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Kenosha County Board: key votes on ethics, rules, grants and appointments
Summary
At its March 4 meeting the county board approved an ethics ordinance, several grant acceptances and appointments, passed multiple resolutions, and considered but failed an ordinance updating board rules.
The Kenosha County Board of Supervisors on March 4 took votes on multiple resolutions and ordinances, approving an ethics ordinance, several grants and appointments, and rejecting a proposed amendment to board rules after roll-call voting.
The board unanimously approved Ordinance 18, an update to the county ethics policy, after committee review and years of drafting. Supervisor Morrissey moved the ordinance and supervisors voted to adopt the updated code, which the county attorney and committee members developed over a multi-year process.
An effort to amend the county board rules (Ordinance 17, second reading) produced extended debate and three late amendments proposed by Supervisor Gersten. The bundled amendments passed 12–8 on a preliminary vote, but the full ordinance as amended failed the required two-thirds threshold on the final roll call, receiving 15 yes and 5 no and therefore did not pass.
Other items approved unanimously:
- Resolution 86: appointment of Supervisor Daniel Gashke to the Kenosha County Human Services Board (moved by Supervisor Franco). Approved unanimously.
- Resolution 89: governmental responsibility resolution for urban nonpoint source and stormwater grants (moved by committee; approved unanimously).
- Resolution 90: acceptance of a Bureau of Justice Assistance award to purchase deployable license plate readers for the sheriff’s office in the amount of $18,757 (moved by Supervisor Belski). The board approved acceptance of the grant; the item required a two-thirds vote and passed unanimously.
- Resolution 91: acceptance of the 2023 annual report for the county’s multi-jurisdictional plan (moved by Supervisor Brown). Approved unanimously.
Several zoning ordinances also passed unanimously on first reading: Ordinance 20 (rezoning in the Town of Brighton) and Ordinance 21 (rezoning in the Town of Paris). The board also approved meeting minutes and referred several communications to committees as listed in the agenda.
Where votes required special thresholds, the clerk announced them and roll calls were taken. The board’s failure to adopt Ordinance 17 as amended maintains the prior rules as the governing procedure until further action. Board members and staff said the ethics ordinance and other approvals will enable implementation steps in multiple departments and will return to committees as needed for execution.
