The Common Council met 01/17/2024. It was a brief meeting lasting only around 13 minutes. The one action item that was separated out for individual discussion was the Parking Facilities Study Resolution.
This resolution calls for staff to seek the services of a consultant to help them assess the value a conditions of the city’s publicly-owned parking assets, look at best management practices, and develop a downtown marketing and promotional campaign. As originally written, the resolution included language specifying that the study would include assessing options to lease or sell the city-owned parking assets (which would include the downtown parking ramps). The Municipal Services Committee voted 3-2 to recommend for approval an amended version of the resolution that did not include the language about studying the lease or sale of parking assets.
We will have to wait for the Council to make a final determination on the fate of this resolution. Alderperson Chad Doran (District 15), the author of the resolution, was excused from the 01/17/2024 Common Council meeting, as a result, Alderperson Sheri Hartzheim (District 13) made a motion to hold the resolution until the 02/07/2024 Common Council meeting in order to give Alderperson Doran an opportunity to participate in the discussion.
The motion to hold passed by a vote of 9-5 with Alderpersons Vered Meltzer (District 2), Denise Fenton (District 6), Patrick Hayden (District 7), Kristin Alfheim (District 11), and Nate Wolff (District 12) voting against the hold.
View full meeting details and video here: https://cityofappleton.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1143127&GUID=1E8F7BED-98DD-4D85-BFF4-D6E5F040150F
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