Budget Tidbits: The first half of the first hearings
Last night, the Board of Estimates started the annual questioning of staff about the Operating Budget. Here's some of the things I...
Is the Mayor above the Law?
Can he just ignore Madison General Ordinances because he thinks he has a better idea? If so, why not just eliminate the Common...
Allied Drive – No budget, contradication and a road with little detail.
Q: When is a road not a road?A: When it involves the Allied Drive neighborhood and the Mayor.So, hunting down the details...
City Operating Budget: What’s in? What’s out?
Here's the run down. A quick overview of the information that we got today:(links are to the sections of the budgets for each...
It’s not in there.
In looking at the Capital Budget, I was at first horrified. Then just very disappointed. And now, even more people are being...
Call the Building Inspector!
Last week, I got into a little argument with George Hank from Building Inspection. The argument went something like this (yes, its edited...
The Cost of 30 Police Officers.
At the last council meeting, we stopped crime in Madison. Well, not really. We passed two ordinances, one that would stop new...
Police Department: No Income/Expense Report with YTD Budget to Actuals?
All I want to do is make an informed vote. It should be something that the public expects. However, sometimes, it is...
A Different Way to Look at Things
So, the police department didn't have to cut 3% like all the other departments and now they have over nearly $3M in supplemental requests...
Voila! And now the Mayor Agrees to Try to Add 30 Police Officers
That didn't take long. I wonder what the "sacrifice and cuts" are going to be? To: Chief Noble...
Police Department: 18 not enough. Now we need 30.
No joke. The other shoe has dropped.DATE: September 7, 2007TO: Dave Cieslewicz, MayorFROM: Noble Wray, Chief of...
Operating Budget Highlights for Proposed Department Budgets
When we get the operating budget, the information is a summary of quite a bit of information and we have very little detail. ...