Oconto County Board of Supervisors: the Veterans Day recognition, the commission re-appointment and the Deputy CVSO handover

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The Oconto County Board of Supervisors (chair Al Sleeter; County Clerk Kim Pytleski; Administrator Richard Heath) carried the 2025-2026 veteran items: CVSO Ron Christensen's Veterans Day recognition of the county's veteran supervisors (November 20, 2025), Bruce Hansen's re-appointment to the Veterans Service Commission through 2028 (the same day), the introduction of Deputy CVSO Tanya Gonzalez and the thanks to retiring Deputy Sandy DeCleene (February 19, 2026), and the Veterans Services and Register of Deeds 2025 annual reports (May 21, 2026); no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

Also called: County Board, Board of Supervisors, Al Sleeter, Kim Pytleski, Richard Heath, Veterans Day, Veterans Service Commission, Bruce Hansen, Tanya Gonzalez, Sandy DeCleene, annual report, Oconto, Oconto Falls, Gillett, Lena, Suring, Lakewood, Townsend, Mountain, Abrams, Pensaukee, Little Suamico.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Oconto County, WICounty

The board. The Oconto County Board of Supervisors meets in the County Board Room #3041 of the Courthouse, 301 Washington Street, Oconto; chair Al Sleeter, County Clerk Kim Pytleski, County Administrator Richard Heath. Its agendas, packets and proceedings are posted in the county's Agenda Center; the 35 County Board files of October 2025 through October 2026 were read whole. The veteran items, in order. November 20, 2025: "In honor of Veteran's Day, Ron Christensen, County Veteran Service Officer, recognized the veterans that are employed by Oconto County including County Board of Supervisors Beyer, Bitters, Behrend, Christianson, Cole, Matravers, Pillsbury, Ragen, Wolf, and County Administrator Heath, and thanked them for their service"; and on the consent agenda, "Re-Appointment - Veteran Service Commission (Hansen)", the Administrator's memo asking confirmation of Bruce Hansen's "three-year term ending December 31, 2028" - carried by unanimous electronic vote. February 19, 2026: "Ron Christensen, County Veteran Service Officer (CVSO), introduced the new Deputy CVSO, Tanya Gonzalez, and invited supervisors to congratulate retiring Deputy CVSO, Sandy DeCleene on her 11 years of service." May 21, 2026: the packet's committee and departmental reports carry the Veterans Services 2025 Annual Report (2025 actual expenditures $181,701 against $188,117 budgeted, actual revenue $16,900) and the Register of Deeds' report with its DD-214 line. The commission. The Veterans' Commissioners met October 31, 2025 and October 23, 2026, reviewing the budget, the WDVA block and transportation grants, the transportation programme and the Emergency Relief Fund audit (the fund's entry). No veteran benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed in the window.

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No eligibility - a board record	The record documents the board’s veteran items and the county’s veteran office; it grants no individual entitlement.

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