Attorney Steve Garbowicz, who serves as legal counsel for most of the municipalities in Vilas County, will retire at the end of this year. The town of St. Germain and the city of Eagle River made public announcements to that effect during their meetings on Monday, July 13 and Tuesday, July 14, respectively.
The St. Germain town board during its July 13 meeting voted to cancel a contract for a multiple-use outdoor sports court after accepting what turned out to be an erroneous bid submitted by the contractor last month.
Remedial measures for failing infrastructure at two of St. Germain’s parks was discussed at length during the July 13 meeting of the town board. While previous boards had debated what to do about the pavilion at Vandervort Park and the structures at the skate park near the St. Germain community center, little or no action had been taken over the years to rectify either situation.
The St. Germain town board during a special meeting on June 18 voted to accept a bid and proceed with construction of a multi-use outdoor sports court. It wasn’t a unanimous vote as town supervisor Bob Olson described the move as “irresponsible.”
The St. Germain town board, during a special meeting on June 18, approved $285,695 for new equipment for the town’s department of public works (DPW). The majority of the money will be spent to replace the town’s current front-end loader, which is nearly 20 years old.
Eagle River chief of police Tyler Salvinski, during a meeting of the city’s common council on Tuesday, June 9, requested $371,210 to upgrade the technology utilized by his department. “I’m glad I was sitting down when I read this one,” mayor Deb Brown said at the outset of the discussion.
After a few weeks of developing a plan for the St. Germain yard-waste facility or “stump dump” the town board had voted to close during a meeting on May 11, the facility will re-open beginning this weekend, June 13 and 14.
The St. Germain town board during a June 2 special meeting worked on plans to re-open the municipal yard-waste facility, also known as the “stump dump.” The board voted to appoint town supervisor Brian Cooper and town chairman John Vojta to oversee the facility and to initiate a permitting process, hire part-time employees, and establish hours of operation.
The St. Germain town board met in special session on May 27 and voted to reverse course on its previous decision to close its municipal yard-waste facility — colloquially known as its “stump dump”— to public use.
Eagle River will receive roughly $385,000 in grant money for repairs to McKinley Boulevard, administrator Robin Ginner announced to the city’s common council during its meeting on Tuesday, May 12. The grant is part of the state’s Local Roads Improvement Program (LRIP), administered by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT).