The Town Board of the Town of Woodruff has the
specific authority, powers and duties, pursuant to §§ 60.10,
60.20, 60.22 and 60.23, Wis. Stats., and has, with authorization of
the Town Meeting, additional statutory authority, powers and duties
to manage and direct certain affairs of the Town of Woodruff. The
Town Board of the Town of Woodruff has additional general and specific
statutory authority, powers and duties established beyond Ch. 60,
Wis. Stats., and as prescribed by this Code.
A. Charge of Town affairs. The Town Board shall have
charge of all affairs of the Town not committed by law to another
body or officer or to Town employees.
B. Charge of actions. The Town Board has charge of any
action or legal proceeding to which the Town is a party.
C. Village powers. As authorized under § 60.10(2)(c), Wis. Stats., and §
82-2 of this Code, the Town Board shall exercise powers relating to villages and conferred on village boards under Ch. 61, Wis. Stats., except those powers which conflict with statutes relating to towns and town boards.
D. Pursue certain claims of Town. The Town Board shall
demand payment of penalties and forfeitures recoverable by the Town
and damages incurred by the Town due to breach of official bond, injury
to property or other injury. If, following demand, payment is not
made, the Board shall pursue appropriate legal action to recover the
penalty, forfeiture or damages.
The Town Board has power to preserve order at
its meetings, compel attendance of Supervisors and punish nonattendance.
[Amended 5-11-2010 by Res. No. 07-2010; 3-22-2016]
Regular meetings of the Town Board of the Town of Woodruff will
be held at the Woodruff Community Center Building on the second and
fourth Tuesday of each month or as otherwise determined by the Town
Board. Any regular meeting of the Town Board falling upon a legal
holiday shall be held on the day designated by the Town Board. Any
meeting of the Town Board, including any special or adjourned meeting,
that is not held at the Community Center Building but at any other
substitute location shall be designated by the Town Chairperson or
his or her designee, in compliance with the Open Meeting Law, by posting a proper written notice of the substituted
location in at least one public place likely to give notice to person
affected and placed electronically on an Internet site maintained
by the municipality. This notice shall occur at least 24 hours prior
to the meeting of the Town Board, unless in an emergency wherein the
proper notice posting shall occur at least two hours prior to the
meeting of the Town Board.
All Town Board and official Town committee and
commission meetings shall be open to the public and be in compliance
with Wisconsin's Open Meeting Law.
A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum,
but a lesser number may adjourn if a majority is not present. The
Chairperson shall be counted in determining whether a quorum exists.
If no legal quorum is present at the time of the initial roll call,
the meeting of the Town Board shall be thereon adjourned by the members
of the Town Board present to a specific date and hour.
It shall be in order for any member, if in the
majority, to move for the reconsideration of any vote in question
at the same meeting or at the next succeeding regular adjourned meeting.
A motion to reconsider being put and lost shall not be renewed.
The rules of this chapter shall not be rescinded
or amended unless the proposed ordinance amendment or motion to rescind
has laid over from a regular meeting, and then it shall require a
vote of 2/3 of all the members of the Board.
Any of the provisions of §§
170-13 through
170-16, inclusive, of this chapter may be suspended temporarily by a majority of the Board members present at any meeting.