2025 Town Board Meeting Minutes

1/8/2025 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday January 13, 2025 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Chad Kottke . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 4. Public notice was posted 1/8/2025. 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave the Town Board the book with a bank balance of $46,413.29. 6. Brian Literski made a motion to a pprove the minutes as drafted from the December meeting, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried . 7. Public comment period. Per Katie Giese, some people did not like having to provide an envelope to get their receipt for taxes. The office was cleaned up. 8. Road work plans for 2025, blacktopping and granite, start bid process. We will be blacktopping Joe Snow Road from Farmingdale to Highway 64. After we determine what that cost is, we will review what how much is available for putting granite on roads Then we will do granite bids. 9. Update ARIP application. We were denied this for the second round. 10. Update on Caucus. This is on the schedule for the 16 th of January. 11. Talk about snowplowing across the road. We need to have citations for this rather than fines. We need to contact the WTA and confirm with our attorney. Letters can be sent out to the landowners not complying. 12. Talk about trash can issue. We need to let people know they need to remove their trash and recyclable containers from the road after they were emptied. Letters can be sent out to the landowners not complying. 13. Decide what to do on the website. Rick to get more information from Krista and talk about it at the next meeting. 14. Discuss the upcharge from Harters recycling. Rick to contact Harter’s on the 2% increase. 15. How to handle possible layoffs in winter months, insurance, other. Talk to other Towns to see if they have work for us. We will try to get work to prevent layoffs. Insurance will be paid when the work picks up. Matt will take voluntary layoff. 16. Discuss the Garbage increase by Harters . See item 14. 17. All bills presented and signed by Town Board were paid. 18. Chad Kottke made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 8:20, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 2/10/2025 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday February 10, 2025 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Chad Kottke . 2. Roll call all were present. 3. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 2-5 and revised 2-7. 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $192,120.89. 6. Brian Literski made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the January meeting with a change to item 18 from the minutes from “Brian Litke” to “Brian Literski”, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 7. Public comment period. Janet Kleinschmidt mentioned that other towns have signing of forms for Lincoln County for biohazards and other items. Chad mentioned we will look into it. There was a question as to who we are paying called Elan Financial. This is our charge card. 8. Blacktopping and granite, start bid process. Chad will put together a bid to post in the paper and have to open in the March meeting. Also we will put together a bid request for granite to be opened at the March meeting. 9. Discuss employee insurance payroll deduction during slow period. Chad Kottke said he feels we should pay for the employees insurance if they have less than 64 hours in a 2 week period. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to not charge the employee, if they do not have 64 hours in a 2 week pay period, Brian Literski 2 nd the motion, motion carried 10. Decide what to do on the website. Website is still able to make changes so we can check a few other places. The top contender is Webs by Wegner. Looking to have in place by July 1. 11. Discuss support and vote on approving Bertram Communications for town Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to approve supporting Bertram Communications for the Bead Program, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. 12. Discuss the 2025-26 insurance and make sure it is up to date. Shed equipment is good, we are updating the vehicles for the Fire Department. 13. All bills presented and signed by Town Board were paid. 14. Brian Literski made a motion to a djourn the meeting, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 4/14/2025 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday March 10, 2025 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Chad Kottke . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted March 6, 2025 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave the Town Board the book with a bank balance of $382,902.10. 6. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the February meeting as printed, Brian Literski seconded the motion, motion carried . 7. Public comment period. How can the Town of Scott take care of Corning Road, north of 64 Charlene Woller thanked the Town for taking care of road by her Check on Town of Russell Web site design Zoning changes from the County were caretaker verbiage changes. 8. 50/50 culvert cost share Tower Road. We need to resubmit the application through May 1, 2025. There are 2 on the end of Corning Road by County Line. The other one is on Tower Road. Brian Literski made a motion to apply for culvert replacement, Greg Kleinschmidt 2nd the motion, motion carried. 9. Open blacktop material bids and approve discuss timeline for project. American Asphalt submitted a bid for A total of $130,250 for blacktop material. A follow up bid for laying the blacktop will be done. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to accept the bid, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. 10. Open granite bids and decide whether to move forward with bid. Two bids were received, Worden Ent. submitted a bid for $10.69 per ton for granite, Haas and Sons submitted a bid for $12.95 per ton of blue granite, and $12.15/ton for gravel. Brian Literski made a motion to accept the bid from Worden, Greg Kleinschmidt 2nd the motion, motion carried. 11. Put bid together for lawn mowing. Use the same bid format as last year and put in the Fotonews. 12. Decide when to put on weight limits posting. They went on effective 3/10/2025 13. Discuss preparations for the annual meeting. See attached. 14. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 15. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 8:35., Brian Literski 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 4/9/2025 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday April 14, 2025 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Chad Kottke . 2. Roll call all were present, with Supervisor Greg Kleinschmidt attending on Teams virtually . 3. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public was posted April 9 th 2025. 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $352,148.16. 6. Brian Literski made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the March meeting as drafted, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried . 7. Public comment period. Janet Kleinschmidt said the Town of Russell has a new website, that we should check out. 8. 50/50 culvert cost share Tower Road. Chad Kottke is working with the County on getting 50 percent reimbursement for the 48” culverts on Corning Road. Chad is working with Katie Giese to issue an invoice to the County. 9. Open lawn mowing quotes. The following quotes were submitted: Mark Berndt for $100.00 per cutting. Cutting Edge / Todd Kleinschmidt $125.00 per cutting Irish Green Landscaping $150.00 per cutting Amelse Services $250.00 per cutting Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to go with Mark Berndt for cutting the Town Hall lawn, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. 10. Discuss road repairs f rom washouts and costs. The roads are all fixed, to try to get the cost reimbursed. We used 120 yards of gravel and 120 yards of granite. Gravel is needed on Silver Fox road. A culvert had to be replaced on Highland Road. 11. Hazard mitigation plan discussion. Chad Kottke is trying to contact Tyler Verhasselt to check on 2017 Hazard mitigation plan to update it. 12. Town Hall update and needed maintenance. Rain gutter is leaking on the south side, Door stop off on the office door. 13. Blacktop Joe Snow schedule. Plan on having it done by end of June with the County doing it. No bid will be needed. Need to get them a copy of the affidavit from the Fotonews. 14. Tractor rental update. Nothing new on this trying to get it by early May. 15. Discuss Town of Scott/Corning border road maintenance . There are problems with Scott taking care of Corning Road. It needs to be ditched and improved. We could help them and charge them for machine time and labor. 16. Discuss preparations for the annual meeting. Agenda is done and ready. 17. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 18. Brian Literski made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 8:12 pm, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 4/9/2025 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday April 14, 2025 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 6/9/2025 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday May 12 2025 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Chad Kottke . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted on 5/7/2025 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave to the Town Board the book with a bank balance of $364,929.69. 6. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to approve the minutes from the April meeting with corrections to item 8 changing “Tower Road” to “Corning Road” and item 10 changing “repairs form” to “repairs from”, Brian Literski 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 7. Public comment period. Glad we sold 6 history books. Broadband update, County is working to get Corning broadband. 8. 50/50 culvert cost share Tower Road. Bills were submitted to the County for Corning Road. Tower Road to be done later in the fall. 9. Discuss Town of Scott/Corning border road maintenance. We are working with the Town of Scott to resolve this issue. We will bill them for the work we do. 10. Discuss road project needs for the year. We will be getting Joe Snow blacktopped from Farmingdale to Hwy 64. We will apply granite per bid. We will look at doing some ditching as well. 11. Discuss Town website. To get plan in place by next meeting. 12. Discuss recycling plan update. Need to get action plan in place. 13. Discuss dust proofing of roads. One person asked about getting dust proofing. The County will be selling it to us. 14. Hazard mitigation plan discussion. Chad is working on this. 15. Town Hall update and needed maintenance. Tables need fixing, Rain gutter on the south side is leaking. Need some new chairs. Office door stop needs fixing 16. Blacktop Joe Snow schedule. They will be putting material down on culvert and feather it out. The County could be blacktopping by the end of May. 17. Tractor rental update. Hopefully they have it here by the 24 th of May. 18. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 19. Brian Literski made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 8:00 pm, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 6/22/2025 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday June 9 2025 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Chad Kottke. 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 6/4/2025 and revised on 6/6/2025. 5. Clerk and Treasurer compared books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $348,137.40. 6. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to approve the minutes from the May meeting as drafted, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. 7. Public comment period. Janet Kleinschmidt made a suggestion to look at Town of Schley postings for Board of Review. There are 11-12 driveways that are affecting the town roads because they are directing water to the road. This needs to be looked at. 8. Discuss Town website. The cost of the Town Web site is very expensive and will be going up this year. The previous Quote for a new web site set up for Webs by Wagner is still accurate. The quote is $1400 to set up the website and $360 to maintain it per year. Brian Literski made a motion to approve going with Webs by Wagner, Greg Kleinschmidt 2nd the motion, motion carried. 9. Discuss recycling plan update. Need to have CAP done before October. 10. Corning Road project with Town of Scott. Working on Corning road with Town of Scott will bill them when complete. 11. Hazard mitigation plan discussion. Chad to work on this. 12. Blacktop Joe Snow schedule/progress. Will be working on 6/16-18 13. Timeline for granite haul. We did not hear from them yet. 14. Salt/sand shed compliance response. There are defects in the apron by the salt shed, Chad will check into this further. 15. Damage to roads from UTV/ATV . ATV and UTV users are tearing up the roads. If this continues, we may have to close the roads in Corning to ATV/UTV users . We need to get the word out to people to Bars and clubs to help prevent users from damaging the roads and keep the roads open to ATV/UTV’s 16. Update Emergency Plan. Rick to work on this and have updated by next meeting. 17. Approval of Driveway Permit on Highland Ave. Brian Literski made a motion to approve the driveway permit for Patrick Conklin, Greg Kleinschmidt 2ndP the motion, motion carried. 18. Approval of WPS permit on Elm Grove Road. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to approve the permit, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. 19. Vote on Liquor License and fees. Brian Literski made a motion to approve the Liquor License to Ed & Sharon’s , Greg Kleinschmidt 2nd the motion, motion carried. William D. Dinges, W8047 Joe Snow Road Merrill, WI 54452 Ed & Sharon’s N1294 Hwy 64 & 107 Merrill, WI 54452 20. Vote on Operator License and fees. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to approve an operator license to Taylor Dinges, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. Taylor Dinges 21. Pay all bills presented and signed by the Town Board, were paid. 22. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to adjourn meeting the meeting at 8:25, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 7/22/2025 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday July 14 2025 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Chad Kottke . 2. Roll call, all were present . 3. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 7/9 and reposted on 7/13 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave the Town Board the book with a bank balance of $295,544.39. 6. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the June meeting with correction to item 17 as Highland Avenue instead of Highland Road and item 18 to say 2 nd instead of end, Brian Literski 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 7. Public comment period. Joe Snow Road blacktop project is good. 8. Discuss Town website. A calendar for rentals could be added to new website. Preliminary website has been set up and looks good. Will keep working on this to be set up by early August. 9. Discuss recycling plan update. Needs to be done by October 1st. 10. Hazard mitigation plan discussion. Chad has gotten nothing from Tyler Verhasselt. Will continue to pursue this. 11. Blacktop Joe Snow Update. Joe Snow Road blacktop project is done, it is 24’ wide. Chad feels it will be less expensive than what was quoted. 12. Timeline for granite haul . This is scheduled for the end of the month. 13. Salt/sand shed compliance response. Chad sent this in and we are under 5% salt mixture , so it does not affect us. 14. Discuss damage to intersections. Officer Travis Watroba was at the meeting to discuss what is being done and what can be done to try to prevent the abuse of roads by ATV/UTV riders. If we can get pictures of the vehicles doing the damage and get the information to him, that would be great. 15. Update Emergency Plan . The updated plan was reviewed (see attached). Brian Literski made a motion to approve the plan, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 16. Discussion on granite haul and timeline. See item 12 above. 17. Discussion on Corning Road ditching. We will be moving forward on doing the ditching on the west side. Chad gave the Town of Scott a rate we will be charging them for the work. 18. Certified Survey Map submittal requirements . The County has sent us 2 reso lutions to change verbiage to zoning procedures. Brian Literski made a motion to approve Resolution 2025 -07-01 (see attached), Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to approve Resolution 2025 -07-02 (see attached), Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. 19. Approval of 2 driveway requests. Brian Literski made a motion to approve the 2 driveway permits. Greg Kleinschmidt 2nd the motion, motion carried. 20. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 21. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 8:15 pm, Brian Literski 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 9/9/2025 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday August 11 2025 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Chad Kottke . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted on 8/8/2025 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $281,672.23. 6. Brian Literski made a motion to approve the minutes from the July meeting with changes to item 11 and 14 for spelling errors, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 7. Public comment period. Ditching on Mink Road needs attention. Granite on Elm Grove helped. There has been additional road damage done by ATV/U TV’s. 8. Discuss a town communications tower installation. Dave Hoff to present. Dave presented a proposal to put up a tower which has been donated but would cost money to put up. Also, a location needs to be decided. By the Fire Department or the shed would be the best. 9. Update on Town website. To go live 9/1/25 need to finalize with Laura. 10. Discuss recycling plan update. To update by 9/30. 11. Hazard mitigation plan discussion. Chad working on this but is not complete. 12. Discuss totals for granite haul. They are done with the 5 miles, granite packed good. 13. Discuss LRIP reimbursement application. Chad is working on this, Need copies of asphalt and Lincoln County Highway invoices. 14. Culvert concern on County Line Road. Chad was contacted by Bridge Inspector, a 48” culvert on County Line needs replacing but is on Halsey mile and we do not pay for that. 15. Discuss damage to intersections. Still getting damage to roads, not sure if this is the same person that did the previous harm to roads. 16. Discussion on Corning Road ditching. This is done need to get timecards to bill Town of Scott. 17. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 18. Chad Kottke made a motion to a djourn meeting at 8:15 pm, Brian Literski 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 10/8/2025 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday September 8 2025 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Chad Kottke 2. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 3. Proper public notice was posted 9/3/2025. 4. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $80,375.75. 5. Approval of minutes from the August meeting. 6. Public comment period. No comments 7. Copper River Midnight Riders Town Hall usage and electrical agreement. Brian Literski made a motion to approve the agreement to use the Town Hall and pay for electricity, same as last year, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 8. Approval of driveway permits . Brian Literski made a motion to approve the drive way permit on Farmingdale Road for Brad Juedes, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 9. WTA workshops. Brian is looking at training to let Rick Hass if any payment is needed. 10. Road updates. Ditching on Mink Road to be done, North end of Wegner Road to put 6” of pit run on ¾ of a mile. 11. Discuss a town communications tower install , Dave Hoff to present. Dave has an estimate to put up the tower for $9197.00. Proposed on the SE side of the salt shed. The tower was gifted to us. Power would be from the town shed. 125 feet tall. This will improve communications with the Fire Dept. and town road crew. Rick Hass to check on insurance. Brian Literski made a motion to approve going ahead with the tower not to exceed $14,000 with the Fire De pt. to pay $6,000, Greg Kleinschmidt 2nd the motion, motion carried. 12. Update on Town website. Calendar to be added should be ready by 9/30/2025 13. Discuss recycling plan update. Rick Hass is working on this and the application for the grant is due by 10/1/2025 14. Hazard mitigation plan discussion. Chad is working on this. 15. Discuss LRIP reimbursement application. Chad to submit next week . Need to be thinking about projects for next LRIP 16. Culvert concern on County Line Road. The culvert is sagging in the middle by 2 feet, the culvert is 78 ” high and would be covered 100% by the State. It is 1.5 miles west of S on County Line. 17. Discuss damage to intersections. Hilly Road had some damage to it, other towns are experiencing the same problem. 18. Discussion on Corning Road ditching. Chad said this is done and he has to put the bill together. 19. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 20. Brian Literski made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 8:31, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 12/8/2025 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday November 10 2025 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Chad Kottke. 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 11/5/2025. 5. Clerk and Treasurer compared books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $42,396.34. 6. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to approve the minutes from the October meeting with a change on line 8 deleting the word been and line 24 change the word thins to this, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. 7. Public comment period. At 8 pm we will be switching to the budget meeting. Next year is Corning’s 150th year, do we want to celebrate somehow? There are ruts on Highland by Elm Grove that need fixing. New website is good. 8. Update on town communications tower install. Base is poured, wait 30 days to put up the tower. 9. Discuss 50/50 on culvert cost share. Tower road is complete. County Line Road has been submitted to the State by Jason from the County. State to pay 100% 10. 2025 newsletter draft is done. We can have Digicopy print them for $1815, VIP for $1000, Office Max for $1100, Reindel for $410 estimate. Brian Literski made a motion to have Reindel print the newsletter not to exceed $500, Greg Kleinschmidt 2nd the motion. Motion carried. 11. Any Special Assessments for taxes. None. 12. Health Insurance for 2026. The cost is going up 30% for the current policy, Rick Hass to check with Tony Hallgren for different cheaper insurance. 13. Road updates. On Highland there is a logging company that will need to pay for or fix when done. 14. Determine who to get propane from this winter. We will be using Ritchie Lakeland at a cost of $1.48 per gallon. 15. Discuss recycling plan update. Not done. 16. Hazard mitigation plan discussion. Not sure if we need to do anything, Julie Depasse to check on. 17. Speed limit on Wegner Road, posting children at play. No speed limit signs will be put up. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to put up 2 “Children at Play” signs on Wegner Road, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. 18. Discuss tractor rental for 2026. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to do the tractor rental for 2026 for about $4000, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. 19. Driveway permit approval. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to approve putting in a driveway on Joe Snow west of Farmingdale on Mary Berndts land, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. A big enough culvert will need to be put in. 20. Permits for line installation review. Spectrum was working on Joe Snow Road west of Corning, WPS was also working on burying cable, Chad reminded them that they need to get permits. 21. Corning Allstars proposed community box. They would like to put a box that people can put things in to let other people take that need them. Chad to get more information on this. 22. Update on election equipment for 2026-2027. We will be getting a new machine to replace the DS200 in 2026 for $7000. 23. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 24. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 8:47, Brian Literski 2nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 12/22/2025 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday December 8 2025 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Chad Kottke. 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 12/3/2025 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave Town Board the book with a bank balance of $129,147.78. 6. Brian Literski made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the November meeting as drafted, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 7. Public comment period. Tax bills have been printed. 8. Update to town communications tower install . The first section has been put up. The rest to be put up on 12/10. 9. Discuss and review wages and benefits . Brian Literski made a motion to raise Matt Prebeg and Brandon Kleinschmidt by 3% for 2026, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 10. Health Insurance for 2026 Update We are staying with the same insurance but will be in a bigger group thereby lowering what we will pay. 11. Payments before year end. No payments need to be made. 12. Review fund balances . Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to move $30,000 from the checkbook to the blacktop fund, Brian Literski 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 13. Road updates. Two spots where loggers have logs next to the road have not worked well and they need to be fixed and charged to the loggers or they need to fix the roads when done. Tyler Oestrich looking to get a culvert put in. 14. Discuss recycling plan update. Still working on. 15. Hazard mitigation plan discussion. The plan is through the County. Brian Literski made a motion to approve the 2024 County Hazard Mitigation Plan, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 16. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 17. Chad Kottke made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 8:27 pm, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________