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A smattering of things from all kinds of email lists and alerts that I have that may be of interest to you. Tends to be local government, neighborhood or gardening related.

A joint meeting on Tuesday to make recommendations on the jail and a joint meeting on Thursday to discuss lake levels.

This round up is the bi-weekly round up of emails and info that reaches my email inbox that I think you might be interested in.  This one seems REALLY city heavy.

My "round ups" have seen various formats and content over the years.  Here's what I hope to become a weekly round up of local government news from the past week.  Things I don't have time to blog about, but that should be on your radar screen.

This is the meeting after the meeting about the jail.  The County Board's regularly scheduled business meeting.  Usually consisting primarily of announcements and rubber stamping the committee recommendations, so I usually haven't been blogging it.

Ah, the jail. How long have we been talking about it? Remember those work groups that were formed in 2015 that made tons of recommendations? Let's take a peek at the progress being made on those recommendations over the past nearly 4 years!

Random things you might want or need to know! Or perhaps just frivolous and uninteresting items, you decide! Let me know!

This is it!  The new alders all ran for office saying they wanted to work on affordable housing.  This is our big opportunity, $11 million dollars will be spent.  Will it make a huge difference, or be more of the same old, same old?  Will we see big radical meaningful changes?

So, if you look at the 2008-2017 before the jail was in the the county capital budget, the capital budget averaged $35,851,962 per year.  Now, they want one project to cost 4-5 times the amount of all capital costs. What will that do to our taxes? I haven't seen the answer to that question.

Another smattering of events, notices, meetings, announcements and things going on around town.

County Board will be getting the report on why our ridiculous $76,000,000 jail is now going to cost $150,000,000.

Common Council Executive Committee Appointments, new Deputy Mayor, Weaponizing Truax, Crazy Legs Traffic Impacts and more.