February 2025 Minutes

Village of Gilman P.O. Box 157 Gilman, WI 54433-0157 Regular Meeting Wednesday, February 12, 2025 6PM Municipal Building 385 East Main Street Gilman, WI 54433 Minutes Village President Jane DeStaercke called the regular meeting to order in open session at 6:00PM. Board members present were Jane DeStaercke, Cheryl Rosemeyer, Mark Person, Russell Baker arrived at 6:26pm, Ericka Motte, and Dee Bornheimer. Robert Preston was absent. Village Clerk Candice Grunseth and Police Chief Tom Tallier were present. Village Public Works Director Dave Kroeplin was absent. Ginna Young of Star News was present. Village President Jane DeStaercke led the Pledge of Allegiance. Special Order of Business: Public Comment: Trustee Ericka Motte made a motion to approve the following minutes with changes on the Regular minutes for the Superior Choice Vouchers and Trustee Dee Bornheimer seconded the motion: Regular Board Meeting January 8, 2025, Caucus January 8, 2025; Special Meeting on January 21, 2025; Planning Committee on January 21, 2025; Public Safety on January 27, 2025; Parks and Recreation on February 4, 2025; and Finance Committee on February 10, 2025; All were in favor. A motion by Trustee Cheryl Rosemeyer and seconded by Trustee Mark Person to approve the vouchers/bills as presented. POOLED CASH for SSCU 32670-32682 & FORWARD 15066-15131 and vouchers V1108-V1159, WRS/WDC/TASC/EFTPS/DOR, Journal Entries JE-557-JE0571 and Transfer Sewer CD, and none for Restricted, CDBG, or RLF. The motion carried on a roll call vote of 5-0-2(Preston and Baker absent). Reports: President Jane DeStaercke talked about the DNR meeting with Larry Gotham and Brooke Klingbeil of WRWA. Mosaic Internet meeting and requesting a letter of support. The meeting with Representative Summerfield. Jane also reported that she attended the Community Health Needs meeting in Medford for the Village of Gilman. She said their focus is helping with the transportation needs of the County residents and getting the word out for all the services that the county does offer. Treasurer's Report – Fran Prasnicki had a written report that was in the packet for the fund balances for January 9, 2025 through February 11, 2025 for the pooled cash accounts at Forward and the other accounts. Trustee Cheryl Rosemeyer made a motion to approve the Treasurer’s report and Trustee Mark Person seconded the motion. All were in favor. Chief of Police Tom Tallier had written a report for the Board and noted the new complaints for January. He stated that after sending the letter and meeting with manager of the mobile home courts they did work to get all three public nuisance trailers demolished. They also have four new trailers coming just need to get the pads done and then it will be a total of 7 new trailers. Regular Board Meeting 2/12/2025 Page 2 Public Works Director Dave Kroeplin had a written report for the Village Board but was not at the meeting. Clerk's Report – A copy of the Clerk’s report was in the Board packet for review. Village Clerk Candice Grunseth noted that she reached out to Representative Summerfield and set up a meeting for the Village and the Library this past month. He would also like to do a listening session in the future. We worked on audit entries this past month and had a virtual audit starting last Thursday February 6, 2025, through Tuesday February 11, 2025. We hope to have a final report in late April. I will keep everyone updated. I have not heard anything further about the IDLE Site Grant or the Small business development Grant that I worked with Chamber of Commerce and the City of Medford on. Village Clerk Candice noted the 5 weeks into the 2025 budget with income at 2.35% and expenses at 7.54% OLD BUSINESS: The Planning Committee – Village Clerk Candice Grunseth noted there was nothing new from NWRP at this time. Candice also noted that we received the first billing for work at $9000. The Planning committee will meet again once the whole plan is sent back for final review. Candice believes we still need to have a Public Hearing as well. Dee asked about the question Jane had on the Zoning Ordinance. NWRP had suggested reviewing the Zoning ordinance to make sure that all new updates are in there and suggested they do the updates. NWRP said that was not in the scope of the services they contracted for. NEW BUSINESS: President Jane DeStaercke made a motion to approve the Letter of Support for Mosaic and Trustee Ericka Motte seconded the motion. The motion carried on a roll call vote of 6-0-1(Preston absent). President Jane DeStaercke stated that per Representative Summerfield to maybe wait on doing anything at this time to see what the new administration will do. President Jane DeStaercke made the motion to approve the Lions request w/ CBA support an addition to the Food Building at no cost to the Village and Trustee Cheryl Rosemeyer seconded the motion. All in favor. Trustee Dee Bornheimer made a motion to approve the part-time Casual Call In Worker Warren Dodge and seconded by Trustee Mark Person. The motion carried on a roll call vote of 6-0-1(Preston absent). Chief of Police Tom Tallier stated that he did some checking with the State on the permitting for a lighted sign. WE do not have the ADA compliance on our sidewalks. He spoke with the City of Medford on their lights and they had to bore under the road and this costs would be a minimum of $2000 as you have to call in a company to do this. He went with 4 moveable signs that can go on the street for now to use the grant funds. Committee dates were set as follows: Finance committee on March 10, 2025 @ 2:30PM Parks meeting on Monday February 17, 2025 @ 6PM Tree Board meeting on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @ 4:30PM Public Safety Plan Commission, Improvements, and Personnel are not scheduled. Agenda Items: The meeting adjourned at 6:38pm motion from Trustee Ericka Motte and seconded by Trustee Mark Person. Motion carried all in favor. Candice Grunseth, WCMC Village Clerk