Town Board — Minutes

Town of Exeter Regular Board Meeting Monday, October 9, 2023 – 7:01PM Ted Fahey, Mark Gundlach, Kent Brauer, and Clerk Sass were present. Town members: Burt Boldebuck and Siegfried Eckhardt (Siggi), Rick Diaz Notice legally posted. Minutes: The minutes from September 11, 2023, regular meeting presented. Motion to approve September 11, 2023, regular meeting minutes (MG/KB), all in favor, approved. Treasurer Report: Dawn summarizes balance as of September 30, 2023: $510,915.79. ARPA funds gained $482.13 in interest. The balance is now $113,694.39. Motion to approve report (MG/KB), all in favor, approved. Announcements: Clerk vacation, EMS meeting tomorrow night 7PM – new chief will be introduced with an 11/13 start date. Supervisor report: Ted – one driveway permit off Cardinal Crest Rd. Mark – highway meeting, Green County Highway employee John will site county highway driveways for a $100.00 fee. Kent – nothing. Citizen Input: Siggi – attended Brooklyn town board mtg on 9/11, Frontier is meeting with Brooklyn, New Glarus, Belleville, and Exeter to team up for a grant to be submitted no later than 11/7. $10,000.00 from Brooklyn for broadband. Exeter also needs to commit money to be included. The State will get $42 million for broadband use only. Exeter needs to put a line item in the budget – as little as $1,500.00. TDS fiber is along Argue Rd. Frontier will write the grant. Committee Reports: Mark – park committee met last Tuesday, only three members in attendance. Kent ordered the new port-a-potty with an April 1, 2024, anticipated delivery date. Open house at recycle center on October 28 to congratulate Marc Peterson on twenty years. Richard Alme called Kent about the memorial bench in the park inquiring if anyone charged the township to put it in, he would have installed it for free. He was doing it for the family not the township. He is upset about the way things shook out. Extremely poor communication on the bench installation. Car shows $2,761.00 profit (pays for the grant). Rick Diaz – did restroom get ordered? Yes. Vandalism in the port-a-potty – cameras for park? Four cameras and recorder under $3,000.00 per Burt Boldebuck. What about the on-line park contributions? Did you get a chance to look this up Dawn? Yes. I have a list I can give you. Unfinished: New Business: • Procedure for Record Requests – produce a policy, bring it to the next meeting. • Set budget workshops dates – first workshop at 12:30PM on Thursday, 10/12 • Bills – Motion to pay bills (MG/KB), all in favor, approved. Adjourn: Motion to adjourn, (MG/KB), all in favor, adjourned 7:45PM Respectfully Submitted, Dawn Marie Sass, Clerk/Deputy Treasurer