Two local government officials, a current University of Wisconsin-Madison student and a graduate from the class of 2010, will host a public forum Wednesday afternoon to collect student input on the city and county budgets, both of which are going through the ratification process.
Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, and Dane County Board of Supervisors member Leland Pan, a UW-Madison junior, will meet at 4 p.m. in the Caucus Room of the Student Activity Center to discuss the distribution of approximately $780 million among services Dane County and the City of Madison will provide in 2014.
Those services include environmental programs, rebuilding the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street, aiding the homeless and campus-area safety initiatives, such as downtown surveillance cameras, police patrols and nighttime lighting.
According to his website, Resnick will also introduce amendments he is proposing to Madison Mayor Paul Soglin’s 2014 executive budget, which call for increased funding to The Overture Center for the Arts, expanding the Madison Police Department technology division, increasing composting efforts in the city and allotting additional funds to Metro Transit to prevent public bus fees from increasing.
Officials in the city and county will negotiate the terms of each budget before voting on them in the beginning of November.
