Appleton District 6

It looks like today’s warm(er) weather might be with us for a few days- my weather app shows double digit highs for the next 10 days. My timing was off, of course. I walked a race in De Pere yesterday morning when the “feels like” was -10.   The Common Council meeting last Wednesday had a rather light agenda, most of which was pretty straightforward. As I noted last week, the items that caused the most discussion in committee (intoxicated bartender resolution, brand study funding, resolution re-allocating the funding planned for the brand study) were all held either indefinitely in the case of the brand study funding, or until future committee meetings. More about those when we discuss next week’s committee meetings.   As is the case with almost every meeting, the mayor issued several proclamations:     - Transit Equity Day     - Career and Technical Education Month     - Gun Violence Survivor Week     - Burn Awareness Week    ...

  Good afternoon District 6 neighbors, I’m sending an update prior to the Common Council meeting this Wednesday because a few major committee items will not be on the agenda for that meeting, and I don’t want them to get lost. The first item was the contract for the city brand study. As noted in last week’s update, there was a request to award the contract for the brand study to Unlisted, LLC for a total of $88,840. In the previous Finance Committee meeting there was quite a bit of discussion from both members of the committee and other alderpersons, and the item was held in anticipation of getting some answers to questions from the recommended bidder. However, before the meeting, Unlisted, LLC withdrew the bid. The Finance Committee received a letter from the mayor recommending that the Request for Proposal be modified and reissued. There was a great deal of discussion at the meeting once again, with the final result being that the item was held indefinitely, which essentially...

  Good afternoon District 6 neighbors,  Today marks a return to work for the Common Council with an abbreviated schedule of committee meetings, but before I get into the details of those meetings, I want to share a couple of news items.  The first is that the City of Appleton is now accepting grant applications for American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for non-profit community events and behavioral health care programs. You can get more    information here:  https://www.appleton.org/Home/Components/News/News/21012/18?backlist=/&fbclid=IwAR2E1GLrt2uPke7_nd-eqgwYggWxeV85vWfxg2vlEudmcG5qfXAdTZklYeA   Application deadline for both programs is February 3.  The second item is the partnership between the City of Appleton and ThedaCare to continue the COVID-19 testing facility in the former Best Buy location at 2411 S. Kensington Dr. Tests will be given Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. These are PCR tests with results available in 3-5...