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KABETOGAMA TOWNSHIP

REGULAR MEETING

MARCH 2, 2010

 

Chairman Nevalainen opened the meeting at 7:0 pm.  Board members present were Supervisor Town, Supervisor Kiner, Clerk Manninen, Treasurer Kiner, Deputy Treasurer Tomczak along with 1 guests.  All attending recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

 

Agenda – The agenda was approved on a motion by Chairman Nevalainen, seconded by Supervisor Town.  Motion carried.

 

Minutes – the minutes were reviewed by all present.  The minutes were approved on a motion by Supervisor Town, seconded by Supervisor Kiner, motion carried.

 

The treasurer’s report was read by Treasurer Kiner.  The treasurer’s report was approved on a motion by Supervisor Town, seconded by Supervisor Kiner, motion carried.

 

Account

Beg Bal.1/1/10

Income

Expenses

End Bal. 1/31/10

Checking

$59,949.26

$2,302.37

$2,280.10

$59,971.53

Road Acct.

$46,057.89

$29.91

$941.55

$40,000.00 into a CD

$5,146.25

Comm. Center Fund

$29,444.71

$19.12

$0.00

$29,463.83

Cert. of Deposit

$25,000.00

 

 

$25,000.00

 

 

Lodging Tax

 

 

 

 

$0.00

$0.00

 

 

The following claims were approved on a motion by Supervisor Kiner, seconded by Chairman Nevalainen, motion carried.

 

3212

Robert Nevalainen

Mileage – JPA

$52.80

3213

Frontier Phone Co.

Phone & Internet

$82.36

3214

North Star Elec.

Power for Hall

$54.00

3215

Couri, MacArthur

Fire Relief Assoc.

$426.25

3216

St. Louis County

Summer Road Work

416.25

3217

St. Louis County

Steaming Culverts

$171.62

3218

MATIT

Insurance

148.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

$1,351.28

 

Township Mail – Clerk Manninen read through mail received by the township.  Letters received were from the ARDC, St. Louis County Water Management Plan and St. Louis County regarding the Local Board of Appeal and Equalization.  Our new Supervisor Paul Kiner will attend the training at the Cotton Town Hall for the Local Board of Appeal Equalization on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm.  No other action was taken at this time regarding the mail received.

 

Old Business –

 

Namakan Joint Powers Meeting, Chairman Nevalainen reported on this meeting.  The meeting was held on 2/18/10 at the Cook Land Department.  Tracy Ekola, SEH Engineering discussed flow project inputs and soil data, local knowledge data and survey data in developing a Comprehensive Plan.  The service area maps were reviewed.  Bob brought the suggestions that were made at our last township meeting as to what other groups should be added to the service area such as Commercial Properties, Common Interest properties and Public Facilities.  Bob met with Julie Kennedy on February 23rd to discuss this further and get these added to the service area.  Julie has asked if the township would help out, if the need arises, on getting the remaining property owners to fill out the surveys that were sent to everyone.   She would like to meet with as many of the resort owners as possible sometime this spring.  Supervisor Town moved to invite Julie Kennedy to speak at the spring Lake Association Meeting, this was seconded by Supervisor Kiner, motion passed.  Chairman Nevalainen will contact Julie regarding this matter.  Permitting for the service areas was discussed.  They are going to invite someone from the MPCA to attend a meeting to see what options are available.  As far as funding goes, we did not get anything into the House or Senate but after the bonding bill was established our representatives got the 285,000 added to the bonding bill under final appropriation.  It is possible that Governor Pawlenty will veto the bonding bill.

 

VNP Clean Water Joint Powers Board Meeting, held directly after the Namakan Joint Powers meeting.  The MPCA has been invited to the next meeting to discuss the permitting.  They have heard nothing back from Mike Ward on having a VNP representative sit in on these meetings.

 

Roads & Trails – Marlene Tomczak reported that the water is coming up in the ditches on State Point Road and will need to have the culvert steamed sometime soon.  Phil Hart reported that the culvert at the Gateway Store is also in need of steaming.  Supervisor Town will make a call to the county and ask to have these culverts steamed.

 

Governor’s Fishing Opener – the event seems to be coming together quite well.  The township would like to have representatives (6) available during these events.  The township is looking into the possibility of obtaining some sort of commemorative item to put into the bags for the event.  Marlene Tomczak will make some calls on this and report to Clerk Manninen.  The Supervisors think this is a good idea if the cost is not to exorbitant. 

 

Community Center Building  - Sande Moyer and Marlene Tomczak will have a conference call with Bonnie H. on Friday from the ARDC regarding the application.

 

Post Office – Phil and Ellen Hart are not planning on renewing a contract for Postal service at the Gateway Store.  Right now the extra work will fall on the rural mail carriers.  You can mail packages through them.  More information is available on the USPS.com web site.  PO boxes will still be made available from Phil and Ellen at the Gateway Store.  Any further questions may be made to the Gateway Store or the Littlefork Post Office.

 

New Business –

 

Marlene Tomczak will get information from the various newspaper carriers about costs and availability for us using them as our legal newspaper since the Sentinel is no longer in business.

 

Annual Meeting – a levy handout was passed to the Supervisors to review before the annual meeting so they can have their ideas on this matter ready for the annual meeting when the levy is voted on.  The contract with the Kabetogama Fire Department will be voted on at this meeting also.

 

Chairman Nevalainen moved to purchase a laptop for the new Supervisor, motion seconded by Supervisor Town, motion carried.

 

Supervisor Kiner moved to adjourn the meeting at 8:20 pm, seconded by Supervisor Town, motion carried.

 

 

Respectfully Submitted,

 

Mary Manninen, Clerk

Kabetogama Township

 

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