Town of La Grange, Wisconsin

Town Board Meeting (June 2008 Minutes) Minutes For 6/9/2008
MINUTES OF REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING LAGRANGE TOWN BOARD June 9, 2008 The regular monthly meeting of the Town Board of the Town of LaGrange was called to order by Supervisor Bromley. Supervisor Sukala, Supervisor Callaway, and Supervisor Schramm were all present. Crystal Hoffmann, Clerk/Treasurer was also present. Chairman Taylor was absent. The minutes of May 12, 2008 were approved as presented (Sukala/Schramm) Treasurer’s report accepted as presented The agenda was approved with addenda and can remove items 12 and 13 from agenda (Callaway/Schramm) Committee Reports: a. Buildings and Highways: no meeting b. Safety committee: Officer Otterbacher here from Walworth County Sheriff Office to report: had 73 calls responded to in the Town of LaGrange in March, 109 calls in April and 95 calls in May; Corrected some clerical errors in the Water Traffic safety ordinance; recommending ways to spend the monies collected from the launch fees—repair and maintenance of the launches, buoys, signage, and dumpster costs, and a contingency fund; also at the beach/boat house had to remove the existing pier and will put in a smaller one, suggest putting up a sign stating for “Fire Department, Rescue and Water Patrol use only”; ADDENDA—Slow-no-wake on Lauderdale Lake—due to the high rain amounts the recommendation is to make the Lauderdale Lakes Slow-no-Wake until further notice. The ordinance the Town has gives this power to the Chairman to declare and emergency proclamation, due to the fact the Town Chair is out of Town, the First Side Supervisor, Mark Bromley, has that power, Make Lauderdale Lakes a Slow-No-Wake Lake temporarily until the water recedes. Mark will talk with Pat on Friday a.m. to see if can lift restriction. c. Lake Management Districts: LLLMD are meeting next Saturday at 8 a.m. and on the agenda are culverts; Pleasant Lake District is meeting Saturday, June 28th at the Kenosha Girl Scout Camp at 9 a.m. d. Finance and Personnel: no meeting e. Information committee: no meeting Planning and Zoning: a. Final plat approval request for Farmington Estates, Russell Keske—Plan and zoning recommends conditioned approval with required developers agreement in place, covenants approved and that the road be in before any property is sold, Motion to approve with plan and zoning conditions (Callaway/Sukala) Motion carries. The attorneys are working together regarding the covenants, developer’s agreement. Possibly be back on agenda in July or August for approval of covenants and developer’s agreement. b. Final plat approval request for Lawton Estates, Fred Lawton—Plan and zoning recommends conditioned approval with required developer’s agreement in place, covenants approved and that the road be in before any property is sold, Motion to approve with plan and zoning conditions (Schramm/Callaway) Motion carries. c. Smart Growth Compliance—had the meeting here at the Town level with SEWRPC, made a couple of recommendations d. Farmland separation at W5979 Hwy 12 for 2 houses and all outbuildings—Plan and zoning approved, Motion to approve (Sukala/Schramm) Motion carries. e. CSM approval request for W5993 Hwy 12—separates the tenant house off from the farm separation at W5979 Hwy 12, Plan and zoning approved, Motion to approve as presented (Schramm/Sukala) Motion carries. Re-appointments to Plan and Zoning commission for 2008-2011 a. Al Busa—Motion to approve (Callaway/Schramm) Motion carries. b. Jon Jacobson—Motion to approve (Sukala/Schramm) Motion carries. Big Spring Road bids—only received one bid, B.R. Amon for $67,767.00. This includes pulverizing, adding some base then two coats of tar and pea graveling, Motion to accept the bid from B.R. Amon for $67,767.00 for Big Spring Road (Sukala/Schramm) Motion carries. Beach/Boat house stabilization project—Kristen from C.S.—will be a pre-construction meeting at the site on Thursday with Walworth County, the contractor and members of the Town Board. Request from Walworth County Economic Development Alliance for appointments to its committee—Floyd Pochowski would possibly be interested, he will talk with Fred Burkhardt and let us know if he wants to be a representative for the Town. Approval of use of Developer’s agreement—making it policy that a developer’s agreement will be used in any and all subdivisions in the Town of LaGrange, want to have a model to be used by developer’s that can be tailored to any specific development. Also received comments/recommendations from Crispell-Snyder regarding such developer’s agreement. Plan and zoning will create the model agreement at July’s meeting and present to Town Board for approval in July. Motion to establish official policy that the Town of LaGrange establish a model developer’s agreement for the development of subdivisions (Callaway/Schramm) Motion carries. Lauderdale Lake Aqua Skiers permit to resurface a wharf/pier—Motion to table (Callaway/Schramm) Motion carries. Approval of Combination Class B liquor licenses: a. Lauderdale Landing, Fred and Nancy Triebe, W5625 West Shore Drive—Motion to approve (Schramm/Sukala) Motion carries. Approval of operator’s licenses for 2008-2009 a. Mark Kuglitsch, N9194 East Shore Road—Motion to approve (Callaway/Schramm) Motion carries. Possible changes to the pier ordinance—adds the line “be required regardless of other permits obtained”, which just requires that people get permits from the Town of LaGrange or Sugar Creek for their piers regardless of DNR approval, also adds “No new nor enhancement of established piers, wharfs, mooring facilities, mooring, mooring buoys and mooring anchors shall be permitted in DNR defined environmentally sensitive areas.” Motion to amend the pier ordinance with the changes (Callaway/Sukala) Motion carries. Crystal will send off to the attorney for his approval. Motion carries. April 2005 election—the new DA has a policy not to say anything, Frank will continue to call monthly until resolved. Payment of bills submitted for approval—Motion to pay bills submitted (Schramm/Sukala) Motion carries. There being no further business a motion to adjourn was made at 9:01 p.m. (Callaway/Schramm) Motion carries. Crystal Hoffmann, Clerk/Treasurer
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