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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.

Only 4 meetings this week and we've already missed one!

15 meetings in this short week . . .

The City of Madison has an opening for the public member of the Tax Incremental Finance Joint Review Board (JRB).  The Board is comprised...

The full notice may be found here, with Spanish, Hmoob, and Arabic versions linked. Here is the English text: Help Improve the Use of Education Resource...

Here's the city council and school board folks running in Madison so far . . . Filing deadline is January 3rd! 3 City Council incumbents have challengers and District 11 will have a new alder. And we have two races for School Board!

So, I can't figure out where the legal notice is . . . the one I can find is blank. But obviously there are some meetings. TJ said he found it here, but the link doesn't work for me. So this is all I can tell you . . .