District 20 Weekly Meetings - September 29-October 9, 2024

Upcoming Meetings

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Exploring the 2025 Budget Series - Session 2: Community Development Division and Non-profit Funding, Thursday, October 3: Join me for the second of three sessions. We'll meet in person at the Oakwood Village Auditorium. We'll begin with a brief overview of the budget deficit and need for multi-year plans. Next Jim OKeefe, Director of Madison's Community Development Division, joins me to take a closer look at how CDD supports affordable housing and community building efforts and the effects budget cuts may have. You will be able to make comments and ask questions.  Then we will turn to initial 5-year plans with and without a successful referendum, and agency proposals for cuts. Since service reductions may ultimately be required regardless of referendum results, I'll explain how you can provide me with your input on cuts. Click on the title link above for directions and registration.

City Action & Team Response: The City is Listening!

Yang Tao, Director of Traffic Engineering & Ann Kovich, Chair Transportation Commission response to the Crash Analysis spearheaded by Josh Olson, then District 20 resident aided by Strong Towns Staff.

Thank you for reaching out and thanks to Strong Towns and our residents for conducting the review! City staff have been in contact with them and have been digging into the situation more to identify improvements. Chair Kovich and I have also been discussing this and we will bring an update to the Transportation Commission soon. We will keep you posted.

 Yang Tao, Ph.D., P.E. (he/him/his) | Director of Traffic Engineering City of Madison, Wisconsin | Madison Municipal Building, Suite 109 | 215 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Madison, WI 53703 | Office: 608.266-4761 | Direct: 608.266.4815 | Fax: 608.267.1158 | www.cityofmadison.com/trafficengineering/ 

Purpose-built Men's Shelter | Project Information | Overview

October Update:  The City of Madison is collaborating with Dane County to plan for and design a purpose-built shelter facility that will serve primarily men in our community who experience homelessness. The facility, to be built at 1902 Bartillon Drive, will be Madison’s first purpose-built shelter. We are gathering feedback to ensure that it best meets the needs of those who will use it and the community more broadly. We know how important it is to engage folks with lived experience, service providers, and the neighborhood on shelter design and supportive service needs. The City will use this feedback to help inform decisions. In particular, this survey (closed Nov. 4, 2022) is designed to collect input from specific groups. Completion: 2025.

The Streets Department inspects recycling carts for non-recyclable items. When time permits, people driving the collection trucks handles this task. When drivers spot obvious issues, they stop the collection to diminish contamination.

Streets has been more intentional about addressing recycling issues this year. Workers inspect carts by walking down blocks and inspecting each cart. They open the lid, look to see if there’s an issue, and then move on to the next cart. For carts with issues, the inspector will leave behind an informational card on the lid explaining the problem, and the cart will not be emptied.

There are six main problems the inspector is looking for when doing cart checks. The common recycling issues area:

• Bad Bags,
• Tanglers,
• Clothes/Textiles,
• Wood/Lumber,
• Styrofoam, and
• Other (Obvious) Problems

People can call Streets when the problem is resolved, and a driver will return as soon as possible to empty the corrected cart.

Resources: Recyclopedia | 2024 Recyclopedia:  English;  Spanish / Español

When to Set the Cart Out for Pickup | Green recycling carts should be at the curb by 6:30 a.m. on their  collection day.

Resource Request? Just  contact us, and we can mail any of the printed resources to you.