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F:\1 DEAN - JESS DOCUMENTS\Town Board\Town Board Minutes 1.5.2026.docx5/23/2024 12:48 PM TOWN OF WESTPORT TOWN BOARD – Monday, January 5, 2026 A regular meeting of the Town Board was called to order at 6:00 pm. by Chair John Cuccia in the Community Meeting Room of the Bernard J. Kennedy Administration Building/Town Hall. Members Present: Cuccia, Pichette, Werner, Manering, and Crowell. Members Absent: None. Also present: Dean Grosskopf and Bill Cole. Grosskopf confirmed that this meeting conforms with open meetings law. There was no Public Comment on Matters not on the agenda. The minutes of the December 15, 2025, Town Board Meeting were approved on a motion by Werner, second Manering. Upon a motion by Pichette, second Manering, and a unanimous roll call vote, the Board adjourned into closed session at 6:04 pm, pursuant to: a. Section 19.85(1)(g), Wis. Stats., conferring with legal counsel for the governmental body who is rendering oral or written advice concerning strategy to be adopted by the body with respect to litigation in which it is or is likely to become involved regarding Westport Incorporation. b. Section 19.85(1)(e), Wis. Stats., deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business, whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session, regarding Waunakee Area Fire Department Intergovernmental Agreement. The Board returned to open session pursuant to Sec. 19.85(2) at 7:19 pm on a motion by Werner, second Pichette. No action was taken on items discussed in closed session. There were no regular operator licenses on file with the Clerk. Grosskopf and Manering reported on the Waunakee Area Public Arts Commission’s activities, including their selection of an artist and their consideration of a contract from them. The Board advised Grosskopf and Manering to caution the Arts Commission on proceeding too rapidly and without full “buy -in” by the Plan Commission and Board. They advised that a more fully developed concept should be presented and approved before the Commission gets much further in the process. Grosskopf and Cole reported on the activities of the Plan Commission and the Joint Plan Commission related to the One Solar proposal. If the proposal is or needs to be approved, the concept of being as careful as possible, to identify all reasonable conditions, which then must be required and placed on this project in light of the overwhelming public objection to it, was supported by the Board. F:\1 DEAN - JESS DOCUMENTS\Town Board\Town Board Minutes 1.5.2026.docx5/23/2024 12:48 PM Grosskopf reported there are no items before the Middleton/Westport Joint Zoning Commission and that the Waunakee Area EMS Commission did not meet in December. Crowell did not add anything on the Waunakee Fire District meeting which wasn’t discussed in closed session. Pichette and Grosskopf had nothing to report from the Middleton Fire District meeting in December. Werner reported that the Historic Preservation Commission will not meet again until February 5, 2026. Manering reported that the Park Committee did not meet. Cuccia reported that the Audit Committee reviewed the current bills and found all to be in order. Current bills were paid as presented by Grosskopf and recommended by the Audit Committee, on a motion by Cuccia, second Crowell. The meeting was adjourned at 7:52 pm, on a motion by Werner, second Crowell. Dean A. Grosskopf Administrator/Clerk-Treasurer