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City Meetings and Updates Week of Nov 24

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  • City Meetings: Common Council (virtual only)
  • City Services on Holiday Schedules 11/27 and 11/28:
    • Trash/Recycling and Streets Division Drop-Off Sites
    • Metro Transit Schedules
    • City offices
  • Another East District Coffee With a Cop Event 11/24
  • Events & Announcements

City Meetings

The Common Council meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 25, at 6:30 p.m. in virtual format. Agenda items include:

  •  Item 1: An honoring resolution recognizing November as Homelessness Awareness Month.
  • Item 2: An honoring resolution recognizing November 20th, 2025 to be Transgender Day of Remembrance.
  • Item 10: A proposal creating new ordinances to regulate the sale of hemp-derived THC products (I’m a cosponsor). From the drafter’s analysis: “The purpose of this ordinance is to restrict the sales of hemp-derived cannabinoid products to those under the age of 21. The State of Wisconsin adopted the hemp exemptions contained in the 2018 Federal Farm Bill, which contained loopholes allowing for an unregulated market in the sale of psychoactive substances. The state legislature has not taken action to close the loopholes related to the sale of psychoactive substances or to regulate their sale. The City of Madison has seen a proliferation of unregulated businesses selling a variety of these substances and finds it necessary to restrict their sales in order to safeguard those under the age of 21 from these unregulated intoxicating products.”

  • Item 11: A proposal creating new ordinances to regulate the sale of pets in retail pet stores. This ordinance bans the sale of cats or dogs in retail pet stores, in favor of adoptions. Note that no known pet stores in Madison currently sell cats or dogs, opting instead for the adoption model through partners like the Humane Society or Madison Cat Project. Alders have received a lot of emails about this one, nearly all in favor. I'll admit that I’m a bit perplexed at the amount of attention this has received given that it won’t actually make any known changes to how existing pet stores and agencies currently operate in Madison. I'm also interested in limiting business opportunities for "puppy mills" and plan to vote for this one.  

    Map of street extension in northwest grandview
    Image credit: City Engineering
  • Item 14: A resolution declaring Public Right of Way to extend Driscoll Drive through a portion of City-owned land to connect to the future Ethos Lane (I’m the sponsor). Here’s a map showing where this is.
  • Item 37: A resolution authorizing the Fire Department to purchase an off-road ambulance vehicle (I’m the sponsor).
  • Item 45: MPD’s 3rd Quarter Report from Chief John Patterson. Here’s a link to the report.
  • Item 54: A resolution authorizing Common Council members to participate in private fundraising efforts for funds to support operating new Bertillon homeless shelter under the direction of the new Shelter Friends group (I’m a cosponsor).

Meeting info:

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City Services on Holiday Schedules Thursday and Friday

Trash/Recycling and Streets Division Drop-off Sites

Trash & Recycling Collection Changing for Thanksgiving Holidays; Streets Division Closed November 27 & 28: There will be no Streets Division collections will be performed on Thursday, November 27, 2025, and Friday, November 28, 2025.The closures are in observance of Thanksgiving (11/27) and Ho-Chunk Day (11/28).  If your trash and recycling are normally collected on Wednesdays or Thursdays by the Streets Division, set your scheduled carts to the curb by 6:30am on Wednesday, November 26, 2025.

The Streets Division drop-off sites and offices will also be closed Thursday and Friday. Note that these drop-off sites are open seasonally and next weekend (11/29 and 11/30) is the last weekend they are open this year.

Metro Transit Schedules

Metro Transit service will be on holiday schedules: Thursday will run on the Sunday schedule and Friday will run on the Saturday schedule. That means the following:

  • Routes A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, L, O, P, R, S will operate
  • Standing paratransit rides will be canceled, administration office will be closed
  • UW Campus Route 80 will operate on a weekend recess schedule while campus routes 81-84 do not operate
  • On Friday the D2, 55, and 75 routes will operate to/from Epic

City Offices

City Offices are closed on November 27 and 28 for Thanksgiving and Ho-Chunk Day. Emergency services will be open; for emergencies, please call 911. Please use Report a Problem to report non-emergency issues to the City.

Another East District Coffee With a Cop Event Monday

East District Officer Neal Crowder, who mostly works in the Darbo-Worthington area of the East Side, is holding another Coffee With a Cop event on Monday at Hawthorne Library from 10am-11am. He describes this one as being for open dialogue. Here’s MPD’s announcement post with event details.

Note that this is in addition to the other November and December Coffee With a Cop events I described in last weekend’s blog post, the next of which is December 16 at Pinney Library.

Events & Announcements

Please visit the City news webpage to find additional news and announcements and to subscribe to receive notification of news releases as they are posted. Additional upcoming events can also be found on the City events calendar.

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