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Board adopts a slate of budget, finance and environment measures; tallies and brief notes
Summary
The Sauk County Board approved multiple resolutions and an ordinance covering depositories, donations, investment procedures, fee schedules, recreation grants, court funding advocacy and other routine matters. Vote tallies recorded in the meeting transcript are summarized below.
At its meeting the Sauk County Board of Supervisors considered and approved multiple routine and programmatic items. The transcript records motions, seconds and vote tallies for several items; the board adopted the measures listed below.
Votes at a glance
- Resolution 10-2025: Designating county depositories and establishing investment-related financial procedures. Vote: 30 in favor, 0 opposed, 0 abstain, 1 absent/excused. (Motion by Supervisor Rigo, second by Supervisor Doerner.)
- Resolution 11-2025: Gratefully accepting donations and gifts presented to Sauk County in 2024. Vote: 30 in favor, 0 opposed, 0 abstain, 1 absent/excused. (Motion by Supervisor Carver, second by Supervisor Everett.)
- Ordinance 2-2025: Amendment to Section 43.06, assessing service fees on worthless checks and processing overpayments. Vote: 30 in favor, 0 opposed, 0 abstain, 1 absent/excused. Sponsors said the change increases a longstanding $2 service fee to better cover administrative costs.
- Resolution 12-2025: Amendments to the Land Resources and Environment Department fee schedule (primarily adding a reposting fee for public hearings). Vote: 30 in favor, 0 opposed, 0 abstain, 1 absent/excused. (Motion by Supervisor Kinsman, second by Supervisor Spencer.)
- Resolution 13-2025: Authorize Sauk County to participate in Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Motorized Recreation Grant programs (snowmobile, ATV/UTV, OHM events). Vote: 30 in favor, 0 opposed, 0 abstain, 1 absent/excused. (Motion by Supervisor Polivka, second by Supervisor Kinsman.)
- Resolution 14-2025: Advisory resolution urging Governor Evers and the Wisconsin Legislature to increase state circuit-court funding (join WCCA and WCA requests). Vote: 30 in favor, 0 opposed, 0 abstain, 1 absent/excused.
- Resolution 15-2025: Authorize the director of Land Resources and Environment to accept multi-discharge variance funding and amend the 2025 budget. Vote: 29 in favor, 1 opposed, 0 abstain, 1 absent/excused. The opposition was recorded; Supervisor Pepper spoke earlier during related discussion and indicated he would withhold financial support for LRE until a personal permit issue is resolved.
Several routine procedural motions (agenda approval, minutes adoption and appointment confirmations) were approved by voice vote and recorded as carried. The transcript records motioners and seconders for the principal items above when indicated.
Where the transcript shows precise tallies, those are reported above. For a few items presented (notably Resolution 9-2025, the ADRC overlap hire), the transcript includes motions and debate but does not include the vote tally within the provided excerpt; those items are noted in a separate article.
All items above were presented as committee or staff recommendations and carried as described in the minutes excerpt.
