At today’s (Jan. 18) meeting of the Wright County Board of Commissioners, the board conducted one of its most important jobs of the year – making selections to the 17 committees and 41 advisory boards the commissioners sit on.
The committee structure allows issues to be discussed at a comprehensive level before matters come to the full board – typically with a committee recommendation for action items. Advisory boards are outside agencies that have a common cause in partnering with the county – examples being the Great River Regional Library Board, the Planning Commission, Safe Communities of Wright County and MEADA.
Here are the 2022 committee/advisory board assignments for the county commissioners. Alternate members are listed in parentheses.
COMMITTEES
Broadband: Darek Vetsch, Mark Daleiden
Budget Committee of the Whole: All commissioners
Building: Mike Kaczmarek, Mary Wetter (Vetsch)
Dental Clinic Steering: Daleiden, Wetter
Ditches: Daleiden, Kaczmarek (Christine Husom)
Finance/Capital Improvement Projects: Vetsch, Daleiden
911 Planning: Husom, Kaczmarek (Wetter)
Noxious Weed Appeals: Daleiden, Kaczmarek
Nuclear: Vetsch, Husom (Wetter)
Owners – New Government Center: Vetsch, Daleiden
Personnel/Employee Relations: Daleiden, Vetsch (Kaczmarek)
Safety: Husom, Kaczmarek
Security: Husom, Kaczmarek
Tax Forfeit: Wetter, Kaczmarek
Technology: Vetsch, Daleiden
Transportation Committee of the Whole: All commissioners
Ways & Means: Husom, Wetter
ADVISORY BOARDS
Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Advisory Board: Husom, Wetter
Area Transportation Planning: Vetsch
Bertram Chain of Lakes Advisory Board: Daleiden, Vetsch
Central Minnesota Economic Development 7W District Joint Powers Board: Vetsch (Wetter)
Central Minnesota Emergency Services Board: Kaczmarek (Husom)
Central Minnesota EMS Region Joint Powers Board: Husom (Kaczmarek)
Central Minnesota Jobs & Training Joint Powers Board Workforce Center: Husom
Central Mississippi River Regional Planning Partnership (CMRP): Vetsch, Daleiden
County Extension Service: Wetter, Daleiden
Delegates to the Association of Minnesota Counties: All commissioners
East Central Joint Powers Board: Vetsch
Economic Development Authority: All commissioners
Economic Development Partnership Board: Vetsch (Wetter)
Great River Regional Library: Husom (Vetsch)
Highway 12 Safety Coalition: Kaczmarek
Highway 55 Coalition: Husom, Wetter
Historical Society: Wetter
I-94 Coalition: Vetsch
Law Library Board: Husom
Legislative Matters: All commissioners
Mentorship Education And Drug Awareness (MEADA): Husom
Minnesota Rural Counties: Kaczmarek (Wetter)
MnDOT Policy Advisory Committee (PAC): Vetsch
Monticello Joint Planning Board: Vetsch
One Watershed, One Plan Policy Committee (Mississippi/St. Cloud): Wetter
One Watershed, One Plan Policy Committee (North Fork Crow River): Wetter (Kaczmarek)
One Watershed, One Plan Policy Committee (South Fork Crow River): Wetter (Kaczmarek)
Parks Advisory Board: Daleiden
Planning Commission: Daleiden
Public Works Labor/Management: Husom (Vetsch)
Region 7W Transportation: Vetsch
Regional Crime Lab: Husom
Safe Communities of Wright County: Husom
Safe Harbor Task Force: Husom
Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD): Wetter
Trailblazer Joint Powers Board: Vetsch, Daleiden (Wetter)
The Turn Steering Committee: Husom
Twin Cities Urbanized Areas Boundaries: Vetsch
Water Management Task Force: Wetter
Wright County Agricultural Society: Kaczmarek
Wright County Area Transportation Advisory Council: Vetsch, Wetter