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September 10, 2003 Minutes of Town Board Work Meeting
Minutes of Town Board Work Meeting of September 10, 2003
The regular monthly Town Board Work meeting was held in the Town Hall
after due notice had been posted.
Chair Herman called the meeting to order at 7:25 p.m.
PRESENT: ALSO PRESENT:
Chair, Marvin Herman Clerk, Colleen Endisch
Supervisor, Jack Fleming Treasurer, Shari Wisniewski
Supervisor, Richard Hummel Attorney, Steve Wassel
Supervisor, Larry Malsch Acting Police Chief, Raymond Clark
Supervisor, Jay Goethal Fire Chief, Gerald Edwards
Audience: Approximately 15 citizens
Chair Herman called roll and declared a quorum present for doing
business.
Comments and suggestions by citizens present:
Citizen Gary DeVries stated he would like to amend the park minutes
of 9/6/01 and apologized to the board for his letter in the Delavan
Enterprise regarding the park. Mr. DeVries stated he should have used
the word “friendly”. DeVries reported that he requested multiple
minutes from 2001, 2002 and 2003 and the clerk, Colleen Endisch was
unable to locate some of the minutes requested.
Old Business: None
New Business:
Reports/discussion/agenda preparation from issues resulting from
monthly Committee meetings.
)aAdministrative Committee
Committee doesn’t have anything for the town board meeting.
Supervisor Fleming stated that he will write a letter to the union
regarding the P W Work Rules, he is confused as they had already
approved a draft prior to adoption.
)bEconomic Growth and Development Committee
Jay reported that he now has three volunteers for the committee;
Carol Coccia, Beth Peters and Julie Mraz.
)cEmergency Government
No Report
)dFinance Committee
Chair Herman stated that the Finance Committee had met and worked on
a small part of the budget and will meet again on the 18th of
September. Herman asked if the Fire & Rescue, Police, Lake and Public
Works would be ready and all responded yes.
)eFire & Rescue Committee
Supervisor Hummel stated that the Fire Department met the Town of
Geneva and the Dept. will give their report at the Fire & Rescue
Meeting on September 11th.
)fLake Committee
Supervisor Goethal reported that Company that had given a $ 6,000
price on the Inlet Testing Project now are stating the project will
cost $ 16,030. Goethal will take back the issue to the Lake
Committee. Chair Herman stated that to get the increased funds, the
item would need to be approved by the Town Board. Chair Herman stated
the Pierhead Ordinance would be put back on the Town Board Agenda for
approval, with the necessary corrections made.
)gPark & Tourism Committee
Supervisor Malsch reported that the Park Committee would be working
on their budget on the Park Committee Meeting of September 11th.
Malsch stated he would be picking up the Park Contract from Steve
Wassel the next day and the Park Committee will be reviewing. Malsch
stated the Park Committee would be recommending the expend $ 350 to
PDI for a Park Master Plan update.
)hPlan Commission
Chair Herman discussed the recommendation/possible action rezone from
A-1 to C-2 for Charles D Pearce 13.73 acres in SW ¼ NW ¼ Sec. 35 T2N
R16E.
)iPolice Committee
Chair Herman stated that Special Commendation to Police Chief Andrew
Mayer for Meritorious Service will take place at the September Town
Board Meeting.
)jPublic Works Committee
Chair Herman stated that Jim Wolfgram has been suspended for fifteen
days and was demoted to patrolman. Herman stated he will place an
item on the Town Board agenda regarding filling the vacancy (temporary
or permanent) as a result of the demotion.
)kETZ Committees
No Report
)lAll other recommendations.
)iTreasurer Wisniewski asked what was going on with the LaBahr farm.
Chair Herman stated that he has been waiting for the Trustee to get
back to him and he hasn’t heard from him. Supervisor Hummel will
call.
)iiChair Herman stated he had been at the Board of Adjustment Hearing
with the County and the county asked a lot of penetrating questions
and were not sympathetic to our Case.
)iiiChair Herman stated that he had a request to declare a
Proclamation for the week of 9/17-23 as Constitution Week in
conjunction with the Daughters of the American Revolution and will
present at the town board.
)ivChair Herman reported that he would recommend to the Town Board to
appoint an Ad Hoc Halloween Party Committee of the Park Committee. He
stated that he had previously mentioned that he had approximately
fourteen volunteers and said he had been calling local merchants for
donations to try to keep down the cost.
)vChair Herman stated he had received a call from Laurie Deschner
regarding the sell of the “Panache Sign” for $ 3,000. Resident
Maureen Fahey stated that Ms. Deschner doesn’t own the sign, she rents
it from J & B Signs.
)viSupervisor Malsch reported that the Park Building will be tabled
until after the Budget and Park Contract are resolved.
)viiChair Herman stated that a popular item around town hall has been
the response to the Gramse issue. Town Hall has received dozens of
e-mails, faxes, etc. all supporting the Town position to litigate.
Comments and Suggestions of citizens present:
Citizen Karen Adelman stated that in reading the Park Minutes she saw
that the Town was not opening the Park Contract for bids. She stated
that there are others out there that could maybe do a better job for
less money. She wasn’t stating that CK Recreations wasn’t doing a
good job but hoped the town would reconsider their position.
Gary Devries commented that he has been receiving a lot of calls
regarding the Park Contract and hopes the Park Committee would
consider to opening the contract for bids.
Maureen Fahey commented about the handling of service contracts. She
stated she had been on the board for a number of years and contracts
for the Town Attorney, Building Inspector, Inspector, etc., never went
out for bid. To place the Park Contract out for bid would be a double
standard.
Ms. Fahey asked if Jim Wolfgram is no longer the foreman and demoted
to patrolman, will that put Mike Petkoff in charge. Chair Herman
stated this would be an agenda item for the Town Board Meeting. There
would be a debate in open session on the interpretation of the union
contract.
The next Town Board Meeting will meet on October 21, 2003 at 7 PM.
Adjournment:
Supervisor Hummel made a motion to adjourn at 8:05 PM with a second
from Supervisor Malsch and the motion passed unanimously.
ATTEST: APPROVED:
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Colleen Endisch, Town Clerk
Marvin Herman, Town Chair