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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04 Executive Minutes 2022 4 12Approved 5/10/2022 Page 1 of 3 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE April 12, 2022 The Executive Committee of the Grant County Board of Supervisors met on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 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, Dwight Nelson, Robert Keeney, Mike Lieurance and John Patcle. A quorum was present. Shane Drinkwater, Amanda Degenhardt, Joyce Roling, Tonya White, Carrie Kerstiens, Jon Knautz, Carol Schwartz, Garry Pluemer, Jeff Kindrai, John Beinborn, Lori Reid, and Tina McDonald 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 John Patcle, moved to approve the agenda. Motion carried without negative vote. Mark Stead, seconded by Donald Splinter, moved to approve the minutes of March 8, 2022 as corrected. Motion carried without negative vote. Donald Splinter, seconded by Mark Stead, moved to create a proposal to add Grant County Economic Development employees as Grant County employees of record. Motion carried without negative vote. Mark Stead, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to recommend for approval to the County Board up to $21,800 on out of budget spending for Results, Tally and Reporting System. Motion carried without negative vote. Finance Mark Stead, seconded by Dwight Nelson, moved to approve the Treasurer’s Report. Motion carried without negative vote. Dwight Nelson, seconded by Robert Keeney, moved to accept the vouchers. Motion carried without negative vote. Mark Stead, seconded by Donald Splinter, moved to accept the Revenue and Expense Reports. Motion carried without negative vote. Mike Lieurance, seconded by Dwight Nelson, moved to accept the Finance Director’s report. Motion carried without negative vote. Information Technology Action on out of budget spending for PCAN fiber optic splicing using ARPA funding was postponed until the May meeting. Approved 5/10/2022 Page 2 of 3 Network review a. The County’s IT department is currently configuring a new SIPerator firewall for the County’s Mitel Phone system. The project is on hold until CCCP can fix a licensing issue with the SIPerator. b. The IT department has started to push out the 2022 – 2023 SSL certificate for public facing hosts on the co.grant.wi.gov. c. The IT team will be upgrading the Administration and CSB Buildings Core switches due to known CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) with the current version of firmware. County Systems a. IT migrated the Nimble storage array that was located at CSB to the Administration Building. Once the array was up and running all of the Administration Buildings VMs were migrated to the Nimble. b. The IT Team will be attending the GIPAW Conference on May 18 – 20th. c. The IT team attended the CDW IT conference in Madison Wisconsin. The team is looking at new products that were presented in the vendor show. Products of interest were firewalls and MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) solutions. d. The County IT and register of Deeds has started the Fiddler migration from GCTaxland. e. The County IT department is working with Citrix on MDM (Mobile Device Management) issues. Currently the MDM system is not able to register new devices. f. MFA deployment a. IT has multiple support tickets open with FortiGate on bugs we have discovered. So far FortiGate has been unresponsive to our support tickets. g. The IT team is working on the following VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) projects a. Social Services Social workers’ desktops. IT is working with Social Services on issues and bugs being discovered in the VDI environment. Public Safety Communications System/ Grant County Fiber optic loop a. The County is reviewing the correct fiber optic paths for the 2022 towers. b. The County has contracted with USIC to do fiber location services for the County. c. The redundant fiber in Lancaster is complete. IT has setup redundant paths for Highway and UW Extension to the CSB Community Services Building. d. IT is working with Platteville (PCAN) on 911 and LDP connections using the Lancaster – Platteville fiber optics. Mike Lieurance, seconded by John Patcle, moved to approve the Information Technology Director’s report. Motion carried without negative vote. Employee Relations Staffing Update: Current staffing numbers as of April 09, 2022, are as follows: Full time Benefit 276 Regular Part time Benefit 28 Part time 66 Approved 5/10/2022 Page 3 of 3 Limited term and seasonal 96 TOTAL 466 Dwight Nelson, seconded by Robert Keeney, moved to approve the Health Department request to approve the reclassification of Social Worker MSW from grade I to grade J of the wage schedule as recommended by the consultant. Motion carried without negative vote. Donald Splinter, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to recommend for approval the updated Drug and Alcohol Testing policy for CDL Drivers governed by FMCSA. Motion carried without negative vote. Mike Lieurance, seconded by Robert Keeney, moved to recommend for approval to the County Board, the request to offer Liberty National (Globe Life) employee paid supplemental insurance to Grant County employees. Mark Stead, seconded by Donald Splinter, moved to end the new position moratorium effective immediately. Motion carried without negative vote. Mike Lieurance, seconded by Dwight Nelson, moved to approve the Personnel Director’s report. Motion carried without negative vote. Mark Stead, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to go into closed session per state statutes: a. 19.85 (1) (c) considering employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility as it relates to the performance evaluation of the Information Technology Director and, b. 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. Roll call vote resulted in a carried motion. Donald Splinter, seconded by John Patcle, moved to return to open Session. Motion carried without negative vote. Mark Stead, seconded by Mike Lieurance, moved to adjourn to May 10, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. Motion carried without negative vote.