Town of La Grange, Wisconsin

Town Board Meeting (February 2006 minutes) Minutes For 2/13/2006
MINUTES OF REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING LAGRANGE TOWN BOARD February 13, 2006 The regular monthly meeting of the Town Board of the Town of LaGrange was called to order by Chairman Taylor. Supervisor Callaway, Supervisor Lohrmann and Supervisor Schramm were all present. Crystal Hoffmann, Clerk/Treasurer and Elizabeth Adelman, Town Attorney were also present. Supervisor Sukala was absent. The minutes of January 9, 2006 were approved as presented (Schramm/Callaway) Treasurer’s report was accepted as presented. The agenda was approved (Callaway/Schramm) Motion carries Committee Reports: a. Buildings and Highways: no meeting b. Safety committee: i. Fire department: work continuing on Equipment truck, April 15th is the Dance c. Lake Management Districts: i. Pleasant Lake: nothing to report ii. Lauderdale Lakes Management: Nothing to report d. Finance and Personnel: i. ran under budget and left over would cover the equipment needed to outfit the new town plow truck without using reserve funds, committee suggests to do this—Motion to approve (Callaway/Schramm) Motion carries ii. the old 1953 Oshkosh sold for $2,126.05 on e-bay, suggest put that money into the Hwy department fund for future equipment Motion to approve (Schramm/Lohrmann) Motion carries iii. New office equip—suggest to purchase Crystal’s laptop computer and move the desktop computer to the Chair’s desk Motion to approve (Callaway/Schramm) Motion carries; and purchasing a new copier, suggest a Brother with networking capabilities Motion to approve (Schramm/Callaway) Motion carries. e. Information committee: meeting in a couple of weeks Planning and Zoning: a. Klimatis, Hwy 12/67 rezone request—Tabled at Plan and zone, Motion to table (Lohrmann/Schramm) Motion carries b. Smart Growth—on the County’s agenda again next month c. Heine property on Bluff Road—Plan and zone recommends to give 60 day extension to allow for owners to get proper building permits Motion to approve (Schramm/Lohrmann) Motion carries d. Discussion regarding considerations for possible zoning changes, discussed at length, no decisions made e. CSM with 4 lots approval request for Russ Keske on Kettle Moraine Drive—Plan and zone approved with a deed restriction stating “lots shall not be further subdivided without Town approval”, road to access lots needs to be posted “private”, question regarding how many lots actually creating, is it 4 or 5, Motion to table (Callaway/Schramm) Motion carries f. Singing Hills—Plan and zone looked at preliminary map, at point of asking for conservation subdivision at Walworth County and Town. Did file at Walworth County. g. Zoning issues at Camp Singing Hills—many years ago when County did zoning, the suggestion was to zone the property A-1, but that didn’t allow for a camp, thus was zoned C-2. Suggest start discussions with Greg Goldsmith and Matt Weidnesee at Walworth County and see where goes from there. Motion to direct Jeff and Rick to head in that direction (Lohrmann/Callaway) Motion carries with Don Sukala present by phone for discussion and vote Restructuring of LESD—discussed at Safety committee meeting and there are 4 options: do nothing, have Lake District do the patrol, go with the Sheriff’s Dept., or re-hire and run our patrol; can authorize LLLMD patrol for Pleasant Lake Park, and to enforce Town’s ordinances, lots of discussion with pros and cons of all options; Motion to go with the Lauderdale Lakes Lake Management District for patrol (Callaway/Taylor) Taylor, Callaway, Schramm all aye, Sukala, Lohrmann both nay. Motion carries. Motion to get together and work out financial and legal agreement for next month’s meeting, and also to review this decision at the end of 2006 to decide what to do for 2007 (Callaway/Lohrmann) Motion carries. Permit for Lauderdale Lakes Aqua Skiers for the 2006 ski season—safety committee approved, much discussion ensued, was some opposition to issuing the permit by a few residents of Don Jean Bay, also much support for the Skiers, Motion to approve contingent upon Town’s attorney reviewing and that the Town is allowed to issue such permit and proof of insurance, also with adjusted start time of 9 a.m. on Sunday’s (Lohrmann/Callaway) Motion carries. Enforcement of pier ordinance—question is who and how to enforce, also suggest putting something in the newsletter about the pier ordinance. Motion to have the LLLMD patrol look at piers and write down violators and bring back to the Town Board for enforcement (Schramm/Lohrmann) Motion carries. Town’s view of private roads in response to a Walworth County letter—Town’s view is we want as many private roads as possible, need to come up with standards for private roads, put on March’s agenda. Update on investigation regarding the April ’05 election—an investigator has been assigned and they are working on the case Payment of bills properly submitted for payment—Lohrmann/Schramm—Motion carries There being no further business a motion to adjourn was made at 11:02 p.m. (Schramm/Lohrmann) Motion carries. Crystal Hoffmann Clerk/Treasurer
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