HomeMy WebLinkAboutCounty Board of Supervisors - Minutes - 9/29/1914Special Session, September 29th, 1914,
Special meeting of the County Board held at the office of the County Clerk)_
September 29th, 1914.1
Meeting called to prder at 10:30 A. M. by chairman C. H. Warden.
At roll call the following members were found present: Galligan, Barnes,
Hauser, Flieth, Zielsdorff, Rogan, Soronen, Bartlett,, Eekhofer, Morris, A. G.
Johnson, Iverson, Good, Carlson, Lauri, Duffy, Habelt, Erick Johnson, Smith,
Ellerman, Stone, Davis, Flanders, Robillard, Bell, Berman, Robinson, Mertz,
Handberg, Lien, Lamoreaux, and Warden.
Upon motion, the.reading of the minutes was dispensed with.
The special Committee appointed to report rules for the.transaction of
business of the County Board presented their report. Report was upon motion
amended as follows: in the fifteenth line of rule 2 where 'the same reads:
"County and State Fair Committee composed of five members," made to read:
"County Fair Committee five members,, State Fair Committee five members."
Report of Committee was upa:n motion adopted.
Copies of memorials presented to the legislature by the County Boards of
Rock County, Price County, and Winnebago County where read and upon motion
were ordered filed.
The following resolution was presented and was upon motion adopted:
WHEREAS, the s%ate aid law as interpreted by the state highway commission
has proven a dismal failure in so far as road construction in Bayfield County
is concerned, and said law has been more detrimental to the best interests of
the tax payers of said county than beneficial, and
WHEREAS, the said County Board of Bayfield County deems it beneficial that
the adoption of state aid be optional with the counties of the state of Wisconsin
and that only those count*d.s seeking aid be taxed for such purpose, and
WHEREAS, it is the concensus of opinion of the members of said county board
that the present Income Tax Law is too -great a burden upon the taxpayers' of the
state of Wisconsin in the method of its administration, and that it is believed
that it could be modified to afford relief to the already overtaxed communities,
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, by the County Board of Bayfield County, assembled in special
session, this 29th day of September, 1914, that said County Board favors the
repeal of said State Aid Law, or its modification to an extent, which will
assure more satisfactory results in the construction of highways In said county,
and that said Income Tax Law be modified to the extent giving the relief desired.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Board of Bayfield County'adopt this
resolution, and that a copy thereof be furnished each member of this County
Board, for presentation to the members of the State Senate and Assembly,
repvesenting this district, and that it be presented to the next legislature as
a memorial from said Bayfield County, for favorable action, in accordance with
its provisions.
Dated this 29th day of September, 1914.
Donald C. Bell.
The following resolution was presented:
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS? BAYFIRLD COUNTY? WIS.
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Board of Bayfield County that the sum of Ten
Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), out of the mill tax already levied for road
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purposes in 1915, be hereby appropriated for permanent grading and culverting
on the'County system of prospective State Highways in 1915-and that theeState
Highway Commission is hereby requested to allot the sum of Five Thousand Dollars
($5,000.00) to pay the Stateos share of tge cost of such improvements.
The sums thus made available shall be divided between the towns in the C.ounty'in
the proportion that each town -shall vote sums for certain definite` improvements
in the town, and shall be spent only on the system of prospective State Highways
in accordance with plans for the work prepared by the State Highway Commission.
No town may obtain more than Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) from this joint
fund and all towns must pay at least one-third of the cost of work done in the
town and before May let, 1915, deposit its fund ,for this work in the Coun-ty
Treasury. If 'the towns in the County shall not vote a total amount equal to
one-tb.ird of the amount available in the joint fund derived from the County and
State, any balance remaining in the fund shall be spent -on permanent work as the
County Board shall later direct. The County Board hereby relinquishes its
assumed duty to build and affiintain all roads in the County System of prospective
State Highways as it finds that this duty does not belong to it, but to the towns
in which such system lies, each being charged by law with the duty of maintaining
its roads, whether they be in the County System or not.
In the spring of 1915 at the Annual Meeting, or at a special meeting held
prior to September 1st, the towns shall, if they desire County and State aid
in 1916, vote taxes for certain improvements on the County System of Roads in
their town, and the Bayfield County Board agrees to vote an amount for 1915 equal
to the total amount voted by all the towns in accordance.with the State Aid Law
(Sections 1317M-1 to 1317M-5 inclusive, of the statutes.)
Dated September 29th, 1914..
C. H. Werden.
Upon motion Board adjourned until 1:30 P. M.
Board met pursuant to adjournment with all members of the morning session
present.
Resolution presented by C. H. Werdeh at the morning session was upon motion
lost.
The following report of the Comr.ittee on Roads and Bridges was presented:
To the County Board of Bayfield County, Wisconsib. ,
Gentlemen: -
We the undersigned committee on Roads and Bridge's beg leave to
recommend that the following apportionment be made of the funds to be levied for
Roads and Bridges for the year 1915, and we further recommend that the attached
resolution be adopted.
Martin Rogan.
M. B. Morris.
Erick Johnson.
Resolved.,that the sum of $24,900.00 be and the same is hereby set aside
from the levy to be made by the County Board for highways and bridges, for the
purpose of securing the State aid for the year 1915, the s�-.id amount to be
appropriated as follows:
BRIDGES.
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Mackmillers Bridge at Iron River .................... $2,500.00
Nelsons Bridge Port Wing and Iron River road ........ 1,000.00
Salmo Bridge at Salmo ............................... 1,000.00
.Sand River Bridge ........ ........................... 1,800.00
Cranberry Bridge .:............. ..................... 2,000.00
Two concrete culverts at Salmo 500.00
Cement abuttments at Mason -Bridge 800000
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9,600.00
ROADS. -
Bayfield Sand River road 2,000,00
Four Mile creek road ....................... 2,500.00
Port .Ming Iron River. road 1,500.00
Iron River Muskeg road 1,500.00
Barnes and Iron River road ............................ 800®00
From Grandview to Ashland -Junction 2,000.00
Washburn and Bayfield-road .......................... 10500.00
Drummond and Barnes road 500.00
Mashburn and Ashland r®ad......,....................... 1,000.00
Herbster and Port wing road ......................... 23,000.00
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$24,900.00
Miscellaneous, not included in state aid allotment.
Currugated culverts $600.00
Dragging roads 800.00
General repairs on roads1,000.00
Repairs for tools & eng.2' 5OO.00
4,900.00
Total. $29,800.00.
Moved and seconded that the.foregoing recommendation be adopted as the
apportionment of state aid for roads for 1915. Motion carried by the
following vote:
Aye: Galligan, Barnes, Hauser, Flieth, Zielsdorff, Rogan, Soronen, Bartlett,
Kekhofer, Morris, A. G. Johnson,.Iverson, Good, Duffy, Habelt, Frick Johnson,
Smith, Ellerman, Stone, Davis, Flanders, Robillard, Bell, Robinson, Mertz,
Tien, Lamoreaux and Warden, 28 in all.
May: Carlson, Lauri, Berl*,an, and Handberg, 4 in all..
The following petition, of the Town Board ,of the Town of Russell was
presented:
To the County Board of the County of Bayfield
The Petition of the -undersigned Town Board of the Town of Russell, County of
Bayfield respectfully represents that on the 5th day of August A.D. 1914 at a
Special Town Meeting of said Town the Electors thereof voted to construct a
Bridge lying wholly within said Town as deacri bad in the resolution her einaft
mentioned, that at the same time due provision was made for the payment b# the
said Town of Russell of the proportion of the cost of Constructing such Bridge
required by law to be paid by the said Town as appears from t-he following which
is a true copy 5f said resolution:
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"Resolved by the Qualified Electors of said Town of Russell, duly assembled in
Special Town Meeting this 5th day of August, 1914 That the Town Board of said
Town be And3iblhereby authorized to issue and negotiate the Bonds of said Town
for the sum of $2,000.00 for the purpose of defraying the expenses of building a
Bridge over the ravine in the Village of Red Cliff, on the"Red Cliff Four Corner
Road" in said Town. Said Bonds shall be of denomination of $200.00 each and
shall be payable in ten years after date thereof at the First National Bank of
Bayfield and the said bonds shall be negotiated by the said Town Board and the
said Town Board is hereby directed to levy a direct annual tax sufficient to pay
the interest upon the said Bonds as it falls due, and to pay the principal
thereof within the time fixed therefor. And the said Town Board is further
directed to take such action as may -be required to secure the building of said
Bridge, and further that the total valuation of said Town of Russell according t
the.last assessment as equalized by the County Board -on the �m—a day of Nov.
1913 was $3,718.69, that by reason of longstanding and decay the said Bridge
has become unsafe f.or public travel'. And it is too much.so to be repaired
except by a new Bridge and it is' necessary to reconstruct said Bridge without
delay, and especially should it be'done before cold and severe freezing weather
as concrete piers should go into the Construction thereof.
Wherefore you petitioners pray for an appropriation to be made by the said Count
of Bayfield to aid the Construction of such Brz ge without delay as provided by
Law.
Dated this 8th day of September, 1914.
C. W. Smith
John Engblom
John Gordon
Town Board of Supervisors.
Moved and seconded that the sum of $1,000.00 be appropriated and levied by this
Board at the annual meeting in November 1914 for the purpose of aiding the said
Town of Russell in the Building of the Bridge named in the foregoing petition.
Motion carried by the foll owing vote: all members present voting in the
affirmative on roll call.
The following resolution was presented:
.Resolved that there is hereby levied upon the taxable property of the County
One half Mill, based on the equalization made by the County Board for the year
19141 the said amount to be used in the Highway fund. The Clerk and Chairman
are further directed to draw orders to the amount of the State aid, the same to
be applied as directed by the State Highway Commission.
Dated this 29th day of September, 1914.
Martin Rogan.
Moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted, motion carried by
the following vote:
Aye: Galligan, Barnes, Hauser, Plieth, Zielsdorff, Rogan, Soronen, Barrlett,
Kekhofer, Morris, A G. Johnson, Iverson, Good, Carlson, Lauri, Duffy, Habelt,
Er.ick•Johnson, Smith, Stone, Davis, Flanders, Robillard, Bell, Berman, Robinson,
Mertz, Handberg, Lien, Lamoreaux and Werden, 31 in all.
Nay: Ellerman.
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The following resolution was peesented:
WHEREAS, A violent windstorm in the month of August, 1914, overturned and greatly
damaged one of the stock sheds and destroyed a considerable portion of the fence
at the Bayfield County Pair Grounds, thereby creating an unforseen expense of
from four to five hundf'ed dollars, for which no provision could be made:
RESOLVED, By the c.unty board of Bayfield County, assembled this 29th day of
September, A. D. 1914. that there be and there is hereby appropriated out of any
money in toe treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and
fifty dollars ($450.00) to the Fair Association to cover said expensei
G®o. S. Barnes.
W. H. Flieth.
Thomas Lamoreaux.
0. Flanders.
Aug. E. Zielsdorff®
Committee.
Moved and seconded t1;at the.foregoing resolution be adopted, motion carried by
the following vote:
Aye: Galligan, Barnes, Hauser, Flieth, Zielsdorff, Rogan, Soronen, Bartlett,
Kekhofer, Morris, A. G. Johnson, Iverson, Good, Carlson, Lauri, Duffy, :Habelt,
Erick Johnson, Smith, Ellerman, Stone, Davis' Flanders, Robillard, Bell, Robinson
Mertz.. Handberg, Lien, Lamoreaux and Werden, 81 in all.
Nay: Berman.
The following report of'Committee on Roads and Bridges was presented; and
was upon motion adopted.
To the Honorable County Board of Bayfield County, Wis.
We the undersigned Committee on Roads and Bridges beg leave to report on the,
petitions for state and county aid presented as follows:
Town, of Clover . > ............ ®...... .. $400.00
Town of Pratt .....®................... 400.00
Town of Pratt .........,.,..>....,, 400.00
Town of Pilsen ........................ 400.00
Under the system adopted and inforce in thtis county, we recommend that the
petitions so presented be laid on the table.
Respectfully submitted.
Martin Rogan.
'rick Johnson.
Committee on Roads and Bridges.
The following report, of Special Committee on Bridges was presented and was
upon motion accepted:
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SDPERVISORS?
Bayfield County.
Your committee having in charge the building of what is
known as "Long Bridge" road beg leave to submit the following report.
As advised in our last report, a contract was made with the Hennepin Bridge
Co. of Minneapolis, Minn., as the lowest bidder, for the construction of two
steel bridges; one a fifty foot span, the other a one hundred 'and twenty foot
span: the plans and specifications for which were furnished by the Wisconsin
Highway Commission. The contract price for these two bridges was $8,560.00,
These bridges have been built: have been accepted by the Highway Commission
and your committee, and payment has been made by -the County in accordance with
the terms of our contract.
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The contract for the filling in of the approaches to these bridges and making
connection with the old road was let to Eben Olson, as the ;owest.bidder, for
$7,000.00
Owing to unfavorable weather conditions and other unforseen difficulties,
this .part of the work is, not as yet completed.
Favorable progress is now being made and it is expected that the work
contemplated in the original contract with Olson will be completed by October
loth to 15th,
During the progress of this work it became evident to the committee and
representatives of the Highway Commission that the engineers who prepared the pl
and specifications for this work had not fully provided for the protection of the
work from the rise afid fall of water in the bay, which this year has been of much)
wider range than at any former time.
Realizing this condition, your committee, acting in conjunction :with
representatives of the highway Commission, have arranged for the raising of the
grade above normal water level; two feet higher than was provided in original
contract: and at and additional cost of $1,050.00.
To further safeguard and protect the fills, we have arranged for the
building of four short lines of breakwater, which extend about sixty feet out
from the shore line, and which in protective shore work are called "groynes".
These groynes prevent the washing away of shore line and assist in forming bars
which in a short time fill in and form natural bteakwaters.
It will hlso be necessary to riprap with stone two points on the shore line,
also the abutment on west end of the 120 foot span bridge.
With this additional protection we feel that the road you instructed us to
build will be found satisfactory in every way when completed.
The appropriation, together with the amount of State Aid to which we were
entitled, made available for this work, approximately $16,000,00.
The contracts made when the work was started committed the County to payment of
$15,560.00. To fully complete and safeguard this work,. in ac-ordance with
the plans of your Committee as outlined above, will require at least $4,000.00,
and we recommend that your honorable body at this meeting take such action as
may be necessary to make this amount available for the completion of this work.
All of which is respect.fully submitted.
Pat Galligan.
Andrew Lauri.
C. H. Werden.
Special Bridge Committee.
The following resolution was presented:
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, BAYFIELD COUNTY, WISCONSIN. 1
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Board of Bayfield County that the sure of Three
thousand ($3,000.00) dollars is hereby appropriated for the completion amd
protection of the "Swamp Road01 now being built'in the town of Barksdale and for
the repair of the road from the Ashland city limits to its junction with the new
road, these roads being a part of the prospective State Highway System; and the
State Highway Commission is hereby petitioned to allot fifteen hundred•($1,500.00
dollars to pat State's share of the cost of this work. If the fund thus made
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available shall exceed the amounts needed to'properly construct the work, any ka
balance shall be expended as this Board shall later direct. -
September 29, 1914.
C. H. Warden.
Moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution b.e adopted. Carried by the
following vote:
Aye: Galligan, Barnes, Hauser, Zielsdorf,f, Rogan, Soronen, Barteltt, Kekhofer,
Morris, A. G. Johnson, Iverson, Good, Carlson, Laura., Duffy, Habelt, Erick
Johnson, Smith, Eller^man, Davis, Robilla,rd, Robinson, Mertz,Lien and Werden,
25 in all..
May: Flieth, Stone_, glanders, Bell, Berman, Handberg and Lamoreaux, 7 in all.
Claim of T. H. Robinson for $192.50.for injury, to automobile, was presented
and was upon motion referred to Committee on Finance and Miscellaneous.Claims.
Claim of Harvey Demars for $50.00 for injury sustained in'the overturning of
an automobile on the County Road, was presented and.was upon motion referred to
Committee on Finance and Miscellaneous- Claims.
Upon motion a county order was -ordered issued to George Mertz, Mhairman
of the Committee on State Fair Exhibits, for $500a'00, as provied for in
resolution of the county board May 12th, 1914.
Claim of F. J. Yeehan for room for Geo® E. Smith, a prisoner, was presented
and was upon motion allowed at the face of the claim which was $30.00.
Claim of J. J. Fisher, for traveling expenses, 'etc. in connection with a
re —valuation of the Dynamite plant in the town of Barksdale, amounting to
$48.47 was presented and was ordered paid out of funds set aside for that
purpose.
Claim of W. L. Tripp for for office rent for Second Municipal Court, at
Iron River, amounting to $75.00 was presented and was ordered paid.
Claim of George Dargie for $8.00-for Automobile -hire for District Attorney
and undersheriff on official business, was presented and ivas upon motion
ordered paid.
The following resolution was presented and upd)nmotion was referred to
Committee -on Illegal Taxes and Tax Certificates :
Whereas the Personal Property Tax of 1913, against the warehouse of the
Farmer's Produce Exchange of Iron River Wisconsin. is $91.80 together with
interest and expense of $13.62, makingfa sum total of $105.42, which is excessive
and unjust, therefore
Be it resolved that the sum of Sixty ($60.00) dollars be and is hereby
accepted as payment in full of said Tax and Expense.
Harvey Ellerman.
Dated at Washburn this 29th day of September, 1914.
Upon motion the question of taking out'Liability Insurance under The
Workingmen's Compensation Act was referred to the Committee oh Judiciary.
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Resolved that the following amounts be and the same -is hereby allowed to the
members of the Board of Supervisors, as per diem milage and committee work, and
the County Treasurer is authorized to pay the said members, and the Clerk and
Chairman of this Board are directed to issue an order to said Treasurer for the
total amount, as indicated below:
Supery isor
Per diem
Milage
Com. work
Milage
Total
John F. Hauser
$3.00
$1.44
4,14
Aug. Zielsdorff
3.00
.68
3.68
Pat Galligan
3.00
1.44
30.00
5.32
39,76
W. H. Flieth
3.00
3.84
3.00
5,34
15,18
Geo. S. Barnes
3.00
10.02
9.00
20.22
42,24
Martin Rogan
3.00
6.08
21.00
25.06
55.14
Peter Soronen, Jr.
3.00
10.08
13.08
F. H. Bartlett
3.00
4.32
3.00
4.32
14,64
Barney Kekhofer
3.00
2,04
5.04
M. B. Morris
3,00
6.26
33.00
33.79
76.05
Albert G. Johnson
3.00
4.92
7.92
Christ Iverson
3.00
2,76
3.00
.48
9.24
C. H. Werden
3.00
2.76
33.00
23.76
62,52
James W. Good
3.00
6.92
9.92
Fritz L. Crlson
3.00
6.72
9.72
Andrew Lau I ri
3.00
6.24
9.00
12.48
30.72
Erick Johnson
3.00
9,24
27.00
31.38
70.62
Walter A. Duffy
3®60
1.68
4.68
Alois Habelt
3.00
3.36
6.36,,
C. W. Smith
3.00
2.04
3,00
2.04
10.08
Harvey El lerman
3.00
4,92
q. 9.2
A. P. Stone
3.00
.24
3.24
L. E. Davis
3.00
1.44
4.44
0. Flanders
3.00
1.44
15.00
12,v35
31.79
Frank Robillard
3.00
1,44
4.44
D. C. Bell
3.00
1.44
3.00
1.44
8.88
Ike Berman
3.00
.12
6.00
.24
9.36
T. H. Robinson
3.00
.12
6.00
112•
9.24
George Mertz
3.00
.12
27.00
1.08
31.20
Ole Handberg
3.00
.12
6.00
.24
9.36
H. 0. Lien
3.00
.12
24.00
.96
28.08
Thos. Lamoreaux
3.00
.12
27.00
5.88
36.00
$674.68
Dated this 29th day fo September 1914.
Upon motion Board adjourned.
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C. H. Werden.
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County Clerk.
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