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Monona council reviews ordinance to let community service officer issue citations
Summary
City staff presented a first reading of an ordinance to allow Monona's community service officer to write citations for parking and limited code violations; council members asked for legal clarity on which ordinances the position could enforce and requested follow-up with the city attorney.
The Monona City Council on Feb. 3 took up the first reading of Ordinance 2-25-789, a proposal to authorize the city's community service officer (CSO) to issue citations for parking violations and other code offenses when directed by department heads.
Council members said the change aims to make enforcement more efficient and to allow the civilian CSO — who currently issues warnings — to convert repeat warnings into citations without sending a sworn police officer to the scene.
City Administrator Neil said the amendments were drafted with City Attorney Bill Cole and would add the CSO job title to multiple ordinance sections so the position could be authorized to issue citations "as directed by individual department heads." Neil and other staff said the primary…
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