Bryan Beseler was elected Chair by a 15-7 vote over outgoing Chair Larry Jepsen. First Vice-Chair will be Keith Radiske with a 14-8 tally over Pat Schmidt. Second Vice-Chair will be Pat Schmidt, with 12 votes to Gerald Newville's 8 votes.
Turning to committee assignments, five elected positions were filled on the Highway Committee, which will consist of the following Supervisors, Jay Luke, Arthur Gamache, Marvin Caspersen, Herschel Brown and Dean Johansen.
Several rounds of balloting were needed to elect five members for the Finance Committee. Three Supervisors were elected to join Chairman Beseler and one appointed member, Gary Bergstrom. Elected were Katherine Kienholz, Mick Larsen, and Brian Masters.
Personnel membership includes First Vice-Chair Radiske, two appointed members, Russ Arcand and Pat Schmidt, and two elected members, Jerry Newville and Herschel Brown.
Chairman Beseler will also serve on the Property, Forestry and Recreation Committee. In previous Boards, the County Board Chair appointed two members of the Property, Forestry and Recreation Committee, and two more were elected by the Board. Because the committee faces important work over the next two years, the Board decided that Beseler should have a position on that committee. Joining Beseler will be the two appointed members, Joan Peterson and Larry Jepsen. Two more Supervisors were elected to serve on this committee, Mick Larsen and Russ Arcand.
Land & Water/Land Quarry/Extension membership consist of two appointed members, Dean Johansen, and Katherine Kienholz, along with two elected members, Larry Jepsen and myself.
Public Protection will be overseen by appointed members Jay Luke and Brian Masters, along with elected members Kim O'Connell, Neil Johnson, and Joan Peterson.
Land Information Committee appointments were Kim O'Connell, Pat Messicci and Arthur Gamache. Ken Sample and Keith Radiske were elected to this committee.
The Golden Age Manor Board was re-constituted although the previous Board voted to sell the care facility. That sale has not yet closed, so the county must continue to operate the facility. Pat Schmidt, (a vocal supporter of the sale) will serve on the Golden Age Manor Board because she is the Second Vice-Chair. Joining her are appointed member Jerry Newville. Bob Dueholm was elected to serve.
Human Services Committee will have appointed members Ken Sample, Marvin Caspersen and myself. Elected to the committee were Jim Edgell and Pat Messicci.
Jim Edgell and Bob Dueholm were appointed to the Health & Aging Committee, while Neil Johnson and Gary Bergstrom were elected to positions.
We spent a great deal of time going through proposed amendments to the Rules of Order in an effort to avoid some of the problems we had during the last County Board. We made some changes that I think will help the Board run more smoothly.
We voted to continue the Ad-Hoc Renewable Energy Committee. After some debate over whether the size of the committee should be reduced because members are paid a $40 per diem to attend meetings, the citizen membership was increased by one to allow former Supervisor Jeff Peterson to continue serving on the committee. Losing Peterson's contributions to this committee would have been a setback, so I'm glad he will be allowed to continue his service. Two Supervisors will join Jeff Petersen: Larry Jepsen and Arthur Gamache. Six additional citizen members round out the committee.
One of the last items on the agenda was consideration of a Resolution to increase compensation for elected County officials, including the County Clerk, County Treasurer, Register of Deeds, by 3% in 2009 and 2.5% in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Supervisor Edgell moved to table the Resolution and his motion was seconded by Herschel Brown. The vote on the motion to table, however, was 7-16, so the motion failed. Arthur Gamache proposed an amendment to reduce the annual raises to 1.5%. That amendment passed 14-9.
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