Municipal News

City of Sturgeon Bay: A special meeting of the Common Council that was called for the afternoon of Sept. 22 to approve financing for the controversial Sawyer Hotel Development and consider a resolution authorizing the sale of the property to Sawyer Hotel Development LLC was postponed by Mayor Thad Birmingham just minutes after it was to start. The unconditional note of financial support that the hotel developer needed to proceed had conditions placed on it by Baylake Bank. One of those conditions was resolution of the lawsuit against the city and its Waterfront Redevelopment Authority that was filed in federal district court in Green Bay last week by water law specialists Wheeler, Van Sickle & Anderson, who are representing Friends of the Sturgeon Bay Public Waterfront. The Friends group maintains that at least two-thirds of the proposed hotel would sit on filled lakebed, which under the state Constitution is public land.

Finance/Purchasing & Building Committees meet at 4 pm on Sept. 29.

County of Door: The Door County Planning and Emergency Services Departments will hold an open house meeting on the Door County Hazard Mitigation Plan from 4-6 pm on Sept. 28 in the Peninsula Room of the Door County Government Center.

The Board of Supervisors meets at 9 am on Sept. 29. The Board of Supervisors has also been invited to a site inspection of the former Door County Highway shop at 916 N. 14^th Ave., Sturgeon Bay, at 1 pm on Sept. 29, after a recent proposal that it undergo an engineering analysis to determine whether the county should rehab it for other uses or raze it.

Town of Baileys Harbor: The town board will hold a public hearing at 6 pm Sept. 28 on its decision to levy special assessments to five property owners for sanitary sewer improvements on Ward Street. A report showing proposed plans, assessments and other data is on file at the town hall and may be inspected there during normal business hours.

Town of Egg Harbor: The Door County Planning and Emergency Services Departments will hold an open house meeting on the Door County Hazard Mitigation Plan from 4-6 pm on Sept. 29.

Town of Gibraltar: The Harbor Commission meets at 6 pm on Sept. 30.

Town of Jacksonport: The town board meets at 7 pm on Sept. 29. The town board has scheduled a Budget Workshop for 6 pm on Oct. 14. A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for 7 pm on Nov. 18^.

Town of Sevastopol: The town board meets at 6 pm on Sept. 28. The Sevastopol Historical Society meets at 7 pm on Oct. 1.

Village of Ephraim: The Library Committee at 3 pm on Sept. 28