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Yeah . . . I think I see the problem here . . . affordable housing, tenants rights, homelessness . . . apparently they're too busy to be bothered answering questions about such things . . . sigh . . . thanks to the 5 out of 25 candidates that answered the questions. Even though there are some gross mis-statements of fact in a few of the answers. Honestly, tho, in all my approximately 20 years doing this with the Affordable Housing Action Alliance, this might be the worst ever in terms of quality of answers and lack of response.

4 more candidate forums and the last school board meeting with this combination of school board members.

Only 9 meetings. But it does include Day Resource Center design plans and using Messner's for affordable housing.

Only 7 of the weeks 20 meetings are in legistar, meaning, I have no idea where to find the minutes and agendas of previous meetings of these groups and they don't have attachments to see what they are talking about. Also, 12 meetings are held before 5pm. :(

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.

Progressive Dane will be unveiling our Local Government Guide tomorrow night at our General Membership Meeting tomorrow night at the Downtown Public Library. Join us for that and more!

26 Meetings . . .12 of start between 5:00 and 6:00 on Wednesday.

28 meetings, I think - and several don't have agendas - and some meetings I know are happening but there is no sign of them, I just put them in here anyways!

How is it that our chief law enforcement officer, Police Chief Mike Koval doesn't have to follow the rules? First, he gets found guilty, but gets no punishment. (that never happens to you and me) And now, the good ol' boys want to grant him further privileges, and $22,000, for being found guilty? The council should be thanking Sharon Irwin and Shadyara Kilfoy-Flores for doing what they didn't have the guts to do, and they should pay their legal bills - and it would likely be far less than $22,000.

According to the city website, 10% of city committee seats are vacant! Want to get involved in local government? Apply!

Washington Post reports are $6 billion in cuts and elimination of CDBG funds entirely, National Low Income Housing Coalition has it as high as $7 billion. Ben Carson says - "don't worry, it won't be that bad".

I got some miscellaneous to talk about, meetings, input (about police) needed, random stuff.