Good morning, Whitewater
There are three public meetings in Whitewater today. Two involve planning. At 5:30 p.m. today, there will be a meeting with the city planner, Ryan Garcia, to discuss alternatives for first floor residential use in our downtown area. That meeting will take place in the Municipal Building’s community room. Later, at 7 p.m., there will be a meeting of the Planning and Architectural Review Board. (The agenda for the meeting of the review board is available on the city website.)
The different views on residential use in our downtown are have been among the city’s most controversial planning topics.
There will also be a 6:30 p.m. meeting of our School Board, as a special meeting, at the district offices. (The meeting may be in executive session prior to reconvening at 6:30 p.m. for an open meeting.) The agenda will include a review of budget recommendations and the district administrator’s proposals.
In the district today, there will be a music parents meeting at the high school at 6:30 p.m.
Reader Amy writes with her theory about the use of a weather report on Daily Bread: Am I including a daily weather report (1) just as a weather report, (2) as a commentary on planning — from the National Weather Service, (3) or both? She says both.
That’s it — adding a weather report is both a simple daily bulletin and a libertarian’s take on how hard prediction of complex events — key to planning — really is. That’s why, of course, the Farmers’ Almanac prediction runs alongside the National Weather Service one. In one case, we have the finest models of forecasting in the world; in the second, the assessment of a small book that’s by turns interesting, quaint, or funny, but hardly scientific.
What do those two forecasters say for today? The National Weather Service predicts a mostly cloudy day with a high of 51 degrees. The Farmers’ Almanac predicts that it will be wet. We’ll see.
In Wisconsin history, today was the day in 1970 that the Milwaukee Brewers played their first game. They played in County Stadium, hosting the California Angels. They were in the AL west back then, and sadly they lost that game 0-12.