Annual Meeting — Minutes

Annual Minutes Town of Weyauwega American Legion – 303 N Mill St, Weyauwega WI 54983 April 18, 2023 1. Call to order a. Chairman/Jim Biddison called to order the Annual meeting of Town of Weyauwega at 6:00pm on April 18, 2023, at Town Hall/American Legion. 2. Roll call a. Clerk/Sonia Thede-Kramer conducted a roll call. The following persons were present: Chairman/Jim Biddison, Supervisor/Terry Wilz, Supervisor/Dave Stelzner, Treasurer/Jodi Wilz and Clerk/Sonia Thede- Kramer. b. Public – John Neuman, Michele Neuman and Carrie Hofferber. 3. Review & Approve 2022 Financials Report a. Board reviewed the 2022 Financial report and compared it to the previous years financial report. b. Approval of Board member’s payroll: Chairman/Jim Biddison went over the board payroll increase that was included in the 2023 budget. Motion to approve the increases of each board member’s payroll by Supervisor/Terry Wilz, seconded by Supervisor/Dave Stelzner all ayes, motion carried. c. Bank Accounts Insurance: Chairman/Jim Biddison advised banks are going bankrupt and asked Bank First how the township funds are insured. The township has 4 accounts with Bank First, in other words the township is insured up to $650,000. Which makes the township short on insurance by about $425,000. He suggested the town should act on this. He researched and this can be resolved several different ways. Some options are moving the funds to other banks, opening a CD and another option is to open an account with the state of Wisconsin, LGIP which then would be 100% covered. 4. Year 2022 Review a. Chairman/Jim Biddison went over items from 2022. He stated the roads look good and throughout the year the roads needed regular maintenance, which was handled or scheduled to be completed. Received funds from ARPA and was able to use some of the funds. He reported the fire department’s number of calls in 2022 and financials are good. They are working on expansion and new fire truck. For the expansion, our township might need to finance our portion, but the expansion will not be started till after they have a referendum. They would like to have the referendum next election which will not be till 2024. 5. Oath of Offices a. Chairman, Supervisors, Treasurer & Clerk: All officers took the oath of office, Dave Stelzner for Chairman, Terry Wilz and John Neuman for Supervisor, Jodi Wilz for Treasurer and Sonia Thede-Kramer for Clerk. 6. Assignment of Committees a. At this time Chairman/Jim Biddison handed over the chair to the new elected Chairman/Dave Stelzner. b. Planning Commission: Chairman/Dave Stelzner appointed Supervisor/John Neuman as chair for the planning commission board with other members being Tom Gettendorf, Jack Jansen, Larry Shofner & Jeff Dyer. c. Wolf River Preservation: Chairman/Dave Stelzner appointed Supervisor/Terry Wilz the member to represent Town of Weyauwega. d. Fire District: Chairman/Dave Stelzner appointed himself and Supervisor/Terry Wilz the members to represent Town of Weyauwega. 7. Public Input a. Previous Chairman/Jim Biddison said thank you for the last several years of being on the board. b. No other public input. 8. Set 2023 Annual Meeting a. Motion to set the Annual Meeting for 2024 will be April 16, 2024, at 6:00pm by Supervisor/Terry Wilz, seconded by Supervisor/John Neuman, all ayes, motion carried. 9. Adjourn a. Motion to adjourn the meeting at 6:28pm by Supervisor/Terry Wilz, seconded by Supervisor/John Neuman, all ayes, motion carried.