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Human Services committee reviews director nominee, approves several board appointments
Summary
The Kenosha County Human Services committee questioned the county executive's nominee for department director about transparency and disease monitoring, and approved multiple board appointments including Supervisor Guita Brown and Andre Gamas.
The Kenosha County Human Services committee considered a county-executive resolution to appoint Rebecca (transcript alternately lists the nominee as "Rebecca Jer" and "Rebecca Dutter") as director of the Kenosha County Department of Human Services and received brief answers and plans from the nominee before moving on to other appointments.
Ashley Letterman, the county assistant director of human resources, introduced the nomination and said the executive sought committee support for the appointment. The nominee described a long history with the county — noting service as a contracted worker beginning in 1999 and as a county employee since 2016 — and said she is "humbled by the opportunity" to grow the department. She told the committee she favors greater transparency, including reviewing contracts on a five-year cycle and issuing RFPs to clarify services and fiscal responsibility.
Committee members asked about communicable-disease monitoring and a recent tick/Lyme disease question; the nominee and staff said the county has longstanding surveillance for Lyme disease and monitors tuberculosis and other conditions and that the department could arrange a future briefing by its communicable-disease team.
Separately, the committee moved and approved appointments to the Human Services Board and Board of Health. The transcript records the appointment of Supervisor Guita Brown to the Human Services Board and the appointment of Andre Gamas as approved with members voicing support; the committee recorded those appointments as unanimous in the provided segments. A motion to appoint Dr. Joseph B. Barta to the Kenosha County Board of Health was moved, but the roll-call outcome for that item is not clearly recorded in the supplied transcript segments.
The transcript contains inconsistent spellings of the director nominee's name; the committee discussion and nominee's responses are reported above exactly as they appear in the meeting record. The committee did not take additional public-policy actions in the included segments.
