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![On September 8, the Common Council took up a resolution to move $28,500 from the City’s contingent reserve, the fund it keeps for unanticipated expenses, to the Office of the Independent Monitor. The money would have made the office’s part-time data analyst full-time through the end of the year and paid for training.[1] Council President Sabrina Madison voted no, and in her comments during the debate she referred her colleagues to a memo she had requested from City staff and posted on her blog six days earlier.[2][8] The motion to adopt failed, 7 to 12.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/668754_f6d904eb25604ec5b1e8d79545e48328~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_571,h_429,fp_0.50_0.50,lg_1,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/668754_f6d904eb25604ec5b1e8d79545e48328~mv2.jpg)
![On September 8, the Common Council took up a resolution to move $28,500 from the City’s contingent reserve, the fund it keeps for unanticipated expenses, to the Office of the Independent Monitor. The money would have made the office’s part-time data analyst full-time through the end of the year and paid for training.[1] Council President Sabrina Madison voted no, and in her comments during the debate she referred her colleagues to a memo she had requested from City staff and posted on her blog six days earlier.[2][8] The motion to adopt failed, 7 to 12.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/668754_f6d904eb25604ec5b1e8d79545e48328~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_571,h_429,fp_0.50_0.50,lg_1,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/668754_f6d904eb25604ec5b1e8d79545e48328~mv2.jpg)
The Council Heard One Side of the Police Monitor Story. The City’s Own Rules Say Hear Both.
Key Points On August 31, four City department heads sent Council President Sabrina Madison a memo she had requested, listing budget, contracting, open meetings, and personnel problems in the Office of the Independent Monitor, and she posted it on her blog on September 2. On September 8, the Common Council voted 7 to 12 against adding $28,500 to the office’s budget; President Madison cited the memo in the debate, and the Monitor had not answered it. The City’s own written stan
Madison’s Mayoral Race Grows to Seven
Three new candidates have filed paperwork with the Madison City Clerk to run for mayor: April Kigeya, Larry Williams, and Jon Hinds. They join Syed Abbas, Brian Benford, Kaleem Caire, and Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, bringing the total to seven candidates for the April 6, 2027 election.
93 Days of Silence, Then One Day’s Notice
Madison’s Police Civilian Oversight Board meets July 23 on the rewrite of its own ordinances, its first meeting on the matter since the Council's April 21 referral. Key Points On April 21, the Common Council voted 16 to 4 to send Legistar 92386, proposed changes to Madison’s police oversight ordinances, back to the Police Civilian Oversight Board (PCOB), with the matter due back at the Council on August 4. The PCOB and its subcommittees met five times between April 21 and Jul
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