The Boyd Village Board met Monday, March 9 in the village hall.
Included in the night’s business were department reports, started out by Streets and Utilities head Bob LaMarche.
“The plant’s finally set around and starting to get some good numbers,” he said. “Not great, but good. And I talked to one of the haulers a couple days ago, and Thorp is having a meeting tonight, and they’re discussing closing their hauling down for at least two to six months for all of them guys. And there’s like 10 or 15 different haulers, so we really would get slammed, and we’re not taking anything right now anyway, until I get a few things done, we got to get that.”
“They’re not meeting their limits,” LaMarche said for why Thorp was considering a moratorium on outside waste haulers at its treatment plant. The haulers complained of having nowhere to go, but also brought things that put the DNR numbers in jeopardy.
As for the Boyd plant, the tank needed cleaning before starting up again.
“I don’t know what that’s gonna be,” LaMarche said.
As for local plant numbers, LaMarche said he was working with the DNR.
“I did work with our DNR man a little bit, trying to explain about the bad numbers,” he said. “We’re getting and trying to get things going. And they talked with the engineer, not the engineer, but the guy that designed the plant. He helped me out some...what was in that, or what happened, or how.”
The bottom line was it needed to be clean before possibly starting haulers again.
“I don’t know, I’ll see if it’s going to be in the DNR hands, if we’re going to take it again or not all,” he said.
As for other streets and utility matters, LaMarche will attend a water conference March 25 through the 27th, with conversation turning to a tree at the park that needed to be taken down, located by the back gate on the T ball field.
The tree leaning towards the fountains and the pavilion wasn’t the only one to keep in mind, another one next to the fence near Oshkosh Street, with another near the bleacher area. Also discussed was a potential need to lift some poles at Lotz Park, with no formal decision made.
Trustee Michael Eslinger meanwhile gave the update for streets.
“We just approved like three million bucks worth of stuff,” he said of the Patten Street and an amendment to the Ayres Administration Agreement.
Patten Street was awarded Monday to Skid Steer Guy for $2.478 million, while the amendment to the Ayres Administration Agreement increases the total by $165,000 to $447,000. The agreement as amended includes an onsite person from Ayres to free up village public works from site monitoring on Patten Street, as well as adding Ayres Associates representative Lisa Fleming to keep track of grant administration on the project.
Separate from the village board, the St. Joseph Church entrance project has also been approved.
“The church project still going on,” Eslinger said. “Yeah, that’s we’re probably not going to start that until like, mid June now, but I’m not really too concerned about the street timing. I mean, it’s going to have to happen when it happens. No reason to slow the city project down at all.” A contract was pending.
The thought was raised that having an asphalt road project in the area might be a good time for residents to redo driveways as it could fetch a good quote, while necessary tree removal on Patten Street should stipulate removal at the time of felling, in order to not set back contractors.
Also of note from Boyd, the auditors are pushing hard to get back reports.
“The auditors are pushing hard to get our reports back as everyone wants them,” Clerk Sandi Isaacs said.
Next up was the police, rules and ordinances report by Dale Isaacs.
“Well the issue that we had last month was the resident talking about his issues,” Isaacs said of a resident who came to talk on overzealous policing. “The chief went and talked to him directly about those issues, and apparently it’s settled with a question mark. Otherwise, there’s nothing that I’ve got to report. They still haven’t informed anybody about doing their full time here again, but that’s in process.”
Next as Parks, Health and Sanitation, with Trustee Josh Walters sharing that the park was closed. Tree removal has to wait for the ground to dry out.
Next up was clerk’s report.
“I don’t really have anything either,” Clerk Sandi Isaacs said.
“Anybody else have anything mentioned? Geist asked.
The spring election arrives Tuesday, April 7.
“Everybody ready?” Geist asked. One of the trustee seats is without an official candidate, Casey Dorn not filing. “All right, well, if nobody has any objection, the meeting will be adjourned.”