Customer Service (PowerPoint Presentation)

PowerPoint presentation Customer Service Working with Children and Teens: A Comedy in Two Parts that was shown at the May 22, 2009 Staff Meeting.

Health Smart Recognition

The Health Smart Team is proud to present the NEW Health Smart Recognition link on the Intranet. If you know an employee that has recently made a healthy accomplishment and would like to acknowledge the employee (even anonymously) the Health Smart Team is here to help. Each month, the Team will be sending out cards to those employees nominated to recognize their feat and motivate them to keep up the good work. All you have to do is go to the City's intranet page, click the Health Smart Team logo, choose the Health Smart Recognition link (look for the trophy near the top of the page) and fill out the form. We'll take care of the rest!

Butterfly Festival

The Health Department is a supporting sponsor of a new event being held to raise awareness and funds to prevent child abuse. Parent Connections is a family support program offered by Family Services Inc.

This event is scheduled for Saturday, June 20 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am at Appleton Memorial Park. Butterflies can be purchased for $10 on line at: http://www.familyservicesnew.org/parent-connection/butterfly-festival/ Or if you prefer order forms are available at the front desk of either the Department of Public Works or the Health Department. In addition butterfly cut outs are available for $1 at the above location.

Please consider supporting this important prevention service in our community.

Volunteer Opportunity for Neighborhood Revitalization Project

The Neighborhood Revitalization Program is looking to land at least four adult (4) volunteers who are interested in helping with the “Just Mulch It” 2 neighborhood project on Saturday, May 30, 2009. Volunteers will shovel landscape and gardening mulch into containers for residents of the neighborhood and assist with loading as well. Last year’s event was a great success. Hopefully you can play a role this year.

The event runs from 8:00 AM until 4:30 PM. A whole day would be great; however a ½ day in the AM or PM will work as well. Refreshments and lunch for volunteers will be provided.

If you would like to volunteer, please contact Jim Vanden Boom, Program Coordinator at jim.vandenboom@appleton.org. Thank you in advance for your consideration of this request.

City Receives P-Card Rebate

The City of Appleton recently received a rebate payment of $10,948 for the first full contract year with the new J.P. Morgan Chase program. The rebate was based on total spending of approximately $1,320,000 by our 300+ cardholders in all departments. There are things Departments can do to increase our future rebates, including increasing average transaction size, average annual spend per active card, and total annual spend. Department Directors, managers and p-card coordinators are encouraged to contact Jeff Fait (ext. 6311) to work together on ways to maximize our rebate potential.

Bites & Bytes - May

Technology Services is happy to once again invite you to read their newest issue of "Bits & Bytes". It is intended to provide some quick tips on using our technology tools as well as keep you informed about changes in progress or being planned that may affect your use of the City's computer network. You can also find the latest Intranet edition under Documents/Departmental/Technology Services.

Word and Excel Classes Offered

Word and Excel level one and two classes have been scheduled for May and June. Please check the training calendar for dates and times. If you are interested in attending one of these classes please call the Help-Desk at 5893 to sign up.

H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)

For the latest information regarding the H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) see the link on the City of Appleton web page (http://www.appleton.org/).