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Town Board Meeting (September 2004 minutes) Minutes For 9/13/2004
MINUTES OF REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING
LAGRANGE TOWN BOARD
September 13, 2004


The regular monthly meeting of the Town Board of the Town of LaGrange was called to order by Chairman Heilmeier. Chairman Heilmeier, Supervisor Callaway, Supervisor Sukala, Supervisor Lohrmann were present. Supervisor Taylor was absent. Crystal Hoffmann, Clerk/Treasurer and Elizabeth Adelman, Town Attorney were also present.
  1. The minutes of August 9, 2004 were approved as presented (Sukala/Lohrmann)
  2. Treasurer’s report was accepted as presented
  3. The agenda was approved with the addenda (Lohrmann/Callaway).
  4. Committee Reports:
        a. Buildings and Highways: meeting held this month, regarding Shagbark Road
        b. Safety committee

        i. The LESD logged 443 hours, 38 administration hours, issued 31 citations and 82 warnings in August. Also did training with the Fire Department.
        ii. Fire Department—grant for equipment truck was denied, will apply again next year
        iii. Had demonstration/presentation on TASER. Will put on October agenda for Town Board to approve.

        c. Lake Management Districts:

        i. Pleasant Lake: nothing to report
        ii. Lauderdale Lakes Management: approved the budget with an increase of 8.2% due to a new pole building to replace the old one. Next meeting will be in October.
        d. Finance and Personnel: Recommending the following to the Town Board:

        i. Wage increase for the summer road help from $11.55 per hour to 13.50 per hour, increase effective today, with a $1,000.00 bonus to be paid for work already done this summer. Motion to approve (Callaway/Sukala) Motion carries.
        ii. Cleaning rate be increased from $45 to $55 Motion to approve (Sukala/Lohrmann) Motion carries.
    e. Information committee: meeting to be held on 9/27 at the Town Hall
  5. Planning and Zoning:
        a. Discussion/possible action of adopting the new Walworth county conservation subdivision ordinance as mandatory for the Town of LaGrange. Plan and Zoning tabled this item as it needs to be noticed as a public hearing. Will be put on the agenda for October after it has been published as a public hearing
        b. Discussion/possible action for amending the subdivision regulation ordinance relating to minimum lot sizes—this is the PUBLIC HEARING—any new lots need to be a minimum of 40,000 square feet in order to be buildable and any existing lots, before this ordinance is enforced would need to be 10,000 square feet in order to be buildable. Motion to approve this ordinance (Callaway/Lohrmann) Motion carries.
        c. Discussion/possible action regarding when the cut-off dates are for being placed on the agendas, discussion of addenda to meetings and when/how committee members are to be receiving the agendas—plan and zone decided to limit any addenda to a minimum of 72 hours notice prior to the meeting, and to e-mail or fax the agendas to them.
        d. Ordinance to define outlots—Motion to leave current definition of outlots as is and not accept this ordinance (Callaway/Sukala) Motion carries.
  6. Cleaning up the Sterlingworth boat launch—Motion to place a dumpster and a porta potty at the launch and then see if problems still persist. (Sukala/Callaway) Motion carries.
  7. Decide smart growth deliverables option with Walworth County—added cost is for printing of copies and who should bear that cost. Would be approximately $600 for the Town to order the copies of what we need and have Walworth County print them. Motion to have the County print what we need (Sukala/Lohrmann) Motion carries.
  8. Resolution from Walworth County reference Smart Growth Fund increase—sending resolution to the State of Wisconsin to request an increase in grant funding for area communities. Motion to accept this resolution (Lohrmann/Callaway) Motion carries.
  9. Preliminary budget hearing date set for October 6, 2004 at 6 p.m. at the town hall.
  10. Agreement with Sugar Creek regarding the compost site. New agreement continues until April of 2006 at $7,500 per year. Motion to approve (Lohrmann/Sukala) Motion carries.
  11. Proposed amendment to Ordinance No. 012001, An ordinance to regulate water traffic, boating and water sports upon the waters of Lauderdale Lakes, regarding tubing behind boats—Motion to table (Lohrmann/Callaway) will put on agenda for October. Motion carries.
  12. Amending the ordinance to regulate Dogs. Motion to table (Lohrmann/Callaway) will put on agenda for October. Motion carries.
  13. Recommendation of Vern Greenquist to fill a position on the Plan and Zoning commission. Motion to approve (Lohrmann/Sukala) Motion carries.
  14. Report on Economic Development committee, report from Ann Lohrmann—are working on doing strategic planning trying to attract businesses to the area. Will report again once strategic planning is completed.
  15. Payment of bills properly submitted for payment—Sukala/Lohrmann
The meeting then moved into closed session per role call vote: Lohrmann-aye, Sukala-aye, Callaway-aye, and Heilmeier-aye.

Motion to go into open session (Callaway/Sukala) Motion carries.

There being no further business a motion to adjourn was made at 9:42 p.m. (Sukala/Lohrmann) Motion carries.

Crystal Hoffmann
Clerk
    
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