The regular and special Town Meetings of the
residents of the Town of Fulton have the statutory authority, powers
and duties pursuant to §§ 60.10, 60.11, 60.12, 60.13,
60.14, 60.15 and 60.16, Wis. Stats., to manage and direct certain
affairs of the Town of Fulton.
A.
Time and notice. The Town of Fulton shall hold, unless
otherwise noted, the Annual Town Meeting on the third Tuesday of April.
The Annual Town Meeting shall convene at 7:00 p.m. and shall adjourn
upon a vote of the majority of the qualified electors present and
voting at the time of adjournment. The Town of Fulton Annual Town
Meeting may be recessed to a time and date certain if the second meeting
is held within 30 days after the date of the original Annual Town
Meeting. The Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting may be set on a date
different than the third Tuesday of April if the prior Town of Fulton
Annual Town Meeting selected a different date and if the date selected
is within 10 days after the third Tuesday of April. With a different
date selected, the Town Clerk/Treasurer of the Town of Fulton shall,
not more than 20 days nor less than 10 days before the new date, publish
a Class 2 notice of the Annual Town Meeting pursuant to Ch. 985, Wis.
Stats. If the Town of Fulton has designated a weekly publication as
the official general circulation newspaper, the Town Clerk/Treasurer
shall post the meeting notice in at least three public places and
publish once in the official newspaper. The notice shall state the
proposed date, time and location of the Annual Town Meeting, and if
the Town Clerk/Treasurer also posts notice in the usual and customary
locations, the same time and notice content requirements shall apply.
[Amended 6-12-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-2]
B.
Location.
(1)
The Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting shall be held
at the Town Hall. Every Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting will be
held at this location unless the location is changed by the Town Board
of the Town of Fulton.
[Amended 11-13-2007]
(2)
If the Town Board of the Town of Fulton does change
the location of the Annual Town Meeting, the Town Clerk of the Town
of Fulton shall publish a Class 2 notice under Ch. 985, Wis. Stats.,
stating the new location of the Annual Town Meeting. This notice shall
be published by the Town Clerk of the Town of Fulton not more than
20 days nor less than 10 days prior to the date of the Annual Town
Meeting. If the Town of Fulton has designated a weekly publication
as the official general circulation newspaper, the Town Clerk shall
post the meeting notice in at least three public places and publish
once in the official newspaper.
C.
Jurisdiction. The Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting
may transact any business at the Annual Town Meeting or at any properly
adjourned Annual Town Meeting over which the Annual Town Meeting has
legal jurisdiction. The Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting or any
properly adjourned Annual Town Meeting shall not transact business
where the legal jurisdiction to transact that business is with the
Town Board of the Town of Fulton. The Town Meeting may take advisory
votes on matters that pertain to actions that could or should be taken
by the Town Board of the Town of Fulton or any other Town official.
These votes shall be advisory only and not binding upon the Town Board.
A.
The Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting and any other
Special Town Meeting shall have as the presiding officer of the Annual
Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting the Town Chair of the Town of
Fulton. If the Town Chair of the Town of Fulton is absent, another
member of the Town Board of the Town of Fulton shall be elected the
presiding officer of the Annual Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting
by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the Town of Fulton
present and voting at the Annual Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting.
If no member of the Town Board of the Town of Fulton is present, the
qualified electors at the Annual Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting
shall elect the presiding officer of the Annual Town Meeting or Special
Town Meeting by a majority vote of the qualified electors present
and voting.
B.
If the Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting is held in a year when the office of Town Chair of the Town of Fulton is filled by election, the person holding the position of Town Chair of the Town of Fulton on the date prior to the election to fill the office of Town Chair of the Town of Fulton shall preside as presiding officer of the Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting. The Town Chair is entitled to receive, pursuant to § 60.13, Wis. Stats., any per diem which is ordinarily paid to a presiding officer of the Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting. If such person is absent from the Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting, the presiding officer of the Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting shall be chosen under Subsection A noted above.
At the Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting or
at any other Special Town Meeting, the presiding officer of the Annual
Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting shall state the business to be
transacted and the order in which the business will be considered.
At the Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting or
at any other Special Town Meeting all action shall be by vote. All
questions shall be decided by the majority of the qualified electors
present and voting. Only qualified electors may vote at a Town of
Fulton Annual Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting.
The presiding officer of the Town of Fulton
Annual Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting shall maintain order and
decorum. The presiding officer of the Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting
or Special Town Meeting may order any person to leave a Town of Fulton
Annual Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting if this person has conducted
himself or herself in a disorderly manner and has persisted in such
conduct after being requested by the presiding officer of the Annual
Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting to cease such conduct. If the
person refuses the order of the presiding officer of the Annual Town
Meeting or Special Town Meeting, the presiding officer then may order
a law enforcement officer to take the person into custody until the
Annual Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting is adjourned.
A.
At the Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting or Special
Town Meeting a vote may be only reconsidered at the same Annual Town
Meeting or Special Town Meeting at which the vote was taken if the
qualified electors at the Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting or Special
Town Meeting vote to reconsider within one hour after the initial
vote was taken.
B.
No action of the Annual Town Meeting or Special Town
Meeting may be reconsidered at a subsequent Special Town Meeting held
prior to the next Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting unless a Special
Town Meeting is convened pursuant to § 60.12(1)(b) or (c),
Wis. Stats., and the written request or call for a Special Town Meeting
states that the purpose for the Special Town Meeting is reconsideration
of prior action taken at a prior Annual Town Meeting or at a prior
Special Town Meeting.
A.
At the Town of Fulton Annual Town Meeting or at any
other Special Town Meeting, the Town Clerk/Treasurer of the Town of
Fulton shall serve as Clerk of the Annual Town Meeting or Special
Town Meeting. If the Town Clerk/Treasurer of the Town of Fulton is
absent, the presiding officer of the Annual Town Meeting or Special
Town Meeting shall appoint a Clerk Pro Tem as Clerk for the Annual
Town Meeting or for the Special Town Meeting.
B.
The Clerk of the Annual Town Meeting or Special Town
Meeting shall keep the minutes of the Annual Town Meeting or Special
Town Meeting. The Clerk of the Annual Town Meeting or Special Town
Meeting shall keep a poll list of electors if required by prior Annual
Town Meeting actions of the Town of Fulton, with the poll list to
contain the name and address of every elector voting at the Annual
Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting. The minutes of the Annual Town
Meeting or Special Town Meeting shall be signed by the Clerk of the
Annual Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting and these minutes shall
be filed in the office of the Town Clerk/Treasurer of the Town of
Fulton within five days after the Annual Town Meeting or Special Town
Meeting.
A.
In the Town of Fulton, a Special Town Meeting may
be convened if:
(1)
Called by any Annual Town Meeting or Special Town
Meeting;
(2)
Called by written request, signed by a number of electors
equal to but not less than 10% of the votes cast in the Town of Fulton
for governor at the last general election as filed with the Town Clerk/Treasurer
of the Town of Fulton; or
(3)
Called by the Town Board of the Town of Fulton.
B.
The Special Town Meeting request or Special Town Meeting
call shall contain the time, date and purpose of the Special Town
Meeting. The location for the Special Town Meeting shall be where
the preceding Annual Town Meeting was held, unless the location is
changed by the Town Board of the Town of Fulton. A Special Town Meeting
may be reconvened to a time and date certain if the resumed Special
Town Meeting is held within 30 days of the original scheduled Special
Town Meeting.
C.
Any business which may be transacted by the Annual
Town Meeting of the Town of Fulton may be transacted at a Special
Town Meeting. The Town Clerk/Treasurer of the Town of Fulton, no more
than 20 days nor less than 10 days before the date of the Special
Town Meeting, shall publish a Class 2 public notice of the Special
Town Meeting under Ch. 985, Wis. Stats. The public notice shall state
the purpose, date, time and location of the Special Town Meeting.
If the Town of Fulton has designated a weekly publication as the official
general circulation newspaper, the Town Clerk shall post the meeting
notice in at least three public places and publish once in the official
newspaper. If, in addition, public notice is posted at the usual and
customary location, the same time and content requirements shall apply.
Pursuant to § 60.10, Wis. Stats.:
A.
Direct powers.
(1)
Raise money. The Town Meeting of the Town of Fulton
may raise money, including levying taxes, to pay for expenses of the
Town of Fulton, unless the authority has been delegated by statute
to the Town Board of the Town of Fulton. The Town Meeting of the Town
of Fulton did authorize and delegate the power to the Town Board of
the Town of Fulton to raise money and levy taxes to pay for the expenses
for the Town of Fulton.
(2)
Town offices and officers. The Town Meeting of the
Town of Fulton may fix the compensation of elective Town offices under
§ 60.32, Wis. Stats., unless the authority has been delegated
by statute to the Town Board of the Town of Fulton.
(3)
Combine offices of Town Clerk and Town Treasurer.
The Town Meeting of the Town of Fulton did at its 1992 meeting combine
the offices of Town Clerk and Town Treasurer of the Town of Fulton.
The new title of this office will be "Town Clerk/Treasurer."
(4)
Office of Town Chief of Police. The Town Meeting of
the Town of Fulton did establish the office of Chief of Police of
the Town of Fulton and has established the number of deputies.
(5)
Election of Town officers. The Annual Town Meeting
of the Town of Fulton may adopt a plan under § 5.60(6),
Wis. Stats., to elect Town Board Supervisors at large to numbered
seats.
(7)
Cemeteries. The Town Meeting of the Town of Fulton
may authorize the acquisition and conveyance of cemeteries under § 157.50(1),
Wis. Stats.
B.
Directives or grants of authority to Town Board.
(1)
Raise money. The Town Meeting of the Town of Fulton
may authorize the Town Board of the Town of Fulton to raise money,
including levying taxes, to pay for expenses of the Town of Fulton.
(2)
Membership of Town Board in populous towns. The Town
Meeting of the Town of Fulton may, in a Town with a population of
2,500 or more, direct the Town Board of the Town of Fulton to increase
the membership of the Town Board of the Town of Fulton under § 60.21(2),
Wis. Stats.
(3)
Exercise of village powers. The Town Meeting of the
Town of Fulton has authorized the Town Board of the Town of Fulton
to exercise powers of a village board under § 60.22(3),
Wis. Stats.
(4)
General obligation bonds. The Town Meeting of the
Town of Fulton may authorize the Town Board of the Town of Fulton
to issue general obligation bonds in the manner and for the purposes
provided by law.
(5)
Purchase of land. The Town Meeting of the Town of
Fulton may authorize the Town Board of the Town of Fulton to purchase
any land within the Town of Fulton for present or anticipated Town
purposes.
(6)
Town buildings. The Town Meeting of the Town of Fulton
may authorize the Town Board of the Town of Fulton to purchase, lease
or construct buildings for the use of the Town of Fulton, to combine
for this purpose the Town of Fulton funds with those of a society
or corporation doing business or located in the Town of Fulton and
to accept contributions of money, labor or space for this purpose.
(7)
Disposal of property. The Town Meeting of the Town
of Fulton may authorize the Town Board of the Town of Fulton to dispose
of Town property, real or personal, other than property donated to
and required to be held by the Town of Fulton for a special purpose.
(8)
Exercise of certain zoning authority. The Town Meeting
of the Town of Fulton has authorized the Town Board of the Town of
Fulton to adopt Town zoning ordinances pursuant to § 61.35,
Wis. Stats.
(9)
Appointed assessors. The Town Meeting of the Town
of Fulton has authorized the Town Board of the Town of Fulton to select
assessors by appointment under § 60.307(2), Wis. Stats.
(10)
Compensation of elective Town offices. The Town Meeting
of the Town of Fulton may authorize the Town Board of the Town of
Fulton to fix the compensation of elective Town offices under § 60.32(1)(b),
Wis. Stats.
C.
Authorization of Town Board to appropriate money.
The Town Meeting of the Town of Fulton may authorize the Town Board
of the Town of Fulton to appropriate money in the next annual budget
for:
(1)
Conservation of natural resources. The conservation
of natural resources by the Town of Fulton or a bona fide nonprofit
organization under § 60.23(6), Wis. Stats.
(2)
Civic functions. Civic and other functions under § 60.23(3),
Wis. Stats.
(3)
Insects, weeds and animal diseases. The control of
insect pests, weeds or plant or animal disease within the Town of
Fulton.
(4)
Rural numbering systems. Posting signs and otherwise
cooperating with the county in the establishment of a rural numbering
system under § 59.54(4) and (4m), Wis. Stats.
(5)
Cemetery improvements. The improvement of the Town
of Fulton cemetery under § 157.50(5), Wis. Stats.
