[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Lake
Mills as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-15-2009 by Ord. No. 1054 as Secs. 7-4-1 through 7-4-4 of the
2009 Code of Ordinances]
A.
Sewers. The subdivider or owner of land will be required to pay the
actual cost of all necessary sewer extensions, including engineering
costs, on a special assessment basis. All necessary house laterals
shall be provided by the subdivider or property owner, and no street
shall be permanently improved until every building lot shall be so
serviced.
B.
Water mains. The subdivider or owner of land will be required to
pay the actual cost of all necessary water main and lateral extensions,
including engineering costs, on a special assessment basis.
C.
Grading and graveling. The subdivider or owner shall pay the costs
of grading, graveling and permanent surfacing on all streets. These
charges shall be assessed to the owners on a special assessment basis.
D.
Street maintenance. The City will pay the cost of maintaining all
streets.
E.
Streets with no prior assessment. On streets upon which no assessment
has been levied, the property owner shall pay the cost of construction
or reconstruction.
F.
Subdivision developers. If required as a condition for approval of
a subdivision plat, every subdivision developer shall be required
to grade and improve streets and alleys, install curbs and sidewalks,
monuments, storm and sanitary sewers, stormwater inlets, water mains,
and street name signs in accordance with specifications established
by the City.
[Amended 12-18-2012 by Ord. No. 1103]
Whenever the City Council shall declare its intention to improve
any street in which water, gas or sewer, or any of them shall have
been previously laid or are to be laid, the Council shall also by
resolution require water, sewer and gas service pipes to be first
laid in such street, at the cost of the property fronting thereon,
from the sewer, water and gas mains in such street to the curbline
on either or both sides thereof, at such intervals as the Council
shall direct along that part of said street to be improved, except
at street and alley crossings. Such work may be done by contract or
by the City directly without the intervention of a contractor, under
the municipal-owned utility, under the supervision of such utility.
The Director of Public Works shall keep an accurate account of the
expense of putting in service pipes in front of each lot or parcel
of land, whether the work be done by contract or otherwise, and shall
report the same to the Treasurer, who shall annually prepare a statement
of the expenses so incurred in front of each lot or parcel of land,
and the amount therein charged to each lot or parcel of land shall
be, by such Treasurer, entered in the tax roll as a special tax against
said lot or parcel of land, and the same shall be collected in all
respects as are other taxes upon real estate.
Before any blacktop hard surfacing is ordered on residential streets, the property owners shall request that curb and gutter be installed and pay the actual cost, including engineering, on a special assessment basis, or the City may on its own initiative order curb and gutter constructed on a special assessment basis, unless from an engineering standpoint curb and gutter is not practicable. Curb and gutter and sidewalk replacement to City streets shall be assessed pursuant to § 161-4 of this article at the rate as determined by the City Council of the City.
A.
Special assessment procedure. The City, in levying and collecting
special assessments for the construction of sanitary sewers, stormwater
sewers, water mains, grading and graveling of roads, paving of streets
and construction of sidewalk, curb and gutter upon any property located
in the City, may proceed in the manner provided in §§ 66.0701
through 66.0733, Wis. Stats.
[Amended 12-18-2012 by Ord. No. 1103]
B.
Corner lot assessments. Improvements on corner lots shall be assessed
for the full frontage, and the depth of the lot less 1/2 of the first
100 feet. Frontage of a lot with an existing building would be in
the direction in which the house faces.
[Adopted 9-20-2011 by Ord. No. 1079 (Secs. 7-4-5 and 7-4-6 of the 2009
Code of Ordinances)]
The City may directly perform any class of public construction,
or any part thereof, without submitting the same for bids.
A.
Such work may be done under the supervision of the Public Works Director.
The Public Works Director shall keep an accurate account of the expense
of any such work performed directly by the City, and shall report
the same to the Board of Public Works.
B.
Whenever any class of public work or any part thereof may be done
directly by the City without submitting the same for bids, the Board
of Public Works, or its designee, shall keep an accurate account of
the cost of the public work, including the necessary overhead expense.
Upon the completion of the work described, the Board of Public Works,
or its designee, shall make a complete report of the work to the Council,
stating in detail the items of cost and the total cost of doing the
work. The City Clerk shall publish the report as a part of the proceedings
of the Council.
C.
For purposes of this section, the Board of Public Works may delegate its duties by designating either the Public Works Director or the City Manager to act in its stead whenever the Board of Public Works is required to perform duties under Subsection B. Such designation shall be carried out by adopting a resolution that shall remain in effect for all such reporting requirements until such time as the Board of Public Works shall revoke such delegated authority through the adoption of a resolution revoking the same.
D.
The City may not directly perform highway improvement projects if
the costs exceed $100,000 and:
(1)
The project is funded either in part or in full by federal funds
and the construction commences after July 1, 2013; or
(2)
The project is funded in full or in part with state funds, not including
funds received under the general transportation aids program, and
such construction begins after July 1, 2015.
Unless § 161-5 applies, all public construction, the estimated cost of which exceeds $25,000, shall be let by contract to the lowest responsible bidder; all other public construction shall be let as directed in this section.
A.
If § 161-5 is not applicable, and if the estimated cost of any public construction exceeds $5,000 but is not greater than $25,000, the Board of Public Works shall give a Class 1 notice of the proposed construction before the contract for the construction is executed. This provision does not apply to public construction if the materials for such a project are donated or if the labor for such a project is provided by volunteers.
B.
The provisions of this section are not mandatory for the repair and
reconstruction of public facilities when damage or threatened damage
thereto creates an emergency in which the public health or welfare
of the City is endangered. Such determination as to emergency shall
be determined by resolution of the Board of Public Works. Whenever
the City Council determines by majority vote at a regular or special
meeting that an emergency no longer exists, this subsection no longer
applies.
C.
For purposes of this section, the Board of Public Works may delegate its duties by designating the City Clerk to act in its stead whenever the Board of Public Works is required to perform duties under Subsection A, and by designating the City Manager to act in its stead whenever the Board of Public Works is required to perform duties under Subsection B. Such designation shall be carried out by adopting a resolution that shall remain in effect for all such reporting requirements until such time as the Board of Public Works shall revoke such delegated authority through the adoption of a resolution revoking the same.
[Amended 12-18-2012 by Ord. No. 1103]
D.
Whenever a public construction contract requires that such contract
be let to the lowest responsible bidder, Wis. Stats. §§ 62.15,
66.0901, and 66.0903 are incorporated herein by reference, including
any amendments thereto.
