[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Fox
Lake as Title 2, Ch. 4, of the 1997 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Historic Preservation Committee — See Ch. 297.
A.
How constituted. The Board of Review shall consist of the Mayor,
the City Clerk and the Alderperson from each aldermanic district who
has held such office for the longest consecutive period of time. If
both Alderpersons from any aldermanic district have served on the
Council for a similar length of time, the Mayor shall appoint one
of such Alderpersons to serve on such Board.[1]
B.
Compensation. The members of the Board of Review shall receive a
salary as determined by the Common Council for each day or fraction
thereof that the Board is in session for the purpose of hearing and
considering testimony or making its report and determination.[2]
C.
Objections to valuations to be written. No person shall be permitted
to appear and make objection before the Board to the amount of valuation
of any property unless objection thereto shall first have been made
in writing and filed with the Clerk of the Board prior to the adjournment
of public hearing by the Board.
D.
Duties. The duties and functions of the Board of Review shall be
as prescribed in §§ 70.46, 70.47 and 70.48, Wis. Stats.
E.
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.
A.
Membership and terms. Pursuant to § 43.54, Wis. Stats.,
the Library Board shall consist of seven members appointed by the
Mayor, subject to confirmation by the Council, to serve three-year
terms. One member shall be a school district administrator or his
representative, and not more than one member of the Council shall
serve on the Library Board at any one time.
B.
Duties and powers.
(1)
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 Mayor shall designate
one of the members Chair.
B.
Powers. The Zoning Board of Appeals shall have the following powers:
(1)
To hear and decide appeals where it is alleged there is an error
in any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by an administrative
official in the enforcement of the City's Zoning or Building Code
ordinances.[1]
(2)
To hear and decide special exceptions to the terms of City Zoning
and Floodplain Zoning or Building Code regulations upon which the
Zoning Board of Appeals is required to pass.
(3)
To authorize, upon appeal in specific cases, such variance from the
terms of the City's Zoning or Building Code 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 or Building 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.[2]
(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 public utility purposes
which are reasonably necessary for public convenience and welfare.[3]
(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. If a quorum is present, the Zoning
Board of Appeals may take action by a majority vote of the members
present. 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 a zoning 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.
Meetings and rules. All meetings of the Zoning Board of Appeals shall
be held at the call of the Chair 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.[5]
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 Planning Commission shall consist of the Mayor,
who shall be the presiding officer, one Alderperson and five citizens.
B.
Appointment.
(1)
Election of Alderperson member. At its annual meeting in April of
each year the Common Council shall, by a two-thirds majority vote
of its members, elect one of its number as a member of the City Planning
Commission for a period of one year from and after the first day of
May next ensuing.
(2)
Appointment and terms of citizen members. The five citizen members
shall be appointed by the Mayor, subject to Council confirmation,
on the third Tuesday of April in each year to hold office for a staggered
term of three years commencing with the third Tuesday of April.
C.
Organization of Commission. The Mayor shall serve as presiding officer.
The Planning Commission shall organize by the election of a Vice Chair,
Secretary and such other officers as may in its judgment be necessary.
D.
Record. The Planning 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.[1]
E.
Duties.
(1)
The Comprehensive Plan.[2]
(a)
The Planning 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 Planning 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, and
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 Planning 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
Planning 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 Planning
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.
A.
Appointment. The Board of Public Works shall consist of three members
appointed by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the Council, for
two-year terms. Appointments shall be made at the organizational meeting
of the Council.
[Amended 3-1-2004; 6-1-2011]
A.
Purpose. The Board is established to preserve historical material
relating to the City of Fox Lake and surrounding area and to honor
the memory of Harriet R. O'Connell, who devoted much of her time and
energy to the preservation of the existing material.
B.
Membership. The Board shall consist of seven members of the Library
Board and two members of the Fox Lake Historical Board, who shall
be appointed by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the Council.
The terms of the seven Library Board members shall be consistent with
their terms on the Library Board. The terms of the two Historical
Board members shall be consistent with their terms on the Historical
Board.
C.
Organization. The Board shall organize by electing a President and
a Treasurer; the Board shall appoint the recording secretary to keep
minutes of the meetings of such Board.
D.
Duties. The Board shall take possession of existing materials, receive
gifts or donations of other material and preserve and exhibit the
same at such places and times as the Council from time to time directs.
E.
Funding. The City Treasurer shall establish a separate checking account
into which shall be deposited gifts to the Historical Board or such
appropriations from the general fund as from time to time may be required
to preserve historical material. Requisitions of such Board to the
City Treasurer, signed by the President and secretary, shall be honored
and paid out of existing funds in the Board's account.[1]
A.
Appointment, qualifications and tenure of Commissioners.
(1)
The Mayor shall, with the confirmation of the Council, appoint five
persons who are citizens of the City as Commissioners of the Housing
Authority. No Commissioner may be connected in any official capacity
with any political party nor shall more than two be officers of the
City of Fox Lake.
(2)
The Commissioners who are first appointed shall be designated by
the Mayor to serve for terms of one, two, three, four and five years,
respectively, from the date of their appointment. Thereafter, the
term of office shall be five years. A Commissioner shall hold office
until his/her successor has been appointed and has qualified. Vacancies
shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as other
appointments.[1]
B.
Selection of officers. When the office of the first Chair of the
Authority becomes vacant, the Authority shall select a Chair from
among its members. The Authority shall select from among its members
a Vice Chair and it may employ a secretary (who shall be executive
director), technical experts and such other officers, agents and employees,
permanent and temporary, as it may require, and shall determine their
qualifications, duties and compensation. The Authority may call upon
the City Attorney or chief law officer of the City for such legal
services as it may require. The Authority may delegate to one or more
of its agents or employees such powers or duties as it may deem proper.
C.
Quorum. Three members shall constitute a quorum.
D.
Certificate of appointment. The Mayor shall file with the City Clerk
a certificate of the appointment or reappointment of any member of
the Authority, and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of
the due and proper appointment of such member if such member has been
confirmed as herein provided and has taken and filed the official
oath before entering office.[2]
E.
Compensation. No member of the Authority shall receive any compensation
for his/her services, but he/she shall be entitled to the necessary
expenses, including travel expenses, incurred in the discharge of
his duties.
F.
Duties. See § 66.1201, Wis. Stats.[3]
[3]
Editor's Note: Original § 2-4-10, Economic Development
Committee, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 5-6-2003
and replaced by § 2-4-10, Community Development Committee,
which section was repealed 7-7-2010. Original § 2-4-11,
Beautification Committee, was repealed 6-1-2016.
A.
Regular meetings; public notice. Every board, committee and commission
created by or existing under the ordinances of the City shall fix
a regular date, time and place for its meeting.
B.
Notice of meetings.
(1)
Every meeting of any board or commission of the City of Fox Lake and/or any committee appointed or created by the Mayor or Common Council of the City of Fox Lake shall be preceded by public notice and shall be held in open session at a place accessible to the public in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 19, Subchapter V, Open Meetings of Governmental Bodies, of the Wisconsin Statutes, unless otherwise authorized by law.[1]
(2)
Such notice shall be given in writing to the official newspaper and,
in addition thereto, shall be posted in at least one location likely
to give notice to the public of such meeting.
(3)
A separate public notice shall be given for each meeting at a time
and date reasonably proximate to the time and date of the meeting,
but not less than 24 hours prior to the commencement of such meeting,
unless otherwise authorized by law.
C.
Notice to members. Every member of any board, commission or committee
of the City of Fox Lake shall be notified by the secretary thereof
or designee that a meeting is to be held and the time and place of
such meeting and the subject to be considered thereat. No member shall
be intentionally excluded from any meeting by a failure to give proper
notice or a reasonable attempt to give proper notice to such member.
D.
Minutes to be kept. Every board, commission and committee shall keep
a record of the minutes of its proceedings and shall cause a signed
copy thereof to be filed by its secretary with the City Clerk within
one week of the meeting date. The City Clerk shall furnish a copy
of all minutes filed with him/her to the Mayor and to each member
of the Common Council. All such minutes shall be public records.[3]
A.
Residency. Except for the Library Board, Harriet R. O'Connell Historical
Board, and Fox Lake Historical Society Board, no person not a resident
of the City of Fox Lake shall be appointed in a voting capacity to
any City board, committee, or commission. Any such member who moves
from the City shall be removed from such board, commission, or committee
but may be appointed to serve in an ex officio capacity.
[Amended 1-5-2010]
B.
Attendance standard. Members of boards, committees and commissions
are required to attend a minimum of 2/3 of the meetings in each six-month
period of their respective bodies, unless excused by the membership
of their body. Failure to comply with this subsection may result in
the removal and replacement of the official found to be in noncompliance.
C.
Member subject to removal. Any member of any board or commission
who violates any provision of this section or who knowingly attends
a meeting held in violation hereof may be removed as a member of such
board or commission after being granted a public hearing by the appointing
authority and upon concurrence of the Common Council.
A.
Except as provided herein, the provisions of § 105-19 of this Code of Ordinances relating to rules of procedure for the Common Council, together with Robert's Rules of Order, shall, as far as applicable, also apply to committee, board and commission meetings.
B.
A simple majority of the members of a board, committee or commission
shall constitute a quorum.
