2023 Town Board Meeting Minutes

2/13/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday January 9th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:13 pm by Chairman John Kudick . 2. Roll call all were present with Supervisor Todd Luedtke attending via Zoom . 3. The Pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Public notice was posted on 1/4/2023 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave the Town Board the book with a bank balance of $9,340.37. 6. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 7. Jeff Simon made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the December meeting as read, Toddd Luedtke 2 nd the motion, motion carried . 8. Replacement of Devils Creek Bridge on Corning Road. What are our options? John Kudick stated that Randy Frokjer was on vacation and would not be back until the 11th of January. John told Julie at Randy’s office to remind him to contact The Town of Scott. 9. Update on ARPA funds, what needs to be done? Use for wages, check with Wisconsin Towns Association? Rick Hass and Katie Giese to work on this in January. 10. Dust proofing from the Newsletter, any requests. One person responded to this during tax collection. The Board told Katie to tell the person to come to the annual meeting. 11. Claim on Wegner Road. Any updates. No updates. 12. Discuss crack filling on Leafy Grove Road. Did this get done? This is not done and will be done in spring. 13. Discuss getting charges for inspections list from Pagel. What is being charged and for what purpose? Clerk Hass got a list from 2 other inspectors and he will put a comparison together. 14. Review Insurance for 2023, are there any changes ? John Kudick to review the policy and see if any changes need to be made and will notify Stella at Rural insurance. 15. Caucus preparation. Nothing needs to be done. 16. Update on line charge for WPS. Rick Hass to get th is done. 17. Other Business. Tax bills have not been received by a lot of landowners, Katie filed a complaint with the Post Office. No response yet. The General fire truck is still at ELM with fuel leaking into the oil pan. Lights for the shed are at there at a cost of $2500 plus they will need to rent a man lift 18. Jeff Simon made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 8:40 pm, John Kudick 2 nd the motion, motion carried . ______________________ Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk 3/13/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday February 13th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:05 pm by Chairman John Kudick . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The Pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 2/8/2023. 5. Clerk and Treasurer compared books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $86,034.28. 6. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 7. Jeff Simon made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the January meeting as read, Todd Luedtke 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 8. Replacement of Devils Creek Bridge on Corning Road. What are our options? John did not hear from Randy Frokjer. There is another program that John Kudick will look into that may pay 100% 9. Update on ARPA funds, what needs to be done? Use for wages, check with Wisconsin Towns Association? Rick and Katie working on this and is due in April. 10. Dust proofing from the Newsletter, any requests. Follow up to requests from tax collection. Four people showed interest in this and we will bri ng it up at the annual meeting. 11. Claim on Wegner Road. Any updates. Nothing on this from the Clerk or Jason Bradner from Rural Insurance. 12. Discuss getting charges for inspections list from Pagel. What is being charged and for what purpose? Rick Hass to put together a spreadsheet for this to compare the prices. 13. Review Insurance for 2023, are there any changes? John sent Stella Westfall the changes and Rick to see if they are changed. 14. Prepare Gravel/granite bid for 2023. What roads and how m uch? Todd to get Rick a list to prepare the bid request. 15. Update on line charge for WPS. Rick review where we are at with this. 16. Prepare Lawn Mowing bid. Rick to prepare the bid notice with the same as last year with dates updated. 17. Set Board of Review date. May 11th from 6-8 pm 18. Set Audit meeting date. February 27th at 7 pm 19. What road projects blacktop upgrade/repair will we do this year. Because of pricing not out there yet, we do not know what we will do. 20. Request for date change on the May meeting. Meeting date will be changed to May 15 th at 7 PM 21. Request for access by the Firebarn to the 80 to the north by Kevin Schulz. This is denied due to insurance concerns. 22. Other Business. Post Office got back to Katie on the missing tax bills that were sent out, and they said they did not have any other problems for that time. 23. Todd Luedtke made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 8:27 pm, Jeff Simon 2 nd the motion, motion carried. ______________________ Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk 3/8/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday March 13th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:08 pm by Chairman John Kudick . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. Pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 3/8/2023. 5. Clerk and Treasurer compared books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $298,368.60. 6. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 7. Jeff Simon made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the February meeting as read, Todd Luedtke 2nd the motion, motion carried . 8. Replacement of Devils Creek Bridge on Corning Road. What are our options? On the grant money that would pay 100% of replacement, the bridge is not on that list so it will not cover it. John is not sure what to do with this and he will check on the sunset date for using the money for the grant we have. 9. Discuss getting charges for inspections list from Pagel. What is being charged and for what purpose? Rick Hass will set up a meeting with Grefe. 10. Prepare Gravel/granite bid for 2023. What roads and how much? See attached bid notice. Todd wants 1200 yards per mile, but to bid by the ton. Todd Luedtke made a motion to approve the bid, John Kudick 2nd the motion, motion carried. 11. Update on line charge for WPS. Rick Hass to follow-up on line charge for Dave Behrens putting in a line on Elm Grove Road south of 64. 12. Prepare Lawn Mowing bid. See attached. Todd Luedtke voted to approve it, Jeff Simon 2 nd the motion, motion carried. To be poste d on the normal posting locations and on the w eb site. 13. Fire Department financial report . John Kudick presented the report, Todd Luedtke made a motion to approve the report, John Kudick 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 14. First Responders financial report was presented by Jody Gieger. He also presented cha nges to the Constitution and By-laws. Jeff Simon made a motion to approve the report, Todd Luedtke 2 nd the motion, motion carried. John Kudick made a motion to accept the changes to the Constitution and By-laws, Todd Luedtke 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 15. Septic line crossing Corning Road for Britenmosers farm. At this point Todd Luedtke and John Kudick did not have an issue with it. 16. Other Business. Flail mower will be here later this week. 17. Todd Luedtke moved to a djourn the meeting at 8:54, Jeff Simon 2 nd the motion, motion carried. ______________________ Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk 5/15/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday April 10th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:18 pm by Chairman John Kudick . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 4/5/2023 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $247,450.89. 6. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 7. Jeff Simon made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the March meeting as read, Todd Luedtke 2nd then motion, motion carried . 8. Replacement of Devils Creek Bridge on Corning Road. What are our options? New Chairman with Town of Scott. John Kudick stated that the sunset date on the grant for the bridge is December 2025. The work would have to be done by then. Per Randy Frokjer we cannot legally or ethically get bids or hire a consultant without the Town of Scott on Board. Frokjer said we should try to get together with the Town of Scott. We could walk away from the grant which was 90/10 and is now 80/20 payout with the Town paying the 20%. 9. Open Granite bids and vote on awarding bid. Red Rock bid $11.25/ton applied to roads and $10.25 for stockpile. Worden Enterprises bid $9.97 per ton. Todd Luedtke made a motion to go with Worden Enterprises, Jeff Simon 2nd the motion, motion carried. 10. Open Lawn mowing quotes and award. Mike Schmidt and Len Franceour quoted $150 per cutting, Cutting Edge Lawn Care quoted $99 per cutting, and Mark Berndt quoted $110 per cutting. Jeff Simon mad a motion to go with Cutting Edge Lawn Care, John Kudick 2nd the motion, motion carried. 11. Discuss getting charges for inspections list from Pagel and get Rich G refe and or Dave Hilgendorf to meeting to talk to about working for the Town. This has been tabled to let the new Board review whether the Town should consider making a change. 12. Update on line charge for WPS. WPS sent email saying there are no projects in process, no further action by WPS. We will follow-up with WPS. 5/15/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday April 10th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 13. Prepare for Annual meeting. See attached 14. Prepare for clean-up day. Looking at early May, Chad and Greg to set date. 15. Where are we at for ARPA fund dollars filing with the Government? Rick and Katie to file this month. 16. New officials, Ray Melander, Chairman, Chad Kottke and Greg Kleinschmidt, Supervisors, Katie Giese Treasurer, and Rick Hass, Clerk were sworn in. 17. Approval of land change for Phil Prast. He is looking at putting in a driveway and needs approval from the Town. Todd Luedtke made a motion to approve the culvert and Jeff Simon 2nd the motion, motion carried. 18. Other Business. Katie Giese to pick up a water test for the Town Hall Does the Town have SOP’s for accidents and damage, should check with Stella. 19. Todd Luedtke made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 8:40 pm Jeff Simon 2 nd the motion, motion carried. ______________________ Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk 6/11/2023 SPECIAL DATE CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday May 15th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7 pm by Chairman Ray Melander . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The Pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 5/12/2023 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $262,039.16. 6. Chad Kottke made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the April meeting, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried . 7. Public comment period. Ryan Kinney asked about the garbage and recycling going into one truck, Chad Kottke explained there is a plate that keeps them separate. Ray Melander thanked John Kudick, Jeff Simon and Todd Luedtke for their service 8. Replacement of Devils Creek Bridge on Corning Road. What are our options? New Chairman with Town of Scott. Ray M. talked to Randy Frojker and he suggested that we meet with the new Town Board from the Town of Scott. 9. Discuss getting charges for inspections list from Pagel and get Rich Grefe and or Dave Hilgendorf to meeting to talk to about working for the Town. This is not a problem and it will be tabled until July meeting. 10. Crack seal on Leafy Grove Road. Per Ray Melander, this will be done on May 16th. 11. Update on line charge for WPS. Rick Hass is working with John Hanz to get coordinated with the County to make sure the permits are being filled out. Rick and Chad to meet with John. 12. Clean up day, June 24 th, how do we get the word out? Post on Website and in the paper for 2 weeks. 13. Where are we at for ARPA fund dollars filing with the Government? This was done by Rick and Katie with help from Kristy Ament from Town of Harding. 14. Tad Schulz to talk to Board about invasive species on Tower R oad with a plan to fight them. Tad gave a presentation about wild Parsnip. He offered a few solutions and he will get back to us by the next meeting to see for sure if that is what is on Tower Road. Also he will check into funding. 15. Discuss Grisham Rd snow plowing "bills". Allen Woller said that Grisham Road is not being plowed and that is why he had to plow it. He submitted a bill to the Town for the work he did. He also feels it should not have been charged the full amount of $100 for the first time of plowing across a road. 16. Culvert replacement for Tiny Cegielski. This is scheduled to be put in and the paperwork is complete. 17. What is the status of concrete at the approach and entry door of the shop? Concrete is broken in front of the shed and water sits on it. Greg will get prices for replacement. 6/11/2023 SPECIAL DATE CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday May 15th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 18. What is the status of blacktop for Farmingdale Road, Joe Snow Road, and Leafy Grove Road? Joe snow from Farmingdale to 64 is bad and probably needs replacement. Leafy Grove from Hwy. 64 to Hwy M is bad in spots. Not sure what is feasible to do. 19. Set up Building Committee for Town Shop. Get a committee together to investigate what the Town options are for this and salt shed. 20. Discuss Dust control on roads. $6120 covers 2 miles or 17 homes. Chad to see if we can set up something with the County for smaller amounts and cheaper. 21. Timeline for applying gravel to Tower Road. Target to do in June. 22. Timeline for applying granite on Town Road. Chad to contact them and see if they can do in June or July. 23. Fuel and maintenance contracting. A&L Oil comes on a regular bases. We could do contracting filters, 2000 hour service. No decision made. 24. What are we going to do about John Deere tractor agreement? Ray talked to Mark Farley, Tractor to be available the first week in June. Contract to have minimum of 100 hours at $39 per hour. The mower is wider than previous mower so it should take less time. 25. Change Meeting date for June and September request. The June meeting will be the 20th and the September meeting will be the 18th. 26. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 27. Chad Kottke made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 8:45 pm, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried . ______________________ Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk 6/19/2023 SPECIAL DATE CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Tuesday June 20th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:03 pm by Chairman Ray Melander . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The Pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 6/11/2023 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $237,646.18 . 6. Chad Kottke made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the May meeting as printed, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 7. Public comment period. Katie is going to do a new water test at the Town Hall. Can anything be done to the acoustics of the Town Hall. . GOV site and emails need to be set up for the Town. 8. Replacement of Devils Creek Bridge on Corning Road. What are our options? Ray met with the new Chairman with Town of Scott. Ray met with Ron Lemmer, He will meet with him again. Ray also talked to John Kudick and he said no engineer was hired. Ray said the grant was setup as 90%/10% which means we would pay 10% of the cost and that would be split between Scott and us. Now it is 70/30. 9. Update on line charge for WPS. Chad and Rick met with John Hanz. This was very informational as John gave us some contacts and Chad contacted Kent Rhinehart fro m Public Service to get the form filled out from the Behrens job. We also have contacts from Frontier. 10. Clean up day, June 24 th, in the paper the 14 th and 21st also on the website? Everything is set up. 11. Tad Schulz to talk to Board about invasive species o n Tower Road with a plan to fight them. Give an update on what he has learned. Tad sis not show up, Ray said we would be spraying Tower Road for weeds. 12. Culvert replacement for Tiny Cegielski and other culverts. This culvert along with a number of other culverts have been put in. 13. What is the status of concrete at the approach and entry door of the shop? Greg to report. Greg would charge $7025 to put in a 20x40 8” thick and 8x14 5” thick. Chad Kottke made a motion to approve it, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 14. What is the status of blacktop for Farmingdale Road, Joe Snow Road, and Leafy Grove Road? Leafy Grove is crack sealed. Culvert on Farmingdale needs replacement otherwise Farmingdale is good. Leafy Grove from Joe Snow to 64 is bad. Joe Snow from 64 to Farmingdale is bad, est. cost to fix $50-60,000, Cost to regrind a mile and Reblacktop is $275,000 per Chad. Chad to get someone from the County to look at it and give some suggestions 6/19/2023 SPECIAL DATE CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Tuesday June 20th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 15. Set up Building Committee for Town Shop put on website. Ray to get Rick a posting and Rick to get on the website. 16. Discuss Dust control on roads. Chad will report. Chad has a setup with a tank and will set up a test on this 17. Timeline for applying gravel to Tower Road. To be done the first week in August. And we will put some on Wegner and Cedar roads 18. Timeline for applying granite on Town Road. The Granite should be applied the first week of August 19. What are we going to do about John Deere tractor agreement? Ray to give update. The tractor is here at $39/ hour for a minimum of 100 hours. Liability insurance on it. 20. What should be done with granite on Joe Snow west of Hagar City Road? It needs 6-8 loads of gravel, dust proof test to be done on this stretch. 21. Updating shrubs and granite by Town Hall. 22. Vote on Liquor License and fees. Chad made a motion to keep the fees the same and approve Ed & Sharon’s license, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. William D. Dinges, W8047 Joe Snow Road Merrill, WI 54452 Ed & Sharon’s N1294 Hwy 64 & 107 Merrill, WI 54452 23. Vote on Operator License and fees. Ray Melander made a motion to approve Sharon Dinges operator license, Chad Kottke 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Sharon Dinges 24. Election Equipment evaluation , Rick Hass and Charlene Woller gave an update on the election equipment that the County is looking at buying and will be billing the Town for. 25. All bills presented and signed by Town Board , were paid. 26. Chad Kottke made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 9:05 pm, GregKleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried . Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk 8/13/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday July 10th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:02 pm by Chairman Ray Melander . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 7/7/2023 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $212,849.61. 6. Chad Kottlke made a motion to approve the m inutes from the June meeting as read, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried . 7. Public comment period. There was a question as whether the people are paying for the fines for plowing across roads. Katie Giese stated that there are payments coming in but many are not. Water tests were done on the Town Hall water and there are still issues. Town of Scott asked if we would be willing to cut the grass beside their roads. 8. Talk about new computers, new Town domain, email addresses for Town Officials . It was decided to contact The Dirks Group to evaluate what we have with our computers and get a proposal for upgrading the computers. Also as part of this project we will evaluate setting up a Dot Gov Domain. 9. Replacement of Devils Creek Bridge on Corning Road. What are our options? The bridge was re-inspected last summer and we need to update the signage for it. The integrity is the same as it was. Ray is saying leave it as is. Chad asked if the bridge is checked every year? And are all bridges checked. Ray Melander made a motion to leave the bridge on Corning Road as is and cancel the grant. Chad Kottke 2nd the motion, motion carried. Ray and John Kudick will work to cancel the grant. 10. Update on line charge for WPS. Chad has not heard back from Kent Rhinehart 11. Clean up day report. Went good, next year it is set up for 8am -11 on May 11 th 2024. 12. Tad Schulz to talk to Board about invasive species on Tower Road . Ray has not heard anything from Tad. Ray said the weed control we are using on Tower Road should take care of those weeds. 13. Culvert replacement Update. 2 culverts on Leafy Grove Road need to be replaced. Culverts to be used for manure transfer if roads are reconstructed. 14. What is the status of concrete at the approach and entry door of the shop? Greg to report. Greg is hoping to do in August. 15. What is the status of blacktop for Farmingdale Road, Joe Snow Road, and Leafy Grove Road? Chad has not been able to meet with Lincoln County. Cold mix will be used to patch holes and fix the bad spots. 16. Discuss Dust control on roads. Chad will report. They should be testing the next few weeks. 8/13/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday July 10th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 17. Updating shrubs and granite by Town Hall. To be done later this summer. 18. Election Equipment evaluation . Chad Kottke made a motion to approve purchase of new software and DS200 replacement, Express Vote, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 19. Town Hall Rental Requests . The form will be updated by the next meeting for approval. 20. Website Update. Recycling needs to be updated on website. 21. All bills presented and signed by Town Board were paid. 22. Ray Melander made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 8:44 pm, Chad Kottke 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 8/27/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday August 14th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:04 pm by Chairman Ray Melander . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. Pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 8/10/2023 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compared books and gave the Town Board the book with a bank balance of $254,291.58. 6. Chad Kottke made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the July meeting as posted, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried . 7. Public comment period. There was a question as to why the minutes were listed with the “Draft” water mark on them, Clerk Hass stated it was because they were not approved yet. Ray Melander talked about what the other towns are charging for rent of their Town Halls, Hamburg is charging $250 for rent and $250 for Deposit. Ray suggested we consider charging $125 for residents for Rental, and $200 for non -residents and $200 for deposit. Rick Hass to get costs to maintain the Town Hall. 8. Update on line charge for WPS. Nothing new from Kent Rhinehart. We got the $250 from the line on Greendale. 9. Culvert replacement Update. 2 Culverts were put in on Leafy Grove Road, One put in on Midway, one on Tower Road. 10. Discuss damage to Farmingdale Road. Farmingdale was rutted up, it has been graded and fixed. Not sure who was responsible. 11. Blacktop Road Report. Chad will meet with Lemmer with the County to see if wedging will be effective. 12. Granite Report. The granite is done and it was good. 13. Gravel Report. All the gravel has been used on Tower Road and still need an additional ½ mile to be done. We need to look at when and how much gravel we should crush. Greg will check with Matt, John Kudick and Todd Luedtke if needed to see how much and where in the pit to crush the gravel. 14. Dust control status. It has been very busy and this is not done yet. 15. Computers and email addresses for Town officials. Ray and Rick met with the Dirks Group and got a quote. The quote was very expensive. Ray uses Krista and he will check with them on possible cost effective solutions. 16. Town Hall rental procedures . Ray presented a revised Rental check list. Chad Kottke made a motion to approve it, Ray Melander 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Ray also presented a revised rental agreement. Chad Kottke mad a motion to approve the agreement, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 8/27/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday August 14th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 17. Town Hall water test results . Katie and Ray have been working on getting the w ater with a negative test. The pressure tank was replaced, and the well chlorinated and flushed. The water finally passed. Ray picked up a water cooler. The fountains may be removed. 18. What is the status of concrete at the approach and entry door of the sho p? Greg to report. The concrete has not been laid yet. 19. Election charges for 2024 proposed . The estimated charges for 2024 should be roughly $1633. 20. Mowing tractor status and update from Town of Scott. The Town of Scott does not appear to want us to mow for them. They are reviewing the proposal however. We need to keep this in mind if asked about it next year. Ray had some quotes on tractors if we would like to purchase one instead of renting. 21. Act 13 update. Ray met with the WTA and they said Act 13 is primarily for new blacktop roads for ag use. Ray will continue to monitor. 22. Distribution of share revenue. This is going up by about $44,000 in 2024. 23. Broadband representative. Jerome Ziegelbauer lives in C orning and is a software engineer. Ray made a motion to have him as our broadband representative, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 24. LP and Fuel pricing. Ray got a price from L&L propane for $1.33/gallon, from Medford Coop for $1.35/gallon, River Country for $1.40/ gallon. All can be on a keep full program. Ray will see if he can get any of them to lower down further. Chad Kottke made a motion to lock in a price on vendor that is $1.33/gallon or less, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 25. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 26. Chad Kottke mad a motion to a djourn the meeting at 8:52, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 10/16/2023 SECIAL DATE CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday September 18th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Ray Melander. 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. Pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 9/13/2023 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compared books and gave the Town Board the book with a bank balance of $147,291.14. 6. Chad Kottke made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the August meeting with a change to item 17 to say “negative” instead of “positive”, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 7. Public comment period. Has the garbage truck fire charge been resolved for $750 Meeting minutes to have 3.25% for Crossbridge rate. 8. Update on line charge for WPS. Chad Kottke said all vendors have been notified. We received an application from Charter for 4 miles, and a check for $1,000. 9. Culvert replacement update. Per Greg, we are caught up except for one to be installed on Tower Road. 10. Supervisors report. Nothing concerning to be done. 11. Broad Band Representative Report. Jerome Ziegelbauer gave a report on the installation of broadband in the Town of Corning. He encouraged people of Corning to scan the QR code to see how fast the internet is. He also said the people recruited to install broadband has changed pushing the project back. 12. Copper River Snowmobile Club to talk to Board. Steve Kaminski talked to the Board and proposed having the same setup as last year and paying $20 per meeting and paying $100 for electricity at the Fire Department, the same as last year. Chad Kottke made a motion to approve the agreement, Greg Kleinschmidt 2nd the motion, motion carried. 13. Approval of Levi Denton request for variance. Chad Kottke made a motion to approve the variance, Greg Kleinschmidt 2nd the motion, motion carried. 14. Blacktop road report. We cold patched the holes, but will not wedge the roads and will look into it next year. 15. Gravel Report. a. Are we crushing gravel this winter . Rick Hass will get Greg and Chad the previous bid and what was accepted b. Are we putting any gravel on Wegner Road . We are not putting gravel on Wegner Road this year. 16. Dust control status. Table for this year and add to spring agenda. 10/16/2023 SECIAL DATE CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday September 18th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 17. Computers and email addresses and Krista Computer quote. Ray gave an update on computers and is planning on going to 5 computers. Ray wi ll further investigate into Krista. 18. Town Hall rental fee adjustment. This will be tabled until the annual meeting next spring. 19. Mowing tractor status . We are at 74 hours and will put another 15 hours on it. Not sure if we should look into buying a tractor. 20. What is the status of concrete at the approach and entry door of the shop? Greg to report. The big piece is done and the small one will be done next week. 21. Election updates for 2024. When will we get the new election equipment? The cost for this year will be $1633. Next year will be more as we will be paying for the new equipment. 22. Update from Town of Scott intergovernmental agreement. No word from the Town of Scott. 23. LP contract approval/update. We have a 3500 gallon contract wit h River Country. 24. Town Hall maintenance/updates , Removal of water fountains , Programming outside lights, Ceiling fans, Floor waxing, Shrubbery around sign , and rocking north side of town hall. Ray is looking at Dean Berndt to fix the wall, Marty Swan could also do it. The floor will be waxed on the 12 th through the 19 th so the Town Hall will not be used then. The shrubbery weeds have not been pulled. Ray thinks we should pull them out next spring. There was also questions if the outside light should be on a ll night. 25. Preparation for next year’s budget. Get copy of last year’s budget to Ray and Chad and Greg, review at next meeting. Budget meeting is usually at the November Board meeting. 26. Removal of comment on website. Requesting to remove the comment on the website for sending out meeting notice. The notices will be sent out if the meeting date is not the regular date or location and will be sent out if it is a special meeting. 27. Request to change October meeting date . The meeting date will be the 16 th at the Fire Department in the meeting room. 28. Review 2023 newsletter. A number of items were added. 29. All bills presented and signed by Town Board were paid. 30. Chad Kottke made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 9:12 pm, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried . Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 10/25/2023 SPECIAL DATE AND LOCATION CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes from Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Fire Department N1369 State Hwy 64 107, Monday October 16th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00pm by Chairman Ray Melander. 2. Roll call, all present with Rick via Zoom due to illness 3. Pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted on 10/11/23. 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare books and give Town Board the book & bank balance. $87,605.14 6. Chad Kottke made a motion to approve the minutes form the September meeting as written. Greg 2nd the motion, motion carried. 7. Public comment period. Recommendation made to obtain a Certificate of Insurance from the snowmobile club. Spectrum laid lines up to the first house north of County Line on Elm Grove Road. Question was raised if Town had approved permit for that. 8. Update on line charges . Ray made a motion to approve the permits for work being down on Tower Rd and Cedar Rd. Chad 2 nd the motion, motion carried. The payment for the work has been received. Board will put together a procedure for handling these requests. 9. Culvert replacement update. Per Greg, one should be installed on Tower Rd yet, otherwise done for this year. 10. Gravel Report – Bids for crushing gravel this winter. Discussion was had on what should be requested in notice for bids. Chad made a motion to request 2 separate bids for Gravel Crushing: Bid 1-20,000 yards of DOT Sec Road Base Grade 2 of crushed gravel and Bid 2-15,000 yards of DOT Sec Road Base Grade 2 of crushed gravel with Bids to be turned into the Town by December 8. Greg 2nd the motion, motion carried. 11. Computers and email addresses and Krista Computer quote. Quote options were presented on additional pages. Ray made a motion to move forward with the quote option including 3 new computers, repurposing the 2 laptops the town has now, and the ongoing service plan for all 5 devices. Chad 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 12. Mowing tractor status . They should have about one more week to use the tractor then it will be cleaned up at returned. Usage should be at or very close to the 100 hr minimum. John Deere will continue to offer this rental program next year. Chad made a motion to rent a Tractor for mowing from Reister and Schnell again next summer as long as the rate remains at $39/hr with 100 hr minimum. Ray 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 13. Status of concrete at the entry door of the shop . Greg reported that the concrete is completed. 10/25/2023 SPECIAL DATE AND LOCATION CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes from Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Fire Department N1369 State Hwy 64 107, Monday October 16th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 14. Election updates for 2024. The elections held in 2024 are 2/20/24 -Spring Primary, 4/2/24 - Spring Election, 8/13/24 -Partisan Primary, and 11/5/24 -Fall Election. 15. Chad made a motion to move item #15 to be after item #18. Greg 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 16. Review 2023 newsletter. Request to add Board Members names and contact information no the Newsletter. Also noted that the email addresses will need to be changed if new computers and email addresses are available by then. 17. Town Hall Maintenance / update - Wall between rest rooms repair. Len Francour is willing to do the repairs and will work to complete them in the coming weeks. Brandon and Matt pressure washed the Picnic Table area and dug out the shrubs and plants around the sign, then filled area around sign with red rock. 18. Chad Kottke made a motion to a pprove operator licenses for Alissa Dinges & Taylor Dinges. Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 19. 15- Preparation for next year’s budget and set date for the meeting. Meeting will be held Monday, November 13 at 8pm. Information presented to be considered in budget include Solar Panels for the Fire Department, Playground Equipment for at the Town Hall, and Blacktop for as many roads that need fixing as possible. Cost s to be considered for these projects are estimated at about $15,000 for Solar Panels after grants and funding; $5,200 for purchase of playground equipment and additional $50 -$60 annually on insurance; $250,000 - $275,000 per mile of new blacktop and $90,000-$100,000 per mile of blacktop to wedge and patch and then 2” overlay. 20. All bills presented and signed by Town Board were paid. 21. Greg made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 9:13pm. Chad 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 12/5/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday November 13th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Ray Melander . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The Pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Proper public notice was posted 11/10/2023 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave to the Town Board with a bank balance of $118,235.30. 6. Chad Kottke made a motion to approve the minutes from the October Meeting as listed, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 7. Public comment period. No comment. 8. Broadband report from Jerome Ziegelbauer. Jerome was not present, Katie to send out the letter to residents with the test on it. 9. Dave Hoff to discuss the FD retirement plan. The fire department is requesting permission to fund additional years of service using FD funds this year. Dave presented a proposal to pay the back years of VFIS for service worked for the Fire Department to get the firemen vested. Ray Melander made a motion to support the Fire Department plan to bring the Firemen up to vested state with the Fire Department to pay for the additional years of service. Chad Kopttke 2nd the motion, motion carried. 10. Mowing tractor status. The rented tractor is back in Stratford, it checked out. Ray has a contract set up for next year for the same de al on the rental. 11. Culvert replacement update. One culvert was put in on Farmingdale and one on Corning Road. One more will be put in on Leafy Grove. 12. Gravel Report – Bids for crushing gravel this winter. Bids will be opened at the December meeting. 13. Computers and email addresses and Krista Computer quote. Computers are here and the cost was $150 less than anticipated. a. 3 new computers in use b. 2 old computers reassigned to Chad and Greg c. New emails addresses Chairman@tn.corning.wi.gov Clerk@tn.corning.wi.gov Treasurer@tn.corning.wi.gov Supervisorgreg@tn.corning.wi.gov Supervisorchad@tn.corning.wi.gov 14. Town Hall maintenance updates Wall between rest rooms repair, light bulbs in the picnic area, outlet is bad, RTL has been contacted to fix. Play ground equipment. The wall will be done the week after Thanksgiving. Outlet is fixed by RTL and a new light added to on north side. Playground equipment will be looked at next spring. 15. Decide on Health Care insurance. Ray Melander made a motion to stick with Security Health, Chad Kottke 2nd the motion, motion carried. Cost to go up 13.8%. 12/5/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday November 13th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 16. What does Harters charge? They raised it by 4%. 17. Finalize newsletter. Contact emails have been added and it is done. 18. Snow plowing citations from last March . Per Ray Melander the ordinance is ok but the protocol was not followed. Chad Kottke made a motion to send a letter to rescind the bills and refund the money that was collected, Ray Melander 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 19. Blacktop road plans for 2024. Ray Melander suggested we pick a road and re -blacktop it. Chad Kottke made a motion to do Joe Snow Road from Farmingdale to Hwy 64 pending funding, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 20. Building inspector. We will check with the previous Board as to what were their thoughts on this. 21. Solar power panels for Fire Station. Ray is just starting to research this and there are a lot of questions. Will the roof support it? How much would we need? Among other things. He will get back to the Board. 22. What to charge for garbage pickup on tax bills. Chad Kottke made a motion to approve charging $238 per landowner and per set of bins, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. This will pay for all but $10,000 of the Garbage/Recycling cost . This was the amount originally used when the garbage/recycling was set up. 23. All bills presented and signed by the Town Board were paid. 24. Chad Kottke made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 9:15 pm, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________ 1/7/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday December 11th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Chairman Ray Melander . 2. Roll call, all were present. 3. The Pledge of allegiance was recited. 4. Proper notice was posted 1/6/2023 . 5. Clerk and Treasurer compare d books and gave to the Town Board the book with a bank balance of $80,961.81. 6. Chad Kottke made a motion to a pprove the minutes from the November meeting as read, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried . 7. Public comment period. Janet Kleinschmidt suggested the Board considers new policy changes when figuring Salary & benefit changes. 8. Open Gravel Crushing Bids and vote on which bid to accept. The bids for crushing gravel were opened with the following results: Company 15000 Yards 20000 yards Wisco Matls $4.99/Yd $4.89/ Yd Best Enterprizes $9.21/yd $8.89/Yd Merrill Sand & Grvl $4.95/Yd $4.90/Yd PGA $5.24/Yd $5.14/Yd Haas & Sons $7.50/yd $6.00/Yd Chad Kottke felt we do not have the money to do this in 2024 and fix the blacktop on Joe Snow road. Chad Kottke made a motion to postpone crushing gravel this year, Ray Melander 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 9. All bills presented and signed by Town Board were paid. 10. Town Hall Maintenance: repair of wall between restrooms. Len is working on the wall and he put in a faucet in women’s bathroom so there will not have bacteria at an endcap where the fountain used to be. 11. Refund of snowplowing citations. Letters and refunds were sent out. A new procedure needs to be put in place, and warning letters need to be sent out to violators. 12. Blacktop road plans for 2024. Ray and John Hanz looked at Joe Snow and put together a bid to do the work. We would be able to use this to get jobs ourselves or get Lincoln to do the repair. Ray would like to have the whole mile done at one time, rather than do ½ mile this year and another one next year. Chad Kottke made a motion to re -blacktop Joe Snow Road fr om Farmingdale to Hwy 64, Ray Melander 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 13. Salaries and Benefits for 2024. Chad Kottke made a motion to leave all part time employees at the same rate they had in 2023 for 2024, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Ray proposed we raise Matt and Brandon 3% and allow them to use their overtime hours as comp time. They would get their hours carried over at 1.5 times their work hours. Ray Melander made a 1/7/2023 CORNING TOWN BOARD MEETING Minutes for Corning Town Board Meeting held at the Corning Town Hall, Monday December 11th, 2023 at 7pm Please Recycle Please Recycle motion to raise Matt, Prebeg and Brandon Kleinschmidts wages by 3% and adopt the comp time policy with the employees able to carryover up to 40 hours year to year and can save up to 80 hours, Chad Kottke 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 14. Resolutions for zoning ordinance . Chad Kottke made a motion to approve the 3 resolutions requested by the County, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 15. Fuel contracting. Ray Melander would like to get permission to check on getting a discount by contracting fuel. Greg pointed out the pumps are owned by A & L. no one had a problem with it so Ray will check on options and bring back to the Board. 16. 2023 Tax Statements and payment dates. Statements have been picked up and will be sent out shortly. 17. January 18th Town Association Meeting : Hosted by Town of Corning and Town of Scott. Ray Melander made a motion to host the meeting, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 18. Approval of Election Inspectors for 2024 -25. Chad Kottke made a motion to approve the following Poll workers, Greg Kleinschmidt 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rob Hartson Charlene Woller Debbie Stadler Gapko Helen Sczygelski Julie Remington Jon Weiler 19. Elections for 2023, Approval of MOU, Election Equipment sub -grant, Election training. Ray Melander made a motion to approve the MOU with the County and Subgrant , Chad Kottke 2 nd the motion, motion carried. 20. Greg Kleinschmidt made a motion to a djourn the meeting at 9:06 pm, Chad Kottke 2 nd the motion, motion carried. Rickey C. Hass, Town Clerk _____________________