IT APPEARS the city of Madison is close to settling on a State Street/Halloween strategy that will gate the street and charge admission to Halloween revelers.
On Thursday, George Twigg, spokesman for Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, said the plan is “not soup yet” but added it has been seriously discussed as an option, with an eye toward reducing the hundreds of thousands of dollars the city pays for police, fire and sanitation each year to keep the Halloween party more or less under control.