Town Board — Minutes

Town of Sevastopol, Board of Supervisors’ August 2025 1 1 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS’ MEETING 2 Monday, August 18, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. 3 4528 State Highway 57, (Institute), Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 4 5 Call to Order. The meeting was called to order by Chairman, Dan Woelfel at 7:00 p.m. 6 7 Pledge of Allegiance. The Chairman asked all to rise and join in the Pledge of Allegiance. 8 9 Roll Call to Establish Quorum. In addition to Woelfel, the following Board members were in 10 attendance and constitute a quorum: Supervisor Mark Haen, Supervisor Jeanne Vogel, Supervisor 11 Linda Wait, and Supervisor Trent Olsen. 12 13 Meet n’ Greet. Following introduction of the Board and also in attendance: Amy M. Flok, Clerk – 14 Treasurer, Ryan Hoffmann – Sevastopol Videographer, Josh Julien, Paul Billing, Dave Normann, Jean 15 Elste, Gwenn Graboyes, Joe Graboyes, Brenda Lange, Terry Schneider, George Zachariasen, Kathy 16 Steinmetz, Annette Vincent, Ron Maloney, Pam Maloney, Tim Temby, Jacon Miller – DC Soil and 17 Water, John Beck, Kathy Gibson, Jim Gibson, Betty Van Bellinger, Beth Partain, and Wayne 18 Semmerling. 19 20 Public Participation. 21 Kathy Steinmetz spoke regarding wake boating on Clark Lake. 22 Annette Vincent spoke regarding Gilbert Farms potential CAFO. 23 Gwenn Graboyes spoke regarding wake boating/boarding. 24 Tim Temby spoke regarding wake boating/boarding on Clark 25 ___ concern about wake boating/boarding on Clark Lake. 26 Wayne Semmerling spoke regarding wake boarding/boarding on Clark Lake. 27 Jean Elste spoke regarding Gilbert Farms potential CAFO 28 Brenda Lange spoke regarding Gilbert Farms potential CAFO 29 30 Agenda/Proper Notice/Adopt. Upon verification of proper notice, motion by Olsen and second by 31 Vogel to approve and adopt the agenda, as noticed. Motion carried. 32 33 Approval of Minutes – Board of Supervisors’ Meeting – July 16, 2025 34 Board of Review Meeting – July 22, 2025 35 Motion by Vogel and second by Olsen to approve the minutes of the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting 36 on July 16, 2025, and the Board of Review Meeting on July 22, 2025. Motion carried. 37 38 Pending Business 39 Broadband Borrowing for AT&T Payments Due in 2026. Woelfel reported that at last month’s 40 meeting we approved borrowing the funds for broadband in 2026. We have not yet completed an 41 application seeing as there might be a large change in interest rates. We do have enough on hand 42 Town of Sevastopol, Board of Supervisors’ August 2025 2 to make the January payment and then would replenish the accounts with the loan. Woelfel is 1 proposing we hold out on taking the loan out until at least after September or possibly January 2 2026. The tax rolls will not be affected until 2027. Olsen, Haen, Wait, and Vogel would like to wait 3 to see what happens in September to see what the rate change is. If the rate drops, then we would 4 wait until January 2026 to borrow. 5 6 AT&T Construction Update. Vogel spoke to the map that we received from AT&T regarding when our 7 residents can expect to be connected. 8 9 New Business 10 New Road/Naming. Wait stated that currently it’s not a private road, but a single driveway off Bay 11 Shore Drive. The proposal is to divide it out into 4 separate lots which would be zoned Single Family 12 (FS20). Per our Land Use Department, if you are going to serve 4 or more parcels off that road, you 13 need to name the private road and obtain road name approval. The proposed name is Harbor View 14 Terrace. Motion by Wait and second by Vogel to recommend support with a road name of Harbor 15 View Terrace on this parcel subject to the Door County Land Use Department clarification as to 16 ownership by an LLC for the minor land division. 17 18 Ordinance Committee Update. Olsen reported that we started with a binder of ordinances. Of all 19 those ordinances were looked at and there were only 3 of them that needed to be rewritten. We will 20 then work with Laddie to categorize them and place them on our website. 21 22 Ordinances/Resolutions 23 Ordinance No. 01-2025 – Regulation of Activities in Town Parks. Motion by Olsen and second by 24 Wait to approve and adopt Ordinance No. 01-2025 – Regulation of Activities in the Town Park. Roll 25 Call vote: Supervisor Olsen – aye, Supervisor Vogel – aye, Supervisor Wait – aye, Chairman Woelfel 26 – aye, and Supervisor Haen - aye. Motion carried 27 28 Ordinance No. 02-2025 – Regulating Noxious Weeds and Invasive Species. Motion by Olsen and 29 second by Vogel to approve and adopt Ordinance No. 02-2025 – Regulating Noxious Weeds and 30 Invasive Species. Roll call vote: Supervisor Haen - aye, Supervisor Olsen - aye, Supervisor Vogel - 31 aye, Supervisor Wait - aye, and Chairman Woelfel - aye. Motion carried. 32 33 Ordinance No. 03-2025 - Regulating Snowmobile Travel on Town Roads. Motion by Olsen and 34 second by Wait to approve and adopt Ordinance No. 03-2025 – Regulating Snowmobile Travel on 35 Town Roads. Roll call vote: Chairman Woelfel – aye, Supervisor Wait – aye, Supervisor Vogel – aye, 36 Supervisor Olsen – aye, and Supervisor Haen – aye. Motion carried. 37 38 Ordinance No. 04-2025 – Burning Ordinance. Change in wording in the Ordinance will read: under 39 Section 4. Enforcement, Penalty, and Forfeitures. This Ordinance shall be enforced by the 40 issuance of a citation by the Town. Also, in Section 3. Outside Burning, we will change it to the Town 41 does not issue fireworks permits. Motion by Olsen and second by Wait to approve and adopt 42 Ordinance No. 04-2025 – Burning Ordinance changing the town does not issue fireworks permit, 43 Town of Sevastopol, Board of Supervisors’ August 2025 3 and Roll call vote: Chairman Woelfel – aye, Supervisor Wait – aye, Supervisor Vogel – aye, 1 Supervisor Olsen – aye, and Supervisor Haen – aye. Motion carried 2 3 Financial Reports – July 2025. Motion by Haen and second by Olsen to accept the financial 4 reports for July 2025. Motion carried. 5 Treasurer’s Report. The Town has received the August settlement from the County 6 for the remainder of the taxes. We also received fire dues from the state. We are going into 7 budget times, so please start thinking about the 2026 budgets for your respective 8 committees. 9 10 Approval of Vouchers, Bills, and Claims – July 22, 2025, through August 18, 2025. Motion by 11 Vogel and second by Haen to approve the vouchers, bills, and claims for July 22, 2025, through 12 August 18, 2025. Motion carried. 13 14 Oral Committee/Commission Reports/Minutes. 15 Motion by Wait and second by Haen to approve and place on file Ordinance Committee minutes 16 from June 5th, 2025. 17 18 Wait attended the Destination Sturgeon Bay meeting. Annual membership to Destination Sturgeon 19 Bay is $425. Door County Tourism Zone is meeting this Thursday. Wisconsin Town Association, 20 Door County Unit, meets this Thursday here at the Town Hall. 21 22 Olsen suggested the Town sending letters to the resident’s whose roads will be getting 23 paved/repaved. Since roads only get done once every 30 years, we want to make sure residents 24 don’t travel on the road until the blacktop is cured to prevent damage. 25 26 County Board Report – District 14 Supervisor – Hugh Zettel. The County decided to pay the 27 upfront cost for the EMS upgrade (radios/pagers), but there will be an ongoing expense to the town 28 for maintenance. 29 30 Licenses & Permits 31 Inspection Specialists, LLC – July 2025. Placed on file 32 Door County Zoning Permits – July 2025. Placed on file 33 34 Correspondence 35 Door County Century Ride 36 City of Sturgeon Bay July 2025 Fire Report 37 State of Wisconsin Computer Aids Payment 38 State of Wisconsin Video Service Aid 39 State of Wisconsin July Shared Revenue 40 Timber Cutting Notice 41 42 Announcements 43 Vintage Car Revival – 5005 Country View Road – August 22-24, 2025 44 Town of Sevastopol, Board of Supervisors’ August 2025 4 Class Tournaments – August 29th – August 31st 1 Board of Supervisors’ Meeting – Monday, September 15, 2025, 7:00 p.m. 2 3 Agenda Items for Next Month. 4 5 Adjourn. Motion by Olsen and second by Haen to adjourn. Motion carried and the meeting 6 adjourned at 8:23 p.m. 7 8 Respectfully submitted, 9 10 Amy M. Flok 11 Draft 8/25/2025 12 13 14