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MEETING: LAW
ENFORCEMENT COMMITTEE
TIME: MONDAY,
MAY 9, 2005 – 3 P.M.
PLACE: ROOM 226 –
CHIPPEWA COUNTY COURTHOUSE
AGENDA: 1.
Approve Minutes of April 11, 2005
Meeting
2.
Dennis Brown
a. Emergency Management Report
b. Update on 911/GIS
c. Discuss/Approve Purchase of
Suitcase Repeater
3.
Division Reports/Chief Deputy Report
4.
Review/Approve Bass Masters Large
Assembly License Application
5.
Review/Approve Resolution for Temporary
No Parking Zone for Towns of Arthur and
Wheaton
6.
Storage Building Resolution
7.
Communication Issues
8.
Public Health
9.
Sheriff’s Report
10.
Inspect and Approve Bills
11.
Set Next Meeting Date
12.
Adjourn
LAW
ENFORCEMENT COMMITTEE
MAY 9, 2005
ROOM 226 – CHIPPEWA COUNTY COURTHOUSE
Meeting called to order at 3 p.m. by Chair McConville.
Members Present: Lila McConville,
Dave Hillman, Jim Leschensky, Richard Schoch, and Bill Dixon.
Others Present: Doug Ellis, Dennis
Brown, Russell Bauer, Deb Odden, Mary Ann King, Eugene Gutsch, Tim Blizek, and
Jim Clark. Recorder:
Lisa Merrell.
Motion (Leschensky/Schoch) to approve the minutes of the April 11, 2005 meeting
as presented. Passed without
negative vote.
PUBLIC HEALTH
Odden was present to give the committee information on a program called
Wisconsin WINS, which aims to prevent youth tobacco sales.
Odden provided a handout giving the history of the program (copy on
file). The federal government
periodically comes through all states and does compliance checks to see who is
selling tobacco to minors. As the
federal government did their tobacco checks, it was apparent that Wisconsin was
above the national goal of 20% sales. They
were in danger of losing federal monies because of it.
After negotiations with the state and federal government, they decided to
adopt a program based on a model that was successful in other states.
The money goes to the local health departments from the State Department
of Health and Family Services.
They have staff that are trained to attempt to buy tobacco at retailers.
If the clerk appropriately checks them and refuses the sale because they
are underage, they get a reward. If
they attempt to make the sale, the youth backs out of the sale, but the clerk
gets a reminder. This year in
Wisconsin, there is a push for them to do local enforcement.
In Chippewa County, the Public Health Department contracts with the Council on
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse to do the compliance checks.
In 2002, of the 10 checks that they did, there were two attempted sales,
which was 20%, the federal cutoff. In
2003, they did 68 checks, with 14 attempted sales.
In 2004, they did 188 checks, and 21 were attempted sales, so they went
down to 11.17%. In 2005, they have a
contract with the state to do 252 compliance checks and start to do enforcement
activities. In preparation for this, the person that contracts through AODA went
with Odden to the law enforcement group on how to do this.
They felt it might be better to have an ordinance rather than going
through municipalities. They have
talked to the District Attorney’s office as far as prosecution and Ellis about
what the enforcement would entail. They
are having Jim Sherman draft an ordinance.
The reason they are here is this information has gone to the Board of Health,
and in their discussion there, they were talking about who would do the
enforcement piece. When they
discussed it with Ellis, he felt he didn’t have enough staff to do this, and
suggested the tickets be written by Public Health, similar to what Zoning does.
The Board of Health thought perhaps this was something they would want to
talk to Law Enforcement about because it presents a better unified community
picture if they are all working together. Odden
stated this morning she did a couple calls around to see what other counties do.
She checked with Eau Claire, Douglas, Polk, Pierce, Washburn and St.
Croix, and the situation there is the Public Health Department does the
compliance checks and law enforcement writes the tickets.
Ellis asked if law enforcement meant local law enforcement or the county.
Odden stated everybody was county except Pierce had a mix of county and
local municipality enforcement.
Ellis stated last year this was brought up when Rachel Anderson was District
Attorney. They talked about having
the Investigator in the District Attorney’s office doing the ticketing.
The new District Attorney is backing off his office doing it.
Odden approached Ellis and he suggested they do what Zoning does, have
the Board authorize them to write a citation for sale of underage tobacco
products. Ellis stated Public Health
is receiving a grant for this. Odden
stated the grant is $11,000, but only $1,000 is for the enforcement piece.
They get money to do the compliance checks, but to get the enforcement
program set up and running, they gave them $1,000, which will essentially be
tied up in staff time.
Odden stated they need to wait for the county process to get the ordinance in
place. Other counties have written
their ordinances so it could be an officer of the Health Department or a law
enforcement officer that write citations, so they have some options.
Odden stated when the discussion took place at the Board of Health, they felt it
would show a more unified picture to say this is important to Chippewa County if
they also had law enforcement in the picture.
Leschensky stated the concern he had is when you have people that don’t have
badges issuing citations, he isn’t real comfortable with that.
The people that get this ticket will not receive them favorably, and he
wouldn’t want to submit a health person to that kind of attitude.
Odden stated they wouldn’t write the citation at the time of the sale.
Ellis felt it would be better to have it all in one department.
Hillman thought they should see an ordinance.
Ellis stated Jim Sherman is drafting that.
STORAGE BUILDING RESOLUTION
Ellis stated this is a resolution for the Hebert property by the County shops
they have been trying to buy. It has
been appraised at $132,000, and they know there are some repairs that need to be
made, so they are asking for $132,000 plus $15,000 from the General Fund so
Jerry Sazama can start negotiating. They
have talked to Building and Grounds, Administrative, Highway, and Finance.
Ellis pointed out the Drywood Shed would be sold and proceeds left over
from that would be used to pay back some of these costs.
Motion (Hillman/Dixon) to approve the resolution as presented.
Passed without negative vote.
DENNIS BROWN
Emergency Management Report
Brown passed out his report. There
was a presidential directive last year requiring federal incident command
training. It will be a federal
requirement in fiscal year 2005 to get federal money.
They are looking at elected officials and response personnel.
Eventually they will have to have a resolution adopting the federal
incident command system.
Brown stated they are waiting for an update on the cost for a wall in the Boyd
water tower. This would be to reduce
humidity around their radio equipment.
911/GIS Update
The new equipment that Land Records has is the mobile mapper.
It takes the place of some fairly cumbersome equipment that they had in
the past. This new technology makes
it much quicker to shoot GPS points. Before,
they would shoot a group of them, so there was a lag time of the point getting
on the county mapping that Dispatch uses, but now they can shoot the point when
they put the address sign in.
Discuss/Approve Purchase of Suitcase Repeater
Brown stated when they did the exercise last year with the SWAT team, they found
communication in an institutional building was difficult.
Ellis suggested getting a suitcase repeater that could be set up within
the building so they could talk within the building better.
Brown stated he has the additional funds in an Emergency Management
Planning Grant, but it isn’t in his normal budget, so he would need committee
approval to buy it. It is an
allowable expense under the Emergency Planning grant.
Motion (Schoch/Hillman) to approve the purchase of a suitcase repeater from the
Emergency Planning Grant budget. Passed
without negative vote.
DIVISION REPORTS/CHIEF DEPUTY REPORT
Blizek passed out the communications report for April.
They are starting to get ready for the Fests.
The division is at full staff. They
continue to fight tower problems. They
are going to start working on north tower next week, to get it up and running.
Building and Grounds Committee has approved replacing the doors at the
tower site that got broken into.
COMMUNICATION ISSUES
Blizek stated they need to be looking at following up on the radio account or
putting money aside. They continue
to have east tower problems; their transmit from here is a little bit weak.
They had the Boyd site go down for a while.
At this point, Ellis wants to keep on top of this.
These are generally not cheap repairs, but it is a structure they have to
support. He is going to try to get
the radio service up here to look at this and give a complete report on what
needs to be done, so they can start making presentations on it.
Clark stated they may have heard Ellis say this in the past, but what the
county should actually do is not look at this as a Sheriff’s issue.
It is a countywide operation. If
it goes down, it is going to affect another municipality.
McConville stated the County Board needs to be educated on who is
affected by it.
Blizek stated he will make a presentation to the Policies and Procedures Board
and ask them to support their effort. The
big thing they will try to do is keep up with it so it runs efficiently and they
don’t end up with a big bill because they aren’t keeping up with it.
Blizek stated they are looking at getting a presentation ready for July
as to what is going on out there.
Gutsch passed out the monthly Field Services Division report for April.
In Patrol, April is a training month.
They have sent three members to Lake Geneva for Water Safety Patrol
training. They purchased a new boat
for Water Patrol, with expected delivery the first of June.
They have been meeting monthly since January, and they are meeting twice this
month with the Convention and Visitors Bureau regarding the Bass Masters event.
The logistics are pretty much being worked out as to how they will manage
the event. They have a good handle
on it.
One of their reserves got hired full time by Burnett County, so they are down to
seven. They are doing background
checks on nine applicants right now.
On the investigative report, he has two investigators assigned to nothing but
property crimes. Of the open actives
cases for April of 164, over 90 of those cases are being handled by the two
investigators. They are looking at
things they can do internally to give the investigators the time they need to
handle these cases.
REVIEW/APPROVE BASS MASTERS LARGE ASSEMBLY LICENSE APPLICATION
The application was passed out to members for review, as well as a letter from
Renee Yohnk regarding recycling issues for the event that are being worked on.
Motion (Leschensky/Dixon) to approve the application as presented.
Passed without negative vote.
REVIEW/APPROVE RESOLUTION FOR TEMPORARY NO PARKING ZONE FOR TOWNS OF ARTHUR AND
WHEATON
Motion (Leschensky/Hillman) to approve the resolution as presented.
Passed without negative vote.
The committee inspected the bills. Motion
(Hillman/Leschensky) to approve the bills as presented.
Passed without negative vote.
Next meeting – June 13, 2005 at 3 p.m.
Motion (Leschensky/Hillman) to adjourn. Carried.
Meeting adjourned at 3:58 p.m.
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