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Appleton Common Council District 6 Update for October 15, 2025

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Greetings, District 6 Neighbors, We’re in the middle of another full council week, with the library board meeting yesterday as the only official meeting on the city calendar. The library board action items included approving the bill register, a budget amendment to record various donations, and approval of the membership agreement with the Outagamie Waupaca Library System (OWLS) for 2026-2028. This agreement allows cardholders to check out materials in any member library – a benefit I certainly used when I worked in Waupaca. More big news was announced for the library in recent weeks. The Appleton Public Library was named as the Wisconsin Library Association’s Library of the Year for 2025, and staff member Maureen Ward was awarded the City Star Award for Excellence in Service Delivery at the Common Council meeting on October 1. Mayor Woodford will begin the meeting with six proclamations, most of which were issued at events around the city recently. National Teen Driver Safety Week Dys...
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Appleton Common Council District 6 Update for the Week of October 5, 2025

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Greetings, District 6 Neighbors, Happy rainy Monday. I hope everyone was able to get outside and enjoy what might be the last of our summer weather over the weekend. With the Brewers and Packers both having off days, yesterday was a great opportunity to get out. You may have read that the Common Council passed a truancy ordinance last week by a close 9-6 vote. The ordinance will be effective November 1 and will sunset on July 1, 2026, unless extended by the council. The ordinance limits the “dispositions” or penalties that can be assessed to a student convicted under the ordinance – excluding such penalties as suspending a driver’s license, stay at home orders, or orders to attend a program when not under adult supervision. The suspension of a work permit is included as an allowable disposition but will likely not apply to very many students as work permits are only required for people under sixteen years of age. The maximum fine is the same $500 as in the state statute, but judges hav...
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Appleton Common Council District 6 Update for October 1, 2025

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Greetings, District 6 Neighbors, I confess I did not stay up for the whole Packer game Sunday night. Not much was happening in the first half, and I didn’t have opportunities to text my Cowboy fan brother, so I went to bed, only to find out that I missed a wild one. A little housekeeping before we get into council business: Public Works has switched to fall leaf collection mode. That means that there will be no more large item curbside collections until April. You can check with Outagamie County Recycling and Solid Waste for more information here:  Outagamie County Recycling & Solid Waste Material Search . I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had a chance to tour the recycling center. I had thought I knew a lot about the process, but I learned so much (including that it is VERY LOUD in there – we had noise cancelling headphones and a communications setup to hear and speak to our tour guide and each other). The sorting process is amazing, and it now makes sense to me that we...
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