TOWN OF STARK

 

Vernon County, Wisconsin

 

 

 

MINUTES OF MEETING

 

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

 

Stark Town Hall

 

 

 

Meeting was called to order at shortly after 7 p.m. by chairman Brad Steinmetz. Present were: board member Dwain Jeffers, Bonnie Potter, Treasurer and Deputy Clerk, Gail Muller, absent from the meeting was board member Myron Richard.

 

 

 

Also in attendance were Tom McGee and Rich and Lois Milonzyck.

 

 

 

Posting was approved: Chairman, Brad Steinmetz had completed this task himself on Monday, December 13th because of the unexpected medical absence of clerk Lonnie Muller.

 

 

 

Motion by Dwain Jeffers, seconded by Brad to approve minutes from November meeting. All yes. Motion approved by 2-0 vote.

 

 

 

Financial report and payment of bills: A motion by Dwain Jeffers to approve the bills as presented, seconded by Brad Steinmetz.

 

The mention that the wonderful ( tax) letters came today, Bonnie said she hated to send them out at Christmas. Brad had a couple calls about why had the taxes gone up already that same day. It was noted that Stark had not raised their levy.

 

 

 

Citizen discussion period. Tom McGee asks again this meeting about the junk cars, Brad says they will be attending a meeting on Ordinances Thursday, December 16th on just that subject at the White House in Richland Center. Asks about the mower if we got it yet, Brad answers in the affirmative, and said the have been using it for awhile.

 

 

 

Informational reports: Brad tells us today in the mail I received a check for the Town of Stark for $45,216.44 this was a payment for the FEMA disaster declaration, the Federal portion was $38,971.07 and the State portion was $6,245.36. A small portion of the work that had to be completed was paid by township funds. The FEMA clean-up funds from the flood damages at Tunnelville bridge was received and deposited previously, as was noted by Bonnie Potter, Treasurer.

 

 

 

 

 

Old Business : Employee handbook. Brad has been working on the language that we talked about and the overtime which we have discussed and he hasn’t written anything up yet. He doesn’t really think we will look at changing much in overtime. If they come in early and get the roads cleaned up they leave early, the main overtime of course occurs on weekends and not much we can do about that.

 

 

 

Jug Creek Cemetery – The old records were destroyed and all indications are that the cemetery is full. Dwain said he has lived on Jug Creek neighboring the cemetery for thirty years and there hasn’t been any burials since he moved there. Brad said he thought he had heard of one burial in the last ten years but wasn’t sure. Several steps would have to be taken if the township decides to open it following some State requirements. Will continue this on to January agenda for further discussion and more fact finding.

 

 

 

New Business: The Resolution from Emergency Management, was examined and after reading the highlights of the material and the fact the date for completion was needed before the next meeting. Dwain Jeffers made the motion and Brad seconded it to be signed. Gail is to make a copy of the Resolution and send to the Emergency Management for their file. It will help if the township ever has any further flooding or disasters that are needed to be funded by FEMA, this is a pretty general draft of what the County is proposing also.

 

 

 

Christmas gifts (bonuses)$100.00 each for the patrolmen Arnie and Jim and $25.00 for recycle manager Koletta were approved as been done in the past several years. Gail Muller will mail these out.

 

 

 

Caucus date of Thursday, January 20th has been set for 7:00 p.m. It is hoped the clerk will be back to run the proceedings by then.

 

 

 

Health Insurance (Premium Increase) question is still up in the air ever since the agent from Wausau has not gotten back to the clerk about this matter. The clerk would like to do some further checking on costs of other companies and policies, tabled till January meeting.

 

 

 

Jody Wirts Zoning request: 20 acres from ag to residential on Jug creek road, the zoning commission voted 100% to allow the change. One of Jody’s sisters wants to build a house on the property at some future date. Dwain made the motion to accept the recommendation of the Zoning Committee and Brad gave a second, passed.

 

 

 

Update Zoning regulations: Looking at some things to make it easier for some of these requests that are coming in. One thing that the zoning commission brought forward was under agricultural was to change the minimum requirement for lot size from 35 to 20 acres. Under Accessory Uses: scratch the additional single family home, and add instead, (one single family home for 20 continuous acres only). It would change the requirement for building a house on property from 35 to 20 as long as the 20 is directly connected to the property. This will be tabled, continue to be looked at in the January meeting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Motion by Brad Steinmetz to adjourn if there is no further business, second by Dwain Jeffers. Adjourned 7:45 p.m.

 

 

 

Gail Muller

 

Deputy -Town Clerk

 

 

 

*Presentation of Reconciliation of books by the Treasurer and the Clerk will be given at the January 2005 meeting.