(Beaver Dam) The Beaver Dam Common Council will decide next month if the city will purchase Big Skunk Island after the question passed out of committee with a neutral vote. The Beaver Dam Lake Development Corporation is offering the one-and-a-half-acre island, that is closed to the public, for one dollar because they want the island to remain publicly-owned. Recent calls to open to the island for public use would result in more costly liability insurance for the lake group; the city by contrast has “recreational immunity.” If the city council approves the purchase of \ next month, the lake group is asking for an easement as part of the offer that allows them to control a shed used for lake maintenance.