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21 meetings, 10 meetings before 5pm on a weekday, so only half the meetings when most people not paid to be there can make...

As a former member of an elected body, I hate it when you pass something with full expectations that one thing will happen, and then a completely different thing happens. As a member of the public, I hate it when an elected body passes something without really intending to follow through. As a human being, I hate being deceived.

2 meetings tonight, press conference tomorrow.

I got that Van Morrison song stuck in my head. Here's an update about water and the lakes.

30 meetings this week, 13 of them are on Wednesday. Some are at such lovely times as 11am, 10am, 11am, 1:30, 3:30, 8am and 12:30. I'm guessing they don't intend for the public (or alder with day jobs) to actually attend.

This discussion was from the CCOC (Common Council Organizational Committee), two days before the Mayor discussion on the budget There's a little discussion about this on thedailypage forum, which I don't really totally understand what they are talking about, I don't know if its about this discussion below, or this post or information from this post. Either way, it started out mis-informed and has just twisted all the facts. (Shocking! I know!) So, here's the discussion that was had about participatory budgeting.

An extra half a million dollars in nothing to sneeze at . . .

It's about "behavior" and it won't "bring us the results we are looking for". Ha! I bet.

More wrangling over the lack of a comprehensive day center for this winter . . . how should we spend the $60,000.

I'd kept half an eye on the Dame County Task Force on Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System, but my interest and hope...

Lookin' in to that budget . . . attempting to figure out what the scant information means . . .

Who knows what amendments might come up tonight or at the county board, you need to be psychic in order to testify on the county budget apparently. They will tell you after you testify, if they let you, what they will be voting on, maybe.