I attempted to take 7 days off of work. Ended up cancelling 4 days of vacation and since I spent the first two days at the Green Party National Convention, yesterday was my only real day off . . . so my apologies for not posting this earlier. Here’s what’s up this week.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
5:00 PM CITY-COUNTY LIAISON COMMITTEE ROOM 309 CCB
- Here’s something you almost never see. Looks like they might finally be moving forward with improvements to the Council Chambers . . . they’ve only been talking about it since 2001 when I was elected . . . 7 years ago.
5:00 PM COMMON COUNCIL – DISCUSSION COMMON COUNCIL UPDATE ON CITY’S NEIGHBORHOOD INDICATOR’S PROJECT ROOM 201 CCB
- We get to see what this has morphed into and how it might affect the budget.
6:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL ROOM 201 CCB
- #1 The police report we were supposed to get on agenda item #1 was rescheduled for August 19th – you know, the day we don’t have a council meeting in August so council members can take vacation during the summer. Methinks they don’t really want us to show up.
- #26 Employment report from Allied Drive
- #28 Budget process for this year
- #31 Salt usage
- #59 Union Corners redevelopment district
- #62 Mailboxes
- #69 Paying too much for the Madison Metro offices
- #72 Fireworks
- #74 Diversity (women, people of color and people with disabilities) on city committees
- #86 ATC power lines
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
8:00 AM DISCUSSION ON EXPANDED NOTIFICATION FOR SNOW EMERGENCIES ROOM 103A CCB
- After council members pushed for this, now, the Mayor and City staff are inviting us to talk about it? I love the goofy rush to take credit for things.
8:00 AM EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION BOARD 119 E. OLIN AVE.
- More work on funding recommendations for 2009-2010. We’ll have to decide which programs to cut so that we can keep our promise to provide cost of living increases to the programs so as not to destroy all programs by a death of a thousand cuts.
4:00 PM TAX INCREMENTAL FINANCING POLICY AD HOC COMMITTEE ROOM 101 MMB
- Could this really finally be our last meeting?
4:30 PM BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ROOM 108 CCB
4:30 PM COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMISSION 119 E. OLIN AVE.
- Continued work on funding decisions for 2009 and 2010. I’m glad I’m not these folks who have to go through this absurd exercise of cutting 5% and listening to all the upset people only to typically have the funding restored.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
4:30 PM COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMISSION 119 E. OLIN AVE.
- More agony.
5:00 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT COMMISSION ROOM 260 MMB
- The folks are in the same boat as the Early Chilhood Care and Community Services programs in trying to make recommendations for 2009 -2010. Cut. Cut. Cut. While there are increasing needs in our growing city and a failure to acknowledge cost of living increases.
5:00 PM LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING COMMISSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
- One of the single most useful city meetings of the year – when Larry Nelson presents his plans for road, bike etc projects for the next few years.
Friday, July 18, 2008
It’s not on the agenda yet . . . but Inclusionary Zoning Oversight Committee will be meeting to work on its report to the Mayor on its recommendations for the ordinance.
