Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Agenda for Budget meetings and Regular Monthly Meeting of Bear Creek Township

AGENDA FOR REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING OF BEAR CREEK
Budget meetings : 8:00 P.M.
Proposals
Public Hearing
Adoption
Thursday November 3 , 2011
Call regular monthly meeting to order
Roll Call
Minutes to last meeting
Treasurer’s report

______1. The budget is to have the proposals, a hearing , and an adoption this
evening. . The sheets will be distributed and board to go over these.. The
notices have been published and posted..
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______2.The resolution on using last years unused levy needs approval and signing. ..

______3.. Road work and bills for 2011 discussion...

______4. The new election rules for 2012 in Wisconsin will be run and distributed with
the tax notices.

______5. The levies for the schools are coming in. Listed are those here at time of
writing the agenda. .Levied for 2011 . Payable in 2012 taxes.
2010 2011
Madison Area Technical College $ 73,638.64 $ 85,805.91
Southwest Technical College $ 23,168.95 $ 23,371.86
River Valley Schools $ 518,462.72 $513,683.78
Ithaca School District $ 85,210.06
Weston School District $ 55,377.07

______6. The dog collections reimbursement. This is paid to Sheila for
collecting the dog taxes.A check to be paid to her tonight if here from the
county.

______7. The fire departments are to be paid the rest of their levy for the year at this
meeting. Plain 50% and Town of Washington 25%.

______8. Rural Mutual Insurance is to be paid in the amount of $ 3,401.00 which is
half of the yearly premium.

______9. The Clerk and Treasurer attended a Clerk’s meeting October 27th in
Dodgeville..

_____10. The treasurer is getting $244.00 for stamps to mail out the taxes.

______11.A letter came on the amounts of raising the levy . 2011 is $813.00 higher
than last year,plus using $9,537.00 for s debt payment and $1,324.00 in
unused previous year’s levies.
We got a sheet on this from the state on how to tabulate our amounts.
Any carryover can be used the next year. Just that strict records need to be
kept on these amounts. Sheet is here and to be filled out after the budget is
approved. Amount of allowable from the state is $276,564.00 . We allowed
$7.00 for computer taxes and we should have allowed $9.94 so the Town Levy
is $276,561.04.

_____12. .Final population of Bear Creek in 2011 is 598. We have 468 registered
voters..

_____13. The special assessment sheet needs to be filled out for the county. This year
we have none.

______14. Check came for the Veteran’s grave at the Ward Cemetery. The amount of
$6.00. This is perpetual and provided by President Abraham Lincoln for those
who gave their lives for this nation.

______15. The December meeting needs to be set...

_______16. The Planning Commission needs to meet concerning the survey of Dan
Crook’s and Pat McCluskey’s survey.

. _____17. Bills to be paid as presented and approved.

______18. The State Shared Revenue should come in November.

______19. Any other business to come before the board.

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Bills to pay: Tim McCluskey (2) Eileen Eberle Magnan Assessment
Town and Country Sanitation US Cellular Frontier Phone Alliant Electric
Retirement People’s Community Bank (Fed. With, FICA,Med.)
Wisconsin Department of Revenue Sauk County Treasurer Plain Kwik Trip
Rural Mutual Insurance Plain Fire Department Town of Washington Fire Department
Sauk County Highway Department Spring Green Auto Supplies
Plain Tru Value River Valley Publishing Any other bills approved by the board
4 budget meetings paid to the board