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Buffalo City council approves routine measures, adds requirement that chickens be contained
Summary
At its July 14 meeting the Buffalo City Common Council approved administrative resolutions and licenses, sold and transferred cemetery plots, voted to require that chickens be contained on owners’ property, and agreed not to pursue enforcement at a 14th Street camper situation after county health cleared living conditions.
The Buffalo City Common Council on July 14 approved a string of routine administrative measures, amended the city’s chicken ordinance to require birds be contained on the owner’s property at all times, and completed several cemetery-plot transactions.
Mayor Ben Holien opened the meeting and the council unanimously approved minutes from previous meetings after a motion by Councilmember George Fuller and a second from Jeannie Czaplewski. City Clerk Jenny Ehlenfeldt then presented a series of motions that carried without recorded opposition: adoption of Resolution 2025-02 to include the city under group life insurance through the Wisconsin Employee Trust Fund (moved Kim Beseler, second Czaplewski); issuance of operator licenses for Sobotta and Sowda (moved Czaplewski, second Fuller); the sale of cemetery plots F 141-3 and F 141-4 to Stiller (moved Fuller, second Beseler); and the transfer of cemetery plot E 33 N 1-2 1&2 from Ambrose to Krzoska (moved Fuller, second Beseler).
On the animal-control side of the agenda, Councilmember George Fuller moved and Kim Beseler seconded an amendment to the city’s chicken ordinance requiring that chickens be contained on the owner’s property at all times; the council voted unanimously to add the containment requirement. The change was recorded as an ordinance amendment; the council did not specify enforcement mechanics during the meeting.
Councilmembers also approved payment of bills (moved Fuller, second Larry Johansen) and adjourned (moved Johansen, second Beseler). All motions reported in the meeting minutes carried with unanimous votes.
The meeting record lists the applicants and property parties involved in clerical actions as Sobotta and Sowda (operator licenses), Stiller (cemetery plot buyer), Ambrose (transferor), and Krzoska (transferee). No individual council votes were read aloud beyond the meeting’s blanket “all yes” confirmations; the minutes show no recorded dissent.
