Dane

Budget season . . .

PFAS, digital inclusion, f-35s, eviction clinic closed this week, youth homeless county, upcoming demolitions, snow plow updates and more!

County board meets to spend millions of dollars, redistricting is moving forward . . . and more.

The Economic Development Commission recommended a bunch of changes last spring, the council created an ad hoc committee which has been meeting since July to review the recommendations and it seems they are contemplating some changes, but maybe not all those recommended by the Economic Development Commission . . . lets catch up with that conversation. Is the candy store wide open with no one there to guard it? Or are the EDC recommendations falling a little flat.

This is in response to the repeated calls from the Wisconsin State Journal for a smaller county board. As usual, the FACTS matter.

Click on the agendas to find out how to join the virtual meetings.  Here's the summary of what they will be discussing.

Minor tweaks to the City County Building rules that probably won't do much different than what is already happening in the building - except make people feel like they are doing something. Of course, it all sounded good last night, but lets see how it gets implemented.

Homeless services are not subject to the state and Madison/Dane County Public Health orders limited gathering to 10 or more people, instead, homeless people are being forced to congregate to get life sustaining needs met - food, shelter, etc.

He may not have filed his campaign finance report with the rest of them, but he apparently has some money . . .

So, a conservative (?!) on the county board is the one pushing to let the people stay at Token Creek.

Here's the news I have . . . city, county, schools, state and things that didn't quite make the news.

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