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KABETOGAMA TOWNSHIP REGULAR MEETING August 5, 2008
Chairman Nevalainen opened the meeting at 7:10 pm. Board members present were Supervisor Town, Treasurer Kiner, Clerk Manninen, Deputy Clerk Tomczak along with 4 guests. All attending recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
Agenda - The Agenda was approved as read with one deletion of the following item, remove Relief Association, 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 Chairman Nevalainen motion carried.
Treasurers Report –
Payroll – Jill Kiner, $208.72; Manninen, $495.81; Nevalainen, $493.95; Town, $93.55; McGregor, $46.77; Tomczak, $46.17.
The treasurer’s report was approved on a motion by Chairman Nevalainen, seconded by Supervisor Town, motion carried.
Old Business –
SEH Proposal – Mr. Ruppe made some recommendation back to SEH on the proposal they made the changes and Mr. Ruppe says that we can now sign the proposal.
PPSSD Easements - Chairman Nevalainen moved to have another letter sent out to the members of the district that did not sign the easements papers. Seconded by Supervisor Town. Motion carried. These members are to sign the paper and send it back ASAP. If a third letter needs to be sent out it will be drafted by our attorney, Mr. Ruppe. If a member does not sign an easement agreement the trunk line will go down the road past their residence and they would not be hooked up but yet they are still part of the district. These people could be forced to hook up and then the cost of hook up and maintenance would fall on the individual homeowner or resort owner.
Gary Cerkvenik contract – no response from Mr. Cerkvenik on the changes that were suggested by our attorney, Mr. Ruppe.
Roads & Trails – Chloride was put down on some of the roads and not on others. Supervisor Town will call Mr. Schelde and speak with him about this. Another issue is that the county has no intention of replacing Mr. Nevalainen’s position up in our area. As residents we need to contact the county because our roads will not be taken care of as well or as quickly as they have been in the past. The county was very quick to respond to the request for mowing the ditches along our lake roads. The hiking and biking trails was mowed and the new sign was installed. There has not been very much use of this trail yet.
Community Center Report – Sande Moyer & Marlene Tomczak met with Myrna Meadows at Bremer Bank, the non-profit resource specialist for the Bremer Foundation. Myrna can’t do grant writing for this project but she can help with any applications to fill out or cover letters and she could look them over and make some suggestions that could be helpful. She suggested that the group can start looking for private contributions toward the building. There is a group that will train on how to ask for money. There is a right and wrong way to ask for money. Marlene Tomczak spoke with David Dill who did not give much hope of getting a grant with the IRRB because we already have our application in for the sewer district. That application would take precedence of a community center. The group has decided to ask for an application anyway and see where it goes. Mr. Dill did say that he would contact his committees and see what else there is out there that may be helpful. The community center committee has split up s list of foundations for funding and grants and also different governmental organizations and groups. Sande Moyer contacted the Northeast Sustainable Development Project and they said they are done with this project. Sande Moyer and Marlene Tomczak also made an appointment at Border State Bank with Gordy Wiesenberg. He has worked with non-profit organizations, has done some grant writing and was very helpful and very nice. He is going to look for other sources of financing and went through some scenarios of different type of financing and what they could expect as far as percentages on loans and things like that. They also stopped at Up North Builders and left the small schematic they had to get some idea of what a building like this would cost.
Plat Book – was not able to order one so Mary Manninen will pick one up on Thursday when she goes to Clinton Township for election training.
New Business –
St. Louis County Water Management Plan – Supervisor Town moved that we fill out the form and send it in and Bob Nevalainen will sit in on the task force, seconded by Chairman Nevalainen. Motion carried.
Elections – Clerk Manninen reminded everyone about elections and training. The township now holds their elections in November and the election hours are from 10:00 am until 8:00 pm. We have 1 supervisor and 1 clerk up for election this year. Clerk Manninen will attend training on the 7th of August for Clerks and there is also training at Clinton Town hall on the 28th of August for election judges. Marlene and Sande showed interest in attending this training. Clerk Manninen will contact the other election judges and let them know about this training. Filings for township office opens on August 26th and ends on September 10th at 5:00 pm. A notice will be posted in the Voyageur Sentinal paper.
Township Insurance: Supervisor Town has spoken to our attorney Mr. Ruppe about the township getting our own insurance so we could hire persons for smaller jobs that would not require such high liability insurance. This will be brought up again at our next meeting. Chairman Nevalainen will speak with a township attorney about this also.
Claims – There was a motion by Supervisor Town to approve the following claims, seconded by Chairman Nevalainen. Motion carried.
Supervisor Town moved to adjourn the meeting at 8:10pm, Chairman Nevalainen seconded, motion carried.
Respectfully Submitted,
Mary Manninen, Clerk Kabetogama Township |