WHEN: February 27, 2019 - 6:00 PM
WHERE: Coach’s By the Lake - Muskego, WI
CALL TO ORDER:
The meeting was called to order by Commissioner Laseke at 6:00 PM
ROLL CALL:
The following Commissioners were present: Jeff Jones, Katherine Schauer, Tim Laseke, and Kevin Kubacki. With at least three Commissioners being present, the quorum requirement was satisfied permitting business transactions.
Not attending: Commissioner Keith Hammit.
STATEMENT OF PUBLIC NOTICE:
Commissioner Schauer stated that she has posted the notice and agenda for the meeting at the Muskego Police Station, Muskego Public Library, Muskego City Hall and the ldld.org website. All postings were made prior to 24 hours before the meeting thereby satisfying WI open meeting law notice requirements.
BCPL LOAN APPLICATION AND RESOLUTION:
The following preamble and resolutions were presented by Commissioner Tim Laseke and were read to the meeting:
By the provisions of Sec. 24.66 of the Wisconsin Statutes, all municipalities may borrow money for such purposes in the manner prescribed, and, By the provisions of Chapter 24 of the Wisconsin Statutes, the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands of Wisconsin is authorized to make loans from the State Trust Funds to municipalities for such purposes. (Municipality as defined by Sec. 24.60(2) of the Wisconsin Statutes means a town, village, city, county, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, town sanitary district created under Sec. 60.71 or 60.72, metropolitan sewerage district created under Sec. 200.05 or 200.23, joint sewerage system created under Sec. 281.43(4), school district or technical college district.)
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Lake Denoon Lake District, in the County of Waukesha, Wisconsin, borrow from the Trust Funds of the State of Wisconsin the sum of Thirty Thousand And 00/100 Dollars ($30,000.00) for the purpose of financing weed abatement program and for no other purpose.
The loan is to be payable within 3 years from the 15th day of March preceding the date the loan is made. The loan will be repaid in annual installments with interest at the rate of 4.25 percent per annum from the date of making the loan to the 15th day of March next and thereafter annually as provided by law.
RESOLVED FURTHER, that at the annual or special meeting, the electors and property owners voted by majority to raise and levy upon all taxable property, within the Lake Denoon Lake District, in the County of Waukesha, Wisconsin, a direct annual tax for the purpose of paying interest and principal on the loan as they become due.
RESOLVED FURTHER, that no money obtained by the Lake Denoon Lake District by such loan from the state be applied or paid out for any purpose except financing weed abatement program without the consent of the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands.
RESOLVED FURTHER, that in case the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands of Wisconsin agrees to make the loan, that the chairman and secretary of the Lake Denoon Lake District, in the County of Waukesha, Wisconsin, are authorized and empowered, in the name of the district to execute and deliver to the Commission, certificates of indebtedness, in such form as required by the Commission, for any sum of money that may be loaned to the district pursuant to this resolution. The chairman and secretary of the district will perform all necessary actions to fully carry out the provisions of Chapters 24 and 33 Wisconsin Statutes, and these resolutions.
RESOLVED FURTHER, that this preamble and these resolutions and the aye and no vote by which they were adopted, be recorded, and that the secretary of the district forward this certified record, along with the application for the loan, to the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands of Wisconsin.
Commissioner Jeff Jones moved adoption of the foregoing preamble and resolutions.
The question being upon the adoption of the foregoing preamble and resolutions, a vote was taken by ayes and noes, which resulted as follows:
Commissioner (Chairman) Tim Laseke voted aye;
Commissioner (Secretary) Kathy Schauer voted aye;
Commissioner (Treasurer) Jeff Jones voted aye;
Commissioner (City Rep) Kevin Kubacki voted aye;
Commissioner (County Rep) Keith Hammit being absent, did not vote.
A majority of the members of the District Board of Commissioners of the Lake Denoon Lake District, in the County of Waukesha, State of Wisconsin, having voted in favor of the preamble and resolutions, they were declared adopted.
NEW BUSINESS:
A call was made for new business. No new business was offered.
ADJOURNMENT:
Around 6:20 PM, a motion was made by Commissioner Laseke to adjourn and seconded by Commissioner Kubacki; motion carried.