Dane

$95M is coming to the County, $24.4M for our bus system, $1.1M in CDBG funds, Small Businesses (including nonprofits) to get forgivable Payroll Protection loans, we've been declared a federal disaster area and more on the way?  Who decides where that money will go?

On Monday, March 30th the Personnel and Finance Committee got an update on "Fiscal Impact of Coronavirus on Dane County."  The minutes are from March 9th, the recording doesn't seem to be available yet, and there are no attachments with this presentation.

County board actually doesn't meet again to do business until May.  1 meeting this week that has one item on the agenda.

How do people working in homeless medical shelters not have PPE?  I was thinking about this all night.  I'd volunteer to be in the shelters, but I have diabetes so I couldn't do it without proper protections in place.  However, the shelters don't have PPE like police and fire do, not even at the medical shelter.

1.5 hours of the county board doing committee work on the county board floor.  Good to see some actual discussion at one of these meetings! Allowing committee meetings virtually, extending board terms if election postponed, jail phone calls and visitation, counseling services for homeless in hotels, benefits fraud investigators and farewells from the 9 outgoing supervisors.

Yes, a virtual rally!  It's on Zoom at noon today and they are rallying to postpone the election. 

After meetings this week, neither the City Council nor the County Board will meet until April 21st (3 weeks), School Board not meeting until the 27th (4 weeks)?  Each body will meet only once in April.  The mayor seems to be the only decision maker at the city at this point, with the council rubber stamping decisions. What roles should our alders, supervisors and school board members be playing in this pandemic?  How are they representing us in this crisis?

Last County Board meeting of this County Board, they won't meet again until April 21st to be sworn in after the elections - hopefully we have elections!

The governor issued orders today halting eviction actions (except to protect victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking) until May 26th.  But you still will be responsible for paying your rent.

Homeless men continue to be crowded into spaces where they can't social distance, and won't have a solution for night time until Monday.  Day spaces to remain over-crowded.

Alder, housing, election and homeless updates, golf survey, men's shelter finally getting a larger place on Monday and more.

Alder, elections and Homeless Services Consortium Round Ups, Metro Driver with COVID-19, police stations close, democratic process shut down concerns, housing and homeless updates and much more.