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Town Board Mtg. Agenda April 14, 2026
STATE OF WISCONSIN
Town of Washburn
Bayfield County
The Town Board of the Town of Washburn, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, hereby provides its written notice and agenda of the public meeting of the Town Board for Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 7:00 PM at the Town of Washburn Town Hall. The meeting may be attended either virtually with the link below or in person.
Agenda
- Call to order and roll call
- Verification of proper public notice
- Pledge of Allegiance
- Public Comment
Consider for approval or other action:
- Acceptance of Agenda
- Approve Minutes from previous meeting
- School Board of Washburn Resolution
- Update/Action on Town Dust Ordinance(s)/Town Roads Dust Mitigation
- Reports
- Clerk
- Treasurer
- Road Crew
- Chair
- Approval of Reports
- Plan Commission
- Town Board Resolution for Transportation Funding
- Scheduled Bid for West Engoe Road Double Chip Seal Project
- Mowing the Landfill this Summer
- Items to be placed on future agendas
- Authorize the payment of bills
- Adjournment
Meeting notice posted this 9th day of April 2026 on the Town’s website at https://townofwashburn.wi.gov and at: Town of Washburn Town Hall and Tetzner’s Dairy
The following link or phone number can be used to participate in this meeting:
Google Meet joining info:
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/dgs-dbas-onf
Or dial: (US) +1 520-485-7759 PIN: 651 740 995#
Scottie Sandstrom, Chair
Town Board Closed Session Meeting Agenda April 14, 2026
STATE OF WISCONSIN
Town of Washburn
Bayfield County
The Town Board of the Town of Washburn, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, hereby provides its written notice and agenda of the Town Board Meeting on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM. This is a special closed session meeting of the board for the purpose of discussing personnel issues.
Agenda
Call to order and roll call
Verification of proper public notice
- The Board will go into closed session to consider employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of employees over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility. WI Statutes s. 19.85 (1)(c).
- The Board will go out of closed session to consider employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of employees over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility. WI Statutes s. 19.85 (1)(c).
- Adjourn
Meeting notice posted this 9th day of April, 2026 on the Town’s website at https://townofwashburn.wi.gov and at: Washburn Town Hall, Tetzner’s Dairy.
Scottie Sandstrom, Chair
Notice – Voting Machine Testing
TOWN OF WASHBURN
Bayfield County
30015 County Hwy C
Washburn WI 54891
Public Notice
Town of Washburn will be conducting voting machine
testing on Wednesday, April 1, 2026 at 3:00 pm at the
Town Hall, 30015 County Hwy C, Washburn, WI 54891.
Town Board Mtg. Minutes February 10, 2026
STATE OF WISCONSIN
Town of Washburn
Town Meeting Minutes – February 10, 2026
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm.
In attendance: Scottie Sandstrom, Seth Vasser, Matt Tetzner, Vicki Thoen, Mike Harvey, Kim Bro, Tom Cogger, Wendy Stein (on-line)
Public Notice was verified: website, Ashland Daily Press, and Tetzner’s Dairy
Public Comments: Tom Cogger presented a painting of the Town Hall that included history of the building. It was painted by Connie Cogger. Kim Bro wrote the history. The building was built in 1905 and was originally a one room school house. The picture will be hung in the Town Hall.
A motion to accept the agenda was made by Matt, seconded by Seth, all ayes. Motion carried.
A motion was made by Seth to accept the minutes from the previous meetings, seconded by Matt, all ayes. Motion carried.
Reports:
Clerk: Tamarack Health no longer does random drug testing. Learned that they can be done at Essentia Health in Ashland. Will be getting that set up soon. Discussed moving payday from Tuesday after the end of the pay period to Thursday to allow more time to processed in Quick Books. Matt made a motion that we move payday to Thursday, Seth seconded, all ayes. Motion carried. Completed a housing survey for the State. In 2025 the Township lost one single family home on Lucia Road and added 4 single family homes. There is an outstanding balance of $1500 for snow plowing 2022-2023. The information isn’t in QB to determine who owes the money. Will research further.
The WI Towns Association meeting is March 28 at Lakewood’s in Cable. Let Vicki know if you will attend and she will send in registration.
Treasurer: Officially finished with the town’s duty of collecting taxes. Collected $664,235 in total for the first installment of the 2025 property taxes. Of that amount, the Town of Washburn will receive $50,871.78. Property owners have until the end of July to submit the second installment to the County Treasurer. There was an overpayment of $918.45 from two separate property owners. Checks will be sent to them for reimbursement. The bank is reconciled for January. A journal entry was made for $527 to force the reconciliation due to posting errors discovered in prior periods.
Road Crew: There has been a reprieve from snow so a lot of maintenance has been done. The tractor is at Lulich. The total price to fix the transmission is estimated at $26,000. $8000 was budgeted to repair brakes. Mike asked what a new tractor would cost and it was estimated at $202,000 for a New Holland tractor. Discussion was had on if we should fix it or work on replacing it. Matt offered to research options. Scottie asked if we could share tractor with county Mike didn’t think so because it’s used so much in the summer.
Chair: Bayfield Elec needs to be added to insurance as loss payee for solar energy. We will include it when we renew our insurance at the end of April. Met with John Carlson and Bob Olson & Pam about dust ordinance. Pam mentioned ordinance NR415 and that our ordinance should be amended to match NR415. John agreed it would be good for us to amend the ordinance to agree with NR415. Our current ordinance focuses on the property owner and NR15 places responsibility on both the owner and the truckers. John will work with Pam to amend the current ordinance. Dayton Road – property going up for sale, we are supposed to maintain to within .26 of a mile. We aren’t maintaining quite enough on that road. There’s a culvert that needs to be replaced and in spring we will maintain based on our obligation. Jan 20 a meeting was held at Washburn City Hall including all the entities that have the responsibility of overseeing the reclaimed Landfill on South Maple Hill Road in the Town of Washburn, which include the City of Washburn, the Town of Bayview and the Town of Washburn. Matt Dickenson of the WisDOT was invited to be present, also in attendance were Kim Bro, Don Jenicek from Town of Bayview, and Mary Motiff Mayor of Washburn. We want get as much clay as possible from the City of Washburn’s project next year to cover more of the landfill. When contracts are bid the city will contact the contractor and we could be first in line for that dirt. Scottie attended the quarterly meeting for the recycling center in Town of Barksdale. The contract with Republic will be renewed this spring. Sandra Raspotnik (School Board member) asked to be added to next month’s agenda. She wants electors made aware of the private school vouchers that are available. We will be adding supervisors and treasurer phone numbers to the website.
Seth moved to approve the reports, Matt seconded, all ayes. Motion carried.
Plan Commission – Kim Bro – Distributed copies of the Comprehensive Plan. There are 11 pages of things we committed to doing for 2025-2026. One area is Economic Development. good area to work remotely. Encouraged to promote Dark Skies, committee is working on ideas for this. Will include information in the upcoming newsletter. Every year members of the plan committee come up for re-election. Caroline Twombly is this year. Checking to see if she will run again.
Motion was made by Scottie to appoint Elizabeth Hughes as an additional Poll Worker. Matt seconded, all ayes. Motion carried.
Annual Newsletter Planning – mail by mid-March, approve at March meeting. Submit information to Vicki.
Finalizing and Approving Road Crew Hire Profile Ad – Seth updated the job ad . Seth will post on Indeed, Scottie will submit to the Daily Press. Vicki will look into FB admin credentials. Run Indeed until March 15. Use town garage phone number in the ad.
Plan for 2026 Insurance Policy Review- time to shop for new coverage. Rural Ins is a good option. Great Lakes Ins – Dave Martinsen. Get quotes by March Meeting current policy ends end of April
Items to be placed on future agendas:
School Board of Washburn President
Review applications (possible closed session to review)
Mower/tractor update
Appointing planning commission members
Dust Ordinance update
Authorize the payment of bills: after reviewing the check details for Jan. 14 – Feb. 10, Seth moved that we authorize the payment of bills, Matt seconded. All ayes, motion carried.
Adjournment: at 8:55 PM Seth made the motion to adjourn, Scottie seconded. All ayes, motion carried. Meeting adjourned.
Vicki Thoen, Clerk
Updated Budget – March 2026
March 2026 Financial Report
NEWS RELEASE – PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT – LOAD RESTRICTIONS
Town of Washburn
PO Box 216
Washburn, WI 54891
NEWS RELEASE – PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
LOAD RESTRICTIONS
Pursuant to Section 348.16, Wisconsin State Statutes, the Town of Washburn will impose road restrictions beginning at 12 Noon – Thursday, March 12, 2026.
All Town of Washburn town roads will allow a 10-ton maximum weight load.
Respectfully submitted,
Scottie Sandstrom – Chair
Town of Washburn chair@townofwashburn.wi.gov
715-373-2567
Updated 2026 Budget – February
February 2026 Financial Report
Job Posting – Road Dept Staff Member
TOWN OF WASHBURN
Road Department Staff Member
The Town of Washburn Board will be accepting applications for the position of Road Department Staff Member until 4:00 PM on Monday, March 16, 2026.
Applicants should meet the following qualifications at a minimum.
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- Hold a valid Wisconsin Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) or be able to receive one within one year of employment.
- Be able to follow written and verbal directions.
- Be able to perform heavy physical tasks under varying working conditions.
- Have experience in equipment maintenance and repair including gas and diesel machinery and small engines.
- Have experience in the operation of trucks, heavy construction equipment, and small power tools.
- Be available to work on short notice.
- 3 years of construction/maintenance experience; road maintenance preferred
- Preference will be given to qualified Town of Washburn residents.
Average of 30 hours per week.
A resume and cover letter should be returned to
Scottie Sandstrom, Town of Washburn Town Chair, P.O. Box 216 Washburn, WI 54891
or email to chair@townofwashburn.wi.gov.
For further information call 715-373-2567.
THE TOWN OF WASHBURN IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Town of Washburn Road Crew/Maintenance Worker Job Description
General Statement of Duties: Performance in a variety of tasks involving construction maintenance and repairs to the roads of the Town of Washburn, facilities and equipment, and building maintenance.
Job Description: The Employee will perform manual tasks in the maintenance, construction and repair of town road and right-of-ways. The Road Maintenance Worker may operate a truck, plow, heavy equipment, hand tools, motorized equipment, mowers, tractors and various other equipment. Assignments are supervised and outlined by the Town Board, whose Chairman and/or Supervisors will delegate duties and inspect the progress of work competed, from time to time, in conformance with established standards and specifications, safety and economy of operations. Employees in this position are expected to exercise some judgment in work methods and planning detail.
Examples of Work: (The following duties are normal for this position. The duties are not to be construed as exclusive or al-inclusive. Other duties may be required and assigned).
- Drive trucks, haul & stockpile dirt, gravel & salt, blacktop and fill for road repairs.
- Patch roads with hot and/or cold blacktop mix, resurface roads, grading roads, rolling roads, graveling roads.
- Check and inventory Culverts, plus check that shoulders are sufficient on all roads.
- Erect road signs in accordance with state requirements, install & repair, plus make/order new signs as necessary.
- Operate power equipment including attachments, maintain & repair equipment in good operating condition.
- Perform carpentry and masonry work in constructing and repairing roads.
- Plow snow/contracted driveways/remove snow/grading, salt and sand town roads.
- Pick up trash and debris, clean catch basins and remove leaves.
- Perform shop work, welding and carpentry work on town property.
- Operation of a chain saw, removing and hauling of trees, brush and stumps, plus mowing, brushing, and clearing right of ways.
- Do Town Hall repairs and regular cleaning, maintenance, snow shoveling/plowing.
- Load road ratings onto the PASER rating system of the DOT WISLR site.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Town Chairman and/or Town Supervisors.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of general maintenance, construction, tools and equipment, with the ability to operate heavy construction and related equipment.
- Taking the safety precautions necessary to perform maintenance, construction and repair work.
- Knowledge of the methods, materials, tools and practice in a least one of the building trades and of road maintenance repair.
- Ability to perform specialized, semi-skilled maintenance and repair.
- Ability to perform strenuous work, including heavy lifting.
- Anticipate and respond to weather emergency events requiring road maintenance under adverse weather conditions.
- Ability to carry out oral and written instructions.
- Possession of a valid Wisconsin CDL driver’s license.
- Participation required in random drug and alcohol testing.
- Willingness to work outside of normal work hours.
- Proficient in utilizing a computer with knowledge of Word & Excel.