Jefferson County WI Board Meeting (September 8th, 2026)

The Jefferson County Board of Supervisors meeting (September 8, 2026; the supplied metadata lists September 9 UTC) included several spending and funding items. The board approved a $45,000 Wisconsin Emergency Management flood-resilience grant with a $15,000 county match, for a $60,000 project, funded by a transfer from contingency; the vote was 26–0. It also approved applying for up to $2,500 in county conservation aid for work at Crawfish River County Park, with the remaining $2,500 covered by donations and no additional county tax levy funding; that vote was also 26–0. The Highway Department presented a competitively bid brush-chipper purchase, recommending Bobcat of Janesville; the transcript’s stated net bid amount is garbled (“$75,1810”), and no vote tally is captured. The purchase was budgeted in the department’s equipment operations cost center.

The EMS working group presented recommendations on long-term countywide EMS sustainability and discussed a possible county EMS levy to help address staffing and equipment costs; no funding decision was made, with the proposal expected to be considered during 2027 budget deliberations. The District Attorney reported that the office had acquired the Axon Justice digital case-management system, with an approximately $20,000 budget impact and billing changes intended to help cover the cost. The board also considered zoning and septic-system matters, including an ordinance on private septic systems near sanitary sewer and a proposed subdivision; the subdivision denial was sent back to committee. The county administrator announced that a balanced budget was expected to be presented to the Finance Committee, with department budget hearings scheduled for the following week.