Town Board Meeting — Minutes

AMBERG TOWN BOARD MEETING Community Center – Tuesday April 16, 2024 6:00 pm Chairman Sagan called the meeting to order at 6:00 pm with all board members present except Lisle Suzawith and 26 citizens present. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited and Chairman Sagan opened the floor to the citizens. Fran Campbell wanted to know where the audit was at and being that the town has no money where the money came from for the cabinets in the bathroom, big cabinet in clerks office, the big shredder and the new desktop computer. Also, she wanted to know where the file cabinets that were removed from the clerks office went to and where was the laptop that was only 6 mos old. Chairman Sagan told her that the cabinets in the bathroom were donated. The big cabinet in the clerks office was donated. The big shredder was donated. The chair cart was donated. The laptop does not work correctly. Clerk Ducat told her that they were working on year 2022 for the audit and will be requesting 2023 shortly. Russ Koester was inquiring about the railroad tracks last summer. He called the number on the post twice a week and didn’t get any answers. Chairman Sagan said he would explain what is going on with them when we get to it on the agenda. Supervisor Magley made a motion to accept the clerks minutes as typed up by Carol Smeester and Supervisor Campbell seconded it. Chairman Sagan read the treasurer’s report as follows: Equipment CD $253,305 .48, Parks and Rec savings account $2,114.57. M/M account $55,475.10, Tax M/M account $210,327.67, checking account $16,855.78 but after checks clear the balance will be $1,270.60. Supervisor Magley made a motion to accept the treasurer’s report and Supervisor Campbell seconded it. The regular monthly meeting of the Amberg Plan Commission took place April 3, 2024 in the Amberg community center at 6:00 pm. The on going discussion about new road specifications was resolved with the addition of more compaction of the final course. The final course will be compacted every two (2) inches. Also, the commission recommended the board ask the county to change the covenants to the 40 on Dow Dam Rd to read Town Park. Meeting adjourned at 6:45. Supervisor Magley made a motion to accept the CSM for Dennis Taylor from Hugh Guy for and Supervisor Campbell seconded it. Supervisor Magley made a motion to change surface course and specifications and Supervisor Campbell seconded it. As of April 1st the Fire Dept has $3,758.47 in their account. They had truck repairs, a radio repair, a car accident and chase and a couple of lift assists. The rescue squad meeting was postponed until next week due to Amberg and Wausaukee’s annual meetings being held tonight. Mark will update folder in clerks office. Road Dept is fixing the roads after the last snowstorm because they shouldn’t have plowed and some of the roads got tore up. They were hauling gravel and filling pot holes all over town. They have a couple of burials coming up this week. They want to get the grader out. Tomorrow they are going for a class on maintaining our roads in Rhinelander. We need to look into fixing the sidewalk that was uprooted from the trees. They are back out trapping at the beaver dam. The Parks and Rec asked the board to approve Rena Lukowski to replace Scott Mathis on the committee. Supervisor Magley made a motion to accept Rena as Scott’s replacement and Supervisor Campbell seconded it. Would like a beer permit for June 22nd for Ducky Days. They got the logging bids and Paul would like some of the proceeds to go back to finish the project stumping. With the help of 15 citizens they have the ball diamond just about ready for practices and are tentatively scheduling them. They would like approval to start leasing out advertising space on the outfield fence with vinyl signs. May 4th is the vendor and bake sale. Donations of baked goods are still needed. A donation of Brewer tickets will be given away at this event. Volunteers are needed for Ducky Days and they still need basket raffles. We are meeting with the website designers on Monday to go over the content and edits to be made. Once the edits are done we will go through the training and then the website will go live. Clerk Ducat is waiting on information for HSA as we don’t meet some of the requirements and have to go through different resources to get it. Chairman Sagan explained that the school is trying to negotiate with us to keep it school forest. I, along with a few others want to request from the county to change the wording on the deed on the property on Dow Dam Rd to public use or park. The school’s name is not on the deed for the property. Supervisor Magley mad a motion to get the wording changed with the help of Ryan Bourassa. Supervisor Campbell seconded it. The grounds around the community center will stay the same and we will work with George on getting the front bushes out and/or replaced. Also some of the trees. We have two port a potty’s coming for the ball diamond. We might have to buy them which would be from the Parks and Rec account and not out of the taxpayer’s money. People would pay to rent them if there was a wedding, anniversary or other event held there. Chairman Sagan explained everything that he has done to get to this point with the railroad. The middle of June they will be fixing three out of five with the remaining two being done the following year. We got an estimate of $4500.00 to replace sidewalk in front of post office. The landowner said he would pay for most of it. The concrete guy will do it and the landowner will pay for it. The town crew will do the concrete removal and disposal. Supervisor Magley made a motion to accept and Supervisor Campbell seconded it. Supervisor Magley will check prices for the best deal on hydraulic oil. Supervisor Magley made a motion to approve Steve Shohoney’s bartender license when all paperwork is in. Supervisor Campbell seconded it. Supervisor Magley made a motion to accept the logging bid and that monies will go back into maintenance. Supervisor Campbell seconded it. Supervisor Magley made a motion to adjourn the meeting and Supervisor Campbell seconded it. Meeting was adjourned at 6:55 pm.