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News, gardening events, looking for hosts for international students, fair housing training, Tenant Resource Center volunteers needed, etc.

Homeless Issues Committee Unanimously agreed to ask the police and city officials to apologize to the homeless persons who last all their worldly possession on State St. when the police and parks department broke the law and threw their stuff in a dump truck.

Sigh, I suck. Sorry, here's my attempts to get back to doing this . . . some older things might get snuck in for the rest of the week as I catch up . . .

Bonus question: What are your thoughts on the union contracts approved by the County Board last Thursday.

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.

Ok - so that list of police calls in Part II was a little bogus and over-exaggerated, but there were some real issues in there. Yesterday, two gems of emails came out from the Mayor's office. Here's the latest on the Mayor's office campaign to rid themselves of the homeless in the building

Talk, study, talk, study, talk . . . lets see some action! This meeting could be a place it gets started, for real.

Three days worth of announcements, updates, petitions, etc. 

After a full year of the City of Madison blocking electronic petitions, the signatures should start going through today! Yay! Unfortunately, how we got here was a little ugly

It will be short. Very short.

Tonight, March 29, at 5:30 pm at the Fifth Quarter Studio (2nd Floor) in Union South. there will be an open forum on the past and future of tenants rights in Wisconsin.

Feels like this weeks agendas are a whole lot of reports and presentations, not much legislation.