March

Village of Rudolph Minutes of March 11th, 2025 Board Members Present: President Kevin Whipple Trustee Erin Whipple Trustee Rich Larsen Clerk Kristina Rebarchek Trustee Barb Ziebell Treasurer Joanna Mack Trustee Christy Steinle Meeting called to order by President Whipple at 6:00 pm followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Trustee Ziebell moved to approve February minutes as typed, seconded by Trustee Larsen; carried unanimously. Reading of the Bills by Treasurer Joanna Mack. Trustee Steinle made a motion to accept bills as typed, seconded by Trustee Ziebell carried unanimously. Public Comments/Concerns: ➢ Ordinances related to someone asking about having horses, is this an ordinance we want to bring back up?-Will be added to the April agenda to discuss further. What if the land is agricultural? ➢ Rudolph Rummage sales are the last weekend in April if you would like to be included in the sales and have something to sell you can pick up a flyer at the gas station in town. ➢ We will send a letter to Fischers about the garbage overflowing and blowing around outside 1587 Main St. Old Business: ● Little League Donation-Treasurer Joanna printed off bank statements for the totals in the accounts for the Village. As a board we would be comfortable donating $5,000 to the Rudolph Little League-motion made by Trustee Steinle, seconded by Trustee Larsen; carried unanimously. Does the Incourage Community Foundation still have their grants?-Yes, Trustee Steinle is going to email Linda Schill in regards to grants available to help the Little League with their projects. New Business: ● SouthSide Welcome Sign-This sign needs repairs, the wooden base is falling apart and is just looking rough. Fuller Mechanical was asked to draw up plans 1 for a new Welcome sign-which would be identical to the one in the park-they came back with an estimate of $13,000. The Village can look into getting quotes and ideas from other companies as well to see what our options are; once the ground dries up we can get out there and look at the base and revisit this topic again. ● Antenna-It is going to cost around $4-$5,000 for the antenna repair/replacement with us providing the lift for them to use. (LW Allen) Motion made to have LW Allen come and replace both smaller and bigger antennas by Trustee Larsen, seconded by Trustee Whipple; carried unanimously. (Q) Is this normal maintenance that should need to be replaced?-With the advancements of technology we think that this is a decent upgrade. This antenna is around 15 years old. ● Chemical Treatment-They are going to put together a package for us for a new building, this is the same company the city uses, they are going to get back to us in regards to the cost so that their chemicals would fit in the building for our sewer system. ● Village truck-Two tires blew out and the other ones were dry rot, we had 34 Truck & Auto put new tires and brakes on the truck. We need a snow flap on the front so it doesn’t blow up on the windshield-we rigged one up for this year but we found one for a little over $100-this would all be under the maintenance for the vehicle ● Ag building-garage doors- Doorworks quoted $2,718 to include all new trim on the outside, Hub CIty $2845 (unsure about new trim on the outside was not stated on the quote). Should we have a garage door opener installed at that time as well? Trustee Larsen is going to have Doorworks check on adding the garage door opener; Motion made by Trustee Steinle to go with Doorworks quote of $2,718 and a garage door opener not to exceed $1,000, seconded by Trustee Whipple; carried unanimously. ● Back blade and sickle sale?-we have a back blade that we have never used and a sickle that goes on a 3-point tractor-we can sell those. Curt from the fire dept offered to put it up on their surplus site and help us sell those-Thank you. ● July 4th garbage pick up-When Jim sends the sewer bill in the fall he always calls waste management about garbage pick up, WM is interested in coming on July 4th instead of July 5th, we as a Village are ok with this. ● Building permits-Cheese factory was pouring concrete Adam from Marawood contacted Megan Stashek in regards to pulling a permit a couple months ago and Megan passed along the information to Erin Whipple and Whipple has not been contacted yet. Erin will message Adam in regards to building permits with the cheese factory permits. 2 ● Fence permit per USIC billing-Marjean Andersen is putting up a fence and there are multiple billings from USIC for that property that no one from USIC has been able to clear up for us. Treasurer Joanna was given the ok to pay the USIC bill for everything MINUS the multiple billings in regards to the Andersen property. Hopefully this will clear the billing up. Agenda requests ● Farm animal ordinance (ie horses, etc) ● Airbnb/VRBO ordinance ● Potholes ● Street Sweeping ● Purple Heart Ceremony Trustee Ziebell made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 6:42pm, seconded by Trustee Steinle; carried unanimously. Respectfully Submitted, Kristina Rebarchek, Village Clerk 3