1. Meeting called to order by Chairperson Voss at 7:00 p.m.

2. Roll Call - _x______Diane Voss, Chairperson

x_____ Larry Austin, Supervisor #1 _x_____ Bill Pearce, Supervisor #2

_x_____ Tami Martin, Clerk _x_____ Dawn Hildebrandt, Treasurer _x_____ Mike August, Road Superintendent

3. Approval of Minutes from the April 12th Regular Board meeting

4. Public Comments

↓ Mr. Russ Hovde - He recommends the board take whatever action necessary to achieve a 5 member board. There would be more representation for the residents we have in the Town. It is a small amount of money based on our budget.

↓ George Kirkpatrick 每 Maybe at some point having a 5 member board would be wise, but not at this time. 3 are plenty at this point and time. He also commented on a brush pile on his property that someone to complained.

↓ Mary Ann Pearce 每 It is hard to get people to run for a 3 member board. It would be hard to get 5 people to run.

↓ Betty Hovde 每 It is an enormous load for 3 people to run a Town. You can＊t talk privately. Everyone is busy and it would be a good idea and the board has more input and representation with a 5 member board.

↓ Carolyn Warfield - Would like board to consider getting police protection for the Town.

5. New Business (Discussion and possible consideration on the following items)

a) Ellis Property Conditional Use permit.

↓ Take 5 acres out of production for a house

↓ There is an existing driveway already in use

↓ Bill motioned to approve conditional use permit. Second by Larry. Motion carried3-0

b) Inspiration Ministries application for rezone and Conditional Use permit.

↓ DOT has told them they need to be a license car dealer in order to have their fund-raiser auction

↓ To get that license portions of the property need to be rezoned.

↓ They have 2 auctions every year.

↓ P-2 to P-4 will be where the storage is. The A-1 will go from A-1 to P-2.

↓ Ball field will be on one zoning code where the auction will be held. Currently it is under two zoning codes.

↓ There is a tree line along where the boats are stored. People drop cars off year round. Number will depend on how close they are to the auctions. They will want to auction off by December 31st every year due to the new IRS laws. They sell it all when they sell the cars.

↓ Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend. 2nd one is in August. It is there biggest fund raiser.

↓ Allow them to store cars in Northern P-2 zone auctioned on southern P-2 zone twice a year.

↓ Diane moves to recommends approval of the application for Rezone and Conditional Use Permit only if it meets all County Zoning requirements.

↓ Larry motioned to approval Rezone and Conditional Use Permit as long as it complies with County Zoning and screening would be up by December 1st. Bill 2nd. Motion carried 2-1.

c) Town Credit Card account and policy 每 Tabled

d) 5 member Town Board

↓ Table for a few months so citizens can provide more feedback.

e) Road Bids for 2005 projects

↓ Bill opened the sealed bid from Amon. Budget is set up to $230,000.00

↓ Larry requested we look up what we rolled over.

↓ Bill motioned to go with Amon to do our road work. Second by Larry. 3-0

↓ Bill and Mike will decide the priority projects to do with what is in the budget.

f) Painting the Town Hall bids

↓ Bill motioned we go with J and J for painting of the Town Hall. Bid total was $3250.00. 2nd Larry carried 3-0

g) Open Records Policy 每 Tabled until next month

↓ Diane wants Tami to research what other municipalities give their residents for free (copies for free).

6. Old Business (Discussion and possible consideration on the following items)

a) Glen Feltham request for rezone

↓ Waiting on certified survey from Farris and Hansen.

↓ Motion made by Larry to approve the rezone pending Certified Survey. 2nd by Bill. Motion carried 3-0.

↓ Tami will give the County the approval letter once Glen gives her a copy of the Certified Survey.

b) Certified Survey for John Brennan Property

↓ Motion made to approve pending Mike＊s approval placement of road by Larry. Second by Bill. Approved 3-0

↓ Tami will e-mail approval to the County once Mike is able to approve driveway placement.

7. Board Reports:

a) Treasurer＊s Report (Dawn)

↓ Larry motioned to approve the report. Second by Bill. Carried 3-0

b) Administrative reminders or comments. (Tami and/or Diane)

↓ More people are needed to sit on the Smart Growth Committee. ↓ A handicap accessible posting place is needed. ↓ Appointment to the County Board of Adjustment position is available. See Tami for details. ↓ Sheriff＊s Department will be committing more time to the Town. ↓ Diane contacted Baxter Woodman about printing more Land Use Books ↓ DOJ was given information.

c) Citizen complaints, citizen concerns, and other correspondence (Diane, Larry, and Bill)

↓ Diane 每 had calls on police coverage and 5 member board.

↓ Diane 每 Thank you from Cemetery board for use of Town Hall.

↓ Larry - Jim VanDebogart spoke to Larry regarding tire dumping near his property. The owner of the property will receive a letter. ↓ Larry 每 Carol Warfield called regarding the Police force. Jason Rowland will be doing a report on the cost as part of a class he is doing. Larry requested a copy of that report.

↓ Bill 每 had calls on Police department

↓ Bill 每 had calls on the Shodeen property from Michael Cotter. He would like Clerks to be more specific with letters of approval

d) Update on meetings attended (Diane, Larry, and Bill)

↓ Smart Growth meeting was May 5th. Tom Price was elected Chair. There were 4 members. 3 more members would be desired.

↓ Diane, Bill, and Larry went to the Towns Association Meeting. Larry spoke to the ordinance presentation and gave Tami information. Bill gave Tami the clerk info. Diane spoke about Representative Lothian＊s comments.

e) Safety update (Larry)

↓ EVOC training was done by the fire department. Larry would like Tami to contact our insurance company to see if that saves us money.

↓ Larry handed out safety report.

↓ Open House for rescue squad at the station Sunday

f) Road and Building Conditions (Bill and Mike)

↓ Given previously during the bid portion of the meeting.

8. ETZ report 每 None

9. Next meeting scheduled June 14, 2005 at 7:00 p.m.

10. Review Bills for payment. Bill motioned to approve Bills as presented. Second by Larry. Carried 3-0

11. Adjournment