It was an opportunity for many of the city departments to showcase
themselves.  They were able to efficiently inform the audience about what
each division does and why it is important to the basic workings of our
community.  I think that it did a good job helping people to understand
where their local tax dollars go and why.  It was generous of so many city
staff to be present.  Although no line items were discussed, there was an
obvious front-and-center showing from people in support of
maintaining/improving cycling infrastructure

You can get much of the information that was presented at the meeting
online.
http://www.cityofmadison.com/budgetProcess/conversations.cfm


There are still 2 of the 5 meetings left this year that you can participate
in.
http://www.cityofmadison.com/budgetProcess/conversations.cfm

If you aren't able to make it to any of the 5 meetings, there is an online
survey that I urge everyone to take.
http://www.cityofmadison.com/budgetProcess/survey.cfm

The mayor put forth that he wants public input to be a part of the budget
process even earlier in the process next year- before the departments
propose their budgets.  Soglin said that he plans to schedule be public
input/discussion meetings beginning next spring for the 2013 budget.

-india

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Aaron Crandall <[email protected]> wrote:

> I wasn't able to make it to the "conversation" tonight & so was just
> wondering what I missed, to those of you who were able to attend. What were
> the BIG issues discussed?
>
> Aaron
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