Take Action — Plow It Back to the Middle

05Take action

Two minutes now can change the vote

Email the committee

One click opens a pre-written note to the five committee members. Add your name and send.

Or copy: Bruce.Trueblood@wausauwi.gov, Andrew.Wiskowski@wausauwi.gov, Michael.Martens@wausauwi.gov, Matt.Hoenecke@wausauwi.gov, Kristin.Slonski@wausauwi.gov

Get involved

Tell us you're coming, that you'll speak, or that you can help. Your note comes to our organizers.

Good to know for the potluck

Where: First Universalist Unitarian Church, 504 Grant Street, Wausau, WI 54403 (diagonally across from City Hall).
Getting in: the potluck is on the second floor. Enter through the door by the parking-lot entrance and head up the stairs to the kitchen and dining room.
Please bring food ready to eat. The church kitchen is available for serving and electricity, but cooking and food preparation on site are not allowed, so bring your dish already prepared.
Parking: use the lot nearest the church building. The eastern lot is reserved.

06Yard signs

Claim one of 50 yard signs

We have a limited run of 50 yard signs, first come, first served. Put one in your own front yard, not in the boulevard, to get the whole block talking.

To request one, check the yard sign box on the form above and include your street. We will confirm by email while they last.

Plow It Back to the Middle yard sign — The yard sign. The QR code links back to this site.

07Spread the word

One month to go. Help in five minutes.

Share it online

Please share widely: on your own Nextdoor neighborhood, in local Wausau community and neighborhood Facebook groups, and on Instagram. Attach the image to every post. Download the image, or share this site on Facebook.

For Nextdoor and neighborhood groups

Neighbors: for 50+ years Wausau plowed our boulevard snow to the grassy center. In 2024 that changed, and now it's packed into our driveways, where our elderly neighbors can't shovel it or see to back out. Nearly every household in both neighborhoods signed to bring the old way back. Come to a potluck Thursday, Aug 13 at 3:30 at the Unitarian Universalist Church, then we walk to the 5:00 city meeting together. Full story and how to help: PlowItBack.org

For Facebook (your page and local Wausau groups)

For 50+ years, Wausau plowed the boulevard snow to the middle. In 2024 the city started packing it into our driveways instead, walls of ice our elderly neighbors can't shovel. Nearly every home in two neighborhoods asked for the old way back, and the city's own record shows it actually saves money. Join us Thursday, Aug 13: potluck 3:30 at the Unitarian Universalist Church, then the 5:00 city meeting. See it all and email the committee at PlowItBack.org. Please share.

For Instagram (put PlowItBack.org in your bio, then post the image with this caption)

Wausau, let's plow it back to the middle. For 50+ years our boulevard snow went to the grassy center. In 2024 it started getting packed into our driveways instead, walls of ice our elderly neighbors can't shovel or see around. Nearly every home in two neighborhoods signed to bring the old way back. Come to the potluck Thursday, Aug 13 at 3:30 at the Unitarian Universalist Church, then we walk to the 5:00 city meeting. Link in bio. #Wausau #WausauWI #Wisconsin #PlowItBack #CentralWisconsin #Neighbors #SnowRemoval

Print a flyer

Pin it up at the library, coffee shops, the co-op, and the church. Download the printable flyer, with a QR code and tear-off tabs.

Write the paper

A letter to the editor of the Wausau Pilot & Review or the Wausau Daily Herald reaches the whole city. They ask for your real name and a phone number to verify, usually under about 400 words. Make it yours and send it in.

To the editor: For more than fifty years, Wausau plowed the snow on our boulevards to the grassy median in the center of the street. In 2024, without notice, Public Works changed it, and now the plow packs that snow into the ends of our driveways. On Highland Park Boulevard and the Southeast Side, the piles harden into ice our older neighbors cannot shovel and block the view when backing out. Nearly every affected household has asked the city to go back to what worked: 91 signed on the Southeast Side, and every home on Highland Park Boulevard. The city's own record shows plowing to the center actually saves money, because the city must clear the median sidewalk after every snowfall anyway, and its policy contains no rule requiring the current method. The Infrastructure and Facilities Committee takes this up Thursday, August 13 at 5:00 p.m. at City Hall. I urge them to restore center-boulevard plowing. [Your name] [Your neighborhood], Wausau