City of Madison Week Ahead 2/28/21

This week’s the City gets an F for public notice.  I think there are a record number of closed session portions of or entire meetings, lack of recommendations and missing agendas.  I’m seeing red.

Monday, February 28, 2022

8:00 am Common Council Executive Committee Monona Terrace Community & Convention Center

• Final Candidate Interviews & Deliberation Regarding Nomination of Finalist Candidate – Common Council Chief of Staff (Closed Session)

4:30 pm Finance Committee Virtual

4:30 pm Sustainable Madison Committee Virtual

• Sustain Dane Update

5:00 pm Transportation Policy and Planning Board Virtual

5:00 pm Equal Opportunities Commission – Executive Committee Virtual

5:00 pm Board of Health for Madison and Dane County – Administrative Hearing Committee Virtual

• HEARING ON DANGEROUS ANIMAL DETERMINATION APPEAL – City of Madison v. Comazel and Monica Caldwell, Owner of “Petra”

  1. DANGEROUS ANIMAL DETERMINATION FOR “PETRA”
  2. DANGEROUS ANIMAL DETERMINATION FOR “PETRA” APPEAL

   

• CLOSED SESSION NOTICE: The Administrative Hearings Committee may, by proper motion and majority vote, convene in closed session during the course of this appeal for one or both of the following reasons:

  1. To deliberate concerning a case which was the subject of any judicial or quasi-judicial trial or hearing before that governmental body, pursuant to Wisconsin Statutes Section 19.85(1)(a), or

  2. To confer with legal counsel for the Committee who is rendering oral or written advice concerning a strategy to be adopted by the body with respect to litigation in which it is, or is likely to become involved, pursuant to Wisconsin Statutes section 19.85(1)(g).

6:00 pm Humanitarian Award Commission, Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Virtual

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

4:00 pm Police and Fire Commission Virtual

• Evaluate candidates to proceed to final Fire Chief interview process, and Review questions for Fire Chief finalist interviews (closed session)

4:30 pm Common Council Executive Committee

• No agenda?

5:30 pm Common Council Virtual

• SPECIAL MEETING – THE COMMON COUNCIL WILL BE MEETING IN CLOSED SESSION TO DELIBERATE ON THE COMMON COUNCIL CHIEF OF STAFF POSITION (closed session)

6:30 pm Common Council Virtual

Several committees meet on Monday and Tuesday and there are no final recommendations – Finance, CCEC and Transportation Commission still need to make several recommendations.

• Presentation: Poetry Recitation by Richard Vargas – “i am waiting for a peace”

• Public Hearing – New License
  The International LLC • dba The International
  255 N Sherman Ave #1 • Agent: Apollo Marquez • Estimated Capacity (in/out): 50/32
  Class B Combination Liquor & Beer • 40% alcohol, 60% food
  Aldermanic District 12 (Alder Abbas) • Police Sector 501

• Public Hearing – New License
  Sriram Retails 3 LLC • dba Om’s Liquor & More
  1101 S Park St • Agent: Meenu Kaushal
  Class A Beer, Class A Liquor
  Aldermanic District 13 (Alder Evers) • Police Sector 306

• Public Hearing – License Transfer
  502 State St LLC • dba Koi Sushi
  Transfer from 502 State St to 260 W Gilman St
  Agent: Jing Xun Jiang • Estimated Capacity:
  Class B Combination Liquor & Beer • 10% alcohol, 90% food Aldermanic District 2 (Alder Heck) • Police Sector 403

• Change of Licensed Conditions
  Hone LLC • dba Hone • Capacity (in/out): 50/40
  708 1/4 E Johnson St • Agent: Michael Parks
  Class B Combination Liquor & Beer • 50% alcohol, 50% food
  Aldermanic District 6 (Alder Benford) • Police Sector 407
  Request to remove condition, related to midnight alcohol service cessation.

• Approving plans and specifications for public improvements necessary for the project known as 619-621 N Lake Street and authorizing construction to be undertaken by the Developer, Private Contract No. 9133. (2nd AD)

• Amending Section 33.13(2) to establish procedures for hiring of the Common Council Chief of Staff. (no current recommendation)

• Amending Section 33.13(2) of the Madison General Ordinances to Specify Hiring and Supervision of Common Council Office Staff. (no current recommendation)

• Authorizing Metro Transit to purchase additional fuel as needed at rack rate, should usage necessitate above the contracted monthly amount of 82,333 gallons of diesel from sole source vendor, Energy Solution Partners. (no current recommendation)

• SUBSTITUTE – Authorizing a 5-year noncompetitive purchase of goods from Frank Beer Distributors LLC as a sole source provider of certain brands of fermented malt beverages to be sold at the City of Madison Golf Courses. (no current recommendation)

• Authorizing the Mayor and the City Clerk to execute a Professional Services Agreement with Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. (SEH) for pre-design planning, preliminary design, public participation support, final construction drawings and specifications, permitting, bidding, construction administration and commissioning for the Unit Well 19 Iron, Manganese and Radium Treatment System. (no current recommendation)

• BY TITLE ONLY: Authorizing the allocation of up to $700,000 of American Rescue Plan Act of 2021(ARPA) aid Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to support community-based organizations (CBOs) serving undocumented immigrant residents, as the result of a competitive RFP process conducted by the Community Development Division; and authorizing the Mayor and the City Clerk to enter into agreements with those agencies to implement the designated programs and services.(no current recommendation)

• Report dated February 1, 2022 re: Board, Committee, Commission, Ad Hoc Committee and Subcommittee Members who have not filed the Statement of Interests Form.

• SUBSTITUTE Approval for Imagination Center at Reindahl Park Operating Plan (as outlined in 2022 Capital Budget Amendment #3).

• Designating City of Madison Polling Locations for the 2022 Spring Election

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

3:30 pm Public Safety Review Committee Budget Subcommittee Virtual

4:00 pm President’s Work Group on Racial Justice, Antiracism and Equity Virtual

4:30 pm Board of Public Works Virtual

• Creating Section 10.30 of the Madison General Ordinances to Create the Roadway Cafe Permit to Allow for the Expansion of Licensed Sidewalk Cafes into the Roadway, and Amending Sections 12.1425, 38.05(3)(e)1 and 1.08(3)(a) accordingly and 1.08(4) accordingly.

• Creating Section 9.135, Sidewalk Cafe and Roadway Cafe Expansion Licenses, to create a new Roadway Cafe Expansion License and make the Streatery program for sidewalk cafes permanent, creating Section 9.136, Street Vending on the State Street Mall/Capitol Concourse, repealing Section 9.13, License for Selling on Public Streets and recreating Section 9.13 as Street Vending Licenses, and amending Sections 9.12, 1.08(3)(a), and 1.08(4), accordingly.

• Amending the City of Madison Official Map to establish mapped reservations for future Streets and Highways in the City of Madison to connect Shopko Drive and Pankratz Street consistent with recommendations in the adopted Oscar Mayer Special Area Plan.

• Amending the City of Madison Official Map to establish mapped reservations for future Streets and Highways in the City of Madison consistent with recommendations in the adopted Oscar Mayer Special Area Plan.

• Approving a Cost Sharing Agreement with Dane County for a Historical Investigation of PFAS Use at the Airport. (12th AD)

• Authorizing the City of Madison to sign the Green Tier Charter Renewal. (Citywide)

• Adopting the Vision Zero Action Plan and directing staff to implement the recommendations in the plan.

5:00 pm Notice of Possible Quorum of the Transportation Commission Virtual

(Actually, this is the agenda for the Transportation Policy and Planning Board, but that isn’t how its listed on the clerks site.)

5:30 pm Ad Hoc Landmarks Ordinance Review Committee Virtual

6:30 pm Greater Madison Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Policy Board Virtual

Thursday, March 3, 2022

12:00 pm Madison Central Business Improvement District (BID) Board

• No agenda

5:00 pm Public Market Development Committee Virtual

5:30 pm Community Development Block Grant Committee Virtual

• No agenda

5:30 pm Affirmative Action Commission

• No agenda

Friday, March 4, 2022

12:00 pm TIF Review Board Virtual

• RESOLUTION APPROVING THE PROJECT PLAN AND BOUNDARY FOR TID 49 (FEMRITE)