Douglas Denton Monterey Town Council President

09/13/2026

The dog post has been removed the situation we believe has been resolved thank you everyone.

09/11/2026

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09/11/2026

09/11/2026

To honor those who lost their lives 25 years ago on September 11, the town flags will be flown at half staff Friday. Town Council

09/09/2026

Good evening. Next month we will adopt our 2027 budget for the town. We are once again balanced and have some reserves for emergencies. The task over the last many budgets has not been easy.
It required hard conservative discipline and restraint. The urge to spend, spend, spend or borrow is always barking. We do our best to try to meet the daily needs of each of you. We understand that some will always be upset about any one thing that is done, but that is to be expected.
We have achieved this by understanding how the law and rules change and keep changing. The board wants to thank our clerk, Linda, who does a great job on keeping us informed on numbers so we can make informed choices. We want to thank both Ray and Dennis for their fine work they do for the town in running the sewer operations here and Ditmire's for their mowing, leaf pickup and snowplowing.
The hundreds of hours spent by me on policy and conversations, looking for outside help where we can, and building relationships with the county, Sheriff and Highway Department have been a must.
Our relationship with Shieriff Schramm and former Sheriff Richwine has always been a good working one with mutual respect, and we thank them both for their service to this community.
Things will never be 100% perfect, but rest assured we work at keeping the lights on here and the wheel going forward every day. I always promised to have balanced budgets here and we have done this again. The work is never done, and each finished job or project leads to the next.
Thank you for your support
Doug, Aaron,Josh Town Council

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09/09/2026

Good afternoon. We will again be fogging for mosquitos next Monday the 14th weather permitting.

09/09/2026

Last night's town board meeting we first addressed the new budget for 2027 that will be adopted. We asked for questions and with none we closed the public session. The budget will be adopted in October.

We then moved onto updates from Ray, our sewer plant treatment operator. He informed us that we have a new IDEM person who did an inspection both with him and Dennis, our plant collection operator. Both pass this. We were told by both gentlemen that their respective facilities are working, and any issues are being taken care of. Up next, we talked about the new vacuum pump that will be delivered next week and soon put into service. At this point, we were able to bring the cost of the new pump in under what we figured from $26,900.00 to $25,200.00, a small savings. We also talked about the remaining pump, its age and how to move forward on it. We will be looking at that process next. Next up, I updated the board on the Sportsman's. My report is the same as the one I posted here yesterday in regard to what the time frame is etc.

We voted to do another mosquito fogging most likely next week and will post that date when we have it.

Steve Bauer asked at the meeting about storm drain work. He is concerned about slow drainage at his street residence on Walnut. We informed Steve that we were planning more drain/basin cleaning and jetting by Nelsons but had to switch gears due to the cost of the new vacuum pump and other obligations. We will hopefully be doing more of this work soon. Our goal is to clean, inspect and address every drain in town, but it is a process that takes time and funds. We also spoke about the overall cost of redoing drains and streets, the same as we talked about in the past, and what those bond commitments would be if they were to be obtained. Our rough figures were somewhere in the $3600.00 option tax attachment to in-town property taxes per home for a period of about 25 years per household if funding could even be underwritten. We have not and are not looking to do that, but we have done the studies and cost. We thank those who took part in this year's festival and those who put the event on.

All bills were approved and signed.
Town Council

09/08/2026

Regular meeting

09/08/2026

Good afternoon. I want to update on the Sportsman’s here in town. In speaking with the County Building Inspector, the project is still on track to start, but a delay has happened. Originally, there was an asbestos study done in 2015 at the time the building fell and completed.

An anonymous complaint was reported to IDEM recently with regard to this report and the building.

As some might recall, in 2015 some cleanup was attempted without permits and so on. The belief is that the original asbestos issue (furnace pipes) is still there, but now a new site check is being done to bring the site updated or basically double check to see where material might have been taken or not in that attempt. This analysis will be done by a private company for IDEM. We are confident that this will only delay this work for a brief time and that process is in the works. Containers for this work for hauling off debris could still be on site this week. We were hopeful of a start date of today, but we must follow rules like we have done since we got involved in 2016. If there is a site issue, we are sure that those issues will be handled by IDEM or an agent for them. The court order is still active for the work and the cleanup will go forward. All questions about the site should be given to the county as they are the governing authority over this.

Town Council.