Safety And Licensing Committee Meeting 09/28/2022 – Will Vote On Resolution In Support Of Election Officials

The Safety and Licensing Committee is meeting 09/28/2922 at 5:30PM. They will be voting on 3 alcohol license applications and a secondhand article dealer license application. They will also be voting on two grants, one for a Regional Radio Project and one for an Emergency […]

Special Meetings Of The Finance Committee And Safety And Licensing Committee Scheduled For 09/07/2022 – Will Vote On Necessary Business Ahead of The Common Council Meeting

There are two special committee meetings scheduled for 09/07/2022 ahead of the Common Council meeting. The first is a special meeting of the Finance Committee at 6:15PM. They have one action item which is a request to approve a 2022 budget amendment to record the […]

Safety And Licensing Committee Votes To Approve Marijuana Referendum Resolution – Alderpersons Express Strong Support For Responding To Constituents’ Requests For Referendums

The Safety and Licensing Committee met 07/27/2022. The first item they took up was the resolution that, if passed, would add a non-binding referendum question to the November ballot asking voters to weigh in on the legalization of marijuana in Wisconsin. After amending the resolution […]

Muncheez Pizza Owner Sentenced To 6 Months In Prison For Tax Fraud; Let’s Not Forget The Time He Wrote A Character Reference Letter For A Parole-Violating Felon Who Tried To Have Sex With Two Teenage Girls

Per WBAY, Paul VanderLinden, the owner of the now closed Muncheez Pizza on College Avenue, has pleaded guilty to Filing False Individual Tax Returns and Failing to Collect, Account for, and Pay Over Payroll Taxes. He was sentenced to 6 months in prison and ordered […]

Safety And Licensing Committee Meeting 07/27/2022 – Will Vote On Marijuana Advisory Referendum Resolution

The Safety and Licensing Committee is meeting 07/27/2022 at 5:30PM. They have a number of licenses that they will be voting on, but the action item of most interest to the public is probably Resolution #8-R-22, an advisory referendum related to marijuana legalization for the […]

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 […]

Safety And Licensing Committee Approves Multiple Licenses Including Many Related To Mile Of Music

The Safety and Licensing Committee met 07/13/2022. After dispensing with the taxicab driver’s license application for Torrey, the committee moved onto the remaining action items many of which were alcohol licenses of one sort or another, and many of those were temporary licenses related to […]

Safety And Licensing Committee Denies Taxicab Driver’s License To Convicted Felon

The saga of Torrey’s taxicab driver license application has come to exactly the end that one would have expected. The Safety and Licensing Committee has specifically held off on voting on his application in order to give more time to the Police Department to contact […]

Safety And Licensing Committee Meeting 07/13/2022 – Will Vote On A Number Of License Application, Receive 2022 Police Department Mid-Year Budget Report

The Safety and Licensing Committee is meeting 07/13/2022 at 5:30PM. The action items consist of a number of license applications. None of them seem particularly controversial other than the Taxicab license for Torrey. This application has already been held once to give police additional time […]