Livingston 

VILLAGE OF LIVINGSTON

REGULAR BOARD MEETING MINUTES

TUESDAY –JANUARY 14, 2014

HELD AT VILLAGE HALL-220 W. BARBER AVE, LIVINGSTON, WI 53554

Meeting called to order at 7:00pm by Tom Brown.

Clerk Christianson verified the agenda was posted at the Village Post Office, Village Message Board and Village Office on 1/7/2014. Board member packets were delivered to all members on 1/7/2014.

Those in attendance: Loeffelholz-Yes, France-Yes and Haas-Yes, Brown-Yes, Richards-Yes, Walter-Yes & Gluege-Absent. Also present Greg Marsh, Bart Nies, Corey Rundell, Ben Keller, Gary Stuckey and Clerk Christianson.

Motion made by France to approve December Minutes. Loeffelholz seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

ASSESSOR/ZONING REPORT

Ric was not at meeting but Christina let the board know that a letter had been sent to Audrey Fecht regarding the dates in which she needs to take down her building. Ric did tell Christina that he had called Audrey to make sure she had gotten the letter and she stated that she did. He has not heard anything back from them.

DELTA 3 ENGINEERING REPORT-BART NEIS

Bart was not present at the meeting. Christina did state that 3 people from Delta 3 engineering and she attended a 2 day mandatory seminar regarding the CDBG program for the funding we will be receiving for the County Road E project.

LIBRARY BOARD

None

NEW BUSINESS

Corey Rundell was present and wanted an extension on the date to take his building down. Brown stated that he needed to discuss this with Ric Riniker.

Kimberly Loeffelholz will be meeting with a representative soon from a park playground equipment company and wondered if the Village has any restrictions. It was discussed and Kim will let the board know what comes of it.

POLICE REPORT

Ben was present and informed the board that starting in February or early March the Grant County Sheriff’s office hired an officer for just serving the municipalities that have a contract with them (there are approximately 5). Duane Jacobson will be our new officer and he is currently the officer at Montfort. He is already looking at our ordinance book and will want to be ready to know the Villages rules. Christina has ordered the revised tickets and they should be here shortly.

TREE REPORT

None

OLD BUSINESS

Motion made by Haas to name the park by the old school to “Livingston Sports Park”. France seconded. All in favor. Motion carried. Gary will order the necessary signs for the park, making sure we have road signs also. Richards will look into getting a sign or plaque of some kind to list volunteers who helped and those who gave donations to

building/improving of the park shelter and also being able to add on to the sign for future donations.

Outside lighting at the Village Office and Library is still in the works as Tom Esser will be getting us a quote on an approximate cost. Gary stated it should start in the next couple weeks.

Utility Service sent a letter stating that they understand the Village is not happy with the work on the outside of the water tower and will correct it in the spring. We now have a current contact name and number and we will be getting scheduled in the spring. Gary did state that they will need to shut the power off at the tower and that may be a problem with the work that is going to be happening on County Road E. Gary said we will have to wait and see what happens and maybe we will have the work done before the road work begins.

TREASURER REPORT

Motion made by Loeffelholz to approve December Treasurer’s report. Haas seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

Motion was made by France to approve clerk to transfer money between bank accounts. Loeffelholz seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

Bills presented are: Johnson and Block in the amount of $3800.00 (General account $2300.00 and Water and Sewer both at $750.00). J I Construction in the amount of $2400.00 for snowplowing services and Delta 3 Engineering in the amount of $17,095.00 ($1097.00 out of general for TIF related projects and $12098.50 out of general account for Cty Rd E project work, $3899.50 out of Water for Cty Hwy Rd E). Haas made a motion to accept the bills. Loeffelholz seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

CLERKS REPORT

Richards made a motion to approve purchasing a used Edge voting machine costing no greater than $2500.00. Loeffelholz seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

France made a motion to increase the Village garbage/recycling rates by $1.00 (One dollar) as the Village has been losing hundreds of dollars every month due to the decreasing of funds by the state DNR recycling program. Loeffelholz seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

PRESIDENT REPORT

Haas made a motion to give an increase in pay starting January 1, 2014 to the following Village employees each in the amount of .25 cents. Christina Christianson, current wage of $14.75 to increase to $15.00 an hour. Mary Sue Divine, current wage of $9.00 to increase to $9.25 an hour. Betty Schambow, current wage of $14.60 to increase to $14.85 an hour. Gary Stuckey, current wage of $17.00 to increase to $17.25 an hour. Clem Wiegman, current wage of $14.85 to increase to $15.10 an hour. Richards seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

MAINTENANCE

Gary gave a brief report regarding prices on new tires for the tractor. Nihles Farm tire LLC had given a quote in the amount of $3150.00 for four tires. Richards made a motion to order tires and not spend more than $3150.00. Haas seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

Haas made a motion to adjourn at 8:00pm. Richards seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

Next Village Board meeting will be on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 7pm.

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Christina L. Christianson--Village of Livingston, Clerk/Treasurer