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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
September 13, 2022
The Executive Committee of the Grant County Board of Supervisors met on Tuesday,
September 13, 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 Carol
Beals, Donald Splinter, John Beinborn, Roger Guthrie, Robert Keeney, and Steve (Porter)
Wagner. A quorum was present. Shane Drinkwater, Carrie Eastlick, Amanda Degenhardt,
Joyce Roling, Andrea Noethe, Jeff Kindrai, Garry Pluemer, Nate Dreckman, Tonya White, Lori
Reid, Jody Bartels, Tina McDonalds, Carrie Kerstiens, Amy Olson, Lisa Riniker, and Kristin
Schier 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.
John Beinborn, seconded by Donald Splinter, moved to approve the agenda. Motion carried
without negative vote.
Porter Wagner, seconded by Roger Guthrie, moved to approve the minutes of August 9, 2022.
Motion carried without negative vote.
Donald Splinter, seconded by Porter Wagner, moved to approve the minutes of August 16, 2022.
Motion carried without negative vote.
Finance
Donald Splinter, seconded by John Beinborn, moved to approve the Treasurer’s Report. Motion
carried without negative vote.
Carol Beals, seconded by John Beinborn, moved to approve the Health Department request to
increase their credit card limits from $5,000 to $10,000. Motion carried without negative vote.
Robert Keeney, seconded by Porter Wagner, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
Child Support budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
John Beinborn, seconded by Porter Wagner, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
Clerk of Court’s budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
Robert Keeney, seconded by Roger Guthrie, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
Corporation Counsel budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
Donald Splinter, seconded by Porter Wagner, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
County Board and County Board Chair budget as presented. Motion carried without negative
vote.
Roger Guthrie, seconded by John Beinborn, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
County Clerk budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
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Roger Guthrie, seconded by Donald Splinter, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
County Treasurer budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
John Beinborn, seconded by Robert Keeney, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
District Attorney budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
John Beinborn, seconded by Porter Wagner, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
Victim Witness budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
Don Splinter, seconded by Robert Keeney, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
Finance budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
Carol Beals, seconded by Porter Wagner, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
Information Technology budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
Roger Guthrie, seconded by John Beinborn, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
Personnel budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
John Beinborn, seconded by Robert Keeney, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
Register in Probate budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
Porter Wagner, seconded by John Beinborn, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
Treatment Court budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
Don Splinter, seconded by Roger Guthrie, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
Register of Deeds and Land Information budget as presented. Motion carried without negative
vote.
John Beinborn, seconded by Robert Keeney, moved to forward to the County Board the 2023
Land Information budget as presented. Motion carried without negative vote.
Donald Splinter, seconded by Robert Keeney, moved to approve the vouchers. Motion carried
without negative vote.
Donald Splinter, seconded by Roger Guthrie, moved to accept the Revenue and Expense
Reports. Motion carried without negative vote.
John Beinborn, seconded by Porter Wagner, moved to accept the Finance Director’s report. Motion
carried without negative vote.
Information Technology
System Downtimes
08/29/2022 The County network had a 30 min downtime due to replacing Active
Directory controllers at CSB and the Administration building. The controllers were
replaced because of a security setting that was being used for testing with Azure. The
security setting rendered the administrator account locked. IT used a backup from the
previous weekend to restore a version of Active Directory before the change was made.
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9/12/2022 12:50 Administration building 1st floor UPS failed during an annual generator
test. IT transferred a UPS from the 3rd floor that was redundant. IT has ordered a UPS as
a replacement for the 1st floor UPS failure.
Network review
a.) IT has reconfigured the county’s network for full network connectivity to Unified
Services.
b.) IT has joined the Unified’s Active Directory to the County’s Active Directory. This will
allow IT to migrate users and email accounts from the Unified domain to the Grant
County domain.
c.) IT network utilization at the fairgrounds during fair. The graphs below represent all
traffic in and out of the UW Extension core network switch.
County Systems
a. The IT Director and 1 IT team member attended Cyber Response training.
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b. IT has started a phone system upgrade/install for Unified Services. Once completed
Unified Services will be using the county’s phone system. Most of the needed equipment
is on order and has started to arrive.
c. IT has been working with Azure on the following items
a. MFA for county pcs on and off the network
b. Endpoint management device management for Windows, Android and Apple
devices
i. IT is now provisioning tablets for the Highway department
ii. IT will be looking to provision all devices the county owns with Endpoint
Management.
c. ADFS (Active Directory Federated Services) connectivity to Tyler Munis. IT is
waiting for Tyler Munis to schedule time for testing.
d. IT has Hybrid device joins working with on premise Active Directory and Cloud
using Azure.
d. IT has started testing on what is the best microphone for the County Board room. IT
ordered a microphone for testing.
Public Safety Communications System/ Grant County Fiber optic loop
a.) The County is moving the Highway departments fiber optic cable to the east side of
Adams street to avoid issues from the old Sheriff’s office sale.
b.) IT is working with Lancaster Schools to help provide transport to WiscNet in Platteville
and the old Scenic Rivers facility.
The motion was made to accept the IT Director’s report by Porter Wagner, Seconded by John
Beinborn. Motion carried without negative vote.
Employee Relations
Staffing Update: Current staffing numbers as of September 10, 2022, are as follows:
Full time Benefit 270
Regular Part time Benefit 27
Part time 54
Limited term and seasonal 86
TOTAL 437
Roger Guthrie, seconded by Porter Wagner, moved to approve the Fair Board request to pay out
overtime instead of comp time to Fair staff during Fair time with a fiscal impact of $3745 to be
paid out of current budget. Motion carried without negative vote.
Carol Beals, seconded by John Beinborn, moved to approve the Health Department request to
approve step increases for remaining PH Nurses and Nursing Compliance and Quality
Coordinator as presented, with a fiscal impact of the following, to be absorbed in the Public
Health Budget. Remainder of 2022: $4286.85, and 2023: $11,297.73. Motion carried with two
negative votes.
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Roger Guthrie, seconded by Porter Wagner, moved to approve the Promoted or transferred
employee, Classification Review, and Non-rep pay policy updates to insure consistent language
reflecting time between increment steps. Motion carried without negative vote.
Joyce Roling will review policies addressing employee non-voluntary downward moves in the
policies to clarify step placement and will bring to the committee within the next couple of
months.
Roger Guthrie, seconded by Porter Wagner, moved to approve the Personnel Director’s report.
Motion carried without negative vote.
John Beinborn, seconded by Carol Beals, 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.
Roll call vote resulted in a carried motion.
John Beinborn, seconded by Porter Wagner, moved to return to open Session. Motion carried without negative vote.
Roger Guthrie, seconded by Porter Wagner, moved to adjourn to October 4, 2022, at 9:00 a.m.
Motion carried without negative vote.