The agenda, council packet, and budget hearing document are attached below. 

Supervisor Paul Miller presented the COVID-19 report. Cases are quickly rising in the county and have swamped the ability of the health department to keep up with contact tracing. Local hospitals are now in the position of not being able to take patients because they are becoming overwhelmed with  COVID patients. Contact tracers are beginning to suffer from burnout.

Update - in an email this morning the school district announced that a decision will be made in this meeting tonight whether to continue with fall sports and other activities for the rest of the year. 

In order to provide sufficient physical distancing, in-person attendance for the public Board meeting will be limited to 25 people. It is anticipated that there will be 14 spaces available for members of the public. The meeting will also be live-streamed on this page.

MADISON, WI – The Wisconsin Elections Commission today released its list of the top things Wisconsin voters should know after the General Election.

1. Wisconsin voters turned out in record numbers.

Unofficially, Wisconsin’s voters cast 3,296,374 votes cast for president, the most ever in Wisconsin, smashing the record of 3,071,434 in 2012.

We received two important election updates this afternoon from the Wisconsin Elections Commission that may answer many questions about the election Tuesday, and particularly on spoiling ballots.

The Elections Commission is currently holding a media briefing on the election - the video is available below.

The US  Supreme Court ruled 5-3 today to no allow changes to the election laws in Wisconsin to allow more time to send absentee ballots in. The result of this ruling is that all absentee ballots for the Nov. 3 election must arrive by 8 PM on election day. The court believed that the courts should not be deciding on and changing election law due to the pandemic. 

Meagan Wolfe reported this afternoon that 70 communities are still in need of about 200 poll workers, and reminded people that they can see where workers are needed and volunteer at https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/PollWorker. At the moment the City of Eau Claire, City of Menomonie, and Town of Menomonie are on the list of places looking for more workers.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission is currently holding a special teleconference meeting to deal with several issues before the election. One of these is a problem with ballots in Outagamie County. It is believed that this affects at least 5500 ballots that were sent out in the county that are faulty and cannot be read by the vote tabulating machines. They are missing a single timing mark on the border of the ballot.

Today is your last day to register to vote on-line in Wisconsin. You may still register on-line at https://myvote.wi.gov until 11:59 PM today. If you miss that deadline and are not registered, you may still register to vote at the polls on election day. However you manage it, have a plan to vote, and be sure to follow it.