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NEW ULM After 30 minutes of public testimony and brief discussion, Brown County commissioners tabled changing the auditor-treasurer position from elected to appointed Tuesday.
Commissioners Scott Windschitl, Tony Berg and Dean Simonsen said they favored appointing the position. Commissioner Dave Borchert favored election and Commissioner Jeff Veerkamp said he was undecided, but said most of the people he talked to in western Brown County favor keeping the job an elected position.
Commissioners agreed to act on the issue in the near future.
Six people gave public testimony and were divided on the subject that came up with the pending retirement of auditor-treasurer Jean Prochniak.
fbusch@nujournal.com
NEW ULM Brown County commissioners will host a public hearing at 11 a.m., Tuesday, April 27 to consider changing the Brown County Auditor-Treasurer (A-T) position from elected to appointed.
Legislation in 2017 allows county boards to make the decision to move certain offices from elected to appointed positions. Brown County expects to have an A-T office vacancy this year due to a retirement. The process to change an elected position to appointed takes several months.
All interested parties are asked to sign in for the public hearing.
After the public hearing, commissioners may vote on the issue or table it for a future meeting.
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Mar 16, 2021
NEW ULM The Minnesota Department of Health says 82.8% of the 65+ population in Brown County has received one dose of the COVID 19 vaccine as of March 13. Twenty eight percent of all residents of Brown County have received one dose, and 14.3% are considered fully vaccinated. The Minnesota COVID 19 vaccine data dashboard can be found at https://mn.gov/covid19/vaccine/data/index.jsp.
Most of the vaccine up to this point in Brown County has been Moderna or Pfizer. With both individuals are NOT fully protected with the vaccine until 2 weeks after their 2nd dose.
“I believe there is a significant part of the population that is under the assumption that they are protected with one dose and that is not the case for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines,” said Karen Moritz, Brown County Public Director.
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BROWN COUNTY Approximately one out of every ten people in Brown County has contracted COVID-19 in the past year.
Brown County Public Health has been tracking all confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the county since April 2020.
On March 10, 2021, the running tally of COVID-19 cases reached 2,510. This represents over 10% of Brown County’s population. The county hit this 10% milestone at roughly the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 forcing most of the country into quarantine.
The majority of Brown County residents who contracted COVID-19 have recovered. Currently, Public Health is counting 62 known active COVID cases in isolation.
Brown County Public Health is only able to count laboratory-confirmed cases. Public Health Director Karen Moritz said those who are asymptomatic were unlikely to test and some with symptoms might not have sought treatment.