St. Lawrence Township
Scott County
Minnesota

MONTHLY MEETING

April 9, 2009

Pledge was recited by all present.

Ted Kordner called recessed meeting of March 12, 2009 to order at 7:00 p.m. on April 9, 2009.  Motion by Les and seconded by Hubie to adjourn.  No discussion.  Motion carried.  Meeting adjourned at 7:01 p.m.

Ted Kornder called monthly meeting of April 9, 2009 to order at 7:02 p.m.

Hannah Orlow was present to thank the township board for all of their assistance in helping her with her essay for a grant.

Minutes of the last meeting of March 12, 2009 were reviewed.   Les asked about the Woodland Estates information that was asked for at the last meeting.  Mona stated that she talked with Duane Jurek and he said that we could go either with a judgement or assess the property.  Either way we should talk with our attorney.  We will keep this on the agenda and keep working on.  Motion by Ted and seconded by Hubie to approve.  No discussion.  Motion carried.

Treasurer’s Report:

Rae Ann Bohlman stated that in the month of March we had income of $4,957.92.  Balance of $563.13 in checking and $269,986.37 in savings.  Also have one $20,000.00 certificate at Flagship Bank and a $20,000.00 certificate at KleinBank Chaska.   Total $312,962.96.  Motion by Les and seconded by Ted to approve treasurer’s report.  No further discussion.  Motion carried by all.

Bills to be paid as of April 9, 2009:

            Ted Kornder                Mar. Mo. Sal/Meetings             $   600.00

            Hubert Jeurissen           Mar. Mo. Sal/Meetings             $   450.00

            Les Quatmann              Mar. Mo. Sal/Meetings             $   450.00

            Rae Ann Bohlman         Mar. Mo. Sal/Meetings             $   630.88

Ramona Bischof           Mar. Mo. Sal/Meetings             $   832.77

            Taxes                           Payroll Taxes                           $   487.52  

            James Stang                 Plowing/Sanding                       $   545.00

            MVEC                         Electric                                     $     48.95

            Southwest News          Legal Notices                            $     43.44

            Genesis                        Road Grader                             $   123.31

            Kordner Farms Plow Lot 5 times                                  $   150.00

Motion by Les and seconded by Hubie to approve bills to be paid.  No further discussion.  Motion carried.

Permits:

Scott County Fair Board – No one was present.

New Business:

Scott County Police Report – No report

 

Scott County – 2009 Annual Weed Conference – Ted and Hubie went to the conference.  All forms and booklet were received.  They had a class on weed identification, etc.  Township also requested Pete to send information to get on the tree and brush-spraying list to tie on with the county on this.

 

Scott County Taxation Department – Department of Revenue Local Board and Equalization Handbook –  This will be used for the April 20^th meeting. 

 

MN Association of Townships – 2009 Urban Town Short Course – Ted may go to this as there is some valuable information for the town board.

 

Pat Ciliberto – Social Host Ordinance – Pat will come to a meeting to discuss this more if we would like.  Board decided that this is not needed at this time.

 

MN Dot – Grade Crossing Safety Program –  Julie Carr sent an e-mail to Ted stating that they are willing to put in lights and gates on Township #57.  She is stating that they are putting this in their budget for 2010 and are asking the township to put 5% or $14,437 into the project.  The supervisors decided to let Julie Carr know that at this time we are not willing to put 5% into the project but we will not object to it if they decide to do it.  At this point, town board is more interested in finishing the road project and put that money into building the road.

 

The PERA “phrase” –  For informational purposes only.

 

The Bridge – For informational purposes only.  Do not copy in the future as the board members receive this.

 

Office of Energy Security – 2008 Annual Fuel Report – For informational purposes only.

 

Harvest Apple Orchard – Information received on this.  All supervisors attended the DRT 2 meeting today along with Halling Engineering.  A check for $2,500 will be put into the mail to be put into the escrow account and they have received a copy of the developer’s agreement.  The other $100 for meeting fees should be taken from the escrow account. 

Old business:

ARRA Grant Money – This is the grant that was applied for to finish off Township Road #57.  No response has been heard yet.

 

Annexation and developers agreement – tabled.

 

Township Right-of-way Ordinance – tabled.

 

City of Belle Plaine Update – Clean up days program is in two weeks.

 

City of Jordan Update – No updates.

 

MN Dot Update – Traffic study was done by MN Dot.  Waiting for set of prints to be sent out to see if we can put the signs up.  Mona will call Chad Erickson and see if we need to do something or when we can put the signs up.

 

Township Road #57 – Grant has been applied for as noted above.

 

Scenic Byways – No update.

 

Road Maintenance Report – Les received a check with regards to restitution on the damaged property in Sioux Vista.

 

Ted brought up the fact that they are talking with their insurance companies with regards to the limit of coverage and the fact that there is an increase coming from $1M to $1.5M.  Todd Dvorak stated that this is supposed to be in effect as of July 1^st.  Will check more into this for the next meeting.

 

Les brought up the fact that the snow plowing bids that were received had such a various in ranges that the board has not yet made a decision on this. 

 

Other Business/Notices/Public Comments;

Ted asked if the township website was up and working.  Mona stated that it is. 

 

Ted asked when our last newsletter was.  It was last year.  It was decided that we would wait until fall to do one to go over the snow policy, mail box policy, etc.

 

Board of review – Ted wanted to know if we are okay with what we have for the meeting night or if we need to put in a special request  to Scott County asking for a specialized person to come.  It was felt that we should be okay with the staff that Scott County provides. 

 

Les asked about the Leo Anderly assessment information.  Mona will call Cindy Geis and find more out about this.

 

Jim from Minnesota Harvest was present to ask about how the Harvest Apple Orchard Meeting went.  Les stated that the meeting really didn’t change from the first meeting.  Apparently someone quit and took all of the information with them and this meeting was basically a repeat of the first meeting and all of the items discussed at the first meeting were reiterated at this meeting.

No further business to come before the meeting.  Motion by Hubie and seconded by Les to recess meeting to all other meetings for the next month.  No discussion.  Motion carried by all.  Meeting recessed at 8:08 p.m.