[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Manawa 10-18-1993
as Title 2, Ch. 4 of the 1989 Code of Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
Composition. The Board of Review shall consist of the
Mayor, Clerk-Treasurer and Common Council members. The Board of Review members,
including Council members and city employees, shall be paid $30 per meeting.
[Amended 1-3-2000]
B.
Duties. The duties and functions of the Board of Review
shall be as prescribed in W.S.A. ss. 70.46 and 70.47.
C.
Board's duty. The Board shall carefully examine
the assessment roll and correct all apparent errors in description or computation.
It shall add all omitted property but shall not raise or lower the assessment
of any property except after hearing, as provided by the statutes.
A.
Organization; terms.
(1)
There is hereby created, pursuant to W.S.A. Ch. 43, a
Municipal Library Board for the Manawa Public Library consisting of a seven-member
Board in three classes. Three of such members shall serve for a period of
three years, two shall serve for two years, and two shall serve for a period
of one year.
(2)
Terms of such members shall be from July 1 in the year
of their appointment, and thereafter each regular appointment shall be for
a term of three years. Not more than one member of the Common Council body
shall at any one time be a member of the Library Board. The Mayor shall appoint
as one of the Library Board members a school district administrator, or his
or her representative, to represent the public school district or districts
in which the library is located. Members shall be residents of the City of
Manawa, except that not more than two members may be residents of towns adjacent
to the city.
(3)
A majority of the membership of the Board shall constitute
a quorum.
(4)
As soon as practicable after the first appointments,
at a date and place fixed by the appointing officer, and annually thereafter,
within 30 days after the time designated in this section for the beginning
of terms, the members of the Library Board shall organize by election from
among their number a President and such other officers that they deem necessary
to prescribe and adopt rules and regulations for the operation of the library.
B.
Duties and powers; reimbursement. The Library Board shall
have the duties and powers as prescribed by W.S.A. Ch. 43 and more particularly
set forth in W.S.A. s. 43.58. The Library Board shall appoint the librarian
and other library employees. The Library Board shall have exclusive authority
to manage all library employees and shall adopt a personnel policy manual.
A copy of the Library Board Policy and Procedure Manual shall be kept on file
with the office of the Clerk-Treasurer of the City of Manawa. Reimbursement
shall be $10 per meeting.
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(State law reference: W.S.A. s. 43.54)
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A.
Composition. The Board of Health shall consist of the
members of the Council's Protection and Welfare Committee.
B.
Officers. The Board of Health shall elect a Chairperson
and Secretary.
C.
Powers of appointment. The Board of Health may appoint
persons to aid it.
D.
Responsibilities.
(1)
The Board of Health shall take such measures as shall
be most effectual for the preservation of the public health. It shall be the
duty of the Board of Health of the City of Manawa to assume the general administration
of health and sanitation laws and regulations in the city and to attend to
the administration and enforcement of the health laws of the state and the
rules and regulations prescribed by the State Board of Health and the ordinances
of the city.
(2)
The Board shall take such measures and make such rules
and regulations as shall be necessary and effectual for the preservation and
promotion of the public health in the City of Manawa. All orders and regulations
of the Board shall be published in the official newspaper and, after publication,
shall have the force and effect of ordinances, including penalty for violation.
A.
Establishment. A Zoning Board of Appeals shall be appointed
as specified in W.S.A. s. 62.23(7)(e). The Zoning Board of Appeals shall consist
of five members appointed by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the Common
Council. The members shall be compensated as determined by the Council and
shall be removable by the Common Council for cause upon written charges and
upon public hearing. The Mayor shall designate one of the members Chairperson.
B.
Powers. The Zoning Board of Appeals shall have the following
powers:
(1)
To hear and decide appeals where it is alleged that there
is an error in any order, requirement, decision or determination made by an
administrative official in the enforcement of the city's zoning ordinances.[1]
(2)
To hear and decide special exceptions to the terms of
city zoning and floodplain zoning regulations upon which the Zoning Board
of Appeals is required to pass.
(3)
To authorize, upon appeal in specific cases, such variance
from the terms of the city's zoning regulations as will not be contrary
to the public interest where, owing to special conditions, a literal enforcement
will result in practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship, so that the spirit
of the zoning code shall be observed, public safety and welfare secured and
substantial justice done; provided, however, that no such action shall have
the effect of establishing in any district a use or uses not permitted in
such district.
(4)
To permit the erection and use of a building or premises
in any location, subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards in harmony
with the general purposes of the zoning code, for such purposes which are
reasonably necessary for public convenience and welfare.
(5)
To reverse or affirm, wholly or in part, or modify any
order, requirement, decision or determination as in its opinion ought to be
made regarding the premises. The concurring vote of three members of the Zoning
Board of Appeals shall be necessary to reverse any order, requirement, decision
or determination appealed from or to decide in favor of the applicant on any
matter on which it is required to pass or to effect any variation in the requirements
of the city's zoning ordinances. The grounds of every such determination
shall be stated and recorded. No order of the Zoning Board of Appeals granting
a variance shall be valid for a period longer than six months from the date
of such order unless a zoning permit is obtained within such period and the
erection or alteration of a building is started or the use is commenced within
such period.
C.
Meetings and rules. All meetings of the Zoning Board
of Appeals shall be held at the call of the Chairperson and at such other
times as the Board may determine. All hearings conducted by said Board shall
be open to the public. The Zoning Board of Appeals shall keep minutes of its
proceedings showing the vote of each member upon each question or, if absent
or failing to vote, indicating such fact and shall keep records of its examinations
and other official actions, all of which shall be immediately filed in the
office of the City Clerk-Treasurer and shall be a public record. The Board
shall adopt its own rules of procedure not in conflict with this section or
with applicable Wisconsin statutes.
D.
Offices. The Common Council shall provide suitable meeting
space for holding the Zoning Board of Appeals' hearings.
E.
Appropriations; reimbursement. The Common
Council shall appropriate funds to carry out the duties of the Zoning Board
of Appeals, and the Board shall have the authority to expend, under regular
procedures, all sums appropriated to it for the purpose and activities authorized
herein. Reimbursement shall be $10 per meeting.
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[State law reference: W.S.A. s. 62.23(7)]
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A.
Composition. The Plan Commission shall consist of seven
members as follows: the Mayor, one Alderperson and five citizens.
B.
Appointment.
(1)
Election/appointment of Alderperson members. At its annual
meeting in April of each year, the Common Council shall, by a majority vote
of its members, elect one of its number as member of the City Plan Commission
for a period of one year from and after the first day of May next ensuing.
(2)
Appointment and terms of citizen members. The five citizen
members shall be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Common Council
to hold office for a period ending, respectively, one, two and three years
thereafter from the succeeding first of May. Annually, during April, members
shall be appointed for a term of three years.
C.
Organization of Commission. The Mayor shall serve as
presiding officer. The Plan Commission shall organize by the election of a
Vice Chairperson, Secretary and such other officers as may in its judgment
be necessary.
D.
Record. The Plan Commission shall keep a written record
of its proceedings, to include all actions taken, a copy of which shall be
filed with the City Clerk-Treasurer. Four members shall constitute a quorum,
but all actions shall require the affirmative approval of a majority of all
of the members of the Commission.
E.
Duties.
(1)
The Master Plan.
(a)
The Plan Commission may make, adopt and, as necessary,
amend, extend or add to the Master Plan, subject to Common Council confirmation,
for the physical development of the city, including areas outside of its boundaries
which, in the Plan Commission's judgment, bear relation to the development
of the city. The Master Plan, with the accompanying maps, plats and descriptive
and explanatory matter, shall show the Commission's recommendations for
physical development and may include, among other things, without limitation
because of enumeration:
[1]
The general location, character and extent of streets,
highways, freeways, street grades, roadways, walks, parking areas, public
places and areas, parks, parkways, playgrounds and sites for public buildings
and structures.
[2]
The general location and extent of sewers, water conduits
and other public utilities, whether privately or publicly owned.
[3]
The acceptance, widening, narrowing, extension, relocation,
removal, vacation, abandonment or change of use of any of the foregoing public
ways, grounds, places, spaces, buildings, properties, utilities, routes or
terminals.
[4]
The general location, character and extent of community
centers and neighborhood units.
[5]
A comprehensive zoning plan.
(b)
The Commission may adopt the Master Plan as a whole by
a single resolution or, as the work of making the whole Master Plan progresses,
may from time to time by resolution adopt a part or parts thereof, any such
part to correspond generally with one or more of the functional subdivisions
of the subject matter of the plan. The adoption of the plan or any part, amendment
or addition shall be by resolution carried by the affirmative votes of not
less than a majority of all the members of the Plan Commission, subject to
confirmation by the Common Council. The resolution shall refer expressly to
the maps, descriptive matter and other matters intended by the Commission
to form the whole or any part of the plan, and the action taken shall be recorded
on the adopted plan or part thereof by the identifying signature of the Secretary
of the Commission, and a copy of the plan or part thereof shall be certified
to the Common Council. The purpose and effect of the adoption and certifying
of the Master Plan or part thereof shall be solely to aid the Plan Commission
and the Common Council in the performance of their duties.
(2)
Mandatory referrals to Commission.
(a)
The Common Council or officer of the city having final
authority thereon shall refer to the Plan Commission for its consideration
and report, before final action is taken by the Council, public body or officer,
the following matters:
[1]
The location of any statue or other memorial.
[2]
The location, acceptance, extension, alteration, vacation,
abandonment, change of use, sale, acquisition of land for or lease of land
for any street, alley or other public way, park, playground, airport, area
for parking vehicles or other memorial or public grounds.
[3]
The location, extension, abandonment or authorization
for any public utility, whether publicly or privately owned.
[4]
All plats of lands in the city or within territory over
which the city is given platting jurisdiction by W.S.A. Ch. 236.
[5]
The location, character and extent or acquisition, leasing
or sale of lands for public or semipublic housing, slum clearance, relief
of congestion or vacation camps for children.
[6]
The amendment or repeal of any land use ordinance.
(b)
Unless such report from the Commission is made within
30 days, or such longer period as may be stipulated by the Common Council,
the Council or other public body or officer may take final action without
it.
(3)
Miscellaneous powers. The Commission may make reports
and recommendations relating to the plan and development of the city to public
officials and agencies; public utility companies; civic, educational, professional
and other organizations; and citizens. It may recommend to the Common Council
programs for public improvements. All public officials shall, upon request,
furnish to the Commission, within a reasonable time, such available information
as it may require for its work. The Commission, its members and employees,
in the performance of its functions, may enter upon any land, make examinations
and surveys and place and maintain necessary monuments and markers thereon.
In general, the Commission shall have such powers as may be necessary to enable
it to perform its functions and promote municipal planning in cooperation
with the Common Council.
F.
Vacancies. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment for
the remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as appointment for
the full term.
G.
Compensation. Compensation shall be $10 per meeting for
service on the Commission. Citizen members shall take the official oath as
required by W.S.A. s. 19.01, said oath to be filed with the City Clerk-Treasurer.
[Amended 11-27-2006]
A.
B.
Special meetings. Nothing in Subsection A shall preclude the calling of a special meeting or dispensing with the publication of notice or such posting of the agenda, for good cause, but such special meetings shall nonetheless comply in all respects with the provisions of W.S.A. ss. 19.81 to 19.89.
No person not a resident of and not residing in the City of Manawa shall
be appointed to any city board or commission, except that the Library Board,
pursuant to state law, may have as members up to two persons who reside in
towns adjacent to the city. Any board or commission member who moves from
the city shall immediately be removed from such board or commission.
