Boyceville asks for speed study on Highway 79

BOYCEVILLE — The village board is going to ask the State Department of Transportation to do a speed study on State Highway 79 within the village.

Boyceville Police Chief Greg Lamkin addressed the village board at their meeting Monday evening, March 14 and indicated that the speed limits on Highway 79 in the village are confusing. He stated if you turn off Highway 170 going north on Highway 79 you have a 25 mile per hour limit and then a school zone with a 15 mile per hour limit and then after crossing the bridge over Tiffany Creek the limit changes to 35 miles per hour and then it drops down to 15 miles per hour in the Tiffany Creek Elementary School zone.

He suggested that the entire street in the village be limited to 30 miles per hour and 15 miles per hour in the two school zones when children are present going to and from school.

The board discussed the matter and it was suggested that maybe the limit should be reduced to 25 miles an hour. But several members felt that was too slow for the distance of the highway within the village.

The board took action to accept the bid from a firm from Prentice, Wisconsin called Biewer Lumber to harvest the timber on several pieces of property that the village owned. They accepted the Biewer bid because it was ten dollars a cord higher than another bid. All members of the board agreed, except village president Gib Krueger, who objected because they will not complete the job until the end of 2017. Krueger stated that he would like to see the work all done yet this year.

The board approved hiring Weber Inspections to do the building inspections on 1980 and newer buildings and then appointed Don Rose to do the inspections on older buildings.

The board also approved an operator’s license to Sabrina Anderson.

The board adjourned into closed session and took action on the pay schedule for the Clerk/Treasurer’s position.