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And mark your calendar for several upcoming meetings!

From last Wednesday night . . . this is actually quite unbelievable. The county blames United Way for the secretive process and ignores the county board. I guess us voters are too dumb to elect people to represent us, Parisi and Lynn Green know better than a UNANIMOUS county board!

This is from last Wednesday, a week ago, but the information is important. The County gave back $6,243,062 in budgeted funds for Human Services to the General Fund . . . just think what that could have funded. $6.2 MILLION DOLLARS! And yet we scrap and fight every year over $10,000 or $20,000 or even $80,000 for small programs. $90,000 would have kept TRC funded to serve people outside the City of Madison. Public hearings on the 15th. Note: Read the Q&A and the supplemental (lack of) information. If the public feels left in the dark most of the time, its no wonder, county board supervisors can't even get information about what's going on with shelters and the day center.

This is your 2 minute warning! Hearing on everything except Human Services Budget is tonight!

It's September and local government is getting back to work, and I'm swamped at my work and can't cover it (boo hoo), so here's a random round up of some things going on you might want to know about . . .

Whatever you show up to talk about and . ..

Nothing.

Public Hearing on the budget tomorrow, the rest of the meetings are all on Thursday.

14 meetings in this short week, and I'm sure there are more that will get announced later in the week. City Council meeting tonight loaded with issues, but few will likely be talked about.

Cuz, you know, they can't seem to meet deadlines at the city . . . you miss a parking ticket deadline you get and extra $10 fine . . . maybe we should implement that kind of a system for the people who send in the agendas.

This is mostly about police in the schools, but, by the looks of this agenda . . . summer is over, back to work! Just a few of the items the Board of Estimates made recommendations on and heard updates on were as follows: Judge Doyle TID, mayor's task force to study government structure, new Civil Rights Direcotr, undergrounding electric projects, State St. grant program, Madison Public Market, Midtown Police Station, Day Resource Center funding, police in the schools, annexing the Town of Madison and Garver Feed Mill . . .

Progressive Dane has issued a letter to the Madison School Board and the City of Madison Board of Estimates regarding their vote on the contract for police in the schools later this afternoon. We are urging them to have a 1 year contract to allow for the police study to be completed and to allow for more public input. Additionally we are calling for a limit to the actions police can take in the schools, more frequent public reporting and a student complaint process.