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Middleton subcommittee refines Affordable Housing Action Plan, prioritizes 80% AMI and implementation steps
Summary
The Middleton Housing & Finance Strategy Subcommittee reviewed a redlined draft of an Affordable Housing Action Plan, agreed to remove an extra 'partnership' sentence from core values, emphasized an 80% AMI priority while keeping 120% AMI as the broader eligibility cap, and asked staff to craft implementation language and CDA authority for council action.
The Middleton Housing & Finance Strategy Subcommittee met on the evening of the draft review to continue work on the city’s Affordable Housing Action Plan. Committee members agreed to several textual edits, clarified priority income bands, and set next steps to finalize recommendations for city council review.
Members focused early discussion on wording fixes to minutes and to the plan itself. Speaker 1 requested minor corrections to the August 12 minutes; after clarification about a set-aside for school-district staff housing, the committee accepted the minutes with those amendments. “With the corrections Abby’s making, we will go ahead and accept the minutes, with those amendments,” said Speaker 3.
The group then reviewed a redlined draft Ald. Hennaro had marked up. A central editorial decision was whether to make “partnership” a standalone value. Multiple members argued partnership is embedded across actions and priorities rather than a separate value; the committee directed staff to remove the extra sentence from the values section and ensure partnership is reflected in the actions and priorities list.
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