TOWN OF ANGELICA

Special Meeting

July 22, 2004

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

Town Officials Absent: Treasurer, Lisa Matuszak

Others Present: Joe Krause, Elmer Kraning and Randy Wichlacz

Town of Angelica Chairman Smith called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Smith verified with Clerk Powers that proper posting and noticing of the meeting had been done.

PUBLIC COMMENTS: Joe Krause of the Tri-County Rescue Squad was present and stated that he thought it was wrong that the Chairman of the Town of Pittsfield was allowed to speak at the Town Board of Supervisors meeting held on July 12, 2004 relating to the agenda item identified as “Agenda Item a. Pulaski Rescue Squad” as it was a meeting the Rescue Squad had requested with the town board. Chairman Smith responded that the board had also opened up the meeting and had allowed another person not representing the Rescue Squad to speak when this item came up and the Town of Pittsfield Chairman was also allowed to speak to the board.

SPECIFIC MATTERS FOR DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION BY TOWN BOARD IN OPEN SESSION:

1. A draft of a letter prepared by Attorney Jon Anderson representing the Pulaski Tri County Building Corporation. was reviewed by the board. This letter was in response to a letter hand delivered to the town chairman at the July 12, 2004 town board meeting by Randy Wicklacz of the Tri-County Rescue Squad, which letter was written by Attorney Frank W. Kowalkowski. The letter stated in part “please provide payment within fourteen (14) days of the date of this correspondence. If payment is not received within that time frame, I will have no choice but to assume the Town of Angelica has no intention of honoring its obligations”. Chairman Smith stated that not only were the towns paying the Rescue Squad with taxpayers’ money through the per capita payment but also that ninety percent of the calls being made were to residents in the towns paying per capital to the Rescue Squad and these people were also taxpayers. The town board has a responsibility of accountability to the taxpayers. Supervisors Powers and Gwidt also stated that these differences between the Rescue Squad and the Tri-County Building Corporation had been going on for too long a time and it is time to resolve the matter and with mutual agreement change the Rescue Squad bylaws to allow going forward from this point and forget about the past. The letter drafted by Attorney Anderson stated in part “The agreement you signed with the various municipalities requires the parties to agree to the municipalities’ subsidizing (i.e. a grant or gift) the squad’s operations on the basis of your projected operation costs. The Town has not reached an agreement with the squad regarding its operation costs. In fact, the municipalities have many questions regarding budgets and the squad’s operations that have never been answered. The Town would like an itemization—to the penny—of all expenses made so that it can be sure that the communities’ tax dollars are being spent appropriately.“ MOTION (Gwidt/Powers/PASSED unanimously) to send the letter as drafted by Attorney Anderson to the Tri-County Rescue Squad. The clerk was instructed to mail this letter by certified mail.

Upon request from people attending the meeting, MOTION (Powers/Gwidt/PASSED) to allow those present at the meeting to speak regarding this issue. Randy Wichlacz of the Tri-County Rescue Squad stated he had been a part of the Rescue Squad for the past three years and felt the Rescue Squad had provided total disclosure of its finances through an audit that was prepared by Gerber & Rose. Wichlacz stated the Rescue Squad had nothing to hide, that there has been no mismanagement of money and financial statements had been furnished at a past meeting held between the Rescue Squad and representatives from the Tri-County Building Corporation.

2. Chairman Smith brought the board up to date on progress of reconstruction on Hillside Drive. Smith stated that by the end of next week everything should be ready to go and the digger’s hotline should have the underground electrical cables marked. There was discussion on how the road should be done in front of the Hillside Cemetery. There were different recommendations from members of the board (1) to have grass between the road edge and the cemetery with “no parking” signs put up (2) having enter and exit signs and either a gravel or blacktop circle drive through the cemetery (3) having an extra strip of blacktop up to a curb in front of the cemetery with a parking area designated by a white line and having a speed limit posted in front of the cemetery. No consensus was reached on how the road should be completed in this area.

Chairman Smith also brought up the mowing of road ditches. Only one swipe was made earlier this year as the ditches were too wet to make two swipes. It was suggested that perhaps a second swipe should be made now. Supervisor Gwidt asked if it was possible to have a cutting made where one swipe cuts the grass and the second swipe takes care of brush and high grass further into the ditch. It was the general consensus to check with Shawano County to see if they could do this type of cutting of the road right of way.

ADJOURNMENT: MOTION (Gwidt/Powers/PASSED) to adjourn the meeting. The meeting was adjourned at7:05 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: ____________

Richard Smith, Town of Angelica Chairman