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Weekly Blast!: The F3 tornado that severely damaged the City of Menasha last week has been devastating to that community. Have you ever wondered what the Town of Grant would do in case of a similar disaster? Recently Portage County Emergency Managers Bob Weinert and Tanner Arnold, T. Grant First Responders Jim Yetter and Keith Kardash, and Clerk Stefanie Schlapa and I met to work on a Local Emergency Response Guide. All Portage County municipalities are required to have this document available, but it needs to be reviewed and updated every so often. Case in point…Menasha.   So, what does this Response Guide entail? We must identify where could residents go if their structures were in danger or uninhabitable, and who we the Town could call on to supply three critical items: food, water, and power. Emergency contact names and their numbers are included in the Guide. Questions including if there are critical infrastructures that could be impacted, for example chemical, commercial, communications, emergency services, energy, transportation, etc. In the next few weeks, we’ll be reconvening to make updates to our Guide. Do you have large equipment or a skill set that might be helpful to us in case of a disaster? If so, let Clerk Stefanie Schlapa at 715-213-7370 or me at 715-213-1717 know so we can add your name to the list of contacts. It’s important that we work together if disaster strikes.   Have a good weekend. Perhaps rain may fall, Sharon

Posted on by Flor Faustino

Weekly Blast!

It’s been busy week of meetings for important Town information…

On Wednesday morning there was a meeting for Transfer Station employees. We covered the recent receipt of our WI Dept. of Natural Resource recycling grant, our 2026 tire day collection, considered revising data sheets for bulk and other items, apprised employees about our 2026 Recycling Ordinance, covered newly required record-keeping of discarded electronics, and considered some new signage for our various TS recycling stations.

That evening the Plan Commission met. Included was a review of a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to determine how the owner was complying with some of the conditions, discussed two possible rezones, reviewed a zoning enforcement letter, and prepared for a pending public hearing regarding changes to our Comprehensive Plan.

On Thursday afternoon the Board of Review convened. This annual event allows officers (and any interested landowner) to review changes to the assessment roll, confirming them, and then witnessing the assessor sign off on the submitted roll. There were 101 pages of changes, the majority ~$40 step ups per acre to agricultural land use value. Then, based on the zoning permits that were submitted in 2025 we saw where new construction including homes, garages, accessory buildings, etc. were built. The roll also indicated where landowners had new or amended Managed Forest Law entries into the system. Overall, it’s a very interesting event to see how the Town’s “value” is determined.

Enjoy the predicted beautiful weekend. Summer is official here! Sharon