2019 June 10 minutes

TOWN OF CROSS PLAINS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MONTHLY MEETING JUNE 2019 The Board of Supervisors of the Town of Cross Plains held their regular monthly meeting on Monday, June 10, 2019 in the Town Hall, 3734 County Road P, Cross Plains. Notice of the meeting was published in the June 6, 2019 issues of the Mt. Horeb Mail and the Middleton Times-Tribune. The Agenda was posted at the Town Hall, the Town Garage and on the town website on May 30, 2019. Board Members Greg Hyer, Patty Mullins, Jeff Baylis, Greg Haack, Paul Correll, and Town Treasurer, Bonnie Krattiger were present. Eight citizens were present. The meeting was called to order at 7:30 pm by Chairman Greg Hyer. Paul Correll led the pledge of allegiance to our flag. Approval of Minutes of the May 13 Town Board Meetings. Minutes of the May 13, 2019 meeting were reviewed. Motion was made by Greg Haack and seconded by Jeff Baylis to approve the minutes with corrections. All Board Members approved. Motion carried. Approval of Minutes of the May 20 Special Town Board Meeting. Minutes of the May 20, 2019 meeting were reviewed. Motion was made by Greg Haack and seconded by Jeff Baylis to approve the minutes. Board Members Greg Hyer, Greg Haack, Jeff Baylis and Patty Mullins approved. Motion carried. Paul Correll abstained. Review of Financial Report and Action on Payment of Bills. Motion was made by Paul Correll and seconded by Jeff Baylis to accept the May 31 Financial Report. All Board Members approved. Motion carried. The list of invoices for payment was reviewed. Motion was made by Jeff Baylis and seconded by Patty Mullins to approve payment of invoices totaling $160,425.11. All Board Members approved. Motion carried. Chair/Clerk Announcements – Clerk. Grand Opening Ceremony for the new Mt. Horeb Area Public Safety Building will be on Monday, June 17 at 3:00 pm. Open House will follow until 8:00 pm. Public is invited to attend some or all to see the new building. Greg Haack indicated that Mt. Horeb Fire has received the check for the sale of the old building. Wisconsin Surplus went through and put items up for auction gaining another $16,000. Mt. Horeb Fire may use it for incidentals in the new building. Chair – Patrolman, Bruce Boehnen has been busy doing ditch work and patching work. The International plow truck should be finished in mid-July and back to the garage sometime in August. Patrolman and Chair will be meeting with Town of Middleton on June 11 regarding our shared borders to come to an agreement as to which roads will be taken care of by each township. MSA was out measuring in Oak Valley. FEMA will be paying about $38,000 out of the $44,000 cost of flood damage. Chairman would like to change a couple Board meeting dates coming up this fall. He is asking supervisors to check their schedules for the fall moving the 9/9 meeting to the week before on 9/5 with the Plan Commission and possibly the November meeting to move to 11/5 or 11/13. Town and Country Sanitation will be switching trash pick up to Wednesdays instead of Tuesdays. The change is scheduled to begin July 10. Public Participation for three minutes on any item. Bill Buglass from Payne and Dolan gave the Board an introduction to the company. They purchased Capitol Sand and Gravel in August last year and have put a fence around the entire property. Payne and Dolan has been a family owned company since the mid-1920s. They now are a third generation company with 1,500 to 2,000 employees. They own about 150 to 200 pits and quarries in the state of Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and upper Illinois. They also have a bridge building division and a civil engineering division. They do their best to work with the community and the neighbors where they are located. If anyone would like a tour of the business, please let Mr. Buglass know. Wayne Parrell asked about a car rally on Union Valley Road this last Saturday wondering if there was something scheduled or just happened. The Clerk will check and get back to Mr. Parrell. Wayne also indicated a culvert past Lee’s property is washing out and is close to the road edge. Jeff Baylis is in the process of drafting a letter from the Board to the State Assembly and Senate representatives, the Governor, DCTA, and WTA regarding diminishing assets. Jeff also indicated an email from Wisconsin Towns Association listed municipalities that would not receive resources for their roads. Dane County is not on the list to be cut. However, he would like to see our town send a message of support regarding the towns in the state that are stuck without resources. There is an urgency regarding this legislation. He will draft a letter for the Board to consider at the July meeting. Jim Garfoot asked if Bruce is done with brush cutting. The Chairman indicated he no longer has the machine and is doing some of this work by hand. Jim asked if he can do some cutting off Military Road in Cross Plains. Mike Dubis called the police regarding an odd vehicle without a license plate parked at the electrical substation. Apparently the car was being sold and ran out of gas at that point. The Deputy indicated cars are being stolen and being dumped out in the townships recently and was glad he had called. Update on Wilke House Improvements. Erik Gabriel, from the National Park Service and Pamela Schuler, trail manager, presented information regarding the Wilke House improvements. Erik gave a little information about his background. He grew up in Wisconsin in the Sheboygan area and went to UW-Madison. He is working on the Ice Age Trail here in Cross Plains and across the State. There are about 700 miles of the trail completed and they are still working on the other 500 miles. Partners of this project include the DNR and Ice Age Trail Alliance and local units of government. Mostly the job is working to coordinate projects implemented by a volunteer program which involves about 2,640 volunteers who have done about 82,000 hours of trail work. The trail encompasses 30 counties and 22 Ice Age Trail Alliance volunteer chapters along the trail which is all powered by volunteers working to build and maintain the trail. The DNR works on land acquisition and the Park Service works on overall management, maintenance and planning and coordinating the volunteers and various governmental units. Planning is done with the County for an ideal route. The Park Service is responsible for compliance as well as the scenic piece so we are not going through a garbage dump. It also works together with the DNR on water permits. The Wilke Farm and House were built in 1850 and an addition was built in 1950 and another in the 70’s. The National Park Service is ready to renovate the interior of the house which is where they will move their offices and a visitor center. Work is set to commence in the next 30 days. Contract to build was issued at the end of May and is good through November. Renovation of the barn has been studied but it will need extensive work. The next phase will be working on parking, bathroom facilities, and a flag pole at the site. They are hoping to have a campsite for youth group and mobile work crews. Invasive plant removal has been happening recently as well. Update from Chris Klopp on Inter-municipal Energy Planning Committee regarding ATC. Chris was not available but Mike Dubis indicated that tomorrow, June 11 is the rebuttal due date. He believes the opposition is doing well. Action on Picnic Permit for Red Mouse. Motion was made by Paul Correll and seconded by Jeff Baylis to approve a picnic permit for the Red Mouse on the following dates and times: June 19th from 5:00 – 9:00 pm, July 17th from 5:00 – 9:00 pm and August 21st from 5:00 – 9:00 pm. Rain dates would be June 26th, July 24th and August 28th, respectively. All Board Members approved. Motion carried Action on posting notices for town meetings on website and not in newspaper. Motion was made by Greg Hyer and seconded by Paul Correll to amend the ordinance on publishing notices in the newspaper town board and plan commission meetings. Until October 1st, the meeting notices will be published in the newspaper and posted on the town website, Town Hall and Town Garage. Effective October 1st, town board and plan commission meeting notices will no longer be published in the newspaper. As a transition, the Town will continue to post in the paper with a disclosure until October 1st. All notices will be posted on the town website as well as at the Town Hall and Town Garage. The state attorney general has determined that posting is an acceptable way to announce many open meetings. All Board Members approved. Motion carried. Motion to adjourn was made by Greg Haack, seconded by Jeff Baylis. All Board Members approved. Motion carried. The meeting was adjourned at 9:20 pm. Nancy Meinholz, Clerk.