The regular meeting of the Pelican Town Board was called to order by chairman Bruce Galles. Present: Bruce Galles, Ted Rice, Bob Olson, Suzanne Goerges and Shirley Wallin.

Bills to be paid were presented, B. Olson made a motion to pay all bills seconded by T. Rice, motion carried.

Bids were opened for the Sunset Valley Rd. project at 8:10 PM. Received 1 bid from Anderson Brothers Construction, Brainerd, MN. in proper form and proper time. Bid contained a 5% bid bond from Travelers Casualty and other documents. Based on the bid specs Anderson Brothers bid was $162,892.69 signed by project manager Al Knowlen.  Al Knowlen will see when they move the asphalt Plant to Swenson Pit by Pequot Lakes and will let us know if the time line is close, Township willing to wait to save some money for mobilization purposes. No other bids received. B. Olson made a motion to accept Anderson Brothers bid for $162,891.69, seconded by T. Rice, discussion held-B. Galles mentioned he’d like to keep the flexibility for about a week or so to reduce the cost for mobilization. Motion carried unanimously.
Channel Lane bid opened-Received 1 bid from Anderson Brothers signed by project manager Al Knowlen. Bid Bond for 5 % from Travelers Casualty and other documents were included. Based on the bid specs Anderson Brothers bid was $44,878.19. No other bids received for Channel Lane. Bid could not be awarded at this time as we need this to go through the DNR and through Rob Hall at Crow Wing County, B. Galles will send the abstract info to Rob Hall at Crow Wing County.  By general consensus the board agrees the bid looks appropriate. T. Rice made a motion we accept Anderson Brothers bid contingent on approval by the DNR, seconded by B. Olson, motion carried.

Minutes of the March meeting were reviewed, B. Galles made a motion to accept the minutes, seconded by B. Olson, motion carried.

Treasurers report given: Opening Balance: $266,557.37, Receipts: $499.77, Disbursements: $4,149.91, Ending  Balance: $262,907.23, Checkbook Balance: $950.87, Savings Balance: $60.858.46, CD Balance $201,097.90, All Funds Balance: $262,907.23. B. Olson made a motion to approve Treasurers report, seconded by T. Rice, motion carried.

No Police Report.

Correspondences were read- Nisswa Fire Contract was signed and returned.

Road Report:  T. Rice gave report. T. Rice checked on the tar pot, he said Lake Edwards Township was going to sell one of their tar pots for $300.00. T. Rice looked at our tar pot and it is quite a bit smaller and starting to crack in places and sort of obsolete. T. Rice will contact George Burnard from Lake Edwards Township and go and look at the tar pot and see if we can negotiate, possibly purchasing tar together to get a better deal. T. Rice will contact Anderson Brothers about getting them to bring Class 1 for shouldering on quite a few of our roads, this will be a separate road project.  B. Galles will call Al Knowlen from Anderson Brothers to set up a time for him to come out and review the Sunset Valley Rd. project so the board can go over some of the specific things they would like see done such as possibly adding fill in the dips past Ruth Wallin’s house to the top of the hill to make as level as possible. Looking at scheduling for last week of April. 

No committee reports

No Old Business

No transfer of funds

Next regular meeting will be Monday May 8, 2006 at 7:30 PM

Meeting adjourned by General Consent
 

Respectfully Submitted,

Shirley Wallin, Clerk