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The Town of Morse board handled routine business at a meeting on Wednesday.
Librarian Rachel Heinrich was at the meeting to talk about an upcoming purchase.
She said the bin that is used to catch books is in disrepair and needs to be replaced.
Board member Terry Soderberg said when he returns books after hours he tries to be careful in sliding the books in. Heinrich said this will help with that as well.
The board approved the expense of $1,639 to replace the bid for the outdoor book return.
The board heard from road employee Butch Pecha on two requests.
Pecha asked to change the type of blades used on the grader to a pick design that is also being used by St. Louis County. He said to change over to the pick blade and purchase replacement parts would have a total cost of $5,000.
“That will last you the life of the grader,” said Pecha.
He also asked to replace the seat in the grader which has fallen into disrepair.
“I talked to Mike Velcheff after he spent nine hours grading and he said his back was killing him,” said Pecha.
The board approved the grader blades and up to $2,000 to replace the seat.
Soderberg gave an update on the short course he attended that was put on the Minnesota Association of Townships. He explained how over $800,000 was stolen from MAT through a phishing scheme.
Soderberg said the Legislative Day for townships was a failure with only 80 people showing up. There are 55,500 miles of township roads in Minnesota which are 20 percent of the roads and yet there is very little funding provided by the state.
In other business the board:
• Discussed the May 7 Local Board of Appeal and Equalization meeting where a citizen used foul language. • Set May 17 as the date for road inspection.
• Discussed the second Morse-Fall Lake Community Wildfire Strategic Planning Workshop scheduled for Monday, May 20 from 5-7 p.m. at the Fall Lake Town Hall.
• Heard from clerk Nick Wognum who gave an update on the new Town of Morse website which is up and running at www.townofmorsemn. com. He said the morsemn.gov designation is still in the works.
• Approved recreation funding of $9,500 with no changes from 2023.
• Discussed not putting calcium chloride on township roads this year.
