By Tracy Ouellette
SLN Staff
The East Troy Village Board considered a presentation and architectural renderings for Village Hall improvements presented by Exel Engineering at the Aug. 15 meeting.
The board had requested a plan from the company to make the main entrance more user friendly for the public after a meeting earlier this year.
Exel came back with a four-phase plan that some of the board members felt was more than they asked for.
“Overall, the plan is really interesting,” Timms said, “but from my perspective it’s overkill for what we need today.”
Trustee Dusty Stanford agreed and took issue with the proposed awnings over the entrances.
“We want to open it up and make it more inviting and easier for people to use,” Standford said. “I don’t like the awnings, but everything else in Phase I makes sense.”
The board asked the Exel representative to come back with the costs for Phase I so it could be discussed in the Sept. 26 Committee of the Whole meeting and, if necessary, pared down to what the village could afford to do at this point.
As for the other three phases of the plan, the board members were in agreement that those changes would be so far in the future, it didn’t make sense to have plans drawn up for them until it was time to do the work, as they had no way of knowing exactly what the village would need at that time.
