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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCounty Board 08-17-04 NOTICE OF MEETING AND AGENDA ST. CROIX COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Tuesday — August 17, 2004 9:00 a.m. CALL TO ORDER: Chairman Clarence Malick INVOCATION: Pastor Mark Shore, Bible Baptist, North Hudson PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG ROLL CALL REVIEW OF AGENDA CONSENT AGENDA (Unless a supervisor requests separation of an item, all will be adopted in one motion.) 1. Minutes of Previous Session June 15, 2004 2. Date of Next Meeting September 21, 2004 9: 00 a.m. 3. Mileage and Per Diem PRESENTATIONS APPOINTMENTS: ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR REPORT NEW BUSINESS 1. Rezonings a. Frederick & Ruth Anding, Town of Troy, Ag to Ag/Residential b. Randy & Debbie Calleja, Town of Richmond, Ag/Residential to Commercial C. PC Collova, Town of Somerset, Ag to Ag/Residential d. Gregory & Linda Nelson, Town of Somerset, Ag to Ag/Residential 2. Resolution authorizing the St. Croix County Land and Water Conservation Department to Apply for a Lakes Planning Grant 3. Resolution requesting Governor Jim Doyle to direct the Wisconsin Department of Commerce to Revise the Milk Volume Production (MVP) Program in order to protect water quality. 5. *Amendment to St. Croix County Code of Ordinances — Creation of Chapter 7 (Relating to Tax Liens) 6. * Resolution to Adopt the St. Croix County Investment Policy 7. *County Land in Hudson Disposition Process Policy 8. *Motion to go into closed session pursuant to Wis. Stats. Sec. 19.85(1) (c) considering performance evaluation data of public employee, (f) considering disciplinary data of specific persons, preliminary consideration of specific personnel problems or the investigation of charges against specific persons and (g) conferring with legal counsel concerning strategy with respect to litigation Reconvene in open session 9. *11:15 a.m. (or later) —Amendments to St. Croix County Code of Ordinances: Repeal of Chapter 15 and Creation of Chapter 12; Repeal of Chapter 18 and Creation of Chapter 13; and Amendments to Chapter 17 ANNUAL COMMITTEE AN DEPARTMENT REPORTS: Emergency Communications, Emergency Management, Highway Department, Surveyor COUNTY CLERK'S REPORT OF CORRESPONDENCE AND REZONING REQUESTS ANNOUNCEMENTS: ADJOURNMENT (Items may be taken in different order) 2/11/2011 3:21 PM * Changes or Additions after the Preliminary Agenda * * Late Changes and Additions OFFICIAL APPROVED 9/21/04 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ST.CROIX COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Regular Meeting August 17, 2004 Invocation given by Pastor Mark Shore of the Bible Baptist Church, in North Hudson, Wisconsin. Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Meeting called to order by Chair Malick at 9:00 a.m. Roll call: 28 present, 3 absent and excused — Suprs. Bernard, Krueger and Struemke. Chair Malick noted those wishing to speak regarding amending the Zoning Ordinances (item number 9), should be introduced by the County Board Supervisor who represents the speaker's district. Each speaker will have two minutes to speak. Consent Agenda: Motion by Supr. Wentz, 2nd by Supr. Grant to adopt the consent agenda including approval of the June 15, 2004 minutes, setting September 21, 2004 as date of next meeting and mileage and per diem total for June 2004 of $11,081.09. Carried unanimously. Presentation: None Appointments: None Administrative Coordinator Report. Administrative Coordinator Chuck Whiting reported all department budgets should be brought forward to their respective committee's meeting in the upcoming months. Whiting indicated several groups have come forward to purchase county land. The Finance Committee has discussed this and a "Plan for Plan" will be presented later in this meeting. Whiting reported assessed value figures have been published. St. Croix County 2004 Assessed Valuation is $6,623,719.900. Economic change is up 5.33 %; new construction is up 6.45% which is the figure the Finance Committee chose as the maximum levy increase target for the 2005 budget. Overall valuation is up $686,760,500 or a 11.5% increase. Applicable valuation without TID is $6.4 million. The maximum 2005 levy (2004 levy plus 6.45 %) is $21,408,783, less the 2004 over -levy of $533,490 equals $20,875,193. The actual levy maximum increase is $763,928. 1. Rezonings a. Ordinance #622(2004) Rezoning from Ag to Ag/Residential for Frederick Anding, Town of Troy. Motion to approve by Supr. Zoerb, 2nd by Supr. Burri. Carried unanimously. b. Ordinance #623(2004) Rezoning from Ag/Residential to Commercial for Randy and Debbie Calleja, Town of Richmond. Motion to approve by Supr. Zoerb, 2nd by Supr. Habhegger. Carried unanimously. C. Ordinance #624(2004) Rezoning from Ag to Ag/Residential for Pat Collova, Town of Somerset. Motion to approve by Supr. Zoerb, 2nd by Supr. Hurtgen. Carried unanimously. Supr. Luckey noted a correction to change the name of town in body of ordinance from Richmond to Somerset. d. Ordinance #625(2004) Rezoning from Ag to Ag/Residential for Gregory and Linda Nelson, Town of Somerset. Motion to approve by Supr. Zoerb, 2nd by Supr. Burri. Carried unanimously. 2. Resolution #23(2004) Authorizing the St. Croix County Land and Water Conservation Department to Apply for a Lakes Planning Grant. Motion to approve by Supr. Raymond, 2nd by Supr. Ruetz. Supr. Raymond indicated the County needs to be the sponsoring organization. This money gets passed on for educational uses and there is no financial risk or cost to the County. Carried unanimously. 2/11/2011 3:21 PM 3. Resolution #24(2004) Requesting Governor Jim Doyle to Direct the Wisconsin Department of Commerce to Revise the Milk Volume Production (MVP) Program in Order to Protect Water Quality. Motion to approve by Supr. Raymond, 2nd by Supr. Zoerb. This resolution requests that Governor Jim Doyle direct the Wisconsin Department of Commerce to amend its rules relating to future loan applications through its Milk Volume Production (MVP) program to require an applicant to submit a nutrient management plan for approval by the local municipality participating in the loan award, prior to the loan funds being disbursed to the applicant, and to submit an annual revised plan to the municipality. Carried. 4. Amendments to the St. Croix County Board of Supervisors Rules and Bylaws. This matter was removed from the agenda. 5. Ordinance #626(2004) Amendment to St. Croix County Code of Ordinances — Creation of Chapter 7 (Relating to Tax Liens). Motion to approve by Supr. Jacobson, 2nd by Supr. Caflisch. Corporation Counsel Greg Timmerman explained this alternate method of obtaining title to real estate tax delinquent property in cases, was inadvertently not included in the earlier codification. Carried unanimously. 6. Resolution #25(2004) to Adopt the St. Croix County Investment Policy. Motion to approve by Supr. Swenson, 2nd by Supr. Standafer. The Finance Committee recommends modifying the St. Croix County Investment Policy to enable the Finance Director to work with an Investment Manager. Carried unanimously. 7. County Land In Hudson Disposition Process Policy. Supr. Swenson presented the County Land Development "Plan for a Plan" for excess Government Center property in Hudson. Supr. Swenson indicated he is presenting a process for a plan and confirmed it is for Government Center property only. He pointed out three things the County Board needs to consider. One, to plan for a plan; two, to have a site concept plan prepared and brought to the County Board for consideration; three, implementation action brought to the County Board. Motion by Supr. Swenson, 2nd by Supr. Caflisch to approve putting this forward to adopt a process for a plan. Carried. 8. Motion to go into closed session pursuant to Wis. Stats. Sec. 19.85(1) (c) considering performance evaluation data of public employee, (f) considering disciplinary data of specific persons, preliminary consideration of specific personnel problems or the investigation of charges against specific persons and (g) conferring with legal counsel concerning strategy with respect to litigation. Reconvene in open session. Motion to go into closed session by Supr. Mehls, 2nd by Supr. Mortensen. Carried unanimously. Personnel Committee members were dismissed from the meeting in case they should later need to serve as a disciplinary review board. Chair Malick announced an open session at 12:35 p.m. 9. Ordinance #627(2004) Amendments to St. Croix County Code of Ordinances: Repeal of Chapter 15 and Creation of Chapter 12; Repeal of Chapter 18 and Creation of Chapter 13; and Amendments to Chapter 17. Chair Malick explained staff and committee members will present the proposed ordinance amendments first. Pursuant to the St. Croix County Board of Supervisor Rules and Bylaws, members of the public, who are county residents, may speak after introduction by their County Board Supervisor for two minutes each. Chair Malick will introduce speakers for those supervisors not in attendance at today's meeting. The supervisors will speak after the public makes comments. Supr. Luckey introduced Town of St. Joseph Chair Theresa Johnson. Supr. Gunderson introduced Bill Lawson of the Town of Somerset. County Planner Ellen Denzer presented the land use ordinance adoption process. Denzer indicated the reason the ordinances were updated was to create authority and process for conservation design subdivision, statutory and administrative code conformance and ordinance language and procedural clean -up. She added the sanitary ordinance needed to be completely updated. The zoning ordinance is subject to town review and approval or disapproval. Some of the overall improvements to the County Land Use Ordinances includk9imtwesidrivewaym construction standards to zoning ordinance; reduces front -yard /road setbacks; reduced driveway separation standards for lesser roads; standards for driveway width set; simplified the residential housing standards for the Ag Zoning District at 1 home /35 acres. Supr. Peavey introduced Kevin Larson from the Town of Eau Galle. Supr. Dowd introduced Jim Emmert from the Town of Erin Prairie. Supr. Marzolf introduced John Ruemmle from the Town of Troy. Supr. Marzolf indicated Ruemmle had previously sent a letter to the supervisors on behalf of Town of Troy. Supr. Rebholz introduced former Zoning Administrator Steve Fisher. Supr. Gunderson introduced Rita Lawson from the Town of Somerset. Motion by Supr. Zoerb, 2nd by Supr. Burri to adopt the revisions. Chair Malick concluded the comments from public. Supr. Zoerb, Chair of the Planning and Zoning committee, thanked everyone who contributed to the development of the ordinances. She commented the option for conservation design is a huge step forward for St. Croix County. She added the provision allowing the Zoning Administrator some of the approval authority, which has previously been the responsibility of the Planning and Zoning Committee, will streamline the process for the public and create a more consistent level of workload and production for staff that review the applications. The committee will monitor this process very closely and create any necessary policy to insure this process is working. Supr. Standafer questions the 25% slope disturbance language. Director of the County Land and Water Department, Bob Heise indicated the previous ordinance allowed no land disturbances over 20 %. This ordinance allows land disturbances above 20 %. Supr. Standafer was excused from the meeting at 2:10 p.m. Motion by Supr. Raymond, 2nd by Supr. Luckey to amend the original motion changing the word "may" to "shall" on line one of 13 -47 g. Supr. Zoerb suggested changing to "underlying Zoning District' and "a portion of the subdivision and /or offsite land is preserved as permanently undeveloped land." Supr. Dowd agreed. Amendment passed. Motion by Supr. Erickson, 2nd by Supr. Speer to amend 13.7.C.l.c on page 13 -42 to delete 25% slope disturbance prohibition based on the August 17, 2004 request from Riverwood, Public Affairs Consulting and to replace it with "Disturbance on slopes of 25% to 35% is discouraged, and will be required to follow a special exception permit process, except to correct a pre- existing erosion problem. Disturbance on slopes above 35% is prohibited." Amendment defeated. Main motion with amendment defeated. Annual Committee and Department Reports: Emergency Communications — Emergency Communications Director Gary Kollman and Assistant Director Casey Swetlik were present. Kollman explained the increase in demand for services and the effect on the Emergency Communications Center. Emergency Communications successfully converted from analog to a digital microwave system which allows the incorporation of the computer network which results in an annual savings of $14,400 and a creation of a back up communications center in Baldwin. Future challenges include the rise in calls for service which may include staff expansion, replacements of radio consoles and base stations. Kollman thanked the Supervisors. Emergency Management — Emergency Management Director Jack Colvard provided a handout showing grant money received by the county. Funds have been received from Emergency Management and Homeland Security with funds being distributed countywide to police and fire departments, EMS, Emergency Communications, and local municipalities. St. Croix County has received over $500,000 in grant funds and $78,000 in miscellaneous grant funding for equipment. Highway Department — Highway Commissioner Tim Ramberg presented a PowerPoint presentation providing a general overview of the infrastructure GASB 34 requirements status, long -range plans, managmYe tiWoIs,21 PM trends, revenue sources and plans. Surveyor — County Surveyor Brian Halling presented a PowerPoint presentation providing general overview, current status, positions /resources, trends and future plans. County Clerk's Report of Correspondence and Rezoning Requests: none Announcements: None Adjournment. Chair Malick adjourned the meeting at 2:43 p.m. Copies of resolutions and ordinances may be obtained at the St. Croix County Clerk's office. 2/11/2011 3:21 PM