Fond du Lac County Veterans Services and the Veterans Commission Assistance Fund

Fond du Lac County Veterans Services is at 160 S. Macy Street, 1st Floor, phone (920) 929-3117 (also 3157 and 3120), open Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with monthly satellite hours at the Ripon, Campbellsport and Waupun libraries and municipal building. The director and CVSO is David Tellefsen II, a twenty-two-year Marine, with Rachael Peschke and Nicole Russell - and the therapy dog Peaches on the staff page. The office describes itself as "a County funded program committed to providing you with the best support possible at no cost to you". The fund. The Veterans Commission Assistance Fund is the county's 45.86 aid: levy-funded emergency assistance under the sections 45.81 and 45.86 framework, eligibility an honorable discharge and ninety days of county residency, applied for with a DD-214 and residency verification, and "not a pension, wage replacement, or automatic entitlement". No dollar amounts are published. The commission itself is named: three veteran members - Birschbach, Hoerth and Kelroy - appointed by the county executive, with published addresses, and disbursements capped at the tax levy collected. The county runs free first-come transportation for county residents to VA facilities in Milwaukee, Madison, Beaver Dam, Appleton, Cleveland and Green Bay - VA care only, not Mission Act community care. The CVSO publishes its own annual reports, and the county maintains a one-acre Veterans Park at 190 S. Main Street on the former courthouse site. The register of deeds records discharges free under section 45.05, via the CVSO handoff. No veterans treatment court is listed for the county; its adult drug court dates to 2014.