[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of
Williams Bay as §§ 1.05 and 1.10 of the 2011 Code.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 8-1-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-12]
A.
Composition.
The Board of Review shall consist of the Village Board. Each member
shall receive $5 per hour for attendance at meetings of the Board
of Review, but not to exceed $25 per day.
B.
Confidentiality
of information. As provided by § 70.47(7)(af), Wis. Stats.,
as from time to time amended or renumbered, any and all income and
expense data, information, forms and records pertaining to income
method valuation and assessment of property provided by a property
owner or possessor, or persons acting on his/her/their behalf, to
the Village Assessor shall be kept confidential, except for persons
using the information in the discharge of duties imposed by law or
of the duties of their office or by order of a court. The information
that is provided under this paragraph, unless a court determines that
it is inaccurate, is not subject to the right of inspection and copying
under § 19.35(1), Wis. Stats., or any other Village ordinance
notwithstanding. In the event that a property owner or his/her agent
or representative makes the information public by appearance or use
at a Board of Review hearing, or makes the information public at any
other time or place, then such information shall cease to be confidential
and shall be considered public, in which event the Assessor and/or
his/her staff, representatives and agents may use the information
publicly for any purposes including, but not limited to, at the Board
of Review hearing and related proceedings without prior notice to
the property owner or possessor.
The Library Board shall be composed and appointed as provided
in § 43.54, Wis. Stats.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
The Walworth County Health and Human Services Board is hereby
appointed as the Board of Health for the Village of Williams Bay.
A.
Composition.
(1)
The Plan Commission shall consist of the Village President, who shall
be its presiding officer, a member of the Village Board, a member
of the Park and Memorial Advisory Committee and four citizens. The
Plan Commission shall have at all times seven members. The citizen
members shall be persons of recognized experience and qualifications.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
(2)
The Village Board member of the Plan Commission shall be appointed
by the Village President and confirmed by the Village Board for a
one-year term annually during the month of April at the organizational
meeting of the Village Board to hold office from the succeeding first
day of May.
(3)
The Park and Memorial Advisory Committee member of the Plan Commission
shall be appointed by the Village President and confirmed by the Village
Board for a one-year term annually during the month of April at the
organizational meeting of the Village Board to hold office from the
succeeding first day of May.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
(4)
The four citizen members shall be appointed to three-year terms by
the Village President and confirmed by the Village Board during the
month of April, at the organizational meeting of the Village Board,
to hold office from the succeeding first day of May. The initial terms
of the four citizen members shall begin as the terms of their predecessors
expire as follows: one incumbent three-year term expires April 30,
1989; one incumbent three-year term expires April 30, 1990; two incumbent
three-year terms expire April 30, 1991.
(5)
All vacancies on the Village Plan Commission shall be filled for
the unexpired term in the same manner as appointment for the full
term.
(6)
No compensation shall be paid for service on the Plan Commission.
B.
Powers and duties.
(1)
Functions. It shall be the function and duty of the Commission to
make and adopt a master plan for the physical development of the Village,
including any areas outside of its boundaries which in the Commission's
judgment bear relation to the development of the Village; provided,
however, that in any county where a regional planning department has
been established, areas outside the boundaries of the Village may
not be included in the master plan without the consent of the County
Board of Supervisors. The master plan, with the accompanying maps,
plats, charts 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, bridges, viaducts, parking areas,
tunnels, public places and areas, parks, parkways, playgrounds, sites
for public buildings and structures, airports, pierhead and bulkhead
lines, waterways, routes for railroads, street railways and buses,
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 and layout of the re-planning
of blighted districts and slum areas, and a comprehensive zoning plan.
The Commission may from time to time amend, extend or add to the master
plan or carry any part of subject matter into greater detail. The
Commission may adopt rules for the transaction of business and shall
keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations,
which record shall be a public record.
(2)
The master plan.
(a)
The master plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding
and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development
of the Village which will, in accordance with existing and future
needs, best promote public health, safety, morals, order, convenience,
prosperity or the general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy
in the process of development.
(b)
The Commission may adopt the master plan as a whole by a single
resolution, or, as the work of making the whole master 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 Village Plan Commission. 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 master
plan or part thereof shall be solely to aid the Village Plan Commission
and the Board in the performance of their duties.
(3)
Miscellaneous powers of the Commission.
(a)
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, education, professional
and other organizations and citizens. It may recommend to the President
or 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.
(b)
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 marks thereon. In general,
the Commission shall have such powers as may be necessary to enable
it to perform its functions and promote Village planning.
(4)
Matters referred to Village Plan Commission. The Board or other public
body or officer of the Village having final authority thereon shall
refer to the Village Plan Commission for its consideration and report
before final action is taken by the Board, public body or officer
the following matters: the location and architectural design of any
public building; 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 way, park, playground, airport,
area for parking vehicles or other memorials 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 ordinance adopted pursuant to this section. Unless
such report is made within 30 days or such longer period as may be
stipulated by the Board, the Board or other public body or officer
may take final action without it.
C.
Advisory Plan Commission members. There are created one or more advisory
members of the Plan Commission as the Village President and the Village
Board may from time to time determine as being necessary or beneficial
to the work and function of the Village Plan Commission thereof who
shall be appointed for a term of not more than one year with such
terms to expire on the 30th day of April succeeding their appointment
by the Village President and confirmation by the Village Board. Such
advisory members shall not have a vote on the Plan Commission, but
shall attend all of its meetings and participate fully in its discussions.
Such advisory members shall be persons of recognized experience and
qualification for service on planning matters of concern to the Village.
D.
Alternate citizen Plan Commission member.
(1)
There is created an alternate citizen member of the Plan Commission,
appointed to a three-year term by the Village President and confirmed
by the Village Board during the month of April at the organizational
meeting of the Village Board to hold office from the succeeding first
day of May.
(2)
The initial term of the alternate citizen member of the Plan Commission shall begin on May 1, 1990. Such alternate citizen member shall not have a vote on the Plan Commission if the regular seven members of the Village Plan Commission are present and voting. If any of the seven regular members of the Plan Commission are absent from any meeting, the alternate citizen member shall have full voting privileges as any of the regular incumbent four citizen members of the Village Plan Commission. The alternate citizen member shall be counted among the members of the Plan Commission as constituting a quorum if any of the regular Plan Commission members are absent from any meeting. The alternate citizen member of the Plan Commission may be an Advisory Plan Commission member as created by Subsection C above which offices are compatible. Such alternate citizen member shall be a person of recognized experience and qualifications.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 1.05(5), Board of Appeals,
which immediately followed this section, was repealed 6-20-2016 by
Ord. No. 2016-8.
The Civil Defense Commission shall consist of the Police Chief
and six citizens appointed annually by the Village President at the
organizational meeting of the Village Board.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
The Election Board shall consist of the Village Clerk and those
election officials appointed pursuant to § 7.30(4), Wis.
Stats. Verification of registrations shall be conducted pursuant to
§ 6.32, Wis. Stats.
The Harbor Commission shall consist of five members appointed
for three-year terms commencing May 1. Appointments shall be so made
that no more than two Commissioners shall be appointed in any one
year. The Commission shall be subject to §§ 30.37 Wis.
Stats.
A.
Composition. The Park and Memorial Advisory Committee shall consist
of five members, a chairperson and four citizens. Members shall be
persons of recognized experience and qualifications.
B.
Appointments.
(1)
The Village President shall appoint, subject to Board confirmation,
the initial five members, three for one-year terms, one for a two-year
term and one for a three-year term, respectively, from June 15, 1979.
(2)
Thereafter, the Village President shall appoint, subject to Board
confirmation, annually prior to May 1 the chairperson and one member
for a one-year term and one member for a three-year term.
(3)
The Chairperson of the Committee shall serve as a citizen member
of the Plan Commission.
C.
Duties. The Park and Memorial Advisory Committee shall advise the
President and the Village Board on public park lands as related to
their improvements and rules regulating their use; further to recommend
to the President and the Village Board use of memorials, gifts and
bequests and the placement or plating of such memorials.
[Added 8-31-2020 by Ord.
No. 2020-03]
A.
Creation.
There is created the Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy Board.
B.
Composition.
The Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy Board shall consist of seven members
who shall serve as directors of the Board. The members of the Board
shall be appointed by the Village President and confirmed by the Village
Board and shall consist of the members of the Conservation District
Commission; provided, that not less than five members shall either
be an owner of real estate in the Village or be an elector of the
Village.
C.
Duties.
The Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy Board shall strive to preserve,
protect and enhance the property encompassed by the Kishwauketoe Nature
Conservancy. The preservation, protection and enhancement of this
area will serve to maintain safe and healthful conditions; maintain
and improve water quality, both ground and surface; prevent flood
damage; protect wildlife habitat; protect native plant communities;
control erosion and sedimentation; and maintain the natural beauty
of the Village of Williams Bay and the Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy.
The Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy Board will work closely with the
Geneva Lake Conservancy to maintain and comply with the conditions
of any conservation easement entered into by the Village for the property
encompassed by the Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy.
A.
Creation. There is created a Law Enforcement Committee for the Village
of Williams Bay.
B.
Duties. The Law Enforcement Committee of the Village of Williams
Bay shall have the power to suspend, reduce, suspend and reduce or
remove any Police Chief or other law enforcement officer of the Village
of Williams Bay who is not probationary following the procedure set
forth in § 62.13(5), Wis. Stats.
C.
Composition. The Law Enforcement Committee of the Village of Williams
Bay shall consist of three members, two of whom shall constitute a
quorum, and none of whom may be an elected or appointed official of
the Village or be employed by the Village of Williams Bay.
D.
Term. The members of the Law Enforcement Committee of the Village
of Williams Bay shall serve a term of three years. The members of
the Law Enforcement Committee shall be appointed by the President
subject to confirmation by the Village Board. Such appointments shall
be made initially as follows: one member whose term shall end on April
30, 2000, one member whose term shall end of April 30, 2001, and one
member whose term shall end of April 30, 2002. Thereafter, regular
three-year terms shall commence on May 1 and be for a period of three
years, with such term to end on April 30. No person may serve more
than two successive terms.
E.
Authority. This section is adopted pursuant to § 61.65,
Wis. Stats., created by 1985 Wisconsin Act 166.
The rules of parliamentary practice embraced in Robert's Rules
of Order, newly revised, shall govern the conduct of the proceedings
of the Village appointed boards and commissions where not inconsistent
with the statutes.
A.
Amended Charter. The amended Charter of the Geneva Lake Area Transportation
Commission as filed with the Village is hereby approved and accepted
and the Village Clerk shall file a certified copy of this section
with the Commission.
B.
Village representatives. There shall be three member representatives
of the Village to the GLATC who shall be appointed by the Village
President and approved by the Village Board.
C.
Terms. The Commissioners shall be so appointed that the first members
shall serve one, two and three years, respectively, and thereafter
the term of office for each member appointed shall be three years.
D.
Eligibility. No Transit Commissioner shall hold any public office
nor shall any person holding stocks or bonds in any corporation subject
to the jurisdiction of the Transit Commission, or who is directly
or indirectly pecuniarily interested in such corporation, be a member
of or employed by the Transit Commission.
E.
Compensation. No Transit Commissioner shall be paid any compensation
except for reimbursement of authorized travel and other expenses.
F.
Withdrawal from Commission. The Village may withdraw from the GLATC
upon a 3/4 vote of the Village Board.
G.
Taxes and assessments. No tax or assessment shall be levied against
any property within the Village under the taxing powers of the GLATC
unless approved by a 3/4 vote of the Board of Trustees.
