Another short week. But lots going on.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012
12:00 PM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS 16 N CARROLL ST
- Fire Department promotions

12:15 PM BUILDING CODE, FIRE CODE, CONVEYANCE CODE AND LICENSING APPEALS BOARD (Cancelled) ROOM LL-110 MMB

4:00 PM OLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY BOARD OF DIRECTORS 3330 ATWOOD AVENUE
- All reports (that’s so annoying, they probably talk about so many things, but disguise it as reports)

5:00 PM PARKING COUNCIL FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ROOM 108 CCB
- Snow being piled in Disabled stalls
- Location of disabled stalls with respect to pay-on-foot stations at State Street Campus parking ramps
- Results of alternative disabled parking provided for major events this past summer, and status of City Web site to show alternative parking locations

6:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL ROOM 201 CCB
- #4 Goodman Community Center Liquor License
- #5 – Honeybees
- #9 – 2048-2100 Winnebago Street Development
- #10 – Comp Plan amendments for Westside
- #12 – Increasing development fees
- #13 – Moped Parking Committee.
- #20 – Wingra TIF
- Parks and Library personnel changes, double fill of Streets Superintendent and Parking
- #28 – Removing public referendum on bond issues over $300,000
- #29 – Brownfield money for E. Washington
- #31 – More ridiculous amounts of money to contract with planners for E. Washington – consultants
- #54 – $50K for engineering and architecture for library due to delay – another consultant
- #55 – Selling land to Access Community Health Centers
- #58 – Banning alcohol in the city-county building, by ordinance.
- #63 – Hiring a consultant for a study on study on potential waste disposals
- #64 – Hiring a consultant for study of the source of the VOC contamination at Unit Well 15
- #65 – Hiring a consultant for VOC Air Stripper at Unit Well 15

We’re hiring a lot of consultants for a mayor that promised to cut back on that . . .

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
1:30 PM SENIOR CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE 330 W MIFFLIN ST
- 2013-2014 funding process updates Apparently Neighborhood Centers won’t be in the process this year and staff will recommend a slate that the committees can modify and the process will all be done in three weeks in July.
- Goals and priorities for senior services

4:30 PM BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ROOM 108 CCB
- Management of Phosphorous (P) and Total Suspended Solids (TSS) Memorandum of Understanding.
- Requiring contractors to provide domestic partner benefits
- A ton of contracted out/privatized city services, chip sealing, tree replacements, tennis court resealing, sealing cracks in roads, and parks landscaping.
- $48,000 in change orders
- Project Agreement for constructing Central Park
- 10-Year Sidewalk Reconstruction Plan

4:30 PM MADISON ELECTION ADVISORY COMMITTEE ROOM 103A CCB
- 2010 report to council
- Voter Education on the New Voting Laws
- 2012 Priorities
- 2012 Summer Elections
- Student Voting
- New Ballot Bags

4:30 PM URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION ROOM 260 MMB
- Adopting Cultural Plan
- 801 South Park Street – New PUD(GDP-SIP), Mixed-Use Development – Revised Application for Mixed-Use, Two-Story Building with Drive-Up Window
- 723 State Street – PUD(GDP-SIP), St. Paul’s University Catholic Center
- Amended PUD-GDP for Grandview Commons Town Center – think big box grocery store.

5:00 PM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOWNTOWN PLAN LL-110 MMB
- Dang, both me and my recorder will likely be busy, so someone else will have to report what crazy and hypocritical ideas they come up with . . . . I could lend Rob’s recorder to someone who would like to volunteer to go and turn on the recorder.

5:35 PM COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE 119 E OLIN AVE
- Neighborhood Center study
- 2012 Committee Structure Another gem – combining CDBG and Community Services Committees – proposal likely dead on arrival.
- 2013-2014 funding process updates Apparently Neighborhood Centers won’t be in the process this year and staff will recommend a slate that the committees can modify and the process will all be done in three weeks in July.

Thursday, January 19, 2012
8:00 AM COMMISSION OF THE MADISON METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT 1610 MOORLAND ROAD, COMMISSION MEETING ROOM
- Sewer Extension Plan – Blue Ridge Addition to Southbridge (Phase 2) – Village of Waunakee
- Policy on Dangerous Weapons
- Phosphorous Management Strategy
- Closed session of unclear personnel issue

4:30 PM LANDLORD AND TENANT ISSUES SUBCOMMITTEE (Cancelled) ROOM LL-130 MMB
- Go figure, eh?

4:30 PM MONONA TERRACE COMMUNITY AND CONVENTION CENTER BOARD 1 JOHN NOLEN DRIVE, HALL OF FAME ROOM
- Updates and reports (again, always suspicious agenda that only includes reports)

5:00 PM LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING COMMITTEE ROOM LL-110 MMB
- 2035 Regional Transportation Plan Update
- Downtown plan

5:30 PM DOWNTOWN COORDINATING COMMITTEE ROOM 108
- Downtown plan
- And a ton of updates

Friday, January 20, 2012
2:00 PM DOWNTOWN PLAN SUBCOMMITTEE OF MADISON’S CENTRAL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT (BID) 122 W WASHINGTON AVE, 1ST FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
- Updates
- Downtown plan