The Common Council is meeting 03/19/2025 at 7PM.
They will be receiving a presentation from the Appleton Area School District in which the school district will explain the negative impact of truancy and then request that the Common Council create a local ordinance that would allow AASD to utilize the court system in some manner to deal severe cases of truancy that have not been fixed with the school-based system of support. In this ordinance, the Common Council would determine what dispositions would be available to the court. AASD is asking that the ordinance be implemented for a 4-semester trial period before being reviewed. This is an information item only, and no action will take place on it at this meeting.
In terms of action items, there are a couple that seem likely to be separated out for individual votes.
Appleton Downtown Inc is requesting permission to install a selfie sculpture in Houdini Plaza. The item was recommended for approval by the Public Arts Committee, the Parks and Recreation Committee, and the City Plan Commission, but the sculpture in question has also generated negative responses from the public around aesthetics and location, and at the Parks and Recreation Committee meeting Alderperson Nate Wolff (District 12) voted against it.
Resolution 2-R-25 would update the city government’s emissions reduction goal to a target of reducing net emissions by 50% (13,600 metric tons of CO2e) by 2034 and maintaining as “aspirational stretch goal” of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 “contingent upon our electrical utility supplier meeting its Scope II target.” The Parks and Recreation Committee voted unanimously to recommend it for approval, but Alderperson Chad Doran (District 15) who was not a member of the committee did express a desire to know what city staff’s overall plan was to meet this goal and what the estimated costs would be.
Finally, although it was not controversial, the request to renew Appleton’s Bird City designation is something that could be separated out. During the Parks and Recreation Committee meeting at which it was recommended for approval, the question of how much the renewal fee cost was raised. It was a nominal amount, but at the time, city staff could not provide a specific number. Additionally, separating it out for an individual vote would provide the opportunity to speak about former Appleton Common Council member Joe Martin who recently passed away and who was instrumental in getting the city to initially pursue the Bird City designation.
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