Community Development Committee Meeting 06/12/2024 – Will Vote On Final Community Development Block Grant Allocations, Request For Waiver To Southpoint Commerce Park Covenants

The Community Development Committee is meeting 06/12/2024 at 4:30PM. They will be voting on a request to approve the 2023 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report for the Community Development Block Grant Program. They will also be voting on a request to approve revised Community […]

Finance Committee Approves $2 Million In ARPA Grants For Mental Health, Community Wellness, Early Childhood Development, And Family Support Services

The Finance Committee met 05/20/2024. One of the items they took up was the request to approve ARPA non-profit grant awards of $500,000 for “Mental Health, Community Wellness, and Violence Prevention” services and $1.5 million for “Early Childhood Development, Childcare, and Family Support” services. The […]

Common Council Accepts Firehouse Subgrant For $24,000 – Will Cover Purchase Cost Of 8 Video Laryngoscopes

The Common Council met 04/17/2024. One of the items that was separated out for an individual vote was the Fire Department request to accept a Firehouse Sub Grant for roughly $24,000 to cover the cost of eight McGrath video laryngoscopes. This item was spoken about […]

Board Of Health Approves Requests To Purchase Contract For Electronic Health Records System, Accept $4,000 Grant To Fund Car Seat Safety Program

The Board of Health met 02/14/2024. They took up two action items. One was a request to approve an Electronic Health Records vendor contract for an annual subscription cost of $12,371 and a one time training and implementation cost of $5,500. The other was a […]

Community And Economic Development Committee Approves Preliminary Community Development Block Grant Awards For 2024, Reallocation Of Unused 2023 Dollars

The Community and Economic Development Committee met 01/24/2024. They took up two action items, one was a request to approve preliminary 2024-2025 Program Year Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) allocations. The other was a request to approve the reallocation of 2023-2024 program year funds in […]

Community And Economic Development Committee Meeting 01/24/2024 – Will Vote On Preliminary 2024-2025 Community Development Block Grant Awards

The Community and Economic Development Committee is meeting 01/24/2024 at 6:30PM. They have two related items on the agenda as well as an associated public hearing. The first item is a request to approve the preliminary community development block grant community partner allocations for the […]

Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board Makes Preliminary 2024-2025 Allocation Recommendations – Amends Staff Recommendation To Fully Fund Salvation Army Grant Request

The Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board met 01/15/2024 and voted on preliminary allocations for non-public community partners. City staff had initially recommended the following recommendations: The board decided to amend the recommendations to reduce the amounts awarded to Habitat for Humanity and WWBIC so […]

Transit Commission Approves Contract With SRF Consulting To Assist With Grant Application For Transit Center, Authorizes Purchase Order For Audio Visual Equipment For Whitman Avenue Facility

The Fox Cities Transit Commission met 10/24/2023. Outside of the routine monthly approval of payments, they took up two action items, one requesting approval to sole source a consulting contract with SRF to assist in a grant application for the Transit Center and one to […]

Community And Economic Development Committee Meeting 10/25/2023 – Will Vote On Allocation Of Community Development Block Grant Funds For 2024

The Community and Economic Development Committee is meeting 10/25/2023 at 6:30PM. The agenda consists of one action item and one related public hearing. The action item is a request to approve the city program funding for the 2024 Community Development Block Grant Funding. City staff […]

Common Council Approves $80,000 Grant To Update Columbus Elementary Playground

The Common Council met 10/81/2023. One of the items separated out for an individual vote was the request to award approximately $80,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds through the Neighborhood Grant Program to pay for upgrades to the Columbus Elementary School playground. Those […]