Hartland trustees approve event permits, $295,308 utilities contract and send two development concepts to planning commission

The Village of Hartland Board of Trustees voted to approve routine minutes and vouchers, grant two special-event permits, authorize a bartender license, adopt an amendment to the village special-events code and award a utilities contract, and it sent two development concepts to the Planning Commission during a regular meeting.

The board approved the Jan. 27, 2025 meeting minutes and voted to pay vouchers totaling $7,555,633.19. Trustees carried a motion to approve a special-event permit for the Heartland Kiwanis Bark River Bash set for May 3, 2025, with the board deciding not to waive the park fees. A second special-event permit — Lake Country Family Fun’s Heartland Kids Day scheduled for July 30, 2025 — was also approved.

The board granted a bartender license to Richard L. LaRusso Jr. after staff reported no accessible criminal-history records and a self-disclosed, decades-old sale-to-a-minor incident. Members also suspended the rules and adopted Ordinance No. 01272025, amending section 10-208 (Special Events Permits) to change the code’s language so applications submitted with fewer than 60 days’ notice “could” be denied rather…