[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of
the City of Weyauwega 5-21-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-01 as Title 2, Ch. 4
of the 2001 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
Composition.
(1)
The Board of Review shall consist of five citizens
appointed by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the City Council.
One member shall be appointed each year for a term of office of five
years. No member of the Board of Review shall occupy any public office
or be employed by the City of Weyauwega.
(2)
No Board of Review may be constituted unless it includes
at least one voting member who, within two years of the Board's first
meeting, has attended a training session under § 73.03(55),
Wis. Stats., and unless that member is the municipality's chief executive
officer or that officer's designee. The City Administrator shall provide
an affidavit to the Department of Revenue stating whether the requirement
under this subsection has been fulfilled.
B.
Compensation. The members of the Board of Review shall
receive a salary as determined by the City Council for each day or
fraction thereof that the Board is in session for the purpose of hearing
and considering testimony or in making its report and determination.[1]
C.
Objections to valuations to be written. No person
shall be permitted to appear and make objection before the Board to
the amount of valuation of any property unless objection thereto shall
first have been filed with the Clerk of the Board pursuant to § 70.47(7),
Wis. Stats.
D.
Duties. The duties and functions of the Board of Review
shall be as prescribed in §§ 70.46, 70.47 and 70.48,
Wis. Stats.
E.
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.
F.
Open meetings. All meetings of the Board of Review
shall be publicly held and open to all citizens at all times. No formal
action of any kind shall be introduced, deliberated upon or adopted
at any closed session or meeting of a Board of Review.
A.
Membership and terms. Pursuant to § 43.54,
Wis. Stats., the Library Board shall consist of seven members appointed
by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the Council, to serve three-year
terms. One member shall be a school district administrator or his/her
representative, and not more than one member of the Council shall
serve on the Library Board at any one time. Up to two members may
be residents of towns adjacent to the City.
B.
Duties and powers.
(1)
The Library Board shall have the duties and powers as prescribed by Ch. 43, Wis. Stats., and more particularly set forth in § 43.58, Wis. Stats. The Library Board shall appoint the Librarian and other library employees.
(2)
The Library Board shall submit annually to the Council
an itemized budget of the estimated expenses of the library for the
following year.
A.
Composition. The City Council shall serve as the City
of Weyauwega Board of Health. The Council shall make a recommendation
to the Mayor on appointing a competent and proper person, who shall
be, whenever the same is applicable, a reputable physician, who shall
be the Health Officer of the City and who shall, during his/her term
of office, be an ex officio officer of the Board.
B.
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 Weyauwega 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 Department of Health Services and the ordinances of the
City.[1]
(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 Weyauwega. 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 Board of Appeals shall be appointed
as specified in § 62.23(7)(e), Wis. Stats. The Board of
Appeals shall consist of five members and two alternate members appointed
by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the City Council, for a term
of three years. The members may be compensated as determined by the
Council and shall be removable by the City Council for cause upon
written charges and upon public hearing. The Mayor shall designate
one of the members Chairperson.
B.
Powers.
(1)
The Board of Appeals shall have the following powers:
(a)
To
hear and decide appeals where it is alleged there is an error in any
order, requirement, decision, or determination made by an administrative
official in the enforcement of the City's zoning or building code
ordinances.
(b)
To
hear and decide special exceptions to the terms of City zoning or
building code regulations upon which the Board of Appeals is required
to pass.
[Amended 7-19-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-02]
(c)
To
authorize, upon appeal in specific cases, such variance from the terms
of the City's zoning or building code 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.
(d)
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.
(2)
The Board of Appeals may reverse or affirm, wholly
or in part, or may modify any order, requirement, decision or determination
appealed from and may make such order, requirement, decision or determination
as in its opinion ought to be made. The concurring vote of four members
of the 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 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.
[Amended 7-19-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-02]
C.
Meetings and rules. All meetings of the 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 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 examination and other official actions, all of which
shall be immediately filed in the office of the City Administrator
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 City Council shall provide suitable meeting
space for holding the hearings of the Board of Appeals.
E.
Appropriations. The City Council shall appropriate
funds to carry out the duties of the 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.
A.
Composition. The Plan Commission shall consist of the Mayor, who
shall be the presiding officer, the Chairperson of the Recreation
Committee, one other Alderperson and four citizens.
[Amended 11-3-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-2]
B.
Appointment.
(1)
Election/appointment of Alderperson member. At its
annual meeting in April of each year the City Council shall, by a
two-thirds majority vote of its members, elect one of its number as
a 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 citizen members shall
be appointed by the Mayor, subject to Council confirmation, on the
third Tuesday of April of each year. The three-year terms shall be
staggered such that two citizens are appointed in one year and one
each in the two following years.
[Amended 11-3-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-2]
(3)
Recreation Committee member. The member representing
the Recreation Committee shall be annually elected by the members
of the Recreation Committee.
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 Administrator. 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 Comprehensive Plan.[1]
(a)
The Plan Commission may make, adopt and, as
necessary, amend, extend or add to the Comprehensive Plan, subject
to City 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 Comprehensive Plan, with the accompanying maps, plats and descriptive
and explanatory matter, shall show the Commission's recommendations
for such physical development and may include, among other things,
without limitation because of enumeration, 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; the general location
and extent of sewers, water conduits and other public utilities, whether
privately or publicly owned; 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; the general
location, character and extent of community centers and neighborhood
units; and a comprehensive zoning plan.
(b)
The Commission may adopt the Comprehensive Plan
as a whole by a single resolution or, as the work of making the whole
Comprehensive 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 City 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 City Council.
The purpose and effect of the adoption and certifying of the Comprehensive
Plan or part thereof shall be solely to aid the Plan Commission and
the City Council in the performance of their duties.
(2)
Mandatory referrals to Commission. The City 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: the location of any statue or other memorial; 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 ways, park, playground, airport, area for parking
vehicles, or other memorial or public grounds; the location, extension,
abandonment or authorization for any public utility, whether publicly
or privately owned; all plats of lands in the City or within the territory
over which the City is given platting jurisdiction by Ch. 236, Wis.
Stats.; 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; and the amendment
or repeal of any land use ordinance. Unless such report from the Commission
is made within 30 days, or such longer period as may be stipulated
by the City 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 City 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 City 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 as established
by the City Council. Citizen members shall take the official oath
as required by § 19.01, Wis. Stats., said oath to be filed
with the City Administrator.
A.
Composition. The Recreation Committee of the City
of Weyauwega shall consist of four citizen members, two youth members
and the members of the City Council’s Recreation Committee.
[Amended 4-18-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-03; 8-16-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-03]
B.
Appointment of members. It shall be the duty of the
Mayor to appoint four citizens of said City who shall serve as citizen
advisors of the Committee. All appointments shall be for four years,
except that the Alderperson members shall be those Alderpersons who
are annually appointed to the Recreation Committee. The Mayor shall
appoint two youths in grades seventh to 11 for a one-year term. All
appointments shall be subject to approval of the City Council.
[Amended 4-18-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-03; 5-19-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-04; 8-16-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-03]
C.
Powers and duties. The elected members of the Recreation
Committee are empowered and directed to:
[Amended 5-19-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-04]
(1)
Make advisory recommendations on governing, managing,
controlling, improving and caring for all public parks located within,
or partly within and partly without, the corporate limits of the City
and securing the quiet, orderly and suitable use and enjoyment thereof
by the people and to adopt rules and regulations to promote these
purposes.
[Amended 7-19-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-02]
(2)
Make advisory recommendations on acquiring in the
name of the City for park purposes, by gift, purchase, devise, bequest
or condemnation, either absolutely or in trust, money, real or personal
property, or any incorporeal right or privilege, provided that gifts
to the City of money or other property, real or personal, either absolutely
or in trust, for park purposes shall be accepted only after they have
been recommended by the Committee to the City Council and approved
by said City Council by resolution.
[Amended 7-19-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-02]
(3)
Make advisory recommendations on buying or leasing
lands in the name of the City for park purposes within or without
the City and, with the approval of the City Council, to sell or exchange
property no longer required for its purposes.
(4)
Execute every trust imposed upon the use of property
or property rights by the deed, testament or other conveyance transferring
the title of such property to the City for park purposes.
(5)
Perform such other and further duties as may be necessary
for the proper carrying out of the purposes of said Committee.
[Amended 7-19-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-02]
D.
Duties of citizen and youth advisors. Citizen and
youth advisors will advise on the five-year annual plan. Citizen and
youth advisors will be advisory voting members during all open sessions.
The Recreation Committee may conduct closed sessions per Wisconsin
Statutes. Attendance at closed sessions is restricted to only elected
officials.
[Added 5-19-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-04; amended 7-19-2010 by Ord. No.
2010-02; 8-16-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-03
E.
Record. The Recreation Committee shall keep a written
record of its proceedings, to include all actions taken, a copy of
which shall be filed with the City Administrator.
[Amended 5-19-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-04]
F.
Compensation. The members of the Recreation Committee shall receive
a salary as determined by the City Council.
[Added 5-21-2018 by Ord.
No. 2018-3]
[Amended 7-19-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-02]
The Public Health, Welfare and Ordinances Committee
shall serve as the Equal Opportunities Commission.
A.
Regular meetings; public notice. Every board, committee
and commission created by or existing under the ordinances of the
City shall fix a regular date, time and place for its meeting.
B.
Notice of meetings.
(1)
Every meeting of any board or commission of the City
of Weyauwega and/or any committee appointed or created by the Mayor
or City Council of the City of Weyauwega shall be preceded by public
notice and shall be held in open session at a place acceptable to
the public in accordance with the provisions of Ch. 19, Subchapter
V, Open Meetings of Governmental Bodies, Wis. Stats., unless otherwise
authorized by law.
(2)
Such notice shall be given in writing to the official
newspaper and, in addition thereto, shall be posted in at least one
location likely to give notice to the public of such meeting.
(3)
A separate public notice shall be given for each meeting
at a time and date reasonably proximate to the time and date of the
meeting, but not less than 24 hours prior to the commencement of such
meeting unless otherwise authorized by law.
(4)
Such notice shall set forth the time, date, place
and subject matter of the meeting, including that intended for consideration
at any contemplated closed session which may be authorized by law,
and may be in the following form:
NOTICE OF MEETING
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CITY OF WEYAUWEGA, WISCONSIN
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(commission)
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Please take notice that a meeting of the (commission)
of the City of Weyauwega will be held on (date) __________, 20____,
at (time) ______ p.m., at the City Hall, in Room _____ to consider
the following:
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1.
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(Agenda items set forth).
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2.
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Such other matters as authorized by law.
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Dated: ________________________________
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(Commission)
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By
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The Weyauwega City Hall is accessible to the
physically disadvantaged.
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If special accommodations for physically, visually
or hearing impaired individuals are needed, please contact the Weyauwega
City Administrator at (telephone).
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C.
Notice to members. Every member of any board, commission
or committee of the City of Weyauwega shall be notified by the secretary
thereof or designee that a meeting is to be held and the time and
place of such meeting and the subject to be considered thereat. No
member shall be intentionally excluded from any meeting by a failure
to give proper notice or a reasonable attempt to give proper notice
to such member.
D.
Minutes to be kept. Every board, commission and committee
shall keep a record of the minutes of its proceedings and shall cause
a signed copy thereof to be filed by its secretary with the City Administrator
within one week of the meeting date. The City Administrator shall
furnish a copy of all minutes filed with him/her to the Mayor and
to each member of the City Council. All such minutes shall be public
records.
A.
Residency. Except for the Library Board, no person
not a resident of the City of Weyauwega shall be appointed in a voting
capacity to any City board, committee or commission. Any such member
who moves from the City shall be removed from such board, commission
or committee but may be appointed to serve in an ex officio capacity.
B.
Attendance standard. Members of boards, committees
and commissions are required to attend a minimum of 2/3 of the meetings
in each six-month period of their respective bodies, unless excused
by the membership of their body. Failure to comply with this subsection
may result in the removal and replacement of the official found to
be in noncompliance.
C.
Member subject to removal. Any member of any board
or commission who violates any provision of this chapter or who knowingly
attends a meeting held in violation hereof may be removed as a member
of such board or commission, after being granted a public hearing,
by the appointing authority and upon concurrence of the City Council.
A.
Except as provided herein, the provisions of § 95-20 of this Code of Ordinances relating to rules of procedure for the City Council, together with Robert's Rules of Order, shall as far as applicable also apply to committee, board and commission meetings.
B.
A simple majority of the members of a board, committee
or commission shall constitute a quorum.