Call to Action: Dane County Budget

Nov 5, 2025 | Action Opportunities, Advocacy, Behavioral Health, Community Issues, Events, Housing, JSRI Justice System Reform Initiatives, MOSES leadership, RJAC Racial Justice for All Children

Call to Action

RALLY at City County Building

Wednesday, November 5 5:00 – 5:45 p.m.
City County Building
210 Martin Luther King Blvd

Speakers

James Morgan, MOSES Community Organizer

Linda Ketcham, JustDane Executive Director

Heidi Wegleitner, Dane County Board Supervisor, District 2
Health & Human Needs Committee Chair

Yogesh Chawla, Dane County Board Supervisor, District 6
Chair Environment, Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee Land Conservation Committee

Others to be announced

WHY?

MOSES supports the Personnel and Finance Committee compromise amendments to 2026 Dane County Operating Budget. This Call to Action relies on you.

TAKE ACTION and SHOW UP!

Join us to let the County Board and the County Executive know there is broad community support for the negotiated amendments to the 2026 Executive Operating Budget.

County Board Deliberations after the Rally

Wednesday, November 5 6:00 p.m.
City County Building, Room 210
210 Martin Luther King Blvd

Rationale

MOSES has major concerns with the County Executive’s proposed budget. We support the efforts of the Dane County Board leadership to develop significant amendments to the budget that retain jeopardized services that

(1) provide a social safety net for some of the most vulnerable community members &
(2) support diversions from the criminal legal system.

See this background information prepared by JSRI for a more detailed explanation.

Both Sheriff Barrett and HHN Chair Supervisor Wegleitner have said that they could live with the compromise.

We hope that, if this package of amendments is passed by the County Board, it will not be vetoed by County Executive Agard. Although it doesn’t provide everything we wanted, it is a big step in the right direction. The effort led by Chair Miles and compromise agreement by Sheriff Barrett and HHN Chair Supervisor Wegleitner deserve our support.

After this budget is approved we will not stop advocating for reforming the criminal legal system including support for Dane County safety net programs.