TOWN OF ANGELICA

 

Monthly Meeting

January 10, 2005

 

 

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

Town Officials Absent:     None

Others Present:                Harold Blazie, Elmer Kraning, Ronald Krajewski and Wilbert Lewis

 

Call to Order/Roll Call/Verification of Meeting Notice:  Chairman Smith called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.  All officers were present for Roll Call.   Smith verified with Clerk Powers that proper posting of the meeting had been done.  MOTION (Powers/Gwidt/PASSED) to approve the agenda as presented.

 

Approval of Prior Town Board Minutes:  MOTION (Gwidt/Powers/PASSED) to accept the minutes of the regular town board meeting of December 13, 2004 and the two special town board meetings held on December 20, 2004 and January 5, 2005 as presented by the Clerk.

 

Approval of Treasurer’s Monthly Report:  The Treasurer’s report was presented to the board by Treasurer Matuszak showing balances as of December 31, 2004 of  $140,078.56 at the F & M Bank in Pulaski and $650,035.71 at the Premier Bank in Pulaski.   MOTION (Gwidt/Powers/PASSED) to approve the Treasurer’s report as presented. 

 

Correspondence:  Correspondence reviewed was (1) notification from Department of Commerce that Assured Inspection Services, Birnamwood  WI is the contracted inspection agency that will service our area for enforcement of the UDC (2) memo from Town of Maple Grove regarding closing out Fire Department Loan payment account (3) letter from Shawano County Planning & Development Department regarding a draft ordinance from the Wind Turbine Citizen Advisory Committee coming to their January meeting (4) cost sharing summary information for the past five years from Tri-County Fire Department (5) letter from Shawano County History Committee requesting help in getting photographs and history of schools for the Shawano County Fair presentation (6) notification from D.O.T. that quarterly Transportation Aids payments will be $27,470.81 (7) invoice from Tri-County Rescue Squad regarding past due account (8) copies of 3 land-use permits issued by Shawano County for property in the Town of Angelica (9) notices of meetings from various Shawano County committees and schedule of hearing dates for 2005 for the PD&Z Committee and the Board of Adjustment (1) Notice of Proceeding and Investigation and Assessment of Costs from Public Service Commission in regard to a request by Wisconsin Electric Power and Wisconsin Gas.

 

Reports from Town Officers:  Supervisor Tom Gwidt asked if it would be possible to plow the dead-end street of Hof/Stanley first  when snowplowing is done in Krakow and also requested that the March board meeting be held one week earlier on March 7, 2005 rather than March 14th as he will be in Washington D.C. the week of March 14th.  The date of March 7th was okay with all the other town officials.

             

Supervisor Cliff Powers reported (1) Jim Mitchell, Shawano County Highway Commissioner has given notice that he will be retiring and his last day of work will be on February 4, 2005.  The appointment of a new commissioner will be done by the County Board and the Highway Committee will be involved in the selection.  Powers also stated that it is important that the towns in the county use the services of the County Highway Department as the equipment there is paid for by taxpayers money, and this is especially true if there is no problem with the County doing the work shortly after the time the town requests it.  (2) the Wind Turbine Advisory Committee is planning to bring a proposed ordinance to the County Board in February.  There could be substantial payment to a town where they are placed and also the County, and (3) the Planning, Development and Zoning Committee is planning to look at the present A-G-1 Exclusive Agriculture zoning as it pertains to various areas of the County.

       

Report from Planning Committee Chairman:  As the Town of Angelica Planning Committee did not have a meeting in January, there was no report from Chairman Pat Karcz. 

 

Public Comments:  Ron Krajewski, RJK UDC Inspections C, EC, gave the town board a copy of his recent Certification, License or Registration Card that he recently received from the Wisconsin Department of Commerce and asked what the town’s position is in regard to enforcement of the Uniform Dwelling Code.  Chairman Smith informed Krajewski that it is planned to invite Peter Kruit, Assured Inspection Services LLC, whose bid to enforce the UDC in our area was accepted by the Department of Commerce, to the February town board meeting and enforcement of the UDC will be an agenda item for that meeting.  Wilbert Lewis asked when the W-2 forms will be ready and he was informed by the Clerk that they will be going out  shortly.

 

 

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

 

a.       It was the general consensus to bring back the agenda item of repair of pot holes in town roads to the February board meeting and Chairman Smith will get information from the County Highway Department as to how much they would charge for doing this work. 

 

b.      As requested by the town board, Harold Blazei was present to discuss with the board the condition of his property located at N4843 Main Street in Krakow as it relates to Shawano County Ordinance No. 13-97 – Health, Junk and Environmental Hazard Ordinance. A written complaint from a town resident regarding this property states “one of storage buildings is collapsed and the other soon to be in the same situation” and “A Building Inspector should inspect these buildings for conditions of collapse, health, safety and welfare of the general public”.  There is a concern because of the storage buildings in back of the main building starting to fall down and the possibility of kids getting into these buildings and also providing an environment inviting rodents to come in.   There was no general consensus as to whether the town board should proceed under County Ordinance No. 13-97 or under State Statute 66.0413 Razing buildings.  Blazei questioned why his property was being singled out and was told a written complaint had been given the town board regarding it.    Blazei agreed that the buildings in question will get worse in time and that he would look into what his best option would be for taking care of this matter and report back to the town board within sixty days.  Supervisor Gwidt suggested that a state inspector look at the property.  Chairman Smith said he would discuss the matter with somebody from the County and this matter would be an agenda item for the March town board meeting. 

 

c.       Chairman Smith stated that the two miles of road reconstruction he would like to see done in 2005 would be one mile of Willow Road from its intersection with Deer Drive north to its intersection with Town Hall Drive and one mile of Town Hall Drive going east from its intersection with Green Valley Road.  It was generally agreed that these two roads should be top priority for reconstruction.  Supervisor Gwidt suggested that in the near future the town should finish up reconstruction on Green Valley Road.  The clerk was instructed to obtain maps from the County Real Property Lister to give Attorney Ken Rottier in order to start the preparation of road easements.

 

d.      There was discussion in regard to revisions to Town of Angelica Ordinance 9-13-93A, Rules for Establishing Town Roads and in particular regarding Section 2 SPECIFICATIONS: (f) stating all turn-around and dead end roads shall have a 60 foot radius, or an equivalent squared area at the termination thereof.  It was the general consensus not to make a change in this part of the ordinance at this time and wait until it could be determined what the necessary radius would be to allow school buses and fire department equipment to turn around in.  It was decided to go ahead with the updating and amendments to the ordinance relating to blacktopping of new roads.  MOTION (Gwidt/Powers/PASSED UNANIMOUSLY) to (1) add to Section 2, Specifications, the requirement for blacktopping of roads (2) delete Section 3, Blacktopping and (3) add wording that “this ordinance shall take effect immediately upon passage and posting as provided by law” as provided in a draft of Ordinance 9-13-93A (as updated and amended 1-10-05).

 

e.       At the December 2004 town board meeting there was discussion on changing poll hours for future elections and the general consensus was to change the hours from present hours of 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. to new poll hours of 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.  A draft of Ordinance 1-10-05, Establishment of Poll Hours for Elections, was reviewed.  MOTION (Gwidt/Powers/PASSED UNANIMOUSLY) to set future poll hours from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and approve Ordinance 1-10-05 as drafted to take effect immediately upon passage and publication and posting as provided by law.

 

f.        Applications for an Operator’s License from Judith J. Rowe and Amy J. Wudtke were reviewed.  MOTION (Gwidt/Powers/PASSED) to approve the applications of Judith J. Rowe and Amy J. Wudtke for Operator’s Licenses.

 

g.       As the resident complaining about overflowing of a pond on property at the intersection of Green Valley Road and Nichols Drive was not present; nor was any written complaint received; no discussion or action took place on this agenda item.

 

h.       Chairman Smith said that he had nothing new to report on N.E.W. Para-Medic Rescue, Inc. in addition to what had taken place at the January 5, 2005 special town board meeting.  Smith did mention that there were 14 applications for EMT’s and 17 applications for paramedic positions with N.E.W. and interviews were going to conducted in the near future.

 

Specific Town Board Notice and Agenda for Upcoming Town Board Meeting:  The next town board meeting will be held on Monday, February 14, 2005, at 6:30 p.m.  It was suggested that the items mentioned earlier in these minutes to be brought up at the next meeting be made part of the agenda for that meeting.  

 

Voucher Listing/Payment of Bills:  MOTION (Gwidt/Powers/PASSED) to approve vouchers No. 2535 through No.2579. 

 

Adjournment: MOTION (Smith/Gwidt/PASSED) to adjourn the meeting.  The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 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 2-14-05.

 They were             approved without correction                    approved with correction

 

ATTEST:  ________________________________________________ Date _______________________

                                 Town of Angelica Chairman