The full weekly meeting schedule can be found on the city's website.

Monday, Oct. 5: Plan Commission, 5:30 p.m., Room 201 of the City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

On the agenda:

• Adopting the neighborhood plan for the Northeast Neighborhoods, which includes significant sustainability goals.
• Adopting the Royster-Clark Special Area Plan -- I wonder if the commission will discuss how well the proposal from Habitat for Humanity for the site coincides with the plan.
• Approvidng final plans for University Research Park II on the far-west side, including plans for some neighborhood amenities near the research park.
• Considering a request for a conditional use permit to construct a visitor's center in Lisa Link Peace Park on State Street. A few elements of the center, including an ATM and a small room for Madison police officers, have proved controversial thusfar.
• Consideration of a conditional use permit to continue the farmers' market on the city's southwest side.

Tuesday, Oct. 6: Common Council Organizational Committee, 4:30 p.m., Room 108 of the City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

The committee will continue to debate the composition of the Alcohol License Review Committee, including a proposal to increase the committee by two members, one alder and one resident. Of particular note is a substitute from Ald. Bryon Eagon that suggests eliminating the non-voting Associated Students of Madison representative in favor of requiring that one voting member of the committee be a student from UW-Madison, Madison Area Technical College or Edgewood College. Also on the agenda for the committee is repealing the sunset provision for the city's chronic nuisance ordinance (although I'm unsure why it was sent to this committee), increasing the security in the Common Council office with a new door and service window (at a cost of about $42,000) and a discussion on creating a special committee to debate alcohol licensing and enforcement.

Tuesday, Oct. 6: Budget Briefing, 5:30 p.m., Room 201 of the City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

Mayor Dave Cieslewicz will provide an overview of his operating budget, which he will be officially introducing at the 6:30 p.m. City Council meeting.

Tuesday, Oct. 6: Common Council, 6:30 p.m., Room 201 of the City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

On the agenda:

• Granting alcohol licenses to re-open the Cardinal Bar downtown and establish a second Vintage Bar location at the former J.T. Whitney's
• Establishing the Downtown Residential Lighting Initiative, which is a matching grant program to help improve lighting downtown
• Establishing a program that would allow Madison police officers to buy their own personally sighted rifles using 52 pay-period reductions.
• Getting a recommendation from the floor on the ALRC composition from the Common Council Organizational Committee
• Eliminating a punitive salary measure for city of Madison employees in managerial roles living outside of the city in exchange for the employees in those classes increasing their health care co-pay by $5 per month. This was somewhat controversial at the last council meeting and may be again -- residency requirements have largely been done away with in recent years, and this would be one of the last to go, I believe.
• Adopting the 2010 Economic Development Work Plan

Wednesday, Oct. 7: Central Business Improvement District, 2 p.m., Room 202 of the Central Library, 202 W. Mifflin St.

Let me just start by saying this Wednesday is ridiculous, meeting-wise -- the weekly meeting schedule doesn't even have all the potentially relevant city meetings, and there are nine meetings listed there. This particular meeting should be a good briefing on the upcoming Freakfest event, for those interested.

Wednesday, Oct. 7: Urban Design Commission, 4:30 p.m., Room LL-110 of the Madison Municipal Building, 215 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

The commission will take up the designs for the Danisco expansion on the city's southeast side as well as an exterior remodel for a new restaurant on King Street called Haze (which supporting documents say will be a replacement for Kushi Bar Muramoto), among other items.

Wednesday, Oct. 7: Housing Committee, 5 p.m., Room 260 of the Madison Municipal Building, 215 Martin Luther King, Jr Blvd.

There are a few interesting agenda items, from ordinance amendments that will require landlords to provide more information on when they will enter an apartment as well as information on a tenant's right to inspect photographic evidence of damages they will be charged for to repealing the sunset provision on the city's chronic nuisance ordinance.

Wednesday, Oct. 7: East Madison Meeting on the Central Library, 7 p.m., C17 Lecture Room of LaFollette High School, 702 Pflaum Road

Alds. Larry Palm, Judy Compton, Lauren Cnare and Joe Clausius -- who together represent the bulk of the east/southeast part of town -- will host a joint meeting on the Central Library for their constituents. Attendees can hear information on the cost and details of the proposed $37 million rebuild of the downtown library as well as plans in future budgets for two new east-side libraries (in Grandview Commons and on the northeast side of the city, location to be determined).

Wednesday, Oct. 7: Perspectives on a Dane County Regional Transit System, 7 p.m., Capitol Lakes Grand Hall, 333 West Main St.

The League of Women Voters will host a public forum on the future of regional transportation in the Madison area and planning for a regional transit authority. Speakers include David Trowbridge of Transport 2020, Keith Plasterer of Pro-Rail Wisconsin, Susan Schmitz of Downtown Madison, Inc. and Bruce Speight of WISPIRG. Discussion will follow the speakers' presentations.

Thursday, Oct. 8: Community Development Authority, 4:30 p.m., Community Room of the South District Police Station, 825 Hughes Pl.

Besides the regular project updates (including the Lake Pointe Condominiums, Truax Park, Allied Drive, Truman Olson and the Villager Mall, the CDA will potentially go into closed session to discuss acquiring seven properties in the Burr Oaks neighborhood in order to build senior housing (the agenda includes a letter from one of the residents who would be displaced).

Thursday, Oct. 8: Public Information Session on Segredo, 5 p.m., 624 University Ave.

There's more on this proposal to be found on Ald. Bryon Eagon's blog, but the hearing will focus on issuing a liquor license to an establishment that will provide a mix of bowling and games to replace the Madison Ave night club.

Thursday, Oct. 8: Transit and Parking Commission, 5 p.m., Room 260 of the Madison Municipal Building, 215 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

Note the irregular meeting date -- the commission's meeting was moved due to Board of Estimates meetings on the city's operating budget next week. On the agenda includes the regular update on Madison Metro ridership statistics (which have gone down pretty consistently since the bus fare increase, although they're still up for the year), establishing a contract between Metro and the county for paratransit services and establishing a contract with MATC for student ride passes.

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