The Town Board shall have the powers enumerated
in § 60.23, Wis. Stats.
The Town Board Chairperson shall have the powers
and duties prescribed in § 60.24, Wis. Stats.
[Amended 5-2-2023 by Ord. No. 2023.05.01]
A. Regular meetings of the Trenton Town Board shall be
held on the third Monday of every month at 7:00 p.m. local time. Any
regular meeting falling on a legal holiday, which the Town of Trenton
recognizes, shall be held the following Tuesday at the same time and
place or at a time established by the Board. All meetings of the Board
shall be held at the Town Hall of the Town of Trenton unless specified
otherwise in the minutes of the preceding meeting or by written notice
posted at the regular meeting place at least three hours prior to
any meeting. A majority of Supervisors must consent to any change
in the place of any meeting of the Town Board.
B. Special meetings may be called by the Chairperson
or by any two Supervisors by notifying the Town Clerk no less than
24 hours prior to the specified time of the meeting. The Town Clerk
shall immediately notify all Supervisors of the time and place of
the meeting and shall cause public notice to be posted in at least
one public place likely to give notice to persons affected and placed
electronically on the Town's official website no less than six hours
prior to the time specified for the meeting.
C. All Town Board and Town committee meetings shall be
open to the public and be in compliance with Wisconsin's Open Meeting
Law.
D. The Town Board has power to preserve order at its
meetings, compel attendance of Supervisors and punish nonattendance.
A majority of the Supervisors shall constitute
a quorum, but a lesser number may adjourn if a majority is not present.
The Chairperson shall preside at all meetings
of the Town Board when present. In his/her absence, the Town Board
may select another Supervisor to preside and, in such case, the Town
Clerk shall call the meeting to order and preside until the Town Board
selects a Supervisor to preside.
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.
Any member desirous of terminating the debate
may call the previous question when the question announced by the
Chairperson shall be "shall the main question be put?" If a majority
of the members present vote in the affirmative, the main question
shall be put to a vote without further debate, and its effect shall
be to put an end to all debate and bring the Board to a direct vote,
first upon the pending amendment and then upon the main question.
The rules of this chapter shall not be rescinded
or amended unless the proposed 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 §§
130-12 through
130-15, inclusive, of this chapter may be suspended temporarily by a majority of the Board members present at any meeting.