The Exeter Village board had a short meeting on Tuesday,
March 5th.
After approving invoices, bills and minutes the board
scheduled an assessment hearing for pavement on April 11th.
Next on their agenda was a zoning request to replat land on
the east side of town where Kenny Harre will build a new building. The
Exeter board approved the zoning request which had been approved by the county
zoning board.
Exeter Rescue Captain Hope Strate approached the board to
discuss the possibility of reimbursement for the seven volunteers who are
taking the EMT course. The village board indicated that would pay the first
payment to Southeast Community College which is $5,542.70 and the fire department
will pay the second payment.
The board reviewed the current completed audit and approved
a request from Denice Kovanda for a community scholarship contribution.
The $250 scholarship was taken from keno funds.
The spring cleanup dumpster date was set for April 27 at 8
a.m.
Dominic Lombardo, the new police officer from Friend who
will also serve in Exeter, was introduced to the board. He gave the
Marshals report.
Lombardo informed the board that the department was able to
arrange for a swap of the current automatic “machine gun” the village owned.
“The necessity for that kind of hardware is something that we would never
need. We have arranged a straight across trade for a Daniel Defense Mark
18.”
Lombardo was positive about the trade as “ . .It allows us
to get a brand new fire arm. We have to fill out a Form 5 to make the
trade which takes about four months.”
Lombardo asked for the boards level of interest in the
department having a more involved relationship with the school. He noted
that the department has maintained a presence at the Friend school and felt,
“It helps because if something does go down it’s not that big of a deal. The
students are used to seeing us.”
He noted that he would be interested in “Talking about drug
safety program and careers. We would like to do that if at all possible.”
The board was positive about the opportunity and encouraged
Lombardo to approach Exeter-Milligan Superintendent Paul Sheffield with his
ideas.
Maintenance Supervisor John Mueller did not have any
information for his report. The board thanked him for the excellent job
cleaning snow during the many recent storms.
Clerk Becky Erdkamp reported that sales tax for December was
$21,218.04 and January Keno was $638.11.
She reported that several electronic items at the office
were damaged when the electricity flashed several times over the weekend.
Mueller reported several similar issues at the wells. The board discussed the
possibility of turning them over to insurance.
Clerk Erdkamp reported that she is having computer issues
and cannot open some items from the State. The library computer also
needs to be replaced. She mentioned that the computer used for check out
would transition to become the public use computer.
Michl noted that the village internet service was going to
have to be separated from the library, “We can’t put the internet service
together. There is too much that can happen. It was drilled in our
head last time we had a class on this and this time it was even more.”
Clerk Erdkamp reported that she was aware of two recent
instances of cities being hacked and emails received in the office that were
fraudulent and were purported to be from cities.
She also reported that she would be involved in an insurance
audit this month. She noted that the new insurance premium for the
village was $60,000.00 an increase of $2000 over last year.
The board set the next meeting for April 11.
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