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Stoughton council adopts donation policy, committee ordinance and winter parking rule; approves land and utility items
Summary
The City Council approved Resolution 66 (a city donation policy), Ordinance 11 (committee/ordinance clean-up), Ordinance 12 (seasonal even‑odd winter parking), several land-use items including a certified survey map and extraterritorial lot split, an emergency well repair purchase, and accepted the wastewater CMAR report.
The Stoughton City Council on May 26 adopted a package of routine and policy items, including a new donation policy, updates to committee language in the municipal code, a seasonal winter parking ordinance, land‑use approvals and several utility items.
Resolution 66 of 2026 (donation policy) Alderman (transcript label S7) sponsored a resolution to adopt a city donation policy restricting discretionary donations from city funds to third parties outside federal pass-through or grant subaward arrangements. The sponsor said the policy is intended to avoid perceptions of favoritism. The council moved, seconded and approved the resolution by voice vote.
Ordinance 11 of 2026 (ad hoc committee descriptions) The council approved an ordinance adding ad hoc committee descriptions to the city code to bring standing and ad hoc committee language into conformity. Sponsors said the change is intended to create consistent, user-friendly ordinance text; the council approved the second reading by voice vote.
Ordinance 12 of 2026 (winter parking, even/odd rule) Alder Sarah Still introduced Ordinance 12 to replace ad hoc snow-emergency declarations with a seasonal even/odd side-of-street parking restriction between Nov. 1 and March 31 (midnight–7 a.m.). Director Hebert and the police chief said the change should reduce enforcement spikes and make enforcement more consistent; staff described plans for signage and a public education campaign. The council approved the ordinance by voice vote.
Land and planning items The council approved a certified survey map for Matt Park (R70 of 2026) to clean up property lines and a separate approved extraterritorial land division in the town of Dunkirk to create a new residential lot (presented as meeting county minimum standards). Both items were adopted by voice vote.
Utilities and reporting The council acknowledged an emergency purchase and repair of a variable frequency drive at Well No. 7 (R72 of 2026); Director Schleicher said a VFD failure in April took the well offline and a vendor repaired it within a week at an estimated cost of $22,000; council approved the emergency acknowledgement. The council also accepted the SOTA Utilities 2025 Compliance Maintenance Annual Report (CMAR) by resolution; the director said the plant received mostly A grades and one B on influent flow/loadings, attributing recent improvement to more diligent testing and pretreatment work with major dischargers.
Votes and process notes Most items were approved by voice vote with no recorded opposition during the meeting; specific roll‑call vote tallies were not provided in the transcript. The council adjourned at the end of the meeting.
