May 2024
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
MAY 13, 2024
MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER AT 6:03 PM BY CLERK BARBARA EGELER, BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT WERE TRUSTEE
JEROME PAPES, TREASURER PATTI GEERS, TRUSTEE WAYNE ANDERSEN WAS ABSENT, SUPERVISOR BOB KESLING TEXTED HE WAS
RUNNING LATE, WE HAD FIVE GUEST ATTEND.
MINUTES WERE APPROVED AS PRESENTED.
JEROME MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE PAYMENT OF BILLS, CLERK ADDED A MAY DISBBURSEMENT TO REPUBLIC SO IT
WOULD NOT INCUR LATE FEES. PATTI SECONDED
MOTION CARRIED
TREASURER REPORTED THAT THE MONEY MARKET FUND BALANCE ON 3/31/24 WAS $479,279.09. RECEIPTS FOR APRIL
WERE $5,590.13, INTEREST WAS $59.41, DISBURSEMENTS WERE $13,782.14, LEAVING A BALANCE OF $471,146.67 ON 4/30/24.
CHECKING ACCOUNT BALANCE REMAINS AT $300.00 ON 4/30/24.
PERPETUAL CARE CERTIFICATE BALANCE REMAINS AT $62,821.14 ON 4/30/24.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT FUND BALANCE REMAINS AT $313,368.89 ON 4/30/24.
HALL RESERVATION FUND BALANCE ON 3/31/24 WAS $1,121.17, NO RECEIPTS, NO DISBURSEMENTS, INTEREST WAS .05
Cents, LEAVING A BALANCE OF $1,121.22 ON 4/30/24.
TAX ACCOUNT BALANCE ON 3/31/24 WAS .00, AND REMAINS AT .00 ON 4/30/24.
TREASURERS REPORT ACCEPTED AS PRESENTED.
CLERK REPORTED THAT SHE HAD TALKED TO RON PEHRSON ABOUT HIS PARENTS GRAVESITES IN SOUTH VICTORY, RON
HAD PURCHASED NEW LOTS IN DIV F FOR HIS WHOLE FAMILY AND HAD HIS PARENTS MOVED TO THE NEW GRAVSITES, AND HE
WANTED TO SELL BACK THE LOT THEY WERE IN. I HAD HIM SEND A LETTER WITH HIS REQUEST AND I FOUND THE COPY OF THEIR
DEED FROM JULY 8, 1975 FOR $140.00.
JEROME MADE A MOTION TO BUY THE LOT BACK FOR THE SAME PURCHASE PRICE. PATTI SECONDED
MOTION CARRIED
CLERK REPORTED THAT SHE HAD DOCK APPLICATIONS, PROOF OF INSURANCE FOR LUCIUS BECK, JACK DEHORN, AND
WINN WOLF.
JEROME MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE DOCK PERMITS FOR BECK, DEHORN, WOLF. PATTI SECONDED
MOTION CARRIED
JEROME MADE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT. PATTI SECONDED
MOTION CARRIED
JEROME REPORTED THAT HE HAD BEEN OUT TO THE CEMETERIES, THEY LOOKED GOOD AND DIRT HAD BEEN DELIVERED
AND, THAT THEY HAD THE TOWNHALL CARPET CLEANED.
ASSESSOR NANCY VANDERVEST GAVE REPORT AFTER BOARD OF REVIEW. 17 TOTAL APPEALS, 8 CHANGES, 3 PARCELS
LATE SPLITS, 8 VETERAN CHANGES.
ROD MERRILL CAME TO ASK THE BOARD IF IT WAS OK THAT HE AND A GROUP OF JIM MAZURS CLASSMATES, PLANT A
TREE AT VICTORY PARK IN MEMORY OF JIM. THE BOARD AGREED THAT IT WAS OK, JUST WAITING TO SEE WHERE WOULD BE THE
BEST PLACE , AND TIME TO PLANT IT.
SUPERVISOR BOB KESLING HERE 6:22
BOB SPOKE ABOUT A GROUP OF STUDENTS FROM MASON COUNTY CENTRAL ARE GOING TO GO TO SOUTH VICTORY
CEMETERY AND CLEAN HEADSTONES. THEY HAVE BEEN DOING THIS AT SEVERAL OTHER CEMETERIES.
BOB SPOKE TO HAWKINS STUMP GRINDING FOR THE STUMPS THAT WERE LEFT AFTER THE TREES WERE REMOVED IN THE
CEMETERIES, ABOUT 25. HE RECEIVED A ESTIMATE OF $1000.00 TO GRIND THE STUMPS, AND THE ROOTS THAT ARE COMING UP
IN THE DRIVEWAYS. HE DOESEN’T REMOVE THE GRINDINGS, BUT BOB ASKED THE SHERIFF IF THE TRUSTEE WORKERS WOULD BE
AVAILABLE, AND SHERIIF COLE SAID YES.
JEROME MADE A MOTION TO GO WITH THE ESTIMATE. BOB SECONDED
MOTION CARRIED
JUNK AUTHORITY IS HIRING MIKA MEYERS ATTORNEYS TO REVISE THE JUNK ORDINANCE.
6:50 WENT INTO CLOSED DISCUSSION TO DISCUSS VICTORY PARK ISSUE.
MOTION TO ADJOURN AT 7:00 PM.
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