At the Dec. 15 Zoning Board of Appeals meeting, the chair reported staff and alder involvement in follow-up work on a DEI/DEIB report and related projects, and provided two operational updates: a planned citywide transit survey and staff completion of SaltWise winter-salt training.

The chair said the city is “under contract with Nehemiah, the Nehemiah Center,” and that alder members participated in a training session as part of implementation planning for the committee’s DEIB report. The report’s top recommendations include improvements to public transit, the chair said, and the city’s transit commission has been discussing a redesign proposal presented by Madison Metro.

The chair said the transit commission plans to send a survey to every Monona household to collect travel interests and habits; the chair said the survey will be distributed after the first of the year and is likely to go out in February. The chair described the survey as part of a larger regional transit redesign recently approved by Madison and under ongoing discussion locally.

On public works, the chair reported staff have completed SaltWise training, a program focused on reducing road salt use during snow and ice events to limit chloride runoff to local lakes. The chair said crews were careful in recent winter operations and praised the public works department for applying the SaltWise practices.

Board members did not take formal action on these items at the meeting; the statements were provided as updates. No decisions or funding actions were announced.