Courts - Remove Safe & Secure Exchange Program.
Will result in safety issues between parents of children that cannot comply with court ordered visitation exchanges, without supervision.
Human Services - Reach Counseling program cuts
Will result in no persons (sexual abused) being served.
LWCD - Reduce land owner grants for water runoff projects.
Will reduce the rate by which we are reducing the contaminants entering Lake Winnebago from adjacent property owners.
Veterans - Reduce temp help used to assist veterans and for driving them to appointments.
Less veterans will be able to be served because of a lack of help and drivers.
Courts - Teen Court Coordinator will be required to take 10 days of unpaid leave per year.
Fewer cases will be accepted in to the program and children that otherwise could have successfully avoided the formal court process will have a juvenile court record. Could cause staff to seek alternate employment.
Courts - The Volunteers in Probation Coordinator will be required to take 10 days of unpaid leave per year.
Result to the public is that fewer cases may be accepted into the program and individuals that otherwise could have successfully had their case dismissed, will now have a permanent criminal conviction. Could cause staff to seek alternate employment.
Courts - Cut back Court Mediation Services by 20%.
Fewer cases will be handled through the process. Effect on community is that many individuals will have civil judgments entered on cases that otherwise could have been settled before a judgment is entered. And, additional hearings required will likely result in longer backlogs through the court system.
County Roads - Reduce maintenance on about 2.3 miles of the County Road system.
Road surface maintenance projects on the county road system will be reduced. The department's ability to continue to maintain the current county road system on a 20 to 25 year life cycle will be significantly affected. An adequate maintenance plan for the 210 miles of Winnebago County roads would provide for paving 8.5 to 10.5 miles of asphalt road surface each year. In 2006 funding will be available to pave only approximately 6.5 miles of roadway. Maintenance projects will eventually become much more costly reconstruction projects due
to the fact that cost effective maintenance was not done at the appropriate time. Based on 2006 budget information, it will take approximately 32 years to complete one cycle of asphalt overlays on the county road system in the future.
DA - Eliminate one secretary position
This will likely create backlogs in work and cases. Cases will wait longer to come to trial. Defendants may end up waiting in jail longer until their cases can come up.
Deeds - Reduce a position to 1/2 time.
This staff reduction would likely result in the office falling behind by days or probably weeks which would directly affect property sale transactions throughout the county. It would create problems for the banking community, title insurance companies, attorney's and the general public.
Facilities - Eliminate seasonal labor
Existing staff will have to be used to maintain grounds. Grass will be mowed but weed removal will be greatly reduced. Preventive maintenance will fall behind or not be done resulting in more unplanned repairs. Response time to trouble calls will slow down. Many repairs that departments want done right away will have to wait. The grounds will have less groomed appearance.
Facilities Labor - Eliminate carpenter position
There will be little money available for remodeling projects. Carpenter position should no longer be needed.
Facilities - Remodel entrance to Register of Deeds Room 30
Would reduce security level for the Courthouse.
Human Services - Corrective Thinking Counseling
Will result in fewer persons being served.
Human Services - Youth Mentoring Services
Will result in fewer persons being served.
Human Services - Juvenile Corrections
Reduced expenses associated with juvenile corrections placement costs. Fewer persons will be served.
Human Services - Child Group Home Placement program
Will result in fewer persons being served.
Human Services - Residential Care Program
Will result in fewer persons being served.
Human Services - Wrap Around Youth Services
Will result in fewer persons being served.
Human Services - Long Term Support Wait List Consumers
Reduction in funding means that the wait list for services will become longer.
Park View - Park View Health Center - resident care related services. Includes 1-shift coordinator, 3.4-nurses, 2-confidential secretaries and 2-part-time seasonals.
Reduced quality care for remaining residents.
3 comments:
Granted, no sales tax leaves one with a rather bleak image of what is to come. But it is good to know that when Mark Harris actually got down to some serious number crunching following the last county board meeting, suddenly we only would have to cut 77 jobs instead of the 140 he first threatened. Makes one wonder if other things could not be done to salvage those jobs and programs and still not have to institute a sales tax.
Now we are down to 50 jobs. What is really amazing is many of the 50 were just budgeted jobs. They were not filled last year. In the end the actual amount of people cut will be less than that. Part of that number is the state mandated Park View cuts and the Huber Center cuts. I say cut the jobs and pass the tax, but use 100% of it to reduce property taxes. After all, if you have read the law, it states 100% of the tax must be used for property tax relief.
But we've already seen that many elected officials around these parts can't be bothered with following the law.
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