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The Menasha Common Council convened on Monday, October 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM for a regular meeting, addressing a variety of items including a data center moratorium, tornado recovery updates, donations, and waterway cleanup funding. The meeting included public hearings, public comments, consent agenda approvals, action items, ordinances, resolutions, and appointments.
All items on the consent agenda were approved individually with roll-call votes unless noted:
Would you please rise and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance? Clerk Janet, can we please have the role? Alderman School. Alderman Rand, Alderman Eisenach, Alderman Hale, Alderman Perkins, Alderman Lewis, Alderman Marshall, Alderman Grotty, all are present. Thank you very much, Clerk Janet. Next on the council agenda this evening is item D, and this is public hearing. We do have two public hearings this evening. The first is a special use permit. So uh Director Dane, do you want to just give us a little bit of background on this particular item before I open it up for a public hearing? Kind of helpful. Uh public hearing on the data center. Um it's a special use permit for the I'm sorry, I was still getting number two. Okay. Um I have to jog back. Yep, we received an application for a special use permit um to allow high density residential use at twelve eighty-four Midway Road, um, which was formerly uh an apartment building that was used for student uh housing associated with uh UW Fox Cities. Um the owner uh of that is um come forward and uh requesting a special use permit um to uh convert the existing apartment building into um uh uh residential um this would be providing how uh housing accommodations for seniors requiring supervisory care um creating an option that addresses a growing community need while uh utili uh reutilizing the existing building um and I can I guess go into more depth when we get to this on the uh later in the agenda. Thank you very much, Director Dane. Uh so that was a little background on the first public hearing item. So if anybody in the gallery this evening wishes to participate in the public comment, you may do so. Just ask that you please step up to the podium, state your first and last name and address. You have as much time as you'd like to address the council, mayor, and staff. Uh, would just ask that if you do have a question incorporated into your discussion point and we can address the question later in the evening when we get to that specific item. So with that, I will open the public hearing for item D one, special use permit, multifamily residential use, 1284 Midway Road, parcel number six zero one two six two-one five. Okay. And then the next is D two, and this is O eighteen twenty-six. Uh Director Dane, do you just want to give us a little bit of background on this item, please? Sure. Um, I think as everyone knows, um there's been a lot of discussion around data centers happening across Wisconsin and across the country. Um lot of communities I think have been uh not really prepared um for some of the impacts that they've created. And so the purpose of this moratorium is really just to give the city um 12 months to put together some regulations that would help us address you know potential impacts of a of a data center within the city of Manasha Thank you very much Director Dane. So this is item D2 and I will open the public hearing for item D2, 01826 and ordinance enacting Title 13, Chapter 1 Article A, Section 13-1-9A of the Code of Ordinances effectively establishing a temporary moratorium on the issuance of zoning and building permit approvals for data centers with greater than 10,000 square feet of floor area. This public hearing is now open if anybody wishes to speak does anybody want to participate in this public hearing. All right seeing none then that will conclude the item D2 public hearing and it is now closed and that uh concludes the public hearing portion of tonight's common council agenda and we'll move to E and this is public comment on any matter of concern to the city if anybody in the gallery wishes to speak before the common council you may do so again just please step up to the podium see your first and last name and address and you have five minutes to speak. Hi good evening my name is Amy Rappert and I am here speaking on behalf of my mom Krista Ball. She lives at 848 3rd Street in Manasha and um part of the with a tornado um her house was severely damaged she was displaced immediately and it's a um unique situation where there is a house in the front and a house in the back and that's where she lived in was in the house in the back and we've had an engineer over twice letting saying that there was no racking on the home but also we've had we've tried to hire refers to come and tarp it and they said that it's too dangerous and um have asked us that that they were concerned that they were saving this house and I said well we are to the point until we hear otherwise but so I am here wondering about um the raise orders if there's anything if that has been um as far as those being sent out is there a time frame um she's 70 and she is in physical and her mental health has significantly altered just from um the stress of the situation and being displaced right now and not knowing whether her house is being taken down you know where her next steps are from here.