The Safety and Licensing Committee met 07/13/2022. They received several updates from Police Chief Todd Thomas. The first was the 2022 Appleton Police Department Mid-Year Report. This was basically a three-page summary of significant events from 2022. Chief Thomas did not go through it in […]
Month: July 2022
Safety And Licensing Committee Receives Fire Department Update – Learns About EMS Flex Grant Application, New Fire Department Public Education Specialist
The Safety and Licensing Committee met 07/13/2022. One of the information items they received was a director’s report from Fire Chief Jeremey Hansen. He started off by talking about the EMS Flex Grant. In February of 2022, Governor Evers allocated $12 million in state ARPA […]
Finance Committee Receives Audit Presentation – City Given “Clean” Audit By CliftonLarsonAllen Auditing Firm
The Finance Committee met 07/11/2022. They received a presentation from Leah Lasecki on Appleton’s 2021 Audit and Executive Summary. Basically, the city had a clean audit with no concerns. Leah was a principal CPA at the firm CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) and was responsible for the signing […]
Coronavirus Numbers For 07/10/2022 – 07/16/2022
I have started pulling Covid case and death numbers from the Wisconsin DHS website instead of from the City of Appleton. Last week from 07/10/2022 through 07/16/2022, Appleton recorded 144 confirmed cases and 18 probable cases for a total of 162. There were no new deaths recorded […]
Library Board Meeting 07/19/2022 – Will Receive Library Project Update, Hopefully Discuss Keeping Project Within Budget
The Library Board is meeting 07/19/2022 at 4:30PM. There will be trustee reappointments for current board members Rebecca Kellner and Brian Looker, and the new appointment of Nanette Bunnow an Appleton Area School District Assistant Superintendent who will be taking over from Greg Hartjes as […]
Board Of Zoning Appeals Meeting 07/18/2022 – Will Take Up Three Requests, Two Which Don’t Meet The Review Criteria For A Variance
The Board of Zoning Appeals is meeting 07/18/2022 at 7PM. It looks like they have a full slate of variances to consider, with one property actually requesting 3 variances related to a rezoning. The first variance request is for the commercial lot on Calumet Street […]
Board Of Education Receives 2021-22 AGR Report, Does Not Discuss The Fact That 40-60% Of AGR Students Did Not Achieve Targeted Growth
[Update (07/23/2022): You can read further communication regarding K-3 proficiency rates here.] [Update (08/31/2022): during the AGR report to the Board of Education, an AASD employee incorrectly equated a student reaching 100% of their targeted growth with achieving proficiency. Some of the actual proficiency rates […]
Safety And Licensing Committee Approves Multiple Licenses Including Many Related To Mile Of Music
The Safety and Licensing Committee met 07/13/2022. After dispensing with the taxicab driver’s license application for Torrey, the committee moved onto the remaining action items many of which were alcohol licenses of one sort or another, and many of those were temporary licenses related to […]
Safety And Licensing Committee Denies Taxicab Driver’s License To Convicted Felon
The saga of Torrey’s taxicab driver license application has come to exactly the end that one would have expected. The Safety and Licensing Committee has specifically held off on voting on his application in order to give more time to the Police Department to contact […]
Municipal Services Committee Approves Parking Ramp Planning And Design Services Contract, Agreement With Chamber Of Commerce To Maintain Landscape Peninsula At Green Ramp
The Municipal Services Committee met 07/11/2022. Outside of the informational update on the Modifications To Street Terrace Policy Resolution, they took up two actions items both related to parking ramps. The first was a request to award a contract for 2022 Parking Ramp Planning and […]