Livingston 

VILLAGE OF LIVINGSTON

REGULAR BOARD MEETING MINUTES

July 11, 2017

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

 

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

Roll call taken; Tom Brown-present, Rosie Gluege-present, Kimberly Loeffelholz-present, Chris Roth-present, Ron Haas- present, Earl McLean-present. Ryan Walter-Absent. Also in attendance Jerry Vesperman, Gary Stuckey, Tim Loeffelholz and Clerk Christina Christianson. Jerry Smalley arrived at 7:10pm.

 

Motion by Brown to approve agenda. Loeffelholz seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

Verified posting of agenda at Livingston post office, Village message board and Village office on 7/6/17.

 

Motion by Gluege to approve June minutes. Loeffelholz seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

 

New Business

Motion by Loeffelholz to approve the 2018 two year agreement with Grant County for SVRS Relier services for elections. Gluege seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

 

Police Report

Jerry handed out his monthly report and gave a brief monthly overview. Discussed one more dog that needs to be registered and he has made contact with them. Jerry stated that there were no issues with the Livingston festival festivities and all seemed to go very well.

 

Treasurers Report-Christina Christianson

Motion by Loeffelholz to approve June Treasurer’s report. Roth seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

Motion by Haas to approve bills for Crack Filling Corporation in the amount of $15,000.00 and Community First Bank in the amount of $44,668.61 to be paid out of the general account. Brown seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

Motion by Loeffelholz to approve Clerk to transfer of funds within the Village accounts through the LGIP and Community First Bank. Roth seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

 

Clerk Report-Christina Christianson

Motion by Brown for Clerk Christianson to attend the Clerk Conference in the Dells on Aug 23, 24 and 25 of 2017. Brief discussion on Health Insurance update and what is being done with the state for applying for the health insurance. This will be discussed more in closed session.

 

Library Report

Ron Haas gave a short report on library. He stated that the library has received some donations and one being a $500.00 donation in memory of Charlotte Jinkins. He also said the summer library programs are now concluded and were all attended very well.

President’s Report

None

 

 

 

Maintenance Report- Gary Stuckey

Gary discussed and asked the board on their opinion on going ahead with the water rate increase of 3%. The board agreed and told him to start the process. Gary stated that he and Ron Haas had talked about a few trees in memorial park and that there should be a meeting with the parks and recreation department committee and the tree committee for discussion. Earl McLean is Chairman so he will work on getting that set up and let Gary know. Gary gave his report on the lead and copper testing and thanked all who helped and also stated that they should have all gotten their results back by now as he had dropped them off at their homes.

 

B&M Technical service was here on June 27, & 28th as they have replaced the pumps and controls at lift station #4 on Hwy 80 and have done the annual calibrations and pump checks. During checking of pumps, it was discovered that the bracket holding the pump that loads sludge is broken and will need to be replaced before hauling sludge this fall. Gary will follow up with a price for the August meeting.

 

Due to the storm, Lift station #4 had lines down around it and poles over the driveway and Gary was unable to get to it until 2:30am early that next morning. It had run over around 10pm. The sanitary sewer overflow event has been reported to the DNR and all reports and responsibilities have been satisfied.

 

The electrical panels and wiring needs to be redone at the fire station and the township will have to be informed as well since we will both share in the cost of getting it all up to code as it was found that when the power was out for two days, the generator only ran certain things and not the whole area and building. Gary will call Tom Esser to fix it.

 

Monday, July 10th, Utility Services were here to inspect the water tower. Gary will be getting a report from them.

 

Old Business

Motion by Brown to not accept the by-laws and by-laws amendments that were presented at the May meeting. However it was stated that there is a need for this to be done, but the right way and have an attorney involved and make sure the fire board, firemen, EMS and all personal along with the Village and Township on board and the same page. Loeffelholz seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

Jerry Smalley will be discussing it with the fire board then and they will look into an attorney and get things going to redo the by-laws.

Jerry Smalley did state that the fire board will be meeting in September and that the more village board members that can attend should.

 

Motion by Gluege to go into closed session. Loeffelholz seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

 

Motion by Gluege to go back into open session at 7:50pm. McLean seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

 

Motion by Haas to adjourn at 7:51pm. Loeffelholz seconded. All in favor. Motion passed

 

Next regular Village Board meeting will be on:

Tuesday August 8, 2017 at 7:00pm