Mayor Rhodes Conway: MetroForward
Monday night at the Transportation Planning and Policy Board, the agenda said that they mayor would be doing a presentation on Metro Forward - but she started off by saying that she wasn't doing a presentation and that she wasn't only going to speak to Metro Forward. Here's what she had to say - spoiler alert - its all over the place and not much about MetroForward.
Better late than never?
A little after 11:00 tonight we were finally notified of the county's plan to deal with the holidays and the next few very cold and snowy days - and keeping homeless people from freezing to death or at least getting hypothermia or losing some toes to frostbite. Not much detail and I have NO idea how people are supposed to find out about the latest last minute plan that has been thrown together.
Report from Community Services Committee
Mostly, there was 3.5 hours of testimony about how the cuts would impact agencies, then a lot of confusion and then they got kicked out of the building.
National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day
Want to help the homeless. Raise awareness and do something practical - that could help save a life this winter.
City Week Ahead
Election Day Tuesday, but the Police and Fire Commission will be meeting anyways. Final Urban Forestry Report to be approved, Street Tree Removal on W. Dayton, Health Board discussing PFAS, 5 year Transportation Improvement Plan (i.e. road construction plans), ethics complaint against Mayor Soglin and more.
County Week Ahead
Enjoy!
Tonight’s Council Consent Agenda
Looks like another Thuy Pham-Remmele show tonight. She separated almost all the items for discussion this evening.
The Exclusion list is below. Here's...
Spring 2011 Election Endorsements
The Spring 2011 sample Ballot is out and its time for my spring endorsements for the local election.
1. Wisconsin State Supreme...
Mayor Taking Another Trip to Europe?
Two in 6 months?
Neighborhood Meeting on the Rushed Through Project
I haven't gotten any notifications from my alder about this (go figure), but the neighborhood association has now sent me two notices. Of course, its not my neighborhood association, they are just good neighbors.
HUD Wants Us To . . . Part IV: Leverage Mainstream Resources
Mainstream resources, how can we connect them to housing to help people be successful in housing?
Immigration Common Council Recap (Part I)
There was a lot on the agenda, only one issue that was discussed.