Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway announced today that Lisa Peyton-Caire is the recipient of the 2021 Jeffrey Clay Erlanger Civility in Public Discourse Award.
The jury’s decision in the Rittenhouse trial is deeply disturbing. Unfortunately, this will perpetuate distrust in the justice system and further normalize gun violence. Allowing vigilantism to masquerade as self-defense is a terrible precedent.
I want to thank the Quattrone Center for their independent Sentinel Event Review, and express my appreciation for the thousands of hours of work that went into it. I particularly want to thank the many members of the Madison community who submitted…
Madison’s 2022 budget, approved by the Common Council last night, includes ten new paramedic positions in the Fire Department to staff an ambulance at Station #14. This additional staffing will decrease response times, and increase the service to…
Tonight the Madison Common Council approved the 2022 Capital and Operating Budgets after three evenings of deliberations. The Council adopted a $354,244,062 Capital Budget and a $360,321,028 Operating Budget.
At best, this amendment creates significant confusion and uncertainty about how to move forward. At worst, it could delay the project indefinitely and potentially risk it altogether.
The amendment gives conflicting direction to staff from the…
The City of Madison announced today that it will extend the deadline for nominations for the annual Jeffrey Clay Erlanger Civility in Public Discourse Award until November 12. The award was created in September of 2007 to honor the memory of the…
On November 2, Mayor Rhodes-Conway, District 2 Alder Patrick Heck, District 13 Alder Tag Evers, and District 15 Alder Grant Foster will introduce legislation to make it easier to build an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in Madison. ADUs, often…
The City of Madison has selected Madison Area Care for the Homeless (MACH) OneHealth and Kabba Recovery Services as operators for the City of Madison’s first sanctioned sheltered campground on Dairy Drive, located on the City’s southeast side.
The Community Development Authority of the City of Madison (CDA) has selected a redevelopment partner to help lead a public-private process to revitalize and/or redevelop a major site within its public housing portfolio in an area of the near west…
Beginning Monday, October 25, the City of Madison will move to the last location this year of speed changes to support the Vision Zero initiative. This final reduction for 2021 will occur on two sections of Cottage Grove Road.
The building at 131 West Wilson, closed by Madison’s Building Inspection Division due to structural concerns, will be reopening this week. Work on the facility had been on-going prior to its closure on September 10th. The building was evacuated out…
Today Fire Chief Steven Davis announced his retirement from the Madison Fire Department. I will miss his levelheaded leadership, his dedication to residents, and his common sense approach to difficult problems. Chief Davis’s commitment to equity…
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and Common Council have proclaimed Friday, October 15, 2021 as “White Cane Safety Day” in the City of Madison. White Cane Safety Day promotes awareness of people walking who use white canes or guide dogs to assist them and…
I have greatly appreciated the chancellor’s calm unflappable demeanor and smart, practical approach to many challenges facing the UW and our community over these past nine years. She had a tough job and she did it well in a very collaborative manner…
Our thoughts are with the officer who was injured on State Street last night, the City is thankful for his service, and we are wishing him a speedy recovery. The suspect is in custody and there is no continued threat to the community.
Under the leadership of the City of Madison and Briarpatch, the Dane County Continuum of Care (CoC), has been awarded a $2.5 million Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (…
The next opportunity for the community to learn more about the Town of Madison Attachment is scheduled for 5 p.m., Oct. 14, 2021, at Penn Park Shelter, 2101 Fisher Street, Madison, Wis.
The first meeting was held virtually in September, and now,…
Today, Mayor Rhodes-Conway releases the 2022 Executive Operating Budget detailing her funding proposal for running City departments and services in Madison. In this Operating Budget, the Mayor proposes funding priorities that outline a path forward…