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The Common Council met on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at 6:00 PM in the First Floor Conference Rooms. The agenda included a Q1 Community Development update, a Strong Neighborhoods Program presentation by Habitat for Humanity, a staff synopsis on the recent severe weather response, approval of financials and appointments, and several resolutions. All council members were present except Ald. Perkins. The meeting adjourned at 6:52 PM.
Good evening. I'd like to call the City of Manasha Common Council meeting to order, if you'd please rise and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you very much. If anybody in the gallery wishes to speak this evening, I would just ask that you state your first and last name and address. Publicly for the work that Public Works has come to assist us with. So dealing with that and then seeing the rising levels of the river was quite stressful on a lot of us. But again, we appreciate once this public works came to address that issue, how quickly they were able to get on that. And did so much work for us neighbors who many of us are elderly and would be very hard-pressed to get those sandbags into our yards to work on saving our property. So again, thank you very much for all of that hard work. It's very much appreciated. Thank you. Does anybody else in the gallery wish to participate in public comment this evening? Seeing none, uh, we'll conclude the first uh public comment on the agenda, which is public comment and any item of concern to the city. And we'll move right along to F, which is report of department officers, department head staff, and consultants. And this evening we do have two presentations, so I'll give our team a moment to get set up here, and Director Dean will start with item 1A, which is the quarter one community development department update. And then after that, uh we're lucky to have some folks from the Greater Fox Cities Area Habitat for Humanity that are going to give us a strong neighborhoods program partnership update. So I will turn the mic back on and turn things over to Director Dean. Okay, thank you, Mayor. Um here to give my quarterly update. So this would be January through March of this year. And if folks have any questions, happy to address those. Um could you do next? I'm not even sure if I have anybody to do next slide. Can I need to ask James? Could you do that for me? Or over okay, Christine's got it. Um you can go to the next slide. Thank you, James. Um next slide, please. So this is just a recap of what this is kind of the boilerplate stuff of our mission statement and key objectives as they currently stand. Next slide. Um again, just a really recap roll-up of short rain planning activities that uh Matt Lars and Christy Heim are both engaged in. Um looking at in a variety of uh uh residential permits, uh building permits, zoning approvals, zoning permits, commercial zoning um permits, reviews, etc. Um next slide. Some of the long-range activities falling into kind of that long range uh effort is um continue to work on the comprehensive plan update. Um we've got the signs ordered uh for for the uh Canal Commons opening and crossing fingers that those will arrive just in time to be uh installed prior to the um grand opening of Canal Commons, which is I believe May 29th from That's Wednesday the 27th. Oh, 7th, okay. Uh that's right. The comprehensive open house was on the 27th. So uh Wednesday, May 9th, 5 to 7 p.m.