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Will our engineers, garbage collectors, parks staff, city planners and police and fire staff all be serving as clerks for election day?

4 more . . . until more are added today.

11 of the 21 meetings Monday - Thursday are before 5:00. More than half . . . its like the public isn't really encouraged to attend the meetings . . .

Ok, this is just crazy this week. Yesterday they added 4 more meetings for today and one for tomorrow.

Ah, campaign season, without an election date . . .

Nothing.

Most contracts by Dane County over $100,000 have to go to the county board. The county board has approved a resolution saying the day center will have long term storage. It seems, neither of these things is going to happen and after reading the ordinances I can't, for the life of me, figure out why staff have so much power and the county board supervisors seem to have none.

Particularly, Abrahamson's awesome dissent. Rudy Moore, a friend of mine from Foley & Lardner helps break it down. Rudy was a judicial intern for Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson. Besides being an attorney, he's also an electrical engineer, recipient of a Congressional medal for service in Antarctica after spending 13 months there, and he's a commercially licensed pilot.

If its not on this list or a public hearing item, it will likely be passed as noted on the council agenda.

Only 12 meetings.

Part I is here. Here's more of what the departments are proposing.

Yeah, I wasn't allowed to go, because I'm a blogger. A few folks who have similar community media roles, but also are heavily involved in the community were asked to leave. Leaves me a little suspicious . . . and curious. I'm not buying it that you can't have this type of conversation with media present.