Regular Board — Minutes

VILLAGE OF CAMERON REGULAR BOARD MEETING MINUTES November 10, 2025 | 6:00 P.M. 300 N 1st Street, Cameron, WI 54822 1. CALL TO ORDER/PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE/ROLL CALL Meeting was called to order by President Hullback at 6:03 p.m. Answering roll call were Trustees Randy Hill; Dave Ebner; Kathy Krug; Village President Russell Hulback; Trustees Denise Paddock; Steve Johnson; and Jessica Larson. All present. Staff present were: DPW Ebert; COP Engle; C-T Story. Others present were: Joe Atwood, Building Inspector; Amy Kelsey, Cooper Engineering; Brad Volker, Cooper Engineering; Bob Zintana, Barron News Shield; Kathy Linville, Republic Services; Matt Schultz, Republic Services; Teresa Anderson, MSA Engineering; Aar on Millerman; Victoria Moy; Jeremey Sisko; and another citizen, unknown. 2. PUBLIC COMMENTS – President Hullback called out for any public comments allowing up to three minutes for any item. No one came forth. No comments. 3. CONSENT AGENDA a. Treasurer’s Report; b. Minutes of Meetings; c. Consider/Act on Auto Renewal for MEUW Compliance Service Agreement; d. Consider/Act on Resolution 2025-15: EOP [Emergency Operations Plan]; Motion by Trustees Johnson/Larson to approve the consent agenda. All aye. None opposed. Motion carried. 7-0. 4. STAFF REPORTS & COMMITTEE UPDATES a. Building Inspector Report: Report provided by Joe Atwood. Came forth , Joe requested if any questions from board. No questions or comments from board. b. Public Works Report : Report provided by DPW Jaden Ebert. Inquired if any questions from board. Hearing none, Jaden informed board that the 2006 F350 was taken in for repairs and an estimate came to $3,500 to repair cam phasers. Second plow truck is now fully rigged. Couple of repairs on welds on other plow truck. The PW Dept is ready for winter weather. The work on 2 nd Street was done well. The French drains seem to have helped street drainage on the new pavement. Consensus of the board to authorize the repair of the 2006 F350 of $3,500 at Swant Gerber. c. Law Enforcement Report : Report provided by C.O.P. Engel. Chief Engel stated that Officer Schroeder is teaming up with Barron County and will be shadowing them for three weeks. The policy manual is behind the times and a contract to address that will be later in the agenda. Tim Kriz is a police chief for 35 years by Milwaukee. Tim has been working on Ladysmith’s policies for the police dept and has completed Cumberland’s and Chetek’s policies. Will like to order the body cams and cameras ahead of the 2026 bu dget items. Updated the wage index and will be in tonight’s action item. Shop with a Cop is on December 1 st so will be attending that. d. Clerk Report: C-T Story introduced Matt Schultz and Kathy Linville from Republic Services to address the garbage. Matt addressed the board that the driver Republic had has since retired. The new driver finishes the routes faster so is ahead of schedule, about 2-1/2 hours. Republic has an App that customers can download. The app can provide route and ETA information for garbage pickup. If snow day, Republic will be there the next day following snowfall. There is an 800# but that number goes to Indiana. The l ocal flyers have the local number. Customers should contact the Village Hall for garbage concerns or changes as per the contract. The clerk does a good job communicating with Republic with customers concerns. e. Committees Updates: Dave Ebner, Chair for Community Center Committee spoke regarding their recent committee meeting. He provided an update on the meeting. [Clerk Note: The meeting information is on the website at cameronwi.gov.] Dave Ebner, Chair for Street Committee stated that their was a Joint Street and Water -Sewer Committee meeting. The 2nd Street French drains were put due to storm drainage issues. There will be discussion on the Sunnyside project later on in the agenda and the committee made recommendations towards hiring Cooper Engineering. 5. OLD BUSINESS: None 6. NEW BUSINESS a. Presentation by MSA Engineering Services Regarding Wastewater Treatment Facility; Teresa Anderson, MSA Engineering Services, presented information in regards to the waste water treatment facility. The village is currently in the middle of Phase I. Phase II will be starting, but Phase III is the largest funding costing $17 million. Phase II is the addition of a seepage cell at the existing WWTF in Barron. There is not enough capacity in the treatment plant. The effluent to the pine plantation is not seeping fast enough. Projected project construction to be 2027. The funding application is due in 2026. The CWF program offers 1.55% interest currently and can issue revenue bonds. The application is due September 2026 and plan specs go with the application. There are two separate communities, Village of Cameron and the City of Barron so there will be two separate applications to CWF. This will be on the agenda with the Joint Sewer Commission in December 2025. Further information will be presented to the board at future meetings. No action. b. Consider/Act on Combination Class B Liquor License to: Roux Investments LLC d/b/a Pour Decisions, 109 N 6 th Street, Cameron, WI 54822; Agent: Aaron Roux; Motion by Trustees Johnson/Paddock to grant the combination Class B liquor license to Roux Investments, LLC. All aye. None opposed. Motion carried. 7-0. c. Discuss and Possible Consider/Act on Cameron Youth Baseball Placing a Concession Stand Building Permanently at Sportsmans Park; Aaron Millerman presented to review needs for a new concession stand at Sportsmans Park. Indicated it is not a ‘permanent’ structure as indicated on agenda. [Clerk note: DPW confirmed it would be considered a permanent structure after the meeting]. The existing shed would be removed. Trustee Ebner questioned whether the youth group’s shed would allow others to use it. Aaron stated he don’t see that as being an issue. Ebner inquired on a time frame. Aaron stated that whenever the civic club removes their older building from the property and the time to order a new shed. The group would place insurance on it. Trustee Paddock indicated that the civic club always allowed others to utilize the building that’s there. When it was getting vandalized it was hard to keep up with it. Ebner brought up perhaps the people using it could make a donation if using the space. Trustee Hill stated that if the village ever would build a better concessions stand then the youth group would be asked to remove their shed. May not be anytime soon, perhaps 10 years, just down the line it may be asked to be removed. No action at this time. Board referred to the Parks Committee d. Consider/Act on Ordinance 2025-05 Creating Sections 34-239 and 34-274 Relating to Zero- Lot-Line Twin Homes; Recommendation by the Plan Commission to approve the Zero-Lot-Line ordinance. Motion by Trustees Johnson/Krug to approve Ordinance 2025-05 Creating Sections 34-239 and 34-274 Relating to Zero-Lot-Line Twin Homes. All aye. None opposed. Motion carried. 7-0. e. Consider/Act on Ordinance 2025-06 Annexing Territory to the Village of Cameron Pursuant to WI Stat. § 66.0223; Trustee Johnson spoke regarding the annexation. This is for the Bayer Avenue (formerly 12- 1/2 Ave) for a small strip of right-of-way land formerly in the Town of Stanley. Motion by Trustees Paddock/Larson to approve Ordinance 2025-06 and annexing territory. All aye. None opposed. Motion carried. 7-0. f. Consider/Act on Ordinance 2025-07 Burning; President Hulback brought up his thoughts on leaves smoldering and nuisance on burning. Hulback asked other board members input. Chief Engel commented why burn when you have a brush site. Trustee Krug indicated can burn in a camp fire. Further discussion. Motion by Trustees Johnson/Ebner to approve Ordinance 2025-07 Burning. All aye. None opposed. Motion carried. 7-0. g. Consider/Act on Cooper Engineering Services Agreement for Sunnyside Project; Item G is consolidated with Item H. Motion in Item H. h. Consider/Act on Cooper Engineering Design and Funding Applications costs totaling $226,240 for Sunnyside Ave Project; Motion by Trustees Johnson/Ebner to approve the contract submitted by Cooper Engineering for Sunnyside Ave project. Aye – 6 Abstain – 1 (Paddock). Motion carried. 6-1. i. Consider/Act on CSI, LLC (Custom Service Information, LLC) to Compile a Policy and Procedure Manual for the Cameron Police Department not to exceed $2,500; Motion by Trustees Larson/Paddock to approve policies and procedures not to exceed $2,500 for the Cameron Police Department. All aye. None opposed. Motion carried. 7-0. j. Consider/Act on Purchase of Radios and Body/Squad Camera Systems to Kenwood Radios; Motion by Trustees Larson/Paddock to approve the purchase of body cams and radios. All aye. None opposed. Motion carried. 7-0. k. Consider/Act on Revised Police Department Wage Tier Structure; Motion by Trustees Larson/Ebner to approve the police department’s wage tier structure. All aye. None opposed. Motion carried. 7-0. l. Consider/Act on Posting for a Full-Time Patrol Officer Position for Police Department; Motion by Trustees Larson/Krug to allow the Chief of Police to post a full-time patrol officer position for the police department. All aye. None opposed. Motion carried. 7-0. 7. FUTURE MEETINGS President Hullback updated the board with future meetings: 1) Budget Hearing: Thursday, November 13 th at 6:30 pm and 2) Special Board Meeting: Thursday, November 13th at 6:45 pm 8. ADJOURNMENT Motion by Trustees Hill/Ebner to adjourn the meeting at 7:20 p.m. All aye. None opposed. Motion carried. 7-0. Submitted by, Ardith Story, Clerk-Treasurer