Media

Usually the 4th week of the month is a bit of a snooze, not this week! 27 meetings!

I'm super tired and I can't guarantee that my fingers don't just do their own thing, but I'll do my best.

By $11M. So even with the Board of Estimate changes, that's an increase of 4.93%, not 4.99% so the council has more room to raise taxes if they are going to stay within the 5% limit the Mayor unilaterally set for them. It should help the county and school board a bit too. Here's the details:

More meetings than I would have thought for the last week of the month.

About half the meetings start before 5:00 . . .

28 meetings, three meetings start after 5:30 . . . 8 meetings start before 4:00. Public testimony unfriendly.

Election Day Tuesday, primaries for Mayor and in districts 2, 3, 4, 89, 10, 12, 14 ad 20!  Here's the meetings this week.

Sorta . . . sorta uses it as a press opportunity. I give him a D or definitely "needs improvement". Here's the chief's report to the Common Council for tonight, it leaves me with more questions than answers.

So, as homelessness is getting more attention, you hear the mayor say the city is spending $3M on services and the county handing out lists of the services available and non-profits are telling us that services are "readily available" but lets take a look at what is really going on.

No TV cameras, major Overture parties not here, just the alders, and its 10 after 5:00 - perhaps they are holding their own press conference elsewhere?

Ok, I met my goal of doing the round up for a week in a row, and hopefully this is back on a daily basis . . . because it is very popular . . .

I listened to the live stream . . . so far, all I can see is standing around, presumably deal making.