Hello gardeners and garden leaders,

 

The City of Madison’s Community Gardens Committee has developed a proposal for changing plot fees that would take effect this year at registration if it is approved.  It is attached to this email and you can also view it at:

 

www.cityofmadison.com\communitygardens  then click on 2008 Garden Fee Proposal

 

http://www.cacscw.org/gardens/committee_reports.htm

 

Garden coordinators and communications volunteers: please post this message to your garden listserv, along with the following information.  Also, please help to spread the word to as many non-English speaking gardeners as possible through your translators.  There will be Spanish and Hmong translation at the public hearing.

 

“The Committee on Community Gardens welcomes feedback to its proposal, both positive and negative, but please do not reply to this email.  Come to the Public Hearing on February 12^th or, if you can’t attend, please mail your comments to:  Lisa Olmsted, Office of the Mayor, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Madison, WI  53703 or email them to lolmsted@...”

 

Thank you and see you at the gardens this spring!

 

Benjamin Sommers

Agency & Garden Technician

Community Action Coalition for Southcentral Wisconsin, Inc.

1717 N. Stoughton Rd.

Madison, WI 53704

(608) 246-4730 ext. 208

mailto:bens@...

 

Visit CAC online for more program information: http://www.cacscw.org

Also check out our new Community Garden Organizer's Handbook!!!  It is a great resource for all gardeners!! http://www.cacscw.org/gardens/handbook/

 

 

Public Hearing on Proposed Changes to

Community Garden Plot Fees

 

City County Building

210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd

 

February 12, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. 

in Room 201

 

 

A garden plot fee structure proposal, developed by the City of Madison’s Community Gardens Committee, will be made available to the public at the end of January.  The committee will be looking for feedback from gardeners at the public hearing in February, and implementing the new plot fees in March.

 

Those wishing to provide input at the Public Hearing should arrive before 6:00, and complete a green registration sheet indicating their position on the proposal and whether or not they wish to speak during the public hearing.

 

Speakers will have 3 minutes to provide feedback to the committee during the Public Hearing.  Committee members may then ask questions of the speaker if they have any.

 

Those not wishing to speak, but who have written comments on the proposal, may submit them at the Public Hearing along with their green registration sheet.