This week, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz is looking at potentially three nights of teeth gnashing with the City Council over the annual budget. Hour after hour will be filled with impassioned pleas for funding coupled with impassioned pleas for fiscal responsibility. Sequestered in the council chambers, temperatures, volumes and pulse rates of the participants will rise.
Hours not spent in budget deliberations this week will include meetings with people like Jennifer Alexander of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce and Gary Wolter of MG&E, who likely have share a few opinions on the budget. Cieslewicz will also sit down the Police Chief Noble Wray, who will almost surely have a strong point of view on the budget himself.
Is it any surprise that he'll be taking Friday off to walk in the woods hoping for a chance to discharge a rifle?
MAYOR CIESLEWICZ WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Monday, November 13, 2006
9:00 a.m. Jim Hess quarterly meeting
10:00 a.m. Policy staff meeting
11:00 a.m. Joan Fischer, Susan King, and Jeanne Hoffman
1:30 p.m. Gary Wolter, Lynn Hobbie, Joe Sensenbrenner, Rob Gottschalk, Ald. Judy Olson, and Jeanne Hoffman
3:00 p.m. Mayors' Innovation Project (New Cities Project) Steering Committee conference call
4:30 p.m. Board of Estimates meeting, MMB 260
7:30 p.m. Speak at "Ready, Set, Read" literacy night for Leopold School, Overture Center, Capital Theater
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
8:30 a.m. Read at St. James School celebrity read-in day, St. James School, 1204 St. James Court
9:30 a.m. Chuck Kamp quarterly meeting
10:30 a.m. Mayor's Management Team meeting
12:00 noon Brown bag lunch with Department of Civil Rights staff
2:00 p.m. Jennifer Alexander quarterly meeting
5:00 p.m. Speak at Downtown Madison, Inc. Buy Local Holiday Shopping kick-off, Uno Chicago Bar & Grill, 222 W. Gorham
6:30 p.m. Common Council meeting, CCB 201
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
10:00 a.m. Staff meeting 2:00 p.m. TIF Team meeting 3:30 p.m. Jeanne Hoffman 7:00 p.m. Common Council meeting, MMB 260 (if necessary)
Thursday, November 16, 2006
7:30 a.m. New Music Review, Triple M, 105.5, 7601 Ganser
9:00 a.m. Chief Noble Wray monthly meeting
10:30 a.m. Public Works Improvements (PWI) meeting
12:00 noon Walk the Square with the Mayor
2:00 p.m. Christine Beatty quarterly meeting
3:00 p.m. Common Council leadership meeting
4:00 p.m. American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout presentation of Lynn R. Smith Award, Executive Residence, 99 Cambridge Road
5:15 p.m. Appear on WISC-TV Channel 3 Live at 5, Overture Center
5:30 p.m. Time capsule ceremony, Overture Center
7:00 p.m. Common Council meeting (if necessary)
Friday, November 17, 2006
out of the office - deer hunting
