Tag: Grants

Community And Economic Development Committee Approves Reduction To Community Development Block Grant Funding To Community Partners

The Community and Economic Development Committee met 03/22/2023. The one action item they took up was a request to approve the revised Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding for the 2023-2024 program year. When putting together the funding amounts for the various programs, city staff […]

Community And Economic Development Committee Meeting 03/22/2023 – Will Vote On Decreased Community Development Block Grant Allocations, Receive 2022 City Growth Report

The Community and Economic Development Committee is meeting 03/22/2023 at 4:30PM. They have one action item which is to approve revised Community Development Block Grant funding for 2023-2024. The amount of money the city was award was $16,253 less than they had expected, so they […]

Transit Commission Approves Acceptance Of $3 Million In Grants, Awards Contract For Phase One Of Whitman Avenue Facility Remodeling Project, Gives Go-Ahead To Seek Additional Grants For Whitman Avenue And Transit Center Projects

The Fox Cities Transit Commission met 02/20/2023 and approved three action items related to the Whitman Avenue Facility Redevelopment Project. Back in 2021, this project had initially been estimated to cost between $6.5 and $7.6 million. Inflation and economic factors have since caused its cost […]

Finance Committee Approves $1Million Affordable Housing ARPA Grant To RISE Apartments – Will Help Keep 48 Unit Affordable Housing Project Financially Solvent

The Finance Committee met 01/23/2023. A little over 20 minutes of that meeting was taken up with discussion on the request to award $1 million in American Recovery Plan Act (ARPA) funds to RISE Apartments, LLC in the form of an affordable housing grant. The […]

Community And Economic Development Committee Approves 2023 Grant Allocations For Community Partners – Representatives From Pillars, Habitat, Rebuilding Together Fox Valley, And WWBIC All Express Gratitude

The Community and Economic Development Committee met 11/09/2022. The one item on the agenda was a request to approve the preliminary 2023-2024 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Community Partner Funding Allocations. This was approved 3-0. I’ve prepared a transcript of the full meeting which you […]

Community And Economic Development Committee Meeting 11/09/2022 – Will Vote On Community Development Block Grant Allocations For 2023

The Community And Economic Development Committee is meeting 11/09/2022 at 4:30PM. There is one item on the agenda which is a request to approve the Preliminary 2023-2024 Community Development Block Grant Funding Allocation Recommendations. The city had $589,453 to allocate, $460,624 of which was available […]

Safety And Licensing Committee Votes On Two Grants For Fire Department, Receives Update On Third

The Safety and Licensing Committee met 09/28/2022. They voted on two grants received by the Fire Department and received an update from Fire Chief Hansen on another grant. The first grant they voted to approve was FEMA’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) for a Regional […]

Safety And Licensing Committee Receives Police Department Mid-Year Report, Updates On APD Grants, Recruitment Report

The Safety and Licensing Committee met 07/13/2022. They received several updates from Police Chief Todd Thomas. The first was the 2022 Appleton Police Department Mid-Year Report. This was basically a three-page summary of significant events from 2022. Chief Thomas did not go through it in […]

Safety And Licensing Committee Receives Fire Department Update – Learns About EMS Flex Grant Application, New Fire Department Public Education Specialist

The Safety and Licensing Committee met 07/13/2022. One of the information items they received was a director’s report from Fire Chief Jeremey Hansen. He started off by talking about the EMS Flex Grant. In February of 2022, Governor Evers allocated $12 million in state ARPA […]