The Kewaunee County Board will receive updates on two essential items when it convenes on Tuesday for the regularly scheduled meeting.

The board will first hear about the county potentially changing course on its cybersecurity efforts. After approving using CrowdStrike as its cybersecurity partner earlier this year, IT Director Ross Loining recommended that the board work with Barracuda, which the county already uses for its email scanning/filtering service. Loining wrote in a memo to County Administrator Jeremy Kral and the board that after viewing a demo from Barracuda following their CrowdStrike decision, their cybersecurity platform “offered more options for Kewaunee County at a lower price.” A switch would save Kewaunee County about $1,000 a month.

Kewaunee County Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Ben Nelson will also update the board about Project HOMESTEAD, an effort by the KCEDC to address the area’s housing concerns. Nelson said earlier this year that without a wider array of options and prices in Kewaunee County, it is creating a bottleneck for housing in the area, which can hurt employers, schools, and other entities. He hopes that in the project's second phase, they will evaluate the best opportunities available in Luxemburg, Kewaunee, and Algoma.

The board will also decide whether to enter a settlement agreement with opioid defendants after hearing annual reports from the Kewaunee County Register of Deeds and the Kewaunee County Parks Department. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday at 6 p.m. inside the Kewaunee County Administration Center.