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Only one meeting again . . . Wednesday, July 13 5pm City of Madison Education Committee Meeting - Madison Water Utility, 119 E. Olin Avenue,...

8 out of 17 agendas also have broken links. And by the time I do my WORT summary of the week later this afternoon, 7 meetings will be done and over with . . .

Lots of links that don't work ... so this update is nearly useless. 13 out of 22 I can't get any information on . . . and its not just a problem with the weekly agenda, the links in legistar don't seem to work. :(

Alder Rummel will be having a neighborhood meeting on Monday . . .

I'm sitting here staring at my computer, having just watched the video of the woman from Minnesota who's boyfriend got shot and the tips...

The Common Council Organizational Committee's agenda yesterday "Discussion of issues surrounding the community and the Madison Police Department" was held. Chief Koval apparently couldn't be bothered to show up. Neither could any of his supporters.

I was really hear for the discussion before hand of the police department. Bottom line on that, they are all concerned and feel the need to do something, but they aren't sure what or how, but they seem determined not to let this moment go without doing something. They ran out of time on what. Then they had a presentation on the East Side Library, looks like Riendahl Park is the favored location - over East Town, (one I forgot) and Grandview Commons, which came in last.

It's all I could find. Wednesday, July 6th 5pm - Wright Middle School (WMS) Governance Board Meeting - Wright Middle School, 1717 Fish Hatchery Road, Madison,...

Only 7 meetings, but somehow they managed to schedule 3 of them at the same time, and 2 before 5:00.

13 meetings, 6 start before 5:00. Shouldn't be many additions with the new rules, but we'll see.

When is comes to policing issues, the Madison community has been through a significant amount of divisiveness and turmoil again this month. It started with the threatening and inflammatory blog by our Chief of Police, Mike Koval. This was quickly followed by his contentious and disrespectful antics at the council meeting of June 7th. And when things started to cool down politically, the community was rocked by the shocking video of Madison police officers beating, kicking and tasing a young black woman, Genele Laird.

It was a whole hour long press conference with a set of awesome speakers. We have an active an engaged community on this issue, but with reluctant leadership in our police department, there is no one to engage with. Listen (and watch) as they lay it all out for us. Several call for Koval to resign. All make it clear that what we saw last week, police beating a young woman, is unacceptable.