Week of October 8 Meetings of Possible Interest to District 2

The week of October 8 has items of possible interest to residents of district 2 at the Finance Committee (two meetings), the Historic Preservation Plan Advisory Committee, the Public Safety Review Committee, the Madison Police Department Policy & Procedure Review Ad Hoc Committee, the Task Force on Structure of City Government – Government Officials Subcommittee, and the Task Force on the Structure of City Government. The city meeting agenda items are open for testimony from the public should you be interested in weighing in. I also appreciate hearing from you on any items on which you have a particular interest or concern so please send me an email or give me a call.

Also, committees and commissions have an opportunity at the beginning of each agenda for Public Comment on items not on the agenda. If you have something you want to share with a committee or commission, you can use the Public Comment time to do so.
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Finance Committee
4:30 pm October 8, 2018
Rm 201 City-County Building
Agenda: https://madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=641688&GUID=4D927340-A4F1-4231-971E-5D01783AE339

Agenda Item 7
Amending the 2018 Engineering-Major Streets, Sewer and Stormwater Utility Capital Budgets and the Sewer and Stormwater Utility Operating Budgets to cover expenses incurred as a result of the extreme rain event experienced on August 20, 2018 and the resulting high lake levels and associated isthmus flooding. (Various ADs)

Agenda Item 12
2019 Executive Operating Budget
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Finance Committee
4:30 October 9, 2018
Rm 201 City-County Building
Agenda: https://madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=561628&GUID=29AC29EC-FCF9-41DC-8BBE-C737E4267006

Agenda Item 1
2019 Executive Operating Budget
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Historic Preservation Plan Advisory Committee
5:00 pm October 10, 2018
Rm 351 City-County Building
Agenda: https://madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=627506&GUID=DC8818C4-AEB2-4874-8B5B-2EBC18A225F2

Agenda Item 5
Discussion of Goals, Objectives, and Strategies
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Public Safety Review Committee
5:00 October 10, 2018
Rm GR27 City-County Building
Agenda: https://madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=586651&GUID=12D752BC-C709-4F69-9DE2-51EC662D74E0

Agenda Item 1
Acknowledging the City of Madison inter-disciplinary staff team tasked with analyzing alcohol outlet density, to identify issues related to excessive alcohol consumption that result in disproportionate calls for service, and propose steps to address such problems.
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Madison Police Department Policy & Procedure Review Ad Hoc Committee
5:30 October 11, 2018
Goodman Maintenance Facility
1402 Wingra Creek Pkwy
Agenda: https://madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=632665&GUID=841FF7A6-D04E-4F9E-A132-4DB319A0DF47

Agenda Item 1
Review and discussion of action items numbers 2, 5, and 11 located in the President's Work Group on Police and Community Relations report

Agenda Item 2
Review and discussion of OIR's recommendation no. 10 found in OIR's Madison Police Department Policy and Procedure Review

"MPD should consider implementing the 21st Century Policing Task Force's Action Item to make all department policies available for public review."

Agenda Item 3
Review and discussion of OIR's recommendation no. 11 found in OIR's Madison Police Department Policy and Procedure Review

"As part of its ongoing and constructive support on an innovative program, MPD should dialogue with its criminal justice partners to consider whether restorative justice programs available for controversial high media profile incidents can be made available for similar incidents that do not rise to the same level of medial attention."

Agenda Item 4
Review and discussion of OIR's recommendation No. 18 found in OIR's Madison Police Department Policy and Procedure Review

"MPD should revise policy discouraging the use of family, friends, or bystands to serve as translators, except when MPD or City resources are not available and the situation is exigent. In cases when civilians are used as translators, the non-availability of other MPD resources should be documented."

Agenda Item 5
Review and discussion of OIR's recommendation No. 19 in OIR's Madison Police Department Policy and Procedure Review

"MPD should devise policy instruction its officers not to requrest social workers to provide translation services unless there is a pre-exisiting understanding with the social services agency that they agree to do so."

Agenda Item 6
Review and discussion of OIR's recommendation No. 20 found in OIR's Madison Police Department Policy and Procedure Review

"MPD should devise ways to incentivize its bilingual officers to assist in providing translations assistance in the field, including the consideration of adopting a pay differential."
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Task Force on Structure of City Government – Government Officials Subcommittee
6:30 October 11, 2018
Alicia Ashman Library
733 N High Point Rd
Agenda: http://www.cityofmadison.com/sites/default/files/city-of-madison/clerk/meeting-schedule/agenda_-_government_officials_subcommittee_10-11-18_approved.pdf

Agenda Item 5
TESTIMONY FROM CURRENT AND FORMER COMMON COUNCIL, BOARD, COMMISSION, AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS

A.Alder Barbara Harrington-McKinney
B.Alder Samba Baldeh
C.Former Alder Chris Schmidt
D.Others may appear and testify
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Task Force on Structure of City Government
6:00 October 12, 2018
Rm 354 City County Bldg
Agenda: Not Available as of 10/5/18. Check back at the following link early in the week:
http://www.cityofmadison.com/clerk/meeting-schedule
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*Consent agenda--The consent agenda includes many agenda items that come to a vote without testimony or Council discussion. Should anyone register and wish to speak, the item would be taken off the consent agenda.


Alder Ledell Zellers
608 417 9521

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