee of the Grant County Board of Supervisors met on Tuesday,
January 10, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. in room 266 of the Administration Building, Lancaster, WI.
The meeting was called to order by Chair John Patcle. Other members present were Robert
Keeney, Mike Lieurance, Gary Ranum, Donald Splinter and Mark Stead. Therefore a quorum
was present. Carol Beals arrived during the meeting. Also in attendance were Carrie Eastlick,
Shane Drinkwater, Joyce Roling, Nancy Scott, Amy Miller, Carol Schwartz, Carrie Kerstiens,
and Lori Reid.
Notice of the meeting was sent to the media and the amended agenda was posted in the
Administration Building, Courthouse, and on the Grant County website.
Motion by Donald Splinter, seconded by Mark Stead, to approve the agenda with item 6 to be
addressed following item 4. Motion carried without negative vote.
Motion by Mark Stead, seconded by Mike Lieurance, to approve the minutes of the December 11
and December 19, 2018 meeting as corrected. Motion carried without negative vote.
Finance
Motion by Mark Stead, seconded by Mike Lieurance, to accept the December Treasurer’s
Report. Motion carried without negative vote.
Motion by Gary Ranum, seconded by Robert Keeney, to approved the request by Unified
Community Services to increase the Bookkeeper’s credit card limit to $10,000. Motion carried
without negative vote.
Motion by Carol Beals, seconded by Donald Splinter, to accept the December vouchers. Motion
carried without negative vote.
Motion by Mark Stead, seconded by Robert Keeney, to accept the December
Revenue/Expenditure Report. Motion carried without negative vote.
Motion by Mike Lieurance, seconded by Gary Ranum, to accept the Finance Director’s report.
Motion carried without negative vote.
Technology
System Downtimes
No system downtimes to report
Personal
a. Christine Douglas joined the IT team on 1/3/2019.
County systems review
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a. IT is standing up an electronic fax system for the county. Basic send and receive
functions are working. IT is now working on windows integration and deployment for
the health department.
b. The 3rd floor court room is now equipped and running with a new Polycom system.
Network review
a. IT has installed a single mode fiber at the AD building from the MDF to the second floor
IDF.
b. IT has purchased the following equipment to equip the first floor IDF with a 20 Gb
uplink from its current 1 Gb uplink
i. Aruba 2930M network switch
ii. 4 10Gb SFP+ modules
iii. Aruba 2930F network switch
iv. Fiber enclosures for the MDF and IDF’s
c. IT purchased a fiber fuser system. This will allow us to in house fiber maintenance.
d. IT purchased a set of double conversion UPS systems with management cards for the
Administration Building. The use of double conversion UPS systems fixed the errors
being reported by our NAS/SAN devices at the administration building.
New building
a. On 1/8/2019 the CSB building had a successful generator test.
b. On 1/14/2019 the CSB buildings UPS systems will be brought online. Once UPS
commissioning is complete IT will start its deployment of the network.
c. IT is burning in Servers and Storage equipment for the CSB Building.
d. Reviewing the 911 configuration for the new building. We will be working on how to
make the system more resilient to issues.
IT is reviewing WAN optimization software for the new building.
Employee Relations
Staffing Update: Current staffing numbers as of January 5, 2019 are as follows:
Full time Benefit 300
Regular Part time Benefit 80
Part time 67
Limited term and seasonal 75
TOTAL 522
Gary Ranum, seconded by Don Splinter, moved to approve the staffing update. Motion carried
without negative vote.
Mark Stead, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to approve the Child Support Administrator
request to carry over up to 40 hours of vacation. Motion carried without negative vote.
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Mark Stead, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to approve the Child Support request to fill the
vacant Administrative Assistant II position. Motion carried without negative vote.
Carol Beals, seconded by Robert Keeney, moved to approve the Health Department request to
increase the Nurse Practitioner rate from $40.98 to $60 per hour. Motion carried without
negative vote.
Gary Ranum, seconded by Mark Stead, moved to approve the Orchard Manor request to start the
Activities Manager at step 3 in the wage schedule. Motion carried without negative vote.
The committee discussed the department head evaluation forms.
Joyce Roling gave the Personnel Director’s report. Mike Lieurance, seconded by Don Splinter,
moved to approve the Personnel Director’s report. Motion carried without negative vote.
Mark Stead, seconded by Donald Splinter, moved to adjourn to February 12, 2019 at 8:30 a.m.
Motion carried without negative vote.