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Town Board Meeting (January 2006 minutes) Minutes For 1/9/2006
MINUTES OF REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING
LAGRANGE TOWN BOARD
January 9, 2006

The regular monthly meeting of the Town Board of the Town of LaGrange was called to order by Chairman Taylor at 7:30 PM. Chairman Taylor, Supervisor Callaway, Supervisor Sukala, Supervisor Lohrmann and Supervisor Schramm were present. Crystal Hoffmann, Clerk/Treasurer and Elizabeth Adelmann, Town Attorney were also present.
  1. The minutes of December 12, 2005 were approved as presented. (Lohrmann/Schramm)
  2. The treasurers’ report was given and accepted as presented.
  3. The agenda was approved with the addenda and moving item 7 to the Safety Committee (Callaway/Schramm)
  4. Committee reports:
        a. Buildings and Highways- no meeting
        b. Safety Committee – Fire Department—equipment truck is back, have designated Tuesday nights as work nights; options for LESD—there are a couple of options: First—just continue to do what have been doing with 2 patrols, Second—Turn over management of the LESD to the Sheriff Dept. The Sheriff would interview all current officers that apply, monthly reports given by the Sheriff, all equipment would stay the same, amount of hours worked would stay the same. Proposed to LLLMD to combine patrols and have only one patrol—LLLMD will take up for vote at Sept. 2006 annual meeting. Supervisor Callaway suggests 2 people on the Board sit down figure out which way to go and come back to the Board in February with a recommendation. Supervisors Callaway and Sukala will do this.
        c. Lake Management Districts’ reports:
        i. Pleasant Lake—newsletter will be out in April, vehicles on the Lake are a problem/concern, looking at a possible pier ordinance
        ii. Lauderdale Lakes Management District—
        d. Personnel and Finance—no meeting
        e. Information committee—no meeting
  5. Plan and Zone-
        a. Conditional use request for Mark and Patricia Bromley, W5838 Greening Road, for a law office—approved by plan and zoning commission, Motion to approve (Lohrmann/Schramm) Motion carries.
        b. Conditional use request for Shawn Williams, W4905 Young Road, for a house and a barn on A-1 land—approved by plan and zoning commission, Motion to approve (Schramm/Callaway) Motion carries.
        c. Variance request for Mil Ovan, N7688 West Shore Drive for an addition—was approved one year ago by both plan and zone commission and the Town Board, essentially same request, has made some landscaping improvements, Motion to approve (Lohrmann/Schramm) Motion carries.
        d. Smart Growth—Walworth County is sitting on Smart Growth waiting for the grants to come through. Plan and zoning recommends contacting the County and urging them to go forward with or without the grant funds and for the Town to get going on their own. Get SEWRPC involved. Ask that Crystal send a letter to Walworth County Board asking them move forward with Smart Growth
        e. Fields of Lauderdale—possible development on 12/67 and Territorial Road, developer just looking for opinions
        f. Singing Hills Girl Scout Camp possible rezone from C-2 to A-1—presentation by Greg Goldsmith of plat of the Camp with 41-1 acre home sites on property. Much discussion ensued. Motion to table (Callaway/Lohrmann) Motion carries with one nay (Taylor) vote.
  6. Parking problems on West Shore Drive—Ordinance to post no parking on West Shore Drive from 500 feet either side of the launch on both sides of the road, Bond of $30
  7. covered under item 4
  8. Shagbark Road—Attorney Adelman to start the vacating process, will start by sending letter to all property owners explaining the resurfacing of the road, the load limits of the road, etc. Motion to start vacation of Shagbark Road (Sukala/Schramm) Motion carries.
  9. not needed
  10. not needed
  11. Insurance for firefighters—currently do not have any insurance to cover them if something would happen to them while responding to a fire, have been quoted $1924/year from Country Insurance. Motion to obtain insurance for the firefighters (Schramm/Sukala) Motion carries.
  12. Gary Zarko is requesting that a special meeting be held where Rep. Steve Nass and Sen. Neal Kedzie are present to discuss local issues. Motion to invite them to a meeting one of the last two Saturday’s in February at 10 a.m. (Sukala/Schramm) Motion carries.
  13. Sign ordinance violation—sign has been moved onto own property and is smaller, no action necessary
  14. Refunding 2 garbage charges—weren’t removed when house torn down, Motion to refund (Sukala/Schramm) Motion carries. Also need to pay rest of tax bill for an assessment error, and then will need to add to next year’s tax levy Motion to pay bill (Sukala/Schramm) Motion carries.
  15. Update regarding the April 05 election—didn’t talk with anyone
  16. Equipment for Highway Dept—Equipment needed yet for new truck (box, sander, etc) have 3 bids: $33,000 for a place in Appleton, $44,000 in North Prairie, and $46,000 in Monroe. Motion to go with Best Truck in North Prairie (Schramm/Sukala) Motion carries. Motion to sell old truck on e-bay (Schramm/Sukala) Motion carries. Would like to get a piece of equipment that goes on the back of the truck for shouldering, can get one for $5,000, Motion to buy the shouldering machine out of the Highway Dept. fund savings account (Sukala/Schramm) Motion carries.
  17. New fire number signs—lots of Town’s going to this new sign, easier to see and read—Motion to proceed with new fire number signs (Sukala/Schramm) Motion carries.
  18. Approval of bills properly submitted for payment(Schramm/Sukala)

There being no further business a motion to adjourn was made at 10:30 p.m. (Callaway/Schramm)

Crystal Hoffmann
Clerk
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