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Was there a pathetic turn out yesterday? Do the results mean anything?

Staff recommendations are out and the Board of Estimates will be voting on what to do tonight . . . of course, its scheduled for closed session . . . like it always is . . .

No! Suffering from extreme Workus Interuptus!

Because for a change, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi is being transparent . . . In addition to Heidi Wegleitner, John Hendrick didn't get any either. Oddly Jeremy Levin and Jeff Pertl didn't either. Neither did Robin Schmidt or Mike Willett. How'd your supervisor do?

I know the State Legislature and Republican leadership hates Madison, but this isn't just about Madison.

So, the new system has thrown me off a bit, but I believe this are meetings that were not known over the weekend. 6 updates!

So, how are they doing on their commitments in the structural agreement?

5th Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of August, so fewer meetings than usual. Short blog post.

3 pages!!! But only two items actually separated, so they will talk about 2 items plus whatever you want to speak to! This is the last council meeting of this session . . . the next council will be completely new! Or, more than likely, practically all the same. Alder Gruber will be out and Arvina Martin or Bradley Campbell will be new. And there are races in District 1 - Barbara McKinney, District 8 - Zach Woods, District 10 - Mo Cheeks, District 14 - Sheri Carter. My guess is, they all stay in office.

All that is left is for the Assembly to pass SB107 which will prohibit Madison and Dane County from finding local solutions for local problems including removing laws on the books that prohibit a landlord from requiring 3 times the amount of income as rent, protecting people from being required to give their social security number, removing our protections that require a landlord to deny tenants for only housing related arrest and conviction records and limit that to two years, lets a landlord wait to ask you to renew your lease til 1/4 of the lease is over, limits security deposits to one month's rent, and requires check-in and check-out sheets and photos beofre the landlord takes money from your security deposit.

Lots of cancelled meetings - its that time of year.

The spin is killing me. Saying there are a "few concerns" but a lot of good news is pure bullshit. After 10 years of constant cuts and flat funding (essentially cuts as costs rise and funding stagnates) for non-profits that are the work horses of the human services system, this is nearly laughable . . . or cryable.