Vaccines available, 2021 Assessments, New Common Council Term - D15 Update 4/19/21

Last Week

2021 property assessments

2021 property assessment numbers were published last week. Assessed values are used to calculate property taxes for the city, county, and school districts. Property tax bills are calculated at the end of the year after each of the taxing authorities have approved their budget. You can find additional information on the 2021 assessments here.

In the news: 

• Beyond the Page and Dane County Libraries seeking applications for year of programming around themes of race and equity
• Take the Metro Transit Choices Survey
• Madison Commons, Media Digest 

This Week 

LENA April meeting

Join Lake Edge Neighborhood Association for their monthly meeting on Monday beginning at 6:30 pm. You can find all the details including a link to register here. Agenda items include a proposal for a new bar at the former Jo Beck's and a new coffee cart in the Red Lion parking lot.

Common Council

Tuesday marks the beginning of the new term for alders on the Common Council. The outgoing council will meet beginning at noon to recognize those members leaving the council and to swear in new alders. The council will also vote on the President and Vice President positions at that time. At 6:30, the council will reconvene for the first meeting of the new term. You can find the agenda and links to register for comments here.

Home Composting Basics

Madison Public Libraries is offering an online Home Composting virtual meeting on Tuesday at 6 pm. You can find all the details here.

CRNA Earth Day Cleanup

There are many opportunities to participate in an Earth Day cleanup event on Saturday including the one sponsored by the Carpenter-Ridgeway Neighborhood Association and the onese in city parks that require sign up here.

Other city meetings

There are a number of city meetings not highlighted in this update. You can find a full schedule of city meetings here.

Save the date

• Make Music Madison - June 24 (Deadline for New Registrations – Midnight on Tuesday, May 25th) More info at https://www.makemusicmadison.org/ 

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