By SARAH PARKER | County Line Editor
Highway 71 in Kendall will open to all-terrain vehicles and utility terrain vehicles, as the village board agreed Monday to amend its ordinance on the matter.
Highway access will be allowed between two village bridges over the Baraboo River: the westernmost and the easternmost.
The revision in local rules is in alignment with a state-law change that allows the vehicles on state highways. ATVs and UTVs already are permitted on streets within the village.
Other business
• A “glacier” of sorts has formed on Glendale Road and extends to the left side of Bruce Street, Public Works Director David Gruen noted. He said he suspected that neither a water leak nor the village well was the cause. The board agreed with Gruen to further investigate the matter in the spring.
• The volleyball courts in Glendale Park are in ill repair, and Gruen noted that the board would need to decide among three options: 1) remove the courts; 2) refurbish the courts at their current location; or 3) remove the courts to a new location.
The courts don’t see much activity, he said, though “maybe if they were nicer, they would be used more. I don’t know.”
The board will revisit the matter at a later date.
• The village has requested a change order for its new wastewater-treatment plant: a second hose reel. According to Gruen, the village had requested that its engineer, MSA Professional Services of Baraboo, Wis., include the reel in the plant drawings, but it was omitted. The village will ask MSA to cover the cost of the roughly $5,000 change order.
• After a closed session, the board agreed to pay the $52 increase in employee Joe Schnurr’s health plan.
• Three incumbents will run unopposed in the spring election: Waunnette Bunk, Art Keenan and Deb Larson.
• The village has hired two new election workers, Shelly Weber and Rita Dwyer.