Last week, I missed two meetings I would have gone to, because I didn’t check back for all the changes. One of them really pissed me off. So, please note, you really need to check back here to find out if meetings of interest are added. It really shouldn’t be that tricky for the public to find out, but it is . . . anyways, here’s the meetings of interest to me!
Monday, October 12, 2009
8:00 AM MADISON METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT COMMISSION 1610 MOORLAND ROAD
– Just noting, no link to an agenda, so I don’t know if it is of interest.
11:30 AM HOUSING AFFORDABILITY SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSING COMMITTEE SPECIAL MEETING ROOM LL-110 MMB
– they are going to have an “Ordinance Language Discussion”. I’m not kidding. No link to said ordinance. I’m guessing the Affordable Housing Trust Fund ordinance, but I guess you need to show up to find out. We’re off to a good start, first two items on the list, nearly useless.
3:30 PM WATER UTILITY BOARD WATER UTILITY OFFICES, 119 E OLIN AVE, ROOMS A & B
Allowing the Water Utility to bill people who owe us money in areas that we serve other than the City of Madison. Those areas are towns of Blooming Grove, Madison,
Middleton and Verona, of the villages of Maple Bluff and Shorewood Hills, and the cities of Fitchburg, Middleton and Monona. It’s a telephonic meeting, so not worth attending, just interesting that we serve people in that many other areas and that they are noticing a teleconference, you don’t see that often.
4:30 PM BOARD OF ESTIMATES ROOM 260 MMB
– City of Madison does right, and pays for its use of music. (Again, not controversial or of great interest, but nice to see.)
– Starting to see the stress of not properly hiring or filling positions – people can’t use their comp time and need to carry it over.
– This has a neutral fiscal note, but its going to cost the city in terms of staff time, and who knows what else. This isn’t going to be free, lawyers aren’t cheap! Who’s paying for all of that?
– I wish there were a document that shows the changes from the last annual and 5 year CDBG plans and the new ones. I don’t know if this is significant or not. I missed the meeting where they initially discussed it because I was at a funeral and was unsuccessful in finding anything that describes what the changes are.
– Landfill mess . . . looks like we’re recovering another $3M of our $40M in costs since 1992 for our old landfills.
– Amendments to the Capital Budget, and oops, the late one (you have to click on the BOE Central Library link).
– Starting the operating budget briefings for the 2010, they are supposed to discuss the following parts of the operating budget:
Briefing – Dean Brasser
Library – p. 172
Metro Transit – p. 122
Office of the Director of Planning & Community & Economic Development – p. 135
CDA Redevelopment – p. 155
Economic Development Division – p. 146
Water Utility – p. 120
Parks – p. 105
Municipal Pool – p. 111
Golf Enterprise – p. 113
Engineering – p. 93
Sewer Utility – p. 99
Stormwater Utility – p. 101
Landfill – p. 103
I don’t know who scheduled that, but my guess is that they can’t get through the regular BOE agenda, the Capital Budget amendments and then do the briefings on the Operating Budget . . . its too much, especially with public testimony on the budget (I’m assuming there will be from the Edgewater and Library Supporters).
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
4:30 PM BOARD OF ESTIMATES ROOM 260 MMB
– Whatever operating budget briefings they didn’t get to on Monday. Full executive operating budget here.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
5:00 PM AFFIRMATIVE ACTION COMMISSION ROOM LL-120 MMB
– Dane County Task Force Report on Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
5:35 PM COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE WATER UTILITY OFFICES, 119 E OLIN AVE
– Chronic Nuisance Ordinance (that link wasn’t working, here’s the alternate, a better version in my opinion)
– Priorities for funding in 2011. This makes me laugh, apparently, they have working on systemic change ranked higher than serving people in category 6. That happens to be where the Tenant Resource Center has been funded to help people with their housing needs. To me, they are saying they would rather have us changing laws to protect low income renters, hassling the city agencies when they do things wrong and working on policy, instead of serving the low income tenants themselves. That’s crazy talk. But it might be fun to actually get paid to do that! [evil, evil, grin]
They attached the Oct. 8 version, which is different than than the version that was emailed to me on both Thursday and Friday which says the Access to Services sections would be this:
Goal:
Provide services that address barriers to basic resources that increase self-sufficiency and improve the quality of life for the community’s most vulnerable individuals. Basic resources may include: food security, housing, healthcare, employment and child care. Barriers may include: language and cultural accessibility, education, knowledge or awareness of services, transportation and past history with the criminal justice system.High Priority:
A1. Provide systemic solutions which address barriers and improve access to services that meet basic needs for low to moderate income and/or marginalized groups.
Intermediate Priority:
B1. Provide culturally specific or targeted supportive services to members of low to moderate income and/or marginalized groups that increase access to basic services and resources and increase participation in community life.
6:30 PM BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS WARNER PARK COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER, 1625 NORTHPORT DR
– No links to many materials, even those links referenced on the agenda . . . so it makes it hard to evaluate what is of interest.
– Pilot project for Urban Fruit Forestry
– Dead Elms and Oaks . . .
– Expanding community gardens in Reindahl Park
– Northport/Warner/Sherman Neighborhood Plan
Thursday, October 15, 2009
4:00 PM LANDLORD AND TENANT ISSUES SUBCOMMITTEE ROOM 260 MMB
– Cops giving tickets for landlord violations of tenant/landlord laws – and fixing language/closing loophole in photo ordinance.
– Fixing the landlord entry law.
– Licensing Landlords who violate Chronic Nuisance Ordinance
5:00 PM LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING COMMITTEE ROOM LL-110 MMB
– Yahara Station, Multi-modal intercity transportation hub
– Zoning Code Re-write
5:30 PM DOWNTOWN COORDINATING COMMITTEE ROOM 108, CCB
– No links but discussing, halloween, Yahara Station, homeless outreach program on State St. and Transpotainment
Friday, October 16, 2009
11:30 PM NIGHT WALK-ALONG MEET AT MLK SIDE OF CITY COUNTY BUILDING (CCB)
– ALRC takes a field trip . . .
