Minor savings from facilities shakeup The Administration Committee backs a small reorganization By Ray Barrington News-Chronicle A small reorganization of the Brown County Facilities Department will keep the same number of employees and save a total of $296. The change, proposed by facilities director Bill Dowell, comes after the resignation of his top assistant, Dean Gazza. The proposal received a unanimous vote of support from the county's Administration Committee and goes to the County Board later this month. Under the proposal, the position of assistant facility director - Gazza's old job - would change to facility process and systems manager. It would only include responsibilities for design, development and administration of facility processes and systems. Two new positions would be added - a facilities and projects manager and a facility supervisor, who would supervise the maintenance staff at the Mental Health Center. That would be balanced by the loss of two positions. A separate facility manager for the jail would be dropped in favor of a combined facility manager for the jail and MHC. In addition, a facility manager position would be eliminated. - Possible changes in the way committees report to the County Board could follow a controversy over vetoes of some committee items earlier this year by the county executive. Corporation counsel John Jacques suggested that the committees switch to reporting only actions that require board approval in their committee reports to be voted on by the full board. Such items as minutes and referral of items to other committees would not be included. Brown County is rare in using committee reports to serve a legislative purpose. Most counties use resolutions and ordinances, which require the executive's approval. Kelso said she vetoed the items, including a request for a study of her spending on security for her office, because for her to sign the committee reports as required may have given the impression that she approved of their contents. Jacques, who has said the reports are legislative items and thus subject to veto, has been asked to contact the state attorney general for an opinion on the matter. To change the way such items are handled by the county would require changes in the county code, which would have to go through the county's Executive Committee.