City Council

3/4/2024 Minutes Attendance: Residents: Kendra Tutsch Board: Dave Koenig, George Dorn, Rich Haag Jana Nolden-Treasurer 1. Call Regular Board Meeting to order. The regular Town of Dane Board Meeting was called to order at 6:30pm by Dave Koenig, Town of Dane Chair. 2. Agenda Confirmation. Agenda was confirmed with no changes. Sheriff gave update, stats very similar to last year. 3. Minutes from previous meeting February 5, 2024. No minutes to approve. 4. TOWN TREASURER REPORT. Motion by George Dorn, second by Rich Haag to accept the treasurer report as presented and read. Motion carried unanimously. 5. Public Input. None. 6. PUBLIC WORKS REPORT: Motion by Rich Haag, second by George Dorn to replace the lights and fans in the restrooms of the Town Hall. Ditch by Brian Schmidt is full of water and goes across the road, going to get proposals to repair. Tree on Fellows Rd, Dustin Ziegler can take down and clean up for $400. 7. RECYCLING COMMITTEE REPORT. Transfer site looking good. May 4th is the clean-up day. May 8th will be the first Wednesday collection. 8. FIRE DISTRICT REPORT. Discussed small stuff. Have bill for first half of Fire District dues. 9. EMS REPORT. Waunakee meeting was held February 8th, approved expenditures and minutes. Ordered another ambulance (it is 3 years out, price is guaranteed), have two new full-time people, there is talk of combining services with Middleton-Ashton area. Motion by Dave Koenig, second by George Dorn to approve the Resolution to create the Waunakee Area EMS District. 10. Election Update. Everything is organized for the April 2nd election. Have enough poll workers for the morning and afternoon shifts, all new people are working. Judy will be training with Kipp to be Chief. Ballots coming Thursday. Absentee ballots will go out when required. Poll workers can do online training and will do in person training as well. The Sheriff will come in and provide safety training. 11. Eric Johnson Rezoning Petition 12012. Motion by Dave Koenig, second by Rich Haag to approve Eric Johnson’s rezoning petition. 12. William and Debra Glenn Rezone 7872 Kruchten Road. Motion by Dave Koenig, second by Rich Haag to table until more information provided. 13. WTA Meeting topics: a. ARIP Program. Project would cover replacement of culvert on road project, we’d have to cover cost of pavement. Program has $50 million the first year and $100 million the second year. Application would go to second year if don’t get funding the first year, as long as we let them know that’s what we want done. Need to look into how much it would cost to try to get funds. b. 6 – 20 Foot Culvert Inventory-Delmore Consultants. Dane County will not do inspections. Need to notify County by 11/15 of what our plan is. We are not qualified to do the 16-point inspections ourselves. No cost to go with Delmore Consultants, we pay them and then reimbursed by County by end of the year. Motion by Dave Koenig, second by Rich Haag to go with Delmore Consultants to inventory and inspect bridges. c. Board of Review Certification. Can no longer get Certification online, have to attend in person meeting. Dave and Rich have Certification for Board of Review. d. Shared Revenues. Want us to spend shared revenue funds with EMS, Police and Fire District in order to get funds, otherwise they will take 15% of total if don’t use it this way. Dave let the Fire Chief know that we will need certification by the end of the year that the money was spend with the Fire District. 14. CORRESPONDENCE. None 15. FINANCE. Bills to be paid. Motion by Rich Haag, second by George Dorn to approve the bills to be paid. Motion carried unanimously. 16. NEXT TOWN BOARD MEETING: April 8, 2024. Confirmed. 17. ADJOURNMENT. Motion by George Dorng, second by Rich Haag to adjourn at 7:35 pm. Jana Nolden – Town of Dane Treasurer