Meetings I think could be interesting this week . . . a low standard I know, but here’s my items of interest. Of course, most of the time all the meetings are not posted in the beginning of the week and I may have missed something of interest to you, so here’s the weekly schedule.
Monday, July 27, 2009
4:30 PM BOARD OF ESTIMATES ROOM 260 MMB
– Finally adopting new personnel rules, for the first time since 1970. Yeah, that’s not a joke!
– Allowing City of Madison managers and supervisors to live outside the City of Madison without a 1% pay decrease.
– Facade improvement grants to businesses.
– Midvale-Westmorland Neighborhood Plan
– Who gets the CDBG stimulus money?
– Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing stimulus money
– 2010 Budget Schedule and Rules
– Report on local impacts of stimulus money
– Attempt to stop financially analyzing TIF projects when determining if projects should get your tax money – I’m not kidding. Of course, lots of useful information can be found here.
– Closed session contract negotiation update. Glad to see this happening before its a done deal.
4:45 PM LANDMARKS COMMISSION ROOM LL-130 MMB
– Standing room only for the Edgewater project. I hear there could be fireworks over lack of necessary information.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
12:00 PM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS SUITE 500, 116 N CARROLL ST
– Useless agenda, as per usual.
4:30 PM WATER UTILITY BOARD 119 E. OLIN AVE. ROOMS A & B
– Report, reports, reports
– Policies on treating iron and manganese in water
– Flouridation in our water.
5:00 PM PEDESTRIAN/BICYCLE/MOTOR VEHICLE COMMISSION ROOM 260 MMB
– Midvale-Westmorland Neighborhood Plan
– Northport-Warner-Sherman Neighhborhood Plan
– Repealing car door ordinance
– Annual Platinum Bike report and discussion on bike boulevards
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
9:00 AM LABOR RELATIONS ROOM 501 CCB
– I don’t recall ever seeing this publicly noticed. It’s the firefighter’s contract that will be discussed.
5:35 PM COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE, PUBLIC HEARING WATER UTILITY OFFICES, 119 E OLIN AVE
– Cuts, cuts, cuts. Do more with less!
5:36 PM COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE WATER UTILITY OFFICES, 119 E OLIN AVE
– Discussion of final recommendations for cuts. If you feel like this snuck up on you – it did! Less than two weeks notice.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
5:00 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT COMMITTEE, SPECIAL MEETING ROOM 260 MMB
– More CDBG stimulus money discussions
– 2010 Budget discussions – no info available this Monday morning.
– Myseterious discussion on STAFF
– Also mysterious discussion on the 5 year plan. Also, no info available this Monday morning.
Its a last week of the month, with several “5ths”, so it should be slow, but don’t be surprised if more meetings pop up after this morning!