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Town Board Meeting (February 2003 minutes) Minutes For 2/10/2003
MINUTES OF REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING
LAGRANGE TOWN BOARD
FEBRUARY 10, 2003

The regular monthly meeting of the Town Board of the Town of LaGrange was called to order by Chairman Heilmeier at 7:38 p.m. Chairman Heilmeier, Supervisor Callaway, Supervisor Lohrmann and Supervisor Taylor were present. Crystal Hoffmann, Clerk/Treasurer and Elizabeth Adelmann, Town Attorney were also present. Absent was Supervisor Sukala.
  1. The minutes of January 13, 2003 were approved as presented (Taylor/Callaway).
  2. Treasurer’s report was given and accepted as presented.
  3. The agenda was approved with addenda. (Taylor/Lohrmann).
  4. Committee Reports
    a.Buildings and Roads committee—go to Madison tomorrow, February 11, 2003 to apply for DNR funding for the launch ramps repair.
    b.Safety committee- Report from Ann Lohrmann. Held meeting January 13, 2003. Items discussed:
    i.Fire Department – Have enclosed trailer now to haul ATV and snowmobile
    ii.Launch ramp report – Meeting with DNR 2/11 for funding.
    iii.Buoy report – no report
    i.Police Department – Worked on minor misdemeanor ordinance, PWC safety tips training coming up, ordered stickers for the buoys, March 25th is annual required training. Joel will begin recommending patrol officers to be hired by the Town Board for the Lake patrol. Graphics are in for the new police boat.
    c.Lake Management – Report from Rick Callaway. Pleasant Lake is reviewing their by-laws again. Lauderdale Lakes Management is trying to adjust the Supreme Court Decision. LLMD to hold meeting here at Town Hall March 1, 2003 at 9 AM and Pleasant Lake will hold a meeting at Town Hall March 8, 2003 at 9 AM.
    d.Finance and Personnel committee – Meeting held in January. Purpose was to review all employees and wages.
    i.For the Town roads commissioner-was recommended to the board that the person is accountable to the Chairman of the Board. Also recommended to the board is a $.75/hour increase in wage for Pat Hoffmann, and a $1/hour increase for all part time road employees. The part-time help have not gotten a raise in quite some time, which is the reason for the big increase now.
    ii.For the Clerk/Treasurer it is recommended to the board that the wage be increased from $14,500/year to $16,000/year.
    iii.Law enforcement – recommended to maintain director salary at $12,000/year due to large increase the year before and for Joel to continue to recommend officer wages.
    iv.Recommend to form a citizen committee to review all Board member salaries—please see Crystal for application to be on committee.
    Also discussed at the meeting was the bank accounts the Town holds. Recommended to the board to combine the General Fund with the Recycling account and keep recycling account a separate line item, combine the two money market accounts and put into a CD and mark the funds “contingency fund”, leave the highway fund and Park funds as are, and last to perhaps later in the year take baseline funds from the tax account and put into CD’s to earn more interest. The next meeting is Feb. 24th at 7PM.
    e.Communications committee – Report from Rick Callaway. Meeting on March 17, 2003. Up for discussion: use any way to “advertise” that the web site is there.
  5. Planning and Zoning
    a.Conditional use permit for parcel HLG3100009 for Robert and Catherine Grenning, W7165 Territorial Road. Grennings asked to be removed from the agenda.
    b.Variance request by Steven and Linda Godfrey, N7347 Nine Indians Trail, from a 15 foot side yard to a 5 foot side yard to build a garage. The Godfreys asked to be removed from the agenda.
  6. Discussion and approval of Lauderdale Aqua Skiers permit for 2003. Motion to approve as presented (Taylor/Callaway).
  7. Discussion of new copier, fax machine and phones for the office. Called Xerox to see what they would have-Xerox prefers to lease equipment-cost would be $3500 plus cost per page and maintenance of $80/year. Recommend instead to purchase a Hewlett Packard 3310 with a 2 year extended warranty for a total of 3 years and the purchase of extra toner (Callaway/Lohrmann). Fax machine has been causing problems lately. Recommend purchasing a Plain Paper Fax for the office (Taylor/Lohrmann). Recommend purchasing 2 new phones, each with 2-lines and speaker phones (Callaway/Taylor).
  8. Tax refund for a tax exempt property owned by Lauderdale Lakes Management District. Property should not have been taxed, is exempt and did have correct paper work on file. Was paid to keep it from going delinquent. Recommended to refund the amount of $1,721.04 to the Lauderdale Lakes Management District (Callaway/Taylor).
  9. Industrial Towel and Uniform service agreement-discussed and decided to leave contract as is. Do not want to lock into a service for six years.
  10. Purchase of a chipper for the Town Highway Department. An offer has been put in and accepted for $5,500 for a 1991 chipper which has a lot more safety features than the one we currently use. The 1991 is a diesel, and is self feeding. Whitewater is disposing of 1991 chipper for a bigger one. 1991 is in good shape, coming with extra blades and all maintenance records. Recommend purchasing 1991 chipper, taking the money out of the highway fund (Lohrmann/Taylor).
  11. Bills were approved for payment as presented. (Callaway/Taylor).

The meeting moved into closed session at 8:27 PM per roll call: Taylor-aye, Lohrmann-aye, Callaway-aye, and Heilmeier-aye.
Motion made to move back into open session at 8:36 PM (Callaway/Taylor).
There being no further business motion to adjourn made at 8:37 PM (Callaway/Taylor).

Crystal Hoffmann
Clerk
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