Thanks to last week's rains and a stroke of bad timing, there is even less room for inmates at the state's smallest county prison. Kewaunee County Sheriff Matt Joski shared the details of the needed roof fix for the jail during Monday's Kewaunee County Board meeting. The roof leak was discovered when the state's jail inspector was in town, which resulted in a portion of the facility being unhabitable until a solution was needed. The fix costs between $80,000 for a partial fix and over $200,000 for a complete makeover. Joski says the investment needs to be made, but it depends on what the county board thinks is the facility's future.

The board approved a transfer of $225,000 from the county's general fund to the jail outlay fund to prepare for a possible full roof replacement by a vote of 17-1. In other business, the Kewaunee County Board voted 16-2 to approve the 2025 budget and 2024 tax levy, which includes a 1.4 percent levy increase and a tax rate decrease of about 9.1 percent over last year.