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The meeting starts off with the Mayor braking the gavel and it going flying towards Shiva Bidar-Sielaff . . . she asks if he's trying to set the tone . . .

Invest in Rail

The coalition of city and county funded non-profits had this to say about the operating budget amendment for tonight. While $137K would have solved the whole problem, $50K goes a long ways . . . but still, watch for cuts at some of your favorite agencies and clients who have growing needs and less services.

What do you get for $655?

Could this be a trend? Is it back?

Adds express service to/from Madison. Not clear if this is an added stop at Kelley's Market on W. Washington or if they are just moving their stop, again . . . . I can hardly wait to see what their "guest services specialist" will do for these bus riders - but hey, there will be wireless, electrical outlets, extra legroom and reserved seats. Maybe they can manage to have ticket sales?

They are concerned about lack of discussion on various important economic development issues and lack of outcry about losing the train by the business...

This one took a little longer almost an hour.

Here's the the lovely details of the few amendments made from the floor. . . they passed their operating budget in 35 minutes. No public testimony.

Greg Tracy, local Madison entrepreneur and budding civic hacker, (seriously, check out SMSMyBus) took a photo and asked the hypothetical, "is the city itself the...

Tenant Resource Center (TRC) 30th anniversary fundraisers are done, TRC seminars are done, TRC awful budget options are done, Social Justice Center big event to unveil the Nan Cheney Community Room is done . . . now, more time for blogging. The round up returns! (Actually, one more event for TRC, the one year anniversary of our Milwaukee office. December 3rd, 5 - 7, Pabst Brewery.)

Four RTA meetings this week. . . . and they might finish their budget tonight.