After the Jewish Holidays and budget adjustments, the meetings are all jumbled up – you need to pay attention this month, since the meetings are not at their regular times!
Monday, October 6, 2008
3:30 PM DOWNTOWN HOTEL FEASIBILITY STUDY COMMITTEE MONONA TERRACE, MEETING ROOM 4 (LEVEL 4)
– Wow, wouldn’t it be cool if you could get information for this meeting on line? I hate agendas like this. You either have to show up to get the info or hope they actually do their minutes in a timely manner and remember to go back and review them.
5:00 PM PUBLIC SAFETY REVIEW BOARD ROOM LL-110 MMB
– Update on 911 committee (No link.)
– Discussion on how MPD puts incidents on their website. Given the Isthmus article, this might be interesting. (No link.)
5:30 PM PLAN COMMISSION ROOM 201 CCB
– Solar/wind systems ordinance.
6:00 PM BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS 3330 ATWOOD AVE
– Only one item, Olbrich Master Plan. (No links!!!)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
4:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE ROOM 103A CCB
– Only one item, which is the personnel issues in our office. We’ll FINALLY go into closed session, which if you ask me we should have done a long, long time ago, but we only have an hour before the Mayor’s spin session on the budget. I think this is council leaderships way of making sure we don’t get involved. But, we are and they can’t avoid that.
5:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL – DISCUSSION ROOM 201 CCB
– I don’t know why we are meeting on the budget when we’ve only had it for a few hours, if that. Sadly, I’m guessing it’s the Mayor’s plan to spin everything before we can really get any information and council leadership’s way of getting themselves out of answering questions about what is going on in our office. And this meeting is only 45 minutes before leadership and the Board of Estimates members, including the Mayor, have to leave.
6:15 PM BOARD OF ESTIMATES ROOM 103A CCB
– This is the special meeting the Board of Estimates has to approve the borrowing rate for the year. Although I am confused, since usually this is done the day that this is on the Council agenda, I suspect, there will be an addendum to the agenda.
6:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL ROOM 201 CCB
There are lots of items, but only two of interest.
– What do we amend the police budget every year for Halloween, its not like its a surprise that it’s going to be a cost.
– Doubling the fines for not moving your car on snow emergency days, citywide (from $30 to $60) plus approving towing cars throughout the city (add $50). That’s going to be a very expensive mistake.
Council leadership (Bruer and Clear) and the Mayor should have their freaking heads examined for scheduling four meetings in 2 hours. Methinks perhaps they don’t really want our full attention or hope that we all just rush through the meetings and won’t ask too many questions, lest they have to answer them!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
10:30 AM MINORITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE (MAC) ROOM LL-130 MMB
– Discussion of hiring practices and how it impacts people of color.
12:00 PM PERSONNEL BOARD ROOM 108 CCB
– The discussion here looking interesting, I wish materials were available.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
4:30 PM ALCOHOL LICENSE ESTABLISHMENT RESPONSE TEAM (ALERT) ROOM 401 CCB
– Another useless agenda . . . I have no idea what they will be talking about.
As usual, I suspect there were some meetings missing when I looked, so check the weekly schedule. I’m pretty sure that IZ meets on Friday, but its not on the agenda yet. I’ve also been told that Community Services Commission should be meeting this week, and hopefully they will be talking about the fact that the Community Services and CDBG offices are each losing a position in this year’s budget. It’s all part of the Planning & Community & Economic Development reorganization gone bad.
