Waupaca County board places 2022 proposed budget on file and unanimously approves a package of resolutions

Heidi Dombrowski, Waupaca County finance director, presented the county’s proposed 2022 operating, special purpose and debt service budgets and placed the full proposal on file in the county clerk’s office; the board set a public hearing on the budget for Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, at 9:00 a.m.

The board then moved through a slate of resolutions, each approved unanimously (26-0). Major actions included: establishing a 50-cent per-dog license reimbursement for collecting officials who are not full‑time municipal employees (Resolution No. 25); setting board leadership pay at $13,500 for the chair and $1,200 for the vice chair and establishing per-diem amounts (Resolution No. 26); fixing the administrative coordinator salary at $5,000 (Resolution No. 27); authorizing a 2% wage/salary increase effective Jan. 1, 2022 for employees paid under the county wage schedules (Resolution No. 28); and approving staffing adjustments that add two telecommunicator positions in the sheriff’s office and expand one legal secretary to full time while eliminating or reducing several health and extension positions (Resolution No.…