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Shorewood board approves DNR compliance report; directs staff to further consider several initiatives
Summary
The village board unanimously approved Resolution 2025-06 regarding the Wisconsin DNR NR 208 compliance maintenance annual report (roll call 7-0). Trustees also voted to ask staff to further consider a set of proposed initiatives and to prepare budget or workplan items for those that received board support.
The Shorewood Village Board unanimously approved Resolution 2025-06, a motion accepting the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources NR 208 2024 compliance maintenance annual report. Trustee Ersink moved approval and Trustee Warren seconded; the measure passed on a roll-call vote of 7-0.
Following the resolution, trustees spent more than two hours reviewing 26 initiatives submitted for the 2026 work plan. Rather than taking final votes on each item, trustees directed staff to prepare or further consider the initiatives that attracted board interest and to defer those that did not. At the end of the discussion the board approved a motion to “further consider the items where the board expressed interest,” allowing staff to include supported initiatives in budget and work-plan proposals.
During the initiative discussion trustees and staff highlighted several items they want staff to develop further for possible inclusion in next year’s work plan or capital budget:
- A coastal assessment and engineering study of the Atwater Park groins: staff suggested a preliminary engineering assessment (estimated about $15,000) to define needs and to create a project record that could support future grant applications; several trustees supported proposing that step for budget consideration.
- Long-term Lead Service Line (LSL) implementation and finance plan: staff reported that proposals are under review and that the LSL plan is integral to future infrastructure financing; trustees agreed this work must continue.
- New public works facility: trustees expressed strong support to continue site evaluation and design work, though some suggested phasing construction later to smooth large capital demands.
- Neighborhood greenway planning and bike/ped safety work: trustees and staff supported a public-engagement study of neighborhood greenways (estimate discussed roughly $50,000) and asked that the parks/transportation committees be involved in scoping.
Other items were discussed and in some cases recommended for deferral or additional review. For example, trustees heard a staff recommendation to defer implementation of a mobile parking-payment system for at least a year because major nearby street construction would distort early performance metrics.
The board’s final motion to have staff further consider initiatives allows the village manager and affected committees to prepare scoping, budgets and timelines for those items as part of the 2026 work planning and budget cycle. Trustees emphasized that items placed into the budget could still be removed before final adoption.
