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We'll see what gets cancelled today, but here it is for what it is worth.

January 16, 2016, is Martin Luther King day. Many people had the day off and there were events all over the state honoring...

The Madison Institute, The Progressive and the League of Women Voters of Dane County invite you to . . . (Rescheduled) Out in the Cold: Evictions & Homelessness in Dane County

This just drives me nuts, what is so hard about communicating your agendas on time?

Rough start to the week . . . sorry this is late!

Running late this morning, at least I got this one done! :)

Remember the officers who were disciplined for calling members of the public "assbags" and "gloryholing nincompoops"? Well, apparently they were also disciplined on multiple occasions for other things including Sexual Harassment, False Reporting, Firearms Safety, Misuse of Communications System, Insulting, Defamatory, or Obscene Language, Excessive Use of Force, Failure to Respond to a domestic disturbance and another call. And that's just the first officer . . . this is creepy. Very creepy. Together they have been suspended for 42 days without pay and gotten 3 reprimand letters for at least 13 incidents, some of the suspension days were held in abeyance and of course, I don't think we know if they ever served them from these records. Can you believe Chief Mike Koval defended these guys? Wonder what the records of the 4 officers disciplined for the whiteboard incident look like?

Competing studies show radically different numbers than the police study of themselves do. Mayor says the numbers are just right, members of the public have data that shows 65.6 officers could be cut.

Uh . . . I'm not sure where to begin, but no, you don't Chief Koval. In fact, there could be a plan where you REDUCE officers . . . but when you ask the police to study themselves . . . what kind of answer do you expect? I think every department in the city should be asked to do the same thing. And hell, let's throw in the non-profits too - In fact, I just studied the Tenant Resource Center and we need 3 - 50 new staff people to keep up with the growing needs of tenants who are now more than 50% of the City of Madison. I mean, sometimes we're 400 phone calls behind in the summer and early fall.

If you ask anyone in the city, the two tools we have to create affordable housing are WHEDA tax credits and TIF. I disagree those are our only tools, but they are two major tools we have . . . and one of the two is in jeopardy . . .

Looks like they may only talk about 2 or 3 issues, but you just never know.

2 items . . . unless the public shows up to talk about others, everything else on the agenda will pass as recommended in the notes.