2024 April Board Meeting 04/16/2024
TOWN OF NORTH STAR
CALL TO ORDER, WELCOME, – Jan 6:30 PM
ATTENDANCE: Gary Mantay: Supervisor, Jan Keough: Supervisor, Jenae Pitoscia: Clerk, Donna Elsbury: Treasurer, Rory Blazevic: Fire Chief, Ray Barnes: Deputy Treasurer
Reorganization March 2024 MINUTES – Jan made motion to approve March reorganization minutes meeting minutes. Gary 2nd. Gary: Aye, Jan: Aye. Motion approved.
March 2024 MINUTES – Jan made motion to approve March meeting minutes. Gary 2nd. Gary: Aye, Jan: Aye. Motion approved.
FINANCIAL REPORT – Donna
TRANSFER –Transfer amount $8831.77 Check numbers 9079-9090. PERA EFT $72.00. IRS Quarterly $1188.2. Jan made motion accept transfer of funds. Gary 2nd. Gary: Aye, Jan: Aye. Motion approved.
AT&T has a way to enroll for payments to be made from our bank account. Amount is always $152.92. Donna would like to enroll in electronic transfer for payment. This payment might happen before a board meeting but it will prevent late payments. Jan made motion to approve EFT transfer for payment to AT&T Gary 2nd. Gary: Aye, Jan: Aye. Motion approved.
Donna is going to review if North Star township would receive a gas tax.
CLERK COMMENTS / CORRESPONDANCE- Jenae:
DS-200 has been brought in for servicing by Ray Barnes. Ray will be picking up our device on 4/17/2024.
Election judges will be Bill Taft and Ray Barnes (head election judge) as of meeting time. Emails went out to other individuals to see if we can get more volunteers.
St Louis County has a couple of tax forfeit properties in our area.
RECYCLING: Jan: No new updates.
WEBPAGE/COMMUNIATIONS REPORT: Jan: ENews was updated. Included were board of equalization meeting and pancake breakfast
FIRE – Rory/Gary: There have been two calls since the last meeting. One was a vehicle accident and one was a mutual aid response for a wild fire. Familiarization training and EMR refresher training will be happening soon
Nuisance Calls: Is there a way that we can put together a resolution on these types of calls that cost the township money? Township would like to keep an eye on these types of calls. Rory to review other resolutions in other townships to determine how this resolution would work for our township.
MAINTENACE: Gary: Generator is down again. Hunt electric has been contacted again to fix.
ROADS- Gary: Grading will be happening after a bit more thaw
OLD BUSINESS – N/A
NEW BUSINESS- Donna/Jan: Jenae to step down as clerk. Gary to call Sue Forbraged for the May 7th meeting. The board is going to advertise for this open position. Gary would like to use the firehall on May 11th for annual road meeting.
REVIEW OF DUTIES-
UPCOMING EVENTS – May 14th ISD-709 Election, May 21st Board Meeting, Pancake Breakfast May 26th, Board of Equalization Meeting: May 7th
ADJOURNMENT: Jan made motion to adjourn 7:15 PM Gary 2nd Jan: Aye, Gary: Aye, Motion approved.