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Votes at a glance: Hortonville board actions on rezoning, reserves, hotel tax, personnel changes and grants
Summary
The Village of Hortonville Board at its Oct. 14 meeting recorded several unanimous votes on rezoning, reserve funds, personnel manual changes, a hotel-motel tax update and a grant authorization.
The Village of Hortonville Board at its Oct. 14 meeting recorded the following formal actions. All votes below were taken by roll call and recorded as unanimous aye votes in the meeting transcript (individual roll-call names were not listed in the transcript). Where the transcript did not list details, the article flags that information as not specified.
Votes at a glance
- Consent agenda: Approved (regular board meeting minutes of 10/02/2025, presentation of accounts and other claims against the village).
- Rezoning: Approved. Motion to rezone parcel 240023400 from light industrial to highway commercial (action: rezoning of parcel 240023400). Planning & Zoning recommended rezoning; neighbors raised lighting concerns that staff said were addressed under the village—s lighting ordinance.
- Conditional use permit: Approved. Conditional use permit for parcel 240023400 to allow a landscaping business headquarters.
- Ordinance O-4-25: Approved. Amends the village—s 2045 comprehensive plan future land-use map and current zoning district map to match the rezoning described above.
- Resolution R-16-25 (reserve funds): Approved. The board amended the village—s future-project reserve fund to withdraw approximately $92,000 to cover splash-pad expenses already paid; adopting the resolution will lower the future-project reserve to an estimated $14,000 to provide debt-space for upcoming projects.
- Ordinance O-5-25 (hotel-motel room tax): Approved. The ordinance was updated to align the village—s hotel-motel room tax language with current distribution practices and to reflect that the PAC (as referenced in older code) is no longer part of the funding distribution. The village reported it receives no hotel/motel tax revenue currently because there are no hotels, motels or short-term rental remittances coming to the village.
- Resolution R-17-25 (personnel manual): Approved. Package includes comp-time payout timing, 15-minute paid breaks every four hours, clarified part-time benefit language, clothing allowance administration and removal of a $50 certification bonus for public works.
- Resolution R-18-25 (urban forestry grant): Approved. The board authorized an amendment updating the designated contact on the urban forestry grant application so the administrator can designate a staff contact to manage the application (Aaron was named as the contact in the grant paperwork).
- Closed session motion: Approved. The board voted to go into closed session under state statute 19.85(1)(c) to consider employee performance evaluation matters; no action was reported on closed-session matters when the board reconvened.
Other actions
- Discussion only / no vote recorded: Switching IT provider (staff were directed to pursue competitive quotes and consider short-term arrangements for immediate fixes; no formal contract authorization was recorded at this meeting).
Notes and gaps in the record
- Vote tallies in the transcript were recorded as roll-call ayes without listing each member—s name in the spoken record; the transcript records multiple "Aye" calls and indicates unanimous passage for listed items. Where precise vote counts were not spoken by name, this summary records the outcome as approved and notes that individual voter names were not listed in the transcript.
- Several agenda items reference packets and budget worksheets (personnel manual text, reserve fund balances and the server quotes) that were discussed but not printed in the spoken transcript; specific dollar amounts beyond the splash-pad reserve withdrawal ($92,000 reported by staff) were not always provided in the meeting discussion.
