Tonight Alderperson Denise Fenton was planning to request to suspend rules to allow the Common Council to debate the resolution on putting a referendum on the April 6 ballot regarding non-partisan redistricting. She was going to do this because the deadline to put something on […]
The Common Council is meeting 01/20/2021 at 7pm. There will be a Covid update and the mayor will be presenting 3 proclamations. As I posted about yesterday, he proclaimed 01/18/2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Appleton. He also proclaimed Jan 18-Jan 22 2021 to […]
In light of the Common Council’s decision of 12/16/2020 to not require the Appleton Housing Authority to find their own health insurance plan, I reached out to the AHA to gain a little more insight into their health insurance situation and the options available to […]
At the 01/06/2021 Common Council meeting Karen Nelson gave an update on the census results for Outagamie County. She serves as the Vice Chair for the 2020 Census Complete Count Committee. She thanked the alderpersons for their help in supporting the outreach effort to the […]
The Common Council is meeting 01/06/2021 at 7pm. As per usual, there will be a Covid Update, but there does not appear to be any mayoral proclamations. Amongst other things on the agenda is an ordinance regarding rezoning the Refuge property from a Public Institutional […]
The Appleton Common Council met 12/16/2020. The meeting started out with Mayor Woodford announcing the reappointments to the Bicycle & Pedestrian Committee. As you may recall, when I posted the agenda for this meeting I had wondered about reappointments vs. vacancies. The mayor stated that […]
Sometimes I feel a little like the man on the seashore surrounded by thousands of beached starfish who is only able to throw back a few. There are so very many Appleton city government and AASD meetings, and between work and family obligations I am […]
The Common Council is meeting 12/16/2020 at 7pm. There is one mayoral proclamation wherein Mayor Woodford declares September through December of 2020 to be Hmong New Year Season. The mayor will be presenting some Bicycle & Pedestrian Committee Reappointments. I seem to recall Appleton putting […]
The Common Council met on 12/02. The meeting was quite short (only 17 minutes), which I suspect is probably fairly normal for a December meeting and something I certainly won’t fault them for. After they voted on some committee reappointments, Mayor Woodford mentioned that the […]
The Common Council is meeting 12/02/2020 at 7pm. Surprisingly, there appear to be no mayoral proclamations. There will be the ubiquitous Covid update. Of interest is the fact that they are reporting that Appleton’s burden is down to 901. They appear to be using both […]