The Municipal Services Committee is meeting 01/08/2024 at 4:30PM.
They will be taking up two resolutions.
The first is Resolution 12-R-23 which would close the Whitman Yard Waste Site.
This resolution was discussed during the 11/20/2023 Municipal Services Committee meeting during which committee members provided a number of questions to city staff to research regarding the proposed closure. They then voted to hold the item until January. City staff has now provided the answers to the questions raised during that meeting and has offered a proposed change to the hours of operations for both of the city’s yard waste sites that would provide a way to reduce costs and the duplication of services without closing the Whitman Avenue site.
The second is Resolution 15-R-23 which calls for a Parking Facility and Management Study that would, amongst other things, review the potential of privatizing the downtown parking ramps.
While there was some support for the general concept of conducting a study to learn best practices to manage the parking ramps, there was a strong aversion among alderpersons to even for information purposes review the possibility of selling or leasing the ramps. As a result, the committee voted to recommend the resolution for denial. When the resolution came before the full Council, Alderperson Katie Van Zeeland (District 5) requested that it be referred back to the committee for further discussion.
The committee will also be taking up several other actions items including approving the Glendale Avenue Yard Waste Site proposal, awarding the 2024 Bridge Consulting Services contract and the Bridge Consulting Inspections Services contract, approving an amendment to the 3-party engineering design services contract for the Lawe Street reconstruction, and approving a sole source design and construction services contract for the repair and maintenance of the downtown parking ramps in 2024.
View full meeting details here: https://cityofappleton.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1161960&GUID=3435E572-917E-49A0-8DD2-BF52AF11696D
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