[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of
the Village of Cambria 3-7-1988 as Title 2, Ch. 4 of the 1988 Code. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
A.
Composition. The Board of Review shall consist of
the Village President, the Clerk/Treasurer and three Trustees of the
Village Board, who shall be annually appointed at the Board's organizational
meeting. The President of the Village Board shall make the appointments,
subject to the confirmation of the Board of Trustees, at said organizational
meeting.
B.
Duties.
(1)
Duties. The duties and functions of the Board of Review
shall be as prescribed in §§ 70.46 and 70.47, Wis.
Stats.
(2)
Compensation. Compensation for the members of the
Board of Review shall be as is established by the Board of Trustees
for the Village at the organizational meeting in April. Compensation
shall include per diem and may include a mileage quotation, if necessary.
C.
Meetings. In accordance with § 70.47(3)b,
Wis. Stats., the Village Board does hereby exercise its right to designate
hours for the annual Board of Review proceedings other than those
set forth in § 70.47(3)a, Wis. Stats., and does hereby designate
the hours of the annual Board of Review meeting to be 5:00 p.m. to
9:00 p.m. The Board may adjourn from day to day or from time to time
until such time as its business is completed, providing that adequate
notice of each adjournment is so given.
[Amended 4-5-1999]
A.
Appointments. The Parks and Recreation Committee shall
consist of seven Cambria citizen members and four members at large.
Members shall be appointed annually in May by the Village President,
subject to confirmation by the Village Board. The Village Board shall
appoint a Trustee as a nonvoting liaison.
B.
Oath. Members shall take an official oath as prescribed
by § 19.01, Wis. Stats., to be filed with the Village Clerk/Treasurer.
C.
Officers. The Committee shall annually elect one member
as Chairperson and one member as Secretary.
D.
Procedure. A majority of the current appointed members
shall constitute a quorum. The Chairperson or acting Chairperson shall
be considered in determining a quorum. Action shall be by a majority
of those present and voting. The Committee shall adopt rules of procedure
for governing the conduct of its meetings.
E.
Powers and duties. The Parks and Recreation Committee
is specifically empowered and directed:
(1)
To conduct fund-raising events, including, but not
limited to, the June Softball Tournament and Park Days Celebration.
(2)
To recommend to the Village Board plans for major
park improvements.
(3)
To receive prior approval from the Village Board on
any single purchases over $1,000.
(4)
To organize the annual spring park cleanup.
(5)
To approve schedules of all recreational activities
in public parks.
(6)
To recommend to the Village Board such rules and regulations
to promote the quiet, orderly and suitable use of the Village parks
and playgrounds as the Committee shall deem necessary.
(7)
To recommend to the Village Board such rules and regulations,
including user fees, as deemed necessary and desirable for the proper
use, care and operation of parks, parks facilities and any other activities
under its control; provided, however, that such rules and regulations
do not conflict with the laws of the State of Wisconsin or this Code.
F.
To remain on the Committee, a member must attend 50%
of the meetings and activities, to be calculated on a six-month basis.
G.
Department of Public Works duties. The Cambria Department
of Public Works (DPW) is specifically empowered and directed to maintain
and care for all public parks located within the corporate limits
of the Village and secure the quiet, orderly and suitable use and
enjoyment thereof by the people.
H.
Village Board powers and duties. The Cambria Village
Board is specifically empowered and directed:
(1)
To acquire in the name of the Village for park purposes
by gift, purchase, devise, bequest or condemnation, either absolutely
or in trust, money, real or personal property, or any incorporeal
right or privilege, provided that gifts to the Village of money or
other property, real or personal, either absolutely or in trust, for
park purposes shall be accepted by the Village Board.
(2)
To buy or lease lands in the name of the Village for
park purposes within the Village, to sell or exchange property no
longer required for its purposes.
(3)
To execute every trust imposed upon the use of property
or property rights by the deed, testament or other conveyance transferring
the title of such property to the Village for park purposes.
(4)
To have the powers necessary and convenient for the
effective and efficient management, control, supervision and operation
of the Village park system and recreation program, including budgetary
approval.
(5)
To have jurisdiction of the parks, ball fields and
playgrounds throughout the Village and assume full responsibility
for the equipping, developing and maintaining of the physical facilities
of the park system.
(6)
To determine the recreational need and have jurisdiction
over the public recreation programs of the Village and to be empowered
to establish program policies and to cooperate and coordinate with
public school and private recreational activities.
I.
Record requirements.
(1)
The Parks and Recreation Committee shall notify the
Village Clerk/Treasurer a minimum of three days prior to a scheduled
meeting so notices can be mailed and posted as is required by the
Open Meetings Law.
(2)
The Parks and Recreation Committee shall keep a written
record of its proceedings to include all actions taken, a copy of
which shall be filed with the Village Clerk/Treasurer.
J.
Finance.
(1)
The Department of Public Works shall submit a proposed
annual budget to the Village Board; such budget shall reflect its
recommendations as to maintenance of Village parks, open spaces, parks
and related facilities, recreation programs and equipment, summer
or seasonal employees, etc. Said annual budget shall contain estimates
as to revenues to be derived from recreation programs or activities
as well as estimated operating expenditures for operating the parks.
(2)
The Parks and Recreation Committee shall be responsible
for getting all revenues and income from the operation of park and
recreation programs and fund-raisers to the Village Clerk/Treasurer
for deposit.
(3)
The Clerk/Treasurer's Office will be responsible for
posting meetings, park employee payroll, writing all checks and depositing
funds.
(4)
All monies donated to the Village specifically for
park or recreation use shall be deposited by the Village Clerk/Treasurer
in the Park Improvement Fund for such specific use.
A.
Establishment. A Zoning Board of Appeals shall be
appointed as specified in § 62.23(7)(e), Wis. Stats. The
Zoning Board of Appeals shall consist of five members and two alternate
members, appointed by the Village President subject to confirmation
by the Village Board. The members shall serve without compensation
and shall be removable by the Village Board for cause upon written
charges and upon public hearing. The Village President shall designate
one of the members Chairperson.[1]
B.
Powers. The Zoning Board of Appeals shall have the
following powers:
(1)
To hear and decide appeals where it is alleged there
is error in any order, requirement, decision or determination made
by an administrative official in the enforcement of the Zoning Code,
floodplain zoning or shoreland-wetland regulations.[2]
(3)
To authorize, upon appeal in specific cases, such
variance from the terms of the Village 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)
The Zoning Board of Appeals may reverse or affirm,
wholly or in part, or may modify any order, requirement, decision
or determination appealed from, and may make such order, requirement,
decision or determination as in its opinion ought to be made. 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
requirement of the Zoning Code. 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 the land use permit is obtained
within such period and the erection or alteration of a building is
started or the use is commenced within such period.[4]
C.
Meeting and rules. All meetings of the Zoning Board
of Appeals shall be held at the call of the Chairman and at such other
times as the Board may determine. All hearings conducted by the 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 examination and other official actions,
all of which shall be immediately filed in the office of the Village
Clerk/Treasurer and shall be public record. The Board shall adopt
its own rules of procedure not in conflict with this section or with
the applicable Wisconsin Statutes.
D.
Offices. The Village Board shall provide suitable
offices for holding of hearings and the presentation of records, documents
and accounts.
E.
Appropriations. The Village Board shall appropriate
funds to carry out the duties of the Zoning Board of Appeals and said
Board shall have the authority to expend, under regular procedure,
all sums appropriated to it for the purpose and activities authorized
herein.
A.
Composition. The Village Plan Commission shall consist
of the Village President, one Trustee, and five citizens.
B.
Appointment.
(1)
Trustee member. The Trustee member shall be annually
appointed at the organizational meeting of the Village Board during
the month of April of each year.
(2)
Citizen members. The five regular citizen members
of the Commission shall be appointed by the Village President, subject
to confirmation by the Village Board. The original citizen members
shall be appointed upon creation of the Commission and shall hold
office for a period of one, two, three or four years, respectively,
from the succeeding first day of May, and thereafter annually during
the month of April a member shall be appointed for a term of three
years.
C.
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 Village 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.
D.
Duties.
(1)
The Comprehensive Plan.
(a)
The Plan Commission shall make, adopt and, as
necessary, amend, extend or add to the Comprehensive Plan, subject
to Village Board confirmation, for the physical development of the
Village including areas outside of its boundaries which, in the Plan
Commission's judgment, bear relation to the development of the Village.
The Comprehensive Plan, with the accompanying maps, plats and descriptive
and explanatory matter, shall show the Commission's recommendations
for such physical development and may include, among other things
without limitation because of enumeration, the general location, character
and extent of streets, highways, freeways, street grades, roadways,
walks, parking areas, public places and areas, parks, parkways, playgrounds;
sites for public buildings and structures; and the general location
and extent of sewers, water conduits and other public utilities whether
privately or publicly owned; 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; the general
location, character and extent of community centers and neighborhood
units; and a comprehensive zoning plan.
(b)
The Commission may adopt the Comprehensive Plan
as a whole by a single resolution or, as the work of making the whole
Comprehensive 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 Village Board. 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 Village Board.
The purpose and effect of the adoption and certifying of the Comprehensive
Plan or part thereof shall be solely to aid the Plan Commission and
the Village Board in the performance of their duties.
(2)
Matters referred to Plan Commission. The Village Board
or officer of the Village having final authority thereon shall refer
to the Plan Commission, for its consideration and report before final
action is taken by the Board, public body or officer, the following
matters: the location of any statue or other memorial; 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 ways, park, playground, airport, area for parking
vehicles, or other memorial or public grounds; the location, extension,
abandonment or authorization for any public utility whether publicly
or privately owned; all plats of lands in the Village or within the
territory over which the Village is given platting jurisdiction by
Ch. 236, Wis. Stats.; 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; and the amendment
or repeal of any land use ordinance. Unless such report from the Commission
is made within 30 days, or such longer period as may be stipulated
by the Village Board, the board 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 Village
to public officials and agencies, public utility companies, civic,
educational, professional and other organizations and citizens. It
may recommend to the Village Board programs for public improvements
and the financing thereof. 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 Village Board.
A.
Organization; terms.
(1)
There is hereby created, pursuant to Chapter 43 of
the Wisconsin Statutes, a municipal library board for the Village
consisting of a seven-member board in three classes; three of such
members shall serve for a period of three years, two to serve for
two years, and two to 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
Village Board body shall at any one time be a member of the Library
Board. Members shall be appointed by the Village President, subject
to confirmation by the Village Board. The Village President shall
appoint as one of the Library Board members a school district administrator,
or his representative, to represent the public school district or
districts in which the library is located.
(3)
A majority of the membership of the Library 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 offices that they deem necessary to prescribe and adopt rules
and regulations for the operation of the library.
B.
Duties and powers. The Library Board shall have the
duties and powers as prescribed by Ch. 43, Wis. Stats., and more particularly
set forth in § 43.58.
A.
Regular meetings; public notice. Every board, committee
and commission created by or existing under the ordinances of the
Village shall:
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 §§ 19.81 to 19.98, Wis. Stats.
C.
Minutes. The secretary of each board, committee and
commission shall file a copy of the meeting minutes of such board
or commission with the Village Clerk/Treasurer.
[Amended 2-5-2001]
No person not a resident of and not residing
in the Village shall be appointed to any Village board or commission.
Any board or commission member who moves from the Village shall be
removed from such board or commission. The Parks and Recreation Committee
and is exempt from this requirement, as stated in its chapter section.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Sec. 2-4-9, Police Discipline Committee,
added 2-5-2001 and which immediately followed this section, was repealed
8-3-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-01.
