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Absentee Voting Hours for August Partisan Primary:   VOTING BY ABSENTEE BALLOT – AUGUST 13, 2024 PARTISAN PRIMARY   Any qualified elector who is unable or unwilling to appear at the polling place on Election Day may submit a request to vote an absentee ballot to their municipal clerk.  A qualified elector is any U.S. citizen who: will be 18 years of age or older on Election Day. has resided in the ward or municipality where they wish to vote for at least 28 consecutive days before the election.   The elector must also be registered to vote to receive an absentee ballot.  Proof of identification must be provided before an absentee ballot may be issued*.  Making application to receive an absentee ballot by mail Contact your municipal clerk and request that an application for an absentee ballot be sent to you for the primary or election or both.  You may make written application to your municipal clerk for an absentee ballot by mail, by fax, by email or at MyVote.wi.gov. Or you may apply in person at the clerk’s office during the In-Person Absentee Voting period listed below. Your written request must include: your voting address within the municipality where you wish to vote the address where the absentee ballot should be sent, if different from the address above your signature a copy of your photo identification* The deadline for making application to receive an absentee ballot by mail is: 5:00 p.m. on the fifth day before the election, August 8, 2024. *Voters who are indefinitely confined due to age, illness, infirmity, or disability may not be required to provide photo ID. If this applies to you, contact the municipal clerk regarding deadlines for requesting and submitting an absentee ballot. **Special absentee voting application provisions apply to electors who are indefinitely confined, in the military, hospitalized, or serving as a sequestered juror.  If this applies to you, contact the municipal clerk regarding deadlines for requesting and submitting an absentee ballot.   Voting an absentee ballot in person You may also request and vote an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office or other specified location during the days and hours specified for casting an absentee ballot in person.   Michele R. Smith, Clerk      262-495-2049 1125 Highway 106, Palmyra, WI 53156 Tuesdays from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Wednesdays, from 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Thursday, August 8, 2024 – 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Additional voting hours available by arrangement.   The first day to vote an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office is:   July 30, 2024 The last day to vote an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office is:  August 8, 2024     No in-person absentee voting may occur on the day before the election. The municipal clerk will deliver voted ballots returned on or before Election Day to the proper polling place or counting location before the polls close on (insert date of primary or election).  Any ballots received after the polls close will not be counted.    

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Letter to Residents on Fire/EMS contract process

Dear Town of Palmyra Resident,

This letter is to inform you of the current situation concerning Fire and EMS service for the Town of Palmyra.

Since January 1, 2012, The Town of Palmyra has received fire and EMS services from the Village of Palmyra under the terms of a contract called the 2011 Fire and EMS Agreement.  This agreement covered the period from January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2021.  However, the terms of the 2011 Fire and EMS Agreement provide that this contract automatically renews at the end of any 10 year period unless either party gives notice of termination 365 days in advance of such termination.  Neither the Village nor the Town gave notice during 2021 and neither party disputes this.

Therefore, as a resident of the Town of Palmyra, you will continue to receive Fire and EMS services for the upcoming year (2022) from the Village of Palmyra Fire and EMS department. 

The 2011 Fire and EMS Agreement is very specific concerning dates and procedures for notifications by either party to the other.  The Village failed to provide notice to the Town of Palmyra of an increase in the Annual Fee to be charged in 2022 according to the Agreement.   Therefore, the Annual Fee for 2022 will remain the same as in 2021.  The Village has also never presented a new contract to the Town, although the Town received a letter from the Village president at the end of December 2021 which referred to an “attached” 2022 agreement and stating “If the Town does not sign and return the 2022 Agreement on or before December 30, 2021, this letter is notice, under Section VI of the 2011 Fire/EMS Service Agreement, that the Fire/EMS Service agreement shall terminate effective midnight on December 31, 2022”.   THERE WAS NO CONTRACT ATTACHED. 

Representatives of the Town and the Village have met on several occasions in what the Town believed was to be an attempt to begin negotiations on a new contract for fire and EMS services.  However, the Village has stated that they are not interested in negotiating either the price or the terms of any contract.    Instead, in a public meeting on December 1, 2021, the Village  stated that the Town should pay an increase of over 100%  of the 2021 cost, or $219,269 which amounts to ½ half of the Village Fire and EMS budget, although the Town is responsible for 30% of the Fire and EMS calls.  This amount would mean that the Town pays $180 per resident, and the Village pays $122 for each of their residents.  

The Village has made major increases in their budget, attempted to foist them onto the Town and refused to negotiate, taking a “take it or leave it” attitude.  

The Town Board of the Town of Palmyra believes it is in the best interest of the tax-payers to consider options other than contracting from the Village of Palmyra for fire and EMS services, and to that end, we are investigating the possibility of joining or being served by one or more adjacent departments or districts where we would have a seat on a board.  We are committed to assuring you receive service at least equal to that currently provided by the Village.