Annual Meeting — Minutes

Town of Remington 2024 Annual Meeting April 16, 2024 Tonight’s meeting will be recorded for the purpose of taking minutes. Chairman K. Plucinski called the annual meeting to order at 7 pm in the Remington Town Hall. Town Clerk B. Haasl, read the minutes to the 2023 Annual Meeting. Motion by K. Plucinski to accept minutes with corrections 2nd T. Simonson. Town Clerk B. Haasl read the minutes to the January 29, 2024, Special meeting. K. Plucinski motioned to accept the minutes as read, 2nd by D. Ellis Financial Report: K. Plucinski gave time for everyone to review and ask questions. Motion by L. Dieckhoff to accept report, 2nd by T. Simonson Cemetery Association Update: May 2nd the Wood County Work Crew will be present at the cemetery at 9 AM to help with Spring Clean-up. Clay and Leroy will be on hand to assist. Other news, Phillip Mckeel resigned as president of the Association and T. Simonson was elected in his place. D. Ellis was re-elected as secretary/treasurer and Leroy Dieckhoff as a sideboard member. Perpetual care charges are per plot. Part time patrolman will be mowing the cemetery going forward. A financial Report was provided to the town in February. K. Plucinski motioned to accept the report, 2nd by T. Simonson. K. Plucinski motioned to leave $1000.00 in town checking for Cemetery 2024 budget. Town employees will note on their timecards hours worked at the cemetery. T. Simonson 2nd. RVFD Update: A special meeting was held on January 29, 2024, to discuss the addition to the Fire Department. It was approved and is moving forward. Keller is providing design services for the project. There was an initial meeting in March 2024 to discuss the layout. A virtual meeting will be held April 23, 2024, at 2pm with Keller to discuss preliminary blueprints. After the design is finalized, it will go out for bids. There was a major house fire recently and mutual aid worked well together to fight it. Vesper Fire Department donated a car stabilization device to our fire department, training was held recently. Budget was discussed, no increases at this time with the building project under way. Brat Fry will be held May 24, 2024. Saddle Up Saloon wants to do a fund raiser for the department. T. Simonson motioned for the town to pay for Hydro-testing, pump testing, SCBA testing and Ladder testing in the future. K. Plucinski 2nd Vote: Yay 14 Nay 0 Road Reports: 2024 road inspection took place on April 6th, 2024. Some road signs and fire signs need replacing. Wedging needs to be done on Necedah Road from the Batterman to County Line Road. Some roads need gravel. We received a grant from the DNR to upgrade West Fence Road. That will be done sometime this summer. Needs culverts replaced and gravel. Board and Fire Chief Raise: Clerk Haasl asked the electors for a 5 percent raise effective at the beginning of the new term in April of 2025. Leroy Dieckhoff made a motion to approve with a second by Clay Demmerly. Vote: Yay 9 Nay 1 New Accounting Software: Clerk Haasl presented a proposal from a software company named Town Hall to upgrade the software used for financials and scrap Hey Gov, which barely gets used and is expensive. Joanne Wilkinson made a motion to go with the new program with a second by Jan Brockman. Vote: Yay 12 Nay 1 Spring Clean Up: Will be May 16, 2024, through May 20, 2024. A&B Roll Off will bring 2 dumpsters and the trailer will be available for scrap metal collection. 50/50 Road Money: Will participate with $5,000.00 this year for the county match. Park Upgrade: There was discussion about what to do to upgrade the park to make it more maintenance free. A couple of options were discussed, one by Express Lawn Maintenance and Top Cut. No decision was made which one. Joanne Wilkinson motioned to allocate $2000.00 of the remaining ARPA funds for the upgrade with a 2nd by Mary Mckeel Vote: Yay 10 Nay 0 Town Hall Step Replacement: Tabled to the May 2024 monthly meeting. Next Annual Meeting will be April 15, 2025 Adjourn: K. Plucinski, motioned to adjourn the meeting, 2nd by D. Ellis. Submitted by: Brenda Haasl, Town Clerk