Town Board — Minutes

Town of Exeter Regular Board Meeting Monday, January 13, 2025 – 7:00PM Ted Fahey, Mark Gundlach, Kent Brauer, and Clerk Sass were present. Town members: Siegfried Eckhardt (Siggi) Notice legally posted. Minutes: The minutes from December 9, 2024, Special Board Meeting and Regular Board Meeting presented. Motion to approve December 9, 2024, Special Board Meeting minutes (MG/KB), all in favor, approved. Motion to approve December 9, 2024, Regular Board Meeting minutes (MG/KB), all in favor, approved. Treasurer Report: Dawn summarizes balance as of December 31, 2024: $1,470,612.69. ARPA funds gained $507.07 in interest. The balance is now $121,593.98. Motion to approve treasurer report (MG/KB), all in favor, approved. Announcements: Primary Election on February 18, 2025. Supervisor report: Ted – EMS/FIRE quarterly meeting is tomorrow night; audit will be presented. Closed session for employee review. The county has done 3 days of tree trimming and brush cutting. Dayton West cemetery – Ted did some cleaning with Carl. Alton Sherman, our road patrolman for 23 years passed away. His burial was today with our plow trucks blowing the horns for him. The town is sending a sympathy card and donation. We ordered a plant, but it could not be delivered in time. Kent said to use Brenda’s in New Glarus from now on. Village of Belleville – there will be a lot of development coming in 2025. Exeter land bordering County Hwy CC and east has not been officially annexed by the village. Exeter will get five years of taxes. Mark -none. Kent – none. Citizen Input: Siggi – waiting on final approval from FCC on the Verizon purchase of Frontier. Frontier has been the leading (34 states) company in the U.S. for fiber optic cable burial. Committee Reports: Mark – none. Kent – Senior Center repairs/renovations for the kitchen. The original estimate was $40,00.00 and the new estimate is $29,000.00. Unfinished: None. New Business: • Cemetery Lot Policy – there has been a request from an individual to have Exeter buy back two lots. Kent said there should be a transfer policy with the lots costing that for which they were originally paid. After researching other cemeteries, the policy is you can transfer ownership, but Exeter does not buy back cemetery lots. • Pest Control – continue with monthly treatments. • B.O.R. training – Feb. 7th in Barneveld or Feb 8th in the Dells - $65.00 per person (send in for two people) • Bills – Motion to pay bills (MG/KB), approved. Adjourn: Motion to adjourn, (KB/MG), all in favor, adjourned 7:38PM Respectfully Submitted, Dawn Marie Sass, Clerk/Deputy Treasurer