Assessment Notices Here

Click here. I've been tracking area house sales and assessments in my area. One house just sold for over 17% less than it was assessed. This house was built in November of 2001 and sold for nearly the same price as it did in 2002 when it was sold one year after being built. I wonder what the 2008 assessment will look like?

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D.A.R.E. 16th ANNUAL D.A.R.E./DEPUTY FRIENDLY GOLF OUTING

D.A.R.E.
16th ANNUAL D.A.R.E./DEPUTY FRIENDLY
GOLF OUTING

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2008
10:00 Registration
11:00 Shotgun Start

Only $65.00 per person
Includes: Golf, Cart, Lunch, Door Prizes & Dinner
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REGISTRATION FORM

Step 1 PICK YOUR GOLF COURSE

_____Twin Lakes Country Club - (36 Foursomes) _____Nippersink - (18 Foursomes)


Step 2 GOLFERS NAMES

NAMES OF GOLFERS: PHONE OR E-MAIL (prefer email)

1.___________________ __________________________
2._____________________________ __________________________
3._____________________________ __________________________
4._____________________________ __________________________

Step 3 SPONSORSHIP (Please ask each person in your foursome about sponsoring a hole.)

_____ YES! I want to sponsor _____ hole(s) at $50 each.
_____ I would like to donate a prize to the Raffle Table! Please contact me.

Step 4 RETURN BY JULY 18, 2008 (PLEASE MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO D.A.R.E.)

Please send this form AND payment to:
D.A.R.E. Golf Outing - 1000 55th Street Kenosha, WI 53140

Payment(s) Enclosed
Registration $
Hole Sponsorship $

Note: Your registration will be at the course you have selected above. After golf, join us at the Twin Lakes Country Club Pavilion for dinner and prizes. Door prizes will be distributed after golfing. Any questions, please call Deputy Rowe at 605-5128

Special Village Board Meeting--Closed Session

AGENDA Special Meeting VILLAGE OF PLEASANT PRAIRIE VILLAGE BOARD (Click here)

Village Hall Auditorium 9915 – 39th Avenue Pleasant Prairie, WIMay 27, 2008

Immediately following the 5 p.m. Plan Commission Meeting

1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. Citizen Comments (Please be advised per State Statute Section 19.84(2), information will be received from the public and there may be limited discussion on the information received. However, no action will be taken under public comments.)
4. New Business

A. Consider Time Warner’s Cable Application for a State-Issued Certificate of Franchise Authority.

B. Consider Whether to Enter into Closed Session Under Wis. Stat. Section 19.85(1)(e) to Discuss Negotiation of Specific Issues Involving the Cooperative Agreement between the Village of Pleasant Prairie and the Town of Bristol, because Competitive or Bargaining Reasons Require a Closed Session.

5. Village Board Comments

6. Adjournment. The Village Hall is handicapped accessible. If you have other special needs, please contact the Village Clerk, 9915 – 39th Avenue, Pleasant Prairie, WI (262) 694-1400

Public Works Director Fred Patrie Retiring

Congratulations to Mr. Patrie and good luck on his retirement. He was instrumental in preventing the Village from creating an ill advised, risky public road crossing at 122nd Street and 32nd Avenue across a pristine stretch of the Kenosha County Bike Trail. We hope his predecessor is as wise.

(click here) Also Tuesday, Clark announced that Public Works Director Fred Patrie has notified the county he will retire June 18. Patrie has also been working as the county executive's chief of staff since former executive Allan Kehl resigned March 31.

Controlled House Burn Lights Up Sky

Village burned down the old tatoo parlor on Sheridan Road north of Russell Road last night as a training exercise. Two or three more burns to happen in the next few months.

School Commission Meeting last Night

I have received multiple e-mails from people present at last nights meeting. Very diverse opinions but consensus was that more needs to be done and reviewed.

I will reserve comment until I have a chance to hear the audio and/or see written minutes. Here's link to Kenosha News report (click here).

Audio now available (click here).

Property Assessments

From Kenosha News preview: The city on Friday will start mailing out reassessments, which show a 4-percent increase from the 2006 reassessments. That smaller-than-average increase is a reflection of a weakened economy and housing market, the city's assessor said.

Village of Pleasant Prairie Notice of Meeting to Adjourn Board of Review to Later Date

Board of Review will meet on the 4th day of June, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. at the Village Hall Auditorium, 9915 – 39th Avenue, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, for the purpose of calling the Board of Review into session during the thirty-day period beginning on the 2nd Monday of May, pursuant to Section 70.47 (1) of Wis. Statutes.

Due to the fact the assessment roll is not completed at this time, it is anticipated that the Board of Review will be adjourned until the 25th day of June, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. Pursuant to Section 70.45 of Wis. Statutes, the assessment roll for the Year 2008 assessment will be open for examination on June 13, 2008, at the Village Hall, 9915 –39th Avenue, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Instructional material about the assessmentand Board of Review procedures will be available at that time for information on how to file an objection and the Board of Review procedures under Wisconsin law. Notice is hereby give this 19th dayof May, 2008.

School Commission Meeting Thursday, May 15th

Attend if you can (I can't but meeting is supposed to be recorded and Meeting Minutes written). Ask detailed questions. Are the KUSD people going to be there? Are their numbers real or fluff? No agenda yet (click here).

6 PM Village Hall auditorium

A. Consider Request of the Pleasant Prairie Village Board of Trustees to Evaluate the Investment Issues Surrounding the Kenosha Unified School District Post Employment Retirement Benefits.
I. Receive Report From Eugene Schulz of Piper Jaffray, the Village of Pleasant Prairie Financial Advisor Concerning the Investment Instruments Used By the Kenosha Unified School District.
II. Receive Report From William Johnston, Kenosha Unified School District Financial Director.
III. Recommendation of the School Commission.

Village Seeks Commission Members

Here's your chance to serve your community (click here).

Two alternates are needed for a one-year appointment to the Park Commission

One alternate is needed for a one-year appointment to the Recreation Commission

One member is needed for a two-year term, also on the Recreation Commission

One member is needed for a two-year appointment to the School Commission (I nominate John Roscioli)

New President Pro-Tem Monica Yuhas

Monica Yuhas was unanimously (Trustee Serpe was late but wanted to vote for her) elected President Pro-Tem should something happen to current President where they would be unable to make a meeting. A great first for the Village and one that I'm sure many would wholeheartedly support. Good luck to Monica who very much deserves this special honor for her go get'em attitude.

Citizen Comments

The Antioch Village Board has adopted a new procedure for allowing Citizen's Comments throughout meeting, and to streamline meetings by adding items to the Consent Agenda (click here).

"""Velan said it is common to group routine items, including accounts payable, special event licenses and second readings of ordinances, together for board action. "It is a time-saving measure," she said. """

Although Village does use some of the suggested new procedures already, there is an opportunity to streamline further since some felt meetings were too long and recently tried to move meeting time up. The ability to comment on agenda items, similar to format for Plan Commission, would be a welcome change.

Village Wisely Keeps 6:30 PM Village Board Meeting Start Time

Although it was clear who wanted the change, it was also clear that no other Trustee supported. I guess some people just don't learn from past experience.

Update From Kenosha News

Scott Pierce, former superintendent of the Kenosha Unified School District, has been offered a contract for the top administrator job at the Central High School District in Paddock Lake. Pierce, who retired from Unified last summer and is currently the president of the Milwaukee Academy of Science in Milwaukee, became the school board’s choice after a second interview Saturday, a press release made public Monday said. Central currently has an interim superintendent, Ken Moe, whose contract expires in June. The board began the process of finding a permanent superintendent after Douglas Potter announced earlier this year that he would not be returning from a medical leave.The contract offered Pierce includes an annual salary of $125,000 and a start date of July 1.

Village Attempting to Change Village Board Meeting Start Times

J. Consider Resolution #08-17 - Resolution to Change the Start Time for Village Board meetings to 6:00 p.m.

Shooting (FALSE) rumors prompt students to leave Tremper High School

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Update on PPSD-- PPSC Meeting May 8th, 6PM

I added link to newest Kenosha News article (click here and here). Seems there are other 'radicals' "insert all previous anonymous name callings here' in the Village that have similar ideas. Love the mention of blogs...hmmm, whose blogs could that be? :-) ("Preston said he's been in contact with several people as part of an online blog who want the idea implemented or at least considered. ") And to think Michael Pollocoff mentioned that blogs weren't a way to discuss items at a recent Village Board meeting. We do serve a purpose Mr. Anonymous! Doesn't take a Ph.D. to write one or respond either (tongue-in-cheek).

Click here (The "REEL" and visible Truth about PLEASANT PRAIRIE) & here (The (Somewhat) Daily RAG). Here is State of Wisconsin Site: (click here). Interesting idea. Are the schools up to residents standards? Are we getting our monies worth? Is the current KUSD Board putting our Village taxpayers at risk? (click here). Does this sound a little familiar? (click here). What do you think? or add comments to the Blogs linked above