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2 of their 13 meetings cancelled this week

18 meetings, 4 of them cancelled already. Expect mo' meetings to pop up today, tomorrow and maybe Wednesday!

Wow. Sad news for the City, but an opportunity for sure! Definitely Madison's College's gain.

So, we've been talking about equity lens and tools for quite some time, and they did a practice run on and equity analysis on the public market (I have to admit I didn't look at that til now). But this is the first public explanation of the equity analysis tool that I have seen on a city agenda. It's the first time I saw the tool and questions (long form, short form) I probably missed the public market one because their agendas come out late every week and I don't always go back and look.

I hope I don't have to eat my words, but this committee looks promising! They are going to be discussing what their priorities and workplan should look like for the next year at their next meeting, so mark you calendars now if this issue is important to you! They meet 1st Thursday of the month at 5:30.

This made me smile. They have a whole newsletter devoted to this topic . . . which I forwarded to the top brass, wonder if they even bother to read it? Or pass it along?

2 more . ..

State legislatures is at it again! Good ol' Sen. Frank Lasee has a new buddy/puppet Rep. Robert Brooks . . . and the first hearing on the bill we have not yet seen will likely be this Thursday (December 10th) at 10am in 400NE. 26 pages of a Legislative Reference Bureau draft (not the final bill) and analysis is murky at best - its poorly drafted yet again, which is sure to lead a 5th round if they don't fix it. Here's what I think it does . . . for now, there may be changes when the actual bill comes out.

6 more meetings released in the first 5 hours yesterday. My favorite, is the meeting where the plan commission is talking about public input, which won't be televised and the public probably won't know that they're doing it. Sigh . . .

Also 15 meetings . ..

Only 15 meetings, holidays are starting early . . .

And please apologize.