WEEK OF JUNE 24 — Meetings & events
TUESDAY, JUNE 26 — ROAD CLOSURE: NORTH DONAHUE DRIVE North Donahue Drive will be closed to thru traffic at the railroad crossing at Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive (Highway 14) 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. while CSX Railroad crews replace defective rails. Barricades will be in place to alert motorists of the closure. Motorists are encouraged to seek alternate routes and avoid the construction area. More info: Robert Smith 501-3000.
THROUGH JULY 13 – ROAD CLOSURE: PORTION OF SAMFORD AVE
The section of Samford Avenue between Duncan Drive and Mell Street will be closed temporarily to thru-traffic for the installation of pedestrian. This project is part of the multi-year pedestrian plan on campus and will include three raised crosswalk/speed table units and a new roadway with pedestrian lighting. Signs and barricades will be in place to direct oncoming traffic. Traffic will be detoured north and south on both Duncan Drive and Mell Street.
CITY OF AUBURN PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS — WEEKLY STATUS REPORTS (through June 20)
Details and photos online at: http://www.auburnalabama.org
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Meetings & events this week:Â
SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 7:00 PM — BOB RICHARDSON MEMORIAL JAZZ CONCERT
Held in the AU Music Dept Recital Hall. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students.
This is the third annual concert to honor the memory of Bob Richardson, the former director of the AU jazz studies program who died in 1992. This year’s guest artists, Peter Cho and Brian Graber, are two of his former students and are spectacular jazz players now performing and teaching in New Orleans. Cho, a pianist, is the Department Chair of Humanities at Delgado Community College, after having served as the Department Head of Music for more than 10 years. Graber plays the trumpet and saxophone and has recorded CDs for famous musicians like Tori Amos (Boys from Pele), Better than Ezra (How does your Garden Grow), Bruce Hornsby (music video for VH-1), and Robbie Robertson (Storyville). The concert will also include singing by Jane Drake of the Harrison School of Pharmacy, drums by Sonny Harris of Birmingham and bass by Robert Dickson of Atlanta. For more information, call 750-8697.
MONDAY, JUNE 25 — LEE COUNTY COMMISSIONÂ www.leeco.us
4:00 pm: work session / 6:00 pm: regular session
Held in the commission chambers, Lee County Courthouse, 215 S. 9th St, Opelika. Open to all.
Agenda includes:
Awards, Presentations, Proclamations or Other Recognitions:
a. ACCA “Excellence in County Government” Award – Commissioner Lawrence
Reports from Staff:
Consent Agenda:
a. Minutes of Commission Meeting June 11, 2007
b. Ratify and Approve Claims
c. Bids #23 & 24 Computers for EMA – Faith Aguillard
d. Bids #25 & 26 Containers for Solid Waste – Jack Marshall
Old Business:
a. Review of Budget Work Sessions – Commissioner Lawrence
New Business:
a. Lee Road 2070 – Lewis Ingram
b. Lee Road 2136/Speed Limit Signs – Commissioner Ennis
c. Resolution Authorizing Sales Tax Holiday – Judge English
d. Call a Special Election for the Board of Education – Judge English
e. Approve Contract for EMA Consultant – Faith Aguillard
Discussion Items. Adjourn.
TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 3:00 pm — Opelika Main Street Farmers’ Market  www.opelikamainstreet.org
Held at Opelika Main Street, South Railroad Avenue between 8th Street and 9th Street. All are invited.
Knight Rides Yamaha Golf Cars will be available to get you and your veggies back and forth to your car. Auburn Culinary Center will be providing cooking demonstrations. If you are a grower and would like to participate in our market or if you are a school or youth group looking for ways to raise money and would like to sell drinks, lemonade, ice cream or sno cones, please call Main Street at 745-0466.
Parking: available on North Railroad Avenue, along Railroad Avenue to the right and left of the market and up 9th Street.
TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 3:00 PM — OPELIKA PLANNING COMMISSION www.opelika.org
Held at the Public Works Facility, 700 Fox Trail, Opelika. Open to all.
Agenda includes:
A.PLATS (preliminary and prel.) – Public Hearing
1. Blanton-Harris S/D, Resub of Lot A, 2 lots, 1702 South Uniroyal Road, Preliminary & Final approval
2. Estelle V. Allen S/D, 2 lots, Highway 169, P/F approval
3. Grantland Company S/D, 3 lots, North Railroad Avenue, P/F approval
4. Lowery S/D, 15 lots, 160 Lee Road 117, Preliminary approval
5. Auburn Street S/D, 2 lots, 1605 Auburn Street, P/F approval
B.FINAL PLAT APPROVAL
6. Stone Point S/D (formerly Cummings Estate S/D), 2 lots, Rocky Brook Road, Final approval
C. ADMINISTRATIVE SUBDIVSION – RATIFY 7. Ward Heights S/D, 3rd Addition, Redivision of Lot 5, 1 lot, Rocky Brook Road, Ratify D.
CONDITIONAL USE
8. Regina Christian, 108 North 8th Street, C-2, Private tutoring/learning facility
9. March Real Estate, 127 South 8th Street, C1, Renovate 2nd and 3rd floor for apartments in C-1 zone
10. Kirandeep Kaur, 2410 Lafayette Pkwy, C3, GC-2, Construct single family home in commercial zone
11. Church of the Nazarene, 1500 Bruce Ave., R3, New daycare center 12. Tom Davis, 3903 Pepperell Pkwy, PUD, Outside dining at existing restaurant
13. Terry Baker, 3109 Hamilton Road, Use mobile unit temporarily as a sales office
14. Craig Stanford, 505 Columbus Pkwy, C-3, GC-2, Automobile paint & body center
15.Kyle Freeman, 3900 block of Pepperell Pkwy, C-3, GC-2, New commercial center
16. Shannon Davis Properties, Yarbrough Drive, R-3, modified zero lot line homes
17. Fox Run Seven LLC, 1200 block of Fox Run Avenue, Condominium development-324 units
E. REZONING-PUBLIC HEARING
18. Ann Y. Ward, 1702 South Uniroyal Road, 2 acres, from R-1 to R-2
19. Charles B. Reid, 1910 Waverly Parkway, 0.6 acres, from R-2 to C-2
F. ANNEXATION
20.Colton Garner, 3810 US Hwy 29 North, 39 acres
TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 4:00 pm — AUBURN PLANNING COMMISSION WORK SESSION
Held in the conference room, Development Services Building, 171 N. Ross St. Open to all.
Agenda includes: Subdivision Bonding/Alley Standards; US District/Special Development Standards/Table of Permitted Uses “Wrap Up”; Begin Annexation Policy Discussion.
TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 7:00 pm — AUBURN BIKE COMMITTEE
Held in the conference room, Development Services Building, 171 N. Ross St. Open to all.
THURSDAY, JUNE 28 (& FRIDAY, JUNE 29) — AU BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Held at the AU Hotel & Dixon Conference Center. Open to all.
Agenda: www.auburn.edu/administration
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. — FARMER’S MARKET AT AG HERITAGE PARK
Held at AU’s Ag Heritage Park, corner of Samford Ave & S. Donahue Drive.
Look for everything from fresh berries and onions to honey and goat cheeses at The Market at Ag Heritage Park. The grower-only farmers’ market will continue every Thursday through Aug. 30. For more details, contact Katie Jackson at smithcl@auburn.edu or 844-5887.
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 4:00 pm — BILL ELDER: ALL GUTS AND NO GLORY: AN ALABAMA COACH’S MEMOIR OF DESEGRETATING COLLEGE ATHLETICS
Held at AU’s ule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art . Free & open to the public. Reception follows.
Award-winning basketball coach and Alabama native Bill Elder will discuss his new book “All Guts and No Glory.” Elder, who served as men’s basketball head coach for twenty-eight years at Northeast State Junior College, University of Montevallo, and the University of Mobile, as well as athletic director at five colleges including Auburn University Montgomery, recalls in his memoir the dangerous process of integrating Northeast State’s basketball team in the early 1970s.
— Alabama historian Wayne Flynt notes, “Bill Elder’s memoir combines the three most powerful and sacred elements of Alabama folk culture: sports, religion, and race. Memoirs like Elder’s . . . open entirely new vistas into the civil rights struggles after laws were changes but hearts stayed pretty much the same.”Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.
Sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, and the AU Bookstore. More info: 334-844-4946.
FRIDAY, JUNE 29 — AU BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Held at the AU Hotel & Dixon Conference Center. Open to all.
Agenda: www.auburn.edu/administration
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 11:00 am — ALABAMA ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION (EMC)
Held in the Main Hearing Room, Alabama Department of Environmental Management Building/ADEM,1400 Coliseum Boulevard, Mont . Open to all.
1. Consideration of Minutes of Meeting Held on April 20, 2007**
2. Report from the Director
3. Report from the Commission Chair
4. Consideration of Adoption of Proposed Amendments to the Division 6 – Underground Storage Tank Regulations – The Commission will consider proposed amendments to the Division 6 – Underground Storage Tank Regulations to provide updated regulations to meet the requirements of the Secondary Containment Provisions of the Federal Energy Policy Act of 2005 and other necessary updates. The Department held a public hearing on the proposed amendments on May 7, 2007.
5. Petition to Amend ADEM Admin. Code R. 335-6-10-.07 (Cancer Risk Level), Petitioners – Alabama League of Environmental Action Voters, et al., EMC Rulemaking Petition 07-04 (NPDES-Related Matter) – The Commission will consider the recommendation of the Rulemaking Committee regarding the full Commission granting or denying this rulemaking petition. This rulemaking petition seeks to have the Commission amend ADEM Admin. Code R. 335-6-10-.07 to reduce the maximum cancer risk level from exposure to individual carcinogenic pollutants in surface waters from 1 x 10-5 (1 in 100,000) to 1 x 10-6 (1 in 1,000,000).
6. Petition to Amend ADEM Admin. Code Chap. 335-6-10, Appendix A (Reference Dose – Acrolein and Phenol), Petitioners – Alabama League of Environmental Action Voters, et al., EMC Rulemaking Petition 07-05 (NPDES-Related Matter) – The Commission will consider the recommendation of the Rulemaking Committee regarding the full Commission granting or denying this rulemaking petition. This rulemaking petition seeks to have the Commission amend ADEM Admin. Code Chap. 335-6-10 Appendix A to conform two pollutants (Acrolein and Phenol) toxicity values to values published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Integrated Risk Information System database.
7. John Hall v. ADEM, EMC Docket No. 07-01 (NPDES-Related Matter)(ADEM Administrative Action: Admin. Order 07-025-MNPS issued to John Hall, Fontaine Woods Subdivision, Mobile County, Proposed NPDES Permit ALR16A391) – The Commission will consider the Recommendation of the Administrative Law Judge to grant the Joint Motion for Consent Order and approve the proposed Consent Order.
8. Robert H. Adair, Jr. v. ADEM, and Gulf Highlands Development, L.L.C., Intervenor, EMC Docket No. 07-04 (ADEM Administrative Action: Coastal Area Management Program Non-Regulated Use Permit No. MSC-01-06 issued to Gulf Highlands Development, L.L.C., Gulf Shores) – The Commission will note for the record the Petitioner’s withdrawal of his request for a hearing.
9. Other Business
10. Future Business Session
* The Agenda for this meeting will be available on the ADEM website, www.adem.state.al.us, under EMC Information and Calendar of Events.
** The Minutes for this meeting will be available on the ADEM website under EMC Information.
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ACTION REQUEST:Â from Joe Solmonese of THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
    When you’ve been fighting discrimination for as long as I have, you develop a fairly thick skin. But I’ll admit, the first time I saw this video, I got chills. It was produced for Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors tour benefiting HRC, and it’s now showing at concerts across the country.
    Please watch the video, and share it with everyone you know. This stirring video has the power to motivate THOUSANDS MORE people to take action for the Matthew Shepard Act.
    And that’s exactly what we need to do.  As I write this, angry radical right-wing leaders are using scare tactics to fire up their base against the Matthew Shepard Act. They’re saying it could “send pastors to prison for simply reading a part of the Bible.” It’s absurd.
   Even worse: despite our House victory, we’re hearing from Senate staffers that opponents of the Matthew Shepard Act are still beating us five to one in emails, calls, and letters.
    Five to one. With the vote approaching and many senators still undecided, we simply cannot allow this to continue. So I’m asking you to turn that ratio around.
    Watch the video – and share it with at least FIVE friends.
    The vast majority of Americans support the Matthew Shepard Act. There are, quite simply, more of us. But our senators are hearing from more of them.
    If every one of us tells five friends to watch the video and take action, we’ll make sure they get the message: hate will not win.
Joe Solmonese, President, HRC
Having trouble clicking on the links above? Simply copy and paste this URL into your browser’s address bar to take action today:
http://www.hrc.org/FightHate
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