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County Administrator Alayne Krause updates Executive Committee on staffing, ERP work and privacy-law compliance
Summary
At the Jan. 28 meeting, County Administrator Alayne Krause reported a new administrative assistant, ongoing ERP training, a preliminary compensation-study draft, and plan for Medical Examiner recruitment; she also flagged county compliance needs under Wisconsin Act 235 effective April 2025.
County Administrator Alayne Krause told the Sheboygan County Executive Committee on Jan. 28 that the County has hired a new administrative assistant for the County Administrator’s Department and is advancing several operational projects ahead of the 2026 budget cycle.
Krause said meetings about performance evaluations, previously held with department heads, have been extended to include elected officials. She also reported that the current Medical Examiner will retire in early February and that recruitment for that position is underway.
Krause described progress on organizational initiatives: an RFP for employee engagement and organizational-development services produced a selected consultant; consultants for the county’s ERP conversion are on site conducting in-person training; and a preliminary draft of recommendations from the county’s compensation study has been received and is under review with an aim to finalize recommendations before 2026 budget development.
Krause additionally advised the committee that Wisconsin Act 235, known in the meeting as the Judicial Privacy Act and effective April 2025, will require compliance changes across multiple county departments. She characterized the Act as creating targeted privacy protections for certain judicial officers and said county departments will need to adjust procedures to meet the new statutory requirements.
The committee subsequently discussed the administrator’s annual performance evaluation in a closed session and later approved the evaluation with modifications to goals and directed it be filed with Human Resources. No specifics of the closed-session deliberations were disclosed when the committee returned to open session.
Next steps documented during the meeting include continuing recruitment for the Medical Examiner position, completing review and adjustments to the compensation-study recommendations, and coordinating department-level work to meet Act 235 compliance requirements.
