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MEETING MINUTES
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
March 29, 2018 5:00 PM
County Board Room-Government Center
County Board Room - 1101 Carmichael Road, Hudson, Wisconsin
CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
Attendee Name Organization Title Status Arrived
Daniel Hansen St. Croix County Chair Present 5:00 PM
Jill Ann Berke St. Croix County Vice chair Present 5:00 PM
Tom Coulter St. Croix County Supervisor Present 5:00 PM
Chris Matter St. Croix County Supervisor Present 5:00 PM
Tammy Moothedan St. Croix County Supervisor Present 5:00 PM
Dick Hesselink St. Croix County FSA Rep Present 5:00 PM
St. Croix County Board of Supervisors Vice-Chairman Dave Ostness, Operations
Manager Ken Witt, Highway Commissioner Robbie Krecji, Community Development
Director Ellen Denzer, Staff: Julie Peterson, John Hilgers, Liz Usborne, Grant Shirts
PUBLIC COMMENT
BUSINESS ITEMS
1. Approve Draft of Land and Water Resource Management Plan and Submit to DATCP for
Review
Denzer gave broad background summary. Plan will go to DATCP and WDNR next.
Possibly June 21 CDC meeting for public hearing. Goal 5 has been added to this plan.
Usborne answered questions from Committee. Denzer pointed out updated maps. Hansen
asks if this new plan will help in the County receiving more grant funding. Goal IV.
wordsmith - to include enhancement/improvement
MOTION: to approve for both DATCP and DNR the plan with the amendment of
suggestion of goal IV.-Berke
Matter second.
RESULT: RECOMMENDED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Jill Ann Berke, Vice chair
SECONDER: Chris Matter, Supervisor
AYES: Daniel Hansen, Jill Ann Berke, Tom Coulter, Chris Matter, Tammy
Moothedan, Dick Hesselink
2. Capital Improvement Funding Designated for Bike and Pedestrian Plan Implementation -
- Signage for Wayfinding and Minor Enhancements
Denzer presented. Asking for $10,000 from $100K for a pilot program of way-finding for
trail. Focused on minor enhancement routes. Denzer answered questions from the
committee. Coulter asked about asking permission and contributions from towns. How do
we approach this? Moothedan would like committee to come up with a plan to approach
the towns and municipalities. Hesselink asked about going to the towns simultaneously to
show them what we are doing. Find out how other counties have done this - what
problems did they run in to with jurisdictions? Berke would like to move forward with
the pilot project with the understanding that all of the towns are part of the
communication. MOTION to approve pilot project. Moothedan second. Ask the question
of the shared labor when we communicate the process via letter with sign information,
routes, etc. In addition to starting the pilot shall we start communication with towns.
Coulter - where are bike racks? no bike racks in Hudson - most important sign might be
where or which way to park bike? Community Hosting - per Hansen. Moothedan - what
is timeline. Denzer - work with Krecji and staff, then work with towns and put up those
where we get permission. Take to towns association meeting per Hansen. April and July
are next meetings of Towns Association. Those things that go beyond the pilot will be
left to the next CDC after elections.
RESULT: APPROVED [5 TO 1]
MOVER: Jill Ann Berke, Vice chair
SECONDER: Tammy Moothedan, Supervisor
AYES: Daniel Hansen, Jill Ann Berke, Chris Matter, Tammy Moothedan, Dick
Hesselink
NAYS: Tom Coulter
REQUEST FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE
Good luck on elections.
April 24th is gathering at university.
ADJOURN
DATE OF NEXT MEETING