Marquette Chili Dinner, Wisconsin Budget Debacle, Free Fair Housing Training, MG&E Community Energy Conversations, Central Park – First Year Review, East High Girls Soccer to be at Breese Stevens Field, Make Music Madison, Warner Park Ash Tree Removal and Metro On Board Survey.
Marquette Chili Dinner
The Marquette Neighborhood Association will hold its annual Chili Dinner to raise money for the Peat-Piper scholarships on Saturday, March 7st at the Wilmar Center. Dinner served from 5pm-9:00pm. The North Westerns, an old time jazz/western swing band,, will provide music from 7-8:30 p.m.
MNA’s annual Chili Dinner offers meat & veggie chilis and all the fixin’s, donated by the Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center, Lazy Jane’s, Eldorado Grill, Batch Bakehouse, Madison Sourdough, Smokin’ Cantina, Jenifer Street Market, Star Liquor and Ground Zero. Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for pre-teens.
The North Westerns, an old time jazz/western swing band,, will provide music from 7-8:30 p.m.
The MNA/Peat-Piper Scholarship Fund awards four $1000 scholarships to students graduating from high school or its equivalent. The scholarships provide money for post-secondary education for children with “significant ties” to the Marquette Neighborhood who demonstrate financial need. Significant ties may include having lived, worked, volunteered, attended school, or participated in community programming in the Marquette Neighborhood.
Hope to see you there!
Wisconsin Budget Debacle
Join Us Saturday! for The Madison Institute’s 4-Part Series of Progressive Round Tables
Wisconsin’s Budget Debacle K-12 Schools – UW System Social Services – Natural Resources
PART I – What’s Ahead for Our Public Schools?Panelists:
– Julie Mead, UW-Madison School of Education
– Jeff Pertl, Department of Public Instruction
– Dan Rossmiller, WI Assoc. of School BoardsModerated by Charles Uphoff, Oregon School Board & TMI Board Member
_________________________________Saturday, February 28, 2015
9:30 am – 11:30 am
Madison Central Public Library
201 W. Mifflin St.
Madison, WI
Free Fair Housing Training
Please share widely! The Fair Housing Center of Greater Madison is offering a free fair housing training seminar for owners and managers of rental property:
Thursday, April 30, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Madison Public Library – Goodman South Madison Branch, 2222 S. Park StreetThe seminar is free, but we ask that you register so we’ll be sure to have enough of our training materials available. To register, or for more information, call us at 257-0853.
The seminar will include information about housing discrimination as prohibited by local, state and federal fair housing laws, including detailed descriptions of protected classes and prohibited practices included in those laws; reasonable accommodations and modifications for tenants with disabilities; advertising rental units in compliance with fair housing laws; non-discriminatory negotiation with prospective tenants, and much more.
This seminar is supported by funding from the City of Madison Community Development Block Grant Program.
If you need materials in alternate formats or other accommodations to access our services, please call 257-0853.
MG&E Community Energy Conversations
MGE has been working to move forward with the promise we made to hold community-wide energy conversations about our collective energy future. We want to ensure that our community process is designed, moderated and facilitated by an experienced third-party professional with a history and practice of engaging all stakeholders in a meaningful dialogue.
To that end, in November of last year, we contacted Justice and Sustainability Associates (JSA) from the Washington, DC area to help us design and to lead the conversations. We first became aware of JSA when JSA’s CEO, Don Edwards, delivered the keynote address at the city of Madison’s Neighborhood Conference last September.
JSA has the skills and experience needed for this process. Specifically, they are experienced third-party professionals with a proven track record of designing and implementing large and small group multi-stakeholder processes related to achieving sustainable community development, environmental justice and smart growth. Their past projects have included a wide variety of engagements (from small, single-issue meetings to city-wide public meetings to engagement via social media) in which everyone’s views and concerns are treated with respect and shared interests emerge to form principles, projects and policy.
We believe that JSA’s approach to engagement aligns well with our commitment to the community we serve. You can learn more about JSA and Don Edwards on their website: http://www.jsallc.com/
JSA has begun their process of gathering information and bringing their expertise to the process. Once the design of our community conversations is complete we will make a more formal announcement to launch the project.
We will keep you informed and are looking forward to working with you, JSA, and our community.
Joann K. Kelley
Director-Residential and Community Services
Madison Gas and Electric Company
Central Park – First Year Review
Hold the date for the Central Park meeting to review the first year of operations and and get your feedback on proposed staff recommendations for new permit conditions for the park and other issues of concern.
Alder Ledell Zellers and I are sponsoring the meeting and we will invite neighbors on both sides of E Wash. I will send postcards to nearby neighbors who live close to the park. This meeting needs your help to spread the word. I will send out another announcement closer to the date.
March 10
6:30p
Research Products tech center training room
130 S IngersollYou can park in the Research Products parking lot. The entrance to the tech center is in the middle of the building facade. There will be signs.
– Marsha Rummel
East High Varsity Girls Soccer at Breese Stevens Field
ALL East HS Varsity Girls Soccer home games will be played at historic Breese Stevens Field this spring: http://bit.ly/1B0VoNI
Make Music Madison
The City of Madison is excited to again sponsor an event that turns the entire city into a stage for showcasing our great array of musical talent.Make Music Madison is a free, citywide celebration that takes place on the first day of summer, June 21st. In its 2013 inaugural event, Madison joined 700 communities worldwide in this global musical celebration. Debuting with 280 concerts and growing in 2014 to 480 performances at more than one hundred venues across town, Madison is already the second largest Make Music event in the Western Hemisphere!Make Music Madison invites neighborhood associations, musicians, businesses, non-profits and all Madisonians to create performances and to showcase the music and creativity of their neighborhoods. Artists and venues can register to perform or to host a performance at www.makemusicmadison.org. Registration is open from March 15th to May 8th.In 2015, Make Music Madison will again bring music and fun to neighborhoods all across Madison. With a focus on emerging musicians, there will be a lot of diversity in musical talent spanning genres, ages, ethnicities, and skill levels. Music will be performed in all kinds of locations, including parks, community centers, fire stations, public and private outdoor spaces and more. Each neighborhood plans and hosts its own celebration, aided by citywide matchmaking software and publicity.Then, on Sunday, June 21st, all of Madison is invited to rove the city sampling new musicians and new neighborhoods throughout the day.Learn how you can help bring this celebration to your neighborhood this June by emailing info@makemusicmadison.org or visiting: www.makemusicmadison.org.
Warner Park Ash Tree Removal Began
A little late, but . . .
Greetings,
We will be removing a significant number of ash trees from Warner Park this week as we continue to ramp up our preemptive removals in Parks. Staff will be focused on trees that do not meet adoption criteria and believe will likely pose a hazard within the next year given current health and/or location within the park respective to active uses and level of EAB infestation.
Thank you,
Ann Shea
Parks Public Information Officer
Metro On-Board Survey
ON-BOARD SURVEY
On-Board Survey Testing Begins Monday, February 23Metro, in partnership with the Madison Area Transportation Planning Board (an MPO), is conducting a new on-board survey for the next month or so. Surveyors begin on-board testing on Monday, February 23.
During the testing, surveyors will be wearing Metro badges and bright yellow safety vests. They may ask you to fill out a form either on paper or with a tablet. Please help us by answering questions about you and your riding habits.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact the Metro Customer Service Center at 266-4466 between 6:15 AM and 6:00 PM weekdays; from 8:00 AM until 4:30 PM Saturdays; and 9:00 AM until 4:30 PM on Sundays and holidays, or email mymetrobus@cityofmadison.com Interpreter services are available for calls. For Civil Rights and Title VI information, click here.
