Today we are talking about the next City Council meeting, coming up Monday, August 2nd. We touch on a bunch of interesting agenda items.

Links from today's show:
- the investigation report on the soon-to-be-former City Administrator,
- the Ann Arbor Humans Who Wonk facebook thread from the last episode discussing the City Administrator firing/resignation,
- more about poet Robert Hayden,
- Scott Trudeau's blog post on the Home Occupation ordinance,
- an LGBT map project, including conversion therapy, and
- a little more info on Michigan Dark Skies.

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Today we are talking about the next City Council meeting, coming up Tuesday, July 20th. We’ll be touching on a few interesting agenda items, including water main breaks, city charter amendments, and a little light fangirling. 

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Today we are talking about the next City Council meeting, coming up Tuesday, July 6th. We’ll be touching on a few interesting agenda items, including transit-oriented zoning, rentals, municipal solar, and a couple of city commissions. 

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Today's episode is a rerun of Deeper Dive Episode 20: "Master Plan + Zoning." 

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Today's episode is a rerun of Deeper Dive Episode 13: "Power, Personalities, and Perceptions." 

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Today's episode is a rerun of Deeper Dive Episode 9: "Budgets and Budget Season." 

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Today's episode is a rerun of our very first Deeper Dive, Episode 2: "How to read an agenda." 

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Today we take a deeper dive into - us! We interview each other about our origin stories, describing how we decided to follow our own advice to get informed and get involved.

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This is our very first recap episode! We break down what happened to the annual budget passed by Council last week.

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Link:
-the Quick Build presentation at Transportation Commission

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This bonus episode is dedicated entirely to the prospective budget that will be passed at the next City Council meeting. We cover the budget, proposed amendments as we know them, and address some CM questions to staff as well.

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Links:
- this week's agenda
- the proposed FY2021-2022 budget
- February city budget presentation (attachment #2), and check out the Deeper Dive episode on the budget for more information on specific line items
- as of recording, the amendments hadn't been linked to Legistar, so you can find them in a PDF on this episode's page

Email your city councilmembers if you have any questions about the budget, as it will be approved Monday!

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.

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