Town of Waukesha - The last remaining three-member town board in Waukesha County will disappear next spring after town residents at the annual meeting Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to expand the board to five members.
Town Chairman Robert Tallinger Sr. said an ordinance making the change requires Town Board approval, which he expects in the near future.
A draft ordinance spells out how the change would happen. Four supervisor seats and the town chairman's job would be up for grabs next spring. Candidates who file nomination papers by early January would indicate which seat they're running for, with two carrying two-year terms and two with one-year terms. Those winning one-year terms would be up for election again in the spring of 2012, with the seats then carrying two-year terms.
The chairman's term continues as two years.
Town of Waukesha supervisors currently are paid $6,857.50 a year while the chairman is paid $13,187.50 annually.
While the Waukesha Town Board is the last three-person governing board in Waukesha County, they are common elsewhere in more rural counties. Two-thirds of the 12 town boards in Washington County, for example, still have just three members.