Month: September 2022

Alderperson Vered Meltzer’s Invocation At 09/21/2022 Common Council Meeting – “As the season begins to grow colder and the nights grow longer, we all need more warmth from each other.”

Mayor Woodford: Tonight’s invocation will be delivered by Alder Meltzer. Alderperson Vered Meltzer (District 2): The Chinese mid-autumn festival was on September 10th. And I want to share one of my favorite mid-autumn poems with you. The first time I encountered this poem, I was […]

Finance Committee Spends A Hour Discussing Library Project, Unanimously Votes To Reject All Project Bids

The Finance Committee met 09/26/2022. The meeting was around an hour and ten minutes long, and all but around 5 minutes of that was taken up by discussion on the request from the city to reject all bids for the library project. As most people […]

Clerk Lynch Details Harrassment Experienced By Herself And Staff

In light of the recently submitted resolution in support of election officials, I contacted Clerk Kami Lynch and asked if she or the staff members in her office had been bullied, threatened, intimidated or undermined in relation to their election administration duties since the 2020 […]

Safety And Licensing Committee Meeting 09/28/2022 – Will Vote On Resolution In Support Of Election Officials

The Safety and Licensing Committee is meeting 09/28/2922 at 5:30PM. They will be voting on 3 alcohol license applications and a secondhand article dealer license application. They will also be voting on two grants, one for a Regional Radio Project and one for an Emergency […]

Community And Economic Development Committee Meeting 09/28/2022 – Will Vote On Submitting Grant Application For Merge LLC Development, Amendment To Development Agreement For Rise Apartments

The Community and Economic Development Committee is meeting 09/28/2022 at 4:30PM. They have two items on the agenda. The first is a request to approve a resolution authorizing the submittal of a $250,000 grant application to Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation on behalf of Urbane 115 […]

Municipal Services Committee Votes 3-1 To Approve Variance Request For 12 Foot Driveway Extension Into Front Yard

During the 09/12/2022 and the 09/26/2022 Municipal Services Committee, the committee took up and deliberated on a variance request from a resident on Glendale Avenue to install a 12-foot driveway extension to provide more parking space for the 5 adults who lived in the home, […]

City Plan Commission Meeting 09/28/2022 – Will Vote On Southpoint Commerce Park Certified Survey Map, Review Timeline Of 100 Years Of City Planning

The City Plan Commission is meeting 09/28/2022 at 3:30PM. The agenda is pretty light and includes only one action item and one information item. The action item is a request to approve a certified survey map for an area in Southpoint Commerce Park. The information […]

Fox Cities Transit Commission Meeting 09/27/2022 – Will Vote On Request To Award Scheduling And Planning Software Contract To Optibus Inc

The Fox Cities Transit Commission is meeting 09/27/2022 at 3PM. They only have two action items on the agenda: Approval of August Payments and authorization to award scheduling and planning software contract to Optibus Inc. Optibus’ annual fee is $42,406 for 2022-2024 and $46,646 for […]