At is April 14, 2020 meeting, the Village of Prairie du Sac Board of Trustees authorized a number of responses to COVID-19. The responses included assistance for businesses located within the Village of Prairie du Sac affected by COVID-19 and the State of Wisconsin Safe at Home order.
The Arena Village Board held their April meeting via conference call because of the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning that the board members attended the meeting by telephone. There was a large agenda to go through, but all went well with the meeting running smoothly. Village president Kate Reimann chose voice vote on for all action items.
The Village of Prairie du Sac Utilities urges electric customers concerned about being able to pay their bill to apply for Energy Assistance. Funding is available to help income-qualified residential customers pay their electric bills, including those whose employment has been impacted by the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The Village of Black Earth followed suit with neighboring communities at their March 30 meeting and declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The declaration qualifies the village for reimbursement for COVID-19 related costs.
We would like to let the public know that we are highly encouraging absentee voting for this April 7th election, in an attempt to lessen the amount of people gathering at Village Hall to vote on election day.
The Black Earth Chamber planned to have a candidate forum for those running for office in Black Earth on April 2. It had to be cancelled. The chamber wrote to each candidate:
On March 10, the Sauk City Village Board had it’s regular meeting. The board voted to hire Kaitlin Nye as the Utility Billing Clerk. Nye will be stepping tin o fill the shoes of Janet Kraemer. Kraemer has been the Utility Billing Clerk for Sauk City for just shy of 30 years.
The Prairie du Sac board met on March 10 for its regular meeting. Strand Associates presented bids for street improvement projects. There were seven bids received for the project. The low bid of $1,299,231 was from A-1 Excavating, Inc.
