Maybe This is the (City) Week Ahead

So frustrated with meetings being posted late . . . who knows if this is even close, but as of this morning this is what is posted. How is anyone supposed to plan their week to be able to attend these meetings when they pop up at the last minute?

Monday, May 9, 2011
3:00 PM ARBOR HILLS-LEOPOLD NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN MEET AND GREET 2802 POST RD
– What a strange time to do this, who do they expect to attend?
– Most laughable agenda item “I. Welcome from Alder Tim Bruer, District 14 (5 minutes)” – yeah, 5 minutes, right.

4:30 PM BOARD OF ESTIMATES ROOM 260 MMB
– Items 1-12 personnel shuffles, including hiring back Arthur Ross.
– Rejoining U.S. Conference of Mayors, National League of Cities, and International City/County Management
Association (ICMA) with funds from staff savings in the mayor’s office.
– Giving salary increases to administrative staff, managers and professional staff to catch up with the unions. and 5% when the budget repair bill passes to compensate for retirement benefits.
Development Review Process
– Closed Session to approve a court settlement of $28,058.76 for real property taxes for 2009 for Cardinal Court, LLC

4:45 PM LANDMARKS COMMISSION – AMENDED ROOM LL-110 MMB
Changes to the Gisholt Building (Old Marquip) where the Bop Shop moved to
Tenney Park
Arboretum
Sustainability Plan
Informational presentation on St. Francis.

5:15 PM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS ROOM GR-22 CCB
– They have a useless agenda, all I can tell you for sure is there are two promotions to detective in the police department.

6:30 PM MADISON WATER UTILITY – CITIZEN ADVISORY PANEL MEETING 149 WAUBESA ST, BOLZ ROOM A
– Planning for public meeting
– Iron and Manganese
– Demand analysis and Conservation advisories
– Well 15 Cap

Tuesday, May 10, 2011
1:30 PM DEFERRED COMPENSATION COMMITTEE ROOM 501 CCB
Investment policy
Deferred Compensation Plan

4:30 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ROOM 313 MMB
– Community Development and Capital Revolving Fund subcommittees
Burr Oaks Sr. Housing including change orders that are not linked.
Change orders for Truax
Truman Olson Update

– Burr Oaks/Ann St phase 2
Villager
Lake Point Updates – project FAIL! CDA going to market the units themselves
– Closed session for Capital Revolving Funds discussion for Reconsideration/discussion of Capital Revolving Loan Fund Application for Taylor’s One Price Cleaners and New World Investments, LLC.

5:00 PM PUBLIC SAFETY REVIEW COMMITTEE ROOM GR-22 CCB
Allied Drive Safety and Security Report

5:15 PM MADISON ARTS COMMISSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
Sustainability Plan
State St. Update
Cultural Plan Update

5:30 PM AFFIRMATIVE ACTION COMMISSION ROOM LL-120 MMB
– Review City Affirmative Action Plan
– Reports and updates
– 2010 activities
– Voter ID

5:30 PM NEW ALDER ORIENTATION ROOM 108 CCB
– Engineering and Traffic Engineering

6:00 PM REDISTRICTING COMMUNITY INPUT MEETING 502 PFLAUM ROAD, CAFETERIA
– See here for more info.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011
10:00 AM STREET USE STAFF COMMISSION ROOM 108 CCB
– 12 new events
– Recap recent street use events including Crazylegs, Mifflin St Block Party, Thunda ‘Round the Rotunda

10:30 AM MINORITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE ROOM LL-130 MMB
– Benefits Specialist
– Strategic Planning

1:30 PM BOARD OF REVIEW ROOM 108 CCB
– Objections to Assessments process

4:30 PM CDA HOUSING OPERATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE CONFERENCE ROOM, SUITE 120 MMB
Ooops, the project-based section 8 isn’t really working out.

4:30 PM URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
MATC buildings
4 story apartment building on Monroe
St. Francis on University
Acacia again

5:00 PM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE ROOM 300 MMB
Development Review Process

5:00 PM TRANSIT AND PARKING COMMISSION ROOM 260 MMB
More small parking spaces
Overcrowded buses

6:00 PM REDISTRICTING COMMUNITY INPUT MEETING 201 WEST MIFFLIN STREET
– See here for more info.

6:30 PM BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS 1625 NORTHPORT DRIVE
– Rhythm and Booms items
Sustainability Plan
Amending Central Park Plan
Goose Management Report

Thursday, May 12, 2011
8:00 AM COMMISSION OF THE MADISON METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT 1610 MOORLAND RD
– Phosphorus Management Strategy
– West and Southwest interceptors

8:30 AM RHYTHM & BOOMS PLANNING TEAM ROOM 108 CCB
– Updates

12:00 PM CONTRACTED SERVICE OVERSIGHT SUBCOMMITTEE ROOM LL-110 MMB
– RTA, Farebox and budget updates
– Ridership reports

12:00 PM EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE 101 E MIFFLIN STREET
– Best Practices

4:30 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ROOM 260 MMB
– Reports and updates
Burr Oaks Sr. Housing including change orders that are not linked.
Change orders for Truax
Truman Olson Update

– Burr Oaks/Ann St phase 2
Villager
Lake Point Updates – project FAIL! CDA going to market the units themselves
– Closed session for Capital Revolving Funds discussion for Reconsideration/discussion of Capital Revolving Loan Fund Application for Taylor’s One Price Cleaners and New World Investments, LLC.

5:00 PM EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION ROOM LL-120 MMB
– reports and updates
Use of Applicants’ and Employees’ Credit History in Employment
Voter ID

5:00 PM ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS ROOM LL-110 MMB
– People who have to follow the rules, unlike the Edgewater

5:15 PM STATE STREET DESIGN PROJECT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ROOM LL-130 MMB
– Preliminary Discussion on the Reconstruction of the 700-800 Blocks of State Street
– Consideration of Potential B-Cycle Sites Within and Near the State Street Design Project Area

6:00 PM REDISTRICTING COMMUNITY INPUT MEETING 4301 CHEROKEE DRIVE
– See here for more info.

8 COMMENTS

  1. Why are you so happy that problems continue on Lake Point Dr project? Never met an affordable housing advocate who was so hostile to a public housing agency. We’re on the same side, remember? And btw – you’re reading the resolution wrong; CDA will not market units. And why do you say Sec 8 PBV program isn’t working out?

  2. I find it disgusting that the BoE is considering “Giving salary increases to administrative staff, managers and professional staff to catch up with the unions. and 5% when the budget repair bill passes to compensate for retirement benefits.”

    I am willing to bet the majority registering support are either city employees or family of city employees.

    The liberals will never learn that we cannot afford this.

  3. Brenda, still waiting for your explanation of why you claim PBV Sec 8 program “isn’t really working out.” I think Project Home, Independent Living, Housing Initiatives, Porchlight, and the YWCA, and the households we have helped house there, would surely disagree. Please explain your gratuitous commentary about unspecified problems, or retract it. Thank you.

  4. I thought I answered you in the parking lot. Because the section 8 vouchers are being attached to buildings, the people who are on the waiting list can’t get vouchers cuz they are being given to those who earn the right to them by staying in certain buildings for a year. And now you are looking at limiting the number of vouchers that can be used in this way.

  5. You didn’t even read the report you linked to, and commented on, did you?

    How does stabilizing Project Home, Porchlight, et al show that the program “isn’t really working out”? Program is doing EXACTLY what it was designed to do — provide affordable housing for households that need it, and provide stable financing for affordable housing developments. Your snark, while predictable, is, as usual, unwarranted.

  6. Give it up Levitan.

    Ms. Konkel only has criticism for progressives who are trying to get things done in the messy real world. In her world it is more important to sit on the sidelines talking a good game (and trash talk your team) than to get out on the muddy field and try to move the ball up field.

  7. Sit on the sidelines, what do you think I do at the Tenant Resource Center 50 hours a week? I’ve raised nearly $100,000 to prevent homelessness. I’ve made 1,000s of mediations happen that prevented people from being homeless. We help thousands of tenants and landlords every year with their issues. Helping them make sure they have basics like heat. Sit on the sidelines? Did my 8 years on the council not count? What makes what I do not “real”?

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