The Common Council is meeting 03/03/2021 at 7pm. The big human interest story of the night is will Tyler be granted his second curb cut? Mayor Woodford will be presenting two committee appointments. Deborah Werth will be serving on the Board of Health and Penny […]
Category: Common Council
Alderperson Alex Schultz’s Invocation At 02/17/2021 Common Council Meeting – I Know That I Have To Find My Own Courage To Engage Each Other In Meaningful Ways That Are More Mutually Beneficial And Not Mutually Destructive
Alderperson Alex Schultz gave the invocation at the 02/17/2021. He read a poem about the arrest, trial, and conviction of Eugene Debs, a socialist, union supporter, and political activist, who was charged with 10 counts of sedition for giving a speech urging people to resist […]
Covid Update From 02/17/2021 Common Council Meeting
The Common Council met 02/17/2021. Although it did not take up almost the entire meeting as it sometimes has, the Covid 19 update did still feature prominently. Health Officer Eggebrecht was quite pleased with the numbers. On 02/17, the total Appleton cases (confirmed and probable) […]
Common Council Meeting Scheduled For 02/17/2021
The Appleton Common Council is meeting 02/17/2021 at 7pm. Mayor Woodford will be presenting two proclamations. In the first he encourages all who can wear a face covering to do so. The second declares February 19, 2021 to be Caregiver’s Day in Appleton and encourages […]
Majority of 02/03/2021 Common Council Meeting Taken Up By Covid Update
[EDIT: I had originally written that Health Officer Eggebrecht stated we had 7,000 doses of vaccine coming into our state on a weekly basis. Although he did inadvertently give that 7,000 figure, he corrected it to 70,000, but I missed his correction.] The Common Council […]
Common Council Meeting 02/03/2021
I was finally able to track down the agenda for the Common Council meeting on 02/03/2021 at 7pm. Apparently the calendar on Appleton.gov was not linking to the meeting details, but the meeting details were actually posted on the city’s legistar page. Download the agenda […]
Common Council Approves Committee Appointments
During the 01/20/2021 Common Council meeting, the alderpersons approved all of Mayor Woodford’s appointments to committees, commissions, and boards. Per Mayor Woodford, those appointments filled a majority of vacancies. He stated that he was really pleased to be making serious headway on cleaning vacancies up. […]
Alderperson Matt Reed’s Speech On The Non-Partisan Redistricting Referendum – “These People Are Not Accountable To The Voters”
Although District 8’s alderperson Matt Reed voted in favor of putting the non-partisan redistricting referendum on the April 6 ballot, he did express concerns about the actual aims of the referendum and the practical ramifications of implementing a non-partisan redistricting process. He was concerned that […]
More Details On Citizen Push For Non-Partisan Redistricting Referendum
Alderperson Denise Fenton was kind enough to go into more detail about the citizen push that prompted the Common Council to put the nonpartisan redistricting referendum question on the April 6 ballot. Former State Assembly Representative Penny Bernard Schaber and an additional person proactively reached […]
Common Council Votes To Put Non-Partisan Redistricting Referendum On April 6 Ballot
[CORRECTION: I had speculated that the Appleton representative that Alderperson Denise Fenton had referenced was Amanda Stuck. Alderperson Fenton has since said that Amanda Stuck was not among the people who reached out to her. It was actually Penny Bernard Schaber.] The Common Council met […]