Community Development Committee Approves 5-Year Consolidated Plan For Community Development Block Grant Program, Sets Allocation Amounts For 2025-2026 CDBG Program Year

The Community Development Committee met 06/11/2025. All of the action items on the agenda were related to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. One was a request to approve the 2024 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER), one was a request to approve […]

Common Council Meeting 06/18/2025 – Will Vote On Resolution To Rename Memorial Park “Veterans Memorial Park”

The Common Council is meeting 06/18/2025 at 7PM. Right now there are no mayoral proclamations listed or any other business to be presented by the mayor. I would expect that the main item up for discussion by the Common Council will be Resolution 4-R-25 which […]

Finance Committee Approves $70,000 ARPA Administration Contract Extension, Several Items Related To Safe Drinking Water Loan Program, Sole Source Contract For Wastewater Treatment Plant Project

The Finance Committee met 06/09/2025. In addition to discussing and voting on the request to approve a Hwy KK corridor study and a bike and pedestrian study they took up several other action items including requests associated with reimbursements for galvanized pipe replacements, some wastewater […]

Municipal Services Committee Recommends Approval Of Street Design For Thrivent Development

The Municipal Services Committee met 06/09/2025. One of the items they discussed was the request to approve the new street design for the Thrivent development project. The conceptual master plan for the development of the Thrivent campus on the north side of town includes mixed-use development […]

Library Board Meeting 06/17/2025 – Will Receive 2024 Library Annual Report

The Library Board is meeting 06/17/2025 at 5PM. They have two action items on the agenda which is a request to approve the May bill register and a request to approve a budget amendment recording $7,220 in donations, grants, and reimbursements. As information items they […]

Safety And Licensing Committee Discusses Recent Alcohol License Convictions, Reviews How New Special Events Policy Is Working

The Safety and Licensing Committee met 06/11/2025. Most of the meeting was taken up by an update from the Appleton Area School District on their request for the city to reinstate a truancy ordinance, but also discussed two other information items including recent alcohol license […]

Safety And Licensing Committee Receives Presentation On District Efforts To Curb Student Absenteeism And Truancy

The Safety and Licensing Committee met 06/11/2025. The committee spent nearly 40 minutes receiving and discussing an update from the Appleton Area School District regarding the initiative to bring back an anti-truancy ordinance in the City of Appleton. AASD Superintendent Greg Hartjes as well as […]

Board Of Health Reviews Dangerous Animal Declaration – Owner Does Not Contest Designation

The Board of Health met 06/11/2025. They had a Dangerous Animal Declaration listed on the agenda. An American Staffordshire dog named Koda had been declared a dangerous animal after he attacked another dog and left injuries that needed stitches and a drainage tube to be […]

City Plan Commission Approves Rezoning Request For 72 Acres On North Side Of Appleton – Will Allow The Construction Of Single- Or Two-Family Homes

The City Plan Commission met 06/11/2025. The one item that was on the agenda was the public hearing and associated action item pertaining to a rezoning request for the 72.2948 acres on the north side of the city that was recently annexed from Grand Chute […]

Parks And Recreation Committee Votes 3-2 To Recommend Appleton Memorial Park Be Renamed “Veterans Memorial Park”

The Parks and Recreation Committee met 06/09/2025 and spent nearly 90 minutes discussion Resolution 4-R-25 which calls for Appleton Memorial Park to be renamed “Veteran’s Memorial Park” and for a plan to be developed to relocate select existing memorials to the park and to add […]