Boards
Mission
The mission of the Architectural Board is to promote and ensure that the physical environment of the City be developed in an anesthetically pleasing manner as related to residential properties.
Purpose
The board shall be responsible for review and final approval of all single-family and plex residential housing plans unless the single-family or plex residential housing is contained in a mixed-use development.
Responsibility
The board shall hear appeals taken by any person aggrieved by any officer, department, board or bureau of the city or affected by any decisions of any administrative officer or body and shall hear applications for variances from zoning ordinance terms.
Meetings of the Board
Meetings of the board are held on the first Thursday of each month at 6:00 p.m.
Purpose
The purpose of the Board of Review is to provide property owners an opportunity to appeal their property valuations.
Membership
The board consists of five citizen members and two alternate citizen members nominated by the mayor. The board elects a chair and vice-chair from among its members at its first meeting each year following the common council organizational meeting .
Meetings
The board of review shall meet annually at any time during the 45-day period beginning on the 4th Monday of April.
Mission
The mission of the Economic Development Board is to stimulate and encourage economic development in the City. The Board, serving in an advisory role to the Planning Commission and the Common Council, shall manage and administer the City’s economic development program, recommend action on long and short range elements of the program, recommend an annual work program, and recommend an annual budget for its activities programs.
Mission
The mission of the Ethics Board is to assure that public officials and employees remain independent, impartial and responsible to the public, do not use their public office for personal gain and maintain the confidence of the public in the integrity of its government.
The Frank L. Weyenberg Library Board of Trustees is the legal governing body for our library. It is composed of 10 members - nine who are appointed by and represent the Mequon and Thiensville communities, and one member represents the school district and is appointed by the school superintendent. This composition is established by Wisconsin statutes and the Mequon-Thiensville joint library agreement.
Purpose
The board shall advise the common council in its efforts to create an urban forest of high quality mature trees and to protect and preserve trees in the city.
Membership
The board shall consist of five voting citizen members, one of who shall be a certified landscape architect, arborist or professional in a related field.
