What role do county administrators or county executives play in appointing district board members?
Although, in general, county administrators or county executives are responsible for appointing members of boards or commissions who would otherwise have been appointed by a county board or chairperson of a county board subject to the confirmation of the county board, this authority does not extend to the appointment of members of a technical college district board. Instead, the power to appoint technical college district board members is the sole responsibility of a duly constituted local appointment committee as described in s. 38.10(1), Wis. Stats. With the exception of three district that were organized by school boards (Fox Valley, Milwaukee Area, and Southwest Wisconsin), state statutes require the appointment committee to be composed of the chairs of the county boards that make up the district. This statutory responsibility of a county board chair to serve on the local appointment committee supersedes any duties or powers of a county administrator or county executives provided b
