I took the weekend off and tried to take yesterday off, but had to go to Board of Estimates, Landmarks and Plan Commission. So, my apologies for being a day late with my “week ahead” blog.
Here’s what’s up of interest to me (or perhaps more accurately, that I think might be of interest to you) for the rest of the week:
There’s now LINKS on the Weekly Calendar!!! (A little more progress! My links will put in a little late today.)
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
11:00 AM CCOC SUBCOMMITTEE TO REVIEW CITY HIRING PRACTICES AND POLICIES ROOM 417 CCB
- There are only two committee members on this committee, myself and Alder Schumacher. This is our first meeting and we will be making our work plan. After that, we will invite everyone in to give us their comments.
4:30 PM WATER UTILITY BOARD 119 E. OLIN AVENUE
- Reports, reports, reports and more reports.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
12:00 PM HOUSING AFFORDABILITY SUBCOM OF THE HOUSING COMMITTEE ROOM LL-110 MMB
- We scheduled a work session to discuss changes to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
7:00 NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING,GATES OF HEAVEN (JAMES MADISON PARK)
- We’ll be hearing presentations from the people moving the Conklin House to 500 E Mifflin as well as from Supreme Water sports to discuss their new services in James Madison Park.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
4:00 PM DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION COMMISSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON GENDER, RACE & DISABILITY ISSUES ROOM 523 CCB
- They should be finishing up their report on the hiring of women, people of color and people with disabilities as well as committee appointments. We’ve got some work to do.
5:00 PM COMMON COUNCIL – DISCUSSION ROOM 201 CCB
- We’ll be hearing about “neighborhood indicators”. So we can predict when a neighborhood is declining and try to head it off before it becomes “the next Allied Drive”.
And, for the Monday that was . . . . my “day off”.
Board of Estimates (4:30) – I went to speak about the proposal to raise tickets from $30 to $60 for failure to alternate side park during snow emergencies, allow for towing of cars and charging the residents for that towing and extending the street sweeping restricted parking to year round. When I got there, Alder Verveer told me it was getting referred because “it needs alot of work”, so I went to the Landmarks Commission.
Landmarks (4:45) – We recommended the Doris House (603 – 605) W Main and the Schubert Building (Badger Office Supply Building – 120 W Mifflin) for landmark status. We also recommended to go to a public hearing about the buildings on the square (7 -9, 21 – 25 and 27 N Pinckney) becoming Landmarks. We also finally passed the demolition ordinance with several changes.
Plan (5:30) – The East Washington BUILD plan, the Tenney Lapham Plan, the project on Butler and Franklin Streets as well as the project by the Pinkus McBride grocery block all passed.
Commission on the Environment (4:45) – They discussed the plastic bag and water bottle ban.
That’s it, gotta run. Will get the links in before noon today.
