TOWN OF ANGELICA

Monthly Meeting

April 14, 2008

 

Town Officials Present:   Chairman, Richard Smith, Supervisors Clifford Powers and Wilbert Lewis,

     Treasurer Lisa Mauszak and Clerk, Janet Powers

Town Officials Absent:    None

Others Present:                 Robert & Eileen Ripley, Ronald Banaszynski and Elmer Kraning

 

Call to Order/Roll Call/Verification of Meeting Notice:  Chairman Smith called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m..  It was verified with Clerk Powers that proper posting of the meeting had been done.  The agenda was posted on the afternoon of April 11, 2008 and also faxed to the Shawano Leader on April 11th.

 

Approval or Modification of Agenda:   MOTION (Powers/Lewis/PASSED) to approve the agenda as posted.

 

Approval of Prior Town Board Minutes:  MOTION (Powers/Lewis/PASSED) to approve the minutes of the regular town board meeting of March 10, 2008 and special town board meeting of March 19, 2008. 

 

Approval of Treasurer’s Monthly Report:  The Treasurer’s report was presented to the board by Treasurer Matuszak showing balances as of March 31, 2008 of $60,569.73 at the Citizens Bank in Pulaski and $236,133.33 at the Premier Bank in Pulaski.   MOTION (Lewis/Powers/PASSED) to approve the Treasurer’s report as presented.   Cliff Powers presented the board a check in the amount of $1,000.00 from Janet and him as a donation towards the new voting booths and mentioned a plaque is ordered to put on the voting booths stating “in memory of Mike Powers’ 35 years of service as Town of Angelica Board Chairman”.

 

Correspondence:  Correspondence reviewed was (1) notice from DNR informing the town the 2008 Recycling Grant will be $10,626.89 (2) notice of approval from Wis. Dept. of Commerce of HVAC System for the Jared Dauk Warehouse (3) copy of incident report from Shawano County Sheriff Department regarding Northwestern Pub in Zachow (4) notice of land taken out of Farmland Preservation in the town (5) notices from  Oconto County and East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission regarding their comprehensive plans (6) notices of meetings for Shawano County Board of Adjustment and Land Conservation and Planning, Development & Zoning Committee meetings and (7) inquiries from Shawano Leader regarding a planned town rummage sale date and from Crispell-Snyder regarding interest in their preparing an application for a Community Development Block Grant for housing.

 

Reports from Town Officers:  Supervisor Lewis reported he had issued a culvert permit for a field entrance on Pine Road, receiving a call regarding a “stop ahead” sign being down on Elm Road and noticing 4 more tires in the town ditches.

 

Supervisor Powers reported that (1) The County Board will be having their first meeting after the Spring Election and will be electing a County Board Chairman and members of the Highway Committee  C (2) an anonymous donor had paid the delinquent electric bill the hockey league had incurred at the Crawford Center (3) a recent Shawano County Highway report showed that there was an increase in the number of towns using the County Highway for roadwork with five or six more towns being higher than the Town of Angelica in use of the county for road work.

 

Chairman Smith reported (1) N.E.W. Para-Medic Squad had 44 runs in the past month with 9 being no transports and having 3 runs for the Town of Angelica.  At the end of February the Squad is $11,275.00 ahead of budget and there were balances of $6,585.18 in the general fund and $67,331.03 in the equipment fund.      (2) the Fire Department now has 39 members since one member came out of retirement.  In February there were 22 runs with 1 being in the Town of Angelica.  Fund balances were $50,328.62 in the check book, $81,757.68 in the vehicle fund and $12,770.53 in the camera fund and they have just recently purchased a camera.  On May 18th there will be an open house at the Fire Department and a volunteer group of retired firemen and wives called the Pulaski Blazers has been formed to provide food and assistance for the firemen while on fire calls. (3) he had checked the roads with a representative from a crack filling firm and they found there were not many pot holes in the roads but there were more cracks than usual due to the road bed freezing while adjacent soil to the road was not frozen and he planned to do more crack filling than budgeted and not do any seal coating this year. (4) it is planned to take the weight limits off of the roads either Wednesday or Thursday, April 16th or 17th which would be the same time the County takes off their weight limits.

 

Clerk Powers reported that upon checking with the Town of Wescott Clerk that town does not have a razing ordinance but uses the state statutes for implementing razing of vacant and dilapidated buildings.  The clerk also reported that one building permit was issued in the past month for a home on County Road S and gave the board a copy of the ledger sheet pertaining to road expenses to date.

 

Report from Town Planning Committee Chairman:  Town of Angelica Planning Committee Chairman Richard Ferfecki was excused and did not attend this meeting.  Chairman Smith reported that the final draft of the town’s comprehensive plan has been given to Vandewalle  & Associates and there will not be a Planning meeting next Monday, April 21st.

 

Public Comments:  MOTION (Lewis/Powers/PASSED) to open the meeting up to public comments.  Elmer Kraning noted that the town is paying for the remodeling of the hall at this meeting and questioned why the siding hadn’t been replaced on the north side of the hall.  It was suggested that the town come up with a list of things to be checked out before Rudie Construction finishes the new entrance to the hall and is completely done with the remodeling project.  MOTION (Powers/Lewis/PASSED) to close the public comment portion of the meeting.

 

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

 

New Business:  

 

a.       Robert and Eileen Ripley were present in regard to their request for a one-year extension to their conditional use permit CU-7-99 for non-metallic extraction on Tax Parcel Nos. 004-01120-0010, 004-01320-0000 and 004-01310-0000.  The Ripleys informed the town board that they are almost done with the removal of sand from their pit and estimated they would be done in August or September of this year.  They will not be expanding the size of the excavation but will be digging deeper and doing back filling to obtain the right sloping for the sides.  Last year East Central, the DNR and Shawano County personnel were on site in regard to the reclaiming work being done on the site and they were impressed with the way it is being reclaimed.   MOTION (Powers/Lewis/PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY VOICE VOTE) to recommend that Shawano County grant a one-year extension to CU-7-99, a conditional use permit for non-metallic extraction on the Robert Ripley property.

 

b.       Four applications for Operators’ Licenses were reviewed.   MOTION (Lewis/Powers/PASSED) to grant Operators’ Licenses to Mary Jo Mulder, Therese R. Krueger, Tiffiny R. Johnson and Lynne M. Jones.

 

c.       Chairman Smith reported that all the DNR permits have been obtained for reconstruction work on Carroll Road and the town will be sending certified letters out to WeEnergies and TDS Telecom informing them of the planned reconstruction with an anticipated starting date of June 1st.  A meeting will be set up for later in April with the property owners on Carroll Road and prior to that meeting Chairman Smith will go over the planned reconstruction work with the County Engineer.

 

d.      There was discussion regarding the billing of the cost of fire calls to property owners.  The town’s present ordinance states the property owner or resident will be billed the actual cost incurred by the town up to a maximum amount of $500.00 per call.  It was pointed out that the bill the town receives from the fire department is for the firemen’s hours only and the equipment cost is being covered by the quarterly payments the towns served by the Pulaski Tri-County Fire Department make to the operating and vehicle funds.  Chairman Smith informed the board that one of the towns is presently charging the full cost of the bill received by the town for the fire call to the property owner and another town is charging the cost of the bill and adding on an additional $200.00 towards use of the equipment.   MOTION (Powers/Lewis/PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY VOICE VOTE) to amend the town’s ordinance on billing of fire calls to state that the full cost of the statement sent to the town by the fire department be billed to the property owner/resident who has the fire.

 

e.       A draft of a letter to Tom Gwidt regarding his e-mail questioning who was going to be doing the cleaning and maintenance and booking of the park pavilion and having a concern regarding the Advancement Association volunteering funds for this.  MOTION (Smith/Lewis/PASSED) to send a letter to Tom Gwidt as drafted regarding how the booking, cleaning and maintenance of the town park in Krakow will be handled by the town.

 

f.       A draft of a letter to subdivision owners Richard Ferfecki and Lee DuChateau regarding the status of agreements made in 2004 no longer being valid was reviewed by the town board.  The town’s attorney had reviewed the agreements and recommended that the owners of the subdivision be advised of the status of these agreements.  MOTION (Lewis/Powers/PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY VOICE VOTE) that a letter, as per the draft reviewed, be sent to Richard Ferfecki and Lee DuChateau advising them of the status of their agreements with the Town of Angelica.

 

g.      MOTION (Lewis/Powers/PASSED) to change the mileage reimbursement for town officials and employees from 48.5 cents/mile to 50.0 cents per mile, which is the same rate Shawano County uses, retroactive to March 1, 2008.

 

Specific Town Board Notice and Agenda for Upcoming Town Board Meeting:  The next town board meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 12, 2008.   Approval of a revised ordinance regarding billing of fire calls will be an agenda item for that meeting.

 

Voucher Listing/Payment of Bills:  MOTION (Lewis/Powers/PASSED) to approve payment of vouchers V-4073 to V-4125. 

 

Adjournment:  MOTION (Lewis/Powers/PASSED) to adjourn the meeting. The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 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 5-12-08.

 They were             approved without correction                    approved with correction

 

ATTEST:  ____________________________________________ Date _______________________

                                 Town of Angelica Chairman