[0:15] Good >> evening everyone. Welcome to our september 23rd meeting. Please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. To think one nation under god, indivisible >> with liberty and justice for our.
[0:42] the harris town board strives to enhance the quality of life, protect the environment and maintain economic stability for the residents of their community. We have the august 20th 0.07 and board minutes that need to be approved >> so move >> the second motion a second all in favor I oppose motion carried . Additions and corrections.
[1:13] I do have one correction item in your packet it's labeled as eight a it's the harris township monthly hall report that should be 90 >> the actual item? Yes >> I'll make >> a motion and then. Sorry. And then I would like to add under new business 12 e to schedule a mock cemetery demonstration at the cemetery .
[1:50] are there any other additions or corrections? I'll make a motion to approve the agenda with the changes >> begin. All in favor? I opposed motion carried business from the floor. Okay, >> moving on. We have our consent agenda. We have two items we have the loi the plant buyback cemetery date is five a and the john the plant cemetery date is five.
[2:13] be I will need a motion in a second to approve the consent agenda >> so move second motion >> second all in favor I opposed motion carried. Roads jim is not here so I will be taking the window of a park road construction progress reporting survey that you have in your packet for the month of july and august.
[2:35] as you'll noticed august is 180 686,000 and july was 587,000. We are still >> working on the road on signs and driveway approaches and cetera so I will need a motion to approve a second motion. A second all in favor I opposed motion carried. Recreation you have the park and cemetery inspections for august. August was a busy month.
[3:10] rink boards >> were painted. Tlc is still needed and some areas of the playground volleyball courts. But other than that we've been having a lot of pickleball players, kids still playing which is great to see. I'll need a motion at a second so move motion a second. All in favor or oppose motion carried.
[3:35] we do not have any correspondence so we will move forward with the town hall report for august >> 2026. That you >> have in your packet we did have one resident and six board functions for a total of seven total money collected was $100.
[3:57] we'll need a motion a second >> to move second >> all in favor I pose motion carried. Maintenance report for august. >> yeah we had a little bit of a summer tree work. He's been working on the crystal rinks we placed we we replaced a lot of boards so painted it's working on some more equipment that broke down working on a pollinator garden down trees we had to pick up.
[4:23] cremations and there are mowing the lawn right over these and let's see what else we got in the back >> over here. Oh oh, we rather not. Yeah, that's about what >> we have for the record, I do have a >> couple of questions. I just wanted to bring the board's attention.
[4:46] if you look at page one under august 4th for both marlin and mark. The trip to town >> and >> then on august 10th they both were picking up garbage from both parks. I'm sure one went to one, one went to the other.
[5:14] I'm not sure that and then moving forward on august 20th again >> they both went to town and then august 31st they went >> to town. Both of them I'll talk >> to him about it. Okay.
[5:30] take care of that and okay. If there are no other questions we'll need a motion a second. >> make the motion. Okay. Motion >> a second. All in favor I cause motion carried. We do not have any. All business. So I will move forward to new business in the first step is cemetery flowers.
[5:50] it's that time of year and as for the cemetery policy on flowers, flower boxes, planters and decorations must be removed from the cemetery no later than august 1st. Shepherd service will not be removed from gravesites again.
[6:11] any item not removed by october 1st will be removed by the hare's township sexton and maintenance staff and placed on trailers or by the cemetery garage for two weeks following removal this will be posted and also will be published for our constituents.
[6:37] I will lead a motion to approve publishing >> so move second motion second all in favor I opposed motion carried 12 b is a rams annual dinner the rams annual meeting and dinner is thursday december 3rd at the I antrel motors events center in virginia. Seating is limited so they're requiring rsvp. I was unable to attend last year.
[6:59] I did attend the first year that we became members but I would like to go this year and then are you planning on being in attendance? Ryan I think I might come so >> okay so maybe what I'll do is just to make sure you know in case you aren't I will ask for a motion to. Post it for a quorum to attend. So second motion second all in favor I opposed motion carried item 12 c is a cedar annual median.
[7:25] this is cedar celebrating 40 years of helping small communities do things. The annual meeting is coming up and will be held friday october 2nd at the sugar lake lodge and you can certainly register for the registration is still open. It is from 10 to 1 >> I >> will not be able to attend. I have a private commitment. I did.
[7:47] lisa no and I just wanted to state speaking a seat on lisa and lisa randall will be retiring in the middle of october so she will no longer be with sarah. She might be picking up some other projects here and there but she did let us know that we can share this information.
[8:09] so lisa, we appreciate all the work you've done for hare's township. Yeah. >> okay. Item 12 d is a schedule a work session regarding crystal park tree planting and I did get a date from supervisor kelly. He will be back on the 27 >> and he would be available on the 28th at 5 p.m.
[8:40] and it shouldn't take longer than a half hour but again he's available any time. Are you what's your availability on the 28 monitor >> and the 20th work you are 20th is fine. Okay. Is 5:00 or should we have it later? That's fine. 5:00 okay. I'll need a motion at a second to schedule the work session by pm september 28th >> so.
[9:14] second motion. Second. All in favor. All right. All right. Oppose motion carried and then the add on is to schedule the on site mock cemetery demonstration >> and >> this is a little bit of trickier to schedule because our maintenance work so for 30 it shouldn't take longer than an hour so we would more than
[9:39] likely need to have it earlier. So I don't know what your schedules look like for the 29th or 30th or the rest of that week >> if you're available. Have been >> planning on a week. Okay. What you did possibly the second what date? October 2nd. Okay.
[10:12] so >> and are you thinking 330? Will that work for you? Yeah, I had to have had the day off. >> oh okay. So we could do it earlier or you want to stick with three 3337 330 okay. Okay. I will need a motion a second to schedule this. Mock cemetery demonstration on site at 3:30 p.m.
[10:42] on october 2nd >> so move second. All in favor. All right. Pose motion carried bills dancy okay, so we have a relatively small >> list today. I think everyone has the claims list in front of them. We have claims 20 to 496 through 22 504. And then we have ftc nine 2326 so one through seven our total claims for today is $16,441.
[11:21] 34 there there was quite a bit of fuel >> purchased in august and so there were some days where they must have been fueling up multiple. Things like august 31st there were three different fuel purchases. So you know potentially the you know, the pick up in the dump truck and loading or filling the asv or other equipment.
[11:48] so that could be one day where they would have needed a couple of people going for that. And then august 12th we had a couple of different things filled up that day as well.
[12:12] I suppose sometimes they're driving mowers and trailers and and fueling those up too, right? So just f y I on that one the fuel just had a lot of >> different things needing fuel in august and other than that.
[12:37] >> that flagship recreation and did we have to pay for that is that the timber that we're hit or what happened with that that >> was that yeah that timber which are they is the credit from the lawn mowing company coming as a credit against the mowing bill. Oh >> I haven't gotten the bill yet I don't think they I mean we haven't sent them because we have three.
[12:57] >> I wasn't I didn't I thought you were communicating with the more folks on that would you like me to >> they know they have to pay for it okay did you want we sent them a bill. We haven't >> sent him the invoice yet because we were waiting >> for the hour. We got I got the hours documented on a piece of paper. Okay. So then I'll need that so I can get back to brant. Get them.
[13:11] >> okay. Okay. >> mike did we get a new pressure washer? Yeah, the other one kind of blew up was it was on its last leg and she finally let loose >> on this one for $1,000 should be able to pressure wash across the street >> I think that was 399 for the >> push washers only three
[13:32] something okay paint boards >> ring screws came I have a question, nancy and maybe this has been discussed before I was kind of looking at the way country power bill we have a couple of different like the streetlight account and then we have the windmill warming house and the crystal springs warming house.
[13:57] I noticed that we still we continually pay the 7974 for one and the 7438 we have that >> service availability charge >> do they ever because we >> do not use the warming shacks in the summer months from like march to november do they ever put it >> like in a pause mode or is this considered plant power
[14:23] >> companies? I don't know of any that do but I know what paul bunyan does with >> with seasonals for your tv and internet wi fi yeah I know >> typically electric but all electric company you with the service fee and then it's kilowatts after that yeah how is the service fee or it's
[14:44] whether you whether you have anybody in it or not okay right I know I thought so but I thought well >> it doesn't hurt to ask I know our recreational property is that way with a different co-op.
[15:12] okay okay it was the only question I had >> like a motion to approve the claims list starting with claim number 22 for 95 through 22 5 or 4 if ts 92326013 we have 29232607 for $16,441.34. I'll >> second that all in favor. All right. >> motion carried any public input. Okay we'll move forward to our upcoming events and meetings. October 12th we have our itasca county township association meeting at 7 p.m.
[15:46] here at the town hall october 14th as a regular board meeting at 7:30 p.m. At the town hall october 28th is our pnd board meeting at 730 at the town hall november third is general election. We are open and ready for the elections from 7 to 8 p.m. Also september 28th at 5 p.m.
[16:10] we have a work session schedule regarding crystal park tree planting and october 2nd at 330 on site mock cemetery demonstration are there any of their upcoming events or meetings? >> motion to adjourn second >> motion second to adjourn the meeting at 746. Thank you for joining us this evening and enjoy the