Two more opportunities to attend a meeting on the city budget: Tuesday, August 11, 6:00pm - 8:00pm East District Police Station, 809 S. Thompson Dr.
Monday, August 17, 6:00pm - 8:00pm Alicia Ashman Branch Library, 733 North High Point Rd. (The downtown meeting was last week.) If you want to give input on what should or shouldn't be in the city budget, here's a chance before it's even been officially written. Tell the Mayor what should or shouldn't be in the budget. Want more bike trails? Fewer road expansions? (Just guessing what others on the list might say.) Less what? Where can we cut? What shouldn't be cut? Even if you have no idea what goes into a city budget, this is an opportunity to see where your tax dollars are being spent. Also, the Mayor has a blog post on the capital budget: http://www.cityofmadison.com/mayor/blog/ Think of the capital budget as your loans - what you pay off over time. The big purchases, infrastructure, buildings, etc. But these have to be paid for eventually, and paying for all the building we've been doing is now a big chunk of the operating budget - your monthly expenses, paying off the credit card, etc. For those of us who care about transportation, it seems to be capital budget vs operating budget. Transit is mostly operating budget, and there's never enough money. But partly that's because the past capital budgets have been loaded with big roads. (And new police and fire stations for the far flung developments.) Now the payments on those road expansions are squeezing transit costs and bike/pedestrian programs like education and outreach. So, speak up about what you want. Even in this tight budget time, are we going ahead with road expansions? Hell yes! Should we???? Robbie Webber Bike Walk Madison Steering Committee www.bikewalkmadison.org Join our group on Facebook! _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
