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Cancelled - Menomonie School Board Meeting and Mid-year budget hearing

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Tonight's meetings are cancelled due to freezing rain. All other Menomonie School District evening events are also cancelled.

Jan. 14, 2018 - this will be the normal monthly Menomonie School District board meeting. The mid-year budget hearing will proceed the board meeting.  Schedule:

Budget Hearing

Lame Duck Session - where we stand

The Senate, after several hours of recess, has come back into session. Earlier in the day the Senate voted along party lines to approve 82 appointments that suddenly appeared on the floor. The Senate also voted to pass one of the three bills that remained, covering tax breaks to pass-through tax

Live Streaming from the Capitol

Where we are now?   The Senate has amazingly re-convened after several hours, took up some amendments, at which point the Democrats decided to go into caucus to discuss the amendments. The BOTTOM video is the current live stream of the Senate session. There also apparently are plans for the Assembly

Live stream of hearing on lame duck bills

Watch here!  The stream on the wiseye.org site has been pretty unreliable, probably due to the number of people watching.  They seem to now have a live stream on YouTube which is embedded here. 

$4 dinners at Menomonie Market

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Pulled Pork Dinner

A new project at the Menomonie Market Food Co-op is the $4 dinner. Every Wednesday from 4:30 to 7:30 the Co-op offers a different $4 dinner. I go almost every week now, and it's a chance to have a wholesome, healthy, filling dinner at a low price. Take-out dinners are also available at the same

Menomonie School Board 11/26/2018

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The monthly Special Board Meeting was held on Monday, 11/26/2018 at 5:30 PM. This meeting discussed budget plans, and also included a discussion on board leadership, and an election of new board officers, as suggested at the last meeting.  The board agenda and board policy on leadership are attached