Board Of Health Meeting 05/10/2023 – Will Receive 2022 Annual Health Department Report, View 5 Declarations Of Dangerous Animals Related To Dog Attacks

The Board of Health is meeting 05/10/2023 at 7AM. They will be voting on house-keeping items including electing a chair and vice-chair and setting the meeting date and time. Outside of that, they will be voting on a request for the Village of Greenville to […]

Parks And Recreation Committee Meeting 05/08/2023 – Will Vote On Resolution To Have Ellen Kort Peace Park Participate In No Mow May

The Parks and Recreation Committee is meeting 05/08/2023. They have two items on the agenda. The first is a request to approve a modification to the committee’s meeting time, so that it meets at 6:15PM instead of 6:30PM. Because they would be meeting less than […]

Board Of Education Meeting 05/08/2023 – Will Discuss Proposal To Name New School “Sandy Slope Elementary”

The Appleton Area School District Board of Education is meeting 05/08/2023 at 6PM. Perhaps most notably, the Board will be receiving as an item of discussion a proposed name for the new elementary school. Per a memo when the District purchased the land for the […]

Municipal Services Committee Meeting 05/08/2023 – Will Vote On Snow Removal Assessment Waiver Request, Receive April 2023 Bird Scooter Report

The Municipal Services Committee is meeting 05/08/2023 at 4:30PM. They will be taking up three action items. The first is the anticipated award of the College Avenue Lane Reconfiguration Pavement Marking Contract. This had been put on hold at the last Municipal Services Committee meeting, […]

Common Council Votes 15-0 To Approve $200,000 Grant To Habitat For Humanity After Alderperson Hartzheim Suggests Money Could Instead Be Used For City Infrastructure

The Common Council met 04/03/2023. One of the items separated out for an individual vote was the request to award $200,000 of American Rescue Plan Act funds to Habitat for Humanity. This was separated out for an individual vote by Alderperson Sheri Hartzheim (District 13). […]

Common Council Approves Acceptance Of $134,000 Energy Efficiency Grant, Declines To Allocate It For The Library Project

The Common Council met 05/03/2023. One of the items separated out for an individual vote was the request to approve the grant allocation for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program of $134,180. This item had been approved unanimously at the Finance Committee meeting. It […]

A Look At The Claims Of Lies And Defamation Surrounding The Resolution To Eliminate No Mow May And The Council Rule Change That Was Proposed In Response To That Resolution

Back on 04/18/2023 and 04/19/2023, the Common Council held first an informal organizational meeting and then a formal organizational meeting. The purpose of these meetings was to update the Council rules for the new Council year. The formal organizational meeting was the meeting in which […]

Human Resources And Information Technology Committee Approves Creation Of Police Community Engagement Specialist Position – New Employee Will Take Over Most Public Information Officer Duties

The Human Resources and Information Technology Committee met 04/26/2023. One of the items they took up was a request to approve a Police Table of Organization change. They had a full-time opening available in the clerical department, but they wanted to leave the Administrative Support […]

Common Council Meeting 05/03/2023 – Will Vote On Street Light Installation Policy Resolution, Chadwick’s Bar Alcohol License Stipulation

The Common Council is meeting 05/03/2023 at 7PM. An updated agenda was posted yesterday, and, in addition to the 6 mayoral proclamations I posted about, Mayor Woodford will also be presenting a proclamation proclaiming 05/17/2023 as Neurofibromatosis Awareness Day in which he encourages “all citizens […]

Community And Economic Development Department Approves The City Of Appleton To Serve As Lead Agency For The Fox Cities Housing Coalition And To Apply For Emergency Housing Homeless Funding

The Community and Economic Development Committee met 04/26/2023. The action item that they took up in open session was a request to apply for Emergency Housing Homeless (EHH) funding and approve the City of Appleton to serve as the lead agency and fiscal agency on […]