January 2018

TOWN OF PORT EDWARDS MONTHLY BOARD MEETING MINUTES Date: January 9th, 2018 Call to Order: Chairman Randy Moody opened the Town Board Meeting at 6:00p.m. in the Town Hall. Meeting Certification: This meeting has been properly posted (on the Town’s three posting boards, on the Town Hall door, on the Town website and in the Daily Tribune) to notify the public of date, place, time, and agenda. Attendance: Chairman Randy Moody, Supervisors Jeff O’Donnell and Tim Schmidt, Constable Louis Hamel, Treasurer Kathy Reese and Clerk Michelle Sorenson. Also present was Road Superintendent Al Goodness. Several members of the public were also in attendance. Approval of minutes from December 12th Public Hearing, and Board Meeting: Clerk presented the minutes from the Public Hearing on the Hamin conditional use permit, and the previous monthly Board Meeting. 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 minutes Approve payment of bills Treasurer and Clerk monthly financial reports Discuss fire calls Discuss road projects Examine tractor quotes Finalize Wisc Town’s Assoc mtg details Discuss employee wages for 2yr period beginning Feb 1st, 2018 Set date for February board meeting Review correspondence Old Business Compliance with Junk Vehicle Ordinance (re: Kellnhofer) 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 bills listed by the Clerk. Motion was seconded by Schmidt and motion carried. Treasurer and Clerk Financial Reports: The Treasurer and Clerk reports were reviewed by the Board. Total Town money as of December 31st, 2017, is $163,016.24. Motion was made by Schmidt and seconded by O’Donnell to accept the financial reports. Motion carried. Fire Calls: The clerk received two fire call reports from the Nekoosa Fire Department. The first one was for Priscilla Benner on Cty Hwy AA. A detector was beeping and the Fire Department was called. No readings were found in the house so they replaced her detector batteries and the beeping stopped. The Board decided to bill Priscilla $50.00 for the call. The second fire call report was on 1 Fazio’s cranberry marsh. It was a large fire in a commercial outbuilding. Multiple fire departments offered aid to extinguish the fire. The board decided to bill Fazio’s the full $1,000.00 allowed by the ordinance for the call. The clerk will prepare and mail the bills. Road Projects: The Town needs to replace the bridge on Creamery Road before fall. We would like to convert the bridge to a culvert. We should be eligible for a 50/50 Road Grant. Roland will need to be contacted at the County for the DNR requirements for converting from a bridge to a culvert and for information on filing for the road grant. Tractor Quotes: Reisterer & Schnell Inc are in at around $115,000. Kabotas and Case tractors are both cheaper than the John Deere but the John Deere tractors don’t have a split frame which is considered an advantage. Al will go and look at the tractors and see what he likes best. We may have to call a special meeting when it gets narrowed down to the tractor we want to purchase. Wisc Town’s Assoc Mtg: The meeting details have all been finalized. Andy Simon from the Wood County Sheriff’s Department will be our speaker. He will be talking about active shooters and what to do should you find yourself in that type of situation. Treasurer Reese will take the food order to Piggly Wiggly this week and each board member will bring a dessert. Employee Wages: Tabled until the next meeting. Correspondence: The Chairman received a notice of a timber cutting for John and Diane Sweat. The Board received two complaints about the size of stones in the dirt that is mixed with the salt the road crew has been using to coat the slippery roadways with. These two complainants thought the stones in the sand were rather large. The road crew will take this under advisement the next time they receive a load of sand. Old Business: Junk Vehicle Ordinance: Mr. Kellnhofer still has an excessive number of cars in his front yard. The “No Parking” signs are up and there has been parking by them. Mr. Kellnhofer has until February 1st, 2018, to come into compliance with the Junk Vehicle Ordinance. Public input: Steve Bredl and his soon to be son-in-law Tom Rodriguez distributed a map to the Board. It showed how they intend to divide the current parcel into two lots and one out lot. All but the out lot are a minimum of two acres. The Board recommended that Mr. Bredl have it put in writing that out lot #1 can have no residential building erected on it. They (Mr. Bredl) will talk to their attorney about having this done. The Board wants to publicly thank Midland Paper for the generous donation of 5 cases of printer paper. Next Scheduled Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled Town Board Meeting is set for Monday, February 26th, 2018, at 6:00p.m. The meeting will be conducted at the Town Hall. Adjourn: O’Donnell made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 7:46p.m. and Schmidt seconded. All were in favor and the motion carried. Respectfully submitted, Michelle Sorenson, Clerk 2