TOWN OF
MINUTES OF THE
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
JULY15, 2008
Chairman
The agenda
is as follows:
NOTICE
TOWN OF
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
JULY 15TH AT
AGENDA
Call the Regular Board Meeting to
order at
Pledge Allegiance to the Flag
Roll Call to establish a
quorum/Verification of Public Notice/Motion to approve the July Agenda
Approve minutes of the Last Regular
Board Meeting and Motion to dispense with reading of the minutes.
Treasurer’s Report
Voucher’s Approval
Clerk Correspondence
Discussion
on setting up first Budget Meeting
Citizen’s Request for Action:
1)
Request to correct town road sign on
Borman Road to correct spelling or Bormann
2)
Request by Gene Ratzel to reduce
speed limit on
3)
Request by Dean Breunig to lease or
borrow dock at
Department Head Reports:
Highway
Cemetery
Approval
of proposed cleaning up of Cemetery Property
Fire
and Ambulance Department
Review
of Wage Policy for Ambulance and Fire Department
Approval
of purchase for a Stryker 6500 Cot
Constable
Committee and Commission Reports:
Recreation
Committee
EWM
Committee
Land Use Planning Commission
Zoning:
1)
Special Use permit application by Marilee Ludgatis for a mini-storage at
2)
Special Conditional Use Permit application after-the-fact for Shoreland Grading
on property owned by LeRoy Johnson Jr.
at 49915 State Highway 27.
Karl Kastrosky of Bayfield
Carrie Linder, aging and Disabilities
Services Manager from
Dane Bonk request for donation from
the town for the Great Divide Little League
Approval of Lease between the
Barnestormers Snowmobile Club and BADC at the Industrial Park
Operator Licenses: 2 Year License renewal for Sharon
Wright
1 year License (new) application for
Evonne Becker
Public Comment Session – 5 minute limit for those not on the
Agenda
Issues Timeline Update
All Department Heads are encouraged
to be at the Regular Board Meetings
All Department Heads and Committee
Heads are to submit a written report to the clerk
by Friday evening prior to the Board
Meeting.
The Town Board reserves
the right to solicit information from
Department heads and
Committee heads only, without opening the floor to discussion.
Any persons requiring
special needs for handicap services please contact the Clerk-Treasurer
Elaine J. Brustad Barnes Town Clerk-Treasurer
Dated this 10th Day of
July, 2008
Approval of the Minutes of the last
Regular Town Board Meeting
Motion (Webb / McGee)
to approve the minutes of the last regular Town Board meeting and to dispense
with the reading of the minutes. Motion
carried.
Treasurer’s Report
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Checking
Balance from last meeting |
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$34,364.27 |
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Receipts |
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$31,441.38 |
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Check #'s
22760-22871 |
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($273,883.84) |
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Transfer
funds from Money Market account |
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$225,000.00 |
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June
Direct tax payment ck # 308 |
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($4,174.64) |
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Service
Charge June |
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($14.58) |
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Interest
Earned June |
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$29.71 |
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CHECKING
BALANCE |
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$12,762.30 |
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Act 102
Fund |
Opening
Balance |
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3086.19 |
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Svc Chg +
Int earned |
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($11.63) |
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Ck#'s
1001-1006 |
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($2,969.25) |
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ending
balance |
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105.31 |
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Money
Market Gen'l Fund Balance from Last Meeting |
$607,963.40 |
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Check #
1084 Transfer to Gen'l fund |
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($225,000.00) |
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Interest
earned June |
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YTD
Interest $17349.76 |
$1,225.02 |
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Sub-Total
Money Market Gen'l Funds |
$384,188.42 |
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Highway
Dept. Sinking Fund |
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$31,072.92 |
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BES
Sinking Fund |
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$52,677.05 |
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Park
Savings |
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Deposits
$236.61 |
$13,673.18 |
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Ski Trail
Savings |
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$755.61 |
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Parade-Event-Calender
Fund |
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$1,842.60 |
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Town Hall
Maint & Repair Fund |
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$19,298.20 |
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Sub-Total
Money Market sub accounts |
$119,319.56 |
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Total
all Money Market Funds |
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$503,507.98 |
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TOTAL |
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$516,387.22 |
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Motion (Webb / McGee)
to approve the Treasurer’s report as presented.
Motion carried.
Voucher’s Approval
Motion (McGee /
Webb) to approve the voucher’s as presented.
Motion carried.
Clerk Correspondence
The
Hazardous Waste Cleanup was announced. It will be held on
There were 4
Intent to cut permits. These are for Louise Jones by Hamann Forest Products of
Ashland; for Scott Aebischer and Lyle Sorenson by Frank Larson of
Set up first Budget Meeting
Chairman Collyard
said that the date needed to be set for the first Budget Meeting. There was
discussion on having the insurance agent come for budget purposes. The clerk
will send out notices to all department heads to get their budgets done. It
should be a one to two hour meeting. The meeting will be held
Citizen’s Request for Action:
1) Request to correct
town road sign on
A request has been made from Terence Bormann of New York to
have the name of Borman Road changed to read Bormann Road (with two ns) He said
it was named after his family and that they spell the name with two ns.
Motion (Porter / Webb) to open floor to discussion. Motion
carried. Tom Renz said that it would be less costly to
change the road sign.
2) Request by Gene
Ratzel to reduce speed limit on
Gene Ratzel’s request for reducing the speed limit on
Motion (Porter / McGee) to close the floor to discussion.
Motion carried.
3) Request by Dean
Breunig to lease or borrow dock at
The board said that the town did not rent out its equipment.
Department Head Reports:
Highway
Ski trails at the
town park at
A lot of time was
spent painting and mowing the
Dave has spent 90
hours on our roadside mower the past month.
Mike has patched
most of the potholes on our blacktop roads.
An informational
letter was sent to the residents on
As soon as Ruzic
Bridge Construction gives me a date on repairing the wingwalls at the locks, I
will inform everyone so they can prepare for the road in that area to being
closed for three to four days. Witt also said that there is deterioration of
the locks door and this will have to be fixed in fall or maybe spring.
Cemetery
Bud Pease
reported that there has been no activity at the cemetery since the last
meeting.
Cleaning
up of Cemetery Property
Fire
and Ambulance Department
Since the last Town board meeting the ambulance has had four
calls:
1 – no transport
1 – transport to
2 – respond with Fire Department
The Fire Department had two calls:
1 – False Alarm
1 – Grass fire caused by vehicle throwing fireworks out of
vehicle
The Fireworks went off well- again my hat off to Bob Walters
and his crew for a fine job with the Fireworks.
Our contract is up with Bob Walters this year so we will have to look at
a new three year contract, as I believe this is where we get the best
deal. I will keep you update on the
process as it moves along.
As you all know by now we had a mishap with the atv and
trailer damaging one of the firefighters trucks. As with this type of incident, we have now
implemented new procedures to prevent this from happening again.
I would like to take this time to thank
The date is set. On
September 20th there will be a mock fire drill that will bring in
many Fire Departments,
We need to look at the ambulance billing charge as well as
payroll. As far as payroll goes for both
Fire and Ambulance I would request that a trainee be described as a person who
has not met the state minimum requirements and remains a trainee until those
requirements have been met and demonstrates proficiency to the medical director
and or Department head. Something on
that lines.
The ambulance has also been approved by medical control to
administer Atrovent for those patients that are having respiratory distress due
to asthma and or other respiratory problems such as pneumonia.
Review
of Wage Policy for Ambulance and Fire Departments
There was
discussion on the Trainee policy. Motion (Webb / McGee) that a Trainee be
described as a person who has not met the state minimum requirements and
remains a Trainee until those requirements have been met and demonstrates
proficiency to the Medical Director and Department head. Call for
discussion. Webb asked if this should be defined more. Renz said that this is
defined by the Medical Director and
Renz reported
that Federal Aviation was OK on the proposed air landing strip. It is not
involved in the air ways. The take off and landing area are marked and lighted.
Non obstructive wind indicator still needs to be done. The grass seeding also
needs to be done. We have the lights for night helicopter landings. The FAA approval is effective until 2010 when
it will be reviewed again.
Stryker Cot 6500 request for Ambulance Department
Tom Renz
requested that the the Ambulance Department purchase a Stryker 6500 Cot. The
old lifter cot can only do so much lifting without assistance and that it is
also outdated. Discussion on where the money would come from. Money would come from
the budget and from the Ambulance Department fund raisers and also Act 102
money would be available. The cost would be $10,576.36. The down payment of
$2,000.00 would be made now and the rest would be owed in January of 2009.That amount
would then be budgeted for the 2009 year.
Motion (Webb / McGee) to approve ordering the Stryker 6500 Cot for the
Ambulance Department with final payment due in January 2009. Call
for discussion. Roll call vote: Porter, yes; McGee, yes; Webb, yes and Collyard,
yes. Motion carried.
Constable
The
Constable was unable to be at the meeting. His report was read by Deputy Clerk
Lu Peet as follows:
(4) Alarms… (5)
ATV violations (issued warnings)… (3) PWC complaints (on Middle)… (1) Bear on
deck of cabin… (12) Fireworks complaints (all had permits)… (1) Disorderly boater (Middle Eau Claire
public landing. Subject made threats to town employee checking boaters. I was contacted by
Committee and Commission Reports:
Recreation
Committee
The
Recreation Committee has not met since the last meeting. There will be no
swimming lessons this year as the cost was prohibitive. There was discussion
that what the instructor wanted to charge us could not be covered by what the
Town felt it could charge for the lessons.
EWM
Committee
Land
Use Planning Commission
Dave Pease
said that the Land Use Commission met and approved the Special Use Permit for
Marilee Ludgatis on the
Zoning:
1)
Special Use Permit application by Marilee Ludgatis for a mini-storage at
After
discussion, the board agreed to approve the Special Use Permit for Marilee
Ludgatis at
2)
Special Conditional Use Permit application for after-the-fact Shoreland Grading on property owned by LeRoy
Johnson Jr. at 49915 State Highway 27.
The board
discussed the permit. The Land Use Commission has also previously approved this
Special Conditional Use Permit. Motion (McGee / Webb) to approve the
Special Conditional Use Permit for shoreland grading (after-the-fact) by LeRoy
Johnson Jr. at
The board
members signed the permit papers for zoning. The clerk will fax them up to the
county.
Karl
Kastrosky of Bayfield
Mr.
Kastrosky said that there has been a recent outcry on the short term rental of
property in the area. He said that this did not concern motels or resorts, but
single family homes that are continuously rented out on short term (less than
30 days) basis. He has checked this out with other communities to see what they
are doing. There could be a Class A Special Use Permit that the town would OK.
It would be easier to keep track of the septic systems, noise issues, safety
issues, neighborhoods and roads this way. Mr. Kastrosky said that the new
development on
1. Can the
UDC come in and condemn the property? Collyard sited a case in
2. Is the
Potawatomi rental of the buildings on the
Chris Webb
asked how we would police this matter. Karl said that it would be dealt with as
it came up. The Health Department would
inspect them. This would be a one time permit and treated like a home based
business.
Carrie
Linder, Aging and Disabilities Services Manager from Bayfield County to speak
on the new transit route from
Barnes to Hayward
Ms. Linder
spoke on the new transit service provided by Bayfield County Department of
Human Services and Namekagon Transit that just started this past week. It
serves the people in southern
Dane
Bonk request for donation from the Town for the Great Divide Little League
The board
discussed the issue of the town donating money. It was noted that the town does
not use tax payer money for any donations. The request was denied.
Approval
of Lease between the Barnestormers Snowmobile Club and BADC at the Industrial Park
Gene Ratzel presented
a letter to the board members from the Barnstormers Snowmobile Club regarding a
lease for a site in the Industrial Park. This lease would be for the storage of
snowmobile grooming equipment, groomer, drags, fuel tank for diesel and a metal
shed to house miscellaneous tools and equipment. They will require electrical
service to their site. As this lease is not the regular type of use, the Barnes
Area Development Corporation is asking for the board’s approval of this type of
lease function. The BADC will bring the
lease agreement to the board when the lease is finalized.
Motion (Collyard /
Porter) to approve this type of lease function in the
Operator
Licenses
1 year License (new) application for Evonne
Becker
Ms. Becker
has been checked out by the Department of Justice and has no alcohol related offenses
on her record. She has also successfully completed the Wisconsin Alcohol Server
Training Course. She has paid the appropriate fee.
Motion (Webb /
Porter) to approve the 1 year new operator license application for Evonne
Becker. Motion carried.
2
Year License renewal for Sharon Wright
Ms. Wright
is renewing her operator’s license and is in compliance with everything. She
has paid the appropriate fee.
Motion (Porter /
McGee) to approve the 2 year operator license renewal for Sharon Wright. Motion carried.
Public
Comment Session – 5 minute limit for those not on the Agenda
Ingemar
Eksrom spoke on the short term rental situations. He reported that his family
had experienced problems with this same issue. Mr. Eksrom also said that he was
happy the way the work on
Issues
Timeline Update
The Olson
Brothers will be put on the timeline for August. The Health Insurance will be
on the 20th of August meeting for the budget. The records have been
moved from the storage room to the back closet area for the meantime.
Motion (Porter /
Webb) to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried. The meeting
was adjourned at
Respectfully
submitted,
Lu Peet
Deputy Clerk
Dated this
24th day of July 2008
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