MINUTES OF THE
TOWN OF
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
Chairperson
Lu Peet called the Regular Board Meeting to order at
Roll call taken and
all were present.
Clerk-Treasurer
Brustad verified the agenda was posted in three places as required.
Motion ( Porter/McGee)
to approve
the Au
NOTICE
TOWN OF
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
AGENDA
Call the Regular Board Meeting to
order at
Pledge Allegiance to the Flag
Roll Call to establish a
quorum/Verification of Public Notice/Motion to approve the Au
Approve minutes of the Last Regular
Board Meeting and Motion to dispense with reading of the minutes.
Treasurer’s Report
Voucher’s Approval
Clerk Correspondence
Public Comment Session – 3 Minute
limit for those not on the agenda
Citizen’s Request for Action:
Connie
Balcom with presentation of petition to not use water from Pickerel Lake
Request
by Thomas Emerson and others to have 25
Land Use Planning Commission
Zoning:
1)
Special Use permit request by Loren
and Julie Bohl to rezone their 2 lots at
2)
Special Use Permit request by Dan
Gunderson to construct a residence (hunting cabin) on his property at
3)
Special Use Permit request by Peter
Mattison and
Department Head Reports:
Highway
Approval
for purchase of approximately $40,000 worth of gravel for future use
Approval
of Timeless Services Service Agreement (no charge) for collection of computer,
electronic and cell phones at the Transfer Site
Cemetery
Fire
and Ambulance Department
Constable
Committee Reports
Eurasian
Water Milfoil
Town
Hall Maintenance
Selection
of new committee members to study and prioritize town building repair needs
Approval
to have
Place
additional bulletin board for meeting notices only on the town hall bulletin board
Operators Licenses:
1
year renewal licenses for: Anna Kane
Issues Timeline Update
All Department Heads are encouraged
to be at the Regular Board Meetings
All Department Heads and Committee
Heads are to submit a written report to the clerk
by Friday evening prior to the Board
Meeting.
The Town Board reserves
the right to solicit information from
Department heads and
Committee heads only, without opening the floor to discussion.
Any persons requiring
special needs for handicap services please contact the Clerk-Treasurer
Elaine J. Brustad Barnes Town Clerk-Treasurer
Dated this 13th day of
Au
Peet then
asked for a motion to approve the minutes of the last regular board meeting and
motion to dispense with reading of those minutes.
Motion (Porter/McGee)to
approve the minutes of the Last Regular Board Meeting and to dispense with the
reading of the minutes. Motion carried.
Treasurer’s Report
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General
Fund |
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Checking
Balance from last meeting |
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$30,026.94 |
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Receipts |
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$111,014.29 |
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Check #'s
23979-24082 |
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($84,067.87) |
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July
Direct tax payments ck #s 337-339 |
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($4,175.66) |
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Service
Charge July |
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($19.81) |
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Interest
Earned July |
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$11.04 |
0.15% |
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CHECKING
BALANCE |
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$52,788.93 |
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Money
Market |
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Money
Market Gen'l Fund Balance from Last Meeting |
$343,548.46 |
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Transfer
from Town Hall Main & Repair fund |
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$3,670.00 |
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Interest
earned July |
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YTD
Interest $3,686.22 |
$127.47 |
0.35% |
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Sub-Total
Money Market Gen'l Funds |
$347,345.93 |
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Highway
Dept. Sinking Fund |
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$16,072.92 |
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BES
Sinking Fund |
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$214.05 |
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Park
Savings |
deposit
(water) $307.02 |
$15,074.68 |
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Ski Trail
Savings |
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$1,245.21 |
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Town Hall
Maint & Repair Fund |
($3,670.00) |
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$15,628.20 |
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ACT 102
Fund |
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$3,957.39 |
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Total
all Money Market Funds |
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$399,538.38 |
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Savings |
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Interest |
0.02 |
June &
July |
$25.10 |
0.47% |
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9 Month CD |
Interest |
460.51 |
June &
July |
$101,539.41 |
2.76% |
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9 Month CD |
Interest |
460.51 |
June &
July |
$101,539.41 |
2.76% |
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6 Month CD |
Interest |
190.93 |
June &
July |
$50,642.69 |
2.31% |
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YTD
Interest $3,746,61 |
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Total |
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$253,746.61 |
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TOTAL |
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$706,073.92 |
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Brustad
reported she had received a check today from the
Motion (Webb/McGee)
to allow the treasurer to put $150,000.00 into a CD at one of the approved
banks. Motion carried.
Motion
(Meinke/Porter) to approve the Treasurer’s report as read. Motion carried.
Voucher’s Approval
Motion (McGee/Meinke)
to approve the voucher’s as presented.
Motion carried.
Clerk Correspondence
Brustad
wanted to remind everyone of the Public Hearing for the overlay amendment which
will be held at the
Brustad said
she received a letter from the State Government Accountability Board announcing
a grant for any
Brustad
announced the
Public Comment Session – 3 Minute
limit for those not on the agenda
Jon Harkness
wanted to remind people also of the Zoning hearing on the 20th. If someone is not able to attend they can
email the zoning department with their indication of support or not for the
Barnes Overlay. He also was notified by the
Patti
Joswick said last meeting while discussing the logging at
Citizen’s Request for Action:
Connie
Balcom with presentation of petition to not use water from Pickerel Lake
Balcom had
received at least 30 requests in writing for the DOT to stop using water from
the lake. She wanted to present them to
the Board and asked if they would forward them on to the Department of
Transportation as they had implied they would at the June meeting. Webb wanted to read the letters first, as she
had not seen any of them. Balcom said
she would come in to the office the next day and have a packet ready for the
board to read. It will then be put on the next agenda for approval by the Board
to send on. Webb said if the Board meets
before the next Regular Town Board meeting in September we can put that on the
agenda for that meeting instead.
Request
by Thomas Emerson and others to have 25
Mr. Emerson
was not able to make the meeting but Dianne Lanhart said she lived on
Land Use Planning Commission
Commission
Chair David Pease spoke on the three requests that were addressed at their
meeting. For Loren and Julie Bohl with
two lots that were zoned half R-1 and half R-2, the commission recommended
approving their request to rezone both to R-1.
For Dan Gunderson’s request, the commission recommended approving that
one also as it complies with zoning regulations and Land Use regulations. The Special Use request by Joan Sutliff &
Peter Mattison was also recommended to be approved as it also complies with
zoning regulations and is in agreement with the Land Use Plan.
Zoning:
4)
Special Use permit request by Loren
and Julie Bohl to rezone their 2 lots at
52190 Hans Road from R-1 and R-2 to entirely R-1
Motion (McGee/Meinke) to approve the Special Use permit
request by Loren and Julie Bohl to rezone their
2 lots at
5)
Special Use Permit request by Dan
Gunderson to construct a residence (hunting cabin) on his property at
Motion ( Porter/McGee) to approve the Special Use Permit
request by Dan Gunderson to construct a residence (hunting cabin) on his
property at 6925 Mulligan Creek Road in a Forestry 1 (F-1) zoning
district. Motion carried.
6)
Special Use Permit request by Peter
Mattison and Joan Sutliff to place a residence with a detached 14’x20’ residential
storage building on their property located at
Motion (Webb/Porter) to approve the Special Use Permit
request by Peter Mattison and Joan Sutliff to place a residence with a detached
14’x20’ residential storage building on their property located at
Department Head Reports:
Highway
As required
by State Law, every Two years, I have just about completed rating all the roads
in Barnes. This data then gets put in a data base at the Wisconsin DOT in
65 ton of
dirty sand was broadcast on the Marten road to alleviate the wash boarding.
Between the rain we have received, and the addition of the sand, the wash
boarding problem is being rectified.
We have been concentrating our grading effort
toward many of our sand roads in the north part of Town to get them in better
shape for hunting season.
We have also been improving the first mile of
Mulligan Creek with some ditching and gravel to improve the driving conditions
in wet conditions.
Approval
for purchase of approximately $40,000 worth of gravel for future use
Witt asked
for Board approval to order gravel to be stockpiled for future road work as the
gravel from the Jerome pit is almost used up.
Motion (Meinke/McGee)
to approve the purchase
of approximately $40,000 worth of gravel for future use. Roll call vote taken: all responded yes. Motion carried.
Approval
of Timeless Services Service Agreement (no charge) for collection of computer,
electronic and cell phones at the Transfer Site
Clerk-Treasurer
Brustad received the notice from Timeless Services and read the announcement to
the audience. Basic computers and other
small electronics such as 2-way radios, MP3 players,
Motion (Webb/Porter)
to approve the Timeless Services Service Agreement (no charge) for collection
of computer, electronic and cell phones at the Transfer Site. Motion carried.
Cemetery
Brustad read
Bud Pease’s report: There was a burial
for Walt LaJoie on August 1st.
A cemetery meeting was held on August 6th. The committee talked about putting up a new
fence along the road.
Fire
and Ambulance Department
Since the
last Town board meeting the ambulance has had numerous calls.
2 -
transported to St. Lukes, 1 was Gold
Cross Intercept
1 – Respond
with Fire Department for Power Line Down on
1 – ATV
Accident Patient transported to
1 – no
transport
1 – Vehicle Accident
The
amendment for the ops plan for the EKG is moving completed and mailed again for
the second time with the changes made to the Protocol. Training on EKG was completed and we are just
waiting for approval of the Operational change with the State.
In September
we will begin our
Ambulance
contract with Town of
Fire
Department :
1 - Power
Line Down on
1 - vehicle
accident
1 – Landing
Zone that was cancelled
Fire
Department completed the propane training we held here in July. It was a great training experience for
everyone involved.
The Fire
Department also attended the Funeral of Walter Lajoie who was past Fire Chief
in Barnes. The Fire Department conducted
the Tolling of the Bells conducted at Firefighter funerals.
The Fire
department will also be conducting Face mask Fit testing for fire fighters this
month as required by Com 30.
Constable
( 5 ) Alarms
form sheriff............( 4 ) Bear complaints.............( 1 ) trespass
complaint : on island lake road ( town property )..........( 2 ) check
welfare of senior resident...........( 3 ) assist stranded boaters ( on middle
) boats struck rock bar............( 3 ) PWC complaints : to close to shore and
after hours...........( 1 ) roll over accident on county A, sixteen year old
female driver removed and taken to st marys...... follow fire dept....for
traffic control...........( 1 ) Provide security : for street dance at
cabin store during ball tournament..........( 6 ) ATV complaints..............(
1 ) Deer hit on hwy 27........(.total hours 80.....total fuel 43
gallons..........total miles 630.).......end report...............(.detailed
report on file ).
Committee Reports
Eurasian
Water Milfoil
Ingemar
Ekstrom was not in attendance, but
Town
Hall Maintenance
Selection
of new committee members to study and prioritize town building repair needs
At the
Special Town Board meeting on August 4th it was decided to select a
committee of 5 residents to study the town hall repair needs. Peet said the members should be full-time
residents as they will be meeting throughout this winter. The Board will pick the members at the next
town Board meeting in September. The
Clerk-Treasurer should post a notice asking for volunteers and they can contact
her if they would like to be on the committee.
They should state what strengths they will bring to the committee such
as experience in building, architect work, etc.
All committee meetings are open meetings and will be posted as
such.
Motion (Webb/Porter)
to start a committee of 5 members from the townspeople. They can sign up at the Clerk’s office, and
the Board will choose the members from the sign up sheet at the next town board
meeting in September. Motion carried.
Approval
to have
Brustad
received a letter from the Government Accountability Board just yesterday
(August 17th) announcing grants available for
Motion
(Porter/McGee ) to have
Place
additional bulletin board for meeting notices only on the town hall bulletin board
Chair Lu
Peet said there was concern that meeting notices were not able to be seen with
all the other ads and notices in the bulletin board. She wanted approval to add a smaller board
hooked on the existing one which would be used for Town meeting notices
only.
Motion (Porter/Meinke)
to approve the additional bulletin board for town meeting notices only. It was felt that maybe cleaning out the larger
bulletin board first and removing the old stuff, then separating the notices
and not putting any notices in the middle where the door frame was would
help. This should be tried first to see
if that works. Motion carried.
Operators Licenses:
1
year renewal licenses for: Anna Kane
Brustad said
this was a renewal, and Anna had paid the required fee.
Motion (Webb/McGee)
to approve the 1 year renewal license for Anna Kane. Motion carried.
Issues Timeline Update
Town Owned
land – work in progress
Town Hall
Maintenance – work in progress
Re-appointments
– all current
Roads –
recall road committee to work on speed limits
Zoning-
Coder RV extension – Mike Furtak is checking
Brustad said
she forgot to ask during Clerk Correspondence if the Board wanted to set the
first budget meeting. She will send out
notices to the Department heads for their budget needs. The board decided on September 10th
at
Motion(Webb/Meinke)
to adjourn the
Respectfully
Submitted,
Elaine J.
Brustad
Clerk-Treasurer
Dated this
26th day of August, 2009