Minutes – September 2024

Meenon Town Board Meeting Minutes September 16, 2024 The regular monthly meeting was called to order at 6:32 p.m. by Chairman Sybers. Notice was posted in accordance with Wis. Stats. 19.84 Open Meeting Law. Public Comments: Jim Lang thanked the Board for taking care of Midtown boat landing. J. Armstrong wanted to know who initiated the citation that he received for the sign he put up. He was told that Officer Mangen wrote the ticket. Mr. Armstrong indicated that the officer was trespassing and did not leave a copy of the ordinance for the citation. It was noted that the next Town Meeting will be held on Monday, October 21, 2024. Police Report: Chief Thiex presented the police report. Everything is going well. John Armstrong – he will not take the sign down. He went through some history of his family in the township. He indicated that the sign went up 4 months ago and just recently was given a citation for it. Sex Offender ordinance – we received an updated ordinance from the attorney’s office. How do we enforce, how do we get it out to everyone? What about working with the relators in the area, but they only check financial records of people buying houses, they do not check to see if the buyers are offenders. Private sales do not check to see if buyers are offenders. What about a Homeless Ordinance – this only applies to property the township owns, does not apply to County, State, or private property. Land Use office is working on the map for the ordinance. . once the map is completed, we will have a complete package, then we will be able to have the 1st and 2nd reading of the ordinance and take action. Village of Webster, Ordinance 298-83 – O’Brien explained that the Village is supposed to notify us of changes 10 days in advance of new zoning changes because our office is now in the Village. 7047 County Road A, Lot 6 – the Township is not putting in a new road. If the adjoining landowners want to put in a new road they can, however, the new road must meet the township’s road specs. The Clerk will inform the Title office of this. Cell phone plan – at the joint meeting with Oakland, the committee decided on going ahead with purchasing cell phones for all township elected officials and let each Board know. No LUPC meeting was held in September. On a motion by Strese, seconded by O’Brien the Liquor License for Northwest Passage’s Philanthropy event and the Operator License for Beverly Swenson for the same event was approved. The minutes from the August 2024 meeting were presented for approval. Motion by Strese to approve those minutes, seconded by O’Brien. Motion carried. The Treasurer’s report from August was presented for approval. Motion by Strese to approve, seconded by O’Brien. Motion carried. Supervisor Reports: Strese – what is going on with the property on County Road FF? Siren police department has written tickets to the landowner. Tickets can be written several times, if he does not pay them, they then get a County citation and could end up in Court. If there are 2 unpaid tickets in the system, the landowner then gets a summons complaint and then goes to court. If we clean it up, we can put the cost on the landowners’ taxes. Peterson Road – when the shouldering is done, we should have them go around the corner to fix that small area. Chairman Report – we have been in contact with Rural Mutual in regard to the court papers we received on Friday, September 13th. The Clerk will send all the paperwork to the insurance company so they can begin. Davidson and Midtown used to have two stop signs, now there is only one. Could another stop sign be put up? Not everyone stops at the stop sign which makes that corner unsafe. Chipping is done on Stengel, Pike Bend, Walberg, and Kruger. Fogging is being completed and our town worker is helping with that. Spray patched rest of Fairgrounds. Helsene to the corner was also done because Lincoln was doing work on their portion of the road. Moline was spray patched. Could a small chunk on Old 35 from D to the Passage be done as well? Strese mentioned that North Bass Lake Road to Moline Road should also be done. Can the speed limit on Old 35 be dropped by 10 MPH? Legally we can drop a speed limit by 10 MPH. We will put this on the October agenda. Address signs are being put up as time permits. We will have to check to see if and how many road signs can be ordered. A constituent asked if the ditches on Midtown Road could be mowed because she has some students coming out to help clean the roadways. The mower is not currently available due to it being with the other townships. The clerk will notify her of this. Crack sealing still has to be done on Shady Oaks. Culvert on Midtown – what do we do about the marking on the culvert? Motion by Strese to pay bills, seconded by O’Brien. Motion carried. Next month’s meeting: Siren Schools referendum, remove Concerned Citizens. Adjourned at 8:16 p.m. DRAFT copy until approval at the October 2024 meeting.