Municipal Services Committee Meeting 02/07/2022 – Will Vote On Second Bird E-Scooter Pilot Program, Receive Report On Enhanced Crosswalk Program

The Municipal Services Committee is meeting 02/07/2022 at 4:30PM. I suspect that the item of most interest to the public will be the request to approve a second Bird e-scooter pilot program for 2022. Per the memo to the committee the 2021 Bird pilot program […]

Alderperson Alex Schultz’s Invocation At 01/19/2022 Common Council Meeting – “What should I do with all this anger [about the pandemic] and how do I channel it into something positive and something productive?”

I apologize for the lateness in getting this Alderperson invocation video posted. This is from the 01/19/2022 Common Council meeting. Before viewing it, you may benefit from watching this clip from the movie “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” which Alderperson Schultz references: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSUgqLI88OY Mayor Woodford: Tonight’s […]

Common Council Approves Three Items – Special Use Permit For Club Car Wash, Alcohol License For Alpine Swift Restaurant, And New Parklet Policy

The 02/02/2022 Common Council was a short meeting under 30 minutes in length. Three items were separated out for individual votes, but none of those items took very long to discuss. The three items in question were (1) the Special Use Permit #1-22 for a […]

Common Council Receives Covid-19 Update – Breakthrough Cases Seem To Be Holding Steady At 20-25% Of Total Cases

During the 02/02/2022 Common Council meeting, the Council members received a brief Covid-19 update. Interim Health Officer Sonja Jensen reviewed the standard pack of slides presenting Covid-19 related data. During the previous week, Appleton had had 685 total confirmed and probable cases, then was down […]

Mayor Woodford Presents 5 Proclamations – Transit Equity Day, Career and Technical Education Month, Gun Violence Survivor Week, Burn Awareness Week, Black History Month

Mayor Woodford presented five mayoral proclamations at the 02/02/2022 Common Council meeting. In the first he proclaimed January 28, 2022 Transit Equity Day in Appleton and encouraged “residents to recognize that equal access to reliable, affordable, and environmentally sound public transportation plays an important pat […]

Alderperson Hartzheim Expresses Interest In Making The Sidewalk Poetry Program Selection Process More Public

The City of Appleton is currently accepting submissions for its Sidewalk Poetry Program. The city will pick up to 5 poems to be stamped into the sidewalk in various locations around the city. The deadline is February 18, 2022. Public Works Director Paula Vandehey mentioned […]

In-Person Absentee Voting Currently Available – “No one will be turned away or refused their right to vote if they are maskless”

In-person absentee voting is currently available at City Hall (100 N. Appleton Street, 6th floor) on weekdays through February 11. I asked Communication Coordinator Sheng Riechers if the mask mandate currently in place for city-owned facilities applied to people entering City Hall to vote and […]