Town Board & Plan Commission Meeting — Minutes

May 12, 2025 Present were Mark Nordigian, Julie Horbach, George Bailitz, Nancy Kemp, Sue Hughes, No Plan Commission items on the agenda: Bill Westerlund, Ken Sweinberg, Dave Soderman, Callie Rucker 1. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Mark Nordigian at 6:00 p.m. 2. Chairman Nordigian led those present with the Pledge of Allegiance. 3. Minutes: A motion by Horbach/Bailitz to approve the March 24, 2025 minutes as presented, motion carried. 4. Reports: a. Committees and reports from the Floor: None b. Clerk reported the Municipal CT report for 2024 was filed in a timely manner by Philip A. Balog, CPA . c. Treasurer: None d. Supervisors: • Mrs. Horbach reported that Philip Balog will do the ARPA report. Chief Ferger has remodeled a room at the fire station and invited the Board to look at it. • Mr. Bailitz reported Rick did a good job on the DNR pier/launch. He is going to investigate a couple options for the possibility of replacing piers. • Mrs. Hughes reported the lights at Lakeside Park are angled and shielded. There is a grant available for cyber security she is going to investigate. • Open: Supervisor Horbach will look at the Parks this week. e. Chairman Nordigian was contacted by Dave Laurine regarding Randall Farms subdivision ditch line that backs up or overflows that has started causing issues again. Chairman Nordigian will send Mr. Laurine’s contact information to Greg Boldt to give us a price to clean it out again. He also discussed the land Mr. Laurine owns that will be annexed into the Village of Twin Lakes due to sewer/septic issues. Also, at Randall Farms II they will be doing some drainage work in the future. 5. Citizens Comments: John Blakeman gave positive comments on the cleaning of the curb and gutters along with the tall grass cut. And he has not seen a reduction of traffic on 89th St. Mr. Blakeman asked about the baseball diamond in Kaskin Park being rejuvenated, Chairman Nordigian suggested having the Plan Commission look at the situation. 6. Business: Town Board / Plan Commission items: a. None Town Board items: b. Plan Commission appointments or reappointment. After discussion a motion by Bailitz/Horbach was made to reappoint Gary Franzen to the Plan Commission, motion carried unanimously. c. 2025 PASER Ratings for the Town. Ryan Spackman from Ruekert Mielke discussed the procedure and projects. A motion by Horbach/Hughes to accept the Ruekert Mi elke 2025 PASER Ratings in the amount of $3,187, motion carried. d. County Highway O speed reduction within the Town of Randall. A motion made by Nordigian/Horbach to support the decision that the Village of Twin Lakes makes to reduce the speed limit within the Town of Randall, motion carried. e. Tree donation at Town Hall in remembrance of Amy Hookstead, Town Treasurer. A motion by Bailitz/Horbach to place the tree on the east side of the Town Hall, motion carried, unanimously. f. Dead trees in the road right-of-way. A motion by Bailitz/Hughes to table until the Town Attorney can give us more information, motion carried. g. Review of current Treasurer application. Received 10 applications for review, after discussion a motion by Bailitz/Nordigian to have Supervisor Horbach and Supervisor Hughes to review the resumes to move forward, motion carried, unanimously. h. Meeting date and times for application interviews for seat #3. Discussion to meet on May 19 th at 6:00 p.m. to open and vote on the application or applications received. i. Meeting date and time for our 2 nd regular Town Board meeting in May unless we decide to cancel it. A motion by Bailitz/Hughes to cancel the 2nd meeting on May 26th motion carried. j. Meeting date and time for motions and voting on the applicants for seat #3. No action taken. k. Revisit the non -domesticated animal ordinance . Chairman Nordigian spoke with someone regarding the chicken ordinance and discussed sending the non-domesticated animal ordinance to the Plan Commission for review and improvement of the current ordinance. Supervisor Hughes will email the material she has to the current Plan Commission. l. Andrea & Orendorff, cost for the evaluation of Randall’s finances. Discussion followed, a motion by Horbach/Hughes to accept the proposal, motion carried. m. Innovation Planning Grant update. Chairman Nordigian applied for the grant which includes the Village of Twin Lakes and Town of Wheatland and will ask for signatures from each municipality to confirm participation then he can complete the $75,000 grant application. n. Ericksen Electric proposal for the DNR launch, town hall parking lot and Powers Lake fire station. A motion by Bailitz/Hughes to approve town hall and Powers Lake fire station amount of $415., motion carried. A motion by Bailitz/Nordigian to approve the Powers Lake DNR boat launch for $3,925. motion carried. 7. Other: None 8. Bills: A motion by Hughes/Bailitz to approve the bills as presented in the amount of $108,420.82 check numbers 41833-41849 including May-1, and BILLPAY. Motion carried. 9. Adjourn: A motion by Bailitz/Horbach to adjourn, motion carried, meeting was adjourned at 7:08 p.m. Callie Rucker Clerk