Minutes

The Martell Town Board Monthly Meeting Minutes July 8th, 2025 at 7:00 PM at W5581 800 th Avenue, Spring Valley, WI 54767 1. Call to Order - Chairman Brathol called the meeting to order at 7:00 2. Roll Call - All Board members present 3. Verification of Public Notice - Confirmed with affidavit 4. Approve Agenda: Kidd made a motion to approve the agenda, Kaminski 2nd, all in favor, motion carries 5. Approve minutes from the June 10, 2025 Town Board Meeting: Kaminiski made a motion to fix Dale Olson’s name in public comments, then approve the Minutes, Kidd 2nd, all in favor, motion carries 6. Approve Minutes from the June 26th 2025 Town Board Working Meeting: Kidd made a motion to approve the working meeting minutes, Kaminski 2nd, all in favor, motion carries 7. Todd Dolan & Melissa Cook from All Croix Inspection discussed suggested Building Ordinance Revisions. After discussion, Kaminski made a motion to push the ordinance back to the Planning Commission for final recommendations to be provided at the August 8th meeting, Kidd 2nd, all in favor, motion carries 8. Receive Treasurer’s report - June disbursed $105,040.86, Received $2,886.10. Final balance = $263,545.99. 9. Action/Discussion Items a. Approve Disbursements : Kaminski made a motion to approve the June Disbursements, Kidd 2nd, all in favor, motion carries b. Approve Road Work Bid: Brathol made a motion to table the decision until July 17, after working meeting on July 14 to do more financial analysis before awarding a contract, Kaminski 2nd, all in favor, motion carries c. Adopt / Amend Town Policies: Kidd made a motion to adopt the Martell Town Policies effective July 2025, with edits as follows: update notices to include publishing notifications in the newspaper, increase employee spending limit to $1500, add Item 360 from previous policy, to become 370. Kaminski 2nd, all in favor, motion carries d. Approve Ordinance to Appoint Town Clerk to the Board of Review - Brathol made a motion to approve Ordinance 2025-3 Kidd 2nd, all in favor, motion carries e. Approve renewing contract to have county collect first round of property taxes : Kidd made a motion to Approve the renewal, Kam 2nd, all in favor, motion carries f. End Landline for Town Hall and Town Shop - decided to keep it, no action taken. 10. Discuss Woad Rork - All crushed rock has been put down. Dust control has been applied. The county gave an estimate for repairing hail damage on 770th, between $5000-$7000. Could start fairly soon. FYI 520th St and 610th St have to be bladed every week b/c of traffic from the road work 11. Discuss and approve driveway permits - Scott & Hillary Campbell, N8632 650th St - one permit. Field access driveway into their feedlot, no culvert needed. Chairman Brathol approved it. 12. Receive Land Use and Building Permits & Inspections Reports - No building permits issued in June 13. Receive Department / Committee Reports a. Planning Commission : Report on Comprehensive Plan (CP) presentation - Wayne Augustin reported on the public presentation of the comprehensive plan. Discussion around inclusion of free-form comments. Board expectation is that PC will approve the CP by resolution and send it to the board for approval at the August meeting. PC also has an updated DW ordinance and Municipal Building Code for next meeting. b. EAASOC Report: next meeting next Tuesday, c. Employee’s report: June 100 hrs road maintenance, 20 hrs road construction, 10 hrs shop, 1 week of vacation. After discussion it was decided that Bob will attend meetings quarterly and as needed and provide written reports to the clerk for all other monthly meetings. d. Cemetery : Nothing to report. Meeting on July 17th at the cemetery e. Discuss maintenance and repair issues: No issues raised 14. Read correspondence: Nicole Richardson re: DOT trailer, Rush River Road Agreement, Kathy Fuchs re: MFL distributions, Daryl Hall, Animal Control re: liability insurance 15. Set date for next meeting(s) - Kaminski moved to hold the next regular town board meeting on August 12th, Kidd 2nd, all in favor, motion carries 16. Public Comment: Dale Olson: acknowledge Bob’s anniversary of 25 years. Round of applause for Bob & Thank you for your service! Public comment concerns:Fred Lehman: time constraints? Brathol addressed that it was put there if we need it. Lori Larson: dismissive tone? The board expressed challenges around brevity & clarity. Removed final sentence to soften. 17. Discuss next regular town board meetings’ agenda items: Custodian of Records ordinance, Website draft review, PC: Driveway ordinance, Municipal Building Code, CP Ordinance, Maintenance Plan. 18. Adjourn: Kidd made a motion to Adjourn, Kaminski 2nd, all in favor, motion carries Respectfully Submitted by Robin Boles, Martell Town Clerk