Madison

This work was initially done by myself, Brenda Konkel, for Progressive Dane about 3 years ago.  Technical difficulties happened and over the past three years I continued some of the work here at Forward Lookout.  I'm in the process of merging the work and expanding the guide.  Let me know what you think!

At the Common Council Executive Committee meeting council members discussed what to do with the report on changes to our government structure.  Here's what they had to say.

Seems like there was a page missing from what was sent out?  Or maybe not?  At this point, they will talk about nothing. 

The Common Council will meet on Tuesday and the County Board will meet on Thursday.  They both have plans to pass ordinances allowing them to meet by phone.

This is mostly updates to alders.  Daily Round up, elections, emergency orders, schedule of allowed committee meetings, response to metro drivers and more.

Alder round up, fire dept objects to closing streets, committee assignments for alders, help get masks to health care workers, Conservation Congress voting tips from League of Women Voters, stimulus checks for people who don't make enough money to file taxes and more.

Call me crazy, but this looks like just about any other year when it comes to the capital budget.  Mayor urges caution, justify your projects, nothing half-baked and everything will be closely scrutinized.

Council meets tonight, see you (virtually) there?  The horrific display of police violence towards protesters has to stop.  Police have to admit the role they played in the chaos and agree their violence must stop too.  The council should demand a full investigation.

In response to the alders requests about police response to initial George Floyd protests , this is what the police department released.  It's 100 pages, but my guess is there are some incidents missing.

Thursday the Health and Human Needs Committee voted in favor of halting the jail, jail populations are down at least 40%, Madison police are arresting less people, we have new leadership on the Criminal Justice Council, can we actually bring our ourselves to create real change in the criminal "justice" system?  Will any of this make real, meaningful change?

One of the PSRC subcommittees has been working on reviewing the police department policies around protests.  Here is our work so far, and next, we move on to recommendations.

Late, but still relevant information to be shared.