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Home My WebLink About10 Executive Minutes 2021 10 12Approved 11/09/2021 Page 1 of 4 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE October 12, 2021 The Executive Committee of the Grant County Board of Supervisors met on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. The meeting was held in the County Board Room of the Administration building and via Zoom. The meeting was called to order by Chair, Gary Ranum. Other members present were Mark Stead, Donald Splinter, Mike Lieurance, Dwight Nelson, and Robert Keeney. John Patcle asked to be excused. Therefore a quorum was present. Shane Drinkwater, Joyce Roling, Carrie Eastlick, Amanda Degenhardt, Carrie Kerstiens, Carol Schwartz, Tonya White, Andrea Noethe, Jody Bartels, Tina McDonald, Kristin Schier, Lori Ried, Steve Braun, Garry Pluemer, Lynda Schweikert, Darla Adams, Jeff Kindrai, Travis Kramer, Ken McAndrew, Jon Knautz, Fred Naatz, Jay Bennett from Johnson & Block, and Conner Campbell from UWP, were also in attendance. Notice of the meeting was posted in the Grant County Herald Independent, Administration Building, Courthouse, and on the Grant County website. Donald Splinter, seconded by Dwight Nelson, moved to approve the agenda with discussion of budget related items under line item 8 be discussed during the budget discussion. Motion carried without negative vote. Mark Stead, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to approve the minutes of September 16, 2021. Motion carried without negative vote. Finance Jay Bennett reviewed the 2020 Audit Report. Mark Stead, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to approve the Treasurer’s Report. Motion carried without negative vote. Finance Director Amanda Degenhardt presented the status of the 2021 budget and reviewed options to balance. One of the options discussed was to increase the single health plan employee contribution. After discussion, Mark Stead, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to retain the current single plan employee contribution for 2022. Motion carried with one negative vote. After further budget discussion, Robert Keeney, seconded by Donald Splinter, moved to balance the budget by using $490,920 of debt repayment outside the levy limit to increase the mill rate. Motion carried without negative vote. Donald Splinter, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to accept the vouchers. Motion carried without negative vote. Mark Stead, seconded by Robert Keeney, moved to accept the revenue and expense report. Motion carried without negative vote Approved 11/09/2021 Page 2 of 4 Information Technology System Downtimes Various small downtime events due to Administration Building’s Core switch update and install between 9/21 and 10/01. Network review a. IT is working with the Finance department on a Spring Brook upgrade. Currently the project is paused due to the County’s Budget process. b. IT has finished implementing a 2nd 8320 for the Administration building. c. IT has updated all of the County’s 8320 switches to the latest firmware. d. IT will be replacing the CSB 8320 B switch due to bad ports. e. IT has started VMWare upgrades for the County. i. vSphere has been updated to the version latest version of 7. ii. IT will be extending the CSBs distributed virtual switch to the AD Building. iii. Once the distributed virtual switch is extended IT will start up grading the Administrations Buildings VMWare hosts to 7. f. IT is working with TDS and the Sheriff’s Office on a remediation strategy for the July 3rd 911 and phone outage. g. IT has completed the installation of an Access point to the roof of the Administration building to provide support for body camera downloads and provide public Wi-Fi to the Court House West court yard. County Systems a. IT is working with the Finance department on a Spring Brook upgrade. Currently the project is paused due to the County’s Budget process. b. IT is working with maintenance on installation of new fire panels for the Administration Building and Court house. The only item left for IT is the installation of a fiber optic module in the Administration Buildings fire panel. c. The IT team is working on the following VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) projects i. OM Kiosk for Orchard manor CNA staff ii. OM nursing terminals iii. Social Services Social workers desktops d. IT is working with Unified on the following projects i. Migration of all virtual machines from Unified’ s Lancaster server to the County’s VMWare private cloud. The Exchange server was migrated on 10/7. ii. Configuration of the County’s backup systems to include Unified’ s server infrastructure. The Exchange server was completely backed up by the County on 10/8 iii. Migration of Unified’ s email system to the County’s infrastructure. iv. Deployment of a F80 firewall at Dodgeville. Approved 11/09/2021 Page 3 of 4 v. Unified is currently deploying the County’s OpenVPN system to all of remote workers. Public Safety Communications System/ Grant County Fiber optic loop a. The County has been notified that fiber optic cable will be arriving within the next week. b. Installation of fiber conduit has started on HWY 129 and CTY G. Work is expected to start on the LCAN loop this week. c. IT has ordered 2 Cisco NCS 540 routers. The estimated lead time for the hardware is 140 days. d. The County is working with our fiber installer on next years order for 2022 portion of the loop. e. IT has submitted permit requests from the state for i. Platteville 151 crossing ii. Lancaster to CTY E iii. CTY F to Fennimore Tower site Mark Stead, seconded by Donald Splinter, moved to approve the IT Directors report. Motion carried without negative vote. Employee Relations Staffing Update: Current staffing numbers as of October 07, 2021, are as follows: Full time Benefit 278 Regular Part time Benefit 40 Part time 68 Limited term and seasonal 97 TOTAL 483 Mike Lieurance, seconded by Donald Splinter, moved to approve the ADRC request to start the Platteville Mealsite Manager at step 2 effective date of hire. Motion carried without negative vote. Dwight Nelson, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to approve the Health Department request to offer a $4000 sign on bonus for RN new hires. ½ to be paid after completion of one year of employment and the remainder paid after completion of 2 years of employment. Motion carried with one no vote. Donald Splinter, seconded by Robert Keeney, moved to recommend for approval to the County Board the resolution establishing non-represented wages for 2022 and modifying the wage schedule with a fiscal impact of $507,000, with the suggested language change. Motion carried without negative vote. Mike Lieurance, seconded by Donald Splinter, moved to recommend for approval to the County Board the resolution establishing the County Board Chair salary for 2022 with a fiscal impact of $1,201. Motion carried without negative vote. Approved 11/09/2021 Page 4 of 4 Mark Stead, seconded by Robert Keeney, moved to recommend for approval to the County Board the resolution regarding changing the mileage reimbursement from the IRS rate to the State rate effective January 1, 2022, with an expected savings of approximately $25,000. Motion carried without negative vote. Mark Stead, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to approve the Personnel Directors report. Motion carried without negative vote. Mark Stead, seconded by Donald Splinter, moved to go into closed session per state statute 19.85(1)(e) deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business, whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session as it relates to WPPA contract negotiations. Motion carried without negative vote. Donald Splinter, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to return to open Session. Motion carried without negative vote. Mark Stead, seconded by Donald Splinter, moved to adjourn to November 9, 2021 at 8:30 a.m. Motion carried without negative vote.