Tonight starts the City Council marathon meeting. We will be meeting tonight, tomorrow night and likely Thursday night as well. Here’s a few things you should be aware of: PUBLIC TESTIMONY – WHEN, HOW LONG, HOW OFTENPublic testimony will be taken tonight. I’ve talked to several people who expected to be able to speak tomorrow [...]

Because we think we can get away with only having one meeting in August, our agenda for tonight is really 99 pages long with 233 items. That’s alot of items, many will be referred for introduction or quickly disposed of because they are routine, but this agenda does have more than usual items of interest, [...]

Or maybe he just thinks that the readers of the Wisconsin State Journal are dumb? Just when I think he can’t top himself, Scott Milfred and the Wisconsin State Journal prove, once again, that they just don’t care if what they print is the truth or not. Milfred’s latest, PD Distraction Isn’t Worth a Vote [...]

There’s only one meeting in August, and so you’d expect us to have a long one, but due to absences (Kerr & Bruer) and for other reasons several items are expected to be referred. So, it could be a shorter one than expected and September agendas are going to be very packed. Here’s the items [...]

Looks can be deceiving. The agenda looks shorter than usual, but there is more on the agenda to talk about than usual. Here’s the items I thought people might be interested in. #1 – Honoring the life of Jeff Erlanger – This item is going to be referred until a date that the family can [...]

When most people are off on family vacations or doing something fun and interesting this week, at least 19 of the council members will be in a meeting Tuesday night. Technically, I have the week “off”, but I’ll be going in to work tomorrow and the Council work never stops. The highlight of my week [...]

Here’s some items of interest on the agenda for Tuesday’s Common Council Meeting: At 5:30, we’re having a special meeting on some of the many transit/transportation alternatives that the City is in the midst of considering. Dave Trowbridge will give us an update on Transport 2020 and the Trolley Study. #1 – Honoring 2nd districts [...]

Here’s all the fun and excitement on the Common Council Agenda for Tuesday night . . .with the following conditions: #4 and #157 – We’ll be appointing more men and a lobbyist to City Committees. #6, #7, #8 & #9 – Issuing a summons to to appear before the Alcohol License Review Committee for Bull [...]

What’s interesting on tonight’s Council Agenda? #1 – The Mayor sticks with the current trend when making new committee appointments. Only 12, or 37.5% of the people being appointed are women. To be fair, 27 of the appointments are re-appointments. Of the 5 new appointments 2 of the 5 are women. These appointments are only [...]