MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING

OF JUNE 16, 2005

 

The meeting was called to order by Chairman Dick Collyard at 5:00PM.

There was discussion on crack sealing. Meinke presented the roads for crack sealing as follows:

    1. Barnes Road (6 miles) (7000 lbs.)

    2. Kelly Lake Road (3.4 miles) (6000 lbs.)

    3. South Shore Road (2.8 miles) (3250 lbs.)

    4. Ellison Lake Road (2.5 miles) (3700 lbs.)

    5. Call O Wild Road (.65 miles) (650 lbs.)

    6. East Robinson Lake Road (1 mile) (2000 lbs.)

 (4000 lbs poly fiber)

The proposal from Berman Company is as follows:

Crack sealing would be 22,600 lbs. @ $1.04= $23,504.00

Poly-fiber -4000 lbs. @ $1.50=$6,000.00

Total cost would be $29,504.00   

Motion (Meinke / Chermack) to crack seal the above roads, plus $800.00 for road off and $1,500.00 for East Eight Mile Lake Road. Roll call vote was taken: Chermack, yes; Porter, yes; Collyard, yes; Webb, yes and Meinke, yes. Motion carried.

 

The Bergman proposal sheet will be posted in the three regular locations before the work is done.

 

Motion (Webb / Porter) to go into closed session pursuant to State Statute 19.85 (b) and (c) for considering employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility. The board will return to the regular open session immediately upon adjournment of the closed session. Roll call vote was taken: Porter, yes; Webb, yes; Chermack, yes; Meinke, yes and Collyard, yes. Motion carried. The regular open session was adjourned at 5:20PM.

 

MINUTES OF THE CLOSED SESSION OF JUNE 16, 2005

Chairman Collyard called the closed session to order at 5:22PM.

 

Only issues relating to the statute noted were discussed.

 

Motion (Webb / Meinke) to adjourn the closed session to return to open session. Motion carried.

 

MINUTES OF THE RECONVENED REGULAR SESSION OF JUNE 16, 2005

 

Chairman Collyard called the reconvened regular session back to order at 9:04PM.

 

There was discussion on the results of the interviews for the Town Road and Property Foreman position. Motion (Porter / Chermack) to hire Jerry Witt as the new Town Road and Property Foreman. Motion carried. Mr. Witt will be contacted as to what hiring issues he will need to address. The other applicants will receive a letter from the board thanking them for their application.

 

There was discussion on the results of the interviews for the Part-time Town Maintenance Person. Motion (Meinke / Webb) to hire Bill Bradford as the new Part-time Town Maintenance Person. Motion carried. Mr. Bradford will be notified of the hiring issues he needs to address. The applicants not selected will receive a letter thanking them for their applications.

 

Motion (Webb / Porter) to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried. The meeting was adjourned at 9:32PM

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Lucille J. Peet

Deputy Clerk- Town of Barnes

Dated this 17th day of June 2005