WORTH COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD

MINUTES

JANUARY 8, 2009

 

 

Vice President Smith called the meeting to order at 6:05 PM.  Board members also present were Randy Sime, Justin Faber, Troy Christiansen.  Others present were Dan Block and Dean Mueller.

 

Sime moved to approve the agenda.  Second by Faber.  Motion carried.

 

Faber moved to approve the minutes.  Second by Sime.  Motion carried.

 

Smith administered the oath of office to Troy Christiansen, who was appointed to another five year term.

 

President Vansteenburg arrived and took control of the meeting at this time.

 

Smith moved to keep the slate of officers the same for 2009.  Second by Faber.  Motion carried.  Vansteenburg is President and Smith is Vice President.

 

Director’s report:

  1. The budget had been submitted and I will meet with the Supervisors on the 19th.
  2. I will be out on habitat stamp tour next week.
  3. The March board meeting is during ISAC and we will need to move it or cancel it.
  4. We are holding the Dist. 2 meeting at Kuennen’s on January 21 and will present on several topics on things we do here.  Zenner will be in to give us an update on duck populations and the regulation process.
  5. The county is being audited now and they asked about the steaks that were bought for after the projects tour.
  6. I found out on Tuesday that NIACOG actually puts on OSHA safety meetings.  The information never gets passed on from the Engineers office.  We already have meetings scheduled on the training dates this year, but will have everyone attend next year.
  7. The sale is completed on the Haugo tract, but I can not file the deed until Yaggi Colby or the NRCS records the survey.  Once that is done I can start the reimbursement process for the NAWCA money.  Hopefully the rest of that property will get into WRP this next go around.  Rognes Excavating received the bid for the dirt work which will be done this summer.
  8.  All the staff will be attending Winterfest on Feb. 2, 3 &4.

Smith moved to accept the director’s report.  Second by Christiansen.  Motion carried.

 

Naturalist report:

1-Dec

CS 7

Hunter Safety (3)

2-Dec

NK 5

Antarctica

3-Dec

CS 7

Hunter Safety (3)

3-Dec

NK Ecol

Sawmill

4-Dec

NC Ecol

Sawmill

5-Dec

NC Ecol

Sawmill

5-Dec

CS 7

Hunter Safety (3)

8-Dec

NK 4

Oystering on the bay

9-Dec

CS 7

Hunter Safety (3)

11-Dec

CS 7

Hunter Safety (3)

12-Dec

NK Ecol

Timber Walk, Walleys Woods

15-Dec

CS 7

Hunter Safety (3)

16-Dec

St An 6

Fur trade and Canada PPT (3)

17-Dec

CS 7

Hunter Safety (3)

1-19 Dec

CS Ecol

Ornithology Programs (14 total) 

 

 

44 programs

 

 

 

 

Hunter Safety Went well, but due to weather had to finish in Jan.

 

Presented Ornithology programs to Central Spring Ecology.

 

District Forester and Ecology class to Walleys Woods for timber walk and planning.

 

Used remainder of Comp Time during holiday season.

 

Sime moved to accept the naturalist report.  Second by Faber.  Motion carried.

 

After hearing a report on the condition of the heat pump at the cabin, Christiansen moved to purchase a new heat pump.  Second by Smith.  Motion carried.

 

The compensation board recommended a 2.5% salary increase for the elected officials.  The Auditor asked if the board would like to reduce their recommended salary increases to 2.5%.  The board decided to leave them as presented and if the Supervisors make an issue of it, they would reconsider.

 

The report from the State Historical Office of Preservation denied our request to develop a campground at Silver Lake Park.  After a lengthy discussion the director was asked to contact the SHOP’s office and request that they come to the next meeting to discuss the issue.  If not, then we should discover if there is an appeal process and start that process.

 

The Director presented some possible ideas for play equipment at Worth Co. Lake and Kuennen’s Quarry.  The board asked the Director to prepare a WCDA grant request  for a swing and a Kilimanjaro climbing rock for Kuennen’s.

 

The Board decided to have a river trail meeting on February 19 at 7:00 PM in the magistrate office.  The Director was instructed to see if the DNR River Trail Coordinator could attend the meeting and also send a letter to all the landowners along the Shellrock River inviting them to the meeting.

Joel Rohne recommended that we purchase a server with two back up hard drives, one of which will kept off site and switched out every week as a back up system.  Rohne indicated that he could put $2,000 toward the system and the Board would have to pay the rest.  Smith moved to purchase the proposed system.  Second by Faber.  Motion carried.

 

Smith moved to pay the following bills:

North County Eq. LLC

 

 $       2.79

Fallgatters Market

 

 $       8.47

Northwood Lumber

 

 $       9.90

City of Northwood

 

 $     17.00

Northwood True Value

 

 $     33.98

CNH Capital

 

 $     66.94

Alltel

 

 $     79.28

Dan Block

 

 $     87.99

Pritchards of Northwood, Inc.

 

 $     91.85

Manly Junction Signal

 

 $   100.00

Northwood Anchor

 

 $   100.00

Visa

 

 $   163.10

Carquest Auto Parts

 

 $   186.46

Lawson Products

 

 $   236.88

Heartland Power Coop

 

 $   238.57

Worth County Engineer

 

 $   366.74

Green Canopy

 

 $   370.16

Benchmark Agribusiness

 

 $   375.00

Alliant Energy

 

 $   659.38

Stockton Trout Farm

 

 $   930.00

Hogen Lawn Care

 

 $1,365.00

 

Total

 $  5,489.49

Second by Sime.  Motion carried.  The meeting was adjourned at 7:20 PM.

 

 

Submitted by:                                                 Approved by:

 

 

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Dean A Mueller, Director                              Jeff Vansteenburg, President