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2 meetings, one candidate forum.

17 meetings, 2 cancelled.

20 meetings, but 4 don't have agendas.

It's like bizarro world today, the county board is going to use the former day site property for affordable housing AND, and this is the freaky part . . . the mayor agrees.

Yeah, I haven't yet heard exactly how much destruction is in his budget and I'm sure it will slowly be figured out over the next week, but he did add some money for homelessness in the budget . . . go figure.

Here's Part 2 . . . Part 3 will have the remaining 4 issues the council talked about, including MG&E influence on development in the Isthmus and the panhandling ordinance.

It's crowded - meeting starts off with President Mike Verveer telling people there is an overflow room for tonight and that there are interpreters here as well.

I wonder if the public or the alders will do more talking tonight? It's rumored to be a long meeting tonight, we'll see. The council only pulled two items to be discussed.

I never thought our city government would hand over decision making to a corporation. Should MG&E get to decide if we expand Burr Jones Field or the the bus barn or decide to build a central police station between Blair and the 1st Street? Should they get the right of first refusal on any land banked lands in the area? Apparently the city is getting ready to give them that power, which may even include vetoing other city projects like affordable housing or a homeless shelter. The resolution may even exclude non-profits not pre-approved by MG&E from getting city approvals in the area.

The council will be voting for a third (or likely more) time tonight to protect immigrants rights in the City of Madison and essentially call itself a "sanctuary city" or as some call it "sanctuary-city lite". The first was in 2002, then again in 2010 and now in 2017.

3 meetings and 1 notice of possible quorum.

19 meetings . . . again, want to lead locally, here's where you get involved!