Where is the Affordable Housing in Judge Doyle Square?
Depends upon your definition of affordable, I guess. But this is usually not what most people think about - affordable rental housing for people making $42,180 and up. And apartments starting at $1,055.
Common Council Budget Recap – Night One, Part Two
This is the police officer discussion and the approximately last 2 hours of the meeting. Fear and perception vs. fact and we need data people can use to decide how many police we need.
Urban Forestry Task Force Recommendations
Seems like this report has been going on forever and bouncing around from agenda to agenda. Today at noon they will continue discussing. Here's what they're looking at now.
Madison/Dane County/School Board Hide Behind Open Meetings Laws?
So, nothing is worse than when public officials use open meetings laws to thwart public information. I was reminded about how they did that with the Cap Times during the F-35s debate. See what I found in my open records request.
2019 City of Madison Annual Planning Division Report
Plan Commission was 6 hours Monday night, here's the small portion where they got a report on 2019 City of Madison Planning activities.
Fire! Prescribed Burns Coming to Your Madison Neighborhood?
It can be startling to see fire and smoke in your neighborhood, but sometimes, it's a good thing!
How does Madison function with 20% of our police at Milwaukee DNC?
During the Democratic National Convention people will be staying in Madison because the hotels are all full in Milwaukee and surrounding areas, bar time could be 4:00am and yet will we be down 100 police officers here in Madison. How does that work?
City Week Ahead 3/30/20
Governing in time of crisis - test city council meeting, Transportation Policy and Planning Board, Common Council Executive Committee, last Council meeting until April 21st (3 weeks) and Board of Public Works and that's it! Everything else cancelled.
Finance Committe Recap 4/6/20
This has the city's updates on how COVID-19 will impact the city's finances from nearly 2 weeks ago. It's a old, but still good info.
Week of May 4
Dylan Brogan joins Brenda Konkel from Forward Lookout to team up again to let you know what is in the week ahead - city, county and schools!
Madison City Week Ahead 12/12/22
Full week of agendas on many topics, Complete Green Streets on several agendas and the Transportation Overlay District at Landmarks.
City Employees make recommendations in response to protests
Professional and Supervisory employees call for police accountability, oppose the jail and more.