The Waukesha City Landmarks Commission on Jan. 8 approved minutes from its November and December 2024 meetings and received administrative updates about required email security and planned fee increases for landmark submissions and certificate-of-appropriateness reviews.

Commission members approved the Nov. 6 minutes by voice vote with one abstention recorded; the December 4 minutes were approved by voice vote. There were no recorded roll-call tallies provided in the transcript beyond voice votes and the stated abstention.

City staff informed members that the city's IT department is asking all board members to enable two‑factor authentication on city email accounts within the next one to two months and offered assistance setting up the protection. Staff said the city prefers official business be conducted via city email to ease compliance with open records requests and to limit the need to search personal accounts.

Staff also told the commission that landmark-submission and review fees will be updated for the new year, including an increase in the certificate-of-appropriateness fee for residential projects to $50 and a proposed $25 fee for landmark extension consultations; staff said the updated fees would appear on the city website soon and offered to bring exact fee figures to the next meeting.

There were no further formal actions on either the IT or fee items at the Jan. 8 meeting.