County unit meeting participation is encouraged for all town officials.  The meetings empower you to network with other town officials, engage with legislators, learn from speakers, hear updates from WTA Directors, and improve your ability to serve your constituents.  The Ashland and Bayfield County Unit leaders look forward to your participation.

Agenda

• Call to Order
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Roll Call
• Minutes from last meeting
• Financial Report
• Legislator Reports
• Presentations:
  • Lester Lewis & Dale Houdek – WTA District 3 Directors
  • Ben Dufford – Conservationist, Bayfield County Land and Water
  • Mark Abeles-Allison – Administrator, Bayfield County
  • Kevin Johnson – Veterans Service Officer, Bayfield County
  • Bob Anderson – Road Commissioner, Bayfield County
  • Michelle Johnson – Community Relations Specialist-Enbridge
  • Lynn Divine – Clerk, Bayfield County
• Old Business
• New Business
• Next meeting date and location
• WTA County Unit Stimulus drawing! (See below for details)
• Adjourn

The meeting will be in-person and CDC guidelines will be followed for social distancing and food service.  Attendees are asked to wear a face covering if you have not been vaccinated yet, unless you have an underlying health condition that may prevent you from wearing one.  If you are or have recently felt ill or have a fever or have been in contact with someone that is ill, please do not attend.

An email reminder will be sent 3-5 business days prior to this meeting.  We use the email address submitted annually by your town.  If you are NOT receiving emails from WTA, please contact our office at 715-526-3157 with your email address.

Senators and Representatives:
Please advise Susan Sanders, Ashland/Bayfield County Unit Secretary, at 715-979-1894 as to whether you will be able to attend.  Thank you!

WTA County Unit Stimulus

Unit meetings are critical to WTA.  It is where we network, learn, and develop capacity with state Representatives and Senators.  All town elected and appointed officials are encouraged to attend county unit meetings.  Without effective unit meetings, town government would be much different.  Simply, a lot of our political influence is generated at and much of our network-based learning occurs during successful and well attended unit meetings.

COVID prompted a wide variety of approaches to unit meetings.  Members responded to each uniquely, some positively and some with decreased attendance.  In order to not only return to our previous level of success with unit meetings, but grow that success, WTA is offering the following incentive to be deployed at unit meetings:

Drawing:

One $50 gift card will be raffled off at a unit meeting held sometime in June-December.

NOTE:  Unit leadership will provide the winner’s name to WTA.  The gift card will be mailed to the winner no later than January 14, 2022.

Thank you to Scott Construction and Kwik Trip for sponsoring the drawing and supporting this effort!