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City Budget at Board of Estimates - seems like a bit of a snoozer. Did you know there's a city committee that has been cancelled 17 of the last 18 meetings?!

This just drives me nuts, what is so hard about communicating your agendas on time?

25 meetings . . . that we currently know of . . .

21 meetings on the clerks agenda, 4 in legistar without an agenda and more meetings likely to pop up in the next few days. Only 9 meetings start at 5pm or later. Meetings at non-public friendly times such as 3pm, 1:30pm, 8am, 12:30pm and 2 pm. Public hearing on bus route changes for routes 37 & 38, Water Utility in debt an additional $2 million and more!

Willing to go to court to defend his right to have Occupy camp on his land.

School Board report from January 25:

Here's the M&I and Johnsonville version of businesses tenants and their supporters might want to avoid as they are members of the Apartment Association of South Central Wisconsin who supported SB107 and are supporting AB155 that is up before the Assembly Housing Committee Wednesday at 10:00 that will strip tenants in Madison of their current protections. (Read more here)

I'm skipping my presentation and the information from Zoning and Public Health for now, subject of another post. The important part is the bizarre remarks from the police department - also going to be the subject of another post - and what the neighbors had to say.

3 meetings this week (that we know of)

Random things happening around town and in local government.

Ok, I think this is needed, but yikes, I don't know who would be a good person for this job - they'd have to be completely and totally politically tone deaf and yet quick on their feet to avoid the political nightmare this could become.