Pre-Thanksgiving Round Up

It's a slow week, but somehow, I still found a few things to comment on.WYOU BLUESIf you ever thought about donating to WYOU, now...

Monday Morning Round Up

So, it was a very busy week last week and this week looks to be more of the same. Anyways, here's a few...

City Operating Budget Amendment Discussion and Votes (Final)

Ok - I'm done . . . enjoy! AMENDMENT ONEAgency: Miscellaneous Appropriations / Direct Appropriation to Capital; General Fund Revenues; Capital Revolving FundPage(s):...

Capital Budget – Day Two (Minus Chunk of Edgewater Discussion)

Three amendments only took 4.5 hours . . .There was a little staged labor rally outside the city-county building from about 4:30 - 4:50...

Oddities in the Registration Slips . . .

So, the registration slips for the council meeting last night was a couple inches thick. They Mayor didn't read them, but they passed...

2010 City Budget Deliberations – Day One (Capital Amendments 1 – 10 – Final)

7 pages of 2 dozen amendments to the Mayor's Budget, 5 hours of public testimony and questions of the public and after 7.5 hours,...

24 Amendments to the Mayor’s Budget

Here's the highlights . . . CAPITALLibrary - Schumacher, Sanborn, Skidmore want to add language to Central Library "The City will not enter into...

Another Round Up

Panhandlers box, Madison's Cultural Plan, Sheriff's Overtime (doubled what has been budgeted for years), Future Cities, Nancy Mistele screams at County Board Supervisors, Bus...

A little late Round Up . . .

I had a little blogging mishap this morning, so . . . this is later than usual (luckily, I have worked lots of extra...

Board of Estimates Operating Budget Amendments

Ok - here's a partial report . . . public testimony and amendments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (10 &...

Operating Budget Amendments are Out!

Board of Estimates amendments are out . . . 19 of them . . . .

Round Up – A little less fired up today . . .

Catching up on a few things . . . CITY LOOKING FOR NEW PROGRAMS FOR THE HOMELESSWith all the talk at Community Services about...