Absentee voting

Now would be a good time to double check on your absentee voting application.  The easiest way is to look yourself up on myvote.wi.gov.  If you have no application on file for the upcoming elections this year (August 11 partisan primary; November 3 presidential), you can go ahead and apply there. Many people who voted absentee in April requested absentee ballots only for that election, and may be unaware that they may need to submit another application for the rest of the elections this year.

Paper applications are also available at the town hall.  There is a supply on the main door, so if you have a friend or neighbor who is not at ease with the online process, you can swing by the town hall and pick up a application.   Any questions at all, call or text the town hall (608-424-3848) or email the clerk at montrose@chorus.net.  We hope to continue our record of excellent voter turnout it Montrose!


Bookmobile returning to Paoli

The bookmobile is returning to Paoli, although with shorter hours and only to pick up holds.  It will be here Tuesdays from 2:30 to 3.  You can get more information from the Friends of the Bookmobile website – Friends of the Bookmobile <tcox@dcls.info>.


Fire/EMS District Meeting

The Fire and EMS District Meeting will be held at the Belleville EMS building on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.  


Annual Meeting Indefinitely Postponed

The Town Board has decided that, because of the current health emergency, the Annual Meeting of Electors cannot be held as scheduled on April 21, 2020.  The Annual Meeting is indefinitely postponed.


Montrose Election Results

Here’s how you voted on April 7, 2020.

Democratic Presidential Primary:  Biden, 221; Sanders, 111; Warren, 6; Yang,1.

Republican Presidential Primary:  Trump, 106; Uninstructed Delegation, 3.

Wisconsin Supreme Court:  Karofsky, 329; Kelly, 129.

District 4 Court of Appeal:  Graham, 280 (unopposed)

Dane County Circuit Court Br. 7:  Hanrahan, 284 (unopposed)

Dane County Board of Supervisors:  Downing, 302 (unopposed)

Belleville School District:  Remy, 229; Kubly, 194; Treder, 194.

Verona Area School District, Portion 3:  Navarro-Haffner, 68 (unopposed)

Verona Area School District At Large:  Biddle, 51; Ross, 23.

Oregon School District Area 2:  Mehring, 10; Garrison, 7.

Oregon School District Area 3:  LeBrun unopposed

New Glarus School District:  Eichelkraut, 3; Stuessy, 3; Geib, 2; Hendrickson, 1.

Crime Victims Rights Referendum:  Yes, 287; No, 136.

Town Referendum to appoint the Town Clerk:  Yes, 251; No, 153.

Town Referendum to appoint the Town Treasurer; Yes, 225; No, 144.

 


Absentee ballots should be in by 8 p.m. April 7 – can be dropped through the door at Town Hall office

According to this morning’s newspaper, the United States Supreme Court will decide whether you really have until April 13th to return your ballot.  We have about 75 not back as of this morning, before the day’s mail – if you haven’t already mailed your ballot, you may want to drop it off at the town hall, through the slot in the office door if no one is at the hall to receive it.  If the Supreme Court grants the request currently before it, ballots received after 8 p.m. on April 7 may not be counted.  I’m very sorry that we receive and have to put out constantly changing information. 

THE POLLS ARE OPEN ON APRIL 7 FROM 7 A.M. TO 8 P.M. 

Final absentee count:  370 mailed out/voted in person – 49% of all registered voters in the township.


LAST CHANCE TO VOTE ABSENTEE OR REQUEST AN ABSENTEE BALLOT

Today, April 3, 2020, is your last chance to vote in person prior to the election on April 7.  The Town Hall is open for voting from 10 to 12 and from 2 to 4 today.

You can also, because of yesterday’s federal court ruling, request an absentee ballot today, until 5 p.m.  Ballots will be counted if they are returned by April 13, according to that ruling.  Any ballot returned to the town hall by 8 p.m. on April 7, 2020 will be counted, however the court ruling turns out.

Please vote!  We already have 345 absentees served – 45% of the entire pool of registered voters.  And stay well.


Important Information about meetings

It is necessary for the electors of the town to meet to consider whether and on what conditions to authorize the sale of Town property to the Department of Transportation (DOT) in connection with the Highway 69 reconstruction project.  If sale is not authorized, the DOT would be expected to bring condemnation proceedings against the property.   A special electors’ meeting has been scheduled for April 15, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. to consider this matter, and the regular town board meeting date changed to April 15 just after that meeting.