WAUPACA COUNTY PUBLIC PROPERTY COMMITTEE

MINUTES – January 9, 2015

Chr. Johnson called the meeting to order at 9:02 a.m. and gave the open meeting statement.

Roll call.   Suprs. Johnson, Zaug, Boyer, Spierings and Rohan present.   Others present:  Mary Robbins, Tom Claussen, Chuck Price, Shannon Kelly and Leighton Trice.

Review and Approve agenda.  Motion:  Supr. Boyer moved and Supr. Zaug seconded the motion to approve the agenda.  The motion carried without a negative vote.

Minutes-December 12, 2014.  Motion:  Supr. Rohan moved and Supr. Zaug seconded the motion to approve the previous minutes.  The motion carried without a negative vote.

Public Comment.  None.

Maintenance Updates – Leighton Trice, Maintenance Director.  

            Seal Coat – Leighton will be asking Finance to carryover the budgeted $15,000 from last year to this year because it wasn’t enough to cover the proposal amounts.

            Fire Inspector – Leighton explained that he has the Fire Chief come through in July and December of every year to do an inspection of the entire building.  This year when he came through he found a lot of extension cords and Christmas lights that weren’t LED.  Leighton will be working on a policy that states they need to be plugged directly into a power strip with a breaker and not into an extension cord.  He will bring this policy into the committee for approval.

            Next month’s meeting he will bring in the renewal contracts for Building Services Group and for the HVAC.

2^nd Floor Lobby – Dept. of Health & Human Services. –  Director Chuck Price and Deputy Director Shannon Kelly. Chuck is bringing back the remodeling plan ideas that they had presented before and showed the committee what some high school students had designed for user friendly lobby area.  They sold the group homes for a total of $198,000 and they will spend $95,000 for remodeling of Waupaca County Industries (WCI) and the remaining $90,000 will go to replace the front gate by the reception area, planter area, refresh that area, put in a desk area, accessible doors in the bathrooms and furniture in the lobby area.  In the reception area they would like to remove the glass barrier, maybe widen the counter and if money allows, make walls with doors to the back area that they could escape but would lock behind them.  Once they have a more formal plan and some estimates they will bring this back to the committee for approval.

Supr. Boyer is worried about the safety of employees and would like to see more plans, not sure removing the glass would be the best idea.  This is something we need to think about carefully.

The committee made a tour of the second floor lobby.

Adjourn.  Motion:  Supr. Zaug moved and Supr. Boyer seconded the motion to adjourn the meeting at 9:35 a.m.  Motion carried without a negative vote.

Mary A. Robbins

County Clerk