The Village of Greenville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin 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 annual Village organizational meeting shall be held at the
Village Board meeting following the fourth Monday of April of each
year at the Village Hall unless changed by a majority vote of all
the members of the Village Board.
The voting polls in the Village of Greenville, Outagamie County,
Wisconsin, shall be opened from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. for all elections.
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Section 7.52, Wis. Stats., is hereby adopted in its entirety by reference, as amended or renumbered from time to time, including but not limited to the specific provisions set forth in detail under §§
4-3.2 and
4-3.3 below.
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Central canvassing of absentee ballots. Pursuant to §§ 7.52
and 7.53(2m), Wis. Stats., the Village Board of the Village of Greenville
hereby creates a Municipal Board of Absentee Ballot Canvassers and
authorizes the centralized counting of absentee ballots on election
days in accordance with all procedures prescribed by § 7.52,
Wis. Stats.
A. The Board of Absentee Ballot Canvassers shall be composed of the
Municipal Clerk, or a qualified elector of the municipality designated
by the Clerk, and two other qualified electors of the municipality
appointed by the Clerk, for a term of two years commencing on January
1 of each even-numbered year. The Clerk may appoint additional inspectors
under § 7.52(1)(b), Wis. Stats., to assist the Municipal
Board of Absentee Ballot Canvassers in canvassing absentee ballots
under this section.
B. The Village of Greenville declares that, in lieu of canvassing absentee ballots at polling places under § 6.88, Wis. Stats., the Municipal Board of Absentee Ballot Canvassers shall canvass all ballots at all elections held in the municipality at Greenville Village Hall, W6860 Parkview Drive, Greenville, Wisconsin, or such other location designated by the Clerk and set forth in the notice of meeting under Subsection
D below.
C. At every election held in the Village following enactment of this
article and beginning April 2024, the Municipal Board of Absentee
Ballot Canvassers shall, any time after the opening of the polls and
before 10:00 p.m. on Election Day, publicly convene to count the absentee
ballots for the Village.
D. The Village Clerk shall give at least 48 hours' notice of any
meeting of the Municipal Board of Absentee Ballot Canvassers under
§ 7.52(1)(a), Wis. Stats.
E. The Village Clerk's office, no later than the closing hour of
the polls, shall post at his or her office and on the Village's
website, and shall make available to any person upon request, a statement
of the number of absentee ballots that the Clerk has mailed or transmitted
to electors and those ballots that have been returned by the closing
hour on election day.
F. The Municipal Board of Absentee Ballot Canvassers shall follow the
remaining procedures prescribed under § 7.52, Wis. Stats.
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Election officials working at the polls shall be appointed under
§ 7.30(1)(a), Wis. Stats.
A. The Village shall allow for the selection of alternate officials
or the selection of two or more sets of election officials to work
at different times on Election Day, and permit the Village Clerk or
designee to establish different working hours for different officials
assigned to the same polling place. Alternate officials may be appointed
in a number sufficient to maintain adequate staffing of polling places.
The Trustees of the Village of Greenville shall constitute the
Village Board. The Village Board shall be vested with all the powers
of the Village not specifically given to some other officer, as well
as those powers set forth throughout this Code.
The compensation for the Village Trustees and Village President
shall be determined pursuant to § 61.193, Wis. Stats.