Village Board

MEETING MINUTES Village of Palmyra REGULAR VILLAGE BOARD MEETING Monday August 5, 2024 Village Hall 100 W. Taft Street 6:00 P.M. The meeting was called to order by Village President Kathy Weiss at 6:00 pm. Roll call: Ball, Kinjerski, Smith, Troiola, Weiss-present. Petruska- excused. Gorsegner-arrived at 6:03 pm Pledge of Allegiance Communications: President Weiss mentioned some upcoming events: Music on Main, Brush Chipping, Election Aug. 13th, Aug. 15th library fun day, Aug. 17th Lions Club golf outing. Employment opportunity with the US Census. Village Clerk stated that Open Book will be Aug. 22nd and also explained where voters are to enter the High School middle school gym for voting. Monthly Reports: Public Works-SCADA system isn’t talking to the rest of system, so they are manually turning on the wells. Energenics was there today but still not fixed. County is paving starting next Tuesday, millings went on the road around the park, dam project will start end of Aug. beginning of Sept., no lake lowering needed. Sidewalk repairs within the next week or so. Well 1 is high on PFO’s. might need a treatment facility to treat the water for that well and will there be enough room in the garage area or drill another new well and who knows what water quality we will get out of that. Public Safety – Chief Pavlock responded to some social media concerns as to why the Village has the State Troopers and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Dept. patrolling within the Village. Chief Pavlock requested they help us out for 60 days. There is no charge for them to do this, money for citations goes to the entity that is enforcing. The Open House was a success with a few hundred people in attendance. There were no injuries from the plane crash last week that ended up in the trees near Standard Process. Recreation Dept.-none Library-none Clerk/Treasurer -financial report is on the agenda later Public Forum: Resident Bill Holcomb said that there was a rescue in their neighborhood recently and the fire/rescue department did a very good job and minimal response time. 1. Consent Agenda: All items listed are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Board member requests, in which event the item will be removed from the Consent agenda and be considered on the regular agenda. A. Troiola/Smith motion to approve the following minutes: July 15, 2024 Committee of the Whole meeting. All ayes-motion carried. 2. Building Permits: report no action 3. New Business Discussion and Possible Action on the Following Items A. Gorsegner/Troiola motion to hold the Façade loan application for Gary Kahn until he gets joint ownership of the property cleared up, we can’t borrow him money when there is another owner on the dead. All ayes-motion carried. B. Gorsegner/Troiola motion to approve the payment of bills totaling $169,242.28 on the bill list with extras presented tonight to WE Energies, Krizan’s tree service, Winter Vehicle Maintenance Co.,  reimbursement to Matt Sockrider for Volleyball sign up. Roll call vote: Ball, Gorsegner, Kinjerski, Smith, Troiola, Weiss- aye. Motion carried. C. Gorsegner/Troiola motion to approve an Operator’s License for Christine Loeffler. All ayes-motion- carried. D. Gorsegner/Smith motion to approve an Operator’s License for Miranda Greene. All ayes-motion carried. E. Gorsegner/Smith motion to approve an Operator’s License for Amanda Matzke. All ayes-motion carried. F. Troiola/Ball motion to approve the June Financial statement, bank statement and cash account balances as presented by the Village Clerk/Treasurer. All ayes-motion carried. G. Possible changes to the employee handbook, Pre-employment physical and Drug Testing section. Fire/EMS/ Police are statutory mandated to have drug tests and so is anyone that has a CDL which is all of Public Works except for PT seasonal help. Trustee Smith asked why all employees are not drug tested? Smith/Kinjerski motion to make it a standard requirement for all employees to be drug tested upon hire after they are given a conditional offer of employment. The Village Clerk will change the handbook wording and bring it back to the next meeting. All ayes-motion carried. H. Gorsegner/Troiola motion to convene into Closed Session at 6:33 pm with staff, pursuant to §19.85(1)(e), Deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business, whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session. Specifically, the Village owned lands on Hwy H, parcel 171-0516-2722-005, 171-0516-2814-000, 171-0516-2811-000, 171-0516-2722-000 owned by the Village. Roll call vote: Ball, Gorsegner, Kinj erski, Smith, Troiola, Weiss- aye. Motion carried. I. Gorsegner/Troiola motion to convene into open session at 6:45 pm for further discussion related to matters discussed in closed session. Roll call vote: Ball, Gorsegner, Kinjerski, Smith, Troiola, Weiss- aye. Motion carried. Gorsegner/Smith motion to adjourn at 6:45 pm. All ayes-motion carried. Respectfully submitted, Laurie Mueller, Village Clerk/Treasurer Minutes approved without corrections Aus. 19, 2024