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City Meetings and Event Highlights for the Week of March 10, 2025

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City Selected Meeting and Event Highlights for the Week of March 10, 2025

Information Source:  Thank you to Lorissa R. Bañuelos, our Community Engagement Strategist at the Common Council Office, for compiling all of this information each week for Alders citywide!  Appreciated. To submit your community event for consideration, please email Lorissa at: LBanuelos@cityofmadison.com  

Note:  per our ethics policy, not all events can be published and other considerations have to be made but it never hurts to submit information for consideration.  There is no harm in asking right?

Updates and Notices

Report a Problem: Report non-emergency issues to City staff. If it is an emergency, please call 911.

Boards, Commissions, and Committee Meetings

Note: This is not a complete list of meetings for this upcoming week. All meetings and their details can be found at the Meeting Schedule page.

  • Common Council: The Common Council meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 11, at 6:30 p.m. in hybrid format. Agenda items include modifying the appointment process for the Police Civilian Oversight Board, establishing hearing procedures when a complaint is filed that seeks removal of an alder from the Common Council, and amending or repealing various Boards, Committees, and Commissions.
  • Board of Public Works: The Board of Public Works meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 12, at 4:30 p.m. in virtual format. Agenda items include approving the stormwater Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System annual report to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
  • Board of Park Commissioners: The Board of Park Commissioners meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 12, at 6:30 p.m. in virtual format. Agenda items include approving a request from Big Top Events for a fireworks display on June 28, 2025, at Breese Stevens field.

If you would like more information about becoming a member of a City board, commission, or committee, please visit the page linked here.

Public Information Meetings (PIMs)

  • High Point Road, South, Monday, March 10: The purpose of this project is to extend S High Point Road from Raymond Road to the Midpoint Meadows Plat limit. Proposed work will include pavement, curb and gutter, sidewalk/path, storm sewer, sanitary sewer, water main and lighting. A public information meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m., March 10, 2025, via Zoom. Registration prior is required.
  • Pflaum Road, Wednesday, March 12: City Engineering plans to remove and replace the asphalt pavement and road base, replace sanitary sewer main and laterals, replace water main and laterals, replace storm sewer and private storm connections, and replace curb and gutter, sidewalk and drive aprons as needed. There is a public information meeting scheduled for 6:30 p.m., March 12, 2025, via Zoom. Registration is required prior.

Announcements and News Releases

  • Street Sweeping During the Overnight Hours Begins Sunday, March 9, 2025: Starting on the evening of Sunday, March 9, Streets Division sweepers will be on the roads working 16 hours a day to collect as much salt, sand, and other grit and grime as we possibly can. We will have one shift of operators sweeping from 10pm to… [posted March 7, 2025]
  • Women in Construction Week 2025: Taletha Skar:  A lot of jobs in construction are pretty visible: broken ground, dump trucks, concrete trucks, high visibility florescent yellow safety vests, and yes, even hard hats—hard hats of every color above ground. However, one of the most important pieces of infrastructure that keeps the entire City running and connected isn’t visible at all. [posted March 7, 2025]
  • Announcing the 2025 Plow Names!: The votes are in. Madisonians, here are the names you selected for the snowplowing equipment. [posted March 6, 2025]
  • Pick Up Free Seeds for Your Garden from Eight Madison Public Library Locations Beginning Today!: MADISON, WI -- Madison Public Library’s popular Garden Seed Giveaway(link is external) begins today on Thursday, March 6 at eight library locations. All libraries (with the exception of Central Library) will offer a variety of flower, herb, and produce seeds for visitors, free of charge. [posted March 6, 2025]
  • Women in Construction Week 2025 Profile: Renee Callaway: Biking in Madison, Wis. is a big deal. The community of cyclists is big. The bike system to get around the City is big and connected. The excitement and appreciation is big. None of these facts are likely surprising to anyone who has spent time in the Madison area, especially Traffic Engineering Division Assistant Director Renee Callaway. [posted March 6, 2025]
  • Women in Construction Week 2025: Molly Berkholtz : The smell of burning covers and hovers over a snowy Prairie Ridge Conservation Park on the City’s south side, near the Elver neighborhood. [posted March 5, 2025]
  • Women in Construction Week 2025: Sarah Johns: With a couple twists of a wrench, Madison Water Utility Service Representative Sarah Johns loosens the bolts to a water meter. [posted March 4, 2025]
  • Women in Construction Week 2025: Emma Almy: Sometimes the oldest and most complicated road projects in the City of Madison are paired with some of the most passionate, sharp and energized engineers eager to understand and help create solutions. [posted March 3, 2025]
  • 2025 Spring Yard Waste Collection Schedule Now Available: The dates when you should set out yard waste to the curb for collection this spring is now available. The information is available on the Streets Division’s yard waste website. All residents in Madison have two-yard waste collections in the… [posted March 3, 2025]

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.

Events

Additional upcoming events can also be found on the City events calendar.

ABW,

Alder Amani

Amani Latimer Burris, Alder, District 12

(608) 345-8747 (cell -- text preferred)

District12@cityofmadison.com

P.S.  As always, here is a directory of all of the major city departments: https://www.cityofmadison.com/departments.  If you know the department that should handle your issue, feel free to reach out to them directly and also feel free to cc me in on the email if you want to know of your complaint, concern or question.  This will help you:

  1.  Get direct help and
  2. I can stay abreast of your situation. 

Yep, you can contact me by email and I prefer that you text me, or call me at (608) 345-8747, especially if the email you want me to read or review is urgent.

Here are other ways to reach out:

Reach out through the City website at www.cityofmadison.com/council.

Reach out to all Alders:  you can email us at allalders@cityofmadison.com.

Reach out to the Mayor's office:  their email is mayor@cityofmadison.com

Reach out to the Common Council office:  if you don't know who your issue, comment or question or concern should be routed to by sending an email to:  council@cityofmadision.com 

This will go to the Common Council Office and they will get it routed to the right place.  The Common Council staff is very knowledgeable and helpful and really there to serve, just as we are.

And finally, if your issue is urgent or you are having trouble catching up with me, feel free to call the City Common Council office at (608) 266-4061 or send an email to council@cityofmadison.com and let them know you are trying to reach me.   

We receive hundreds of emails, especially if an issue is contentious or controversial, and unfortunately our department has a limited staff.  Of Course, my cell is listed above so, again, feel free to text or call me. 

 

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District 12 - Alder Latimer Burris

Alder Amani Latimer Burris

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