Evansville fills some appointments

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[The Evansville Village Board of Commissioners last week confirmed a number of appointments, while failing to make appointments to other key positions for the coming fiscal year.

Village Treasurer Debbie Argus is moving from the area, creating a vacancy that Mayor Mark Otten and the board have yet to address. The board approved Otten's selection of Casey Wilson to temporarily fill in as village clerk. Cindy Kueker will become the village clerk after the completion of training she is undergoing for the position.

Kueker was also reappointed as village collector.

No appointments were named for village attorney, village engineer, and village superintendent.

Chief of Police Brian Thomas was reappointed, as was Fire Chief Ed Braun. Howard Gallois was appointed zoning administrator and Kent Wall animal control officer.

Village Committee chairmen were named as follows: Finance, Ron Heinen; Streets Department, Allen Kloepper; Parks and Police, Nick Schoenberg; Water and Sewer, Steve Kueker and Daniel Lohmann.

Sue Levery, a resident, presented a petition expressing concerns over excessive dust being emitted by the FS grain storage by the riverfront. The petitioners say the situation has gotten worse and want it corrected.

Levery told the board that filters to prevent the dust have been employed in other communities.

Otten said he'd discuss the matter with FS officials.

A weed killer order is turning into a killer order in more ways than one. Clean Industries filled an order from the village, sending 60 gallons of the stuff and charging the village almost $4,000. The board felt both the price and the amount were excessive.

Otten subsequently said at an earlier meeting that he'd talked to the company and they'd agreed to take back the order at no charge to the village. So, the village returned the weed killer.

Now, Clean Industries has billed a 20 percent restocking fee, much to the chagrin of the board. Obviously no one on the board is in favor of paying roughly $800 for nothing.

Otten told the board he will decide if he will again contact Clean Industries and see if he can get them to change their mind or if he'll turn the matter over to the village attorney.