Madison

Tis the week to blog about ethics violations by current/former law enforcement! This one seems blatantly obvious!!!! And from the School Board President no less.

Reddy, Rummel, Evers and Abbas are listed as absences for the meeting, they only have two items separated for discussion? A presentation from the Chamber of Commerce and the police committee recommendations for civilian oversight/independent monitoring plus Comprehensive Internal Review and Root-Cause Analysis of Critical Incidents.

See any inconsistencies here?

In case the wind takes a toll on the trees and properties around you . . .

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.

Wednesday and Thursday look a little light, expect quite a few additions I suspect, the "weekly schedule" changes throughout the week and changes can be found here.

The Civilian Oversight Board and Independent Monitor are up for a vote at the common council tonight, when we get to find out if "Black Lives Matter" is rhetoric, or if we are ready for real reform.

Overture, Overture, Overture . . . all in closed meetings . . . .

Continuing the series about symptoms and causes of “The Problem” …

A LOT going on. Bus Rapid Transit and Urban Forestry Meetings to get public input, alcohol licenses renewal time, new staff for the Police and Fire Commission, Council meeting, 1st Common Council Executive Committee meeting - Mayor will be there to talk about shared priorities and the budget and so much more!

EDC Public Hearing of September 16th. The EDC had a public hearing on the development process review that they’re undertaking. It's a little late, but I've still got 30 minutes before the next EDC meeting on the subject. Here's the "too long; didn't read" (tl;dr) summary: The process isn't broken, everyone agrees that the neighborhoods should participate, and that the neighborhoods need more training/and or support to be effective partners, and that above all, we need to do better on keeping everyone on message that "Madison is a good place to do development". A second point: no one could point to specific instances or examples of how the process has gotten worse. Instead, it's all "this is what we hear" and other anecdotal "evidence." Hopefully everyone keeps that in mind before any radical changes are implemented. Read on for the full details.

Digital Inclusion Summit, Team City Employee recognition, County Executive Joe Parisi, MMSD Interim Superintendent Jane Belore, "Human Services Team", Bloomburg Harvard class, Mayors  Institute on City Design meeting and more.