Opinion No. Oag 8-94, (1994)

Mr. Larry E. Nelson Corporation Counsel Iowa County 222 North Iowa Street Dodgeville, Wisconsin 53533

Dear Mr. Nelson:

You indicate that your county board desires that its personnel committee, which is a committee of the county board, have the authority to remove the director of social services. Your letter raises two separate but related questions concerning the appointment, supervision and removal of a county social services director in a county which does not have a county executive or county administrator.

The first question is whether the personnel committee currently possesses the…