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2008.03.19

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Approved Minutes: Lake Herman Sanitary District Regular Meeting
Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
Madison Public Library meeting room, Madison, SD

Call to order 6:30 p.m. Members present: Lawrence Dirks, Charles Stoneback, Cory Allen Heidelberger. Also present:

All motions approved unanimously unless otherwise indicated.

  1. Approval of Agenda. Stoneback moved, Dirks seconded, approved.

  2. Approval of Minutes from January 30, 2008, meeting. Stoneback moved, Dirks seconded

  3. Treasurer's report: Balance as of 2/25/2008: $9,140.92. Expenses: meeting fees $150. Madison Daily Leader, $113.39. Madison Daily Leader $31.67. Heidelberger will  mail Johnson's permit fee for Whitethorns' and Lammers's latest bill to Dirks. Dirks also notes receipt of special assessment payment from county of $15.56 in January. CD comes due 5/14; automatically renews unless we say otherwise.

  4. Approve list of tax roll changes from Equalization office for County Commission approval. The board reviewed a list of drops, adds, and splits in legal descriptions prepared by Shirley Ebsen in the Lake County Equalization office. The changes reflect the changes to the tax rolls made necessary by bringing the tax rolls into agreement with the official 1978 map. Stoneback moved, Dirks seconded to approve changes by County on tax rolls.

  5. Discuss Heidelberger's candidacy for school board: Counsel Jerome Lammers informed board by mail that no legal conflict exists between sanitary district and school board offices. No action necessary.

  6. Discuss purpose and future of district

    1. Dissolution of district: Requires too much effort to reestablish, not advised.

    2. Scaling back of district operations: No need to change schedule, no action.

    3. Pursuit of feasibility study: No action.

    4. Monitoring of lake: Stoneback noted that monitoring is already funded at several sites through East Dakota Water Development District; no action recommended.

    5. Inspection/certification of existing systems: Stoneback suggests getting input from installers, finding out what is possible, getting objective criteria for inspections. Stoneback moves, Dirks seconds, to invite all Lake County septic installers to our next meeting to get information that we can use to set up a doable septic tank inspection routine. Board designates Heidelberger to contact installers and also seek information from DENR on existing criteria and any existing inspection regimes.

    6. Septic tank education effort: pamphlets, educational meeting with expert, other options: to be contingent on what we learn from our discussion with the installers at our next meeting.

  7. Set date, time, place of next meeting: Wednesday, April 23, 6:30 p.m. Madison Public Library Meeting Room.

  8. Adjourn: Stoneback moves, Heidelberger seconds. Board adjourns at 7:32 p.m.


Submitted 3/19/2008
Cory Allen Heidelberger,
Lake Herman Sanitary District Board

approved 4/23/2008