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Votes at a glance: licenses, MOUs, budget and sewer resolution adopted; UWS resolution fails
Summary
Council approved multiple routine agenda items — liquor licenses for The Maine Club and Wasabi 33, the 2018 economic development fund budget, a Fair Housing MOU, a one‑year airport lease and a trunk‑sewer reimbursement resolution — while declining to adopt a resolution opposing UW–Superior program suspensions.
At the meeting the Superior Common Council approved several routine and substantive items by voice vote and roll call.
What the council approved: - A Class B liquor and beer license for Atypical Enterprises Inc., trade name The Maine Club (1217 Tower Avenue). Motion carried on voice vote. - A Class B liquor and beer license for Wasabi 33 LLC (33 Tower Avenue). Motion carried on voice vote. - The 2018 economic development fund budget, submitted by Finance Director Vito. Motion carried on voice vote. - A Fair Housing Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Superior and Northwest Wisconsin Community Services Agency. Motion carried on voice vote. - A one‑year office space lease at the Richard I. Bong Memorial Airport with the Commemorative Air Force Lake Superior Squadron 101 for currently unoccupied terminal office space. Motion carried on voice vote; the lease was previously approved at the Dec. 5 council meeting and was brought forward for formal approval. - A resolution declaring official intent to reimburse expenditures from borrowing proceeds for Newton Creek and Nelson Creek trunk sewer improvements. Motion carried on voice vote. - An ordinance amending the traffic code to add a disabled parking zone at 1802 North 22nd Street. Motion carried on voice vote.
What the council did not adopt: - A proposed resolution opposing program suspensions at the University of Wisconsin–Superior (Item 11.2). The motion, moved by Councilor Van Sickle and seconded by Councilor Ludwig, failed on roll call with a 5–4 vote; Superior’s rules require six votes for that resolution to pass.
Motions and outcomes recorded in the meeting were largely handled by voice vote; roll call was used for the contested university resolution.
