City of Appleton - File #: 15-887

• File #: 15-887
• Version: 1
• Type: Report Action Item
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/21/2015
• In control: Finance Committee
• On agenda: 5/26/2015
• Final action: 6/17/2015
• Title: Resolution introduced by Alderperson Baranowski at the April 22, 2015 Common Council meeting relating to a referendum for the April 5, 2016 ballot regarding the new municipal library: #6-R-15 - Baranowski “Whereas the cost of the proposed re-siting of the municipal library to a completely new building on one of Appleton’s most commercially desirable downtown locations is a major expenditure by the city, and; Whereas the currently budgeted city contribution is $30 million dollars, a cost figure that likely does not include collateral and related costs for developments connected to serving the new construction and site, and, thus, is likely to increase as a total project cost, and; Whereas the citizens of Appleton deserve an opportunity to directly influence an expenditure of this magnitude for a nontaxable municipal building; Be it resolved that the following be placed as an advisory referendum question on the ballots for the 2016 Spring Election & Presidential Preference Vote t...

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/17/2015	1	Common Council	approved	Pass
6/3/2015	1	Common Council	held	Pass
5/26/2015	1	Finance Committee	recommended for denial	Pass

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Resolution introduced by Alderperson Baranowski at the April 22, 2015 Common Council meeting relating to a referendum for the April 5, 2016 ballot regarding the new municipal library:

#6-R-15 - Baranowski

"Whereas the cost of the proposed re-siting of the municipal library to a completely new building on one of Appleton's most commercially desirable downtown locations is a major expenditure by the city, and;

Whereas the currently budgeted city contribution is $30 million dollars, a cost figure that likely does not include collateral and related costs for developments connected to serving the new construction and site, and, thus, is likely to increase as a total project cost, and;

Whereas the citizens of Appleton deserve an opportunity to directly influence an expenditure of this magnitude for a nontaxable municipal building;

Be it resolved that the following be placed as an advisory referendum question on the ballots for the 2016 Spring Election & Presidential Preference Vote to be held on April 05, 2016:

"Should at least $30 million be spent by the taxpayers of the City of Appleton to construct a new municipal library?"