Lake Committee — Minutes

5621 Town Hall Road, Delavan, Wisconsin 53115 (262) 728-3471 - FAX (262) 728-3473 email:mknipper@townofdelavan.com Office Hours: M – F, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Minutes of the Lake Committee Meeting Held on Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. at Town Hall, Town of Delavan. 1) Call to order – 6:03 pm 2) Roll Call – Nixdorf, Wolfgram excused 3) Declaration of quorum for doing business 4) Approval of Agenda – motion to approve by O’Connor, 2nd by Handel, motion carried 5) Approval of minutes of the Lake Committee meeting of September 3 2025 - motion to approve by Chair Knipper, 2nd by O’Connor, motion carried. 6) Comments and suggestions of citizens present regarding Items on the Agenda - None 7) Communications – Walworth County Lakes Meeting will be held on October 18, in LaGrange. 8) Delavan Lake Sanitary District Updates – Adam Handel update: Harvester being pulled out next week. 10,000 yards harvested this season. Lift station 7 complete 9) Delavan Lake Improvement Association) Updates - Pilot program - Drone seeding completed 500 – 600 acres seeded. 10) City of Delavan – updates report – Nick Griffin gave update: Lake Comus drain down project almost complete. The lake is filling up and will be stocked with fish in the spring. Nick talked about the lights at Lake Lawn proposed par 3 golf course. Check from the City to the Township in the amount of $31,000 has not been received. Nick will look into it; he thought it had been sent. 11) Old Business: (a) Discussion/Possible Recommendations: Delavan Lake Management, Planning and Projects – State of the Lake power point presentation should be available to be put on TOD website and added to the Lake Management Draft. (b) Discussion/Possible Recommendations: SEWRPC Lake Management Plan updates - None (c) Discussion/Possible Recommendations: Lake Committee Sub-Committees Reports – Chair Knipper talked about updated sub-committee member list. (d) Discussion/Possible Recommendations: Buoys/Rafts Ordinance/Process revisions 12) New Business: (a) Discussion/Possible Recommendations: boating Regulations/Slow No Wake draft – process to be outlined at subcommittee level (b) Discusssion/Possible Recommendations: CBCW grant, funding, staffing – Charlie Handel motioned to recommend to the Town Board to pursue a new CBCW (Clean Boats Clean Waters) DNR grant, seconded by Shallcross, motion carried. Will need to hire a new employee for 2026 since Audrey Greene is retiring the position. (c) Discussion/Possible Recommendations: Lake Committee newsletter planning – No update (d) Discussion/Possible Recommendations: Final Review 2026 Lake Budget – Charlie Handel discussed a new buoy monitor that records lake data that can be used to indicate a potential algae bloom. The data can indicate when conditions are such that a bloom is likely. Cost is in the $10,000 range plus $10,00 to run the system and record data. 13) Review/Approval of Bills/Lake Funds update – Lake Fund is $590,797.16 Motion to pay all invoices made by O’Connor, seconded by Handel, motion carried 14) Future Agenda Items 15) Comments and Suggestions of Citizens Present 16) Date of Next Meeting: November 5, 6:00 PM-Town Hall 17) Adjournment - motion to adjourn made by O’Connor, seconded by Handel, motion carried. Minutes prepared by Mary Pat O’Connor October 16, 2025 Committee Members Mary Knipper – Chair (voting) Jason Shallcross Citizen Member (voting) Mary O’Connor – Co-Chair (voting) Vacant – Citizen Member (voting) Ben Nixdorf, DLSD member (voting) Nick Griffin - City of Delavan Rep (voting) Jim Wolfgram – Citizen Member (voting) DLIA –Pending (voting) Charlie Handel– Delavan Lake Improvement Association (non-voting), Jim DeLuca – DLSD Admin. (non-voting) September 29, 2025 A quorum of the Town Board and the Delavan Lake Sanitary District May be Present The agenda may be posted at any two of the following places: Town Hall, www.townofdelavan.com, FNBT, Lakefront Mobil, Maxi One and Piggly Wiggly Copies: Committee Members, Town Board, Delavan Enterprise, and Janesville Gazette. Any person who has a qualifying disability as defined by the American with Disabilities act that requires the meeting or the materials at the meeting to be in an accessible location or format must contact the Town of Delavan, 5621 Town Hall Road, Delavan Wisconsin at least twenty –four hours prior to the commencement of the meeting so that necessary arrangements can be made to accommodate the request. The Town of Delavan is an Equal Opportunity Employer