[0:00] okay I have 6 o' we call this meeting
order if I could get roll call please T
[0:07] moer here P here here Sarah Mor here
Tyler mson is
[0:14] abon it looks like he's Tyler's onine
yeah he is oh Tyler hi on Zoom yeah he
[0:22] would missed his airport shuttle or
something to his
[0:27] offer your comment thing is recording
[0:37] just like the CL oh actually taping
there okay um once Tyler can connect we
[0:45] can hear from
[0:48] him
[0:57] here flag the United States America and
to the Republic for which it stands one
[1:03] nation under God indivisible with
liberty
[1:10] and Cal poting a copy of the notice was
delivered to the following on made F
[1:15] email to the star news and Lakeridge
bank and black Earth posted at the Black
[1:18] Earth Municipal Building Black Earth
post office and black Earth web page
[1:24] public comment please limit to three
minutes we have some public hello
[1:30] answer 4804 State Road 78 Black Earth
purchasing the property at 1311 Madison
[1:36] Street wondering if there's this my
public comment time is there any
[1:41] discussion during agenda item 9 at all
is
[1:44] ready yeah it's discussion and action on
on nine on
[1:48] nine but if you wanted something to
State something right now that's is
[1:52] there any opportunity that time this
is
[1:57] yeah thank you
okay then uh discussion action approval
[2:03] of the meeting
minutes from April
[2:10] 9th I'll make a motion to approve the
minutes from April 9th
[2:15] second we have a motion and a second any
questions
[2:21] concerns all in favor I I
[2:27] opposed March 18th are included
[2:33] they in the oh they were in the package
and then I'd also need approval of the
[2:36] March 18th minutes that were in your
packet so
[2:40] mov second ahead I have a motion and a
second all in
[2:48] favor motion
[2:54] [Music]
Carri okay all right uh uh discussion
[3:00] action board and committee assignments I
emailed this out and then also I put a
[3:06] copy at your meeting spot um anybody
have any questions or concerns about the
[3:11] committee assignments as they have been
[3:17] proposed nothing the only other addition
pardon I got kicked off
[3:25] par you want to go back on I don't mind
I've been doing some background work but
[3:30] it's all right I can hand those
materials to whoever come and present
[3:34] them yeah I'll just come present them
okay well I can trade with you cuz I got
[3:39] Parks you want to trade I'll take the
Gateway or B review you can have the B
[3:47] review I'll take B you take work uh for
Park got wait a minute no you're going
[3:53] to do board of
appeals that b board yeah Bo of appeals
[3:59] oh yeah
B revieww yeah I can do that that's an
[4:02] Al no that's a different Pat has Board
of
[4:06] appeal oh shoot I'm sorry I'll take yeah
appeals I'm sorry okay I was looking at
[4:11] mson oh no that's fine appeals so you're
going to
[4:16] take of
appeal and he'll take parks and he will
[4:21] take pars great I shouldn't be on park
right now
[4:26] anyway all right any other that change
of suggestion the only other thing too
[4:33] is I'd like to consider and we can do
this either do we need a motion to
[4:36] approve you I'm we approve committees as
uh the change just presented and as
[4:43] you're presented yep I have a motion to
approve
[4:47] second yes I'll second and seconded any
other
[4:55] discussion all in favor I opposed
the other option or the other um item
[5:02] under this is that I'm going to um
exercise my right and I will move
[5:07] approval for the library board
appointment to Kathy Whitten Wier and
[5:11] Kathy is going to fill the seat that's
vacated by Dylan who now sits on our
[5:16] board so mov and she's been vetted okay
so Mitch moved second Dyan seconded any
[5:24] like a minute auction um any
comments all right all in
[5:31] favor
[5:38] opposed okay opposed n all in
favor okay and also under police we are
[5:46] going to I move to up well you're
considering Jackie Faulk as the police
[5:52] committee
citizens uh
[5:56] appointee I'll make a motion to that
anybody
[6:00] second okay all in favor or any
discussion hearing none all in favor I
[6:07] opposed motion carries so we have two
new
[6:11] citizens
[6:17] committee
right thank you very much moving
[6:23] on number seven temporary alcohol
license picnic license applications in
[6:29] SE waiver for American Legion Post 3113
and home Talent baseball believe both
[6:34] applications are in your
packet completed I'll make a motion to
[6:39] approve both as
presented I'd second that we have a
[6:44] motion to approve both as presented and
a second any questions or concerns you
[6:50] want to wait the
Fe they ask for wave a fee
[6:55] yeah yes yes yeah for both organizations
yes would you like to your motion to the
[7:01] to include the waiver of the fees sorry
yeah y That's good $10 yeah that's fine
[7:08] so we have a motion to approve waving
the fees and a second any questions or
[7:14] concerns hearing none all in
favor
[7:19] opposed motion carried discussion action
number eight discussion and action
[7:25] Street use application closer of web
Street between Mills and Center Street
[7:29] for for June 29th
2004 and I believe it's going to be for
[7:33] the purpose of holding a
fundraiser and a bag tournament for who
[7:40] yeah the petition for Street use permit
that I have is blank that was the back
[7:46] side this is what was presented me one
more page over to the left so it's is
[7:52] the name
[8:00] oh it's that uh saving lons yes yeah
between where the lanes and where B Dog
[8:07] it's web stre by the lies right oh
Bulldogs that
[8:12] thing okay so it's going to be from
Mills to Center so that strip what's it
[8:18] for or who it's for saving legends that
fundraiser of Amy par WR her son
[8:23] Community
suicide um there is a house right there
[8:28] was that house notified
that's a business now but the one be
[8:32] behind it it might have it might have a
center street address Behind the B
[8:41] right because
[8:45] that's whatever street The Shack runs by
The Shack is their address no it's
[8:49] probably Center Street because their
garage comes out on Center Street yeah I
[8:52] don't know so I just don't know if if
they were notified add I think it's a r
[8:58] street address
only talk to Bulldog and Bulldog would
[9:03] care cuz yeah my concern is there's
nobody responsible
[9:09] designated in the application the
application is not complete well that's
[9:14] yeah it's not complete on the back side
we designate nobody
[9:19] responsible well Amy parin who's the
leader of the organization she said same
[9:24] as above
for she didn't indicate herself as the
[9:28] primary as
responsible name and address of the name
[9:34] and address telephone number of the
person or persons who will be
[9:37] responsible for conducting the proposed
use oh but I thought that was blank
[9:42] because there's no one that lives there
that's the petition you have to get for
[9:46] the residents that application is the
first page
[9:50] yeah but the petition for Street Youth
[9:56] permit so this means need to get bulldog
and lanes and well I don't know if she
[10:03] would have to get the house because the
house has the Center Street address so
[10:06] it will not is it Ray Street or Center
Ray
[10:11] right the driveway on Center but the
legal address is Ray Street whatever it
[10:15] will not hinder them although it is
going to be in their
[10:21] yard so have the Street closed up to
driveway well there driveways on Center
[10:28] Street that's what I'm saying I don't
think that it really affects them other
[10:30] than notification notification that it's
[10:41] happening June
29 no until 8 or 900 p.m. we still have
[10:47] time to go back to the areas before June
yeah this this should come back filled
[10:54] out I don't know that we do have time
it's May June 29th going to have another
[10:59] board meeting way I understand that but
she's going to have to advertise and if
[11:02] she doesn't have it written in stone she
really can't advertise
[11:10] right that's not my problem my problem
is getting the form filled out right
[11:14] right not just agreeing with
[11:18] that so I will make a
motion to approve this with the
[11:23] contingency that she fill out the form
finish filling out the form to list a
[11:28] responsible part
presented at the next board meeting
[11:36] right with proof presented proof present
with proof presented oh yes okay I
[11:41] didn't hear the proof part but I say
[11:46] yes so Pam's made a motion to approve
pending presentation of proof is this
[11:52] completed in its entirety do I have a
second
[11:59] I'll second it now is there further
discussion I guess I just I have a quick
[12:03] question the the petition for Street use
permit says that it we wouldn't Grant a
[12:08] permit for longer than 6 hours so I mean
I I don't think it matters but she's
[12:12] asking for eight or nine hours so is
something to point out oh it mandatory
[12:18] Denial in
E it causes mandatory it is a mandatory
[12:24] under a policy yeah the application
requests a period for use of the street
[12:28] in excess of is a mandatory
re that's according to
[12:34] ordinance we can't help her so I think
then she needs to come back with the
[12:38] application corrected with a time period
of 6 hours or left to the next board
[12:42] meeting yeah I agree I'm sorry I had
read that far I just thought so I'll
[12:48] resend my second I'll resend my first so
motion has been resented pending updated
[12:55] application form yes so what Deni and so
right indicating correct number of hours
[13:02] and actually that we
completed with the note that we do feel
[13:07] her we understand we are supportive
of yeah and it looks like the petition
[13:15] just needs to be filled out by Bulldog
because it requires the business owner's
[13:20] signatures as well she's got to get
written approval from from the L and
[13:25] from B yeah but she also has to she'll
have to to change
[13:30] her timeline either start later or end
sooner end sooner
[13:38] agree and
why the the other mandatory denial is
[13:43] the proposed use could equally be held
in a public park or other
[13:48] location it gives you want it close
to a bar oh okay that's I'm good with
[13:56] that that's fine now I I would you know
what if I were going to do something
[14:00] like this I would do the exact same
thing you so well and it's good for the
[14:03] business yes yeah absolutely
okay we get on that you got that Danny
[14:09] yep all right thank you very much
further nine discussion and action 1311
[14:17] Madison Street parcel
10786 d264 d561 24 and consideration of
[14:25] raise
order I believe this was be your time to
[14:30] speak yes no property needs more what
we're looking there's some kind of
[14:36] discussions we can have I believe we
just received the letter and like the
[14:41] letter was sent and then within that
last month and then think by the 15th
[14:46] improvements had to be made and that's
to me a little unrealistic we're hoping
[14:50] that we can have a discussion with
somebody worked on something to get a
[14:54] plan uh that we can do to make this get
the property fixed up
[14:59] um there's intention to do more with the
property but I B the lanes right now
[15:06] and the bookstore coffee shop and that's
that proper is going to be
[15:11] addressed Focus was
changed um I understand making it look
[15:18] better but there's things we' like to do
with the building is it structurally
[15:21] found don't know for sure somebody look
at it I mean it's not going to fall
[15:27] over and what is your
[15:31] has to be done with it how much just I
mean I understand that
[15:36] you're letter and we had like two weeks
call somebody to get a cont to somebody
[15:42] look at the building I don't think
that's
[15:46] quite so surpris me this didn't through
committee right I'm that's I this I've
[15:52] not heard of this yet this is the first
time I heard about this was yesterday
[15:54] when I got the packet so so who did the
raise order
[15:59] from a complaint that we received so a
property maintenance letter was sent out
[16:03] make it in line with property
maintenance code for and when was the
[16:07] property maintenance code sent that was
sent in April for a it was at least 30
[16:12] days sent 30 days and okay I got the
letter I think the following week or
[16:18] something because it wasn't count like
on the nth when I had gotten it I think
[16:22] the
time to last I think when I came into
[16:26] your office um that was the week
following we sent it that was yes and so
[16:33] um I had asked you at the time to let us
know what can be exactly done what that
[16:39] letter really it had the whole ordinance
things on there so
[16:43] what okay anyway no one got back to us
and then so at that point is when Tracy
[16:49] our building inspector got involved when
he had the conversation um to drive
[16:55] through see it it was his professional
opinion it's not not my job for that
[17:01] um he said so he's the one that say says
should be raised so he's the one that um
[17:07] contacted me to
um um present this to the board for and
[17:13] is that safety I'm going to sound really
dumb here Danny I am dumb is that
[17:19] protocol or doesn't it have to go to
committee after Tracy makes his judgment
[17:23] call doesn't it have to go to a
committee I would say planning committee
[17:27] oring committee something plan or
zoning I'm not so sure it would have to
[17:33] no I don't think so it's in the statute
stat how the procedures are okay issu
[17:41] you just no you're you just saying no
that doesn't have to okay no that's fine
[17:45] I I agree with you okay but being that
this was a discussion tonight why
[17:50] weren't we
notified agenda I think prob AR is too
[17:55] is I don't they claim they haven't been
informed of this meeting they didn't
[17:59] know their property haven heard anything
it not until today so it comes from I'm
[18:04] doing from what the building insector
has talked to me about um so this
[18:09] isn't I mean the board can even outside
of a board meeting issue it the building
[18:14] inspector can issue it alone outside of
the board um we thought that bringing it
[18:18] to the board for discussion would be the
appropriate route um that's fine but if
[18:25] it's going to come to the board you
think the property owner it doesn't have
[18:28] to be I know that's not the way we
should do
[18:31] business I would like a little bit more
detail from the building inspector to
[18:35] that okay I'm going to go with that
because I would like to hear from Tracy
[18:38] I don't think that he
has all the
[18:42] power right he does well I would but I
don't think that I personally will not
[18:49] go along with him saying because I said
so without being able to tell me the
[18:54] roof is shot the you know it might fall
down the buildings the bricks are shot
[18:58] cuz I'm assuming that's what we're
talking about right is the brick
[19:00] building I mean anybody can read the
ordinances and I did but it doesn't say
[19:06] I want to I want a bullet sheet from
inspector right telling me and them and
[19:13] everybody else why is this the first
notification you've ever received on the
[19:18] building right and we we we need
something written up or right there's
[19:22] nothing do he just said it's condemned
well why we need something they didn't
[19:27] say condemned no youve spoken brought up
the code it's got to be brought up the
[19:32] code but you know where's the
list have theone conversation with
[19:38] Tracy no you not talked to Tracy anybody
except you Tracy has a contact us we
[19:45] haven't talked to anybody all we got is
a notice in the mail and when we met I
[19:49] gave you as a contact information did
you reach out to
[19:52] him not you said that you would contact
him talk to him and then I asked then if
[20:00] we get me or something in that so we
would know and you said you would
[20:04] contact him and go from there we have
not heard anything since the we were
[20:09] down at your office nor have't gotten
anything in the
[20:15] mail here's what I think we should do is
just uh let's give this 30 days to get
[20:21] Tracy to come up and come up with
something that so we know what the hell
[20:26] we're doing here I mean it this doesn't
make any sense to me that it's just
[20:31] lambang agree we don't have to hurry on
anything why don't we just move it next
[20:37] Bo table it to the next board meeting
and cont with right in that time Troy
[20:45] you have 30 days to have an inspector to
do whatever you want to do right because
[20:51] Tracy's going to come and tell us
structurally sound and structurally
[20:56] sound the improved value is $4,000 and I
think these State Statute States
[21:03] anything anything 50% yeah anything over
50% so you can't even hardly put a
[21:09] window in that building for $2,000 so
that's where the count the raising came
[21:14] in place was the fact of the buildings
worth this amount to get up to what
[21:21] would be themed safe C thank you is
going to be more than what the value of
[21:26] the building is value of the
is there anything in there about
[21:32] historical do you guys have any proof
that it's a historical building oh at
[21:36] that point then you have
to huge thing with the Historical
[21:40] Society I tried that with the SHA and it
is a ton to to
[21:48] to so Ian that's the r this point I
think that's the best we can do for you
[21:54] guys right is to give you 30 days you do
what you need to do we'll call Tracy up
[21:59] but you know and then so at the next
board meeting it's going to be on the
[22:01] agenda for it's going to be on the and
he's right we'll already have his Billet
[22:05] points or we'll be presenting it at that
night
[22:09] yeah and then a plan in
place yeah and a timeline yes to go
[22:15] along with the statutes and that would
go a long way for an extension right yep
[22:20] is a is a plan oh okay is a plan with
timeline yeah how long has the building
[22:27] been sitting without any traffic inside
I mean I understand it's potentially
[22:32] been used for
storage
[22:36] but yeah a few years it's more than a
but it don't matter right now so let's
[22:43] go with our plan and
let's more information y okay I'd like
[22:48] to know if Tracy could ask answer this
question too if the raise order is the
[22:51] beginning of the process that would then
address it or if this is the final step
[22:56] it's the beginning so maybe that's why
the notice wasn't sent because when I
[23:01] talked with him he said a couple options
from what they did in Mao that we can
[23:07] give a timeline so like you did um to
either pull a permit or
[23:15] present a
plan which is what we'll be looking for
[23:19] in 30 days at our June meeting which is
on June
[23:23] 4th okay it's a little yeah okay
appreciate it thank you okay thank you
[23:29] thank thank
you all
[23:35] right for
that number 10 discussion action verb
[23:42] verer community housing survey and
comprehensive Plan
[23:45] update in your
packet both the housing study and the
[23:50] comprehensive Plan update uh they
presented timelines
[23:55] for um each study
of kind of the planning and what to
[24:01] expect throughout the year um just an
update for that sent over information
[24:07] from last night DC meeting so that's
that letter from Gateway to the drift
[24:10] list which is discussed you did that
already yes perfect thank you um so
[24:17] um that would be so this will be
included in the comprehensive plans the
[24:22] language that they need and then well
Peter and Tony is going to put a a line
[24:26] item to change
so that we show support right he was
[24:31] going to write something up so that we
could then propose it to the
[24:36] township yeah to have the same thing
that we are
[24:40] in we are in support of that in in our
comprehensive
[24:52] plan um Matt beer online that's kind of
my update for that I don't know if you
[24:57] have anything
thanks Danny evening everyone I just
[25:02] wanted to say that uh the two contracts
before you in the meeting packets
[25:07] tonight outline the approach that we as
a team collaborating with the village
[25:12] would pursue for the housing study as
well as that comprehensive plan uh
[25:17] starting uh if you so move and approve
tonight basically tomorrow we'd be up
[25:23] and running starting work on it and that
effort would take us through uh B
[25:28] basically the first second week of
November right around that election time
[25:32] frame in terms of the approval of the uh
final documents for both of those
[25:38] uh uh products being
[25:43] delivered
okay
[25:46] [Music]
[25:53] thank so we've already there's no
approval that's needed yes any questions
[26:00] or for the housing study or the CIS
plan we have a
[26:07] timeline hearing none we will move on
to agenda item 11 discussion and action
[26:15] of the Go notes
spending thanks thanks
[26:20] everyone thank you very much thanks
Danny I'll email you
[26:24] tomorrow all right thank you
um the change from last month would be
[26:30] the retention Town maintenance uh was
moved up for the approval from last time
[26:35] from the proposed okay there were any
other
[26:41] meetings that's nothing else was added
okay so are we running out of time on
[26:46] that the last 85,000 right you said July
July 1st July or 31st
[26:52] ju to designate
[26:57] so your committee meetings coming up
this month should be a Priority Credit
[27:03] call thing and then
June board meetings June and July can
[27:08] approve the final
designation and I think with that need
[27:12] to clarify so you can just do inste of
doing designate projects you can do just
[27:17] like overall capital projects correct
with designating funds it would have to
[27:22] be like if you're going to put municip
building upgrades or
[27:28] futility upgrades specifically for that
but it doesn't have to
[27:31] be the windows for the building could
just be the I'm going to leave it more
[27:37] does ability
[27:42] still okay so that's going to be
priority for the the committee meetings
[27:45] going into
[Music]
[27:48] June we have to designate by July 31st
right okay and how much do we have left
[27:55] in arpa is that gone cuz it says no
later than 12 3124 to designate arpa but
[28:00] it doesn't score a doll amount that we
still have
[28:04] arpa lot of arpa we have a lot of arpa
on left or is's a lot
[28:09] designated it's designated but we have
to do something with it by then right or
[28:13] just
designated yeah it's
[28:16] been we have to we have to actually
project yeah but we're done with that
[28:22] right it's been designated out so half
Public Works
[28:26] half it's been designated to committee
but it hasn't been designated to
[28:30] something specific so now it needs to be
drilled down which would be committee
[28:33] work as
[28:38] well everybody
good all right number 12 invoices to be
[28:44] paid
[28:50] [Applause]
[29:02] [Applause]
[Music]
[29:09] I this is his favorite part
[29:33] I don't know that I have it in
[29:36] me we bought
bandages from quill for
[29:41] [Music]
[29:46] $9 okay
[30:01] I personally like how we have our
description of maintenance for the Big
[30:04] Orange
plow I love that technical
[30:08] terminology and you know when you say
that every single
[30:15] while it works so
[30:28] so the crack crack
filling for 50,000 is that done already
[30:34] yep it was approved and it was done done
really chip seing will be July project
[30:42] you must got right on their calendar cuz
they they were waiting they were waiting
[30:46] for they wanted to get us and get out of
town so they could move on to State
[30:54] nice um everybody's ready I would
entertain
[30:58] motion I'll make that motion to approve
presented by Pam second second by Sor
[31:06] Sor Sor Sor Zoro by
[31:13] Sarah any other
questions all in favor I I
[31:21] opposed moving on to number 12 the
approval of the Octagon Towers purchase
[31:27] agreement an easement
agreement so we have this wrapped up
[31:33] just the final final approval final
final approval we've got the easen and
[31:37] ground lease purchase agreement as well
as the schedule for um and Chris Nelson
[31:44] I've been working with axley and they
have done
[31:48] a their due diligence we've done a
thorough review
[31:52] um my last communication was to
Christopher was that I was going to
[31:56] present it to the board
and that do you feel confident that we
[32:01] or you have done our due diligence on
the agreement of both documents and feel
[32:05] comfortable to proceed as written is
that a fair statement he said Terry
[32:09] that's a fair statement the documents
are ready to approve and the language is
[32:12] negotiated is stronger than when we
started so the village is in good shape
[32:16] here so with that I would entertain a
motion for the final final approval of
[32:22] the easan and ground Le purchase
agreement with octagon so moved second
[32:28] Harry can you catch me up on this Yep
this is
[32:32] the um it's the cell phone Powers so the
previous agreement was they would pay us
[32:39] we had a least agreement with them for
like 40 no 20 years 20 years for
[32:45] 35 two or something 35,000 a year yeah
32,000 going up by 3% 32 something so
[32:55] this is kind of a buyout of that instead
of they're just purchasing it black
[32:59] stack and Barrel Goa for 40 years for 40
years yeah to to to be able to use it
[33:07] and then after 40 years it they either
pay to take it down or they extend it if
[33:12] they're if they're still using Towers at
that point one time payment for a 40e
[33:16] gotcha and if they vacate before they
have to return the property to its fre
[33:20] State it's got to come down got to come
down and at their I mean their y yep so
[33:26] this is kind of if you add it up yeah
obviously if you if they stayed there
[33:31] for 40 more years you'd make a lot more
that way sure but if you took the payout
[33:36] and you invested it for 40 years you'd
probably do better than what they would
[33:40] give you um the other thing is you don't
know in 10 years if technology changes
[33:45] and they're even going to want it true
so so it was an option or an opportunity
[33:49] to take advantage of a good deal for
them and for them to invest more in it
[33:54] they wanted a longer commitment sure so
and this has been a negotiation going on
[33:59] for two years so it's finally come
finally come with board one wanted it to
[34:06] be so we could actually just be done
yeah does the village still have an
[34:11] access point if we still use
[34:17] corre so with that and with the blessing
of the
[34:21] attorney we the agree with the attorney
that it's they're ready to approve and
[34:26] the language is negotiated stronger than
than what we were had started with the
[34:29] starting point and that the village is
in good shape I'd entertain a final
[34:33] motion to approve so I can put my
signature on this document mention s oh
[34:40] good any other
questions all in favor I
[34:47] I
opposed motion carries ma'am say
[34:55] I say all right
that brings us to committee
[35:03] report Black Earth fire district we have
not had a meeting
[35:08] since um our last board meeting but we
do meet again this Thursday May 9th so
[35:14] that's the report for
them Clerk and treasur
[35:20] Fields um feel free to hop in there for
we been working a lot on Park project
[35:27] for the assus
abatement
[35:30] um Quality permit that we had file to
tear buildings down air quality perit
[35:39] no a lot of red tape came into play for
the grp property far as Justice that
[35:46] wasn't
done which we knew but then extra
[35:50] permits that needed to be filed for what
they call the air quality management
[35:54] stuff so um little bit of expens but
just a daunting process to get through
[35:59] with the DNR the as was minor like that
yeah the as actually was the minor minor
[36:05] portion of the whole thing but um that's
tied up a lot of time
[36:12] that's these guys have been hammered
with trying to do disconnect payments
[36:17] and that we were out um actually with
Vanguard um ready to do stuff and that
[36:23] issue uh was resolved for the time being
so no disc were done um so April started
[36:29] the or was the end of the um fall winter
moratorium from November to April so we
[36:35] can't disconnect any electric water
during that time um starting that up
[36:40] with over have to linqu account so we've
been working of negotiating payment
[36:46] plans um arranging payments contacting
people so that was turned out to um a
[36:52] list of about 20 on the disconnect we
hung uh
[36:58] door hangers for disconnect warning that
was work down into PR payment agreements
[37:04] and other plans for fre payment for PFC
rules and we didn't have to turn anyone
[37:10] off so that was
[37:15] good yeah um so yeah that's starting
back up again with other account so kind
[37:21] of ring door for that
um is be time the office with property
[37:30] blacker Creek Park and
[37:35] utilities um and then Danny being out
from our last board meeting um she's now
[37:42] on the turn the leave should be
returning in July is
[37:47] um a
[37:51] baby on the Geo note just kind of what
we talked about before of committee
[37:56] assignments for
um uh for May and June to be top of mind
[38:02] for GE borrowing and projects of
designating the money
[38:06] for projects to get this done um
starting with I'm still working on the
[38:12] UMC stuff for the billing audit um our
regular audit and also going into
[38:19] working with ERS for our rate case
that's going on this summer but is a lot
[38:25] of work
[38:29] how's the regular audit
going is that
[38:35] your yeah
[38:45] yeah
okay that you right yep Dean Iowa I
[38:51] attended first day in Iowa meeting on
April 18th we approved the financial
[38:58] um there were no violations they were
visited by both DNR and Town and Country
[39:05] with no issues reported they said is
always good they're doing some tours
[39:10] they did two group tours of just
um interested individuals it was some
[39:17] groups and then also a u Platville
engineering tour and these are these
[39:22] tours are being arranged through one of
the engineers down at Dane Iowa so it
[39:27] had some interest of people touring
which he said has been really good um
[39:32] next meeting is May
[39:38] 16th Economic
Development
[39:42] Dam we'll come back to her un you that
or you Dan or yeah his miss a bunch last
[39:52] night there was just a presentation for
ground swells stuff um
[39:58] properties lie within the Black Earth
Creek area um there wasn't any
[40:04] designated like here where the trail is
going mentions of where the trails may
[40:11] be going to go but obviously there's
still some gaps that need fil at this
[40:19] time yeah and talking about the
Strategic plans in the
[40:24] letter from the gateway to theic
communities and everyone want a trail um
[40:29] the Gateway wasn't they don't want to
just draw a line on a map and just say
[40:35] he it's good that you brought that up
Danny the nobody wants to put down a
[40:40] line and say Here's Where the trail
trail is because there's a lot of
[40:45] negotiations with Farmers yet to happen
and could
[40:50] move you don't want to say what we're
[40:55] doing but I took away from it to was um
groundwell is kind of like a manager so
[41:00] they'll do the middleman stuff of
working with the land owners and
[41:03] everything but then what they ask for
from The Villages and the townships and
[41:07] even the school district is public
indication that we are in favor of this
[41:13] um because that really helps them as an
organization Focus their efforts and
[41:17] they can see oh we've got a whole bunch
of Municipal boards here saying we're
[41:21] all interested in the same thing so
we're going to focus on it um so I know
[41:27] that we're planning on the Strategic
plan thing as well but um I think I
[41:32] talked to Peter right after the meeting
I said if there was something that you
[41:35] know we could get the school board to
sign on to as well as the townships and
[41:39] The Villages here um that would just be
a really big indication it really opens
[41:44] it up for ground swell understand and
just let them do the work then but know
[41:49] that they've got the support
good helps them with grants yeah I think
[41:56] is a key a key component of Grants
because
[42:02] yeah you just gave your Economic
Development Committee report thank you
[42:06] you're good all right anything else from
that move on to Emergency
[42:12] Management no meeting no meeting EMF
committee it's not it's it's this coming
[42:18] month or next week this week THS
Thursday um Gateway Tyler Tyler are you
[42:26] on yes
[42:30] there
Tyler
[42:38] yes any update for Gateway uh gateway to
the drift list
[42:44] at and the main summary report is that
um there was additional funds found that
[42:54] can help with construction of the bridge
that will start uh potentially this year
[42:59] if they're awarded and if that's the
case the bridge uh connecting socket D
[43:04] County uh would be completed by end of
2026 that would move up the timeline
[43:10] about a year based on the tap Grant
that's currently awarded for that work
[43:14] and if that other funding is awarded uh
then the tap grant money would be
[43:22] returned also in attendance was a
potential candidate
[43:30] um for D County
Executive her name was Melissa aard and
[43:38] she is generally heavily in favor and
wanting to work to get the trail
[43:44] connected between uh Sock City maon Mani
Black Earth and Cross
[43:52] Plains
and I forget when the next
[43:57] meeting is I apologize Tyler was Melissa
the one for the position or was it the
[44:02] fellow with
her he was he was running for state
[44:06] senate he's running un opposed it right
as of right now
[44:13] than is that everything
Tyler you're
[44:19] good
good all right Library board I wasn't at
[44:26] the LA of me i w let
[44:31] you yeah I know right but you're going
to cover everything better than I okay
[44:36] um so we last met on April
16th um we heard the results of the
[44:41] board survey from the ncls consultant um
and we had a discussion of those results
[44:48] and then we finalized the public survey
for the Strategic plan which is open
[44:52] right now you should have all gotten
your email
[44:57] um we approved the social media policy
and reviewed procedures for an upcoming
[45:04] team specific Instagram account so um
that is something that our team
[45:08] volunteers were very passionate about so
um we wanted to have some plans and
[45:14] procedures in place so that went
[Music]
[45:18] as we had 58 people came that came to
the Taylor Swift party on the
[45:25] 19th um so it was it was a lot of people
yeah it we had it really bumping in
[45:32] here um and a lot of age range from like
two to I
[45:39] would what did you say were you here M I
was not here I didn't know about it he
[45:44] didn't have a Grace one he
[45:48] couldn't and then our summer Library
program starts on June 1st the theme for
[45:54] this year is Adventure awaits at your
library so we'll be doing a lot of like
[45:58] Adventure and outdoorsy te uh
programming we are also partnering with
[46:05] American Players Theater to offer a
limited number of free ticket vouchers
[46:10] um and that will be starting on May 16th
um they'll be available for checkout so
[46:16] um we imagine that they'll go fast so we
haven't been advertising yet so
[46:22] much um our strategic plan as I said is
um under way we've got the public survey
[46:28] out now that is open until May
31st um and then I spent a lot of last
[46:35] week in Stephen's point at the Wisconsin
Association for public libraries
[46:39] conference where I presented and
introduced one of the keynote speakers
[46:45] so very very busy time for me um and I
am glad to be
[46:51] there um and our next meeting is May
21st perfect thank
[46:58] you um president's
report um well I attended and spoke at
[47:05] my very kind of my first function um
April 27th Gary harup and I both spoke
[47:10] at the new heights The Grove grand
opening that went well it was well
[47:14] attended very it was a nice speech I saw
on yes video oh well yeah it was it was
[47:19] okay it was very it was nice you did a
good job um I did the library consultant
[47:24] interview with the Sweeney group so get
that done and then I've been working on
[47:29] the Octagon closing and then working on
committee
[47:32] assignments busy month but kind of
productive somewhat more to come okay
[47:40] Public Works director report or Public
Works committee you want to do it as a
[47:45] joint kind of thing here Mr
mat I'll I will have something to say
[47:50] afterwards okay okay
um uh we have some new meter installs
[47:56] with some new housing uh one of the
houses that was put in has had some
[48:00] issues on their lot as far as water
stuff like that so there was kind of
[48:06] some involvement from myself um on that
is that a new house it's up yeah up on
[48:12] Center Street Thors Port area oh okay so
uh snow POA equipment is all washed up
[48:18] put away for the season uh Kurt invited
Danny and myself along with Brian Hood
[48:24] there was a long discussion about the
solar metering going on out at Wisconsin
[48:28] Heights um so just as far as the meter
reading um billing and such like that
[48:34] going on so that was a good conversation
to get us up to speed on how things are
[48:38] going to work with that far as the
filling and the metering reading portion
[48:42] of it um less locates with fiber drops
um Communications going to houses well
[48:49] one as you guys probably seen all the
piping laying in the park um that's
[48:53] pulled apart right now uh took the motor
the electric motor to get looked at um
[48:58] just as a maintenance type thing uh the
company took the pump with them to have
[49:03] that examined um a lot of the components
in that wellhouse were fairly new from
[49:08] 2016 so there's shouldn't be too many
issues the biggest thing is tomorrow
[49:13] we'll televis it to see what the entire
well casing and everything looks like
[49:18] our four had been down for a while for
some repairs got that picked up today um
[49:23] thank you last year Public Works
approved spending to get um backup more
[49:27] type thing on another piece of equipment
umer reads quite a few final
[49:34] reads being sweps exercising BS are all
done moving
[49:45] righty hold done okay I would like to
call a meeting of the Public Works
[49:50] committee for May 20th at 6:
p.m. not do that night orientation with
[49:56] my daughter for Middle School really
sorry about that
[50:01] okay then we can figure another time all
right I'll send okay
[50:08] tomorrow okay but what I'd like to say
is that if anybody has anything uh since
[50:13] a lot of the Jeep Jeep going out and the
ARA funds if anybody's got anything that
[50:17] they want to talk about with public
works man
[50:23] no expenditures
[50:29] good all right that complete Public
Works on to Parks um no meeting I guess
[50:36] update that I would have is just with
grounds hille we obviously talked about
[50:39] that one of the smaller houses did come
down just because it was deemed as a
[50:44] hazard unsafe type thing um I did
receive a text message um about 20
[50:50] minutes ago just so you guys are aware
um officer Watkins showed up at the high
[50:55] school Bas baseball game ST the game and
everybody had to move their car off of
[51:01] the
[51:03] lot so there might be a Ruckus in the
community just so you guys are aware
[51:09] that's the only information I over here
yeah so they were in the the lot where
[51:13] they always parked not the brand new lot
I just have uh wat came down the stop
[51:21] the game and everybody moved their car
out of the lot so I'm assuming the back
[51:26] lot
okay just it is his C just so you're
[51:31] aware um other first thing we haven't
had a meeting um just a coule stuff
[51:37] going on so um parks are looking nice uh
we had hatching done uh Wilson T's been
[51:43] doing the fertilizing they're going to
doing weed control here fairly soon so
[51:48] parks are looking really nice yeah Lori
um St on Parks committee that she's been
[51:53] working with on some tun as far as
getting some trees um for veter
[51:58] Park did they do the um aesus of
batement at
[52:09] coer and so now are you from
[52:15] where so the house is going to come
down uh we still have some Tim line and
[52:20] we have to May 14 May 14th 14th is when
we get started yeah to bring the house
[52:26] down yes we'll be working with Vanguard
and some tree removal
[52:32] too we'll see y i' have to co some so
I'm assuming when you do that mad you're
[52:37] going to be there to take care of my dog
right not your dog huh it'll be a worker
[52:44] compain with your
[52:47] dog my dog was supposed to be your
friend I like body when you say take
[52:52] that house is that going to be just
raised I mean bulldozed or is it going
[52:55] to be a they gonna burn it or they we
were told we can't burn it okay there
[53:00] was a neighbor that didn't allow
it it'll be just crushed and he didn't
[53:05] want to have you met my husband he
blamed you oh no he
[53:10] didn't
okay anything
[53:14] else thank you Matt that's great um
police committee well we have not met
[53:23] okay Mr Meyer electrical superintend
tenant report
[53:29] welcome um we hired a new Apprentice his
name is G Hill
[53:36] he's
from he been working the last year or so
[53:41] down in Rock Falls so good to get
somebody with a little bit of experience
[53:45] not training from day
one
[53:49] um we are working on getting him signed
up for the rest of his apprenti class we
[53:55] are
um sending to Northwest Tech College up
[54:00] in Green
Bay
[54:03] um a little bit of time before that
needs to be done class going start till
[54:08] August
um we're still working with ATC on
[54:13] getting the Transformer heated
up and I talked to them the other day
[54:18] and they
will they need to take an outage on
[54:22] basically the whole town to it up
and how long you don't know that
[54:32] right can you do it in the middle of the
night we would plan it at probably 3:00
[54:36] in the morning okay
but have better a it with that factory
[54:44] that we talked about we think we can get
that up and going
[54:49] by and it's needed we think if we would
do it at 3:00 in the morning but
[54:54] transfer some of we can hopefully get
almost all the load
[54:59] um so we can we maybe have to send out
like notifications or something to kind
[55:04] of like don't use anything kind of but
so I'm working with the L trying to see
[55:10] what they can handle you know they know
what we can handle for them I'm trying
[55:14] to figure out they can handle with us
and so yeah like I said we would do it
[55:21] at like an off peak hour 3:00 in the
morning and I think that when we do the
[55:25] date that's going to mean more than just
a little verb in the newsletter that's
[55:28] going to be that's going to be like a
sign everyone a letter put it on
[55:32] Facebook put it everywhere Facebook yeah
and the website I mean it's going to be
[55:35] a multi because they had contacted me
wondering what we can handle
[55:39] for or you know basically you starting
know that sub I'm like we don't have
[55:44] another one so kind the whole point of
this yeah um I'm like I prefer zero
[55:51] outage okay but
I they've not gotten me and what they
[55:57] need
okay um yeah is there a l like month
[56:04] would be probably fall at the earliest I
would
[56:09] say um but as other than that most of
our work has been being done in Mao
[56:16] that's the last month has been fairly
quiet Black Earth just kind of
[56:19] Maintenance items all our construction
has
[56:24] been um I guess when I started or when I
took over this I was told to stay out of
[56:30] Black Earth
basic um said do joh said basically do
[56:37] maintenance only we there's no money to
spend I would like to know what kind of
[56:41] money do have to
spend obviously we need
[56:46] to more construction we do the more we
can put back into our rate so I'd like
[56:52] to kind of have a budget set what do you
want to do
[56:59] is a limit but you don't have money
right now the sub station's kind of go
[57:04] the substation took everything
understand so kind of know if what kind
[57:10] of flex spending I have because then
there's always projects that need to be
[57:13] done we can the substation didn't take
crap go and all paid for right
[57:18] substation what what is are we're so
tight on budget right now that there's
[57:24] not extra money for projects we're just
paying
[57:28] them so we need to we need to
re-evaluate our utility like I've been
[57:33] asking for with danic or whoever so we
know the condition we're in and what we
[57:38] have to spend because we can't answer
that so we need to get
[57:46] that this respons that's this board's
responsibility to get that to
[57:52] correct we do that we talk about it
nothing's been done not not for over a
[57:59] year year and a
half I thought there was a
[58:05] mo we talked about it I don't know if it
was okay I'm I don't I don't know if we
[58:10] actually approved not going to say you
know I'm excited I know we discussed it
[58:14] we
[58:18] did see historian's gone
now get some big shoes to fill
[58:26] will be in my first binder so more to
follow on that okay all right thank you
[58:35] Vanguard commission okay wait a minute
though is that is that something we need
[58:39] to put on the next board then right we
need to get it on there to get it
[58:41] approved okay I got it and what did that
Mitch I'm sorry uh gentleman had done a
[58:47] a review for us before um just so we
kind of had an independent person from
[58:51] the outside saying where are we how much
do we have and and uh we were cash for
[58:56] it I didn't know it right
um and things have changed because we
[59:01] had a rate case and thing but we don't
we need to know where we're at so we
[59:04] need to do it again and it's very small
money compared to what you get out of it
[59:10] sure I mean I think we spent $1,500 oh
wow and from that we can
[59:18] see question on what we have spr here
and what he can plan to do okay my
[59:23] question would be is who should who's
going to contact and should we take some
[59:29] action on this now I mean can we well I
think we should contact him and get them
[59:34] all set up and just approve the money
the next board meeting so I was already
[59:37] approved for the electric rate case with
[59:41] others oh Jeff was so it's already
approved we just got to contact so we
[59:45] just got to set it up
[59:49] contact make sense to meet you want to
contact me yeah I can okay because you
[59:54] got his info don't you have no I can
forward it to you yes that would be good
[59:58] well why don't you just Conta huh why
don't you well I could if she wants me
[1:00:03] to but if she it'd be good I mean it's
up to whatever she wants I can contact
[1:00:07] you yeah I'll get you the info yeah and
it's stanic right yep
[1:00:13] yeah good
call it didn't work
[1:00:18] I that's good it's good for me okay now
can we move on to Vanguard o it's
[1:00:24] storing though look at that
um vangar did not meet we'll be meeting
[1:00:30] in
July over to the
[1:00:33] basement get
the is their meeting in July in July I
[1:00:37] think it's in July I haven't gotten
anything from um from
[1:00:41] Peter if you know a date I don't have
one on my calendar so no I didn't I
[1:00:47] thought I
[1:00:50] had
no maybe I'll give Peter a call tomorrow
[1:00:55] and see you
okay all right all
[1:00:59] right that completes the committee
reports now I would entertain a
[1:01:04] motion of number
15 I'll make a motion to go into close
[1:01:10] session pursuant to Wisconsin statutes
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second thanks guys thank you thank you
[1:01:33] thank you roll
[1:01:44] call
session we take no action to be
[1:01:49] taken we are going to break for five and
then we will move to go way back into Co
[1:01:55] session
was it a tornado uh it it had it had the
[1:02:03] motorcycle down there the low there were
like the low wispy clouds and I was I
[1:02:08] was driving it's like those look weird
and then as I'm going like under them
[1:02:14] they started doing that and I was like
that they're funneling that's that's a
[1:02:19] funnel that's a rotation