Was at Occupy meeting last night, but here’s what I got off Tivo this morning.
Roll Call
Palm, Solomon, Cnare missing.
Announcements and getting started
Happy Birthday to Rhodes-Conway, Ellingson and Maniaci. And Happy Halloween. They suspend the rules. That passes as it always does.
Honoring Resolutions
1. Responding to the tragic events of Sunday, Aug. 5th, 2012 at Oak Creek’s Sikh temple – passes without discussion or reading.
2. Declaring the band State Radio and its members, Chad Urmston, Chuck Fay, and Mike Najarian, honorary citizens of the great City of Madison, Wisconsin. – passes without discussion or reading.
Early Public Comment
Dierdre Garton speaks on the Overture.
Consent Agenda
Items to be discussed include
3 – 12, public hearing items,
15 which is confirmation hearing,
substitute on 35 on consent agenda but recorded as a unanimous vote.
Items separated are:
22 (800 East Washington committee)
31 (Theresa Terrace neighborhood center)
34 (Performing Arts Study)
36 (Sewer System Revenue Bonds)
46 (Truman Olson demolition)
Public hearing on the budget
People spoke on the following issues
– Bus fares
– Overture funding
– Golf Courses
– Bus fares
– Golf Courses
(They have boy scouts there working on their citizenship badge)
– Overture
– Funding for Northside Planning Council
– Golf Courses
– Overture
– Overture
– Golf Courses
– Golf Courses
– Golf Courses
– Overture
– Bus fares (for)
Public Hearings
3 – Referred to budget meeting.
4 – Referred to plan commission. Applicant requested. Indefinite re-referral.
5 – ALRC item, approval.
6 – Grant with conditions. Schmidt votes no. So does Bidar-Sielaff.
7 – Also ALRC item, Approval
8 – Street lights on Betty’s Lane – passes
9 – Street lights on Park Edge Drive – one speaker in opposition to assessment but wants street lights. Maniaci asks why 8 year pay back. Rob Phillips says that is typical. She asks about a longer pay back. Phillips says usually it is shorter with street lights, the dollar amounts aren’t that high. Subeck says they need to pass this, police recommend it, there is general support that they need this in the neighborhood Passes.
Overture Funding
Gary Peterson speaks in support.
Michael Green, for Edgewater, says this is just a technical step.
Carole Schaeffer in support, board member of DMI.
Judy Karofsky in support.
Verveer asks a question about role of Madison. Michael May, city attorney, says all they do is have a public hearing and the mayor signs something saying we did it. Passes.
Public Hearings
11 – Adopt. No discussion, passes.
12 – Developer speaks in support of Capital West. Resident in opposition. Likes the conditions, but worried about only one entrance into the garage. Several others registered in support. Moved approval. Verveer supports the plan commission recommendation and thanks the resident and says others share the concerns of parking and traffic but thinks traffic engineering and processes have worked well and here are conditions to address these concerns. Passes. Bidar-Sielaff notes those were two big developments that were introduced on 9/18 and passed tonight, for those developers who accuse them of being slow.
That was 1 hour and 42 minutes. There is very little left of this meeting (40 minutes), but I have to go . . . teaching a seminar again this morning.
