Board of Estimates Re-cap
A bit of a preview of issues to come, some revealing of some issues that won't ever get talked about at the council ....
Community Services Committee Makes Horrible Decisions
Not because they wanted to, but because they were forced to. Not that their decision making process was bad, they just had all horrible...
Board of Estimates Operating Budget Amendments
Ok - here's a partial report . . . public testimony and amendments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (10 &...
A little late Round Up . . .
I had a little blogging mishap this morning, so . . . this is later than usual (luckily, I have worked lots of extra...
Opitz not Running for County Board
Figures, the day after the WSJ confirms who is running . . . its wrong. Not Matt's fault, I just figured it wasn't...
Another Round Up
Panhandlers box, Madison's Cultural Plan, Sheriff's Overtime (doubled what has been budgeted for years), Future Cities, Nancy Mistele screams at County Board Supervisors, Bus...
2010 City Budget Deliberations – Day One (Capital Amendments 1 – 10 – Final)
7 pages of 2 dozen amendments to the Mayor's Budget, 5 hours of public testimony and questions of the public and after 7.5 hours,...
Oddities in the Registration Slips . . .
So, the registration slips for the council meeting last night was a couple inches thick. They Mayor didn't read them, but they passed...
Round Up Catch Up
I did the Week Ahead for city and county yesterday, as well as caught up on the last county board meeting. So, this...
Capital Budget – Day Two (Minus Chunk of Edgewater Discussion)
Three amendments only took 4.5 hours . . .There was a little staged labor rally outside the city-county building from about 4:30 - 4:50...
Board of Estimates Capital Budget Votes
Here's the votes and discussion on each of the Board of Estimates amendments 1 - 21. Amendments 21 - 27 including the Edgewater...