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The Menasha Common Council held a special meeting on Monday, August 31, 2026, at 6:00 PM, adjourning at 6:29 PM. All eight aldermen were present alongside Mayor Hammond and key city staff. The council approved permits and code suspensions for the Rally for the Valley festival and authorized a significant increase in funding for storm debris cleanup operations.
Good evening. Good evening. I'd like to call the city of Manasha special common council meeting to order. Would you please rise and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance? Thank you. Clerk Janet, if we could please have the role. Alderman Lewis. Alderman Marshall. Alderman Grati. Alderman School. Alderman Rand. Alderman Eisenach? Alderman Hale? Alderman Perkins. All are present. Thank you. Next on the agenda is E. This is public comment on any matter of concern to the city. If anybody in the gallery this evening wishes to address the common council, you may do so now by stepping up to the podium, state your first and last name and address. All right. Seeing none, we will move right along to the next actionable item on the agenda, and that is I, action items. And we do have one this evening. It is I one. Is there a motion? Alderman Hale. All right. Thank you, Mayor. I move to approve the producer full service retail sales application, AB 105, Stone Arch Brew Pub Incorporated, Rally for the Valley on October 3rd, 2026. Is there a second? Motion was made by Alderman Hale, seconded by Alderman Groti. Is there any discussion? Alderman Eisenhock. Can we just have an explanation of what this is for and how it works and all that fun stuff, please? Certainly. Thank you. Clerk Janet, could you please give us a little bit of background? Absolutely, Mayor. So this is something new that the council hasn't seen before. Um instead of being a city license, this is actually a state permit. So the municipality does a little bit of oversight on this. We're allowed to place restrictions within reason. However, we are not allowed to restrict the type of product that they're selling if it's one that they produce, so because they make beer we can't restrict their beer sales. So we did our standard background check, financial obligations check that normal uh liquor licenses in the city would need to do. Those are approved. Um but essentially the Department of Revenue just um gives them a permit to move one of their full service locations to our downtown for that time period, and then that's that. So it's a state level thing. Our only over sight here is to just approve it and say we're good with them operating in our downtown.