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Council essentially says to the public: You don't really need to know what is going on with changing police policies . . . we'll get it to you when we want to, despite it being 2 months since a Madison police officer shot and killed Tony Robinson. No hurry.

Barely 24 hours notice . . . Of course, the agendas are not linked as I'm typing this, so you'll have to check...

Press Release and Resolution to be introduced tonight.

Continue to expect changes . . .

Elizabeth Coppola In the 21st! Our public schools depend on it! Broken deals, petulant behavior, single-minded focus on an extreme social...

This was the first time most people had an opportunity to interact with our County Executive Joe Parisi - here is video of his committee testimony (without my snark) and the beginning (the rockier part) of the 1.5 hour discussion in the hallway, it did get better are this, but he didn't like the video taping.

24 meetings, 3 cancelled.

Uh, yeah, we have major problems with affordable housing. I think this was a sobering meeting for the committee members. I don't think they realized the depth of the problem with affordable housing in Madison. And honestly, I think they have more to learn. Many thanks to staff from Salvation Army and YWCA for coming to speak to them.

Yeah - 3 days and they still couldn't get the entire weeks agenda together before Monday morning. And they are meeting on July 4th!!! 10am?

More department requests!

And Mayor Soglin was in his seat and started the meeting on time!

Greg Tracy, local Madison entrepreneur and budding civic hacker, (seriously, check out SMSMyBus) took a photo and asked the hypothetical, "is the city itself the...