New bid in for tee ball field at Lotz Park as Spring arrives with warmer weather

The new bid is in for the tee ball field at Lotz Park, and it comes out to $20,640.81.

“Everything went up,” Tom Grunewald said of the current inflationary situation and need for more work onsite, as a motion was made by president Robert Geist and seconded by trustee Sarah McQuillan to approve the new bid price from Jim Mahal. With the spring thaw now in session, the village of Boyd was looking for more donations to get the tee ball field ready in time for this summer.

“I think a lot of people don’t know what’s going on and there’s people who would truly donate,” one trustee said.

In the meantime, alcohol and cigarette licenses are due to cost applicants in Boyd more in the future, though still below the rates of other communities.

With motion by McQuillan seconded by president Geist, a Class A fermented Liquor li- LICENSE FEE HIKE

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cense will now cost $125, while the combined Class B license will be $175 for each part. Class A licensees are those sought by convenience stores, while Class B is for bars and other establishments. With a total of eight allowed, it was revealed that all eight weren’t active in the Friendly Town. A Class B license in Stanley, in contrast, was reported to cost $250.

Cigarette sale licenses at Boyd, meanwhile, are due to cost $25, a $10 jump from the prior price of $15 to sell cigarettes in bars.

In other news from last week’s March 14 village board, a local resident reported that Chief Eslinger had helped him fix a situation with a neighbor parking where they shouldn’t, even as the Board approved the resignation of Chief Eslinger effective May 4, motion made by trustee Gwen Krizan and seconded by McQuillan.

Following Eslinger’s resignation from the chief post in May, the plan is that the Village of Boyd will be supplied in its law enforcement needs through contracting with the City of Stanley, with the plan a work in progress. With no meeting April 11th, president Geist planned to get ahold of Stanley police chief Lance Weiland and set something up for the end of March as currently planned.

Along with the news on Eslinger’s resignation, the board also saw a visit from Chippewa District 10 County Board candidate Tammy Tom-Steinmetz, who passed out postcard-size informational materials.

Going from 29 seats down to 15 and then coming back to 21, the election for county board is April 5th, with Tom-Steinmetz running against Matthew Peterson.

In larger area news, it was reported from the March 14 village board that the federal government had been making a push for all government and municipal emails to end in .gov by sometime in 2023, a process that was causing issues with communication between the county and local municipality, leading in part to some emails ending up in the ‘junk’ folder, as machines and/or software failed at its sorting task.

The drive towards email address standardization is expected to cost $6 per email per month once complete, and apply to web addresses as well.

In short, readers should prepare to navigate their way to boyd.wi.gov in the future, as opposed to the present villageofboydwi.com. “I thought about putting ‘village of’ and though, ‘why?’” Village clerk Sandi Isaacs told the board.

The change in web address, meanwhile, has not yet been completed.

From federal government initiatives it was into department reports, with Tom Grunewald from the Streets and Utilities reporting that the dialer system had been put in the sewer plant but not much else had happened.

From there it was into finance and claims, Krizan reporting “all good” as it related to vil- lage finances. From finance and claims it was into Parks, Health, and Sanitation, where Mc-Quillan had a quick summary.

"Just the field," she said, contesting a remark that the park was currently open. At the same time, it was reported by clerk Isaacs that the park facilities were being booked at a good rate for summer. With nothing to speak of at present in Boyd business development (but S.T.A.R. sites available off highway 29), the Fire Board meeting was tentatively set for the 27th of April, it was made known.