June 7th - NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE adjourned BOARD OF REVIEW
June 29th - CITY OF PRAIRIE DU CHIEN TO OFFER REFUNDS DUE TO WATER BILLING OVERCHARGE
August 4th - PRESS RELEASE - PRAIRIE DU CHIEN HIRES NEW POLICE OFFICER, APPOINTS NEW SERGEANT
August 13th - REQUEST FOR BID - Asbestos Abatement, Demolition, and Backfill, Grading, and Clean Up of Former Prairie Maison Nursing Home
August 20th - ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS - Concrete Water Reservoir Reroofing
August 30th - NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING - CITY OF PRAIRIE DU CHIEN FLOODPLAIN ORDINANCE
August 30th - NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING - That portions of Chapter 17 of the Municipal Code of the City of Prairie du Chien, Crawford County, Wisconsin, be repealed and recreated to allow for the adoption of a revised floodplain ordinance as a separate chapter within the Code.
August 30th - NOTICE OF BID LETTING - The City of Prairie du Chien Police Department will be accepting sealed bids for: 1.) 1994 Chevrolet SportVan 2.) 1994 Chevrolet S10 Truck
September 2 - NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE PLAN COMMISSION - Application of Mark Gerhards, 1000 E. Brunson St., for a Conditional Use Permit to convert a large older home to a duplex in a R-1 Low Density Residential Zoning District

Monday August 9th
JOINT REVIEW BOARD - Minutes
Wednesday August 11th
LARIVIERE PARK BOARD - Minutes
Monday August 16th
FINANCE COMMITTEE - Minutes
PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE - Minutes
PLAN COMMISSION - Minutes
Tuesday August 17th
COMMON COUNCIL - Minutes
     * ORDINANCE 2010-16 - REPEALING AND RECREATING SECTION 9.19(3) OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE (Swimming Prohibited in Certain Areas)
     * ORDINANCE 2010-17 - CREATING SECTION 9.19(4) OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, CRAWFORD COUNTY, WISCONSIN RELATIVE TO PROHIBITING FISHING FROM THE WASHINGTON STREET BRIDGE AND THE BLACKHAWK STREET BRIDGE
     * ORDINANCE 2010-18 - REPEALING SECTION 2.06(6) AND REPEALING AND RECREATING SECTION 2.06(4), OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE (Abolishing the Property Committee and Re-Creating the Public Works Committee)
Wednesday August 18th
PARK BOARD - Minutes
Monday August 23rd
JOINT REVIEW BOARD - Minutes
Monday August 23rd
PROTECTION AND HEALTH COMMITTEE - Minutes
Wednesday August 25th
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS - Minutes
Tuesday August 31st
HARBOR COMMISSION - Minutes

Tuesday September 7th
5 PM - FINANCE COMMITTEE
6 PM - PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
7 PM - COMMON COUNCIL
     * PROPOSED ORDINANCE 2010-13 - REPEALING SECTION 12.30 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE (REGULATION OF VICIOUS DOGS) AND SECTION 12.16(4) OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE (ANIMAL BITES) AND CREATING SECTION 9.31 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE (REGULATION OF VICIOUS ANIMALS)
Tuesday September 14th
4 PM - DOWNTOWN REVOLVING LOAN FUND COMMITTEE
Monday September 20th
7 PM - PLAN COMMISSION
Tuesday September 21st
7 PM - COMMON COUNCIL
     * PROPOSED ORDINANCE 2010-14 - AN ORDINANCE REPEALING AND RECREATING PORTIONS OF CHAPTER 17 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF PRAIRIE DU CHIEN (Floodplain)
     * PROPOSED ORDINANCE 2010-15 - AN ORDINANCE CREATING CHAPTER 17A OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, CRAWFORD COUNTY, WISCONSIN (Floodplain Zoning Code)

BYPASS CONSTRUCTION UPDATE - August 2nd

The access to the Hunters Slough Campground, Lockwood Boat Landing, and City of Prairie Du Chien Sewer Plant will now be through the newly constructed Wells Street and 1st Street Intersection. The intersection of Wells and 1st Street is paved and gravel access is provided to the Campground on Wells Street. The change will be effective on Monday August 2, 2010 until Next Spring.  Parrish Street access will no longer be allowed due to storm sewer work.

BYPASS CONSTRUCTION UPDATE - July 22nd
MAPS OF THE AFFECTED AREA: Marquette Road and 11th Street - Beaumont and 5th Street

There will be a change in the traffic control for the project due to the completion of Stage 1. The new road closure will take place at the Marquette Road (US 18/STH 35/STH 60)/La Pointe Street Intersection. The change will be effective from Tuesday August 3, 2010 to approximately November of 2010.

The traffic control change will include the closure to thru traffic on La Pointe Street at the Marquette Road (US 18/STH 60/STH 35) intersection. Thru traffic on La Pointe Street will not be allowed to turn west onto La Pointe Street from Marquette Road.

Additional Closures
* Riverside Drive will also be closed at La Pointe Street and traffic will not be allowed to enter La Pointe Street.
* The traffic closure will also include a complete closure of La Pointe Street and Main Street from Marquette Road to Iowa Street.
* The current traffic control located at Iowa Street and Main Street will remain in place as is.

Access to Spahn & Rose Lumber, Prairie Motor Sports, Stuckey Road, and Residents (from Stuckey Road to Riverside Drive) will be through the use of the new 11th Street and Stuckey Roads.

Access to Prairie Fun Land, Hoffman Hall, Pellock Construction and Residents on Wacouta Street will be through Beaumont Road to Campion Street to Wacouta Street to the new 5th Street Intersection.

Access to the Big River Campground will remain through Beaumont Road.

PRESS RELEASE: CITY OF PRAIRIE DU CHIEN TO OFFER REFUNDS DUE TO WATER BILLING OVERCHARGE 

NOTE: To clarify the refund procedure, one-half of the customers will be receiving refunds in September, the other half in December. It will appear on bills as "Billing Adjustment".

Date: June 29th 2010

The City of Prairie du Chien will be refunding roughly $85,000 over the next two billing cycles to water customers due to a rate increase error, which took place in June 2009. A recent audit of the city’s water accounts uncovered the discrepancies. Rates were raised an average of 39 percent as part of an approved rate increase by the Public Service Commission (PSC) last year. The rates were to have taken effect on June 1^st, 2009. 

The first impact of the rate increase should have been reflected in the September 2009 bills, but were mistakenly applied to the June 2009 bills. “This means, in the simplest terms, under the previous administration, that the rate increases were applied to water that had been already used, when it should have been applied to water being used from that date forward. It was a mistake, plain and simple,” said City Administrator Aaron Kramer. “Once made aware of this issue, we quickly began to work with the PSC to develop a plan to refund the money back to the customers.” 

Under the proposal which will go before the Finance Committee on July 1^st and the Common Council on July 6^th, the city will refund one-half of the amount in the September 2010 bills and the other half in December. The amount will appear as a refund on the future bills. The city will make the best effort to contact individuals who have sold their homes or are no longer residing at the locations where they were billed in June 2009. Anyone who falls under that category should contact City Hall to make arrangements for their refund. 

“We are literally talking about hundreds, if not thousands, of separate water billing accounts,” said Kramer. “We have every intention of returning each and every dollar of the overcharge to those customers impacted by this error.”