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HomeMy WebLinkAboutApproved 04-03-2018 CSZC MinutesGRANT COUNTY CONSERVATION, SANITATION, & ZONING COMMITTEE MEETING April 03, 2018 9:00 a.m. Grant County Board Room (#264) Lancaster, Wisconsin The Grant County Conservation, Sanitation & Zoning Committee meeting was called to order on April 03, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. by Dwight Nelson, the Conservation, Sanitation, and Zoning Committee Chairman, in the Grant County Board Room #264, 111 S. Jefferson St., Lancaster. Board members present: Dwight Nelson, Mark Stead, Lester Jantzen, Grant Loy, Dale Hood, Roger Guthrie, and Gabe Loeffelholz. Others present: Lynda Schweikert, Annette Lolwing, Kevin Lange, Justin Johnson, Joe Schmelz, Nathalie Schattner, Ben Wood, Bob Keeney, Eileen Brownlee, Paul Lambert, Pat Ostendorf, Larry Bailey, Korey Reed, Shane Drinkwater, and Joyce Roling. Certification of Open Meeting Law Annette Lolwing sent the agenda to Karla Schwantes and Linda Gebhard to post in the Administration Building and at the Courthouse, also sent an agenda to Bob Middendorf, WGLR, and was posted in the front of the Ag Service Center Building. Media notices were sent to Karla Schwantes, Linda Gebhard, Herald Independent, Tri County Press, Platteville Journal, Muscoda Progressive, and the Boscobel Dial. Approval of Agenda Motion by Lester Jantzen seconded by Dale Hood to approve the April 03, 2018 agenda with changes. Move the Zoning/Sanitation report to follow the CUP#18-008, change the County cost sharing to follow the Amendment to Chapter 90, and move the SWRM cost share to follow the County cost sharing. Motion carried. Approval of the Minutes Motion by Mark Stead, seconded by Grant Loy to approve the February 6, 2018 minutes with changes. Change the top of page 2 to read; Motion by Roger Guthrie, “seconded by Mark Stead” to recommend approval of the rezone to the full County Board, contingent upon them providing either a certified survey map or a plat of survey before this goes to the full County Board meeting. Mark Stead’s seconded motion was unintentionally missed being printed in the minutes. Motion carried. Review & Accept the Bills Motion by Roger Guthrie, seconded by Gabe Loeffelholz to accept the bills. Motion carried. Public Hearing for Conditional Use Permits Chairman Nelson opened the Public Hearing: Lynda invited Ben Wood to explain the changes in State Law WI Act 67. In November there was a change in the law. #CUP 18-007 Korey Reed, Potosi Twp. is requesting a Conditional Use Permit on PIN: 052-00636-0000 of +/- 3.16 ac. to allow for an accessory structure before a principal structure under Chapter 3.06 (2) (i) of the Grant County Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. In Favor: Potosi Twp., approved the request on March 12, 2018. Korey Reed was present and spoke in favor. He would like to build a 40’x72’ garage to store tractors, trucks, and trailers in. In Opposition: None In Interest: None Applicant Rebuttal: None Committee Discussion: None Chairman Nelson closed the Public Hearing: Motion by Mark Stead, seconded by Lester Jantzen to approve the Conditional Use Permit to allow for an accessory structure before a principal structure under Chapter 3.06 (2) (i) of the Grant County Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. Motion carried. Chairman Nelson opened the Public Hearing: #CUP 18-008 Aloha Community Platteville, LLC, Lima Twp., is requesting a Conditional Use Permit on PIN: 030-00747-0000 of +/- 4.08 ac. to allow for a single family dwelling in Agricultural-1 (A-1) zoning under Chapter 3.06 (2) (b) of the Grant County Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. In Favor: Eileen Brownlee spoke in favor of the request. She spoke of the legality of the facility. In Opposition: Lynda received 1 phone call, Walter Newswanger, in opposition. Pat Ostendorf registered and spoke in opposition of the request. Due to lack of communication with the Township. Paul Lambert registered and spoke in opposition. Seems to be a lot of behind the scene things going on. Larry Bailey registered in opposition, and decided to speak. He had concerns about him paying the electric bill on the shared well on the property. In Interest: None Applicant Rebuttal: Eileen confirmed that there is a joint well agreement that has been in place since the house was built. Eileen stated that they have done everything that has been asked of them and the people are ready to move in. Committee Discussion: Dale shared a concern about the driveway not being real accessible for emergency vehicles. Ben Wood stated that we can’t look at this concern for making a decision. Chairman Nelson closed the Public Hearing: Motion by Dale Hood, seconded by Gabe Loeffelholz to postpone the CUP #18-008 until the May meeting. Roger Guthrie opposed. Motion carried. Public Hearing for Amendment to Chapter 90 Animal Waste Storage & Nutrient Utilization Ordinance Lynda Schweikert opened the Public Hearing: Lynda reported that there is confusion in our ordinance as to when NRCS updates to a code to take effect. Register in favor of the request: None Register in opposition of the request: None Questions of Committee: None Chairman Nelson closed the Public Hearing: Motion by Roger Guthrie, seconded by Lester Jantzen to recommend to the full County Board, the Amendment to Chapter 90 Animal Waste Storage & Nutrient Utilization. Motion carried. Zoning and Sanitation Report Lynda presented the Zoning and Sanitation report. The 2017 fees totaled $11,728.00, compared to the 2018 total fees of $14,532.00, an increase of $2,804.00 from 2017. In the first round of citations we had 106. There are 47 2nd round citations. There were 20 that have come in to compliance. There are 27 remaining that are still out of compliance, these will be going to the enforcement stage of our ordinance. A citation was $200.50 + a $100.00 late fee. If the 2nd round of citations don’t get paid they go on to the 3rd round of enforcement which could be a penalty up to $1,000 per day. We have sent out 2,699, 2018, 3 year maintenance forms along with 310 Holding Tank maintenance forms. They are finding many holding tanks were illegally altered with homemade drain fields. Holding tank maintenance forms are also due on August 31st. Holding tank maintenance forms turned in prior to August 31st will have no fees, however if it is after August 31st there will be a late fee, then a citation will be issued. Motion by Mark Stead, seconded by Lester Jantzen to accept the Zoning and Sanitation Report. Motion carried. County Cost Sharing – Starting Balance is $20,536.09/Ending Balance $20,527.09 Lynda presented final approval request for county cost sharing on a well decommissioning for Mick Pinkham, Liberty Twp., $409.00. Motion by Mark Stead, seconded by Grant Loy to approve payment. Roll Call: 7 Yes, 0 No, 0 Absent. Motion carried. SWRM Cost Sharing 2017 DATCP Cost Sharing – Beginning/Ending Balance is $9,718.45 2018 DATCP Cost Sharing – Starting Balance: $29,593.75/Ending Balance$24,343.75 Lynda presented tentative approval request for 2018 DATCP cost sharing on a streambank protection project for Kunkel Living Trust, Hazel Green Twp., $5,250.00. Motion by Lester Jantzen, seconded by Roger Guthrie to approve the Kunkel’s request. Motion carried. 2018 DATCP/DNR Grant Approval Lynda reported that this is the money that funds our staff and support as well as the SWRM cost sharing. This staffing and support funding from DATCP is to pay 100% on the first position, 70% on the second position, and 50% on the third position, these are never fully funded by the state. Lynda is requesting $193,126 for staff and support and $150,000 for cost share for 2019. Motion by Mark Stead, seconded by Grant Loy to approve Lynda’s request. Motion carried. Approval to use out of Budget Spending for the Purchase of Conservation Computers Lynda is requesting approval to use out of budget spending up to the $7169 amount of carryover in the computer account for conservation computers. There are 5 computers that are on the federal system. These computers were purchased in 2012. They are currently running Windows 7 and the USDA/NRCS has upgraded to Windows 10. Our computers are out of date and will not run off the windows 10 operating system. The cost estimate to replace the computers is $5780. These computers must be purchased by the USDA/NRCS vendors and set up by their IT department. The equipment account is a carryover account and has a balance of $7169 to be used specifically for computer upgrades. Motion by Lester Jantzen, seconded by Dale Hood to recommend approval of Lynda’s request to spend up to the $7169 in the carryover account to purchase computers and possible monitors and to request it to be sent on to the Executive Committee, then on to the full County Board. Motion carried. CSZD Administrator Report Lynda gave an update on the ground water study. Madeline Gotkowitz and Mark Borchardt are getting closer with a proposal for Grant County. Iowa County Committee has agreed to put up some funding for the study. Scott Laser, from Clean Wisconsin, said a bill was just passed that may have some funds available for our study. Lynda asked for comments from those who attended the WI Land+Water Conference that was held in Lake Geneva on March 14-16. Was mentioned that the breakout sessions were too technical. The conference will be there again in 2019. The auction items raised $205 for the info/education programs. Lynda reported that the Farmer Written NMP class was held March 27th & 28th. Was held at the UW Platteville. Chris Baxter offers his students extra credit to come and assist landowners with updating their Nutrient Management Plans. Thankful to the partnership we have with UW-Platteville and Chris Baxter. In 2 days there were 36 farmers that attended the class. A compliment from Dan Smith of the Nutrient and Pest Management/UW Extension has requested Lynda’s outline of her class for him to use as a guide with other counties that are starting the farmer written NMP class. Lynda asked the committee to think about when we can change the day that the Committee meets on. Public Hearings need to have 14 days from the date they are published to the date of our meeting. We have a deadline date to have the applications in to our office. There are times when clients need to wait an additional month to get there permit. Publications need to be to the paper by Tuesday morning and does not get published until Thursday. It adds an additional month to have their rezones heard. If we move the meeting to a Thursday, the newspaper publishes the Public Notice on Thursday so it would decrease a week wait time. Lean Update – No progress on the Continuity project being done in our office. FPP Report Kevin reported that he has a cancellation of Notice of Noncompliance for FPP for Craig Conley, Fennimore Twp. Motion by Mark Stead, seconded by Grant Loy to approve the cancellation of Notice of Noncompliance. Motion carried. Kevin reported that the Tree Sale is scheduled for April 20th. Had a typical year of 112 to 120 customers, selling 12,000 trees. Kevin reported that he has been working on new CREP contracts, and Contour strip layouts. CREP renewals for expiring CREP contracts will be coming soon. NRCS Report – Joe Schmelz Joe reported that they have a May 18th batching date for the initiatives of soil health, honey bee. August 1st from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. will be the local workgroup meeting to be held at the Belmont Community Building. This is the meeting that the 3 counties get together; Grant, Iowa and Lafayette to review what the priorities have been for EQIP, and what those priorities should be for the next funding year, for FY2019. Joe reported that CSP is still accepting applications for FY2019 and for renewals. There were around 20 applications for about 14,000 acres. Joe reported that they received their randomly generated compliance tracts, around 40 at this time. There will be more added to the total by adding FSA loan producers, and any USDA employee that owns land, any whistle blowers or 569’s. Usually end up around 50 to 60 tracts. FSA Report – Nathalie Schattner Nathalie reported that they have the ARC & PLC sign up going on right now. Around 81% of the county approved. Would like to get this sign up done before they start with crop reporting. Crop reporting will be done by appointment.  They are working on entity and records clean up. Getting the sodbusted maps cleaned up.  There has been no CRP information released yet. CREP is still available to producers.  The new milk revisions are coming. Forestry Report – None to report RC&D & WI Land+Water Report – Dale Hood – No Report Short break taken. Motion by Roger Guthrie, seconded by Dale Hood to go into closed session per state statute 19.85(1)(c) in considering employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility, specifically as it relates to the performance evaluation of the Administrator of the Conservation, Sanitation, and Zoning Department. Roll Call: 7 Yes, 0 Nay, 0 Absent. Motion carried. Return to Open Session – Vote to come out of closed session at 10:57 a.m. Motion by Dale Hood, seconded by Lester Jantzen. Motion carried. Action on Closed Session Items – None needed. Motion by Mark Stead, seconded by Grant Loy to adjourn to May 1, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. Motion carried. Respectfully Submitted by Annette Lolwing for Lester Jantzen.