Janesville’s City Council will ponder a Rock County Children’s Museum request for $2 million towards their capital campaign on Monday.

Museum Board President John Westphal says Janesville is the first municipality in the county they’ve approached about giving money and started the conversation with then City Manager Mark Freitag in September of 2022.

Westphal says beyond the request to the city, they’ve applied for multiple grants at the state level that could total more than $5 million.

So far, the campaign has raised just shy of $5.8 million, but has a goal of $10 million.