November 2020

TOWN OF PORT EDWARDS MONTHLY BOARD MEETING MINUTES Date: November 10th, 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 and his assistant John Dupuis. Present via Zoom was Supervisor Jeff O’Donnell. Also present were Dale Marth from Advanced Disposal, Roland Hawk from the Wood County Highway Department, and Sandra Green from Wood County Parks and Forestry. There were several people from the public in attendance as well. Approval of minutes from October 13th Board Meeting and October 19th, Budget Prep Meeting: Clerk presented the minutes from the October Board Meetings. The minutes looked accurate and acceptable. Motion was made by Schmidt and seconded by O’Donnell 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 O’Donnell and seconded by Schmidt to approve the agenda. Motion carried. Bills: O’Donnell made a motion to approve payment of the town bills listed by the Clerk with the exception of JD Olchefski and Domain Registry. Motion was seconded by Schmidt and the motion carried. Total disbursements for the month of October were $19,119.98 with total revenues being $858,073.04. Treasurer and Clerk Financial Reports: The Treasurer and Clerk reports were reviewed by the Board. All reports balance. Total Town money as of October 31st, 2020, is $1,081,722.44. A motion was made by Schmidt and seconded by O’Donnell to accept the financial reports as presented. Motion carried. 1 Correspondence: Clerk received two Sanitary Permit Applications. One for Alesha Brundidge and one for Randy Stoll. There were two fire call reports. One was reporting high levels of C/O at Bill Wolf’s cranberry building. The other was for a motorcycle accident at Nona’s Nightmare on County Road GG. New Business: SNOWMOBILE ROUTES: Mike Hack and several members of the local snowmobile club were present. They requested the following Town roads be opened for snowmobile routes: Kimball Ave from ATV park to County Line Rd, Wilhorn Rd from Swiggum to Nekoosa, Batterman from County Rd G West, Deer Lane Rd, Grunewald Ln, and Creamery from Kimball Ave to Deer Ln. They would like the roads opened to have alternative routes in case there is ever any problems with trail land owners. The club would also like to have a ‘snow emergency’ routes in place as well. This would open all the Town roads if there was ever to be a problem with the trails that would make them impassable. The clerk will draft a snowmobile route ordinance for passage at the next monthly meeting. A copy will be sent to Sandra Green for review. BOUNDARY LINE AGREEMENT: Remington had sent their boundary line agreement to the clerk. It resembles those of years past. The agreement was signed and the clerk will mail it back to the Town of Remington with payment. SWCHS: The contract was reviewed. The cost to the Town for animals dropped off is $54.63 per animal. The contract was signed and will be returned to the SWCHS by the clerk. Old Business: ROUTES TO RECOVERY GRANT: The final submission deadline is November 18th, 2020. Our requests have been submitted. After paying for Nekoosa Schools personal protective equipment purchase it will leave approximately $500 left unused of the grant. ADVANCED DISPOSAL CONTRACT: Dale Marth appeared in person and presented a pricing chart for a five-year, seven-year, and ten-year contract. Advanced Disposal would still like to see us go to their carts. Much discussion was had regarding the carts. Finally being put to a vote, the result was O’Donnell voting against and Schmidt and Moody voting for. The carts should arrive in time to be used for the first Friday in April’s trash pickup. The Board went with the seven-year contract. KELLNHOFER: Dan called Moody. Dan reiterated that he continues to plug away at his problem. Public input: A thank you was given to the Town Board for letting the election workers decide whether to wear a mask or not during the election. Next Scheduled Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled Town Board Meeting is set for Tuesday, December 8th, 2020, at 6 p.m. The meeting will be conducted at the Town Hall. Adjourn: Schmidt made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 8:04 p.m. and Moody seconded. All were in favor and the motion carried. Respectfully submitted, Michelle Sorenson, Clerk 2