[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.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Administration of government — See Ch. 4.
Administrative determinations — See Ch. 7.
Community Development Authority — See Ch. 23
Ethics — See Ch. 32.
Officers and employees — See Ch. 54.
Public records — See Ch. 65.
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.
[Amended 11-27-2006]
(State law reference: W.S.A. s. 43.54)
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]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 300, Floodplain Zoning, Ch. 301, Shoreland-Wetland Zoning, and Ch. 303, Zoning.
(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.
[Amended 11-27-2006]
[State law reference: W.S.A. s. 62.23(7)]
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. 
Regular meetings; public notice. Every board, committee and commission created by or existing under the ordinances of the city shall:
(1) 
Fix a regular date, time and place for its meetings. All meeting notices shall be filed with the City Clerk-Treasurer, who shall cause the notice to be published and posted in full compliance with the Open Meeting Law requirements.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See W.S.A. s. 19.81 et seq.
(2) 
Post at the front door of the City Hall or publish an agenda of the matters to be taken up at such meeting.
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.