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Town Board Meeting (August 2003 minutes) Minutes For 8/11/2003
MINUTES OF REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING
LAGRANGE TOWN BOARD
August 11, 2003
The regular monthly meeting of the Town Board of the Town of LaGrange was called to order by Chairman Heilmeier at 7:32 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 July 14, 2003 were approved as presented. (Taylor/Sukala)
  2. The treasurers’ report was given and accepted as presented.
  3. The agenda was approved. (Lohrmann/Taylor)
  4. Committee reports:
        a. Buildings and Highways – no meeting held, launch ramp is in at Sterlingworth-still needs some work

        i. Approval of 2 new members to the committee: Lou Olson, and Tom Short (Lohrmann/Callaway)

        b. Safety Committee – Held meeting tonight before Town Board meeting

        i. Fire Dept report—Fire department officer of the year is David Heilmeier, Fire fighter of the year is Jamie Sendt. The Steak Fry was a great success. Began talks about budget for 2004—new defibrillator, maybe purchase a suburban to pull the trailer that was bought to pull the snowmobile and equipment.

        ii. LESD—July has 533 patrol hours with 95 ½ administrative hours, Fridays have been very busy-the Lauderdale Lakes Management Patrol has not been patrolling on Fridays and there hasn’t been good communication between patrols. 2 Radios were purchases on E-bay saving a lot of money.

        iii. Launch ramp report—Sterlingworth planking is in but not finished yet.
        iv. Buoy—need to repair a few and had a few chopped off. Normal wear and tear.

        v. Recommend approval of new alcohol ordinance.

        c. Lake Management Districts’ reports:

        i. Lauderdale Lakes Management District—met twice, been working a lot on the conservancy, August 30th at 9 AM there will be a special meeting to make recommendations to electors. Doing a voluntary trial with noise. Russell Devitt is the new attorney for the District, the Golf course is doing better-weather cooperative and greens are good.

        ii. Pleasant Lakes—have not met yet. This is the 2nd year being able to work with the LESD and it is working well. Been giving citations and the parking issues are starting to come under control.

        d. Administration and Personnel—no meeting held

        e. Information committee—Meeting on the 15th of September at 6:30 PM. Approval of new committee member: Don Henderson (Sukala/Taylor).
  5. Plan and Zone-
        a. Preliminary discussion for land use and rezoning of Pelletier land: Property is located on Bluff and Rice Road off Hwy 67 on east side of the road. Planning for cluster of 12 lots (2-2 ½ acres each) which will cater to horses. Also proposing a rezone from A-2 to A-4 for 4 buildings to store boats, farm equipment and a nursery. Will be at next Plan and Zone meeting with preliminary plan.
  6. Discussion/possible action proceeding on other two (2) launches: Pleasant Lake and Bubbling Springs. Table until next month (Lohrmann/Sukala).
  7. Discussion/possible action concerning Shagbark Road. Don Jeziorski here on behalf of land owners. Appealing to the Town for an extension of time to meet with their new attorney Terry Race. Motion to table until September meeting (Lohrmann/Sukala).
  8. Discussion of fireworks ordinance with Tom Hein. Mr. Hein not here motion to table until September (Lohrmann/Taylor).
  9. Report on DNR sensitive area on Lauderdale Lakes. The DNR was asked to define better the environmentally sensitive areal. Found plants and wild rice. Will be enlarging areas on Bubbling Springs. Used LL#s, Road #s and GPS to define lines. DNR very encourages by lake quality.
  10. Approval of ordinance to regulate alcohol beverages on Town property. Approve ordinance as presented (Lohrmann/Callaway)—Motion to amend adding permissible by permit from Town (Callaway/Sukala). Motion passes unanimously, original motion passes unanimously. Motion to designate specific areas: Pleasant Lake Park (Callaway/Lohrmann).
  11. Discussion/possible action regarding sign ordinance with respect to Elegant Framer sign located on Hwy. 20. Town has pictures of sign Owner feels he can comply with ordinance. Disagree on this point-only old construction is one phone pole, rest is new construction. Motion made to send citation for violation of sign ordinance (Sukala/Callaway). Motion fails 2 (Callaway/Sukala) to 3 (Lohrmann/Taylor/Heilmeier). Decided better to try and work with the owner than to issue citation. Motion to have attorney write a letter to get voluntary compliance within 2 weeks and issue citation after (Lohrmann/Callaway). Motion passes 4 to 1, all aye except Taylor.
  12. Approval of a resolution for vacation on part of Circle Drive in Bubbling Springs subdivision. Motion to table until property owners come to an agreement to vacate (Lohrmann/Taylor).
  13. Approval of operators license renewal: Rebecca Lawton, N8129 Cty Rd. H. Approval contingent upon background check coming back with out any felonies on it (Lohrmann/Taylor)
  14. Approval of provisional operators licenses:
        a. Brian Walsh

        b. Thomas Cerqua, 1031 Starin Road

        c. Robert Smelcer, W8761 Territorial Road
    Approval of all three (a-c) contingent upon background check coming back with out any felonies on it (Taylor/Lohrmann)
  15. Approval of bills properly submitted for payment (Callaway/Sukala).

There being no further business a motion to adjourn was made at 9:27 PM (Callaway/Taylor).

Crystal Hoffmann
Clerk
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