Looks a little better than usual, perhaps they are trying harder?
Monday, August 16, 2010
8:00 AM COMMISSION OF THE MADISON METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT 1610 MOORLAND RD.
– No agenda
1:30 PM OVERTURE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS PROMENADE LOUNGE LEVEL II, OVERTURE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
– Review and formal acceptance of Overture Foundation pledge of $11.5 million for debt retirement (No attachments to know what the are talking about.)
4:30 PM COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT (Cancelled) ROOM 103A CCB
4:30 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ALLIED DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE ROOM LL-120 MMB
– Allied Design Guidelines
5:00 PM ALCOHOL LICENSE REVIEW COMMITTEE-SUBCOMMITEE ON DOWNTOWN ALCOHOL ISSUES & ORDINANCES ROOM 201 CCB
– Proposed changes to the Alcohol License Density Ordinance, Expansion of Alcohol License Density Ordinance boundaries to include Park Street and Regent Street, Increasing the percentage of alcohol permitted under the exceptional circumstance (currently set at 25%), Sunset and potential extension of Alcohol License Density Ordinance sunset, Amendments and annual report on Alcohol License Density Ordinance review.
5:30 PM PLAN COMMISSION ZONING CODE REWRITE SPECIAL MEETING ROOM 260 MMB
– Zoning code rewrite
5:30 PM SISTER CITY COLLABORATION COMMITTEE (Cancelled) ROOM 417 CCB
5:30 PM SISTER CITY COLLABORATION COMMITTEE GOVERNANCE SUBCOMMITTEE ROOM 313 MMB
– Update from CCOC discussion and facilitated session to gather information on issues, concerns and outcomes desired by committee members
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
12:15 PM BUILDING CODE, FIRE CODE, CONVEYANCE CODE AND LICENSING APPEALS BOARD ROOM LL-110 MMB
– Not much of interest I don’t think.
4:00 PM OLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY BOARD OF DIRECTORS 3330 ATWOOD AVE.
– Changing the quorum from 60% to 50%
5:00 PM AFFIRMATIVE ACTION COMMISSION ROOM LL-120 MMB
– Affirmative Action Report
5:00 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT COMMITTEE ROOM 260 MMB
– Funding recommendations
– Affordable Housing Trust Fund
– Truax project – CDA Raid of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund
5:00 PM PARKING COUNCIL FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ROOM 108 CCB
– Usual stuff . . .
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
8:00 AM EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION COMMITTEE ROOM LL-120 MMB
– Funding recommendations.
10:00 AM STREET USE STAFF COMMISSION ROOM 108 CCB
– Awhole bunch of events coming up.
1:00 PM BOARD OF REVIEW ROOM 108 CCB
– Mort people who don’t like their assessments.
1:30 PM SENIOR CITIZENS ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE – POSSIBLE QUORUM OF SENIOR CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE 330 W MIFFLIN ST
– Q & A for senior funding, no recommendations discussed.
4:30 PM BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ROOM 108 CCB
– Communication dated 6/15/10 – From Greg Galica & Ken Hallam regarding the need for the City to implement an automated waste cart/dumpster cleaning system, in order to protect citizen health, water and community cleanliness.
– Creating new Section 10.28(4) and renumbering current Section 10.28(3) to (4) of the Madison General Ordinances to define “sidewalk” to include bus stops. i.e. requiring nearby land owners to remove snow and ice from bus stops.
4:30 PM URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
– 1552 University Avenue Wisconsin Energy Institute New Laboratory Building.
– Over budget police training facility.
5:00 PM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE ROOM 260 MMB
– Ooops, see comment below . . . and I’m guessing they spend more time talking about the development process than listed, just like they did last time.
5:15 PM HUMANITARIAN AWARD COMMISSION, REVEREND DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ROOM 523 CCB
– Debrief from this year, getting ready for next year.
5:30 PM ALCOHOL LICENSE REVIEW COMMITTEE ROOM 201 CCB
– Status of Density Plan
– Municipal Court Prosecutions:
– – – HJ Liquors LLC, 525 University Ave
– – – Wiggie’s Inc, 1901 Aberg Ave
– Request that the Comptroller’s Office audit Alexander’s Restaurants LLC, dba Frida Mexican Grill, 117 State St.
5:35 PM COMUNITY SERVICE COMMITTEE ROOM 300 MMB
– 2011 – 2012 CDD proposals received for Community Resources, Program Area II: Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Crisis Intervention and Safety & Support.
– – Q & A and Recommendations
Thursday, August 19, 2010
3:45 PM MONONA TERRACE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SEARCH COMMITTEE 1 JOHN NOLEN DR. DANE ROOM LEVEL TWO
– Overview of the process.
4:30 PM LANDLORD AND TENANT ISSUES SUBCOMMITTEE (Cancelled) ROOM LL-130 MMB
4:30 PM MONONA TERRACE COMMUNITY AND CONVENTION CENTER BOARD 1 JOHN NOLEN DR. HALL OF FAME ROOM
– Overview of the process to hire new director.
5:00 PM LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING COMMITTEE ROOM 300 MMB
– Intercity transportation and a multi-modal station.
– TIP – the plan for what roads will get funded . . . where the real decisions are made.
5:00 PM ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS ROOM LL-110 MMB
– I didn’t see much of interest
5:35 PM COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE ROOM 260 MMB
– Another marathon session of questions, this time for youth programs, no recommendations.
7:00 PM OVERTURE AD HOC COMMITTEE ROOM 354 CCB
– Briefing, with no materials available.
Could you kindly explain how borrowing money and paying interest to fund a project to improve the quality of housing for public housing tenants (for 50% longer affordability than Bayview has agreed to) constitutes a “raid” of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund?
The link to the EDC meeting is wrong on the weekly calendar. The real agenda is:
http://legistar.cityofmadison.com/meetings/2010/8/8572_A_ECONOMIC_DEVELOPMENT_COMMITTEE_10-08-18_Agenda.pdf
Their agenda this meeting:
505-5:35 Adopting the Greenbush-Vilas Neighborhood Housing Revitalization Strategy Report as a supplement to the Greenbush Neighborhood Plan.
5:35 – 5:50 “Synchronist Business Survey” (I have no idea what that is, the attachment is useless)
5:50-6:00 Tim Cooley’s report
6:00-6:15 Update and discussion on the development review process
6:15-6:20 update on future meetings –
September 1: City Funded Projects and Job Creation Presentation by Norman Davis, Affirmative Action Division Manager October 6: Special EDC Meeting-Final Development Review Process Proposal Package
October 20: Regional Transit Authority
Thanks Erik.
Stuart – Do you have any idea how many non-profits could have used this money in the short term over the last three years while the Mayor did everything he could to make sure the ordinance didn’t pass. Now that the CDA needs the money its being rushed through so CDA can get the money and use it for 17 years . . . it’s simply not fair to everyone who should have access to the money and once the CDA gets over $1M, no one else will likely be able to get that large of an amount of money for quite some time. I’ll have a blog post on it tomorrow.
Whether or not the keepers of the fund have been administering it the way you would have liked over the past 3 years is a different question from accusing the CDA of “raiding” the fund in 2010. The fact that someone didn’t get a grant in 2009 doesn’t make our request for a loan (on which we will pay interest) a “raid.”
Stuart, the CDA proposal doesn’t qualify, you do realize that don’t you? Instead, you are getting the law changed so your project will work. The application was submitted on a Friday and the next week two committees suddenly were being forced to hurry up and make changes to accommodate the CDA. No other applicants have the same opportunities the CDA will have when/if the law changes. It’s kind of like the Edgewater tactics. You don’t have a problem with that?
Does whoever approves this loan consider how prudent the funds will be used? It is going to fund the renovation of apartments for affordable housing at a budget exceeding $200,000 a unit. Affordable housing is very important. So is being fiscally responsible.