Meeting Minutes

February 11th, 2025 Town of Hamilton Regular Board Meeting Chairman Blaine Lee called the February Town of Hamilton Board meeting to order at 7:30 PM and asked everyone in attendance to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Roll call was taken. Chairman Blaine Lee, Supervisor Paul Degenhardt, Supervisor Kevin Hoyer and Clerk/Treasurer Katie Reding were all present. Blaine Lee read the agenda. Kevin Hoyer made a motion to approve the agenda as read. Paul Degenhardt made the second. Motion carried. Katie Reding read the minutes from the January 14th board meeting. Kevin made a motion to approve the minutes as read and Paul Degenhardt made a second motion. Motion carried. No Public Comment was made. Teresa Delong came in front of the Town Board explaining what the Residents in the Shorewood/Linse Road addition would like to see happen to the park known as the Neshonoc Shorewood park. No Action was taken. Jim McClintock came forward to request a renewal of his kennel license. Jim states he currently has 7 dogs. Kevin Hoyer made a motion to approve Jim McClintock a kennel license for another 3 years. Paul Degenhardt made a motion for the second. Motion Carried. Brightspeed (High speed Fiber ) is asking the Town to support a grant for High Speed Fiber in this area and Lynxx is looking to add a infrastructure for Broadband in the Town of Hamilton. Kevin Hoyer made a motion that The Town of Hamilton strongly supports improvement of broadband in the Town of Hamilton and send to both Brightspeed and Lynxx. Paul Degenhardt made the second motion. Motion carried. Paul Degenhardt made motion to hire Triple L Cleaning, LLC Kevin Hoyer made the second. Kevin Hoyer withdrew his motion to amend the motion. Kevin amended the motion to include the Initial cleaning from Triple L Cleaning, LLC is $250 and after that $200 per cleaning. Paul Degenhardt made the second. Motion Carried. Paul Degenhardt made a motion to hire Briteway window cleaning for the cleaning of the windows on an as needed basis. Kevin Hoyer made the second. Motion Carried. Katie Reding is requesting 5 election workers per shift for the April 1st, 2025 Spring election. Kevin Hoyer makes a motion to approve this request. 10 Total election workers for the April 1st, 2025 election. Paul Degenhardt made the second. Motion carried. Discussion took place regarding the offer of the old Town Hall. Paul Degenhardt made a motion to reject this offer. Kevin made a second motion. Motion Carried. Blaine Lee talked about Roads. The new to us truck from the County of LaCrosse is now been purchased. No equipment has broken down. The road crew had to take care of some ice dams on several coulee roads. The check from Sheet Piling for a portion of fixing asmus Road was received in the amount of $3,694.00. Kevin Hoyer gave a brief update with the grant process through CBS Squared. Katie Reding handed out bank balances and the checks written in January. Kevin Hoyer made a motion to approve the financial report. Blaine Lee made the second. Motion carried. Kevin Hoyer motioned to pay the bills. Paul Degenhardt made the second. Motion carried. Discussion was made regarding needing to change the date of the March board meeting. Kevin Hoyer made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 9:18 P .M Paul Degenhardt made the second. Motion carried.