The PACT Act has created a new surge of calls, emails, and walk-in visitors to the Dane County Veterans Service Office (CVSO) and its counterparts across the state and country. Parisi’s 2023 budget adds 1.5 staff to CVSO (at a cost of over $144,000), so staff can meet this surge in service demand.
In 2020, the Dane County Regional Airport (DCRA) helped fund an innovative pilot project to address PFAS at the airport site resulting from use of the FAA-mandated fire-fighting foam. Before this pilot project, research into PFAS remediation was severely lacking, and that’s why the DCRA backed pilot project testing a new removal strategy was so important. The recently released initial results of that pilot are very promising, and the 2023 airport budget includes funding to expand the pilot remediation program to more areas of the airport property. Airports across the country are looking for solutions on PFAS, and the DCRA team took a leadership role in finding a solution that could benefit the entire country.
The Dane County community needs to determine the scope of PFAS in private well drinking water. Parisi’s budget creates a new PFAS private well testing program within the Department of Public Health. With around $186,000, Dane County can help test wells countywide and get a better sense of the prevalence of PFAS in private drinking water supply. That information will provide homeowners with valuable information about the safety of their water. The primary testing phase of this work will occur in 2023.
The PACT Act has created a new surge of calls, emails, and walk-in visitors to the Dane County Veterans Service Office (CVSO) and its counterparts across the state and country. Parisi’s 2023 budget adds 1.5 staff to CVSO (at a cost of over $144,000), so staff can meet this surge in service demand.The PACT Act has created a new surge of calls, emails, and walk-in visitors to the Dane County Veterans Service Office (CVSO) and its counterparts across the state and country. Parisi’s 2023 budget adds 1.5 staff to CVSO (at a cost of over $144,000), so staff can meet this surge in service demand.
The staffing levels, working conditions, and morale of nurses at local health care providers were the focus of work by the County Board this year. The Health and Human Needs Committee received a report in recent weeks by a sub-committee created to examine potential solutions to the challenges raised. Out of respect to the Board’s leadership on this issue, Parisi is funding a $120,000 position in the County Board Office to continue this work next year. He is also allocating $500,000 that could be paired with funds from health providers who employ nurses to maximize impact on work that improves nursing retention, recruitment, and the mental health and well-being of nurse caregivers.
