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MEMORANDUM • DATE: August 11, 1998 TO: Planning Committee Town of Pleas t\Springs FROM: Jill Wheele Peg Close 1690 Tow r Valley Road Stoughton WI 53589 RE: Milwaukee Repeater and easement to cellular tower Since we are unable to attend the Planning Committee meeting scheduled for this Wednesday,we thought it might be helpful to summarize what has happened from our perspective since the last planning meeting on 7/8/98. Following the July meeting, we met briefly with Jack Warden from Milwaukee Repeater and their attorney out in the hallway at the Town Hall. At this time,we indicated, as we had done earlier at a neighborhood meeting in Utica,that we may be interested in considering allowing Milwaukee Repeater access to the cellular tower through our property off of Tower Valley Road. We also suggested that a second alternative might be to approach the tower from Washington Road by cutting across Irvin Ring's property, then onto ours, and finally onto Tom Sisulak's land. At this time,both the attorney and Mr Warden indicated that they would be following up with both possibilities and asked if we were available"in the next month or so." We indicated we would be. We also indicated that the Washington Road route to the tower would be much preferred as it would be far away from anyone's homestead and,therefore, would not likely disturb anyone. This access appeared to address the privacy issue that has been raised regarding frequent use of the current access road. Nearly a month went by with no contact made by either Mr Warden or his attorney. Knowing the August Planning Committee was coming up shortly,we initiated contact with Tom Sisulak to determine if he had heard anything from Mr Warden or his attorney. He had not. Tom decided to contact Irvin Ring to see if he had been contacted by Mr Warden. He had not. Tom explained to Mr Ring the current issue regarding Milwaukee Repeater and the existing easement dilemma and discussed with him whether he might be interested in negotiating an easement with Milwaukee Repeater off of Washington Road. Mr Ring seemed very interested in having a road at the back end of his property to access his crops. With that word of encouragement, Tom then contacted Mr Warden. What is important to recognize is that Mr Warden made no attempt to contact any of the neighbors who might offer a resolution to the existing easement impasse even though he and his attorney indicated they would do so at the July Planning Committee meeting. Almost an entire month went by with no contact. It was not until we initiated a call to Tom, who in turn called Mr Ring and then Mr Warden, did any discussion of alternative access roads begin. This was one