Madison

Absurd.

A joint meeting of the Board of Estimates for the City and the Personnel and Finance Committee for the county - except the later does not have quorum. The meeting is to approve the Dane County and City of Madison Public Health Department Budget. Read on, you can read the rant about the "hobos"!

Here's the items they had on their agenda and what happened - before they got to the department presentations on the budget

Budget deliberations begin . . .

Until it changes. With many items without links . . . moving backwards in time . . . less and less transparency . . .

Third year in a row, worst plan yet.

More wrangling over the lack of a comprehensive day center for this winter . . . how should we spend the $60,000.

Mainstream resources, how can we connect them to housing to help people be successful in housing?

Sigh . . . we have plans in the CDBG office that I am sure very few people understand. I have blogged about our anti-poverty plan that is in here in the past. This year I expanded my comments. CDBG Commission will be taking public comments on their draft tonight if you want to add your comments - now is the time!

Community Action Coalition and the Tenant Resource Center both applied for this funding. CAC was awarded $146,500 to provide this service starting October 1 through the end of next year and are planning to serve 450 people.

This is what the executive wants you to know, the county board will have to now dig into the details!

Thursday night the CDBG Commission will be finishing their work on this study and are looking for your comments . . . here are mine!