Dane

Various city updates, Cookies with a Cop (?!?), Occupy Madison 5 year Anniversary, Housing Openings at the YWCA and more!

Madison, WI - Dane County meetings about mapping prejudice, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, gaps in the behavioral health system, consent to receive refugees in Dane County, Universal Access Call Center and more.

Don't eat fish from Lake Monona or Starkweather Creek more than once a month, bluegills can be eaten once a week.  See what else the public health department has to say!

The long version of what you can hear every Monday on WORT's evening news - the chatty version.

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.

2 different staff people explain, this extends county ability to get federal funding reimbursements through July 15th - the "safer at home" order still expires May 26th.

Youth Commission discussion on current events, Lakes and Watershed budget, courts impact on reduced jail population and more.

We have all the recommendations, we just don't have the follow through/political will to put the needed money in the budget.

The Friday Round Up is always the largest one of the week, lots of city updates on Fridays.

Somehow the County Board can manage to get quorum for their virtual meeting!

County board has the $13M for people without housing to go from hotels to housing - but will there be landlords to rent to them?

Another meeting to decide what to do about cost overruns with the jail . . .