A smiling Art Anderson gets set to vote in the Schroeder election. The election judges, from left, are Carol Tveekrem, Lavonne Anderson, and Jan Dillon. Art, who is married to Lavonne, was getting some teasing from the judges about wearing bright white new tennis shoes.
Phil Bonin was elected moderator for the Schroeder township yearly meeting after Steve Schug declined the option to serve in that position.
The meeting was lightly attended; only 21 people turned out to discuss township business.
No preliminary 2019 levy was set. The levy discussion was tabled until the continuation of the annual meeting which will be held Wednesday, August 15.
Last year the levy was $55,000.
Bruce Martinson was reelected to his supervisor position with 16 votes. Doug Schwecke retained his clerk position with 19 votes. No one ran against them in the election.
Bud Buckman was elected Schroeder Citizen of the Year.
Schroeder fire chief Phil Bonin said his crew only had to respond to three calls last year, all of them were accidents.
Bonin also gave the Rescue Squad report. Both Tofte and Schroeder share in the cost to operate the combined rescue squad. All told, the volunteers who serve on the Tofte/ Schroeder rescue squad attended to 41 calls, only 10 of them in Schroeder. Usually, the requests for help are about equal.
Martinson reported that there are 306 cemetery plots in the Schroeder cemetery. Of those, 124 are in use, 129 have been sold, and 53 are unsold. Martinson asked that if anyone knew of someone who had purchased a plot and then died and was buried elsewhere, to let the township know. He said he has known about two such cases and the town could enact a buy-back policy if more were learned about.
A discussion was held about the request from Tofte for $7,000 that could help pay for the maintenance of the Birch Grove Community Center. No decisions were made, but the supervisors may vote to allot, or not grant that money to Tofte if they so choose.
Tina McKeever gave the recreation report. Over the last year, McKeever said the township has put up a Little Free Library and a bench at the community center, both acquired through funds awarded from the Great Place Race sponsored by the Cook County Chamber of Commerce. Plans for the upcoming year are to stain the steps at the community center and attend to the welcome wall, among other things.
Rick Anderson gave the 2017 Road and Bridge report. Anderson cited the work done to upgrade the community center parking lot, the installation of the town hall sign, and right of way clearing that was done on the Sugar Loaf Road last year.
For 2018, road work projects include ditch clearing and clearing on the Sugar Loaf Road. Plans are to install up to 3,000 yards of class 5 gravel on sections of the Sugar Loaf Road and pave the Schroeder Tote Road and the Baraga’s Cross Road.
In a bit of whimsy, it was learned that Schroeder has 120 registered voters.
County commissioner Ginny Storlie gave all three townships a detailed report about county business. When she spoke to Schroeder, she said one of her priorities was to see if the county could use/rent/ lease the Minnesota Power maintenance building and use it for the county’s west end highway maintenance garage/workshop. Storlie also talked about the current legislative sessions she attended both in St. Paul and Washington, D.C. as a representative of Cook County. Storlie did an excellent job with every one of her reports to the townships.
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