August 11, 2011

Chairman Gregg Cygnar called the August 11, 2011 meeting of the Board of Commissioners for the LGLP&RD to order at 6:00 pm.  Present: Township Representative Tom Zick, County Representative Mike Stoddard, Treasurer Dick Schneider and Secretary Renee Braun. Joy Waterbury and Mike Regan from CARE-NOW, and Atty. Steve Sorenson were invited guests. Thirty-four residents attended.

APPROVAL OF AGENDA – Motion by Stoddard/Braun to approve the agenda. Motion passed.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES –Motion by Stoddard/Cygnar to approve minutes. Motion passed.

FINANCIAL REPORT – Schneider reported the account balances as of August 11, 2011. General Checking balance is $10,376.29 the Savings balance is $113,512.90, the Debt Service Fund balance is $12,963.59. Equipment Repair & Replacement Fund balance is $10,224.57 and the Building Debt Service Fund is $7,426.99. Net worth is $154,504.34. The remote on the conveyer was fixed. It was advised that the Clean Boat/Clean Water project ends September 1st.  We will submit our reimbursement request to the DNR. Motion by Stoddard/Braun to approve the financial report.  Motion carried.

SEWER REPORT – Mike Ross submitted the report for July. Balances as of July 31, 2011 were as follows: General checking is $1,313.28, sewer user savings account is $215,323.15 & MSB CD is $12,853.74.  The environmental fund loan is $1,089.643.63.  Motion by Braun/Zick to approve sewer report.  Motion carried.  Ross reported only having 10 loads of weeds so far this year.  

TAX ASSESSMENT VALUATIONS – Secretary, Joy Waterbury, and President, Mike Regan, of CARE-NOW Organization explained that they are school budget watch dogs in regards to property tax assessment. They have asked Atty. Steve Sorenson to work with any property owners who may have a complaint regarding their latest property assessment in Green Lake County.  Atty. Sorenson outlined the steps residents need to take if they are in disagreement with their new property assessment.  Discussion followed.

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE – Aaron Gruenewald presented a letter he received from Ted Johnson DNR stating that we need to continue the water quality managing process as a requirement to getting harvesting and weed spraying permits.  The Adaptive Management Committee had a meeting on August 8th.  The committee thought the exotic weed spraying in spring was successful, as well as, the nuisance weeds spraying around the piers.  The DNR denied the request for a second spraying for milfoil, saying that they needed to stay in the water temperature guidelines as to not cause damage to the native plant life.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

PHASE II – The District will solicit to have inspections done on the septic systems and holding tanks in Phase II and Phase III.  In the past, the District paid for the inspections.  If the bid is above $10,000 it will have to be voted on at the next annual meeting.

GRANT APPLICATION – Cygnar reported that he made the final grant application presentation, on August 3rd, for the second harvester.  We were granted 41% or $80,000 of the cost for a second harvester.  Aquaris System originally quoted us $194,765 for a harvester.  Cygnar requested a new quote which came back at $174,670. The total cost to the District for the second harvester is $94,670 a saving the District $16%.

GARBAGE – Dick Schneider presented a contract from Viola Sanitation dated 2000, stating that Welk’s Landing Condominiums gets individual garbage pick up for six months (May – October).   Cygnar advised the treasurer to research the amount of money that the lake businesses received for garbage pickup, in previous years.

NEW BUSINESS: no new business

The next monthly meeting is September 8, 2011 at 5:00 pm.  (Note new time for fall/winter/spring)

Motion by Braun/Schneider to adjourn the meeting. Motion passed.

Meeting adjourned at 7:30 pm.

Respectfully Submitted,

Renee Braun