Appleton District 6

Greetings District 6 Neighbors,  I guess we can have sunshine and bitter cold or eternal clouds and more bearable temperatures. I’m voting for the sunshine right now, although I was not happy to venture out this morning.  We’re in a council week following an abbreviated committee schedule last week. Interestingly, it was an information item from the Municipal Services Committee that has folks buzzing. This will not appear on a Common Council agenda until later in the spring when the funding would be allocated. More on that in a bit.  The Safety and Licensing Committee with be having a special meeting before the council meeting to consider a couple of requests from the Fire Department – one to apply for a grant from FEMA to purchase cardiac monitors and to purchase a “Red Wave Threat ID Spectrometer” ($72,190.50). This equipment is used to identify unknow chemicals in the event of a spill or some type of sabotage. The equipment requested has been shown to identity over 22,000 powders an