The Parks and Recreation Department will be asked to approve extending alcohol sales later into the evening at Jones Park and Houdini Plaza for Mile of Music. For these two parks, City Council approval is required for anything outside of the standard rules.  The standard time for the end of alcohol sales is 10pm.  But during "Mile" this year, extension of those times to 10:15pm and 10:45pm is requested.  

Our town government exists to serve our residents. Direction regarding development in the town should, therefore, come from residents. Our town government should take the time to understand the true wishes of our current Grand Chute residents, as a whole, before embarking on municipal building projects and a housing initiative that may be inconsistent with those wishes.

On Monday, July 6, Fox Valley Initiative will feature two speakers: Laura Ackmann of Moms for Liberty and Carolyn Pierre of Guardian School Consulting [invited]. Both organizations are working to protect children from sexual predators in schools. The problem of sexual misconduct by teachers and other school staff has grown in the Fox Valley and across Wisconsin.

I have questions about the Wilden Portfolio Park development (at Thrivent) and the proposal that Appleton create a 14th Tax Incremental District (TID) to help incentivize this development. The Appleton City Council should consider both sides of this pancake. The colorful sprinkles presented by Thrivent’s request to create a Tax ID are all obtainable without a TID.

In the end, we agreed that we had different political views and that they wouldn’t sign my paperwork. We wished each other a Merry Christmas and shook hands. I left the conversation stating that this was why I had a Charlie Kirk sign. We were able to have a frank exchange of ideas, not get upset with each other and still part on good terms.

The promise to restore great walleye fishing in northern Wisconsin, by restoring equal protection of laws, will turn Wisconsin’s army of 950,000 fisherman out like no other issue during the November election. The next governor of Wisconsin must make it clear that he will accomplish this.

The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG) is taking the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to court. The lawsuit asks the court to declare the secret meeting held in the Wisconsin Dells violated Wisconsin’s Open Meetings Law and to void any actions DPI took as a result of the conference committees’ “recommendations.”