Town of Lisbon - Residents and business owners are being advised to remove yard signs advertising goods and services or promoting rummage sales from the public right of way along town roads and at intersections of town roads and state or county highways.

Town Chairman Michael Reed said Thursday that he expects town highway workers to periodically to remove signs that are illegally located within the public right of way at the intersections and along town roads.

State laws and local codes prohibit the location of signs in public right of way along state, county and town roads.

Reed said that proliferation of the signs along the roads and intersections is unsightly and detracts from the appearance and image of the Town.

Town of Lisbon - Town Chairman Michael Reed says he is considering appointing former Supervisor Wendy Landry to a newly created committee to study whether the town should seek incorporation as a village.

Reed said he will ask forTown Board approval in May to create the committee. Reed wants the committee to review the recommendations of the so called "visioning committee" which worked last summer with a consultant to develop governance alternatives for the town.

The committee recommended that the town enter into new, and improve existing, border agreements with surrounding communities and consider incorporation as part of the town's long term land use plan.

The committee suggested incorporating into a village might help the town preserve its tax base and boundaries.

Reed said he wanted Landry to serve on the new committee because she is familar with issues related to incorporation and was a member of the visioning committee.

Landry, who was defeated for reelection in 2007, made an unsuccessful bid to be appointed by the Town Board earlier this week to fill a vacancy created by the resignation in February of former Supervisor James Stadley, who was convicted of a felony related to a domestic abuse incident involving him, his wife and child.

Town of Lisbon - Town Board Chairman Michael Reed has asked Waukesha County District Attorney Brad Schimel to issue an opinion whether the Town Board violated the state's open meetings law last month when it discussed in closed session revisions in individual contracts for the Town Administrator, Director of Public Works and Assistant Public Works Director.

In a April 14 letter to Schimel, Reed said he questioned whether the action taken by the board was properly included on the agenda for the March 24 meeting. Following the closed session, the board voted 3 to 1 to approve the contract changes.

Reed initially objected to the closed session but participated in the closed door discussion and cast the dissenting vote in a public session to approve the contracts.

Reed said he was seeking the opinon because he and members of the media had raised concerns about whether the Town Board was following proper procedures.

Schimel said Monday that he has reviewed the more than 20 pages of documents submitted to him by Reed.

"After reviewing the documents, I have a number of questions that need to be answered before I determine how to proceed," Schimel said.

Schimel said he make a decision on how to proceed as soon as possible.