Minutes

Town of Lake Holcombe Monthly Board Meeting Minutes (unofficial) January 12, 2023 @ Lake Holcombe Town Hall Chairman Guthman called the meeting to order at 7 pm. Chairman Brian Guthman, Supervisor Doug Olson, Supervisor David Staudacher, Treasurer Jim Mataczynski, Clerk Tracey Larson were in attendance and a quorum was established. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. MINUTES: Doug motioned to approve the previous meetings minutes and Dave seconded. Motion passed. TREASURER REPORT: Dave motioned to approve the treasurers report and move the remaining budget money ($97,982.34) into the Highway Expenditures allocation account; Doug seconded. Motion passed. CHAIRMAN’S REPORT: Brian reported that Ben and Chief worked a lot of hours cleaning up downed trees from the past storm. Chippewa County declared a disaster due to the storm and are asking for expense totals to hopefully meet the threshold for recouping some of the money. Brian also stated that he had lined up a generator just in case we needed it during another forecasted period of extremely high winds but we never needed it. This led to a discussion on the potential purchase of a generator for the town to have in case of emergency. The Veteran’s Memorial group will have a tent set up at the St. Patrick’s Day parade. Brian said that there is a Fire Board meeting on January 25th and after that there will be a big announcement about the satellite fire station. Road bids will be talked about at the February meeting. PUBLIC COMMENT: Larry Becker asked about the previous meeting minutes where we talked about the signers on our bank account and asked why that wasn’t already in place. Jim explained that we had all the paperwork completed but somehow the credit union didn’t have it. DISCUSSION OF SANITARY DISTRICT WITH KAY CURTIN OF WISCONSIN RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION: Kay discussed the high phosphorus levels in our system and the effects it has on our lakes. The DNR levels are very stringent and we are not meeting them. She also talked about the operator ’s testing methods and how he needs to change the way he does things so we have more accurate testing results. She talked about the fact that the size of our pond was made for our district and now we are allowing haulers to dump in the pond also which raises the levels. CLERK’S REPORT: Emmory and Laura Peterson applied for a Class B beer and liquor license for The Sand Trap Golf and Campground, formerly Uncle Salty’s Golf and Campground. Tracey performed background checks and all were good. Dave motioned to approve the license and Doug seconded. Motion carried. APPROVE BILLS: Dave motioned to approve the bills as presented and Doug seconded. Motion passed. ADJOURN: Doug motioned that the meeting be adjourned, and Dave seconded. Motion passed. Submitted by: Tracey Larson, Clerk