Welcome to the May 23 edition of HEADS UP OSHKOSH, where you get a preview of the news you’ll be hearing and talking about this week. This is our 20th issue of 2021.
A NOTE TO READERS: This is the last Sunday that HEADS UP OSHKOSH will appear. Its new publication day will be Monday, starting next week on Memorial Day.
TOP ITEMS THIS WEEK:
- Superintendent finalists come to town
- Resolution condemns anti-Asian bias
- Jiffy Lube planned for Ninth Avenue
- Events schedule filling up
- School board to act on fee cuts, whistleblower policy
Superintendent finalists come to town
The Board of Education is expecting to pick a new school superintendent within the week after announcing who its three finalists are (links go to related news coverage):
- Bryan Davis, superintendent of the Shorewood School District.
- Aaron Sadoff, superintendent of the School District of North Fond du Lac.
- Cassandra Schug, superintendent of the Watertown Unified School District.
The three are scheduled to come to town Monday to meet first with a group of community stakeholders and then with the school board.
The district said it hoped to “finalize the hiring of the next superintendent by late May with a start date effective July 1.”
The current superintendent, Vickie Cartwright, has a total compensation package, including salary and fringe benefits, of $235,288. Davis, at $237,709, exceeds that level in his current job.
Sadoff’s total compensation is $199,480, and Schug’s is $198,955, according to the Department of Public Instruction’s online database.
Resolution condemns anti-Asian bias
At the request of the city’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, the Common Council will consider a resolution Tuesday to “condemn anti-Asian bias.”
The city has more than 2,100 residents “of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Community,” the committee said.
There has been “a documented increase of incidents of anti-Asian discrimination and hate crimes which impact community members of all ages, exacerbated by xenophobia around the coronavirus,” the resolution states.
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
Jiffy Lube planned for Ninth Avenue
The Plan Commission is recommending approval of a plan to put a Jiffy Lube in the 1700 block of West Ninth Avenue, east of South Koeller Street.
The developer is expecting to spend $1.5 million on the project, which will come before the council for final approval.
Concerns had been raised about traffic impacts, but the developer, Morgan Partners, told the commission that a facility like this will attract only about 25 visits per day, mostly in the middle of the day. By comparison a gas station/convenience store could have 3,600 visits, the developer said.
Events schedule filling up
Look for the council to give a boost to the city’s efforts to get back to normal as members consider special event requests from a dozen sponsors for the coming months.
The agenda includes items for the Oshkosh Farmer’s Market, the Oshkosh Food Co-op, concerts at Ford Festival Park, the Wisconsin Alliance of Bass Tournament Anglers Fishing Tournament and the Oshkosh Jazz Festival.
School board to act on fee cuts, whistleblower policy
At its regularly scheduled meeting Wednesday, the school board is poised to reduce a range of student costs and to adopt a new whistleblower policy for administrators.
The fees to be eliminated for next year are for all instructional materials and for the $8 physical education T-shirt. Parking fees would be reduced.
The school district already has whistleblower policies directed at support staff and professional staff. The new policy makes specific references to administrators, a group that includes school principals.
Last year principals complained directly to the board of education about Superintendent Vickie Cartwright. Under the new policy, complaints about the superintendent would go to the school board president, who would use the district’s outside law firm “to manage the investigation.”
Headlines of note–week of May 16
- GM has Oshkosh Corp. in its sights for JLTV contract
- How a military vehicle contractor plans to make a USPS truck that lasts “almost forever”
- Oshkosh HET is a fast transporter of mission-critical equipment
- Oshkosh library drops mask requirement for fully vaccinated
- Hawk’s nest delays Oshkosh project
- Oshkosh North students create outdoor classroom at YMCA
- Oshkosh police currently investigating a weapons call that sent a 60-year-old to the hospital
- Community Program hosts Bike to Work Project
- Overturned truck closes part of highway in Oshkosh
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