[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of
the City of Bayfield 4-1-1992 (§§ 2-4-1 through 2-4-9
of the 1992 Code of Ordinances). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Mayor and Council — See Ch. 72.
Land use legislation — See Part
III.
[Amended 6-12-2017 by Ord. No. 385]
A.
Composition. The Board of Review shall consist of the Mayor, the
City Clerk, the members of the Common Council and up to three alternates
who can serve in the event a standing board member of the Board of
Review is removed or unable to serve for any reason. The alternates
shall be appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the Common Council
and shall serve for terms of two years, commencing on May 1 in the
particular year for which appointed, or until their successors are
appointed and qualified. The Mayor shall stagger the terms of the
first appointments as one- or two-year terms, in order to have subsequent
appointments for each year.
B.
Duties. The duties and functions of the Board of Review shall be
as prescribed in §§ 70.46 and 70.47, Wis. Stats.
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.
D.
Determination of appeals. All other provisions of § 70.47,
Wis. Stats., regarding hearing and determining appeals are applicable.
E.
Training. As provided under § 70.46(4), Wis. Stats., the
Board of Review may not be constituted unless it includes one voting
member who has within two years of the first meeting attended a training
session under § 73.03(55), Wis. Stats.
A.
Organization; terms.
(1)
There is hereby created, pursuant to Ch. 43, Wis.
Stats., a municipal Library Board for the Bayfield Public Library
consisting of a seven-member Board. Upon the first appointment, the
members shall be divided as nearly as practicable into three equal
groups to serve for two-, three-, and four-year terms, respectively.
Thereafter, each regular appointment shall be for a term of three
years. Vacancies shall be filled for unexpired terms in the same manner
as regular appointments.
[Amended 2-6-2012 by Ord. No. 361]
(2)
Terms of such members shall be from the third Tuesday
in April, 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 representative, to represent the public school
district or districts in which the library is located. Members shall
be residents of the City of Bayfield, except that not more than two
members may be residents of other municipalities.
[Amended 2-6-2012 by Ord. No. 361]
(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. The Library Board shall have the
duties and powers as prescribed by Ch. 43, and more particularly set
forth in § 43.58, Wis. Stats. The Library Board shall appoint
the librarian and other library employees.
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 Mayor, subject to confirmation by the Common
Council for a term of three years. 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
Zoning Board of Appeals shall internally elect a Chairperson and any
other officers deemed necessary.
C.
Meetings 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 City
Clerk 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. 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.
A.
Composition. The Plan Commission shall consist of
seven members, of which shall be[1] the Mayor and other City elected or appointed officials,
except that the Commission shall always have at least four citizen
members who are not City officials.
[Amended 9-20-2006 by Ord. No. 333]
[1]
Editor's Note: So in original.
B.
Appointment.
[Amended 9-20-2006 by Ord. No. 333]
(1)
At its annual meeting in April of each year, the Mayor
shall appoint an Alderperson(s), subject to Council confirmation,
as a member(s) of the Plan Commission for a period of one year from
and after the first day of May next ensuing.
(2)
The Mayor will appoint at least four citizen members
on the third Tuesday of April in each year to hold office for staggered
terms of three years commencing with the third Tuesday of April.
C.
Organization of Commission. The Mayor shall serve
as presiding officer. The Plan Commission shall organize by the election
of a Vice Chairman, 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. 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 Comprehensive Plan.
(a)
The Plan Commission may make, adopt and, as
necessary, amend, extend or add to the Comprehensive 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 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 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 Comprehensive 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. 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: 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 City or within the territory
over which the City 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 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. No compensation shall be paid for service
on the Commission, except that the Alderperson member shall be paid
$30 for each Commission meeting, or such compensation as otherwise
set forth by the Common Council. Citizen members shall take the official
oath as required by § 19.01, Wis. Stats., said oath to be
filed with the City Clerk.
[Amended 10-18-2006 by Ord. No. 335]
[Amended 4-6-2005 by Ord. No. 326]
A.
There is hereby created an Ambulance Commission to
serve jointly with members thereon from the Town of Bayfield, which
is adopting resolutions similar hereto.
B.
Membership on the Commission shall initially be six,
three members from the City of Bayfield and three members from the
Town of Bayfield. The members shall be appointed by the respective
governing bodies to serve indefinite terms at the pleasure of such
governing bodies.
C.
The Commission shall have the responsibility of overseeing
the operation and providing ambulance service to the two municipalities.
Such responsibility shall include, but not be limited to, the ownership
of an ambulance to be housed with the City, and the necessary equipment
for providing service.
D.
The City of Bayfield shall enter into an annual contract
with the Commission, which contract shall extend from January 1 to
December 31, for the supplying of ambulance service within the City.
Such contract shall provide for annual renewal thereof unless written
notice is given by a unit of government.
E.
The Commission shall submit a tentative budget to
the City by September 1 of each year and a final budget by November
15. It shall also make an annual accounting to the City.
F.
The Town of Bayfield and the City of Bayfield shall
each pay an annual assessment for ambulance service to be reserved
for the replacement of the ambulance.
G.
The fixed costs of the service will be divided equally
among the two member municipalities. Operating costs will be divided
according to the percentage of use by each municipality for the previous
year.
A.
A Cemetery Board is hereby established to make advisory
recommendations to the Common Council regarding the care and management
of Greenwood Cemetery of the City of Bayfield. This authority shall
include the establishment of rules, regulations, and bylaws to fulfill
the mandate of this section.
B.
The Cemetery Board shall consist of the Mayor, who
shall be its presiding officer, the City Clerk, who shall serve those
titled functions of the Board, and three citizen members appointed
by the Mayor, subject to Council confirmation, for periods ending
one, two, and three years respectively from the succeeding first day
of May, and thereafter annually during April one such member shall
be appointed for a term of three years.
A.
Membership.
(1)
Subject to the approval of the Common Council, the
Mayor shall appoint five members to the Commission. Each member shall
be a qualified elector of the City of Bayfield and shall have been
a resident of the City for at least three years. One member of the
Commission shall be an Alderperson. Terms shall be for three years
except that in making initial appointments one term shall be for one
year, one term shall be for two years, and one term shall be for three
years.
(2)
The member of the Commission who is an Alderperson
shall serve for a term expiring with his elective term. Thereafter,
the Mayor shall fill the vacancy by the appointment of an Alderperson
to serve for a term concurrent with his elective term. It is the purpose
of this subsection to effect the presence of an Alderperson on such
Commission at all times. However, this subsection shall not be interpreted
as allowing the appointment of more than one Alderperson to serve
on the Commission at any one time.
B.
Compensation. The members shall receive no compensation
other than for personal expenses incurred in performance of their
duties.
C.
Officers. The Commission shall elect a President and
a Vice President.
D.
Employees. The Commission shall employ a secretary
who is not a member of the Commission. It may also employ a harbormaster.
The Commission shall, if practicable, use civil service methods for
selection.
E.
Meetings. The Commission shall meet at least four
times a year within the City of Bayfield. It shall give proper public
notice of all meetings and all meetings shall be open to the public.
The Commission shall maintain minutes of its meetings and such minutes
shall be open to public inspection.
F.
Expenditures. There is created a Harbor Fund, and
the Common Council shall, from time to time, make appropriations for
this fund. Money will be paid out of the Harbor Fund only on orders
signed by the President and the secretary of the Commission and after
allowance of the claims made by the Commission and entered into its
minutes.
G.
Budget requests. On October 1 of every year, the Commission
shall file with the City Treasurer a budget request for the ensuing
year.
H.
Revenues. All revenues received from activities of
the Commission shall be paid into the general fund of the City, provided
that the City Treasurer shall keep a separate record of all such receipts.
I.
Limit on obligations. The Commission may obligate neither itself nor the City for an amount greater than the balance in the Harbor Fund referred to in Subsection F above.
J.
Area of authority.
(1)
Subject to the laws of the State of Wisconsin and
of the United States, the Commission shall have jurisdiction over
all water inside the United States Government breakwater and the piers
which are the breakwater. The Commission shall also make any recommendations
to the Common Council it deems to be in the public interest with regard
to any waterfront property in the City.
(2)
The Harbor Commission has authority to make and expend
funds for repairs. Improvements, including capital improvements, require
prior Council approval.
K.
Policy. The Commission shall have exclusive control
over the day-to-day operation of the public harbor and public harbor
facilities, but the Common Council and Mayor shall have exclusive
control over the governmental aspects relating to public health and
order and safety. All powers not specifically granted to the Commission
in this section are reserved for Common Council and Mayor.
L.
Duties. The Commission may:
(1)
Make necessary plans for harbor improvements;
(2)
With the consent of the Council, acquire land;
(3)
Maintain public harbor facilities;
(4)
Operate and/or lease publicly owned piers, wharves,
and other terminal facilities, provided that all such leases shall
be entered into the minutes of the Commission;
(5)
Assign berths;
(6)
Promote use of the harbor and its facilities;
(7)
Bring to the attention of the Council and Mayor any
matter it believes to be in the public interest.
(8)
Exercise those duties and responsibilities as prescribed
in §§ 30.37 and 30.38, Wis. Stats.
M.
Violation of Commission rules. Any person violating posted regulatory rules as prescribed by the Bayfield Harbor Commission for the use of harbor and waterfront facilities shall be subject to a forfeiture as prescribed in § 1-3, Violations and penalties, of the Code of the City of Bayfield, and upon failure to pay said fine, shall be confined in the County Jail for three days or until said fine is paid.
A.
Establishment. There is hereby established an Architectural
Review Board for the City of Bayfield for the purpose of promoting
compatible development, aesthetics, stability of property values,
and to prevent impairment or depreciation of existing developments.
B.
Compliance. No structure shall hereafter be erected,
moved, reconstructed demolished, extended, enlarged, or have its exterior
altered or changed without the Architectural Review Board's approval.
Small accessory structures are exempt unless the Building Inspector
requests a determination by the Architectural Board.
C.
Membership.
(1)
The Architectural Review Board shall consist of seven
City of Bayfield residents. Of the membership, if available in the
City, one shall be a registered architect; one shall be a historian;
one shall be a licensed real estate broker or a licensed agent; one
shall be an Alderperson; one shall be a member of the Plan Commission;
one shall be a member of the building trades; and one shall be a member
at large. Each member shall have, to the highest extent practicable,
a known interest in historic preservation. The Mayor shall appoint
the members of the Board subject to confirmation by the Common Council.
(2)
Terms shall be staggered for three-year periods.
(3)
The Chairman shall be elected by a majority of members
of the Board.
(4)
Official oaths shall be taken by all members in accordance
with § 19.01, Wis. Stats., within 10 days of receiving notice
of their appointments.
(5)
Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term in
the same manner as appointments for the full term.
D.
Organization.
(1)
The Architectural Review Board shall organize and
adopt rules for its own government in accordance with the provisions
of this section.
(2)
Meetings shall be held at the call of the Chairperson
or when requested by the Building Inspector and shall be open to the
public.
(3)
Minutes shall be kept showing all actions taken and
shall be a public record. The grounds for every decision shall be
stated.
(4)
A quorum shall be a majority of members, and all actions
shall require the concurring vote of at least a quorum.
E.
Powers. The Architectural Review Board shall have
the following powers:
(1)
Hear and decide applications for permission to erect,
move, reconstruct, extend, alter, demolish or change the exterior
of all structures.
(2)
Approve, deny or conditionally approve the application
and may request such modifications as they may deem necessary to carry
out the purpose of this section.
(3)
Request assistance from other municipal officers,
departments, boards and commissions.
(4)
Request the applicant to furnish additional information.
[Added 8-9-2016 by Ord.
No. 381]
A.
Creation. Pursuant to § 66.0615(1m)(c), Wis. Stats., there
is hereby created a Tourism Commission.
B.
Membership. The Tourism Commission shall be comprised of five commissioners,
of which shall be the Mayor, one other elected official, and at least
one member shall represent the Wisconsin hotel and motel industry.
These appointments are made by the Mayor and confirmed by the Common
Council.
C.
Term. The terms of the appointments to the Tourism Commission shall
be one year, beginning on May 1 following appointment, and ending
on April 30 of the following year. Members may be reappointed to successive
terms. During the first year, terms will begin after appointment and
expire on the following April 30.
D.
Powers and duties. The Tourism Commission shall have all powers and
duties granted to it under § 66.0615, Wis. Stats., and any
other applicable state statutes and/or provisions of the Revised Municipal
Code of the City of Bayfield.
E.
Officers. The Mayor shall serve as presiding officer, and at the
first meeting the Commission shall organize by the election of a Vice
Chairperson and Secretary from among its members.
A.
Regular meetings; public notice. Every board, committee
and commission created by or existing under the ordinances of the
City shall:
B.
Special meetings. Nothing in Subsection A shall preclude the calling of a special meeting or with 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 19.89, Wis. Stats.
