After abandoning his plan for streetcars last week to focus more on issues like crime and water quality, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz will attend Monday night's police community meeting on the north side. The north side has always been a little rough around the edges, so the stories from residents there won't be quite as surprising as the complaints heard at a similar session on the west side a couple weeks ago. But what's interesting about both of these sessions is how the rookie alders in both districts -- District 20's Thuy Pham-Remmele on the west side and District 18's Michael Schumacher on the north side -- have taken ownership of constituent beefs.
Pham-Remmele and Schumacher are just two of nine new alders on the council and it's starting to look like their presence might be responsible for a shift in city government's priorities. Pham-Remmele made it clear that the crime issue won't be shelved if she has anything to say about it and we'll see if Schumacher follows her lead. Either way, these listening sessions and the media coverage they inspire are keeping public safety on the front page.
MAYOR CIESLEWICZ WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Monday, August 20, 2007
10:00 a.m. Policy staff meeting
11:00 a.m. Plan Commission agenda review
11:30 a.m. Kelly Thompson-Frater and Joel Plant
2:00 p.m. Michael Blumenfeld
5:00 p.m. Cypress Spray Park Family Day
6:00 p.m. District #18 police community meeting (Warner Park, Community Room 1)
7:30 p.m. Worthington Park Neighborhood Association ice cream social (time permitting) (Salvation Army, 3030 Darbo Drive)
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
9:00 a.m. Capital Improvement Review Committee (CIRC) meeting
12:00 noon Lunch with Chancellor John Wiley
1:30 p.m. Madison Firefighters Local 311/Muscular Dystrophy Association news conference (Fire Station #1, 316 W. Dayton Street)
2:00 p.m. Operating budget briefing
4:30 p.m. Forward Community Investments 2007 Capacity Builder Award reception honoring Rick Phelps (Bishop's Bay Country Club)
6:00 p.m. Mayor's public hearing on 2008 budget (East District Police Station)
Wednesday, August 22 2007
9:30 a.m. Lee Rayburn interview 10:00 a.m. Staff meeting 2:00 p.m. Capital Improvement Review Committee (CIRC) meeting
Thursday, August 23, 2007
10:00 a.m. Henry Vilas Children's Zoo renovations ribbon cutting (Children's Zoo) 10:30 a.m. Operating budget briefing 1:30 p.m. Ride-along with Assessor Karen Karnel 4:30 p.m. Common Council leadership meeting 6:00 p.m. Mayor's public hearing on budget (Central Library, E. Mifflin Street)
Friday, August 24, 2007
9:00 a.m. Jeanne Hoffman
10:00 a.m. Chief Noble Wray, Asst. Chief John Davenport, Lt. Tim Peregoy, Mario Mendoza, and Joel Plant
11:00 a.m. Jeff Rosenberg and Joel Plant
12:00 noon Lunch with Annette Miller and Shiva Bidar-Sielaff
Saturday, August 25, 2007
9:00 a.m. Community gardens bike ride (start at Sheboygan Avenue community garden)
