The Town of Centerville will hold its annual Budget Hearing and Special Town Meeting on Thursday, November 12. At this meeting residents vote to adopt the 2020 town tax levy to be paid in 2021, to approve the total 2021 highway ex-penditures and to approve the salaries of the elected town board members for next term. The meetings begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Cleveland room at LTC and will be followed by the monthly Town Board Meeting. This meeting is also open to the public and as always, you are welcome to attend.
At the Town Board meeting we will be taking public comment regarding the abandonment of a portion of Lakeshore Drive. Please see details below:
Included on pages 10—13 in the newsletter is a copy of the budget. The budget is also available on our website or from the Town Clerk. The budget revenue will be down next year as we will not have the large amount of Bridge Aid next year. Expenses will be up for next year, but this is due to the surplus from
snow plowing last year being put into road improvements for 2021. The proposed budget has a 0% increase in the tax levy, so the town portion of your tax bill will remain the same.
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OCTOBER 2020 NEWSLETTERFORTHE TOWNOF CENTERVILLE
The Centerville Clarion
Town Website: www.townofcenterville.us Town E-mail: [email protected]
Calendar of Events
Nov 12 Budget Hearing/Public Hearing/ Special Town Meeting/Town Board Meeting, Action of the Abandonment of a portion of Lakeshore Drive - 6:30 pm Dec 10 Town Board Meeting Jan 14 Town Board Meeting Jan 31 Final date for payment of
1st Installment of Taxes
Abandonment of a Portion of Lakeshore Drive
Due to the high Lake Michigan water levels and the increased erosion of the lake bank, a portion of Lakeshore Drive near S. Cleveland Road has collapsed down the lake bank. The Town Board has passed a resolution starting the pro-cess for abandonment of a portion of Lakeshore Drive. This will create dead end roads on Lakeshore Drive and on S. Cleveland Road. Notice and map are available on the town website and posted at our posting locations.
We will be making a final decision on this at our November Town Board Meeting. If you have questions or concerns on this, please attend the meeting or contact the Town Chairman or one of the Supervisors.
November General Elections
The November General Election will be held Tuesday, November 3, 2020, at Cleveland Training Room. The polls will be open from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. If you cannot vote during these hours, please contact the Town Deputy Clerk Stacy Orth 920-838-2335 as soon as possible to obtain an absentee ballot. LTC is handicap assessable. Please note: Masks will be required due to state policy.
Candidates for the following positions will be on the ballot. Sample ballots are viewable on our website. Federal Offices State Offices County Offices President of the US State Senator County Clerk Representative in Congress Representative to the Assembly County Treasurer
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April Town Elections
It will soon be time for nomination papers for elected town offices in the April 2021 election. The following is a list of incumbents and their current office.
Town Chairman – Brian Kraemer Supervisor #1 - Jerry Vogel Supervisor #2 – Mike Bruckschen Town Treasurer – Cynthia Kraemer Anyone wishing his/her name to appear on the ballot for any office must file proper papers with the Town Clerk. Papers can be circulated starting December 1, 2020 and are due in the clerk’s office by 5:00 p.m. on January 5, 2021. If necessary, the spring primary will be held in February 2021, with the spring election held in April 2021. To obtain papers, please con-tact Paulette Vogt, Town Clerk 920-758-2720. For any information on the offices, please contact any board member.
Spring Elections
Centerville Contacts
Brian Kraemer, Chairman - 693-8935 Jerry Vogel, Supervisor - 693-3426 Mike Bruckschen, Supervisor - 693-3211 Paulette Vogt, Clerk - 758-2720Stacey Orth, Deputy Clerk - 693-8470 Cynthia Kraemer, Treasurer - 693-8935 Joe Denor, Fair Market Assessment,
Assessor - 920-468-9698 Russ Tooley, Zoning Admin - 726-4900 Ian Quinn - Law Enforcement Officer
693-8137
Roger Mayer, Bldg Inspector - 726-4583
SCHUETTE’S
HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING SHEET METAL COMPANY
Office Phone Shop Phone
920-693-8044 920-726-4443
Shop Address WAYNE SCHUETTE 5214 Cty Rd X
Cleveland, WI 53015
Tax Collection
Tax collection time will be here soon. Tax collection will be the same as last year.
Taxes may be paid either by mail or by dropping off at the Cleveland State Bank. Full details will be included with your tax bill.
Dog License
Dog Licenses can be paid with your real estate taxes, please send separate check for dog license. You must have a proof of vac-cination form to obtain your dog license. License fees are $5.00 for neutered or spayed dogs and $10.00 for un-neutered or un-spayed dogs. The deadline for dog licensing is April 1st, after the April 1st deadline there will be a late fee of an additional $25.00.
Property Inspection by the Assessor
The Town Assessor, Joe Denor, will be doing inspections soon for property owners who have issued building permits during 2020. If your property needs an interior inspection a letter will be mailed asking you to schedule an ap-pointment. Most exterior inspections will not require an apap-pointment. Property owners getting a new assessment for 2021 will receive a notice in April 2021. Open Book and
Board of Review will be held in May 2021. If you have any questions regarding your assess-ment you can contact Joe Denor at 920-468-9698.
Short Term Rentals
The Town of Centerville now requires a Short Term Rental License. This would include any property that rents out the property for more than 10 nights per year on a short term basis.
It does not pertain to monthly or yearly rentals .
Burning Permits
Town ordinances require burning permits for open
burn-ing in the town. Burnburn-ing permits may be obtained from
one of the Town Board members or Zoning
Administra-tor.
You do not need a permit for contained fires—campfire
or burning container.
If you would like to advertise in your local Clarion, please contact Town Clerk. Cost
$30 per year.
PETE’S TRUCKING, INC.
SAND & GRAVEL TRUCKING
9404 Lakeshore Road Office 920-726-4240 Newton, WI 53063 Cellular 920-323-1754
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Building Permits Required
Building Permits are available from the Zoning Administrator.
They are required on all new construction or re-modeling valued
at $800 or more and on any new construction that changes the
outside dimension of any building. Roofing projects and wells do
not require a building permit. Demolition permits are available at
no charge for removing old buildings.
If you need a permit, or have a question on building permits,
please contact Russ Tooley, 726-4900 to set up an appointment.
Winter Roads & Snow
With Winter approaching The town board asks that you consider the
following information:
Farmers: please be sure to clean all mud/debris off of the roads and
shoulders prior to freezing weather. Frozen clumps of mud can
cause serious damage to the snow plowing equipment. Also, some
landowners have routinely encroached into the town right of way
with fences and equipment. Please be sure to keep fences and
field-work behind the back slope of the ditch, not up to the bottom of the
ditch. Working into the ditch can reduce drainage which can affect
the integrity of the road.
All Residents and Landowners: Town and County Ordinances
prohibit pushing of snow across County or Town roads. When
plowing snow from driveways, please push the snow from the road
onto your property. There are a couple of reasons for this: Safety
being the most important, but piling snow along the road also
in-creases drifting and snow problems all winter.
Winter Weather: The Town of Centerville does not have a full
time road superintendent to inspect our roads and the town board
members do not get a chance to drive all town roads on a daily
ba-sis. We ask that if you notice and road problems—including snow
or ice problems—to contact one of the town board members. Please
drive carefully.
Recycling Winter Hours
Recycling News
The Recycling Center will begin Winter hours 9:00 am - 3:00 pm beginning November 1st. Please note that NO LARGE ITEMS ARE ACCEPTED between November 1 and March 31. Please note that the cost of the recycling bags at the Newton Recycling Center has increased from $.50 to $.75 per bag. Also, after the current supply of bags are out they will be selling stickers that may be used on any garbage bag. The increase and change to the stickers was necessary due to de-creases in the prices for recycled materials.
There are extra fees for the larger items, please see the fee schedule at the site or on the Newton website listed below.
A complete list of accepted recyclables may be found on the following link to the Town of Newton website: www.townofnewton.org/Procedures/Recycling.
The Centerville Website also has a link to the Manitowoc County Recycling and Disposal Guide. This is a comprehensive guide which will give you disposal options for other items that are not accepted at the New-ton/Centerville Recycling Center.
The Manitowoc County Recycling Center is also available to Centerville residents. Please check the county recycling website
www.manitowocrecycles.org
for information..Information on the Manitowoc County Hazardous Waste and Drug Collection programs are on pag-es 7 & 8 of this newsletter.
If you have any questions , please contact one of the board members.
Centerville Road Report
The Town of Centerville has almost completed the road work for the year. The final grass cutting is completed and final patching will be done soon.
This year we have used a new black stone that is now available. We are pleased with the results. The black stone provides better ice melting in winter to help provide cleaner and safer roads. Follow-ing is the list of road projects completed in 2020
Chipsealing of Center Road between County Road F and Point Creek Road,
Wedging and chipsealing of Point Creek Road between Union Road and Westview Road.
Chipsealing of Lakeshore Road between the Village of Cleveland and the Sheboygan County Line.
Wedging and Chipsealing of South Fischer Creek Road between Westview Road and North Avenue.
We are planning on completing the dead ends on Lakeshore Drive once the abandonment of the road is completed.
The winter snows in the beginning of 2020 turned out to be milder than normal. This allowed us to carry some of this surplus funds into the 2021 budget to use on road maintenance.
The Town Board appreciates you notifying us of any road problems. If you notice anything, please contact the Town Chairman or one of the Supervisors.
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SCHMIDT EXCAVATING INC.
Cat – Backhoe – Dump Truck Sand – Gravel – Top Soil
RONALD R. SCHMIDT, PRES
8229 North Avenue
Cleveland, WI 53015…………...…….693-3432
SCHNELL PLUMBING, INC
New Installation – Remodeling Work Plumbing Fixtures – Water Heaters
Ken Schnell
1230 Madison St Ph# (920)693-3409 Cleveland WI 53015 Fax# (920)693-3409
Howards Grove Meat Market
Centreville Settlement Reaches Milestone!
Centreville Settlement reached an enormous milestone on August 8, 2020. Kathy Pearce and Chris Kuehnel
put in the final stones in the north west corner of the Lutze Housebarn foundation.
This journey started with research in 1995 and in 1996 work began on the north side foundation. The north
wall was just hanging from the second floor wall and it had bowed out 3 feet from the foundation. Mr.
Her-cules, aka Chris Kuehnel, jacked up the wall around it, and weekly, gave the jacks one rotation for two years.
Jacking too fast an adjustment could have ramification throughout the building. Then, one day when he went
out to turn the screws, he was leaning on the wall with one arm trying to decide how to pull the wall back
into alignment, the wall went “ergre” and slide back into place.
Now that the building was stabilized, the damaged foundation could be removed with the use of a backhoe.
Many of the stones from fist sized to hundreds of pounds boulders were saved and with the help volunteers,
A volunteer mason company came in to supervise, a 10 inch base of cement 2 feet wide and 80 feet long was
laid 6 feet deep with rebar in it.
Again, Chris, had spent 2 summers building replicas with different mortar mixes to find just the right recipe
of sand, lime and cement and the right color.
In July, we started mixing mortar and laying stones by hand. Many volunteers participated through work
days, workshops and internships. There were people from age 6 to 90 who signed their stone and put it in
place. Kathy Pearce also gave a class and tour of stone foundation masonry around the Centerville Township.
Stone by stone, mortar batch by mortar batch, the progress continued. It was hard work as not only were
the stones heavy, but a bag of lime was 70 pounds and cement was 50 pounds. Extra stones were brought in
from surrounding farms so as to use what Gottlieb and Fredricka Lutze would have used in the 1849
House-barn. Many kids growing up on farms knew what it was to pick rocks from the field. There’s a new crop
every year.
Hard hats off to all who contributed to mixing mortar, laying stones working from the inside wall as well as
the outside, in and under beams and wearing protective gear to help us finish the monumental project.
The 501 3c corporation owns the site and welcomes volunteers for a variety of homesteading projects. To
get involved, call the project manager at 693-3141. This historical moment is to be celebrated at
Centre-ville’s only National Historic Site.
It is the time for heating season be sure to check your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors to
help protect yourself and others.
Cleveland Fire Department is looking for new members! If you or if you know of anyone that
may be interested, please contact Tony Meyer @ 920-905-1138.
Stay Safe and Healthy.
Tony Meyer, Cleveland Fire Chief
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Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership (LNRP)
Coastal Resiliency: EAB Mitigation and Coastal Infiltration with Trees
LNRP has continued to strategically plan for and implement the restoration of coastal ecosystems with
support from the US Forest Service and the Wildlife Conservation Society Climate Adaptation Fund. The
two grants are designed to mitigate the impacts of emerald ash borer and create climate resilient coastal
habitats. Project sites include coastal wetlands and forests, cold-water trout streams, riverine habitats,
bluff lands, and Lake Michigan shoreline. Each project site is a publicly held property with a group of
en-gaged stakeholders including a local unit of government, funding agencies, and an LNRP partner group.
Our stakeholders have had access to an online course, virtual workshops, and management materials
pro-vided by the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS), a unit of the US Department of
Ag-riculture’s Northern Forest Climate Hub. All of these materials are designed to create a climate
adapta-tion framework built to manage these properties long-term for both enhanced habitat quality and
im-proved water quality.
Three of the projects are in southern Manitowoc County including Hika Park, Fischer Creek Park, and
Point Creek Natural Area. Significant work has already been accomplished in Hika Park with the
restora-tion of Centerville Creek and at Point Creek Natural Area with the planting of over 2000 trees in May of
2019.
LNRP has captured the effort by using drone video to showcase the work and create a tool for long-term
management. Video footage was completed by Nick Musson of Compass Video Creation.
Each video includes :
Location Map
Climate adaptation message
Coastal infiltration with habitat enhancements and water quality improvements
Recognition of our partners, funders, and stakeholders
The first set of videos (Hika Park and Fischer Creek Park) were completed in 2020 and were given to
stakeholders for each project site for their inputs on the narrative. We hope to complete the Point Creek
video later this year. Our plan is to return after the projects are complete showing project outcomes. We
plan to add a testimonial insert from LNRP and a local land steward as we move into the implementation
phase of the project.
Please find the site videos at:
County Representatives
Bob Ziegelbauer—County Executive 683-5107 Kevin Behnke—County Supervisor 920-323-2577 State Representatives
Devin LeMahieu—State Senator 1-888-295-8750 Tyler Vorpagel—State Assembly 1-888-529-0027
National Representatives
Ron Johnson—US Senator 1-202-224-5323 Oshkosh Office—1-920-230-7250 Tammy Baldwin – US Senator 1-202-224-5653
Madison Office—1-608-264-5338
Glenn Grothman – US Representative 1-202-225-2476 Fond Du Lac Office—1-920-907-0624
County, State & Federal Contacts for Centerville
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Manitowoc County Phragmites Control Program Update
The Town of Centerville has been participating with Manitowoc County, Manitowoc County Towns and the Lakeshore Resource Partnership, Inc. and other local organizations on a county wide program to control Phragmites and Japanese Knotweed.
Thank you to all landowners who have signed up for the program to allow treatment of the invasive spe-cies.
There is still one year left on the grant to receive free treatment. Please take advantage of this program. Please see the following Phragmites Update:
The Phragmites control project for Manitowoc County ended the 2020 treatment season on the 20
thof
Oc-tober. Approximately 2,334 sites totaling 635 acres of the invasive plants were treated by team from
Stan-tec Consulting Services. Next year’s treatment in 2021 will be the last year of available funding from
grants sponsored by the Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership (LNRP).
It takes two years of herbicide treatment to kill the underground rhizome system of this invasive species.
This year, Stantec crews started with hand spraying treatment of sites treated in previous years. First time
treatment sites were treated with machine crews later in the summer and early fall. The treatment crews
do one township at a time as they work through the County. Some of the sites recently granted
permis-sion by the landowners was not treated if their application was too late.
In order for you site to be treated with this grant, a written permission form must be returned to Melissa
Curran from Stantec,
[email protected]
or call for a form from Tom Ward 920-588-0047. If
your sites have not been mapped or you have not received a post card you would need to contact us. We
have had landowners discovering new sites on their property that were not in our program and some
folks are hearing about the project from their neighbors.
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