August 3, 2010
Marcell Township Board Meeting
Marcell Town Hall
Call to Order at 6:00 p.m.
Pledge of Allegiance
Board Members in Attendance: Jean Meyer, Anthony Prato, Dennis Korte, Diane Coppens and Bruce Petersen
Others: Michelle Brauner, Jim Brauner, Barb Shandorf and Ron Shandorf, Tim Hagen
Minutes of July 6, 2010 meeting read. A motion was made by Diane Coppens to accept the minutes with a change to include Gus & Nancy Carlson under “others” attending the meeting. The motion was 2nd by Bruce Petersen voted on and the motion carried.
Treasurer’s Report was given by Dennis Korte. Twenty five hundred dollars was transferred into the general revenue fund from the celebration fund. $5,189.17 was also transferred from the sale of property into the park and rec. fund for the new playground equipment. Diane Coppens made a motion to accept this report with the corrections by the treasurer. The motion was 2nd by Bruce Petersen voted on and the motion carried.
NEW BUSINESS:
Dennis Korte had a request to ask about the use of the township picnic tables for personal use. The Board agreed the answer is no.
A motion was made by Diane Coppens, 2nd by Bruce Petersen, voted on and the motion carried to accept the following individuals for judges for the 2010 elections. Barb Shandorf, Head Judge, Jean Meyer, Head Judge, Sue Campbell, Election Judge, Teresa Huju, Election Judge, Penny Petersen, Election Judge, Jill Burzinski, Election Judge and Joan Prato, Election Judge.
The supervisors voted unanimously to keep the Board of Appeal and Equalization duties for Marcell Township in Marcell and not with the county.
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Other new business: None
OLD BUSINESS:
Cemetery items checked on: Bruce Petersen checked on a hood for thawing graves. It was over $2,000 for this item plus their seemed to be liability issues. You can also rent them for $300 a day but not in this area.
He look into electric blankets 4 x 9 is $600.00 (17lb.). It will thaw 18” overnight. If it did work we could put electricity at the cemetery.
We will use pellets for now and/or charcoal.
Bruce Petersen also donated a metal detector that was his father’s to the township to be used at the cemetery to find stakes. Bruce will give this metal detector to Gus and Nancy Carlson.
Diane will check with the VFW on their opinions concerning the cemetery.
Forms were made for rules and regulations for the cemetery and given to Nancy Carlson.
*ROAD REVIEW – ANTHONY PRATO
Balmy Road: Cleaned road edges and removed sod and lots of rock. Shaped for drainage and applied new class 5 to road surface from the turnaround out to the pavement. Total $4,158.00. This amount was a bit higher than was estimated but we did get 200-300 additional feet surfaced with class 5.
Jack the Horse Road (from the T to the south down to the turnaround by the resort) Cleaned and shaped the ditches for drainage, seeded and mulched and put new class 5 on the road on the entire hill. Total $2,500.00
Jack the Horse Road (main part of Jack the Horse road towards Nathes) was washed out so instead of getting back to Eagle Pt Road we finished this emergency project. Total was $2,064.00
Regular grading $2,890.00
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Regular mowing $2,200. Total for the month is $13,812.00.
Northwind Road: Where the guy wire was taken out is holding water so we will add some material. Cost $690.00
Wash out on the hill by L. Lyytinen’s house will be fixed.
Emergency repairs to Jack the Horse $1620.00.
Projects we’d like to get to this month:
Finish Eagle Point Road $3960.00 but we will cut down footage2860.00
Big Island Road we had two sections back 2175.00 (300 feet) for a monthly total of $10,565.00.
The road and bridge fund shows $61,585.00. Minus last month is $47,350.00. Minus $10,500.00 will put us at $36,000 or $37,000 going into September. We will get our new amount in December from the county.
Diane Coppens commented that the park and roads are in good shape.
Craig and Cindy Mellin wrote a letter complimenting those associated with the improvements made to Eagle Point Road in June.
There was no Joint Powers no meeting in July
Township Assoc Meeting was attended by Diane Coppens. Candidates running for sheriff spoke and also the other representatives running for office.
Highway 38 Leadership Board meeting was attended by Diane Coppens. The Discovery Center is getting a couple of mounts; pilliated woodpecker and rapture mounts. Tom Jacobson, from Mn DOT will be coming in to talk about vegetation in the ditches. Insurance for the building was also discussed.
There are new shirts with new logos at the Discovery Center.
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Diane turned in a new grant request to Tim Johnson for new slide for the park. The new 8 ft zip slide is $4983.00 and $500.00 for shipping.
The new slide will be bought and put in but will depend upon how much of a grant we get.
We did get a quote just for materials to fix the old slide which ran from $3,000 to $4,000.00 depending upon the type of wood used.
The Board discussed the safety issues with the old slide and after this discussion it was decided to take down the old slide when it dries out. The old slide will be salvaged for now. Bruce Petersen made a motion to have T & T Excavating “deconstruct” the slide. This motion which was seconded by Anthony Prato, voted on and this motion carried.
Depending upon how much of a grant we get we would also like to improve our restroom area but the slide would be first.
Anthony Prato brought up the improvements to the ice rink which the Board had him look into. Dennis Korte and Diane Coppens mentioned that if the lights are left on a few times it would not amount to the cost of putting the timer on the lights for the rink.
Pay bills
Adjourn