Month: May 2017

County Administrator Patrick Thompson, and Operations Manager Ken Witt presented their strategy for developing St. Croix County’s 2018 operating budget at the Administration Committee meeting on May 17.  The final budget will be prepared by the Administration, and presented to the Board for approval later this year.  For Fiscal Year 2017, the current budget is fairly well balanced, with projected revenues equalling projected expenses, both totaling about $85 Million. According to Witt, the currently established automatic annual wage increase for County employees, combined with the projected increase in health care costs will create an approximately $500,000.00 deficit in the 2018 budget....

One of the agenda items for this week’s regular monthly meeting of the County Administration Committee is a discussion of the creation of a “Living Wage” ordinance that would affect any company that does business under contract with St. Croix County.  The proposal to begin discussions on a Living Wage ordinance was originally made by Supervisor Roy Sjoberg (District 5 – City of Hudson Wards 1, 6, 9, 10) at the January regular meeting of the County Board. This proposal was made at the same time as he proposed beginning discussions of the County adopting “sanctuary” status to protect illegal immigrants...