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Committee approves six winners for Sustainable Middleton Awards, plans city council presentation
Summary
The Middleton Sustainability Committee unanimously approved six Sustainable Middleton Award nominees — two residents, one city employee, two businesses and one nonprofit — and will present the honors at the April 15 city council meeting.
The Middleton Sustainability Committee voted to approve a packet of six Sustainable Middleton Awards after its subcommittee reviewed applicants and recommended honorees.
The subcommittee presented six nominations: Faye and Brian Hartman (native landscape gardening and runoff infiltration), Tony Kron (Middleton City Forester, urban tree canopy planting and pest management), Kevin Munson (stewardship and outreach at Pheasant Branch Conservancy), PKK Lighting (a regional recycling center for fluorescent tubes and ballasts), Thermo Fisher Scientific — Middleton Lab (donated and helped install a vertical hydroponic garden at Polk Farm Elementary) and WayForward Resources Family Garden (community garden providing produce and skills to more than 200 families since 2012). The group recommended recognition for all six applicants.
Speaker 5, presenting the subcommittee report, said the subgroup used a scoring sheet to rank nominees and recommended awarding all six. "We wanna give them all awards," the presenter said while reading draft accomplishment statements. The packet was moved for approval by Aldo Schafer and seconded by the chair; the committee called the question and members voted "aye" without recorded opposition.
The committee also discussed an honorarium policy: the city employee nominee, Tony Kron, will receive a certificate but not the $100 honorarium that the committee plans to give to private individuals; the committee said it will clarify next year's language on accepting monetary awards by employees and may direct any monetary award toward a donation or project in the employee's name.
The committee asked staff to finalize certificates and plaques and to place representatives on the April 15 city council agenda to receive the awards.
Nominee details and draft accomplishment statements were discussed in the meeting; committee members asked staff to edit and finalize the text before public release and to confirm logistics for the city council presentation.
