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This is just backwards. There's 12 blocks of Downtown that are being planned by an un-named staff team and the public is not being involved at all?

Read it and weep, neighbors . . .

Here's the items that they want to talk about, the rest of the items will likely be on the "consent agenda" unless someone shows up to speak on an issue or an alder pulls it off for some reason.

Happy, happy. Joy, joy. The city will pick up your tens of thousands of dead trees . . .

In my last post, I told you how the county parks staff sucks. Well, here's the resolution in question, the situation at Occu-Camp...

19 of 22 (86%) meetings before 5:30 when people who wok 'til 5:00 can make it to testify. 9 of 22 (41%) meetings at 4:30 or earlier. Lobbyist only please!

Do you have one?

Music to my ears! Sanity returns to City of Madison government!

Ok, here's the rest of it. They added several meetings yesterday, so it got a little longer.

The coalition of city and county funded non-profits had this to say about the operating budget amendment for tonight. While $137K would have solved the whole problem, $50K goes a long ways . . . but still, watch for cuts at some of your favorite agencies and clients who have growing needs and less services.

The Edgewater? I'm thinking probably not. I was at a meeting last night with probably 20 paid non-profit staff in the meeting, and over the next few weeks and months, that will play itself out over, and over, and over. And it makes me wonder, how much of the money we are vying for is being spent in these meetings? Despite efforts to streamline the process, it still seems silly. More complicated than the development process that is getting all the attention, take a peek!

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