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APPLETON - After facing a two-week backlash from the community, the Common Council on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution condemning xenophobia, racism and anti-Asian violence.
The resolution seeks to prevent the anti-Asian rhetoric and hate crimes that have intensified in the past year as Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) have been scapegoated for the coronavirus pandemic, and it encourages Appleton to become a more welcoming, inclusive community. Let s be a city known for unity and love for one another, said council member Maiyoua Thao, who introduced the resolution.
The wording of the resolution was unchanged from April 21, when the council referred it back to the Safety and Licensing Committee to be re-examined.
APPLETON - The Common Council hesitated Wednesday when asked to pass a resolution condemning xenophobia, racism and anti-Asian violence and encouraging Appleton to become a more welcoming, inclusive community.
Council member Bill Siebers referred the resolution back to committee, after he had voted in favor of it at committee last week. An attempt to block the referral fell one vote short of the required two-thirds majority.
Siebers said he supported the intent of the resolution but thought some of the language needed to be re-examined and changed. I would love to see a unanimous vote on this resolution, he said. I don t think we re there today.
Question: Why did Appleton select a firm from Chicago to design the new library? It seems to me that we would want to keep the money in northeast Wisconsin rather than send it out of state.
Answer: Appleton received proposals from 11 architects or architectural teams for the design of its $26.4 million public library, and none of them was strictly local.
Hoffman Planning, Design & Construction of Appleton was part of one proposal, partnering with Gensler of Chicago and Mead & Hunt of Wauwatosa, but the trio wasn t among the three finalists. Hoffman has some library experience with schools, but they don t have that high-level library experience, so they were teaming up with Gensler for the library expertise, project manager Dean Gazza said.
He later learned that wasn t the case.
After the city clerk s office posted the District 13 results online, showing Lobner as the victor, an error was found that gave Hartzheim 10 additional votes and swung Lobner’s eight-vote win into a two-vote loss.
In the end, Hartzheim received 463 votes (50.1%) compared with 461 (49.9%) for Lobner. It s been kind of an interesting night after I had publicly announced that I had won, Lobner told The Post-Crescent.
Lobner, the council president for the past two years, said he was thinking about requesting a recount but hadn t yet made a decision.
Before the votes were corrected, Hartzheim had planned to ask for a recount. I m not conceding at this point, she said at the time. I hope that the counts are off.