Whenever either the Town Board, Town Clerk or other Town official has authorized a property owner in the Town to contact the Town Attorney, Engineer or any other of the Town's professional staff; the Town Board, Town Clerk or other Town official contacts such Town Attorney, Engineer or any of the Town's professional staff; or a property owner contacts the Town Attorney, Engineer or any other of the Town's professional staff, if such contact results in a charge to the Town for that professional's time and services and such service is not a service supplied to the Town as a whole, then and in that event the Town Clerk shall, pursuant to the provisions of § 66.0627, Wis. Stats., charge that service to such property owner for the fees incurred by the Town.
[Adopted as § 3.11 of the 1987 Code]
The Town Clerk shall give each property owner billed for current services as provided for herein notice that they shall have a specified period of time not less than 30 days to pay. Said notice shall also state that within 15 days of the date of the notice, the property owner may request a hearing before the Town Board regarding the charges. Said notice shall also include an itemized statement of the professional service fees to be charged. Thereafter, if the property owner requests a hearing within the proper time period, the matter shall proceed as described in § 36-14, below. If a hearing is not requested within the required time period, if that charge remains unpaid, the Town Clerk shall automatically charge that delinquent bill against the current or next tax roll as a delinquent tax against the property as provided by law. In the event the statement rendered to the property owner or the time given for the property owner to pay, or following a hearing if the Town Board approves all or part of the charge, is too late in the current year for the charge, when it becomes delinquent, to be extended on that year's tax roll, then the delinquent charge shall be extended to the following year's tax roll.
In order to recover the entire cost of any work or improvement to be paid in whole or in part by special assessment or special charge, including direct or indirect costs, such as services of the administrative staff of the Town, its engineering and legal services, the interest charged to the benefitted owners shall be 2% above the rate the Town would have had to pay for a loan at that time.
Upon receipt of a timely request for hearing, the Town Board shall hold a hearing regarding the charges at its next scheduled meeting or as soon as feasible. Such hearing shall be preceded by posted public notice and reasonable notice, via first-class mail, to the property owner. In the event a hearing is requested, no charges shall be placed on the tax roll unless and until such hearing has been held and a decision has been rendered by the Town Board to approve the charges against the tax roll in whole or in part. If approved only in part, only that part of the charges that are approved may be charged against the tax roll.