Madison

It's been a few months since the vote on the men's shelter and tonight the Common Council Executive Committee is set to vote on shelter criteria.

Whoa!  There's a lot of meetings this week!  Council meets along with Plan Commission, ALRC and much more!

It's only 25 minutes!  It's basically reports and updates on a variety of things of interest to the mayor and common council.

MMSD projects requiring Plan Commission approval if referenda passes and capital view height discussions.  Edgewood, rezoning Truman Olson and 636 W. Wash at 12/9 meeting.

A new report out shows in the past 10 years (2008-2018) Madison added 10.6% more officers, the highest in the state.

Seems like we have a lot more work to do on gender equity.  The report is a very interesting read. There was even a comment about me/the mayor in there! Sigh.

$306,500 and counting.  Since 2011 the city has been paying a consultant for this boondoggle that seems to be a nightmare that never ends.

Audio version of the three Week Ahead Posts and longer version than you will hear on WORT 89.9 on the Monday evening news.

This isn't a knock on the alders - this is a problem with all the committees being shut down and everything being controlled by the mayor's office and the EOC and maybe, to a much lesser extent, if any, council president.

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.

For 20 years Progressive Dane has been meeting with its elected officials prior to city and county meetings . . . and now, its a problem?

Ya caught me slackin'.  Here's the various round ups and information that doesn't merit its own post (heads up - it's long!), plus a little bit of random musings from me.