I’m late to the party here, Executive Budget has been out for two weeks – public hearing tomorrow night in front of the entire county board and amendments will be flying through committees soon. Here’s the info you need to know!
GENERAL
There are four places to look for information:
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- Dane County Controller/Finance Budget Page
- Detailed Budget Requests by Department
- Compilation of Departmental Budget Requests
- Executive Budget
- Eventually there will be more files here, see previous years.
- Dane County Board Budget Page
- Video and Balance Act budget simulation
- Budget Process Power Point
- Budget Handout
- 2020 Budget Calendar – not very specific
- On the page there is more specific dates and links to all the amendments
Committee
Operating
Capital
Environment, Agriculture and Natural Resources 2019 ACT-160 2019 ACT-161 Zoning and Land Regulation 2019 ACT-162 2019 ACT-163 Public Works and Transportation 2019 ACT-164 2019 ACT-165 Executive 2019 ACT-170 2019 ACT-171 Public Protection & Judiciary 2019 ACT-166 2019 ACT-167 Health and Human Needs 2019 ACT-168 2019 ACT-169 Personnel & Finance 2019 ACT-193 2019 ACT-194
- City of Madison City Channel Page
- Dane County Board of Supervisors: Meeting of September 12, 2019-20202 Public Hearing on Department Budgets
- Dane County Controller/Finance Budget Page
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- Dane County Board of Supervisors: Meeting of September 11, 2019-2020 Public Hearing on Human Services Budget
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- (<- that should be a 4!) Legistar
- The amendments will be in the links above for each of the committees
- This is the operating budget appropriations resolution
- This is the capital budget appropriations resolution
- There are also many other resolutions raising fees that will be considered at budget time of the year.
- (<- that should be a 4!) Legistar
GENERAL BUDGET SCHEDULE
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By October 1, 2019 |
Executive Budget transmitted to Board.
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October 3, 2019 |
Regular County Board Meeting – capital and operating budget appropriations resolutions are referred to Personnel and Finance.
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October 7 – 11, 2019 |
Standing Committee review of agency budgets/consideration of amendments – supervisor amendments submitted during this period Note: Yom Kippur starts at sunset on October 8th through October 9th
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October 14 – 18, 2019 |
Standing Committee review of agency budgets/consideration of amendments – supervisor amendments submitted during this period Note: Sukkot starts at sunset on October 13th through October 15th |
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October 16, 2019 |
Public Hearing on 2020 Budget – 7:00 PM (Room 201 CCB)
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October 17, 2019 |
Regular County Board meeting
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October 21 – 25, 2019 |
Standing Committee review of agency budgets/consideration of amendments – supervisor amendments submitted during this period |
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October 29 – 30, 2019 |
Personnel and Finance Committee consideration of Standing Committee recommendations on Operating and Capital Budgets and supervisor amendments |
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November 5-6, 2019 |
Personnel and Finance Committee consideration of Standing Committee recommendations on Operating and Capital Budgets and supervisor amendments – Final Recommendation to Board
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November 7, 2019 |
Regular County Board meeting |
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November 11, 2019 |
County Board budget deliberations begin 7:00PM, assuming Personnel and Finance completes action and amendment packet and substitute resolutions are completed |
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November 13, 2019 |
Continue budget deliberations, if necessary
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November 14, 2019 |
Continue budget deliberations, if necessary
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November 21, 2019 |
Regular County Board meeting; consideration of possible County Executive vetoes
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OTHER THINGS TO KNOW
Restrictive Public Testimony Rules
- Just because it says they are taking public input it doesn’t meant that you will be allowed to speak.
- Some committee chairs choose to enforce the rule in bold below during budget season :
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7.225 PUBLIC APPEARANCES AT COMMITTEE MEETINGS. (1) The agenda for each committee meeting shall contain an item titled public comment at which point on the agenda any member of the public shall be allowed to speak on any issue which is not on the agenda or, with the consent of the committee, any issue over which the committee has jurisdiction. Persons wishing to speak shall first file with the committee or its staff a form complying with s. 8.10. Copies of the form shall be made available at the meeting.
(2) If necessary at a particular meeting to ensure public comment is received from all those interested in testifying and the committee has sufficient time to conduct all scheduled business, the chairperson may limit the time for each speaker to 3 minutes, exclusive of time allotted to questioning by committee members.
(a) If a committee has taken testimony on an item and the same committee considers action on the item at a separate meeting, the public shall not have the opportunity to testify if that same item appears on subsequent agendas of the same committee. Items are not considered to be the same item if a new amendment has been posted and the public has not had the opportunity to testify on the new amendment.
(3) The limitations of this section shall not apply to county officials or employees as permitted by the committee.
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Uber Amendment
At the county each department has a committee that reviews their budgets. Those committees make amendments and they all go to the Personal and Finance Committee. The committee hears from the sponsors of all the amendments. Then it goes away and magically there is a whole budget deal all worked out that they pass in 15 minutes or less. This is all done behind the scenes and the public doesn’t get to comment on the uber amendment. The meetings usually last 20 minutes or less.
Blogs by Supervisors
The county doesn’t have the same tools as the city. The only blog about the budget on the county website is the one by Heidi Wegleitner (posted 10/7). Most Supervisors don’t use their blogs. Heidi might be the only one. Yogesh Chawla has his campaign site still up and he blogs, er posts “updates” there. He mentions some information there, and refers to Heidi’s blog.
