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Today we are rerunning episode 7: our Deeper Dive on Boards + Commissions.

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Today we are talking about the next City Council meeting, coming up Monday, May 16th. We talk about the agenda, but the way we do it is that Molly has a rant, Jess has a rant, and then Molly has another rant. At the end of the episode, we’ll be looking ahead to the summer, and talking about some changes that are coming to the pod then and beyond!

Links we referenced:

• This week’s agenda
• Survey is going to be up for just a bit longer. It’s annual, so this is your last shot until 2023… 
• Nominate us for Best Local Podcast of Washtenaw; 
• That deflection definition; 
• And we last talked about the resolution to ask the University of Michigan to build more housing in this episode, if you want to go back and relisten. 

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Today we are talking about the next City Council meeting, coming up Thursday, May 5th. We’ll be touching on a few interesting agenda items, including budget, tax collection, and spending…a.k.a.: money, money, and money.

Links we referenced:

• this week’s City Council agenda;
• our annual survey is up. Come tell us things! 
• also, maybe nominate us to be a finalist in the local podcast category of the annual Best In Washtenaw awards? 
• August primary election: Who’s running? What’s a millage again? 
• and speaking of voting, want to check whether and where you’re registered to vote? 

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Today we are talking about the next City Council meeting, coming up Monday, April 18th. We’ll be touching on a few interesting agenda items, including road bonds, water and sewer rates, and something that may or may not be housing.

Links we referenced:

• NACA resolution, where the whereases are chef's kiss
  White paper on middle-income needs analysis and NACA championship
• Our annual survey is up!  Let us know what you like and what you want more of.
• Nominate us for Best Local Podcast of Washtenaw (You can nominate us up to once per day per device. We wouldn't be sad if you set an alarm to remind yourself. Not that that's what we do or anything.)

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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We talk about the next City Council meeting, coming up Monday, April 4th. We’ll be touching on a few interesting agenda items, including ARPA, ARPA, and more ARPA.

Links we referenced:

• This week’s agenda.
• The ARPA funding resolution.
• Those infamous amendments.
• Derrick Miller’s letter on how Ann Arbor’s Community Action Network and Ukraine are linked.
• Bill Lopez’s iconic Twitter thread reinterpreting Oscars fashion as public health graphs.

Podkeeping:

• Fill out our annual survey!
• Nominate us for best local podcast of Washtenaw!

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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Today we are talking about the next City Council meeting, coming up Monday, March 21st. We touch on a few interesting agenda items, including parking, police contracts, and a permanent city administrator.

Links from today’s episode:

• Vote for us as one of Washtenaw’s best podcasts!
• this week’s agenda
• Eve Ewing’s article on the concerns of police labor unions
• Fiona Apple getting informed and getting involved on transparency in courts (spoiler: it’s adorable)

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Today we are talking about the next City Council meeting, coming up on Monday March 7th at 7:00pm. We’ll be touching on a few interesting agenda items, including American Rescue Plan Act funds, infrastructure, and a couple of important rezonings.

Links we referenced:

• This week’s agenda
• The ARPA Funds Recommendation memo
• The Infrastructure memo

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Today we talk about the next City Council meeting for about one hot second and spend the rest of the time on the one thrilling Top Ten list you didn’t know you needed.

Municipal reports that made the Top Ten (but actually 3) (but really 6):

• Moving Together Towards Vision Zero, the city’s comprehensive transportation plan published in 2021;
• Reimagine Washtenaw, a 2014 corridor improvement study;
• Ann Arbor’s Sustainable Energy Utility, a 2021 report on the feasibility of a local SEU;
• A2Zero, the city’s living 2030 carbon neutrality plan adopted in 2020;
• The 2017 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Survey, an assessment of access to fair housing and community assets, as well as a tool to address and reduce residential segregation and areas of concentrated poverty; and 
• 2015 Washtenaw County Housing Affordability and Economic Accessibility report, Ann Arbor solutions on pages 38-40. 
• Molly’s Honorable Mention goes to the City of Ann Arbor 2021 Annual Crash Review.

A couple of articles to start your journey with Jess's forever crush Ada Louise Huxtable:

• The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered, a human-scaled path into thinking and talking about big structures;
• A Look at the Kennedy Center, a devastatingly hilarious critique of both bloated buildings and bloated politics.

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Today we are recording a special episode, a breakdown (in more ways than one) on the East Medical Center Drive Bridge decision. We’ll be talking about how folks got informed and involved, and how it went sideways anyway.  

This may go without saying, but there are lots of swears.  Discretion for sensitive ears is advised.

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Today we are talking about the next City Council meeting, coming up Monday, February 7th.. We’ll be touching on a few interesting agenda items, including transit-oriented zoning, deer, and That *** Bridge.  (There are a few swears in this episode, so heads up for sensitive listeners.)

Things we referenced:
- this week’s agenda;
- a video of the November Transportation Commission discussion of EMCD Bridge;
- the staff response to DC-3, a resolution requesting staff generate a report on the 68 parcels affected by the proposed TC-1 zoning district;
- the Ann Arbor Community Academy is accepting applications now through February 18th, and everyone should do it;
- the community budget priorities survey for Ann Arbor’s ARPA funds is live and accepting feedback between now and February 14th;
- and, since we referenced CM Erica Briggs’ newsletter multiple times, you can read it for yourself if you like, with this week’s letter and all her archives here. 

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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