Return from Spring Break (City ) Week Ahead

Now that everyone has enjoyed their spring break, taken their furlough days and some have celebrated their holidays, back to work. This agenda is full of useless agendas and many comments to that effect.

Monday, April 5, 2010
12:00 PM COMMON COUNCIL - DISCUSSION ROOM 260 MMB
Ah, the library discussion, with little notice and likely many not able to make it . . . might have to show up to see what happens.

1:00 PM EAB Meeting ROOM 108 CCB
I'm wracked my brain trying to figure out what EAB is. It's something parks related but that's all I can decipher from the agenda. There is some kind of guest speaker, but it doesn't say who. They are approving minutes of their last meeting, but I don't know what committee it is and haven't seen it before on the agenda. Turns out, after doing some searching, I found out it is the Emerald Ash Borer meeting. Still don't know who is speaking or what they are speaking about.

4:30 PM MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD 201 W. MIFFLIN ST. ROOM 202
- Report on and discussion of central library
- Draft Resolution Supporting Rebuilding of the Existing Central Library

Tuesday, April 6, 2010
11:00 PM NIGHT WALK-ALONG MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD SIDE OF CCB
- No agenda linked, another mystery I had to sleuth out, hard to tell who is meeting and what they are meeting about. Looks like it might be the same thing as Friday night? Even tho no city committees are supposed to meet on election days. I wonder if they are visiting election night victory parties?

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
9:00 AM SOUTHERN WISCONSIN PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS CONSORTIUM, WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND BOARDS 1 FEN OAK, ROOM 1(A)
- Nothing of interest but just to point out how inaccessible their agendas are, they will be talking about, TAR, ARA, IP, WALHDAB, ASPR and Go kits. Whatever that all is. I figured out two of the 6 items. No materials attached to figure it out.

4:30 PM BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ROOM 108 CCB
- 7. 17937 Approving Plans, Specifications, And Schedule Of Assessments For E. Mifflin Street Reconstruction Assessment District - 2010.
The Public Hearing is scheduled at 6:30 p.m. in the Parks Conference Room, Room
108, of the City-County Building.
- - Ok, since I'm ranting about useless agendas, there are no attachments/link, so how the hell would the public comment on this. Plus, E Mifflin is a pretty long street, I think they could have been more specific. I believe this is down by East High, but I'm not positive. A search for the id number brings up nothing. How would the public know if they wanted to comment? Or should care?
- Authorizing the Streets Division to restrict refuse and recycling collection to
multi-family buildings with 8 or fewer units.
- Hiring architect for $132,000 to design Tenney Park Shelter
- Spending an extra $50K on E Gorham reconstruction from 2008.

4:30 PM CDA HOUSING OPERATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ROOM 120 MMB
- Another item where you can't see what they are voting on.

4:30 PM URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION ROOM 260 MMB
- SPECIAL ITEM OF BUSINESS
Affirmation of the proceedings of the Urban Design Commission's special meeting of
March 24, 2010 in acknowledgement that the meeting was improperly noticed and posted with affirmation of the actions taken.
- - Adoption of Section 2.21 Madison General Ordinances as the procedure for
reconsideration.
- - Approval of application policies to allow staff to reject applications that are deficient in address of the application requirements as detailed within the application form, and to warrant that any late additions to an already submitted and accepted application will result in a review of the project on an informational basis.
- - Approve inclusion of the Minutes for the special meeting of March 24, 2010 in the Minutes for this meeting.
- 1501-1507 Wright Street/3502-3534 Straubel Street
CDA project at Truax

5:00 PM HOUSING COMMITTEE ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Ordinance restricting showing and re-renting til half the lease is over.

5:30 PM BOARD OF EDUCATION - COMMON COUNCIL LIAISON COMMITTEE ROOM 108 CCB
- TIF 101 Presentation


Thursday, April 8, 2010
3:45 PM ALCOHOL LICENSE REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOWNTOWN ALCOHOL ISSUES AND ORDINANCES ROOM 108 CCB
- Changes to Alcohol License Density Ordinance
- - expansion of ALDO boundaries to include Park and Regent St (requested by Alder Kerr)
- - Increasing the % of alcohol permitted under the exceptional circumstance (currently set at 25%)
- - sunset of ALDO in 2010/potential extension of ALDO sunset
- - amendments to annual ALDO review/yearly report

4:30 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY 755 BRAXTON PLACE
- The same long list of issues that are always on their agenda, its always hard to know if they may or may not discuss something of interest due to the lack of detail.

5:00 PM EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION ROOM LL-120 MMB
- Adding protected classes for citizenship status, gender identity, student status, genetic identity, domestic partnership status, or status as a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking.
- EOC Committee on Tasers
- EOC Committee on CCAP
- Resolutino supporting the adoption of the report of the Dane County Task Force on Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System by the Dane County Board of Supervisors.
- Proposal to Honor the Memory of Dr. Anthony L. Brown, Former Director of the Equal Opportunities Commission

5:00 PM TRANSIT AND PARKING COMMISSION ROOM 260 MMB
- Update on Greyhound Bus Station
- Stroller and grocery cart regulations for buses.

Friday, April 9, 2010
11:00 PM ALCOHOL LICENSE REVIEW COMMITTEE - NIGHT WALK-ALONG; POSSIBLE QUORUM OF THE ALRC MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD SIDE OF CCB
- They will apparently decide that night what bars they are going to visit.
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Only 7 Meetings City Week Ahead

7 Meetings total this week, at least that is all that is listed. It's a 5th Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, so we get a little break, perhaps I'll catch up with some things I'm behind on. Meanwhile, here's the 7 meetings, and I don't have much.

Monday, March 29, 2010
8:00 AM COMMISSION OF THE MADISON METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT 1610 MOORLAND ROAD
- Position on phosphorus regulations
- Sewer extensions
- Replacement for retiring chief engineer and director

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
12:00 PM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS 16 N CARROLL ST, ROOM 500
- Hiring recommendations

4:30 PM 201 STATE FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS 201 STATE ST. LOWER LEVEL
- Name change
- Debt reduction discussion
- Governance Model

Wednesday, March 31, 2010
1:30 PM SENIOR CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE 330 W. MAIN ST.
- I got nothing

5:00 PM VENDING OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ROOM 313 MMB
- Southeast Campus Vending area
- DISCUSSION ITEM: Consider site assignments for all four Late Night Vending areas
with the possibility of limiting large carts to the 700 block of State Street (a.k.a. The Library Mall).
- DISCUSSION ITEM: A draft resolution that applies uniformity to all street vending
categories having seniority status based on first day licensed.

Thursday, April 1, 2010
12:00 PM MADISON CENTRAL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS 122 W. WASHINGTON AVE. 1ST FLOOR BOARD ROOM
- Downtown plan update

5:00 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT COMMITTEE ROOM 260 MMB
- Public Hearing on 2011 - 2012 priorities. See here for changes and additions.
- HOPE VI update
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City Week Ahead

Here we go again, here's what I think might be of interest this week.

Monday, March 22, 2010
4:30 PM BOARD OF ESTIMATES ROOM 260 MMB
- Update on Uniform Rental RFP vendor selection.
- Neighborhood Grant Program
- Central Park
- Sale of Main St. Water Utility Building to McGrath and Associates
- Consulting services for a New Water Meter System

4:45 PM LANDMARKS COMMISSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Discussion on how to discuss changes to the Landmarks Ordinance.

5:30 PM PLAN COMMISSION ROOM 201 CCB
- Gordon Commons
- Outdoor smoking area for Plan B
- Edgewater zoning, waterfront setback and the 1965 Ordinance changes.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
4:00 PM COMMITTEE ON SWEATFREE PURCHASES ROOM 406 CCB
- Update on City Uniform Rental Contract process (no attachments)

4:30 PM WATER UTILITY BOARD 119 E. OLIN AVE.
- Sale of Main St. Water Utility Building to McGrath and Associates
- Consulting services for a New Water Meter System

5:00 PM PEDESTRIAN/BICYCLE/MOTOR VEHICLE COMMISSION ROOM 260 MMB
- Central Park

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
8:00 AM EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION COMMITTEE ROOM 260 MMB
- 4K update

Thursday, March 25, 2010
5:00 PM ALLIED AREA TASK FORCE 4619 JENEWEIN RD.
- Discussion of phase II

5:00 PM COMMISSION ON PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ROOM 260 MMB
- Still talking about the draft ordinance about accessible housing (this is why they should be able to introduce their own ordinances, or get a decent alder on the committee. Have they been talking about this for almost a year now?)
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It's Baaaacccckkk . . . Edgewater City Week Ahead

Target for council to vote on the Edgewater is now April 20th, that sounds reasonable, but there still isn't a new TIF application. However, there are still other things going on in the city - here's what I find of interest.

Monday, March 15, 2010
4:30 PM COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT ROOM 108 CCB
- Parks pesticide report

6:00 PM JOINT SOUTHEAST CAMPUS AREA COMMITTEE ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Gordon Commons

Tuesday, March 16, 2010
6:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL ROOM 201 CCB
- #7 - 825-838 W Badger Road - a future senior housing project on this land. [Note this rezoning is sponsored by the Alder, very unusual]
- #13 - 19 - There's a whole bunch of folks who don't want to pay their property taxes.
- #20 - Settling with Greentree Glen over non-profit exemption.
- #32 - TIF for Wingra Commons Sr. Housing
- #34 - 25 cent fee for electronic payments to the city
- #76 - Approving Geometrics for Monona Drive from Winnequah Road to Cottage
Grove Road (includes intersection of Atwood Avenue/Cottage Grove Road and
Monona Drive).
- #77 - Allow the Equal Opportunities Commission, Affirmative Action Commission or Commission on People with Disabilities to sponsor ordinances and resolutions. (See post tomorrow for a preview)
- #80 - 2010 Downtown Initiative Plan
- #92 - Google Fiber

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
4:30 PM BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ROOM 108 CCB
- Nearly $100,000 in change orders for State St. and Gorham.
- City Engineering policy for public involvement.

4:30 PM URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION ROOM 260 MMB
- 1208, 1212, 1214 Spring Street
- 666 Wisconsin Avenue - a.k.a. Edgewater (won't start until 7:45)

5:30 PM ALCOHOL LICENSE REVIEW COMMITTEE ROOM 201 CCB
- Mallard's changes
- Plan B changes
- Revolution Cycles
- Underground Kitchen
- Africana Audit Request
- Mayor Dave's Ordinance restricting bartenders and others from drinking while working.
- What the hell is number 40? No title and its just blank.
- Number 42 equally vague on the agenda (no title) but at least there is an attachment.

Thursday, March 18, 2010
4:30 PM LANDLORD AND TENANT ISSUES SUBCOMMITTEE ROOM LL-130 MMB
- Landlord registration lite.
- Restricting renting/showing an apartment til half the lease is over.

4:30 PM LOW INCOME BUS PASS PROGRAM COMMITTEE CCB, CENTRAL DISTRICT COMMUNITY ROOM
- Final Recommendation

5:00 PM LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING COMMITTEE MMB LL-110
- Reviewing the TIP, most informative meeting all year round. It's a preview fo road projects for the next 5 years.
- Discussing TDM plans. (Transportation Demand Management plans are what businesses do to try to get people to get to work in ways other than single occupancy vehicles.
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The Likely Incomplete (City) Week Ahead

Here we go again . . . with no Edgewater meetings! They are supposed to get their amended applications in this week, next week was the week they were going to start ramming the project through the process, but that got derailed, so watch for another new schedule this week. Here's the items I find of interest, the rest of the schedule, which is sure to change throuhgout the week, is here.

Monday, March 8, 2010
3:00 PM COMMON COUNCIL WORK GROUP TO REVIEW SNOW POLICIES & PROCEDURES ROOM 525 CCB
- This is supposed to be their last meeting, where they do a report to the council, but they don't even have a draft yet. Hopefully someone from downtown can show up this time, but I'm guessing with the track record so far, and with the meetings being during the workday, they won't be able to. (Note: Looks like Rummel didn't resign, she's still listed as a member?)
- There's some attachments after the agenda that you'll find of interest if you care about this type of thing.

4:30 PM BOARD OF ESTIMATES ROOM 260 MMB
- (Not less than) 25 cent fee for credit/debit card payments to the City. So this mean that in addition to paying an extra $.20 in the new meters that aren't in use yet, you get to pay another $.25? Or is that exempt because its the parking utility? And this is an interesting tactic:

The electronic payment transaction fee shall be amended from time to time, without amendment of this ordinance, if an increased fee is approved as part of the City Budget.

- More money to the police department from the contingent reserve.
- Starting Central Park before the final plan is approved.
-TIF for Wingra Commons (note, no closed session here)
- Creating CDA Executive Director Position and eliminating the Project Manager. (More on this here)
- Settling the non-profit tax exemption issue for Greentree (in closed session)

4:45 PM LANDMARKS COMMISSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
- OK, not quite Edgewater free, landmarks will be getting a "status update"
- Discussion about amending their ordinances

5:15 PM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS CCB ROOM 103A
- Disciplinary Matters: Status and Scheduling Conference in the matter of the charges filed by Richard Rathmann

5:30 PM PLAN COMMISSION ROOM 201 CCB
- Central Park
- CDA Rezoining land they took from minority landlords to facilitate future development

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
12:00 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY MMB ROOM 313
- Villager
- Burr Oaks
- Truax (where will the money come from)

4:30 PM HABITAT STEWARDSHIP SUBCOMMITTEE ROOM 108 CCB
- No Signs in Trees Policy
- Mulching of Trees Guidelines
- New Species for Street Tree Plantings
- Trimming Trees Near Solar Panels
- Madison Fruits and Nuts
1. General guidelines and review process for City Parks
2 . Species List
- Olin-Turville Conservation Efforts

5:00 PM MADISON ARTS COMMISSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Central Park

5:00 PM PUBLIC SAFETY REVIEW COMMITTEE MADISON POLICE DEPARTMENT, 211 S CARROLL ST ROOM GR-22
- Increasing fines for trespass and menacing panhandling
- Noise amplification permits for private property. There are no details, but I think this is to allow bands to play on private property with a permit. However, the item is "by title only" which is highly frowned upon and requires a 2/3 vote which because it is by title only AND because it has no fiscal note, but it didn't get it.
- Downtown Safety Plan 2010 (No info available)
- Report on How the Automated System is working
- Alcohol policy coordinator on the various alcohol initiatives (pending ordinances on chronic inebriates, package restrictions, license moratorium, tavern self policing initiative, etc.)

5:00 PM TRANSIT AND PARKING COMMISSION MMB ROOM 260
- Loosening rules on monthly parking in ramps
- Moving two bus shelters on Cap Square for a private developer.
- Update on RTA

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
5:35 PM COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE 119 E. OLIN AVENUE
- Hope VI and Allied Update
- Allocations of $100,000 that Council added to their budget for this year

6:30 PM BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS 1625 NORTHPORT DR (WARNER PARK COMMUNITY CENTER)
- Madison Fruits and Nuts (oral report from Habitat Stewardship Committee)
a. General guidelines and review process for City Parks
b. Species list
- Central Park
- Two dog parks - Demetral Park & McCormick Greenspace
- Warner park parking lot (nothing on agenda, this from Alder Rhodes-Conway)

Over the next three years, the Parks Department will be doing a much-needed renovation of the Warner Park parking lot. They will present plans for the redesign at the Parks Commission meeting on March 10th, 6:30 pm at WPCRC. The agenda will be posted here: http://www.cityofmadison.com/cityHall/WeeklySchedule/. For more information, you can contact Parks at 608-266-4711. Please join us if you're interested in seeing the new plans.

Thursday, March 11, 2010
4:30 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ROOM 260 MMB
- Setting section 8 payment standards
- Amending budget form 2008 and 2009? Seriously?
- 2010 Workplan (no attachment)
- Creating CDA Executive Director Position
- Lakepoint Condos, Truax, Truman Olson Update, Burr Oaks Senior Housing Update, Villager Update and Allied

5:00 PM EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION MMB LL-120
- Presentation of testing by Fair Housing Center
- Resolution supporting adopt of Dane County Report on Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System (no info)
- Re-forming the task for on taser use
- Creating a committee on CCAP

NOT ON THIS WEEK'S AGENDA BUT SHOULD BE
Meeting On Madison’s Google Fiber Application - The City of Madison will hold a public meeting on the City’s application for Google Fiber on Thursday, March 11 at 7:00p.m. at Olbrich Gardens.

Friday, March 12, 2010
3:30 PM MONONA TERRACE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SUPPORT SERVICES COMMITTEE ONE JOHN NOLEN DRIVE, WISCONSIN ROOM (LEVEL TWO)
- Presentation on Yahara Train Station
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March is here, Edgewater Free City Week Ahead

Another kinda slow week . . . I suspect there are some meeting that will show up later this week.

Monday, March 1, 2010
4:00 PM EOC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ROOM 523 CCB
- Many, many issues for the future.

4:45 PM ETHICS BOARD ROOM 103A CCB
- Wow, they never meet! This might be the first time in over a year. One issue on the agenda, changing the statement of interest form ordinance.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
3:30 PM MONONA TERRACE BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ONE JOHN NOLEN DRIVE, LEVEL FOUR, ROOM R
- Military Recruiting at Monona Terrace

4:00 PM MADISON'S CENTRAL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INFORMATIONAL MEETING 201 W. MIFFLIN ST. ROOM 202
- Goals and priorities for 2010

4:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE ROOM 108 CCB
- Allowing Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunities and Committee on People with Disabilities to introduce items without a sponsor.

6:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL ROOM 201 CCB
- #1 Wilco Resolution
- #13 Target at Hilldale
- #16 Reinstating one person of the 30 who failed to fill out their statement of interest forms
- #27 Charging people for putting their snow in the street or sidewalk of others and allowing the city to remove.
- #50 Best Value Contracting Report - the first one.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
4:30 PM BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ROOM 108 CCB
- #41 b. City Engineering policy for public involvement.

4:30 PM URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION ROOM 260 MMB
- No Edgewater
- Grocery Store at Grandview Commons

5:00 PM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE ROOM 300 MMB
- Google Update
- Forming a staff and EDC workgroup on the Downtown Plan
- Forming a staff and EDC workgroup on the Zoning Code Rewrite
- Review of 2010 workplan and discussion of 2011 workplan

5:00 PM HOUSING COMMITTEE ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Zoning Code Rewrite

7:00 PM MADISON AREA TRANSPORTATION PLANNING BOARD MADISON WATER UTILITY, 119 E OLIN AVE, CONFERENCE ROOM A & B
- Discussion of the Milwaukee-Madison High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Service Project and Potential Madison Station Location(s)
- Discussion and Consideration of Potential Recommendation(s) on Initial Steps to Locate an Interim Intercity Bus Station in the City of Madison

Thursday, March 4, 2010
4:00 PM ALCOHOL LICENSE REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOWNTOWN ALCOHOL ISSUES AND ORDINANCESCCB ROOM 108
- 1. Proposed changes to the Alcohol License Density Ordinance – MGO 38.05(9)(O)
(File ID 05739)
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Edgewater Lite (City) Week Ahead

A little less Edgewater than we originally thought we'd have to deal with because they have a new project . . . I'm interested to see it before the committees as soon as they get their full application in . . .

Check out how much paper has been wasted (mostly the old plans for the Edgewater) for this Tuesday's meeting where most of it is being referred.

Now you know why they the Council uses their computers!


Monday, February 22, 2010
5:30 PM PLAN COMMISSION; POSSIBLE QUORUM OF COMMON COUNCIL AND URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION ROOM 201 CCB
- Target
- Other Changes to Hilldale Site
- Project at McKee and Maple Grove Road
- Edgewater is items 8 - 10 which is recommended to be referred, but they will still be having a public hearing, so people could still testify if they wanted and they may talk about process.

In Legistar, not on the agenda, therefore, an illegal meeting unless its posted in the hallway and there is a mistake on the Weekly Meeting Schedule.
02/22/2010 Mon 5:30 PM SISTER CITY COLLABORATION COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
5:00 PM AFFIRMATIVE ACTION COMMISSION MMB LL-120
- Exempting some contracts from Affirmative Action Requirements
- Allowing Equal Opportunities Commission, Affirmative Action and Commission on People with disabilities to introduce something without a council sponsor.

In Legistar without an agenda - watch for it to pop up on Monday, maybe?
02/23/2010 Tue 5:00 PM EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION

6:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL ROOM 201 CCB
- #2 - Edgewater - They can't act on it because they don't have an application for the current project. This is a public hearing tho, and although they would frown upon it, they could take public testimony.
- #4 - Waterfront setback ordinance changed for the Edgewater project but impacting the entire city, it has 8 sponsors. Only needs three more votes.
- #6 - McKee and Maple Grove Road development (To be referred)
- #15 - BREWD - giving $1M to the business community because they didn't want the money as a loan.
- #29 - Lease with Kipp
- #49 - Making deferred assessments more clear (and a substantive change?)
- #67 - Changes to Edgewater ordinance allowing condos, reducing the setback and allowing them to give them TIF (previously they promised not to get any city assistance for further development) - Staff recommended that Plan Commission refer.
- #68 - Aggressive Panhandling and Unlawful Trespass fines increased. (Should be referred, PSRC meeting was cancelled.)
- #72 - Overturning Landmarks Decision on the old Edgewater project (They have not considered any of the changes made to the project since November - Should be referred.)
- #73 - People who didn't fill out their Statement of Interest forms, removed from committees.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
3:00 PM THE NATURAL STEP (TNS) MEETING NOTICE OF POSSIBLE QUORUM OF THE COMMON COUNCIL MMB ROOM 300
- Please note that a possible quorum exists of members of the Common Council at the monthly TNS meeting featuring guest speaker, Klaus Hoppe, from Freiburg, Germany.
Mayor Cieslewicz has invited Common Council members to this meeting.

5:00 PM PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON SWEATFREE PURCHASES ROOM 406 CCB
- Link broken from Weekly Schedule
- Same broken link in Notice of Additional Meetings
- And why is its name the "proposed" committee?

5:00 PM URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Zoning Code Rewrite

5:00 PM VENDING OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ROOM 313 MMB
- DISCUSSION ITEM: Consider site assignments for all four Late Night Vending Areas with the possibility of limiting large carts to the 700 block of State Street.
- DISCUSSION ITEM: A draft resolution that applies uniformity to all street vending categories having seniority status based on first day licensed.

6:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL RECONVENED FROM 2/23/2010 (IF NEEDED) ROOM 201 CCB
- Link broken from Weekly Schedule
- Not in Legistar
- Not likely to happen since it was scheduled for Edgewater and that has been mostly cancelled.

In Legistar without an agenda - watch for it to pop up on Monday, maybe?
02/24/2010 Wed 8:00 AM EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION COMMITTEE
02/24/2010 Wed 3:30 PM SENIOR CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Thursday, February 25, 2010
4:30 PM LANDLORD AND TENANT ISSUES SUBCOMMITTEE ROOM LL-130 MMB
- Landlord Registration Lite
- Preventing landlords from showing an apartment til the current lease is half over.

5:00 PM ALLIED AREA TASK FORCE ALLIED BOYS & GIRLS CLUB, 4619 JENEWEIN RD
- CDA Revitalization Discussion Phase II
- - Role of Task Force
- - Role for the Neighborhood Residents
- - Home Designs
- - Community Space

5:00 PM COMMISSION ON PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ROOM 260 MMB
- Draft Ordinance on Accessible Housing

5:00 PM ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS MMB LL-110

Friday, February 26, 2010
3:00 PM WATER UTILITY BOARD SPECIAL TELECONFERENCE 119 E OLIN AVE, ROOM B
- Phone it in! I guess, if it works. I wonder if they were doing this for the Las Vegas alder?
- Authorizing the Mayor and the City Clerk to execute a Professional Services Agreement with Strand Associates Inc. for site analysis and selection and the preparation of drawings and specifications, permitting, bidding, and construction administration for the Utility’s proposed Booster Pump Station No. 118 located in the Arbor Hills Neighborhood. Read more!

The Mike Verveer is at Mardi Gras (City) Week Ahead!

Hey Mister, Toss me some beads! :) Sorry, I couldn't resist. 24! meetings so far for next week!

Monday, February 15, 2010
8:00 AM MADISON METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT COMMISSION; MAY CONVENE INTO CLOSED SESSION 1610 MOORLAND ROAD
- No agenda linked to the weekly schedule.

1:00 PM PUBLIC HEALTH STRATEGIC PLANNING RETREAT 330 E. LAKESIDE STREET
- “What should public health look like in Madison and Dane County in 2015: the people, the environment, the department?”

4:30 PM BOARD OF ESTIMATES MMB ROOM 260
- New city engineer
- Buying land for police training facility, 4.13 acres $1.64M. That only leaves $330,000 for furnishing and remodeling the facility. How much you want to make a bet they come back for more?
- BREWD (Brownfield Remdiation) program guidelines. Maybe if they can't lend the money, they can give it away.
- Affordable Housing Trust Fund
- Amending the 1965 Ordinance for the Edgewater project, it allows for TIF funding to be given to the project, allows them to built condos and allows them to built closer to the Wisconsin Ave right of way.
- $16M TIF for the Edgewater (and they're not going into closed session? That's strange, they almost always do. I hope some of the alders (Jed? Satya?) ask some of my TIF questions this time around and think about some of the facts about this TIF.)

4:30 PM COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT ROOM 108 CCB
- 2008-2009 Road Salt report

5:30 PM PLAN COMMISSION ZONING REWRITE WORKING SESSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Design review role of the Urban Design Commission

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
No meetings? None.
[ADDED: Oh, duh. It's an election day . . . and therefore no city meetings . . . ]

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
10:00 AM CITY OF MADISON / ASSOCIATION OF MADISON FIRE SUPERVISORS NEGOTIATIONS ROOM 501 CCB
- Initial proposals from Fire Supervisors and City of Madison

3:00 PM COMMON COUNCIL WORK GROUP TO REVIEW SNOW POLICIES & PROCEDURES ROOM 525 CCB
- Unless it snows.

4:30 PM BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ROOM 108 CCB
- Sidewalk paver assessment district for Langdon St. (No attachments.) I don't think I've ever seen a sidewalk paver assessment district. I'm curious what this is about, but of course, with no attachments, its hard to tell.
- Spending $35K more due to change orders.
- Moving S. Pinckney St bus stop on the square (No attachments)
- Approving the City of Madison Standard Specifications for Public Works
Construction, 2010 Edition. (No attachments. I wonder if it includes anything about the trees?)
- Report to the Council on Best Value Contracting (Also, not attached)

4:30 PM URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION; QUORUM OF COMMON COUNCIL AND PLAN COMMISSION MAY BE IN ATTENDANCE ROOM 260 MMB
- Changes to Urban League/Library Building
- 430 - 432 West Dayton Street
- Edgewater (I briefly looked at the new materials, but one commissioner says they still didn't answer the questions the UDC asked. I'm wondering what page 7 is supposed to be, cuz I don't see the lake or public space. And I'm so pleased they continue to use a 4 story tall sailboat.)

5:30 PM ALCOHOL LICENSE REVIEW COMMITTEE ROOM 201 CCB
- Ordinance about chronic alcoholics (or will it be left to the industry to resolve)
- Hip hop best practices

5:30 PM PLAN COMMISSION DOWNTOWN PLAN WORKING SESSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
Reviewing materials and the following
1) Generalized Land Use Map
2) Conceptual Pattern of Building Heights Map
3) Preliminary Parcel Analysis Map
4) Sub Area Descriptions

Thursday, February 18, 2010
11:00 AM CITY OF MADISON / BUILDING AND TRADES NEGOTIATION WATER UTILITY OFFICES, 119 E OLIN AVE, ROOM A
- Initial proposals from Building Trades and City of Madison

4:30 PM LOW INCOME BUS PASS PROGRAM COMMITTEE
GR-22 CCB
- Uh-oh. Direction from the city attorney's office on their oversight. Wanna bet it gets limited.

5:00 PM LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING COMMITTEE ROOM LL-110
- Looking at City of Madison TDM (Transportation Demand Management) Plans

5:30 PM DOWNTOWN COORDINATING COMMITTEE ROOM 108 CCB
- Recommendation regarding Department of Transportation (WisDOT) application for
federal funding to establish intercity passenger rail service between Milwaukee and
Madison
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The City Week Ahead - There are many things happening besides Edgewater

Here we go again, lets see if something is going on besides adding 83 hotel rooms to the City of Madison for $16M . . .

Monday, February 8, 2010
4:00 PM LONG RANGE PLANNING SUBCOMMITTEE CCB ROOM 108
- It took til I got to the second page, item 6 to figure out what this was a subcommittee of . . . but then, I have no idea what that they are talking about because there is no link. It actually, could be a really good meeting if they talk about all the items they have listed, but I'm not sure what is happening based on this agenda. Possible items of discussion and decision of interest include:
- Memorial Policy (i.e. how to buy a bench or plant a tree in someone's memory)
- Parking Regulations in Park Parking Lots
- Ice Rink Enhancement
- Alcohol Ban in Parks
- Role of Volunteers
- Unenforced Rules and Regulations
- Behavioral Study of Parks
- Lake water levels and identifying problems associated with high water
(I tried looking on the parks website to find the policies, but they weren't there. It took me forever, but I finally found them attached to the Parks Commission agenda. Oh, wait, that's not them either.)

5:00 PM CITY-COUNTY LIAISON COMMITTEE CCB ROOM 315
- Request by City of Madison City Clerk's Office to install a bulletin board outside City Clerk's Office for meeting agendas. For the love of gawd, please approve this!

5:15 PM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS CCB ROOM 103Z
- Another crappy, virtually meaningless agenda that looks like every other agenda that they ever have. With, say it with me, "no attachments!"

5:30 PM PLAN COMMISSION CCB ROOM 201
- BIGGER houses on the lake . . . the trend continues.
- #9 - The waterfront setback ordinance that clear's the way for Edgewater Development.
- Items 10 - 12 are all going to be considered together and are the PUD, conditional use and changing the 1965 ordinance to allow for TIF, changing the set back and allowing condos. There is a note on the agenda that explains that these items will be referred to the plan commission meeting on the 22nd pending a recommendation from UDC on the land use and Board of Estimates on the ordinance change.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
12:00 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY MMB ROOM 313
- This is their development subcommittee, they are hiring Findorff for work at the Villager, discussing the Burr Oaks Senior Housing and Truax, including their gap in funding sources to do the work and using Section 8 vouchers for the project (of course, say it with me on those last two issues "NO MATERIALS ATTACHED!") and the financial plan. The issue where all the drama is these days is the Wingra project, which is the one they are going into closed session for. That's likely the most interesting part.

3:00 PM COMMON COUNCIL WORK GROUP TO REVIEW SNOW POLICIES & PROCEDURES MMB ROOM LL110
- There's a bunch of attachments listed on the agenda, but they aren't attached and you can't link to anything. They are going to review policies and issues identified in January then "Develop framework for identifying solutions and reporting recommendations"

4:30 PM HABITAT STEWARDSHIP SUBCOMMITTEE ROOM 108 CCB
- Discussing Parks policies (say it with me "NOT ATTACHED"!) regarding new species of street tress, trimming trees near solar panels and Madison Fruits and Nuts as well as a few other issues regarding trees.
- Volunteer guidelines
- Still haven't found a copy of the policies.

5:00 PM AFFIRMATIVE ACTION COMMISSION ROOM LL-120 MMB
- Final Report of the Dane County Task Force on Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
- City Attorney training on projects receiving city financial assistance.
- Exempting some contracts from Affirmative Action requirements.
- Allowing the Equal Opportunities Commission, Affirmative Action Commission or Commission on People with Disabilities to sponsor ordinances and resolutions.

5:00 PM PUBLIC SAFETY REVIEW COMMITTEE ROOM GR-22 CCB
- Increase penalties for Unlawful Trespass and Menacing or Aggressive Panhandling Prohibited.
- Continued discussion on automated 911 non-emergency calls.

5:00 PM TRANSIT AND PARKING COMMISSION MMB ROOM 260
- Ridership numbers down every month since the fare increases in April except September and November. (See page two.)
- Low Income Bus Pass Program Recommendations

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
4:30 PM CDA HOUSING OPERATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE MMB ROOM 120
- Authorizing hiring consultants to work on a project they haven't figured out how to pay for . . .

5:00 PM HOUSING COMMITTEE SPECIAL MEETING REGARDING LEGISLATIVE FILE 15932 ROOM LL-110
- Translation: Zoning Code Rewrite

5:35 PM COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE 119 E OLIN AVE - WATER UTILITY
- "Conference Committee" for determining city funding for CDBG and OCS agencies for neighborhoods and workforce development.

6:30 PM BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS 1625 NORTHPORT DR -WARNER PARK COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER
- Mallards Request for fireworks, proposed improvements and some promotional concepts allegedly attached (Not attached!)
- Pesticide report

Thursday, February 11, 2010
4:30 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY MMB ROOM 260
- This agenda is currently linking to the Tuesday Madison Arts Commission agenda on the Weekly Schedule. It can be found in in legistar here.
- This is odd, they are amending budgets for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, but there is no budget information attached as of Sunday when I write this, but they might add it here.
- All the usual stuff is there with very few attachments. Lakepoint, Truax, Truman Olson, Burr Oaks, Allied and Villager
- 2010 workplan, also, no attachments.
- Closed session on Wingra Senior Housing

5:00 PM EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION MMB ROOM LL-120
- Final Report of the Dane County Task Force on Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
- DRAFT Amendments to Section 39.03 Madison General Ordinances, the Equal Opportunities Ordinance including the addition of protections based on Credit History, Citizenship Status, Genetic Identity, Genetic Testing and Additional Sources of Income and the addition of a definition of Protected Class Membership, and Removal of the Credit Section of the Ordinance

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Suspiciously Light (City) Week Ahead

Only a total of 14 meetings listed . . . so far . . .

Monday, February 1, 2010
12:00 PM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS; MAY CONVENE INTO CLOSED SESSION 16 N CARROLL ST, ROOM 500
- They get the meaningless agenda award for the week. Only one substantive agenda item, which reads:

2. Police Department Hiring Planning: consider initial appointment recommendations of Chief Wray; receive other reports on hiring process and calendar; other action as appropriate on hiring process administration.

- A second item reads

3. Report of Counsel

No attachments as usual. So, from these agenda items, do you have any clue what they will be discussing and if you are interested? It doesn't really matter, as they will likely be going into closed session for both items. Or, does that make it worse?

4:00 PM EOC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ROOM 523 CCB
- This committee makes recommendations to the full committee and sets the agendas, so its usually a sign of things to come, no new topics on their agenda except this one:

Feasibility of testing taxi cabs relative to requiring that fares be paid in advance.

5:30 PM PLAN COMMISSION DOWNTOWN PLAN WORKING SESSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
- The meeting is not televised and public comment not necessarily encouraged as it is a working session for the plan commissioners. Here's what they will be discussing:

1) Generalized Land Use Map
2) Conceptual Pattern of Building Heights Map
3) Preliminary Parcel Analysis Map
4) Sub Area Descriptions

Tuesday, February 2, 2010
4:00 PM MADISON'S CENTRAL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT-ALCOHOL DENSITY ORDINANCE SUBCOMMITTEE MURPHY DESMOND OFFICES, 33 E MAIN ST, SUITE 500
- Something is kind of freaky about a public meeting held at a private office where you need to check in with the receptionist to get to the meeting . . . why can't they hold these meetings in a more traditionally public space?

6:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL ROOM 201 CCB
- #6 Appointment of someone to a seat the city attorney says is not vacant even tho they moved out of the COUNTY, not just the city. This would be the only non-county resident appointed to a city committee that I can ever remember.
- #7 Mendota Court project Would any other neighborhood allow an 8 story building with no car parking?
- #10 Appointing city employee to third position on a committee - Committee on Sweatfree Purchases

NORMAN DAVIS, 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, 53703 (business address) - appoint to the remainder of a three-year term to the position of City of Madison Resident. Mr. Davis is the Division Manager of the Affirmative Action Division. He succeeds Deborah W. Sproule. TERM EXPIRES: 03-31-2012
Currently serving on: Affirmative Action Committee
Martin Luther King, Jr Humanitarian Award Committee

Can't we find city residents not hired by the city to serve on these committees? This is a disturbing trend. Why not just have the staff advise themselves? And, why are we listing a business address?
- #10 Appointing Eli Judge to another committee. When did Eli quit the Public Safety Review Committee?

MADISON CITY CHANNEL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
ELI JUDGE, 115 E Gilman St # J, 53703 (8th A.D.) - appoint to the position of Citizen. Mr. Judge is a former Alder of the 8th District. Former member of the Public Safety Review Board and has served on several other city committees. He is an active member of the State-Langdon Neighborhood and member of the College Democrats of UW-Madison. TERM EXPIRES: 10-31-10

- #11 Another Schumacher hair-brained alcohol idea (banning sales of liquor in 4 packs or small packages) placed on file (i.e. in the garbage can). He must have worked it out in private with the businesses. Wonder what they decided?
- #20 Ram's Head liquor license revocation hearing placed on file as well.
- Goodwill's money the city is dishing out so the CDA can develop the Truman Olson site.
- #28 - Parking fine increases.
- #52 - Attempting to lower speed limit on Stoughton Road at the Beltline.
- #53 - Badger Bus Stop on W. Washington Avenue.
- #54 - Adding the 5th district to the downtown weekly street sweeping area. Welcome!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010
4:30 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY MMB ROOM LL-130
- This is really an Allied Drive subcommittee meeting where they will be discussing: ALLIED DRIVE PHASE 2 SITE & UNIT TYPE DISCUSSION. That should be interesting, since the condo market tanked and even building single family homes is iffy, but they sold the project by saying they needed homeownership to stabilize the neighborhood. It's the only item on the agenda.

4:30 PM URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION MMB ROOM 260
- Mendota Court 8 story building
- Target (no earlier than 6:00) and related changes.
- Edgewater (no earlier than 7:30) Even tho they have been to Urban Design 5 or 6 times, this is the first time they have submitted a completed application and are actually seeking initial approval.

5:00 PM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MMB ROOM 300
- Public records and social websites. (Interesting . . . )
- Edgewater 5:15
- BREWD - They can't give money away.
- Landbanking. (No updated information)

5:00 PM HOUSING COMMITTEE ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Landlord registration
- Two vacancies on the committee, discussion of how to fill them.

7:00 PM MADISON AREA TRANSPORTATION PLANNING BOARD MADISON WATER UTILITY, 119 E OLIN AVE, CONFERENCE ROOM A & B
- RTA updates
- Presentation on (Draft Conceptual) Transit Improvement Scenarios for the RTA

Thursday, February 4, 2010
12:00 PM MADISON CENTRAL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT (BID) BOARD OF DIRECTORS 615 E WASHINGTON AVE - 2ND FLOOR BOARD ROOM
- Link to agenda broken so I can't see what the agenda says, but note same as above, meeting in private location.

5:00 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT COMMITTEE MMB ROOM 260
- More shifting funding priorities. What will be left out?
- Changes to process for projects funded in the Neighborhood and Adult Workforce areas, including a Board of Estimates member to join a committee.

7:00 PM DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING REGARDING PROPOSED REDEVELOPMENT OF EDGEWATER HOTEL - POSSIBLE QUORUM OF THE COMMON COUNCIL 211 N CARROLL ST ROOM D240 - MATCH DOWNTOWN EDUCATION CENTER
- The press release actually says more about the meeting and provides more information (undescribed links) than the agenda. Note, tho, it doesn't say the Hammes Company will be in attendance, does that seem odd? An oversight, I'm assuming? Read more!

Brenda's On Vacation (City) Week Ahead

You're on your own . . . kinda . . . I'll maybe be back on Thursday night for the Council meeting on Edgewater . . . or, I might go to Milwaukee to see Baghdad Scuba Review instead . . . we'll see . . .

Monday, January 25, 2010
8:00 AM MADISON METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT COMMISSION 1610 MOORLAND ROAD
- Agendas are never linked to the weekly schedule.

4:30 PM BOARD OF ESTIMATES ROOM 260 MMB
- Finally fixing the video streaming for city channel 12. While I'm glad its finally happening, it too bad it is at WYOUs expense.
- Who the hell is Larry Studesville and why does he keep getting interim jobs with the city? And why when there is a hiring freeze, it doesn't it apply to the Mayor's office?
- Parking Tickets going up!
- Payoff to Goodwill for not getting property at Truman Olson.
- Changing law for Edgewater so they are eligible for TIF, can have condos on their property and removing right of way setback requirements.
- - Oridinance language
- - Attorney Memo
- - Map
- - Vacation Easement as Amended

4:30 PM COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT ROOM 130A CCB
- Stormwater ordinance changes . . .

DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance creates Paragraph 37.09(3)(d)7 and amends Subdivision 37.05(7)(b) of the Madison General Ordinances by creating a new Paragraph 4 and renumbering former Paragraphs 4-6 to create new stormwater drainage and discharge requirements in situations where stormwater is proposed to be discharged onto adjoining, non- City owned property. This ordinance also amends Subdivisions 37.08(6)(a) & (b) to give the City more flexibility in the erosion control plan requirements regarding the reporting of the preconstruction meeting and the initial installation and implementation of the erosion control plan. This ordinance also creates Subdivision 37.09(3)(i) to require compliance with additional stormwater management requirements set forth by the Capital Area Regional Plan Commission (CARPC). Finally, this ordinance amends Subsection 37.09(7) by changing the annual stormwater management reporting deadline to September 1, easing the requirements that a Professional Engineer certify the annual stormwater management report in certain situations, and setting forth procedures following the City’s receipt of the report.

- Waterfront setback ordinance change for the Edgewater

- Psst, fill out your statement of interest forms!

4:45 PM LANDMARKS COMMISSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Status of Edgewater Redevelopment Proposal
- Initial discussion of process to consider Ordinance updates

5:10 PM ADA TRANSIT SUBCOMMITTEE TO THE TRANSIT AND PARKING COMM ROOM 303 MMB
- Snow Removal requirements by private owners for bus loading areas.

5:30 PM PLAN COMMISSION ROOM 201 CCB
- Kipp Agreement
- Edgewater PUD - To be referred to February 8, 2010 pending a recommendation from the Urban Design Commission.
- 617 - 619 Mendota Court demolition and new building

6:00 PM JOINT SOUTHEAST CAMPUS AREA COMMITTEE ROOM 108 CCB
- Gordon Commons Plans (nothing attached)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010
10:30 AM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ROOM 313 MMB
- This is the development subcommittee meeting, very few materials attached. They will be discussing: Villager, Burr Oaks Senior Housing, Truax (Gap financing, Section 8 voucher designations?, hiring a property manager and the financial plan), Closed session for Wingra Senior Housing

11:30 AM TIF REVIEW BOARD ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Half mile rule amendment for Capital Square

4:30 PM MADISON ARTS COMMISSION GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 149 WAUBESA ST
- Honors Event

4:30 PM WATER UTILITY BOARD 119 E. OLIN, ROOMS A&B
- Fluoridation (a & b)

5:00 PM COMMUNITY GARDENS COMMITTEE ROOM 108 CCB
- Food and Gardens in Schools

5:00 PM PEDESTRIAN/BICYCLE/MOTOR VEHICLE COMMISSION ROOM 260 MMB
- Lowering speed limit on Stoughton Rd. at the Beltline
- Badger bus stop on W. Washington Ave.
- Street sweeping program extended to 5th district
- Kipp agreement
- Traffic calming priority list

Wednesday, January 27, 2010
8:00 AM EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION COMMITTEE ROOM 260 MMB
- 2010 funding priorities
- Additional funds for 2010 application
- 4Cs Report

5:00 PM URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION ROOM LL-100 MMB
- Zoning Code Rewrite

5:00 PM VENDING OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ROOM 313 MMB
- Discussions on special vending areas on University Ave. and Regent/Monroe for football events, restricting vending slots/preventing sprawl and (criminal?) background checks on vendors. No materials for any of these topics.
- Vending by schools

Thursday, January 28, 2010
4:00 PM ALCOHOL LICENSE REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOWNTOWN ALCOHOL ISSUES AND ORDINANCES ROOM 108 CCB
- Reviewing changes to the law.

5:00 PM ALLIED AREA TASK FORCE 4619 JENEWEIN RD
- Nice to see this agenda on the weekly schedule!
- Need to get in statement of interest forms and CDA updates

5:00 PM COMMISSION ON PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ROOM 260 MMB
- Snow removal for people with disabilities
- Allowing this committee, Affirmative Action and EOC to introduce ordinances.

7:00 PM COMMON COUNCIL-DISCUSSION - POSSIBLE QUORUMS OF PLAN COMMISSION AND URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION
- Discussion on Edgewater (No materials attached when I posted this)
- - Introduction: Common Council Leadership: Ald. Tim Bruer, Council President & Ald. Mark Clear, Council President Pro Tem and Mayor Dave Cieslewicz
- - Proposed Edgewater Hotel Project: Overview of Process & Timeline - Brad Murphy, Planning Division Director (Michael May, City Attorney, Matt Tucker, Zoning Administrator)
- - Proposed Edgewater Hotel Project: Financials: TIF overview, process and timeline - Joe Gromacki, TIF Coordinator (Dean Brasser, City Comptroller)
- - Brief Presentation by Hammes Company & Question/Answers by Common
Council Members - Robert Dunn
(Note: Neighborhood was not allowed to present. And anyone wanna take bets on how long the "brief" presentation by Hammes will be?)
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Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration (City) Week Ahead

Here it is . . .

Monday, January 18, 2010
No city meetings, but Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Events a plenty . . .

Tuesday, January 19, 2010
12:15 PM BUILDING CODE, FIRE CODE, CONVEYANCE CODE AND LICENSING APPEALS BOARD ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Apex/Bruce Bosben/Rounhouse Associates LLC doesn't want to build necessary fire hydrants for their building.

5:00 PM COMMON COUNCIL ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE ROOM 103A CCB
- Alder input on alcohol policies. Note, alder input doesn't show up anywhere here.
- Additional lobbying requirements for ALRC
- Changing the ordinance regarding statement of interest forms.

5:00 PM MADISON CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT/201 STATE FOUNDATION AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TRANSITION PLANNING OVERTURE CENTER FOR THE ARTS BOARDROOM LOWER LEVEL, 201 STATE ST
- Discussing operating model alternatives. May go into closed session.

6:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL ROOM 201 CCB
- Edgewater PUD, might be a good time to discuss a more realistic timeline. Recommendation right now is referral.
- Project in 7th district (McKee Rd) that is only partially approved by plan commission.
- 801 S. Park St. Project.
- Mayoral appointments for committees. 20% of the people don't live in the City of Madison - all represent the business community.
- New IT Director
- Requiring posting of sign if alcohol license revoked, suspended or non-renewed
- $45K for neighborhood indicators project.
- More expenses for Lisa Link Peace Park
- Unnecessary reapproval of contracts for non-profits.
- Buying land at Cherokee Park
- Olbrich Park changes
- Eliminating prevailing wage requirements for certain projects
- Few St. Railroad crossing
- Placing Affordable Housing Trust Fund revisions on file due to lack of sponsor
- People who failed to file statement of Interest forms - report to be distributed on Tuesday.
- Landlord Registration for landlords in violation of chronic nuisance ordinance
- Madison Elections Advisory report . . . missing.
- Increased fines for panhandling and trespassing. (I can't tell what EOCs recommendation was . . .)
- Establishing a TIF policy committee

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
4:30 PM BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ROOM 108 CCB
Ordering Property Owners to Repair or Replace Substandard and Defective Sidewalks in the 2nd (wards 38, 39 and 40), 4th and 8th Aldermanic Districts. Estimated cost of this project is $420,000 of which $198,000 is assessable. Report by City Engineering. No links.

4:30 PM URBAN DESIGN COMMISSION ROOM 300 MMB
- Target at Hilldale 5:15 or after
- Edgewater, Informational presentation, no vote 7:45 or after (it will be televised)
- - Plans
- - 1/13 Submittal
- - Revised submittal

5:30 PM ALCOHOL LICENSE REVIEW COMMITTEE ROOM 201 CCB
- Revocation of Rams Head license
- Restricting alcohol sold in small packages
- Restricting bartenders, musicians and other employees from drinking in bars
- Hip hop best practices

5:30 PM HOUSING COMMITTEE ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Review of zoning code

Thursday, January 21, 2010
3:00 PM MADISON'S CENTRAL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ALCOHOL LICENSE DENSITY ORDINANCE SUBCOMMITTEE 33 E. MAIN ST. STE 500
- The title says it all

4:30 PM LANDLORD AND TENANT ISSUES SUBCOMMITTEE ROOM LL-130 MMB
- Showing ordinance changes

4:30 PM LOW INCOME BUS PASS PROGRAM COMMITTEE GR22 CCB, CENTRAL DISTRICT COMMUNITY ROOM
- Continued discussion

4:30 PM MONONA TERRACE COMMUNITY AND CONVENTION CENTER BOARD 1 JOHN NOLEN DR. HALL OF FAME
- Competitive analysis (not attached)

5:00 PM LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING COMMITTEE ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Transportation Demand Management discussion

5:30 PM BOARD OF HEALTH FOR MADISON AND DANE COUNTY MADISON WATER UTILITY, 119 E OLIN AVE, CONFERENCE ROOM A & B
- Health Report Card

Friday, January 22, 2010
12:00 PM MADISON BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS ROOM 500, 16 N CARROLL ST
- Always hard to tell with their vague agendas without attachments.
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Edgewater Free City Week Ahead (Slightly Updated)

A more robust schedule this week . . . no Edgewater. With only 7 weeks to work this out, seems like a missed opportunity. Plan Commission is waiting for UDC, but there was a Zoning Board of Appeals meeting, and Board of Estimates could discuss TIF and boundary amendments . . .

Monday, January 11, 2010
4:30 PM BOARD OF ESTIMATES ROOM 260 MMB
- New IT Director
- $45K more for Neighborhood Indicators
- Requiring landlords to have two contacts for the property.
- $62K more for engineering and architect for Lisa Link Peace Park
- Purchasing land at Cherokee Marsh
- When is a 2 year contract not a 2 year contract and required to get reaffirmed by the council? Only when it is for community services. I can't think of another example of this in the city.

5:30 PM PLAN COMMISSION ROOM 2O1 CCB
- Change to Kipp Lease. Allows City to get out of lease if the land is needed for transportation reasons.
- Payoff to Goodwill for not developing at Truman Olson.
- Purchasing land at Cherokee Marsh
- Edgewater referred to January 25.
- 8 & 9, that peripheral development that most of us don't pay much attention to . . . Satya Rhodes-Conway was right to raise this issue.
- Park Street Development (800 block)
- 2 additions to a 2,463 square foot residence on the lake on Sherman Ave.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010
12:00 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE ROOM 313 MMB
- Villager, including 2010 budget. Transferring land for Burr Oaks Senior Housing, Turax Gap Analysis (no link), Truman Olson buy out for Goodwill and closed session for Burr Oaks Senior Housing dealings.

5:00 PM AFFIRMATIVE ACTION COMMISSION ROOM LL-120 MMB CANCELLED
- Dane County Task Force Report on Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
- Exempting some contracts from Affirmative Action requirements
- Allowing Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunities Commission and Commission on People with Disabilities to directly introduce things to council without a sponsor.
- Discussion on membership on committees, including recruiting students
- Discussion of adding more protected classes to affirmative action requirements.

5:00 PM MADISON ARTS COMMISSION ROOM LL-110 MMB
- Zoning Code Rewrite (I wonder if they will discuss the frequent live music restrictions that are placed on properties. It'd be nice to have some standards)

5:00 PM PUBLIC SAFETY REVIEW COMMITTEE ROOM GR 22 CCB
- 911 Automated Attendant System (no attachments)
- Mifflin and Halloween after action report (not attached)

5:00 PM TRANSIT AND PARKING COMMISSION ROOM 260 MMB
- Monthly Report on Metro which includes comparison of cost to run hybird busses and regular busses, as well as showing trends in dropping paratransit riders. No info on fixed route trends.
- Partransit fares
- Badger Bus stop on W. Washington Ave.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
4:00 PM HOUSING DIVERSITY PLANNING AD HOC COMMITTEE ROOM 215 MMB
- Phil Salkin from the Realtors does a presentation
- Discussion of brainstorming results (not attached)
- Discussion of what to include in their report

6:30 PM BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS WARNER PARK COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER, 1625 NORTHPORT DR
- Olbrich Gardens Expansion
- $62K more for engineering and architect for Lisa Link Peace Park
- Purchasing land at Cherokee Marsh
- Fruits and Nuts Discussion
- Homeless property found in parks First introduced October 2008, parks commission working on it for over a year.

Thursday, January 14, 2010
12:00 PM CONTRACTED SERVICE OVERSIGHT SUBCOMMITTEE ROOM LL110 MMB
- RTA update. Depending upon what happens, it might eliminate the need for this committee.
- 1.1% drop in ridership October 2008 to 2009. 2.3% drop in ridership in October. Excluding campus routes.

4:30 PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER, 8 STRAUBEL CT
- Continuing to work on their many projects . . . Turax, Truman Olson, Burr Oaks, Lakepointe, Allied, Villager . . .

5:00 PM EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION ROOM LL-120 MMB
- Allowing Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunities Commission and Commission on People with Disabilities to directly introduce things to council without a sponsor.
- Presentation and Discussion on Proposed Commission Training/Dialog on Tools for Addressing Prejudice, Bias, Racism and Microinequities--Kathy Cramer Walsh

Friday, January 15, 2010
No meetings scheduled, yet . . .
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