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Town Of Chicog

 

Notice of Town Board Meeting

Town of Chicog

April 8th, 2026

6:00PM



Watch for upcoming agenda.


Scott Pahos

Town of Chicog Chairman



 





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Upcoming Election Notices


TOWN OF CHICOG

Electronic Ballot Tabulation

Under Wisconsin State Statute 5.84(1), public test of the electronic ballot tabulation system will be held on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 at 3 pm at the Chicog Town Hall to ascertain that the equipment will correctly count the April 7, 2026 Election votes cast for all offices and on all measures. This test is open to the public. If you have any questions please contact the Town Clerk at 715-466-4129 or email External link opens in new tab or windowchicogclerk@gmail.com

Submitted by:

Teresa L. Corrie

Town Clerk

Town of Chicog



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TOWN OF CHICOG

VOTING BY ABSENTEE BALLOT

Any qualified elector who is unable or unwilling to appear at the polling place on Election Day may submit a request to vote an absentee ballot to their clerk. A qualified elector is any U.S. citizen, who will be 18 years of age or older on Election Day, who has resided in the ward or municipally where they wish to vote for at least 28 consecutive days before the election. The elector must also be registered in order to receive an absentee ballot. Proof of identification must be provided before an absentee ballot may be issued.


You must make a request for an absentee ballot in writing or online at MyVote.wi.gov


Contact the Town Clerk to request that an application for an absentee ballot be sent to you for the election on April , 2026. You may also submit a written request in the form of letter or you may apply for an absentee ballot on line at MyVote.wi.gov Your written request must list your voting address within the Town of Chicog, the address where the absentee ballot should be sent, it different, and you signature. You may apply for an absentee ballot in person, by mail, by email or at MyVote.wi.gov


Making application to receive an absentee ballot by mail


The deadline for making application to receive an absentee ballot by mail is:

5 pm on the fifth day before the election, April 2, 2026


NOTE: Special absentee voting application provisions apply to electors who are indefinitely confined to home or a care facility, in the military, hospitalized, or serving as a sequestered juror. If this applies to you, contact the Clerk regarding deadlines for requesting and submitting an absentee ballot.


Voting an absentee ballot in person


You may also request and vote an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office or other specified location during the days and hours specified for casting an absentee ballot in person;.


In Person absentee voting will be by appointment only. Please contact the Town Clerk


The first day to vote an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office is March 24, 2026.


The last day to vote an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office is: April 3, 2026

No in-person absentee voting may occur on the day before the election.


The Town Clerk will deliver voted ballots returned on or before Election Day to the proper polling place before the polls close on TUESDAY April 7, 2026. Any ballots received after the polls closed will not be counted.


Town Clerk: Teresa L. Corrie: ph. # 715-466-4129, N11867 Brancel Rd,, Minong, WI 54859, email: External link opens in new tab or windowchicogclerk@gmail.com




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Applications:

Town of Chicog LTE Application.doc
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NOTICE

Town brush site open to the public! We will be leaving the site open 24/7 for brush disposal until further notice, but it will be monitored. Sorry for the inconvenience of all the schedule changing.


Washburn County Mailbox Policy 1-24-2022.pdf
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TOWN OF CHICOG

Town Board Meeting

March 11, 2026


1. Call Meeting to order at 6:00 pm


2. Pledge of Allegiance


3. Verify Legal Posting Notice.


4. Roll Call: All Board members present.


5. Approval of the previous minutes as posted on our website. Motion made by Brian Berg and seconded by Sue Kowarsch to approve the posted minutes. Motion passed


6. Treasurer’s report all balances as of February 27, 2026:

Checking Account: Beginning balance - $27,242.80 includes interest of $604.34,

Outstanding checks - $12,887.75 Final working balance: $14,355.05

Money Market Account: $392,489.17, includes interest of $753.04

CD Account: $72,726.80

Tax Account: $311.11

Motion made by Sue Kowarsch and seconded by Brian Berg to approve. Motion passed.


7. Chairman’s Report:

a. Financials: Our financial position has us slightly over budget for Q-1 due to the winter conditions we have experienced this year. Our energy improvements that are in place will offset some of these incurred costs in Q-1.

b. Committees: I want to take a minute to thank all of you who are participating on our committees such as ESG/Fire Board/ CCLC/Cemetery board and our election committee members. We are starting to see positive results from your efforts. I know these can be thankless tasks but they will have such a positive impact to the future of our town. Again, Thank You!

c. Grants: We have received a CBCW grant for 2026 in the amount of $20,000. The town board members will be meeting with the CCLC committee next week to finalize an implementation plan for this grant. We also have received a Wildfire grant in the amount of $10,000 which is inclusive of brush and debris pickup in the township which we will begin to execute in the month of June.


8. Roads and Road Work – Joe Norton

a. Plowed one time and sanded four times

b. Warm weather -no snow so started brushing. Bergerud Rd. complete.

c. The large dead tree in the Cemetery has been cut down.

d. Logging on Jenny Road – Possible Right of Way clearing of .4 to town line.

e. Washburn County has put their road bans in place. There will be no bans for the Town roads at this time. If you have any questions, please contact the Town Board or Joe Norton for information.


Upcoming

a. Cleaning up along the roadways mostly deadfalls

b. Repair gravel roads from winter plowing.


9. Public Input:

a. Angeline Winton – Roe – Introduced herself to the group. She is running for Circuit Court Judge this April. Ms. Winton-Roe gave a presentation about her views and her background. Q&A followed.

b. Brian Berg – I’m not running for County Supervisor District 5 again. The individual running is David D. Droste.


10. Open sealed bids for town truck. Ford F450 and award to bidder

We have one bid from Trinity Woods for $32,000.

Motion made by Brian Berg and seconded by Sue Kowarsch to accept the bid from Trinity Woods. Motion passed.


11. Open sealed bids for town Janitorial services, Lawn mowing and Cemetery cleaning/mowing

THE FOLLOWING BIDS WERE SUBMITTED:


Jeff Myrmel

Cemetery Mowing $195 per time

Cemetery Clean-up $495 onetime fee

Town Hall Mowing $185 per time


Diane Weber

Town Hall Cleaning $200 per time


a. Town Hall Mowing: Motion made by Sue Kowarsch and seconded by Brian Berg to award the contract to Jeff Myrmel. Motion passed

b. Cemetery mowing: Motion made by Sue Kowarsch and seconded by Brian Berg to award the contract to Jeff Myrmel. Motion passed

c. Cemetery clean-up: Motion made by Brian Berg and seconded by Sue Kowarsch to award the contract to Jeff Myrmel. Motion passed

d. Town Hall Cleaning: Motion made by Sue Kowarsch and seconded by Brian Berg to award the contract to Diane Weber. Motion passed


12. Review/approve Assessors contract for 2026

Contract from Tamarack Springs Assessing, LLC presented to the Board.

Motion made by Sue Kowarsch and seconded by Brian Berg to accept the contract. Motion passed.


13. Set Town audit date

Discussion on when to hold the audit. The Town Audit will be April 27, 2026 at 2pm at the Town Hall.



14. Review/Discuss potential ACH services for town employees and board members

Town Clerk provides the information that it is possible to do ACH payroll payments. The cost will be a minimum of $5 per time. For the Highway employees that comes to $130 per year at a minimum. If we add the Town Board, we are possible looking at another $60 per year.

Motion made by Sue Kowarsch and seconded by Brian Berg to have ACH payroll payments for the Highway Department and Town Board only. Motion passed/


15. Set date for Town Road Inspections

After coordinating schedules the Town Road inspection will by May 4, 2026 starting at 8 am at the Town Maintenance Building.


16. Correspondence: None


17. Committee Reports:


18. Date of the next Meeting: April 8, 2026 at 6:00 pm


19. Payment of Bills:

Motion made by Brian Berg and seconded by Sue Kowarsch to approve the payment of the following bills/checks: -226 thru -526, and 13319 thru 13346. Motion passed


20. Motion made by Sue Kowarsch and seconded by Brian Berg to adjourn the meeting. Motion passed.


22. Meeting adjourned at 7 pm.






Past Minutes

2026 Minutes

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2025 Minutes

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2024 Minutes

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2023 Minutes

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2022 Minutes

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Resolution and Ordinances

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The following proposed ordinance by the Washburn County Community Rights Alliance will be open for discussion at the annual Town Meeting on July 25, 2020. If you have any questions or suggested changes before then, please contact one of the following local individuals with the Alliance:


Curt Hubatch:

hubyseven@gmail.com


Jan Bliss:

jbjhands@centurytel.net


Lou Columbus:

lacolumbus35@gmail.com


National Websites for More Information on Community Rights Are:

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Proposed Chicog Ordinance

Right to a Healthy Climate Ordinance

Establishing a community rights-based ordinance for Chicog Town in Washburn County, WI that prohibits activities and projects that would violate rights secured by the ordinance.

Preamble

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, that they naturally are endowed with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, the people institute governments, which derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
 
Further, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government. Laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.
 
This right of self-government, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, is natural fundamental, and unalienable. It is also secured to us by the United States Constitution and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin.
 
Pursuant to that right of self-government, if our current system of local government infringes our rights, we, the people of Chicog, have the right to alter or replace that system with one that secures and protects human rights and ecosystem rights, as long as the new system does not infringe other rights protected for us by state and federal law.
 
The Town Of Chicog is situated within the St. Croix River watershed which includes the sub-watersheds of the Namekagon River, the Totagatic River, Stuntz Brook, Chicog Creek, and others. The total drainage of the St. Croix watershed is 7,760 square miles and extends from near Mille Lacs Lake in MN on the west to near Cable, WI on the east. 46% of the watershed is in MN and 54% is in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin portion covers 22 watersheds, 4,165 square miles, and 9 counties. The ecosystem this watershed represents is home to a multitude of animal and plant species and thousands of people who collectively rely on it for their livelihood, health, and survival.
 
It is our legislative determination that certain corporate activities are detrimental to our rights, health, safety, and welfare and those of the ecological system we live in. These activities include but are not limited to: runoff from the commercial use of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers; the intentional or unintentional dumping of toxic waste including corporate factory farm waste; and the physical deposition of emissions, leakage, disposal, or placement of toxins into the land, air, or waterways from extraction, transportation, processing, storage, conveyance, and depositing of waste from fossil fuels and frac sand activities.
 
As we are purportedly constrained by state and federal law, which courts interpret to require us to accept such harmful corporate activity, we the people of Chicog are unable under our current system of local government to secure human rights and ecosystem rights by banning the said activity. Thus we deem it necessary to alter our system of local government, and we do so by adopting this Right to a Healthy Climate Ordinance.

Section 1 – Statement of Law

  1. Right of Self-Government. All residents of Chicog possess a right of self-government, which includes, but is not limited to, the following rights: first, the right to a system of local government founded on the consent of the people of the town; second, the right to a system of local government that secures their rights; and third, the right to alter any system of local government that lacks the consent of the people or fails to secure and protect the people's and ecosystems' rights, health, safety, and welfare. Any action to annul, amend, alter, or overturn this Ordinance shall be prohibited unless such action is approved by a prior Town vote at which a majority of the residents of the Town vote to approve such action.
  2. Right to a Healthy Climate. All residents of Chicog possess a right to a stable and healthy climate system capable of sustaining human societies, which shall include the right to be free from all corporate activities that infringe that right, including but not limited to the runoff from the commercial use of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers; the intentional or unintentional dumping of toxic waste including corporate factory farm waste; and the physical deposition of emissions, leakage, disposal or placement of toxins into the land, air, or waterways from extraction, transportation, processing, storage, conveyance, and depositing of waste from fossil fuels and frac sand activities.
  3. Right to Clean Air, Water, and Soil. All residents of Chicog possess the right to clean air, water, and soil, which shall include the right to be free from all corporate activities that release toxic contaminants into the air, water, and soil, including but not limited to the runoff from the commercial use of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers; the intentional and unintentional dumping of toxic waste including corporate factory farm waste; and the physical deposition of emissions, leakage, disposal, or placement of toxins into the land, air, or waterways from extraction, transportation, processing, storage, conveyance, and depositing of waste from fossil fuels and frac sand activities.
  4. Rights of Ecosystems and Natural Communities. Ecosystems and natural communities within Chicog possess the rights to naturally exist, flourish, regenerate, and evolve; rights to restoration, recovery, and preservation; rights to a stable and healthy climate system capable of sustaining ecosystems and natural communities; rights to clean air, water, soil; and which also shall include, but not limited to, the right to be free from all corporate activities that infringe these rights, including, but not limited to the runoff from the commercial use of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers; the intentional and unintentional dumping of toxic waste including corporate factory farm waste; and the physical deposition of emissions, leakage, disposal, or placement of toxins into the land, air, or waterways from extraction, transportation, processing, storage, conveyance, and depositing of waste from fossil fuels and frac sand activities.
  5. The Right to Protection from Governmental and Corporate Interference. All residents of Chicog and the Town Of Chicog as well as ecosystems and natural communities within Chicog possess the right to enforce this Ordinance free of interference from corporations, other business entities, and governments. That right shall include the right to be free from ceiling preemption because this Ordinance expands rights and legal protections for people and nature above those provided by less-protective state, federal and international law.

Section 2 – Enforcement

  1. Any business entity or government that willfully violates any provision of this ordinance shall be subject to a civil penalty of $1,000 per day of violation.
  2. Any business entity or government that willfully violates any provision of this Ordinance also shall be liable for any injury to an ecosystem or natural community caused by the violation. Damages shall be measured by the cost of restoring the ecosystem or natural community to its state before the injury and shall be paid to the Town Of Chicog to be used exclusively for the complete restoration of the ecosystem or natural community.
  3. Ecosystems and natural communities within Chicog may enforce or defend this Ordinance through an action brought in the name of the ecosystem or natural community as the real party in interest.
  4. Any resident of Chicog may enforce or defend this Ordinance through an action brought in the resident's name. Any resident, and any ecosystem or natural community, also shall have the right to intervene in any action concerning this Ordinance to enforce or defend it, and in such an action, the Town Of Chicog shall not be deemed to adequately represent their particularized interests.
  5. If the Town Of Chicog fails to enforce or defend this law, or a court fails to uphold this law or purports to declare it unlawful, the law shall not be affected, and any resident may then enforce the rights and prohibitions of the law through non-violent direct action. If enforcement through non-violent direct action is commenced, this law shall prohibit any private or public actor from filing a civil or criminal action against those participating in such non-violent direct action. If an action is filed in violation of this provision, the applicable court must dismiss the action promptly, without further filings being required of direct-action participants. “Direct action” as used by this provision shall mean any non-violent activities or actions carried out to directly enforce the rights and prohibitions contained within this law.

Section 3 – State and Federal Constitutional Changes

Through the adoption of this Ordinance, the people of Chicog call for an amendment of the Wisconsin Constitution and the federal constitution to recognize expressly a right of local self-government free from governmental restriction, ceiling preemption, or nullification by corporate “rights”.
 
ENACTED AND ORDAINED this_______day of __________________, 20________, by the Town Of Chicog, in Washburn County, Wisconsin.
 
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Survey Results - Health Climate Ordnance

Two surveys have been mailed to the town citizens to find out how they felt about a Right to a Healthy Climate Ordnance.

 

In April of 2019, with the approval of the town chairman and the supervisors, one hundred and fifty short surveys were mailed to all of the township residents. 44 were returned. 36 (82%) were in favor of the ordinance. Because of this favorable response, the town chairman agreed another survey should be distributed to Chicog's taxpayers.

 

In December of 2019, with the approval of the town board, 700 short surveys were mailed along with the tax notifications. 97 were returned. Five questions were asked:

 

  1. Do you support a right to a healthy climate: air, land, and water? 92 responded yes (94%).
  2. Should the legal system recognize corporate rights over human, ecosystem rights? 84 responded no (87%).
  3. Do you think the Town Of Chicog should legally have the right to enact and enforce laws to protect health, safety, and welfare? 81 responded yes (83%).
  4. Would you be in favor of passing the ordinance: Right to a Healthy Climate that would give protection, legal standing, and constitutional rights in a court of law in the Town Of Chicog? 75 responded yes (77%).
Are you interested in attending an informational meeting? 28 responded yes (29%).


Board Members

Thank you for visiting the online home of The Town Of Chicog. We hope you’ll enjoy our fishing, hunting, and four-wheeling programs. Let us know if you need more information about our schedules and participation methods. Call us for details.

Chairman – Scott Pahos

Email: townofchicog@gmail.com

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Treasurer – Kathy Strohmeyer

Email: kstrohmeyer@centurytel.net 

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1st Supervisor – Brian Berg

Email: bbergchicog@gmail.com

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Clerk – Terri Corrie

Email: tcorrie@centurytel.net

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2nd Supervisor – Sue Kowarsch

Email: suektownofchicog@gmail.com

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Event Calendar

he Town Of Chicog is a lively community. At present, we offer various types of recreational programs and sports activities. We have presented the complete event calendar below. Please take a look.



(Note: Using the Calendar below and clicking on the event, you may get more detailed information and allow you to copy it into your calendar.)

MONTHLY TOWN MEETING 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6:00 PM
All Town Of Chicog landowners are ESG members. Contact Terri Corrie at 715-466-4129.







  • May 23, 2026 at 9:00am - 3:00pm Craft Fair at Town Hall
  • June 6, 2026 - Clean-up Day 7:00 am - 3:00pm Town Hall



 

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W8499 State Highway 77
Trego, WI 54888

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