TOWN OF BARNES

MINUTES OF THE

SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING

Of September 10, 2008

 

Chairman Collyard called the Special Town Board Meeting to order at 5:05PM.Roll call was taken, and all Board Members were present.   The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

Agenda

1)          Budgets – The Board will be reviewing budget items for the 2009 budget

2)          Closed Session - Closed Session - The Town Board of the Town of Barnes will meet in regular session to go into a closed session pursuant to State Statute 19.85(c)  “considering employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility.  The board will reconvene to the regular session immediately after the closed session.

 

Revenues and expenses for 2009 were reviewed.  Salaries were put into the budget at 2% to give the Board a figure to start with.  Brustad presented the Board with a proposal for a new copier.  The current one has high copies and is starting to require many trips from the technician. With trade a replacement would be $5,100.00.  She said $2,000.00 from this year’s budget could be carried over for this.  McGee asked if it would be cheaper to lease only.  Brustad will call to find out.  Health insurance was put in at the rate of 8% increase per the agent’s suggestion.  Collyard should call him to get the health insurance quote to be sure.  There were questions on the Fire and Ambulance budget.  Collyard will make sure Tom Renz is available at the next meeting to answer questions.  There were also questions about the Transfer Site revenues budget, and if the “white goods” figure is accurate.  Brustad said the figures she gets is one total so she guesses between the whites goods figure and garbage bags figure.  Collyard will check with Tom Pieters to see if he can give better figures with the deposits.  Brustad suggested changing the policy for future employees to have employer paid health coverage for the employee only, and family coverage would be paid by the employee.  The board will adopt that policy change at the next regular Town Board meeting.  Collyard said no closed session would be needed.  The next budget meeting will be on October 7th at 5:00PM.  Brustad will have the updated figures from 2008 as of September 30th, for the Board to more accurately see what may be left over in 2008 that they can use to cover the shortfall for the 2009 budget.   

Motion (Webb/Meinke) to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried. The meeting adjourned at 6:50PM.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

 

 

 

Elaine Brustad

Clerk-Treasurer

Dated this 15th Day of September, 2008