Joan C. Rennert

OPERATING AUTHORITY AND PURPOSE

The County Clerk is the official clerk of the Racine County Board. All County Board minutes and original copies of ordinances, resolutions, and contracts are maintained in the County Clerk's Office. The Clerk is responsible for publishing County Board minutes and all official notices in the newspaper. After adoption of the county budget, the County Clerk apportions the state, county, library, and handicapped school taxes to each of Racine County's municipalities. The County Clerk co-signs all contracts and agreements authorized by the County Board.

In addition, the County Clerk issues marriage licenses, distributes dog licenses to the municipalities for the state, and acts as an agent for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources selling hunting and fishing licenses.

The County Clerk is responsible for conducting all federal, state and county-wide elections which includes preparing ballots, publishing notices, collecting reports from all candidates, and acting as head of the Board of Canvassers after each election.

ACHIEVEMENT OF PERFORMANCE GOALS

Goals for 2001 included working to provide cost-saving measures and a reduction in hard-copy documents. We achieved this by reducing number of official directories printed and making the document available on the internet. We are also sending the preliminary County Board Agenda by e-mail to those Supervisors, staff and others who are on-line.

Another goal was to continue to provide quality federal, state, county, municipal and school districts elections. Our achievement of this goal is shown by the Letter of Excellence that we received from the State regarding election accuracy and quality.
 

2002 GOALS AND BUDGET STRATEGIES

• Provide efficient and quality service to the public.
   
• Work to reduce publication costs of election notices and legal notices.
   
• Work with County Board, municipal clerks, and other department heads to provide cost-savings measures.
   
• Continue to work with municipalities to explores ways of providing better service to the public with cost-savings.
   
• Publish the Racine County Code of Ordinances on the Internet.
   
• Work to reduce the number of hard copy documents.