August special meeting 2022
Special Meeting Minutes
August 24, 2022
ARPA Funds
Board Members Present: Chairman Charles Chadbourne, Supervisor Kyle Vareberg, Supervisor Gerry Schram, Treasure Becky Renner, Clerk Dawn Utke and ARPA Manager Deb Zachariason.
Others Present: Janis Schram, Tim and Jane Miller, Kevin Disse, Kelly Grenier, Deb Wimmer, Carl Neilsen, Brian Torgusson, John Okeson, Pat Oman and Neal and Deb Sundet.
Meeting was called to order at 6:30 p.m. by Chairman Chadbourne. Introductions were made by the township board.
Pledge Allegiance was recited.
Chairman Chadbourne opened the floor for discussion.
Some questions that were asked: What our annual income and expenses are, Becky will provide that for the last 5 years at our next meeting. It was asked that we look at what the cost of having our own snowplow vs contracting a snowplow, also stabilizing the roads vs blading, gravel, etc. It was asked what our assets are and what we had for the money in the bank. It was mentioned that they would like to see someone run the numbers on updating town hall and adding storage for our snowplows.
ARPA Manager explained some things that we can use the ARPA funds on such as road, buildings, bridges, townhall, etc. She also stated we needed to decide by 2024 what projects we were going to spend the ARPA funds on and we needed to have the project completed by 2026 or the funds will go back to the state.
We also had write-ins Broadband, stop lights at four corners, stabilization of roads, constructing storage for snowplows and updating the town hall, spending money on maintenance of snowplows, speeding deterrent on 32 and more cleanup from the tornado.
County Administrator, Pat Oman, spoke and stated that they were looking into broadband and that our funds would not get close to what it costs and to focus our money on other things.
The two top requested items other than broadband were stabilization of roads and townhall update with additional storage for snowplows.
It was decided that the board would need to do some research and then hold another meeting in 6 to 9 months.