Advertisement Town shop foreman Basil Fredrickson suggested building a 300-foot-long tractor pull track on town-owned land off Sportsman Club Road. He said he knew a Brice Prairie resident who would donate clay for the track and eight to nine guys who would help construct it. He also said he talked to neighbors and they didn’t have any problems with holding tractor pulls in the area.
“This land is setting pretty much idle. There’s no tax base coming off it,” Fredrickson told the board. “This could be a good thing.”
The tractor pull proposal came one month after a group of radio controlled car enthusiasts proposed constructing an RC race track on a different parcel of town-owned land near the dump. After inspecting that property — which was formerly owned by Richard and Sue Prinsen but purchased by the town in July after a lengthy dispute — the RC enthusiasts found it too covered in trees to easily construct a track, Town Chairman Stan Hauser said Monday.
Both the Prinsen and Sportsman Club properties have building restrictions stemming from the old town dump’s status as a Superfund site in the early 1990s.
Fredrickson said a tractor pull track wouldn’t require any buildings and would only be used a couple times per year. He also said a private tractor pull company would maintain the insurance and civic groups could work at the track for a fundraiser.
In response to Fredrickson’s comments, Hauser said he has been in contact with an EPA official, but she hadn’t responded to his land-use inquiry. “They basically can tell us what can and can’t take place there,” Hauser said.
After about 10 minutes of discussion and no other input from community members, the town board voted unanimously to allow a truck pull track on the Sportsman Club property, pending EPA approval.
Other business
Clocking in at just under 45 minutes, Monday’s town board meeting — scheduled one hour prior to a nationally televised Green Bay Packers game — was the shortest in at least a year. The following actions were also taken:
