Maintenance a concern at Salem annual meeting

By Gail Peckler-Dziki
Correspondent

During the Town of Salem annual meeting held April 19, town officials reported that 2015 revenues were up nearly $600,000 from 2014.

Revenues for 2015 were nearly 7,400,000 as compared to the nearly $7,000,000 in 2014.

Total expenditures for 2015 were $9.5 million while the 2014 expenditures were just over $9 million.

Two Town of Salem residents, Lydia and Robert Breul, appeared at the April 19 2016 annual meeting to speak about their travails with flooded property.

“I can’t plant my garden and the farmer to whom we rent some acres can’t plant his field,” Lydia Breul said.

The Breuls own 53 acres that border the lower end of Camp Lake and attribute the flooding to the concrete dam placed on Highway AH by the Department of Natural Resources.

Lydia Breul suggested that they might send the town a bill of $1,000 a month for every month they are not able to rent out the field. Town chairwoman Diann Tesar explained the town does not control the concrete dam or the culvert near it that might need to be cleaned out.

“We can contact Kenosha County to request that they check the culvert and clean it out,” Tesar said.

The full story appears in the April 29 edition of the Westosha Report


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