TOWN OF BARNES

MINUTES OF THE

REGULAR BOARD MEETING

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

 

 

 

Chairman Collyard called the Regular Board Meeting to order at 6:30PM. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag was recited.  Collyard asked for a roll call to establish a quorum, verification of Public Notice posted by the Clerk-Treasurer, then a motion to approve the February Agenda.

 

Roll call vote taken: all were present except Porter, who arrived at 6:55PM. 

Motion (Webb/Meinke) to approve the February Agenda.  Motion carried.  The agenda follows:

 

NOTICE

TOWN OF BARNES

REGULAR BOARD MEETING

FEBRUARY 10, 2009 AT 6:30PM

AGENDA

Call the Regular Board Meeting to order at 6:30PM

Pledge Allegiance to the Flag

Roll Call to establish a quorum/Verification of Public Notice/Motion to approve the February 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

Citizen’s Request for Action:

                Jim Johnson request to keep Troy Kidlike as the Town’s UDC Building Inspector

Department Head Reports:

                Highway

                                Discussion on Bridge Inspection report                      

                Cemetery             

                Fire and Ambulance Department

                                Review applications for new hires

                Constable

Committee and Commission Reports:         

Land Use Planning Commission

Operator’s Licenses:

                2 year new license request by Delores Merrill

                2 year new license request by Cari Colegrove

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 6th day of February, 2009

 

Collyard asked for a motion to approve minutes of the Last Regular Board Meeting and Motion to dispense with reading of the minutes.

 

Motion (McGee/Webb) to approve the minutes of the last Regular Town Board meeting and to dispense with the reading of those minutes.  Motion carried.

 

Treasurer’s Report

 

 

 

General Fund

 

 

Checking Balance from last meeting

 

$28,975.71

Receipts

 

 

 

 

$78,902.31

Check #'s 23438-23518

 

 

($52,344.22)

January Direct tax payments ck #s 320-322

 

($3,322.84)

Service Charge January

 

 

($15.94)

Interest Earned January

 

 

$20.15

 

CHECKING BALANCE

 

 

$52,215.17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money Market Gen'l Fund Balance from Last Meeting

$993,914.03

Deposits Taxes

 

 

 

$1,232,715.04

Ck #'s 1099-1111

 

 

 

($663,533.06)

Interest earned January

YTD Interest $1421.78

$1,376.78

 

Sub-Total Money Market Gen'l Funds

$1,564,472.79

Highway Dept. Sinking Fund

 

 

$1,072.92

BES Sinking Fund

 

 

 

$28,677.05

Park Savings

 

Dep $331.35

$14,767.66

Ski Trail Savings

 

Dep $78.00

$1,222.21

Town Hall Maint & Repair  Fund

 

 

$19,298.20

ACT 102 Fund

 

 

 

$3,957.39

Total all Money Market Funds

 

 

$1,633,488.22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hayward Community Credit Union

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Savings

 

Deposit $25.00

 

$25.00

9 Month CD

Deposit $100,000.00

 

$100,000.00

9 Month CD

Deposit $100,000.00

 

$100,000.00

6 Month CD

Deposit $50,000.00

 

$50,000.00

Total Hayward Community Credit Union

 

$250,025.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL ALL ACCOUNTS

 

$1,935,728.39

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Motion( Webb/McGee) to approve the Treasurer’s report as read.  Motion carried.     

 

Voucher’s Approval

 

Motion (McGee/Meinke) to approve the vouchers as presented.  Roll call vote taken, all present responded yes.  Porter absent.  Motion carried.

 

Clerk Correspondence

Brustad said she had one Notice to Cut on property owned by Plum Creek Timberlands in Section 23 and 26 of 46N, 9 W.  She had nothing else to report.  Collyard said he had passed out information on the stimulus package and he thought two projects we may benefit from would be for the bridges and also for the possible work we will be doing to the hall and town offices.  Webb thought we need to make the hall and offices more “green”  (energy efficient).  He asked if any of the board members had other ideas to get them to him so we could start working on them. 

 

Citizen’s Request for Action:

 

                Jim Johnson request to keep Troy Kadlecek as the Town’s

UDC Building Inspector

Collyard said he had been in touch with someone from the State regarding adopting our own ordinance.  Several communities had done that recently and if we decided not to continue it we could go back to the State selecting the inspector.  Once we adopt the ordinance, we send it to the State and they will approve it, then we can select our own inspector to do the UDC inspections.  The contract with Troy Kadlecek will have to be reviewed and signed.  A Special Town Board meeting may have to be set up in order for this to get done quickly enough before the contractors have to start submitting their applications in the spring. 

 

Motion (Meinke/McGee ) to approve the contract with TAK and to prepare an ordinance for adoption of the Wisconsin Uniform Dwelling Code to acted on at the next meeting.  Motion carried.  

Department Head Reports:

 

                Highway

Collyard said Jerry was still out working on the roads so was not present.  Brustad read his report: “Since the last meeting we have been limbing along Lake and Peninsula Roads. We also burned the brush we had limbed in Potowatomi.

There has been very little snow to plow, but we have been busy sanding the major blacktops. Warm weather should help get rid of the snow pack on these roads.

The speed selector control on the John Deere loader malfunctioned and has been replaced with a new one. Brake problems on the 97 Ford Dump required two new air brake chambers to be installed on the rear axle.”

Collyard also wanted to add that he had a few calls on why the roads weren’t scraped before this rain and Jerry had told him was that before this rain the weather had been cold so the snow couldn’t be scraped.  Then when the weather warmed up if he would have scraped the snow it would have left a thin layer of ice, because the blade couldn’t get it all, and that layer of ice would have been more of a problem with slippery roads.  Collyard wanted to remind everyone to take care when driving, and to slow down as the roads will be slippery until the sand can melt more ice and snow. 

 

                                Discussion on Bridge Inspection report

The new bridge inspection report had been received and everyone was copied.  Collyard said the report isn’t as bad as it looked last year.  With the Outlet Bay bridge it looked much better than last year, in fact Collyard thought there may be a way to keep it functioning as it is now instead of making it a foot bridge only.  The bridge at the dam will have an addendum sent out because Jerry had down work on the wing walls after the bridge was inspected.  =

               

                Cemetery

Brustad read the Cemetery report .  There was no activity since the last meeting.  They are working on getting back some unused grave sites. 

 

                Fire and Ambulance Department

Since the last Town board meeting the ambulance has had four calls

2 – St. Mary’s  1 was intercept with gold cross

2 -  Hayward

The Fire Department had no runs

Not much to report on for Ambulance. 

On Sunday we will be traveling to South Dakota to inspect the new truck and return home with it.  We will need to establish what we want to do with the old truck as far as put it out on bids or something else.  This spring we will be conducting several training sessions here in Barnes.  One is wild land training again and the other is put on by the National Association of Propane companies and they will be conducting a one evening and one all day class on propane fires.  There will probably be Fire Department here from all over the region. 

We also need to begin nominations for employee of the year to begin now and open until the next town Board meeting.  Nominations are open to every employee of the Town. 

Renz also reminded the Board it was time to open nominations again for employee of the year.  This includes all employees, not just those of the Fire and Ambulance departments. 

He also wanted to put into the minutes that he has seen an increase in the use of Lake road and other town roads by snowmobiles.  He wanted to make sure everyone understood that these roads are an access route to the regular snowmobile trail only.  People using these roads are supposed to live on that particular road and can only use it to get their snowmobile to the regular trail.  This is true for ATV’s also.  Most people think that they can use the roads as a mode of transportation from point A to point B.  That is not true. 

 

                                Review applications for new hires

This pertains to an application for the Fire Department and Ambulance service received by Gregg Friermood.

Motion(Collyard/McGee) based upon prior actions that were contrary to the provisions of the Town of Barnes Employee Policy Handbook and the policies of the Town of Barnes Fire Department the Barnes Town Board declines to hire Mr. Gregg Friermood.  Motion carried with Porter abstaining.

 

 

                Constable

No report was received  from Mike O’keefe. 

Committee and Commission Reports:

None given

 

Land Use Planning Commission

Plan Commission did not meet, therefore there was no report given.

 

Operator’s Licenses:

                2 year new license request by Delores Merrill

Brustad reported Merrill had paid the required fee, background check revealed no criminal history and she presented a completed Beverage Server Course certificate at the time of application.

 

Motion (Porter/Meinke) to approve the two year license for Delores Merrill.  Motion carried.

 

                2 year new license request by Cari Colegrove

Brustad said Cari had paid the required fee, submitted a beverage Server certificate and background check revealed no criminal history. 

Motion (Meinke/Porter) to approve the two year license for Cari Colegrove.  Motion carried.

 

Public Comment Session – 5 minute limit for those not on the Agenda

Jon Harkness gave updates on the overlay zoning request, he plans to be on the next Plan Commission agenda to discuss this. 

 

Issues Timeline Update

Town Owned Land – Work in progress

Town Hall Maintenance Plan – stimulus plan might help with projects, will discuss green technology

Transfer Site Compactor - $288.00/month to lease for 5 years plus $85.00 per month maintenance plan

Roads – Work in progress

 

Motion (Porter/Meinke) to adjourn the Regular Town Board Meeting of February 10, 2009.  Motion carried.   The meeting adjourned at 7:18 PM.

 

 

 

Respectfully Submitted,

 

 

 

Elaine J. Brustad,

Clerk-Treasurer

dated this 25th day of February, 2009