Media

I had a dream the other night that I showed up for the city budget meeting and no one was there to report on it but me, a blogger. No "real media". Well . . . even tho the budget was over with before 10pm last night, I just watched Channel 3 report that you could testify tonight or tomorrow night on the city budget . . . sigh . . .

Two topics, two posts in one. Holiday trash pick up early or late, is that new?

What's the plan? Picking a developer but starting all over? Confused? You should be. This is goofy. What are we trying to accomplish?

Liberals on the county board are a funny bunch, and lately, they rarely, as a group, fail to disappoint for their complete lack of understanding of the issues and for the petty reasons they use to vote for or against something, and usually it has something to do more with internal power structure than the issue at hand.

This has passed their Economic Development and Executive Committees and the Board is voting on it tomorrow. If you know anyone on the DMI Board you may want to try talking to them.

Yup, the Parks Commission agreed to the Memorandum of Understanding that does not require a lease or insurance that would have been prohibitive.

It's really hard to find out! I noticed my alder and a couple others missing a lot of meetings and I was interested in finding out how many. It's not as easy as you would think . . . thus, the three part series.

Sigh . . .

It's August, so there are fewer meetings, but not this many fewer . . . watch for additions through the week, making the "weekly" meeting schedule a joke of serious proportions . . . usually, this is about 65 - 80% of the meetings for the week. i.e. they don't really care if you know what local government is doing, in fact, they really don't want you to know. Why isn't the mayor calling for transparency and predictability here?

As usual, several meetings added. 3 for tomorrow, 1 for Thursday.

Here are the temporary plans, more permanent plans in the works, I hope we finally figured something out . . . not exactly permanent, but a solution nonetheless. Hope to be able to say more soon.

Here you go, but remember, if anyone signs up to speak on an item, or if an alder changes their mind or didn't get to the agenda on time, they may also pull something not on this list for discussion.