TOWN OF ANGELICA

Monthly Meeting

July 12, 2004

 

 

 

Town Officials Present:    Chairman, Richard Smith, Supervisors, Tom Gwidt and Clifford Powers and Clerk, Janet Powers

Town Officials Absent:      Lisa Matuszak

Others Present:                   Randy Wicklacz and Joe Krause of the Tri-County Rescue Squad, Elmer Kraning, Andy Wiedeman and Dawn Kelm was present later on in the meeting

 

Call to Order/Roll Call/Verification of Meeting Notice:  Chairman Smith called the meeting to order at 7:35 p.m. followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.  All officers except Treasurer Lisa Matuszak were present for Roll Call.   Smith verified with Clerk Powers that proper posting of the meeting had been done.

 

Approval of Prior Town Board Minutes:  MOTION (Gwidt/Powers/PASSED) to accept the minutes of the  Town Board of Supervisors’ meeting of June 14, 2004 and the special town board meeting of June 29, 2004 in addition to the Board of Review held on June 14, 2004 and June 29, 2004 as presented to the town board by the clerk.

 

Approval of Treasurer’s Monthly Report:  The Treasurer’s report was prepared by Treasurer Matuszak and read by Clerk Powers showing balances as of June 30, 2004 of  $119,406.35 at the F & M Bank in Pulaski and $131,606.95 at the Premier Bank in Pulaski.   MOTION (Powers/Gwidt/PASSED) to approve the Treasurer’s report as presented. 

 

CD No. 4525460616 matures on July 24, 2004.  The Treasurer is to be instructed to negotiate for the best rate possible and also add the $30,000.00 that was budgeted for 2004 to that CD and renew it for a one-year period. 

 

Correspondence:  Correspondence reviewed was (1) CSM for 3 lots on Middle Drive and Apple Road (2) a Non-Metallic Mining Reclamation Program prepared by East Central Planning for Performance Excavating (3) list of property owners and acreages receiving Ag Use Penalties (4) copies of county ordinances No. 5-04 and 6-05 recently passed by the County Board (5) DNR notices regarding lands in Managed Forest Law, distribution payment for Managed Forest Law acres and notice of changes in the Managed Forest Law yield tax, withdrawal tax and new MFL tax rates (6) one county land-use permit issued for property in the town (7) notices of hearings/meetings of Shawano County PD&Z Committee and Board of Adjustment (8) county notice to foreclose property by tax lien (9) letter from NWTC regarding Fiscal Year 2005 budget (10) letter from American Transmission Company regarding their expansion plans and target dates (11) notices from Public Service Commission of Wisconsin regarding proposed increases in rates for electric, natural gas and telephone services.

 

Reports from Town Officers:  Supervisor Gwidt reported on issuance of one culvert/driveway permit to Richard Ferfecki, two rentals of the Krakow park pavilion and a large of amount of gravel in the intersection of Green Valley Road and Deer Drive.  Gwidt also had questions as to when seal coating of roads would be done, mowing of ditches was done with only one cutting, pot holes on Green Valley Road and the condition of Pine Road.  Chairman Smith said that he was checking with the former town chairman in regard to what roads should be seal coated and that mowing was done with only one cutting because of the ditches being extremely wet.  The second cutting will be done with two swipes, and the county has already been contacted for repairing of pot holes in roads throughout the town.

Supervisor Powers brought the board up to date as to what has transpired in regard to upgrading  dispatching of 911 calls in the town from coming from Shawano Dispatch, going to Brown County Dispatch and then being relayed to either Tri-County Rescue or the Fire Department.  It had been determined that there is equipment available that can allow Shawano County to contact the Tri-County Rescue or Fire Department directly and eliminating the dispatching through Brown County.  Powers stated he had learned that the Shawano County Safety Committee felt that the cost of upgrading this should be covered by the towns affected and attended the July 8th Safety Committee meeting expressing his concerns in regard to this and that the cost should be absorbed by Shawano County as it is a service they are providing for the whole county.  This will now be going to the July 15th meeting of the Shawano County Finance Committee and he plans to attend to emphasize that this is a important safety issue for people on this end of the county and should be a high priority for the county.

 

Chairman Smith reported he had talked to Steve and Cindy Moesch and they told him that Cindy would no longer take care of the booking and cleaning of the town hall but that Steve would consider taking care of maintenance.  Two concerns brought up where the way the 4-H club is leaving the hall after their meetings and that there are a number of keys for the town hall that people have.  It was suggested that a letter be written to the 4-H Club informing them that if the hall is not left as it should be, they will be asked to submit a $100.00 security deposit the same as other renters are doing and this security deposit would be used to clean the hall if it was needed after their meetings.  It was also suggested that new locks be installed on the doors to the hall.  Another suggestion was to advertise on the town’s posting boards that we are looking for someone to take care of booking and cleaning of the hall and to contact the town chairman for more information.

 

Smith updated the board on the water sampling program being offered by the U-W Extension.  The water sampling would be at a discounted rate of $33.00 per sample and Jim Resick is allotting 50 bottles for sampling to the Town of Angelica.  The bottles will have to be distributed to people wishing to sample their water and will then be picked up on Tuesday, August 31st at the town hall by the Extension.  There was discussion as to how people could be notified of this program to sample their water and it was decided that an ad should be placed in the Hometown Shopper regarding this.  Smith will contact Resick for a recommendation on how the ad should read.  It was felt that getting the bottles to people and collection of fees could be handled by dividing distribution up between the three supervisors.

 

Smith stated that he had contacted Wittenberg Disposal and they are to pick up the tires that are piled up at the hall for approximately one dollar per tire.  Consideration also will be given to having a pick up day in the spring for tires at the same time Maple Grove will be offering this to their residents.

 

Report from Planning Committee Chairman:  As the Planning Committee did not meet in the month of June or July, Chairman Pat Karcz did not bring a report to this meeting.  Smith reported that it is believed that sand is being removed and sold from property on Green Valley Road without having obtained any permits and Karcz will be checking on this.

 

Public Comments:  Andy Wiedeman was present and give the board pictures of the water problem he is having on his property on Willow Road.  Wiedeman stated he had just finished landscaping his lot and a large amount of water is accumulating, about ten feet wide for over 200 feet, and standing in the road ditch in front of his home.   This problem had been brought to the board’s attention before this meeting and Wiedeman wanted to know on when this would be corrected or if he could have permission to do the digging in the road ditch.  Wiedeman had previously been told that the town would have to wait until reconstruction work was completed and see how much money would be available to take care of ditching requests.   It was suggested that perhaps when the reconstruction work started on Willow Road this could be taken care of and the dirt could be used on the road project in that area.

 Elmer Kraning had a question on who had the bids for taking care of reconstruction work on Hillside Drive and Willow Road and how the low bid was arrived at with the inclusion of gravel needed to do the reconstruction work.

 

Specific Matters for Discussion and Possible Action by Town Board in Open Session:

 

a.      Randy Wichlacz and Joe Krause representing the Tri-County Rescue Squad  were present at the meeting and there was a lengthy discussion in regard to the make up of the board of directors and the relationship between the squad membership, officers and board of directors. Wicklacz and Krause indicated that the squad would go along with a board consisting of four members from the municipalities and three lay people as voting members and one medical director and one representative from the rescue squad as non-voting members.   Smith expressed a concern over the number of people that are active on the squad and handling the calls in relation to the number of people they are servicing in this area.  Joe Krause reported that there was a meeting of the officers scheduled for the next night and he would take the recommendation for makeup of the board of directors to that meeting and then to the squad membership shortly after that.  Krause indicated he would contact the Town of Angelica board after the meeting to inform them of how the officers felt on this matter.  It was brought up that the by-laws of the squad would have to be rewritten to allow this change.  Wichlacz then presented the board with an unsigned letter from Attorney Kowalkowski requesting that the town pay the $12,233.16 in per capita dues that are overdue and if this amount wasn’t paid within fourteen days the Rescue Squad would be advised to act accordingly.

 

b.     There was discussion in regard to the large number of complaints about a dog on Hoff Street in Krakow by running at large, continually barking and scaring the neighbors children.  There have been sixteen recorded complaints since October of 2001 with six of them coming the first half of this year and two citations issued with a possibility of another one being issued for an incident that happened on July 4, 2004..  A letter had been written to the Shawano County District Attorney in March of 2002 asking that there be no dismissal of charges and the parties pay the maximum fines relating to these charges.  The clerk was instructed to draft another letter to the District Attorney stating that the Town of Angelica is asking that there again be no dismissal of charges in any incidents and the persons owning the dogs be given the maximum fines.

 

c.      A Performance Surety Bond in an amount not to exceed $2,500.00 signed by Principal Richard Ferfecki and Surety Mike Nordin and Sandra Nordin was  presented to the board.  Ferfecki had requested delaying placement of survey monuments for a period of six months but not later than December 31, 2004 to allow him to take crops off of the property that was recently surveyed.  MOTION (Powers/Gwidt/PASSED) to accept the Performance Surety Bond and allow Richard Ferfecki to delay the placement of monuments for six months or not later than December 31, 2004.

 

d.     Applications for operator’s licenses from Kimberly M. Long, Connie Pedersen, Dennis Pedersen, Mary Jo Kirchner and Christina M. Paholke were presented to the town board.  MOTION (Gwidt/Powers/PASSED) to approve the five applications for operator’s licenses as presented.

 

e.      There was discussion on payment of the caretaker of the park pavilion in Krakow.  A summary of rate of pay and number of rentals for the town hall was reviewed.  MOTION (Powers/Smith/PASSED) to pay the caretaker of the park pavilion at the rate of $10.00 per rental for taking care of the booking of the pavilion and pay $12.00 per hour for cleaning and maintenance of the pavilion.  Included in this month’s voucher list for payment of bills is a $50.00 check to purchase a gift certificate to be given to Emil Ripley as an expression of appreciation for all the volunteer work he did as caretaker of the park pavilion in the past.

 

f.        The town’s copy machine in the clerk’s office was in need of repairs in June and since the cost of repairs was about the same as the cost of a refurbished  copy machine, Clerk Powers brought home the refurbished machine.  Powers gave the board a summary of the differences between the present copy machine, which is no longer being made, with a Konica 7020 copy machine from Bartelt Business Machines.  MOTION (Gwidt/Smith/PASSED) that the town purchase the Konica 7020 copy machine for the clerk’s office.

 

 

Specific Town Board Notice and Agenda for Upcoming Town Board Meeting:  The next town board meeting will be held on Monday, August 9, 2004.  The Tri-County Rescue Squad will be put on that meeting’s agenda.

 

Voucher Listing/Payment of Bills:  MOTION (Gwidt/Powers/PASSED) to approve vouchers No. 2330 through No.2362.  Voucher No. 2362 to the Tri-County Rescue Squad in the amount of $12,233.16 was not approved and was struck from the listing.  Voucher No. 2362 was then given to payment of $457.00 to the Shawano County Treasurer for dog and kennel licenses.

 

 

Adjournment: MOTION /Gwidt/Powers/PASSED) to adjourn the meeting.  The meeting was adjourned at 11:55 p.m.

 

 

 

 

MINUTES TAKEN BY____________________________________________  Date_________________________

                                                  Janet Powers, Town of Angelica Clerk

 

 

 

 

The foregoing minutes were presented to and approved by the Town of Angelica Board of Supervisors on 8-9-04.

 They were             approved without correction                    approved with correction

 

ATTEST:  ________________________________________________ Date _______________________

                                 Town of Angelica Chairman