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Town Board Meeting (June 2005 minutes) Minutes For 6/13/2005
MINUTES OF REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING
LAGRANGE TOWN BOARD
June 13, 2005

The regular monthly meeting of the Town Board of the Town of LaGrange was called to order by Chairman Heilmeier. Supervisor Callaway and Supervisor Sukala were present. Crystal Hoffmann, Clerk/Treasurer and Elizabeth Adelman, Town Attorney were also present. Supervisor Lohrmann and Supervisor Taylor were absent.
  1. The minutes of May 9, 2005 were approved as presented (Sukala/Callaway)
  2. Treasurer’s report was accepted as presented.
  3. The agenda was approved with the addenda (Callaway/Sukala) Motion carries
  4. Committee Reports:
        a. Buildings and Highways: auxiliary pressure tank is needed at the fire department; Don can get tank for $533.50 and would donate his time to install the tank. Motion to approve (Callaway/Heilmeier) Motion carries
        b. Safety committee:
        i. Fire department: new rescue boat is in, working on outfitting, Jon Jacobson has offered the use of his boat house for the rescue boat
        ii. Launch ramps—have DNR permits for Bubbling Springs and Pleasant Lake, Strand working on sending in grant paperwork
        iii. Buoys are in
        iv. LESD—parking on West Shore drive is a problem, wrote tickets for drinking Pleasant Lake Park
    v. Boat house—getting demolition bids and working on proper drawing to put out to bid
        vi. Salaries and ranking for LESD officers—Santo Galati has requested a leave of absence, suggest Tim Borowski be promoted to Deputy Chief and change Galati’s position to Lieutenant. Also give raises to all—see attached sheet. Motion to approve as proposes (Sukala/Callaway) Motion carries.
        vii. New committee member: Motion to recommend James Seegers to the committee (Heilmeier/Sukala) Motion carries.
        c. Lake Management Districts:
        i. Peasant Lake: annual meting will on Saturday, June 25, 2005
        ii. Lauderdale Lakes Management: Next meeting June 18, 2005 at 8 a.m. at the club house
        d. Finance and Personnel: no meeting
        e. Information committee: meeting on Monday, June 20, 2005 at 6:30 p.m.
        f. Ethics committee: Floyd Pochowski gave report—suggest holding “meet and greet” your candidates or even a debate for future elections, also suggested putting limits on how many terms people can hold office. Lots of discussion regarding were the committee was headed and what their job would be/should be. Motion to dissolve committee (Sukala/Heilmeier) Motion carries with Rick Callaway abstaining from the vote.
  5. Planning and Zoning: a. Farm land separation and rezone from A-1 to C-2 zoning request for Gerald Markham, W6478 Kettle Moraine road, Whitewater, WI—after looking at adjoining land Plan and zoning commission tabled for further information. Motion to table (Heilmeier/Callaway) Motion carries.
  6. How to proceed with the boat house survey—dispute—no action necessary
  7. Opening of sealed road pavement bids and deciding which company to use for paving projects for 2005—B.R. Amon bid: $27.90/ton, Frank Bros.: $26.85/ton—Motion to accept Frank Bros bid of $26.85/ton (Sukala/Callaway) Motion carries
  8. Describing/Identifying Town properties—need to get a list of what we think we own, then do title searches
  9. Report on boat house replacement—proceeding with the necessary okays to remove debris, engineer working on plans
  10. Discussion/possible action of a bid for clean up of the debris of the old boat house—have bid from Flitcroft for $2,050 that includes tear down and haul away. Motion to accept bid from Flitcroft (Sukala/Callaway) Motion carries
  11. Discussion/possible action of issuing 2 year liquor licenses—new statute allows for two year operator’s licenses. Leave as one year licenses for now
  12. New Operator’s License approval requests: a. Rebecca Lawton, N8129 County Road H, Whitewater b. Sandra L. Law, W5550 Cool Hill Drive, Elkhorn
    Motion to approve a and b (Callaway/Sukala) Motion carries
  13. Change of date request for the temporary permit to have alcohol in a Town park issued to Mary Scaro—wants to change to July 9th—Motion to approve for the 9th of July (Sukala/Callaway) Motion carries
  14. Update on investigation regarding the April ’05 election—Talked with person in charge of investigation, hopefully know more by July’s meeting
  15. Resolution regarding special assessments for Shagbark Lane—not needed at this time
  16. Choosing an assessor for the Shagbark Lane project—not needed at this time
  17. Members for the committee looking into a municipal court—have two: Jerry Dutka, and Noreen Seegers—Motion to approve both members (Callaway/Sukala) Motion carries
  18. Repaving of Shagbark Lane—as a negotiating factor the Town will repave part or the entire road with 2 inches of blacktop and lime rock shouldering, if the land owners along Shagbark Lane will form an association and take the road over. Motion to approve as long as they form an association and take the road over (Callaway/Sukala) Motion carries
  19. Payment of bills properly submitted for payment—Callaway/Sukala—Motion carries

The meeting then moved into closed session per role call vote—Sukala-aye, Callaway-aye, Heilmeier-aye.
The meeting then moved back into open session per role call vote—Sukala-aye, Callaway-aye, Heilmeier-aye.
Motion made to put on July’s agenda reconsideration of the Smith/Alcock outlot on Bay Drive (Callaway/Sukala) Motion carries.

There being no further business a motion to adjourn was made at 10:20 p.m. (Sukala/Callaway) Motion carries.
Crystal Hoffmann
Clerk/Treasurer
    
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