Madison

It's really hard to find out! I noticed my alder and a couple others missing a lot of meetings and I was interested in finding out how many. It's not as easy as you would think . . . thus, the three part series.

I probably should have posted this over the weekend . . . since it started on Saturday.

I wonder how many meetings will be held this week, that they haven't told us about yet. Here's the one that are noticed at the moment.

We seem to have consultants and experts and lots of activities, and surprisingly low "costs incurred to date". Somehow, I think she...

Oh, I'm so busted. Good call on that one Erik. You should go read his post, and then mine will make more sense. And, because its a really good argument for how you can get involved with citizen journalism.

Here's the email to alders from Jim Cavanaugh:

Interesting discussion at the Economic Development Committee, sounds like there is some backing off of the bold statements by the Mayor and the timeline. Perhaps some "misinformation". And, the message to the development community is clear, if you want to see changes, you have to show up, don't just send your staff for your various groups, cuz there's no data to support the concerns. And there are more open meetings concerns.

After being on the council for 8 years, and plan commission for 3 years, I was a little surprised to hear that there are some plans the city has been taking a look at for years . . . here's the report from the EDC meeting.

As the Madison City Channel ad hoc group is getting ready to make their final recommendations, the staff dropped a little bomb shell on...

How will the Downtown Plan affect Economic Development? And did they violate open meetings laws?

This ticked me off. I won't lie. We're having a neighborhood summit, and who does our Alder want to make sure attends? I'll let you read for yourself.

I hope many more neighborhoods are finding time to do this, but the timeline was really short to get feedback. I'd say they should hold the meetings even if they miss the deadline, as the discussion will continue for the next few months.