White Bear Township Board Meeting 1-22-2025
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Town Board meeting of January 22nd, 2025 to order. The first order of business is to approve the agenda. Are there any additions or deletions? Yes, Mr. Chair. Uh in light of being absent, uh Mr. Prudon this evening. Uh staff recommends moving our public hearings um under 7 A, B and C um to the second meeting in February uh during which time we can do or follow the appropriate posting guidelines to accommodate that date. I would also suggest that the new business 8A uh public safety commission, Peterson Road, and Mahagen Lane also be um also be moved to that meeting as well, February 19th. Um Supervisor Prudon has um requested being present for all of those discussions. He feels they're too important um not to have another voice involved. So I would recommend all of those seven and eight be moved to the meeting on February 19th. Okay. Can I have a motion to that effect? So moved. Favor. I'll second that. I guess we're two of us. So all in favor I I All right. Next item. Chair, I think we should probably explain why we have to move the uh the hearings on uh the improvements. That's because approve um adoption of assessments require supermajority which in the case of the town board means all three of you have to vote. Yep. And I guess you know I I'm sorry Mr. Chair we just move that to February 19th. But should we do we have to go through the motion of opening and then continuing rather than adjusting the We should we should actually and that yes that's probably a better way to do it. So you want a motion to open? No, no, no. You It was You handled it properly. Okay. So, we're good. We're good right now. Where do we Yes, we're good. We'll at least open them and then we'll continue them. So, 7 A B C under U old business. We will open open the first two A and B and then continue them. Correct. The third one, we don't have to open anything. We just continue it. Just continue it. Exactly. And same with 8 A. Yes. Exactly. continue it or table it till the night second meeting. Is that a motion? No. We're prepping for ourselves. We're prepping the motion. Okay, I'm ready to second it. Make your motion. You're good. Oh my gosh. Uh so moved. Second. Next item of business is to approve the payment of bills. Have you signed uh the reg? Just about. I'm just about there. All right. There's almost I'm almost there. I'll get it done before I leave. How's that? I'll be I'll be speedy. All right. So, you move to accept the payment of the bills. I'll move to accept the payment of the bills. I'll second that. Third item is the approve the prior minutes meeting minutes and that would be the minutes of January 6th. Mr. Actually, Mr. Chair, I would suggest you make one uh correction in terms of the assistant town attorney. It's this Patrick Kelly. It should actually that's Martin Norder. Oh, that's right. Oh, yep. So, those do need to change in the minutes except amend the minutes to show that. What was his name again? Um, Nord Martin order that with that change to a motion. Amend your motion. Okay. I'm going to amend their motion to include Martin Nord as the assistant attorney. I'll second that. Since there's only two of us, I guess we're both in favor of it. Yep. I All right. The next item is the consent agenda. Is there any reason or anybody you want? Beth, I'll ask you, do you want to pull anything from that? No, it was pretty mundane, so I think we're good. I do not either. So, can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll second that. So, now we're to All in favor? Oh. All in favor? I I know it's this form over function. Nope, that's fine. We're fine. We're good. The next item on the agenda is old business, which there was none or is none. And now we're to the public hearings. Uh so we'll do them separately. Item 7A, Portland Wood Street Improvement, 2024-2. Um, do I have a a motion to uh open the I'll make a motion to open the public hearing on Portland Wood Street improvement. I'll second that. Uh, do we have a motion to continue this till the second meeting in February on February 19th? Motion to move the to the meeting date of February 19th. Did you say? Yes. Okay, I'll second that. All in favor? I I second item 7B is Anderson Lane Ste Street Improvement Project 2024-3. And I have a motion to open the public hearing. Motion to open the public hearing on Anderson Lane Street Improvement 2024-3. I'll second that. And we've decided we're going to continue that. Can I have a motion to continue this public hearing until the second meeting in February, February 19th? So moved. Second. All in favor? I I. The third item under public hearing is the cannabis zoning. Consider amendments to the township ordinance number 35 requiring cannabis. Um, can I have a motion to open that public hearing? Let's have a motion to open the hearing on cannabis zoning. I'll second that. in consideration to continue that uh public hearing on cannabis till the second meeting in February, February 19th. So moved. Second. All in favor? I I moving on to the new business item 8A public safety commission Peterson Road and Mahhagen Road for the stop sign and speed limit request. Um, I have a motion to uh table this until we have a full meeting of the board and bring this back probably the first meeting in February. Is that when you want to do it? We can do it if you like. This one doesn't require no opening in. I'd like to table it myself until the first meeting in February, which is the 3rd of February. Okay. Second that. I'll second that. All in favor? I. Okay. So, now we're to added agenda items. I don't see any. I now it's open time. Anybody here for open time? I do not see any crickets. Uh receipt of agenda materials and supplement. Can I have a motion for that? I make a motion for the receipt of agenda materials and supplements. I'll second that. And we're ready to adjurnn. Can I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjurnn. I'll second that at uh 7 whatever it is 7:07 p.m. All in favor? I I meeting