The Clerk will announce the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag @ 7:00 PM
The Supervisor will call the meeting to order.
Board Members Present for Roll Call: Supervisor: Russell L Zeine__
Trustees: William J. Gerdes __X__ Rich D Murray __X __ Stacie L Breedlove _X___
Maurice Super __X__ Clerk: Rhonda L Hodges _X__
Supervisor: Announce quorum present.
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Note Attendance: Road Commissioner - Dennis Beckman _X__ Tax Assessor - Alice Dailey _X__
Visitors: Pat Briggs and Dwayne Allen
Corrections or Additions to the Agenda: Additions to the agenda may be discussed; however, if action is needed by the Board and such action must be taken at another meeting when the topic is posted on the agenda 48 hours prior to the meeting. _________________________________________________________________________________
APPROVE MINUTES for Previous Meetings:
1. Prior to tonight’s meeting, copies of Minutes from the Regular Monthly Meeting held on
January 16, 2025, was distributed to Board Members for their review.
MOTION to accept the Minutes as presented made by Rich Murray_; second _Bill Gerdes__. Motion ___5___Ayes __0__ Nays
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AUDIT CURRENT EXPENDITURES, Investments, Transfer of Funds, Budget Line-Item Transfers:
1. MOTION to accept payment for all Town Fund Invoices as presented to the Board on the Disbursement Summary 2/20/2025, in the amount of $ 5368.46.
Motion _Stacie Breedlove_; second _Maurice Super__
Roll call: Gerdes X Murray ___X____ Breedlove ___X____ Super ___X____ Zeine __X____
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2. MOTION to accept payment for all General Road Fund Invoices as presented to the Board on the Disbursement Summary 2/20/2025, in the amount of $ 39,931.52.
Motion _Bill Gerdes _; second Rich Murray .
Roll call: Gerdes X Murray ___X____ Breedlove ___X____ Super ___X____ Zeine __X____
VISITORS ADDRESSING THE BOARD: Dwayne Allen presented a Declaration of Intent to be.
TOWN BUILDING, GROUNDS & EQUIPMENT: Paperwork completed with Ameren. Russ picked up ice melt for the hall.
COMMUNICATIONS & Correspondence: Russ and Denny have received more letters from a solar company and will continue to review information.
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TOWN BUSINESS ~ Supervisor: Russ will research these solar farms but stated any long-term lease for these must be approved at a Town Meeting and he would recommend the attorney being involved.
CLERK BUSINESS: Rhonda stated names were submitted to the County Clerk which does include current and the list for Annual Town Meeting information was handed out and she reminded the board anything needing added to the Annual Town Meeting agenda must be submitted no later than March 1, 2025.
ROAD BUSINESS ~ Highway Commissioner: Denny stated the last order of salt was received today and this is all he can receive. He ordered 400 ton and hoping he can get possibly get slag from Liberty. He did get from Powerton years back, so he may need to reach out to them if he cannot obtain from Liberty. There have been small repairs to the trucks, but nothing major.
TRUSTEES/ Information / Business: Lobby Days is March 29th. Reservations must be made by March 15th.
TAX ASSESSOR’S OFFICE / Information / Business: Alice did get her new computer. The information asked for at a previous meeting shows the solar farm paid $ 13,208 in taxes and Hollis received $ 226.00 and the Road District received $ 467.11. Edwards Station paid $ 8231.64. Hollis received $ 13.59 and the Road District received $ 28.10. The assessor’s office does not have anything set up for the battery system for Edwards Station yet.
OLD UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
NEW BUSINESS:
MOTION to adjourn made by _Stacie Breedlove__; second _Maurice Super. The motion
passed unanimously.
The Meeting adjourned at 7:37 Pm.
Agenda Notes by Rhonda Hodges
The next Regular Monthly Meeting is scheduled for March 20, 2025