Meeting called to order by Chair Bob MacIntosh at 6:00 pm.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

ROLL CALL-Elsie Jensen, Paal Hansen, Bob MacIntosh, Harley Trosch, and Tawny Booth were all present. Absent Mike Donnick.

CERTIFICATION OF OPEN MEETING LAW-Minutes and Agendas were posted in all three places and on the web site.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES- Paal Hansen moved to approve as printed and Elsie Jensen seconded. Motion carried.

OLD BUSINESS-Construction Deposit Agreement Harley Trosch presented the Commissioners with the Town of Riverview construction/deposit agreement. Duff Leaver read the agreement over and he has a concern that he only gets to make so many inspections and if he did not get his inspections done and had to make a special trip to complete his inspection in order to issue the occupancy permit how is he going to get compensated for that special trip? The Planning Commission understands that the issuing of the occupancy permit is part of Duff Leaver's normal inspection process.
The Planning Commission recommendation to the Town is that once the occupancy permit has been issued. The Town property will be inspected for damage. If damage has occurred, it will need to be repaired to the satisfaction of the Town. The Town may retain a portion of the Construction Deposit to pay for needed repairs. The remaining portion of the Deposit will be returned once all Town property has been made whole. In the event that no damage has occurred, the Construction Deposit will be promptly returned.
Jerry Yaedke was present to update the Planning Commission on the gypsy moth. He has checked the following lakes, Maiden, Winslow, Paya, Sunrise, Grindle, Crooked Lake, Flower, Kalies 80 and Boundary. He can qualify about 37 acres at Sunrise, about 120 acres at Grindle, about 63 acres at West Crooked Lake and about 29 on Bunn Lane. In order to qualify for a grant and DNR spraying you need to find 12+ egg masses in a 37' diameter circle. If an area does not qualify and there is egg masses that could qualify that area let Jerry know so that he can qualify that area. If the Town of Riverview agrees he will be filling out the grant forms by the middle of September and turning them into Oconto County shortly thereafter. The town has until November 30th to agree to go ahead with the spraying next spring. If town does not agree to go ahead with the spraying they will let the lake associations know as soon as possible so those lakes that qualify for spraying could try and raise the money needed for spraying by November 30th to fulfill the grant deadlines. The cost of spraying is about $45 an acre. The fungus did kill most of the moths sometime in June and it is very possible that if we have any kind of rain next spring it will again kill lots of the caterpillars. Jerry took 15 plots from last year with the highest masses, 2049, divided it by 15 = 136 egg masses per plot, did the same this year, 15 larges number of egg masses got 514 divided by 15= 34 masses per plot. To Jerry that was quite revealing, 136 compared to 34 this year. Jerry suggestion in his opinion would be not to spray that it could be a waste of money. However, if the areas that have qualified don't get sprayed by the town and we have lots of tree damage again, they are going to be upset especially if they end up losing trees. The Planning Commission would like Jerry to find out if the town decides not to pay for gypsy moth spraying next year and the people in an area that qualified for the grant decide to go ahead and pay for the spraying themselves; if they come up with the money for spraying before December can they use the grant proposal that he filled out for the town and pay for the acreage. If the grant is approved and money comes back will they get the grant money or do they need to go through the town? The qualified areas will pay the town; the town pays the county, and when the money comes back then the town refunds that money to that organization. Also, if an area that does not qualify decides they would like to spray anyway they would like to know if you have any names of private contractors that would come and spray individual lots from the ground? Here is the answer that Jerry received back from Bill McNee from DNR As long as the county will accept applications from lake associations or groups of individuals that is fine with the DNR. The county is the legal applicant to the DNR spray program. The groups/individuals would pay the county directly and would be eligible for any of the federal money if made available. There is no requirement to work through a town, although some counties only accept applications from towns.
The only company I know of that comes in and does ground spraying up there is Bug blaster (www.thebugblaster.net), but there are companies in the Appleton, Florence and Iron Mountain areas that might if there is enough group business. I would have to hunt around for their contact info.
There is a list of for-hire crop dusting companies available at www.gypsymoth.wi.gov. Only Skyline Helicopters and Reabe Spray Service are licensed to spray in residential areas.
If a group or landowner hires a crop duster independent of the DNR program there are no minimum egg mass requirements but also no cost sharing money or access to the viral insecticide if there is an endangered species present. If the egg mass counts show that the trees are not threatened with heavy defoliation but there will still be nuisance caterpillars hiring a private applicator is your only option. Just make sure they are aware that they are spraying to control nuisance caterpillars and not to protect the trees.
The Planning Commission recommendation would be that the town would act as the facilitator for the grant applications and for the area organizations who do not qualify for the grant but wish to have some type of treatment done but the town would not have the financial responsibility in either case other than receiving and distributing the funds required for the grant.
Update on Driveway Permit is put on hold for later review.

NEW BUSINESS - None at this time.

ANY AND ALL OTHER BUSINESS

NEXT MEETING-September 28th, 2010, 6:00pm

ADJOURNMENT-Harley Trosch moved to adjourn and Paal Hansen seconded. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 7:31pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Tawny Booth, Secretary