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Joe Gramacki, the City's TIF coordinator gives his quarterly TIF report to the Board of Estimates (city finance committee). It's a doosey. Developers ask, we bend over. (backwards, to help them).

1490 Martin Street Appeal Letter, meeting on Thursday at 6:00 at the Town of Madison Town Hall (2120 Fish Hatchery Rd.)

Music, free food, silent auction, cash bar. 5 - 7:30 Brink Lounge (701 E Washington Ave.) We really need your support, donations of any size welcome, suggested donation $25 at the door (but give what you can within your means, we understand!) Tons of details below.

So,numbers came out yesterday on the annual count of the homeless in the Madison/Dane County. The numbers are grossly undercounted since we only count in Madison, and there are serious questions about how the count is done, simply because homeless people usually try NOT to be found, so they are likely missed. The increase since 2011 is really disturbing. The simultaneous decrease in day shelter services, especially in the winter, is nothing short of disturbing. No surprise, really, if you follow my blog.

Man, I miss Warren Onken. The council ended up, to me, looking like whiny kids who didn't get their way and voted more about who they like or don't like instead of on a good policy and no one was able to craft a reasonable compromise. Who would believe after all the marching around the capital the council wouldn't vote for a .5% increase in pay for some employees who got a 1.5% increase (not police and fire) instead of the 3% (police and fire) increase others got? Seriously?

So, I have some staff people who are themselves looking for housing, and they are coming back and telling me new horror stories every day. The statistics are there to show things are bad . . . but in looking around, here's what I found.

Lots going on in the community, and I needed to clean out my inbox . . . so here's a random list of things you should know about!

Or at least every major project in Dane County . . .

Affordable Housing Action Alliance asked 8 questions to all the candidates and then did endorsement interviews in most of the races or will be doing them.

Help make it uniquely Madison . . . while playing games!

Only two meetings, both Monday, 1 cancelled.

Lots going on, little time, so catching up with lots of things all at once! Arranged by when things are happening, but the end has a random round up of not time specific items.