Municipal Services Committee Approves Street Occupancy Permit Extension For Trout Museum Project, Discusses Impact Of Changes To Yard Waste Site Service And Hours

The Municipal Services Committee met 10/21/2024. They had one action item on the agenda which was a request to extend the Lawrence/Trout Museum project’s street occupancy permit for College/Drew through 06/01/2025 and for Kimball Street through 08/04/2025. This item was approved with minimal discussion. They […]

Municipal Services Committee Meeting 10/21/2024 – Will Vote On Street Occupancy Permit Extension Related To Trout Museum Project, Discuss Public Works Department 2025 Budget

The Municipal Services Committee is meeting 10/21/2024 at 4:30PM. They have one action item on the agenda which is a request to extend the Kimball Alley Street Occupancy Permit related to the Trout Museum project through 08/04/2025. As an information item, the committee will be […]

Common Council Approves Street Occupancy Permit For Trout Museum Project – Drew Street Will Remain Closed Even On Weekends During The Project

The Common Council met 04/17/2024. One of the items they separated out for an individual vote was the request from the Boldt Company for a street occupancy permit along College Avenue, Drew Street, and Kimball Alley pertaining to the Trout Museum project. This permit will […]

Common Council Meeting 04/17/2024 – Will Finalize Council Rules For New Council Year, Vote On Midway/Plank Rezoning Request Opposed By Neighbors, Preliminary Plat For Lumbini Estates Subdivision

The Common Council is meeting 04/17/2024. They will hold a formal organizational meeting at 6PM and then follow that up with the regular Common Council meeting at 7PM. At the organizational meeting, they will vote on the proposed rule changes they discussed informally during their […]

Municipal Services Committee Approves Street Occupancy Permit For Trout Museum Project – Discusses Desire To Work With Boldt To Provide Access Through Drew Street On Weekends

The Municipal Services Committee met 04/08/2024. One of the items they  voted on was a street occupancy permit from Boldt pertaining to the Trout Museum project on the corner of Drew and College. Boldt was asking for a license to “Occupy the public right-of-way within […]

Trout Museum Of Art Drops Plan To Build In Ellen Kort Peace Park, Cites “Greater Than Expected Financial And Regulatory Burden Related To The Site’s Clean Up”

The Trout Museum has announced that it will no longer be pursuing its plan to build a facility on the grounds of Ellen Kort Peace Park. Per a press release from the museum, “The Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment performed by Westwood Professional Services on […]

Mayor Woodford Provides Further Details On Trout Museum’s Communication With The City – “Council was clear with us that they expected us to devote as little staff time as possible to this process and analysis to ensure minimum taxpayer expense. As such […] I opted to not engage staff and I, myself, was minimally engaged”

Last week, Mayor Woodford updated the Common Council on Trout Museum of Art’s proposal to build a museum on the grounds of the Ellen Kort Peace Park. In that update reported “The Trout Museum of Art had engaged Westwood Professional Services to conduct the Phase […]

Mayor Woodford Provides Statement On Status Of Trout Museum/Ellen Kort Peace Park Proposal – Trout Currently Reviewing Environmental Assessment Report

The Common Council met 02/15/2023. At that meeting, Mayor Woodford provided an update on where the Trout Museum is in its journey to gain approval to construct a museum building on the grounds of Ellen Kort Peace Park. This was touched on briefly during the […]

Common Council Meeting 02/15/2023 – Will Receive Updates On Trout Museum/Ellen Kort Peace Park Proposal, The 12/26/2022 Polymer Incident At Wastewater Treatment Plant

The Common Council is meeting 02/15/2023 at 7PM. The committee meetings last week were all pretty tame, so I would not expect any of them to result in long drawn-out discussions in the Council meeting, although some, such as the Legal Services reorganization, may be […]

Parks And Recreation Committee Receives Update On Park Projects – Alderperson Wolff States Update On Trout Museum Will Happen At 02/15/2023 Common Council Meeting

The Parks and Recreation Committee met 02/06/2023. One of the items on the agenda was an update on various parks projects. I’ve prepared a transcript of the discussion for your downloading pleasure. One would have thought this was the place where the public could find […]