
City Council Meeting: 3 May 2021
05/02/21 • 60 min
Today we talk about the next City Council meeting, coming up Monday, May 3rd. We touch on a few interesting agenda items, including shenanigans, the budget, and healthy streets, and offer some ways for you to get involved.
If you haven't already, please fill out our listener survey!
Links:
- this week's agenda
- February city budget presentation (attachment #2), and check out the Deeper Dive episode on the budget for more information on specific line items
- The Dispute Resolution Center (this is the thing we couldn't remember the name of during the episode) as a possible mechanism for the unarmed responder program
Email your city councilmembers if you have any questions about the budget, as it will be approved at the next council meeting!
Thanks to the generosity of our listeners, we have launched a website! Come find episodes, show notes, and transcripts over at www.annarboraf.com. For our ko-fi donors, thank you for making this possible. And thank you to each one of our listeners. If you'd like to find and talk to each other, come check out the thread for each episode in Ann Arbor Humans Who Wonk.
Thanks to Juliet the Greyhound for her audio cameo.
Come check out our episodes and transcripts at our website, annarboraf.com. Keep the conversation going with fellow Ann Arbor AFers on Twitter and Facebook. And hey, if you wanted to ko-fi us a few dollars to help us with hosting, we wouldn't say no.
Today we talk about the next City Council meeting, coming up Monday, May 3rd. We touch on a few interesting agenda items, including shenanigans, the budget, and healthy streets, and offer some ways for you to get involved.
If you haven't already, please fill out our listener survey!
Links:
- this week's agenda
- February city budget presentation (attachment #2), and check out the Deeper Dive episode on the budget for more information on specific line items
- The Dispute Resolution Center (this is the thing we couldn't remember the name of during the episode) as a possible mechanism for the unarmed responder program
Email your city councilmembers if you have any questions about the budget, as it will be approved at the next council meeting!
Thanks to the generosity of our listeners, we have launched a website! Come find episodes, show notes, and transcripts over at www.annarboraf.com. For our ko-fi donors, thank you for making this possible. And thank you to each one of our listeners. If you'd like to find and talk to each other, come check out the thread for each episode in Ann Arbor Humans Who Wonk.
Thanks to Juliet the Greyhound for her audio cameo.
Come check out our episodes and transcripts at our website, annarboraf.com. Keep the conversation going with fellow Ann Arbor AFers on Twitter and Facebook. And hey, if you wanted to ko-fi us a few dollars to help us with hosting, we wouldn't say no.
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Links from today's episode:
- View the City's master plan and resource documents
- An interactive map of Ann Arbor zoning
- Descriptions of Ann Arbor zones
- Form-based code: a Strong Towns article and a Michigan white paper
- The Color of Law book
Come check out our episodes and transcripts at our website, annarboraf.com. Keep the conversation going with fellow Ann Arbor AFers on Twitter and Facebook. And hey, if you wanted to ko-fi us a few dollars to help us with hosting, we wouldn't say no.
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