These are the most powerful Dane County Committees and who the Dane County Board Chair Analiese Eicher appointed to each one of them. Note, unlike the city council, a county board member elected by the body and not a member of the executive branch appoints members of the county board to their major committees. County Executive Joe Parisi makes other appointments to committees.
MEMO FROM COUNTY BOARD CHAIR ANALIESE EICHER
Re: Standing and Continuing Committee Appointments for the 2020-2022 Term
I am today making the standing and continuing committee appointments as shown on the attached list. Some committees generated much greater interest than others, making appointments challenging.
The first person listed is designated to call the first committee meeting. Committees will elect a chair from among their members at the first meeting (it has been our practice that all members be present to elect a chair). Committees should determine which night and at what time they will regularly meet, based on the preferences of the members.
As you know, the County Board has been meeting remotely over the past six weeks and we have held a limited number of standing committee meetings, with only essential items on the agendas. Our learning curve with remote meeting technology and protocol has been steep and swift. In anticipation of the continuation of Safer at Home, Board Office staff has worked with standing committee staff so they are confident supporting your meetings. For now, this is our new normal and I believe we need to move forward with the work of the County Board in this new term.
Thank you for your input into the appointment process, and good luck as you address the important county issues facing your committee. Please let me know if you have any questions or other suggestions.
2020-2022 COUNTY BOARD STANDING COMMITTEES
Bold indicates new county board supervisors. From the memo “The person listed first is designated to call the first committee meeting. Committee officers will be elected at the first meeting when all members are present.” I can 99% guarantee that these folks will be the chair of each of these committees.
ENVIRONMENT, AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Ritt, Chawla, Gray, Hatcher, Levin, McGinnity
HEALTH AND HUMAN NEEDS
Doyle, Adkins, Bare, Downing, Haasl, Kilmer, Wegleitner
PERSONNEL AND FINANCE
Miles, Audet, Chenoweth, Eicher, Erickson, Schauer, Stubbs
PUBLIC PROTECTION AND JUDICIARY
McCarville, Andrae, Bayrd, Joers, Krause, Peterson, Schwellenbach
PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION
Ratcliff, DeGarmo, Ripp, Rusk, Veldran
ZONING AND LAND REGULATION
Bollig, Doolan, Kiefer, Peters, Smith
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Eicher, Bayrd, Chawla, DeGarmo, Erickson, Haasl, Peters
Continuing County Board Committees
Land Conservation Committee:
Ritt, Chawla, Downing, Gray, Hatcher, Levin, McGinnity
(plus a citizen member to be designated by the Farm Service Agency county chair)
UW Extension Committee:
Stubbs, Downing, Joers, McGinnity, Ratcliff, Ripp
City County Liaison Committee:
Schauer, Doolan, Kilmer
Kassel – Dane County Task Force:
Erickson, Downing, McCarville, Ratcliff, Veldran
