Ah, that’s better, a whole bunch of meetings I had in my calendar finally popped up on the Weekly Schedule. So, try again. Here’s what’s going on this week and what went wrong with public notices this week!
Monday, July 30, 2007
Board of Estimates 4:30 PM Room 260 Madison Municipal Building
Halloween
– accepting donations for Halloween costs and authorizing fencing
– increasing budget for police, parks, streets and engineering for Halloween
– glass ban
$2.7 in TIF for Arbor Gate in 2008
Tenney-Lapham Neighborhood Plan
Borrowing to create affordable rental housing
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Community Services Commission 5:35 PM Room 300 Madison Municipal Building
Cuts to agencies due to Mayor’s request to departments to cut 3%
Another special last-minute Water Board meeting on another contract. 4:30 at the Water Utility
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Economic Development Commission Room 120 Municipal Building 5:00
I’d also check out the public input and access improvments we’re making to Chapter 2 this morning and tomorrow morning. You might also be interested in more problems we’re having with consultants hired under contracts with the city which is the IZ meeting today and Thursday.
PROBLEMS THIS WEEK
1. The following meetings showed up in Legistar, many without agendas – but they do not appear on the Clerk’s Weekly Schedule and therefore, likely are not properly noticed or something else is going on.
08/01/2007 Wed 5:00 PM Housing Committee (Canceled)
08/02/2007 Thu 1:00 PM Inclusionary Zoning Advisory Oversight Committee (No agenda yet, will be developed at today’s meeting)
08/02/2007 Thu 4:45 PM Solid Waste Advisory Committee (In Legistar 5 times)
08/02/2007 Thu 6:30 PM Common Council
08/03/2007 Fri 8:00 AM Inclusionary Zoning Advisory Oversight Committee (Canceled)
2. These meetings show up on the City Clerk’s Weekly Schedule, but you can’t find any agendas on line (Legistar or list of additional meetings) so that you can determine if you want to attend or not.
Monday, July 30, 2007
8:00 AM MADISON METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT 1610 MOORLAND ROAD
9:00 AM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSOINERS EVIDENTIARY HEARING MAY CONVENE INTO CLOSED SESSION ROOM 300 MMBTuesday, July 31, 2007
9:00 AM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS EVIDENTIARY HEARING MAY CONVENE INTO CLOSED SESSION ROOM 260 MMBWednesday, August 1, 2007
8:30 AM CHAPTER 2 SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE ROOM 417 CCB
9:00 AM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS EVIDENTIARY HEARING MAY CONVENE INTO CLOSED SESSION ROOM 300 MMBThursday, August 2, 2007
9:00 AM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS EVIDENTIARY HEARING MAY CONVENE INTO CLOSED SESSION ROM 300 MMB
12:00 PM MADISON CENTRAL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRCT BOARD OF DIRECTORS MAY CONVENE INTO CLOSED SESSION 615 E. WASHINGTON AVENUE, 2ND FLOOR BOARD ROOMFriday, August 3, 2007
9:00 AM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS EVIDENTIARY HEARING MAY CONVENE INTO CLOSED SESSION ROOM 300 MMB
1:30 PM BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS BID OPENING 1602 EMIL STREET
3. Then, there’s the problems where the agendas appear, but there are no links to the documents that you need to truly participate in the meetings. But that will have to wait for another day as it is just too much information to wade through this morning.
4. There are some agendas that are there but you have no idea what they will be discussion. That too, will have to wait for another day, when we can play “What is this meeting about?”
Bottom line is, you shouldn’t have to look in three different places and end up with conflicting or missing information. That is not good public notice.
