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The Menasha Common Council held a workshop on Monday, November 2, 2026, at 4:30 PM to review the proposed 2027-2031 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). Department heads presented their capital project priorities, including post-tornado recovery projects, equipment replacement cycles, and infrastructure maintenance plans. No formal actions or votes were taken during this workshop.
Parks and Recreation (Director Seckett)
Community Development (Director Dane)
Fire Rescue (Chief Tesh)
Police Department (Chief Albrecht)
Clerk's Office (Clerk Janet)
Public Works (Director Merton)
Yeah. All right. Well, good evening, everybody. I'd like to call the meeting to order for the CIP workshop for twenty twenty-seven twenty thirty-one capital improvement plans. Um I don't know why I just started over that. Could we please rise it for Pledge of Allegiance? Alderman Lewis, Alderman Marshall, Alderman Grotty, Alderman School, Alderman Rand, all are present. But I am grateful that we're all here today to be able to highlight the projects that we have prioritized in the CIP. So with that, I'm gonna quick open public comment. Is there anybody from the gallery that wishes to participate in public comment? No, all right. Now we'll move to E one, which is the discussion item that we have, which is twenty twenty-seven twenty thirty-2031 Capital Improvement plan, CAP. Clerk Janet is going to get the slides up, and then we will start presentations. And I would just say, um, if you have any questions, feel free to turn your mic on and I'll wait probably until each department head is done with their particular slide, and then they can answer your questions if that works. So without further ado, uh here is the City of Manasha 2027 Capital Improvement Plan PowerPoint. So we're gonna do park and recreation first, community development second, Nina Manasha Fire Rescue third, police department fourth, clerk office fifth, and then we will conclude this evening with public works. So I am going to hand things over to Director Seckett. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Council. As we kick off our CIP workshop, as I usually do, I want to always highlight what we accomplished in 2026 or the current year. So we did, despite uh the tornado had quite a few projects that did cross the completion line or got a major start on. So Jefferson Park, we continue to work through the phases of Jefferson Park. We had the completion of the boat launch that opened just before Memorial Day and has been widely used and appreciated. Earlier this year, we approved the concept plan for the aquatic facility and launched the capital campaign planning study. Um you would have received an email in the last couple of weeks indicating that there is a joint presentation with the park board specific to the aquatic facility this coming Wednesday. So we'll speak more in depth about that on Wednesday. Um, Canal Commons, that was really a two-year project, but we did do the ribbon cutting of opening, um ribbon cutting and opening of it about late May of this year and extended those walking trails from the trestle. Pleasants park, we had the installation of a new playground in cooperation with the school district. This really was a highlight for that school, and although a playground project may seem simple, it really was a difference maker for that school and the accessibility that they now have. If you haven't driven by it after hours of school, there's many, many users outside of just school hours, and that you wouldn't have seen that prior. So it really opens up a lot of opportunities and is our only park on that northwest corner of the city. So services all of our northwest part of our community. So it's important to have that in place. Clovis Grove Tennis Courts, I've spoken multiple times about this project. We did secure a $200,000 grant from USTA to help support the reconstruction of this project and or the reconstruction of these courts and the expansion of them. This also is a shared funding with Manasha School District, and it began construction in August. It will continue construction through next year and will open in time for the fall season. Probably summer use for recreational programs, but as far as competitive team use, it would be the fall season for them. If you've been out there, we've made great progress thanks to the good weather that we've had so far this year. Um you'll see the asphalt down if weather continues to cooperate, fencing will go up with that. Um, but then next year will be the coloring of the courts and some of the final details going up on that. Trestle trail.