[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Wild Rose. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Village of Wild Rose is a body corporate and politic with
the powers of a municipality at common law and governed by the provisions
of Chapters 61 and 66 of the Wisconsin Statutes, laws amending those
chapters, other acts of the legislature, and the Constitution of the
State of Wisconsin.
The Village Board and all boards, commissions, and standing/special
committees of the Village, referred to herein as "government bodies"
or "bodies," shall comply with the requirements of Chapter 19 of the
Wisconsin Statutes, in particular, the requirements of § 19.84
and § 19.85, Wis. Stats., relating to public notices of
meetings.
All Village governmental bodies shall proceed as follows in
preparing, mailing and posting notices of meetings:
A.
Notice to members. Except where notice of the meeting has been given
at a previous meeting or in cases of extreme emergency, each member
of the governmental body shall be given notice of the proposed time,
date, place and agenda of the meeting not less than 48 hours prior
thereto by the presiding officer or his/her designee.
B.
Additions to agenda. Any member who desires to make additions to
the agenda shall submit the same, in writing, to the Clerk-Treasurer
at the opening of the meeting.
C.
Notice to public. The presiding officer or his/her designee shall
prepare the final agenda and give notice to the public and the news
media of the time, date, place and subject matter of the meeting as
follows:
(1)
Notice shall be given to the official newspaper in accordance with
§ 985.02(1), Wis. Stats., by telephone or by mailing a copy
of the agenda showing the time, date and place of the meeting, not
less than two days prior to the scheduled meeting. Notice shall also
be given to any news medium that has filed a written request for said
information.
(2)
In accordance with § 985.02(2), Wis. Stats., notice shall
be given to the public not less than 24 hours prior to the scheduled
meeting by posting a copy of the agenda, showing time, date and place
of the meeting, on the outside door of the meeting place, and at three
public places likely to give notice to people affected, or by posting
in at least one public place likely to give notice to persons affected
and placing electronically on an internet site maintained by the Village.
A copy of the agenda and notification shall be filed with the Clerk-Treasurer
at the same time the notice is publicly posted.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1-2, Adoption
of Code)]
D.
Other requirements. Compliance with the notice provisions of this
section does not relieve any governmental body of compliance with
other provisions of state law or Village ordinances relating to notice
to individuals or publication of notice of public hearings.
A.
Prohibited; exception. No secret ballot shall be utilized to determine
any decision of Village governmental bodies at any meeting, except
for the selection of a presiding officer, secretary or other officer
of the body.
B.
Members may require roll calls. Any member of the body may request
a roll call vote to be taken and recorded on any election or other
decision of the Village governmental body, including the election
of officers of such body.
Unless otherwise provided for by law, each governmental body
of the Village shall at its annual organizational meeting designate
one of its members as Secretary, who shall be responsible for recording
all motions and roll call votes of each open and closed meeting of
the body. The records of the Secretary, after approval by a majority
of the members of the governmental body and certification of such
approval by the presiding officer, shall be filed in the office of
the Clerk-Treasurer. The Secretary or Clerk-Treasurer shall impound
records of closed meetings until the body, by majority vote, authorizes
their release and inclusion in the regular public record file.
No elected or appointed member of any governmental body of the
Village of Wild Rose may be excluded from any meeting of such body
or any meeting of a subunit thereof.
