The Town Board passed 2 ordinances at its meeting on December 3, 2019.  One was routine, allowing the town to use a more up to date records retention and destruction policy, and allowing some records to be destroyed without prior notification to the Wisconsin State Historical Society.  The other was more substantive.  It sets a referendum, to be voted on in April, on whether the town clerk and treasurer positions should be changed from elective positions to appointive positions.  This matters, because as things currently sit, only an elector of the township can serve in either position.  The town came close to having no clerk in April this year, when the previous clerk retired, and no one ran to take her place.  The board seeks to prevent this problem from recurring.  Both ordinances can be read and reviewed in the Ordinance section of this website.

At the Town Board meeting on December 3, 2019, the Board will be appointing election inspectors to work the elections for 2020 & 2021.  If you are interested even a little bit, please call or text 608-424-3848, or send an email to montrose@chorus.net.  Training is simple, and can be done online at your convenience.  Working the polls is a great way to meet your neighbors and support our democracy.  And there is a bit of pay. Also, by law, State employees can just take time off from work without using vacation or sick time, with proper notice to supervisors.  Other employers, such as Dane County and other municipalities, may have similar policies.   So if you are an elector in the Town of Montrose, and think you might enjoy helping your township in this way – do get in touch before the evening of December 3.

The Belleville Public Library, 130 South Vine Street, Belleville,  will be hosting free infant CPR classes on November 19th and December 3rd, 2019, between 6 and 8 p.m.  Registration is required because of limited seating.  Call 608-424-1812 to reserve a spot.

No applications having been filed, there will be no Land Use Committee (LUC) meeting this month.   Any applications for action in December 2019 are due by December 2, 2019.  The December meeting, if there is business for the meeting, will be held on December 16, 2019.

The annual meeting of the Belleville, Exeter and Montrose Fire and EMS District will be held on September 30, 2019.  The meeting will start with board members from the constituent municipalities having dinner at Borlands in Belleville at 7 p.m., and will continue with the formal meeting at 8:00 p.m. at the Belleville Village Hall.

The Town was notified that the Wisconsin Asphalt Paving Association (WAPA) has two engineering scholarships available, with online applications due by November 7, 2019. One is for study of engineering in college, the other for study of engineering technician certification in technical college.  More information is available at http://www.wispave.org/wapa-scholarships/.  

As no applications have been received this month, there will be no Land Use Committee meeting in September, 2019.  The next scheduled meeting is on October 28, 2019, with any applications to be submitted by October 14, 2019.

Enjoy Labor Day, but don’t put out your trash and recycling.  Pellitteri’s will pick up for the Town of Montrose on Tuesday, September 3rd.

The Fire and EMS District meeting will be held on 22 August 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Belleville EMS Building

On September 12, 2019 Jerry Apps, the author of “Simple Things: Lessons from the Family Farm”, will be giving a talk about his book, including reminiscences from the 1940’s and 1950’s.  The event will be at the Belleville High School Auditorium at 7:00 p.m.  Further information is available at https://www.bellevillelibrary-wi.org/simple-things-jerry-apps.