Announcements

Beginning Monday, February 10, 2020 all Real Estate Taxes MUST be paid at the Columbia County Treasurer’s Office at 112 East Edgewater Street (Administration Building near Portage Canal).  Questions, please call 608-742-9613.

Please join us Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, as we introduce electronic poll books to the community, which will be used for the first time at the February 18, 2020 Spring Primary Election.

The electronic poll books, called Badger Books, work the same as the paper polls books.  They will be used Election Day to check in voters, enter voter registrations and record absentee voters.

The Open House will provide Election Workers experience in checking in voters and also provide an opportunity for the public to try them out and have any questions they may have answered.

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The City Airport Brush Site is Closed Starting Today. It will be open by appointment only.

Contractors may dump snow by appointment ONLY.  Snow must be pushed off the edge when given permission to dump snow.  Contact the City Garage at 608-742-8486 to make an appointment to dump snow.

The Department of Public Works will get all the city streets and alleys plowed to the curb today, Friday. The DPW crew will be in at 3 am Saturday morning to make the rounds again.
No snow emergency will be called. The Downtown area will be cleaned up Saturday Morning. Thank you for your patience.

Cancelled – The City of Portage is declaring a snow emergency for this weekend:

Jan 12 at 2 A.M. parking will be prohibited on all snow routes.

Jan 12 at 4 A.M. parking will be prohibited on all other streets except for the Central Business District.

Jan 13 at midnight (0:00) to 7:00 A.M. the parking in the Central Business District will be prohibited (We will be removing snow from the from the downtown during this time).