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Town Board Meeting (June 2003 minutes) Minutes For 6/9/2003
MINUTES OF REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING
LAGRANGE TOWN BOARD
June 9, 2003

The regular monthly meeting of the Town Board of the Town of LaGrange was called to order by Chairman Heilmeier at 7:37 PM. Chairman Heilmeier, Supervisor Callaway, Supervisor Sukala, Supervisor Lohrmann and Supervisor Taylor were present. Crystal Hoffmann, Clerk/Treasurer and Elizabeth Adelmann, Town Attorney were also present.
  1. The minutes of May 12, 2003 were approved as presented. (Sukala/Callaway)
  2. The treasurers’ report was given and accepted as presented.
  3. The agenda was approved with addenda (3). (Taylor/Sukala)
  4. Committee reports:

        a. Buildings and Highways – no meeting held
        b. Safety Committee – Held meeting tonight before Town Board meeting:
        i. Recommend approve appointment of new member to the safety committee: Marcia Sahaag. Approved as presented (Lohrmann/Sukala-with Rick Callaway abstaining from the vote).
        ii. Fire Dept report—First Responders class completed-any one that took the course can now assist Rescue Squad with First Aid and getting equipment. They are NOT EMT’s. Grossed $10,000 for the Fire Department—ticket price was 3 for $10
        iii. LESD—May patrol hours were 133 hours with 5 citations. New boat is in and working very well. New motor on boat is cutting down on the expense of gas. New ordinances are in place, citations ordered at price of $92/1,000. Foregoing purchase of computer this year due to fact that Walworth County is changing their computer systems this year. Will wait until next year when County has new system. Signs are up “Don’t touch buoys” and a minimum fine of $150 for tampering with them. In process of purchasing radar gun for $1000, which can be depreciated. PWC donated by Carl Stotz.

        c. Lake Management Districts’ reports:
        i. Lauderdale Lakes Management District—general meeting: proposal for conservancy. Property being defined in 3 different areas: wetlands, park, and municipal.
        ii. Pleasant Lakes—Saturday, June 28, 2003 at 9:30 AM will be the annual meeting held at the Chicago Girl Scout camp. Question regarding responsibility with respect to illegal election held last year? Betty will look into and get back to us.
        d. Administration and Personnel—no meeting held
        e. Information committee—meeting in two weeks on June 23, 2003 at 6:30 PM. Will be working on links to the web site.
  5. Plan and Zone-
        a. Certified Survey Map for Sean and Cindy Alcock, N7467 Bay Drive, Elkhorn for a re-division of Lot 2 of CSM 3011—Plan and Zoning approved CSM with addition of note on CSM that there be no more piers put on the lots. After further discussion, it was decided that the wording should be more specific and should read: “There shall be no more that 1 pier with 6 mooring facilities for Lots 1 and 2 and that single pier shall be located adjacent to Lot 2.” Also attached to the CSM shall be a to scale drawing of how the pier is now indicating which slips are for motorized boats and which slip are for non-motorized. Motion made to table this until this wording is on the CSM (Callaway/Taylor). Will be put on the July agenda.
        b. Street yard variance request for Doug and Kathy Jackson, W5727 Young Road, Palmyra—Tabled per Jackson’s request (Taylor/Sukala)
  6. Fertilizer ordinance adoption—minimum forfeiture for violation is to be set at $50 and maximum at $250 (Taylor/Callaway). The bond amount shall be $50. (Taylor/Lohrmann) Motion to adopt ordinance(Callaway/Sukala)
  7. Discussion of fireworks rules/standards for getting permits for fireworks. Town Chairman to issue permits and also issue tickets. Add statement of insurance to ordinance amounts of One million and $500,000 respectively. Motion to adopt addition of insurance requirement to ordinance (Callaway/Taylor)
  8. Discussion of liquor license charges: Motion made to keep charges for licenses as they are: combination “Class B”-$425, provisional permit-$15, operators permit-$15, temporary beer permit-$10 (Taylor/Sukala)
  9. Compost agreement with the Town of Sugar Creek—sign the agreement changing the date to make a one year contract rather than a five year contract. (Callaway/Lohrmann)
  10. Hiring of Lake Patrol officers—recommendation to approve hiring of Michael Falasco as a Lake Patrol officer (Callaway/Sukala). Also recommendation to approve hiring of Tamia Kingsfield as a Lake Patrol officer (Callaway/Sukala).
  11. In 2002 a letter was written and sent to the Town of Troy to express objection of the Town of LaGrange’s objection to renewing the Pleasant Lake Tap and Grill liquor license. A request has been made for the Town of LaGrange to renew it’s objection—motion to write the letter in opposition of the Town of Troy issuing the liquor license(Lohrmann/Callaway)
  12. Request for a pier permit for Lot 9, Bay Drive—No improvements on the lot, all adjacent property owners have piers, meets Town pier ordinance-only issue is it is in the environmentally sensitive area. Motion made to approve pier permit as presented with limitation of two (2) mooring facilities. Lohrmann-aye, Sukala-aye, Taylor-aye, Callaway-nay, Heilmeier-nay. Vote 3 to 2 in favor-motion passes.
  13. Approval of bills properly submitted for payment (Sukala/Taylor).

Motion made at 9:27 PM to move into closed session. The meeting moved into closed session by roll call vote - Taylor-aye, Lohrmann-aye, Sukala-aye, Callaway-aye, and Heilmeier-aye.

9:59 PM motion to go back into open session per roll call vote - Taylor-aye, Lohrmann-aye, Sukala-aye, Callaway-aye, and Heilmeier-aye.
Motion made to approve drafting a letter/memo as discussed in closed session. (Taylor/Sukala).

There being no further business a motion to adjourn was made at 10:18 PM (Taylor/Sukala).
Crystal Hoffmann
Clerk
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