Appleton District 6

Christmas Parade photo from the Post-Crescent Greetings District 6 Neighbors,  Thanksgiving has gone (I heard that the last of the leftovers were hub’s lunch today) and winter has apparently settled in without asking for early check-in.  Because November has five Wednesdays this year and the council meets on the first and third Wednesday of the month, with committees meeting “the week following Council”, we do not have any regular committee meetings this week.  We will be back to the regular schedule with the Common Council meeting on December 6.  There was one special meeting this morning – the Appleton Redevelopment Authority met to vote on changing the guarantor of the letter of credit backing the Performing Arts Center bonds from Associated Bank to Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. There are several documents attached and a lengthy memo, but the bottom line seems to be that Associated Bank has been downgraded by Moody’s Investor Services, causing the variable interest rate on the b

Greetings District 6 Neighbors, What a glorious Sunday it turned out to be! (other than football based on the groans coming from the living room as I write this).  As I noted last week, the Public Works Department is planning a bonus round of leaf collection the week of November 27, so if your trees were late dropping leave, or if you have just procrastinated like we have, you can take advantage of the sunny day or work off some of that Thanksgiving pie taking care of the last of them. Just make sure to have them in the appropriate pickup area by the evening of the 26 th .  I was reminded last week that I didn’t make note of the Appleton Christmas Parade coming up this Tuesday, November 21. The parade starts at 7:00 p.m. at College Avenue and State Street and continues to Drew Street. They’re expecting 80 units to participate, including 20 marching bands. Full information about parking, street closures, etc.,    is available here:  https://www.appleton.org/visitors/appleton-parades/chr