Ok, looks like Legistar is working, I’m feeling a little better after staying home yesterday (I hope!), committees have had time to be late, so lets try this again.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
12:15 PM BUILDING CODE, FIRE CODE, CONVEYANCE CODE AND LICENSING APPEALS BOARD (Cancelled) ROOM LL-110 MMB
5:00 PM COMMON COUNCIL – DISCUSSION ROOM 201 CCB
PRESENTATION: MPD Crime Prevention Gang Unit
& OVERVIEW: City/County Response on Heroin Use Concerns
– Oh no! What are the cops lobbying for now? You just know when they roll our the media and do a presentation to the council they are going to ask for more money for something! Wonder what it is this time? More staff for a special task force? That’s my guess.
5:00 PM PARKING COUNCIL FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ROOM 108 CCB
– Locations that have issues
– Reports and updates
5:15 PM HUMANITARIAN AWARD COMMISSION, REVEREND DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ROOM 523 CCB
– Debrief for last year
– Suggested direction/recommendations for 2011-12 process (Marketing, Relationship with King Coalition)
6:15 PM BOARD OF ESTIMATES ROOM 103A CCB
– Approving bonds and interest rates for borrowing. Hopefully this goes better than the county and there’s no games getting played.
6:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL ROOM 201 CCB
– 646 E Gorham – Proposing the sale of one home in James Madison Park – why is this a communication? Later they reject the proposals for the other two houses and kinda going back out to RFP, but it written really poorly and not entirely clear.
– 1001 University Ave – St. Frances House vs. Luther Memorial
– Capital Budget hearing
– 5 year contract for Barb Dimmick, Library Director, plus a raise. (An attempt to fix the disparities in how much women get paid at the city?)
– Opposing Arizona copycat law
– Unbudgeted money needed for Freakfest (hopefully the new mayor won’t put up with this bullshit any more and will just budget for it.) and charging you to go to State St. and making carrying glass illegal.
– More settlements with billboard companies
– Fixing the New Market Tax Credit gap for the library (who ever really thought we would get these tax credits?!), borrowing $4M more.
– Undoing another one of Dave’s bad layoff/budgeted out of a job decisions?
– Approving bonds and interest rates for borrowing.
– Higher health insurance deductibles for police and fire.
– Cats and dogs running wild.
– Almost $4000 a year charged to the Majestic for the sign that has been there forever.
– Operating plan for the BID
– No fun allowed at the zoo.
– Extra laws banning alcohol at N Carroll and N Henry.
– Second hand book sales/and your constitutional rights under attack again.
7:00 PM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS ROOM 260 MMB
– Poorly timed public hearing on the new fire chief.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
10:00 AM DEFERRED COMPENSATION COMMITTEE ROOM 501 CCB
– Meet ICMA Senior Vice President of Field Sales
1:30 PM SENIOR CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE (Cancelled) 330 W MIFFLIN ST
4:00 PM NEW DRAFT ZONING MAP OPEN HOUSE 1602 S PARK ST, ROOM 109
– At the Labor Temple. Have you heard anything about these meetings? Seems like a huge deal happening and no coverage? What are the issues people have? Concerns? Likes? Is this good or bad?
4:30 PM BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ROOM 108 CCB
– $70K in change orders – in a blink of an eye!
– Street trees assessments
– Check to see if there is anything of interest to your neighborhood
4:30 PM URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
– New Ale Asylum proposal (no link)
5:00 PM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE ROOM 260 MMB
– Green Madison presentation
– Reports and updates and processy things.
5:30 PM ALCOHOL LICENSE REVIEW COMMITTEE ROOM 201 CCB
– Hotel Red (oh dear . . . the alcohol license for the dirt is back in play)
– Echo Tap expansion for football games
– Closed session to figure out what to do about missing transcripts for R Place
– Nuisance Parties – fining tenants and landlords
Thursday, September 22, 2011
8:00 AM EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION COMMITTEE ROOM 260 MMB
– Presentations, updates, reports and the budget.
12:00 PM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS 16 N CARROL ST., ROOM 500
– Replacing the Fire Chief
1:00 PM WOMEN’S ISSUES COMMITTEE ROOM 108 CCB
– Leadership devleopment
4:00 PM NEW DRAFT ZONING MAP OPEN HOUSE 110 N WHITNEY WAY, FELLOWSHIP HALL
– Goin’ to church
5:00 PM ALLIED AREA TASK FORCE 4619 JENEWEIN RD.
– Safety issues, reports and updates.
5:00 PM COMMISSION ON PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ROOM 260 MMB
– Voter ID
– Discussion of UW-Madison Removal of Free Disabled Parking Spaces
– Lots of reports
5:00 PM ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS (Cancelled) ROOM LL-110 MMB
5:30 PM COMMITTEE ON SWEATFREE PURCHASES ROOM 406 CCB
– Sliding scale and ranking of bidding process.
– Education of vendors
6:00 PM WARNER PARK COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE 1625 NORTHPORT DRIVE
– Reports
6:00 PM WARNER PARK COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE 1625 NORTHPORT DRIVE
