Utilities Committee Approves 3 Items Related To Wastewater Treatment Plant Maintenance, Including A Sole Source Engineering Contract And A Sole Source Purchase Request

The Utilities Committee met 01/23/2024. They took up three action items all related to maintenance of the wastewater treatment plant. I’ve prepared a transcript of the discussion for download: ITEM 1: Sole Source Engineering Services Contract to McMahon Associates as part of the 2024 Aeration […]

Municipal Services Committee Approves $57,000 1-Year Contract For Increased Security Services In Downtown Parking Ramps – Increased Patrol Hours Requested After Increase In Vandalism And Unauthorized Behavior

The Municipal Services Committee met 01/22/2024. They spent 20 minutes, half the meeting, discussing the request to approve a single source $57,000 contract with Star Protection and Patrol to provide security services for 8 hours a day 5 days a week in the downtown parking […]

Municipal Services Committee Approves Street Occupancy Permits For Avenue Of Ice And Fox Commons Project

The Municipal Services Committee met 01/22/2024. At the beginning of the meeting, prior to dealing the 2024 traffic control sole source requests or the 2024 contract for security in the parking ramp, they briefly took up two more easily handled items. I’ve prepared a transcript […]

Municipal Services Committee Approves 2024 Sole Source Purchase Requests For Traffic Equipment And Technology

The Municipal Services Committee met 01/22/2024. One of the items they spent a fair amount of time discussing was the request to approve the 2024 sole source purchase requests related to various traffic equipment and technologies. Per the staff memo, “it is common in the […]

Finance Committee Approves Resolution Designating $134,000 In Grant Funds Toward Library Project – Declines To Clarify If This Will Reduce Taxpayer Burden Or Increase Overall Library Project Budget

The Finance Committee met 01/22/2024. One of the items they took up was Resolution 1-R-24 the Resolution for Use of Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Funds. This resolution calls for $134,180 in Department of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant funds that the city accepted […]

Community And Economic Development Committee Meeting 01/24/2024 – Will Vote On Preliminary 2024-2025 Community Development Block Grant Awards

The Community and Economic Development Committee is meeting 01/24/2024 at 6:30PM. They have two related items on the agenda as well as an associated public hearing. The first item is a request to approve the preliminary community development block grant community partner allocations for the […]

Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board Makes Preliminary 2024-2025 Allocation Recommendations – Amends Staff Recommendation To Fully Fund Salvation Army Grant Request

The Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board met 01/15/2024 and voted on preliminary allocations for non-public community partners. City staff had initially recommended the following recommendations: The board decided to amend the recommendations to reduce the amounts awarded to Habitat for Humanity and WWBIC so […]

Utilities Committee Meeting 01/23/2024 – Will Vote On 3 Wastewater Treatment Plant Items, Receive Year End Reports

The Utilities Committee is meeting 01/23/2024 at 4:30PM. They will be voting on three items related to the wastewater treatment plant, a sole source engineering services contract, a final clarifier tank underdrain and tank drain rehabilitation contract, and a sole source purchase question for some […]

Fox Cities Transit Commission Meeting 01/23/2024 – Will Vote On Contract For Security Technology At Whitman Avenue Facility, Receive 4th Quarter Key Performance Indicators Report

The Fox Cities Transit Commission is meeting 01/23/2024 at 2:50PM. They have two action items on the agenda. The first is the routine approval of payments for November and December. The second is a request to authorize the purchase and installation of access control technology […]