Town of La Grange, Wisconsin

Town Board Meeting (September 2003 minutes) Minutes For 9/8/2003
MINUTES OF REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING LAGRANGE TOWN BOARD September 8, 2003 The regular monthly meeting of the Town Board of the Town of LaGrange was called to order by Chairman Heilmeier at 7:31 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. The minutes of August 11, 2003 were approved as presented. (Sukala/Taylor) The treasurers’ report was given and accepted as presented. The agenda was approved. (Taylor/Lohrmann) Committee reports: a. Buildings and Highways – no meeting held b. Safety Committee – Held meeting tonight before Town Board meeting i. Buoy report—only one buoy had shifted, still have 12 on reserve, will remove all within a month ii. Launch ramp—waiting for Mann Bros to finish their work, so we can proceed iii. LESD—576.5 hours were logged for last month, 112.5 administration, 453 hours were patrol hours. Cobia has an electrical problem that will be fixed over the winter. Pleasant Lake Beach has had fewer problems since the LESD presence. Has been a large increase in OWI because of activity at the Landing. Need to do educational work with the Landing employees. c. Lake Management Districts’ reports: i. Pleasant Lakes—meeting this Saturday, September 13th at the Town Hall. Also, there was some confusion this weekend with the opening of the compost site and it did not get opened—discussed this and the problem has been solved, still looking for volunteers to open and close it though ii. Lauderdale Lakes Management District—had annual meeting, there will be a marginal increase in the tax levy due to adding $11,000 in budget to redo the gas tanks. Following through on conservancy for the golf course. Golf course doing well for the year—all numbers are up from last year. Meeting this Saturday, September 13th at 9 AM at the Golf Course. d. Administration and Personnel—no meeting held e. Information committee—Meeting to be held on Monday, September 15, 2003 at 6:30 PM. Need to check on the web site costs for next year for budget costs. Plan and Zone- a. Certified Survey Map for Drew and Jackie Van Norman on Bluff and Connelly road. Both lots meet driveway ordinance. Approved as presented (Taylor/Callaway) b. Rezone request from A-1 to C-2 on Bluff road for Kevin Williams. Motion to table—more information needed. (Lohrmann/Sukala). c. Presentation for land use, rezoning, and conditional use of Pelletier land. Motion to table (Lohrmann/Callaway). d. Request for street yard variance off of Solid Comfort Drive for Randy Thelen. Garage is in violation of the street yard variance, however more aesthetic looking to have garage attached than detached. Motion to approve as presented (Taylor/Sukala). Pleasant Lake and Bubbling Springs launch ramps: Bubbling springs launch ramp will need a Certified survey map and then will need to hire professional engineer for plans. Motion to proceed (Lohrmann/Sukala). Discussion possible action regarding Shagbark Road. Attorney Terry Race present to represent home owners along road. Attorney Race did a title search and found that the property was never conveyed to anyone. Attorney Race’s suggestion is fix the pot hole then leave the road as is and hire a private plow driver with a smaller truck to plow. The Town sees two options: 1. The Town brings the road up to standards (which will involve condemning some land) and then the property owners along Shagbark will be special assessed or 2. The owners form an association, take over the easement, then fix and maintain the road though the homeowners association. The process for option 1 would take months. First have to have a resolution signed by the Town Board. Motion to proceed according to what Attorney Adelman has advised. (Callaway/Taylor). Discussion of fireworks ordinance with Tom Hein. Mr. Hein found that our ordinance does not mention anything about the SALE of fireworks. Motion to rewrite ordinance to include the word SALE. Discussion/possible action regarding vacation of part of Circle Drive in Bubbling Springs subdivision. The drive was blacktopped by Russ Walton and has been maintained by him as well. The other lots along this drive are vacant. Motion to approve road vacation as discussed (Lohrmann/Sukala). Attorney Adelman will do the resolution for this vacation. Dates for preliminary budget workshops—Monday, September 22, 2003 at 6:30 PM. Consider re-valuation for assessor. Approval of bills properly submitted for payment (Sukala/Lohrmann). There being no further business a motion to adjourn was made at 9:38 PM (Sukala/Tayor) Crystal Hoffmann Clerk
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