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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
City expands alcohol advisory position By Taylor Harvey The Daily Cardinal
Mayor Paul Soglin broadened the city’s downtown alcohol policy coordinator to further address citywide drug problems Tuesday, after UW-Madison decided to discontinue funding for the position. Soglin allotted a portion of the city’s operating budget to completely fund the position, which primarily acts as a resource to downtown bar owners, oversees liquor license processes and recommends alcohol policy changes to various committees. In the past, funding for the coordinator was split 50-50 between
the city and the university. Soglin said the city has “problems of substance abuse that goes far beyond alcohol,” and that “problems with licensed establishments are not limited to downtown.” Soglin said the city would still include the university in discussions despite the end of joint funding. Vice Chancellor Vince Sweeney said UW-Madison determined it could use that money more effectively to deal with alcohol issues on campus by spending it internally and redirecting funding to support university-affiliated alcohol programs.
“The original funding for the position was at a time when the Halloween events were somewhat troublesome, and everybody was trying to scramble to figure out answers to try and deal with that,” Sweeny said. The university will no longer fund the position after July 1 of next year. Sweeney said most of the funding would go towards the BASICS program, a new program for students who violate the university’s alcohol policy. “We thought this would be a better use of those funds,” Sweeny said.
Board discusses housing, safety By Taylor Harvey The Daily Cardinal
City officials discussed Monday and Tuesday new services included in Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposed operating budget they say will enhance safety and quality of living throughout the city. The budget includes funding for a position whose job would be to upkeep housing downtown and ensure landlords do not violate housing codes. In other housing issues, the board proposed a new position to take inventory of all the types of housing in Madison, including those for students and young professionals, and to provide an analy-
sis from the results. “This will give [the city] a better picture on what housing is available and future housing developments we will need,” Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said. Another position Resnick said he was “happy to see added” was an “all-inclusive person” who will better coordinate between the city’s committees to address neighborhood issues throughout Madison. The person in the position will ensure neighborhood issues such as human services, police and street maintenance are addressed and will strengthen neighborhoods in the city. In addition, the board decided
to keep the downtown safety initiative budget—the standard budget for downtown safety used to fund extra officers on weekends and on Badger football game days—the same at $50,000 per year. Another discussion Resnick led at the meeting was to use student service-learning work to develop technological applications for the city, specifically iPhone and Android applications, to save money within the city’s Internet Technology department. The city would create hourly positions for students to develop these technologies and further educate city officials about new media technologies.
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Members of MCSC appealed the SSFC’s decision to deny the group funding, saying the committee is a “failed institution.”
MCSC appeals SSFC ruling, says committee is failing By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal
The Multicultural Student Coalition told the Student Judiciary Tuesday the Student Services Finance Committee that denied their $1.27 million budget request in September is a “failing institution.” The committee denied the group its requested budget last month because it turned in the waiver required to receive eligibility for funding over $250,000 48 minutes late. While eligibility denial
prompted MCSC to bring their complaints against SSFC to the judiciary, the group said its main motive for appealing SSFC’s decision was to bring to light the flaws in the body’s system. MCSC staff member Rebecca Pons said the SSFC often stands in the way of student groups getting the funding they deserve by implementing procedures that are difficult for the groups to successfully maneuver.
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Fitzgerald joins GOP race for Senate By Alison Bauter The Daily Cardinal
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Students rocked out during the Air Band competition for Homecoming week at the Sett in Union South Tuesday night.
Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, officially announced plans to run for Herb Kohl’s open U.S. Senate seat on a conservative talk radio show Tuesday. “Over the past nine months I’ve been on the front lines of trying to change the face of Wisconsin,” Fitzgerald told commentator Charlie Sykes on his midday program. “I think I’m going to take that fight to Washington D.C. as well.” Fitzgerald, who served as Speaker of the Assembly during the tumultuous statewide Budget
Repair Bill debate last spring, described himself to Sykes as “battle-tested.” “[Voters] know what they’re getting with me,” Fitzgerald said. “They’re not getting a lot of promises from me and not delivering.” Fitzgerald joins former Wisconsin congressman Mark Neumann as the only two declared Republican candidates. The GOP primary race will also likely include presumed candidates Sen. Frank Lasee, R-De Pere, and former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson.
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