October 2020

TOWN OF PORT EDWARDS MONTHLY BOARD MEETING MINUTES Date: October 13th, 2020 Call to Order: Chairman Randy Moody called the Town Board Meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. in the Town Hall. The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance. Meeting Certification: This meeting has been properly posted (on the Town’s three posting boards, and on the Town Hall door) as well as published on our website and in the Daily Tribune, to notify the public of date, place, time, and agenda. Attendance: Chairman Randy Moody, Supervisor Tim Schmidt, Clerk Michelle Sorenson, Treasurer Kathy Reese, Highway Superintendent Allen Goodness. Present via Zoom was Supervisor Jeff O’Donnell. Also present were Dale Marth from Advanced Disposal and Joel Ortman from the Wood County Highway Department. There were four people from the public in attendance as well. Approval of minutes from September 8th Board Meeting: Clerk presented the minutes from the September Board Meeting. The minutes looked accurate and acceptable. Motion was made by Schmidt and seconded by Moody to accept the minutes as printed. Motion carried. Agenda: Approve the agenda Approve previous meeting’s minutes Approve payment of bills Treasurer and Clerk’s monthly reports Set date for next month’s board meetings Review correspondence New business: Old business: Public input Adjourn Motion was made by Schmidt and seconded by O’Donnell to approve the agenda. Motion carried. Bills: O’Donnell made a motion to approve payment of the town bills listed by the Clerk. Motion was seconded by Schmidt and the motion carried. Total disbursements for the month of September were $47,361.05 with total revenues being $2,442.71. Joel Ortman spoke to the Wood County Highway Department bill for the Lynn Hill Road reconstruction that ran over the bid amount by approximately $170,000. The total bill was $829,118.69. So far, the Ho-Chunk Nation has agreed to pay $300,000 and the LRIP grant that was secured back in 2016 pays $299,128.14. Since 2016, the cost of everything (materials, white sheet wages, equipment, etc) has gone up. Plus the County used more gravel than expected on the East end of the road by the marsh and had 11” of pulverizing in some spots that all contributed to the additional costs. The road is built to withstand heavy truck traffic but the Town may choose to post it so only empty trucks can run on it. 1 Treasurer and Clerk Financial Reports: The Treasurer and Clerk reports were reviewed by the Board. All reports balance. Total Town money as of September 30th, 2020, is $242,769.38. A motion was made by O’Donnell and seconded by Schmidt to accept the financial reports as presented. Motion carried. Correspondence: Clerk received two Sanitary Permit Applications. One for Cynthia Peckham and one for Kent and Deanna Schwartz. There was one fire call report. Chairman received the Wood County Highway Department winter road maintenance agreement for salt mix. He signed it and will return it to the County. New Business: There was one application for an operator’s license received by the Clerk from Ho-Chunk Gaming Nekoosa. The fee was paid to the Treasurer and the operator has taken the beverage serving course. Schmidt made a motion to approve the operator’s license and the motion was seconded by O’Donnell. Motion carried. NCWRPC: Schmidt proposed that the Town utilize the North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission to do our road ratings for WISLR. This is a free service that NCWRPC provides. O’Donnell made a motion to recruit NCWRPC to conduct the Town's WISLR road ratings. Schmidt seconded the motion and the motion passed with none opposed. ADVANCED DISPOSAL CONTRACT: Dale Marth presented a contract proposal from Advanced Disposal for garbage and recycling pick up. They would like to see the Town go to using their 95-gallon carts for garbage and recycling pick up. The cost would be the same whether the Town utilizes the carts from Advanced Disposal or not. These carts would be provided by Advanced Disposal at no cost. The contract cost starts out at $14.20/unit per month and the Town can expect an annual increase of cost by about 2%. The Town is hoping to get another garbage and recycling contract proposal from another collection company so this topic will be added to the November meeting agenda. Old Business: ROUTES TO RECOVERY GRANT: O’Donnell informed the Board that it is possible to donate our unused grant monies to a school district or, we might even be able to use that money towards our ambulance contract. KELLNHOFER: Dan called Moody. Dan appears to be moving cars around on his property. Public input: There was none. Next Scheduled Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled Town Board Meeting is set for Tuesday, November 10th, 2020, at 6 p.m. The meeting will be conducted at the Town Hall. A special meeting of the Town Electors was also scheduled for November 16th, 2020, at 6p.m.That meeting will also be held at the Town Hall. Adjourn: O’Donnell made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 7:28 p.m. and Schmidt seconded. All were in favor and the motion carried. Respectfully submitted, Michelle Sorenson, Clerk 2