Common Council Minutes
July 17, 2000 7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Public Hearing to consider zoning amendment relating to parking requirements, grading steep slopes, site erosion control, lighting signs and sandwich boards.
The City Clerk read the notice for public hearing. The complete text is available in the City Clerk's office during regular office hours. There being no public comments, the Mayor entertained a motion to close the public hearing.
MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. (ROMANOWSKI/ALDRIDGE) CARRIED. PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED AT 7:03 P.M.
Present: Mayor Ed McAleer, Ald. Bud Mathey, Ald. Phil Schuman, Ald. Paul Craig, Ald. Rick Lieblang, Ald. Linda Quartaro, Ald. Kathy Aldridge, Ald. James Romanowski, City Admin. Matt Carlson, Clerk Marilyn Czubkowski
Absent: None
Meeting was called to order by Mayor Ed McAleer at 7:04 p.m.
Pledge of Allegiance.
1. Approve Minutes of July 10, 2000.
MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF JULY 10, 2000. (SCHUMAN/MATHEY) CARRIED.
2. Citizen's comments. None.
3. Consent Agenda
a. Approve two-year bartender licenses for:
-Richard J. Hamilton, W30250 Crooked Creek Road, Pewaukee--Kurt's Steakhouse,
Kurt B. Amidzich, 22 W. Main Street, Delafield--Kurt's Steakhouse
-Kim James Watt, W142 N5235 Thornhill Dr., Menomonee Falls--Brewhaus Mary
Ann Watt, W142 N5235 Thornhill Dr., Menomonee Falls--Brewhaus
-Jessica A. Kruesel, N20 W29957 Glen Cove Rd., Pewaukee-Jessica's Café
Approve one-year bartender license for: Megan K. Nelson, W276 N843 Woodridge
Lane, Waukesha
b. Approve rip rap permit for Thomas Kelley, 2218 West Shore Drive
MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA. (SCHUMAN/MATHEY) CARRIED.
4. Committee Reports
a. Licenses
CLASS "B" BEER CLASS "B" LIQUOR
Kruesel, Jessica Ann, N20 W29957 Glen Cove Road, Pewaukee, WI-Jessica's Café, 601 Milwaukee Street
MOTION TO APPROVE. (ALDRIDGE/QUARTARO) CARRIED. TEMPORARY CLASS B BEER LICENSE
Waukesha County Human Resources for picnic on Saturday, August 12, 2000 at Nagawaukee County Park, Debbie J. Rapp, Applicant
MOTION TO APPROVE. (QUARTARO/ALDRIDGE) CARRIED.
b. Plan Commission/Romanowski. Meeting-Wednesday, July 26, 2000.
c. Lake Welfare Committee/Schuman. Met last week and discussion
was held on the suggestion that the City write a letter to the DNR requesting
that they review the sensitive areas around the lake with the idea of perhaps
a dredging permit; and the Mayor suggested that the Southeastern Wisconsin
Regional Planning Commission would need to support that. The Lake Welfare
Committee now has a letter from SWRPC supporting the dredging. The other
item looked into was the silt on the northwest corner of Lake Nagawicka
that has been caused by the runoffs of the Village of Nashotah. The silt
ranges from 10" to 16" in 1999 to 26" to 30" at present.
A letter has gone to the Village of Nashotoh requesting that they adopt
the City of Delafield's stormwater management criteria. The Village has
said they will adopt it.
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
d. Park and Recreation Commission/Aldridge. No meeting.
e. Public Works Committee/Romanowski. The second special meeting
of the Public Works Committee to get the second presentation from the consultant
for the Water System Feasibility Study. A full report will be presented
later on the Agenda.
f. Del-Hart Commission/Mayor McAleer. Meeting July 18, 2000.
g. Recycling Committee. No report.
h. Police and Fire Commission. No report
i. Cable TV Committee. No report
j. Library Board/Craig. At their meeting, Polly reported that 900
plus books were checked out on June 16th which is a new record followed
by 700 plus books checked out on June 17th which was another new record.
Conversation was held regarding an increase of fines, hours and the new
library.
k. Other committees
5. Old Business.
6. Mayor's Report.
Mayor McAleer recommended the official appointment of Paul Craig to the Library Board and entertained a motion to that effect.
MOTION TO APPPOINT PAUL CRAIG TO THE LIBRARY BOARD. (ROMANOWSKI/QUARTARO) CARRIED.
Mayor McAleer recommended the reappointment of Marlene Web to the Library Board and entertained a motion to that effect.
MOTION TO REAPPOINT MARLENE WEB TO THE LIBRARY BOARD. (QUARTARO/CRAIG) CARRIED.
Mayor McAleer recommended the appointment of Scott Pfifer to the Cable TV Committee and entertained a motion to that effect.
MOTION TO APPOINT SCOTT PFIFER TO THE CABLE TV COMMITTEE. (ROMANOWSKI/ALDRIDGE) CARRIED.
7. New Business/Adm. Matt Carlson
a. Water System Feasibility Study and Master Plan Preliminary Presentation. Adm. Carlson introduced John Islib from Earth Tech who gave an executive summary presentation of the Water Feasibility Study. Topics covered were Water Supply History, Water Supply Needs, Water Supply Master Plan, and Conclusions and Recommendations. Extensive discussion followed the presentation. Adm. Carlson called attention to the relationship between assessments and tax increment financing. If the full two-and-one-half million dollars available from the TIF pool is used toward offsetting the cost of the system and the balance of it is assessed, the quarterly usage charge would be approximately $29. There is a relationship between the variables and a tradeoff in terms of how the property owners are assessed to recover the costs. The TIF funds must be used for the downtown area. Every single family home in the City will be paying the same user fee whether or not they are in the TIF district. Adm. Carlson stated that the next step for the City is to basically frame the questions and gather information as to what data is needed above and beyond what has been presented to determine what the City wants to do with the water system. He further stated that he sees four options, i.e., doing nothing, extending the water system to serve the downtown area, decide to spend $24 m to serve the entire community with water now, or work toward that system expansion-install the downtown system initially and as development opportunities present themselves build out the system but create the plan for it and build out the system over time. Available grants have not been looked into extensively. Adm. Carlson stated certain private costs will be incurred by the homeowner in addition to the assessment-hire a plumber to switch out the existing well system and hook up to the municipal well system (est. $500 to $1,000), run serve line from the curb line to the back of the house (approx. $12 per linear ft.). c. Approve zoning amendment ordinance relating to parking requirements, grading steep slopes, site erosion control, lighting, signs and sandwich boards. Adm. Carlson stated there is an ordinance based on the original version on John Stockham's memo that included off-street parking requirements in the CBD 1 district. The Plan Commission had discussion about those requirements in CBD 1 and the concensus of the Planning Commission was that it wanted to see the Fish Hatchery Parking Lot come on line and see how it goes before making a zoning text amendment with respect to the CBD 1 District. The ordinance that was distributed is an earlier version prepared by the City Attorney and includes it. Adm. Carlson's suggestion is that because the Plan Commission did not recommend it, the said section should be taken out entirely-Page 3 of the ordinance 1739-two top paragraphs. Striking of these two paragraphs does not mean there will be no action at all. The Plan Commission feels that the Fish Hatchery Parking Lot should be completed before reviewing parking requirements.
MOTION TO ADOPT AMENDMENT. (CRAIG/QUARTARO) CARRIED.
Page 2 - sandwich boards. The central issue regarding sandwich boards would be (c). This ordinance would not allow the placement of sandwich boards within the public right-of-way. A letter was sent to the Chamber of Commerce suggesting that if sandwich boards were placed in the right-of-way that every business must have liability insurance so the City is not responsible for anything. Adm. Carlson stated if the sandwich boards were the responsibility of the Adm., it would be handled by asking for input from the City Engineer on technical issues i.e., like sight line distances, view triangle, obstruction of an intersection, impassable path on the sidewalk. Then it would be a staff recommendation to the Plan Commission.
MOTION FOR CITY ADMINISTRATOR AND STAFF TO APPROVE SANDWICH BOARD SIGN APPLICATIONS WITH THE CONDITIONS THAT THE APPLICANT MUST HAVE INSURANCE COVERAGE AND IF THE APPROVAL IS QUESTIONABLE THE MATTER BE REFERRED TO THE PLAN COMMISSION. (CRAIG/ALDRIDGE) MOTION WITHDRAWN. Ald. Craig would like to see language and fee. Ald. Romanowski questions item (e) in the ordinance. Matter prepared for next agenda.
MOTION TO APPROVE 17.52(9), 17.29(o), 17.29.3, 17.70.3 AND 17.68.1. (QUARTARO/ALDRIDGE) CARRIED.
d. Discussion regarding potential Fire Department merger with Town of Delafield. Adm. Carlson stated that this item is on the agenda at the request of Ald. Lieblang. Conversations over the last year regarding ways to make the fire services more cost effective have been conducted. The pursuit of intergovernmental agreements have been conducted with the Village of Nashotah and one of the results is the joint purchase of an ambulance with the Village of Nashotah-turning out to be a very cost effective way of meeting two needs (providing an ambulance service for the northeast side of Delafield and also giving the Village of Nashotah the opportunity to do some training and to use the ambulance as well. Mayor McAleer stated the paramedic service will be on line approx. September 1, 2000. Mr. Paul Kanter, Town Chairman of the Town of Delafield, and Jack Perry, Town Supervisor, present. Town Chairman Kanter stated that there are at least two good reasons to conduct these discussions, and the Town has always been more than willing to have the discussions with the City or other municipalities who chose to pursue cost savings or service enhancements to Town residents. The second reason is that the Town and City are approximately 24 months into a five-year agreement that affects the Town and the City south of the interstate. That agreement, in part, called for discussion regarding the consolidation or sharing of services not only the fire department but also other areas as well. Adm. Carlson concurs that a meeting be scheduled for discussion regarding consolidation of services. He further questioned what the impact of just the discussion of a merger is on the fulltime people. So, therefore, he suggests a statement to the fulltime people should be made.
MOTION TO CREATE A BOARD WITH THE TOWN OF DELAFIELD AND THAT NONE OF THE FULLTIME POSITIONS ARE AFFECTED BY THE TALKS AND THAT THE FULLTIME POSITIONS BE SO INFORMED. (LIEBLANG/CRAIG) CARRIED.
8. Administrator's Report Adm. Carlson announced that Gary Edwards who has served the City for 19 years will retire. His last day will be July 27, 2000. A retirement luncheon will be held at the Fish Hatchery starting at 11:00 a.m., on Thursday, July 27, 2000 An invitation to attend was extended to all.
Adm. Carlson reported that he received a contact from the Upper Nemahbin Lake Management District regarding the request for the City to support a grant application. The City declined to support the grant. Upper Nemahbin filed for the grant and received the funding. They have now asked the City whether it would like to assign someone to participate in the review body that is working on the project. Anyone interested, please give the Mayor or Adm. Carlson a call.
9. Clerk's Report None
10. Financial Report
a. Approve vouchers
MOTION TO APPROVE. (ROMANOWSKI/ALDRIDGE) CARRIED
11. Correspondence
a. Thank you letter from PDC regarding 2000 Nagawicka Lake Fireworks
b. Correspondence dated July 11, 2000 from DNR regarding application to grade banks on Bark River (Chapter 30 permit approval)
c. Correspondence WITH Richard J. Klippstein regarding Bleeker Street
12. MOTION TO ADJOURN INTO CLOSED SESSION PER § 19.85(e) deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business, whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session (land acquisition). (ROMANOWSKI/CRAIG) ROLL CALL: Ald. Mathey, Yea; Ald. Schuman, Yea; Ald. Craig, Yea; Ald. Lieblang, Yea; Ald. Quartaro, Yea; Ald. Aldridge, Yea; Ald. Romanowski, Yea. Carried. Meeting adjourned into closed session at 9:42 p.m.
13. Reconvene into open session
MOTION TO RECONVENE INTO OPEN SESSION. (MATHEY/SCHUMAN) CARRIED. ROLL CALL: Ald. Mathey; Ald. Schuman; Ald. Craig; Ald. Lieblang; Ald. Quartaro; Ald. Aldridge; Ald. Romanowski.
14. Meeting reconvened into open session at 10:12 p.m. Action on items discussed in closed session
15. Adjournment
MOTION TO ADJOURN. (ROMANOWSKI/CRAIG) CARRIED. Meeting adjourned at 10:13 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Joann Dodge