Town Board Meeting — Minutes

Town of Exeter Regular Board Meeting Monday, September 8, 2025 – 7:00PM Ted Fahey, Mark Gundlach, Kent Brauer, and Clerk Sass were present. Town members: Burt Boldebuck, Rick Diaz, and Dale Gutman. Notice legally posted. Minutes: The minutes from August11, 2025 Regular Board Meeting presented. Motion to approve August 11, 2025, Regular Board Meeting minutes (MG/KB), all in favor, approved. Treasurer Report: Dawn summarizes balance as of August 31, 2025, $345,295.77. Money Market funds gained $437.22 in interest. The balance is now $125,219.85. Motion to approve treasurer report (MG/KB), all in favor, approved. Announcements: Car Show – September 18. Supervisor report: Ted – Hwy 92 paving project set to begin next week, they will work on both ends and meet in the middle. The road will not be closed, just down to a single lane. Budget preview for Belleville Fire and EMS should be out on 9/11. September 22, a public hearing is scheduled for the Belleville Fire budget. October 14, a public hearing is scheduled for Belleville EMS budget. Mark – nothing. Kent – nothing. Citizen Input: None. Committee Reports: Mark – Rick will give park updates. A request from the park committee for funds to build a pickleball court has been forwarded to the town board. The town has received an estimate from Green County for the asphalt and from Travis Desmet for excavation of the court. Ted mentioned an anonymous donation to help with expenses for the pickleball court. Burt – how many people can play? Rick - one court can have two or four people play. Dale – what is pickleball? Aspects of the sport resemble tennis and table tennis played on a doubles badminton court, but pickleball has specific scoring rules, paddles, balls (a hollow, plastic ball) and court lines. Unfinished: • EMS/Fire Contract – take effects Jan 1, 2026 New Business: • M & J Grain land division – Carter Wirth from Talarczyk, Ted explains the division. Motion to approve land division and joint driveway agreement per recommendation from the plan commission (MG/TF), all in favor, approved. • Pickleball court – Motion to approve funding of $6,000.00 for a pickleball court, using money from the car show food sales, donations, and 50/50 raffle in the amount of $4,398.00 and a private donation (MG/KB), all in favor, approved. The area where the court will be located will be marked this week. Travis Desmet will be contacted after area is marked for the excavation. Green County highway will try to get at least the base layer of asphalt down this year. • Tax Collection agreements – Motion to approve the tax collection agreement with Green County Treasurer for 2025 tax collection and Bank Collection Letter (KB/MG), all in favor, approved. • Gardiner Re-Val Proposal – Ted explains that we are already out of compliance with the DOR for assessed property values. Bruce explained we could start a small re-val now which would be less expensive and not “sticker shock” for homeowners if we wait to do a full re-valuation. New maintenance contract was also presented. Table until next month. • Senior Center Appointment - Six people expressed an interest in the senior center board to represent Exeter replacing Bruce Kiesling. Mark Dohm was decided on after reviewing mini biographies submitted by all interested parties. Motion to appoint Mark Dohm (MG/KB), all in favor, approved. • Bills – Motion to pay the bills (MG/KB), all in favor, approved. Adjourn: Motion to adjourn, (MG/TF), all in favor, adjourned 7:35PM Respectfully Submitted, Dawn Marie Sass, Clerk/Deputy Treasurer