[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Buchanan 11-4-1997 as Ch. 33 of the 1997 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Town Board of the Town of Buchanan is hereby
increased from a three-member Board of Supervisors to a five-member
Board of Supervisors consisting of a Town Board Chairperson and four
Town Board Supervisors.
Each of the seats of the Town Board of Supervisors
shall be numbered but shall be elected at large. Supervisor No. 2,
presently, shall, as of the spring election in 1997 and thereafter,
become Supervisor No. 3.
A.
The Town Board Chairperson and seats on the Town Board
of Supervisors numbered 1 and 3 shall be elected every odd year for
a two-year term.
B.
The two new seats on the Town Board of Supervisors
shall be designated seats No. 2 and No. 4 and be first elected at
the spring election in 1997 for a one-year term, commencing with the
second Tuesday of April. Thereafter, seats of the Town Board of Supervisors
numbered 2 and 4 shall be elected each even-numbered year for a two-year
term.
Pursuant to Wisconsin Statutes, this increase
in the membership of the Town Board does not create any vacancy on
a Town Board prior to the spring election of 1997.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2007-13]
The presiding officer at any meeting of the
Town Board is the Town Chairperson. If the Town Chairperson is not
present at the time for the call to order, the senior member of the
Town Board present, based on date of original election as a member
of the Town Board, shall call the meeting of the Town Board to order,
call the initial roll, and preside as Acting Town Chairperson until
the Town Chairperson is able to preside at the meeting. If two or
more members of the Town Board have the same date of original election,
the member who received the greatest number of votes at time of his/her
election shall serve as the Town Chairperson. The Acting Town Chairperson
shall serve as Town Chairperson during any short-term absences of
the Town Chairperson until the return of the Town Chairperson or a
vacancy is determined and filled pursuant to law.
A.
The terms
of elected Town officers (other than elected Assessors) have previously
begun on the second Tuesday in April. Town officers (other than Assessors)
elected in April 2012 and thereafter will now have their terms of
office commence on the third Tuesday in April due to state election
law changes. This law change results in a week-long "gap" between
the end of the current terms of office for those Town officers elected
in either 2010 or 2011 and the start of the new terms of office for
those officers elected in April 2012 or April 2013.
B.
2011 Wis.
Act 115 provides that a Town Board may enact an ordinance providing
that the terms of any elective officers in the Town who were elected
or appointed to serve for terms expiring on the second Tuesday in
April 2012 or 2013 may be extended to the third Tuesday in April in
the same year in which the terms would otherwise have expired. Therefore,
the terms of elected Town officers which shall expire after 11:59
p.m. on the second Monday of April in either April 2012 or April 2013
shall be extended until the third Tuesday of April in the same year
in which the terms would otherwise have expired.
