Wednesday is here. Our city council meeting last night was really different. We had a packed house for the first time in almost 2 years as students and landlords came to express their opinions about some of the on-street parking strategies that are being considered by the Council. We were also excited to celebrate the "gold medal" achievement of our parks and recreation department!
Today has been a very interesting day. I have attended meetings about:
- the upcoming project to replace the University Avenue bridge (still a year or so off)
- meeting a candidate for a position on the Provo Housing Authority board
- getting an early look at the concept for the redevelopment of the city center block
- meeting with mayors, city managers and engineers from cities in Utah County to discuss Provo's efforts at aquifer storage and recovery
- discussing geotechnical concerns with potential developments in the foothills (reminding me why my lowest grade in my entire college career was in geology)
- meeting with the City's I.S. Policy Group; and,
- meeting with a proponent of a new energy technology.
UPCOMING CITY EVENTS
NEWS YOU CAN USE
- Longer, more frequent outages afflict the U.S. power grid as states fail to prepare for increasingly severe weather.
- Sudan’s military takes power in a coup, after they successfully arrested the Prime Minister. Sudan’s military seized power Monday, dissolving the transitional government hours after the arrest. Thousands of people flooded into the streets to protest the coup that threatens the country’s shaky progress toward democracy.
- U.S. coal production is up sharply after hitting a 50-year low last year.
YOUR VOICE
We would love to hear your thoughts on Halloween! Click the link below and share your Halloween thoughts and opinions with us!!
EMPLOYEE / DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHT
Today's highlight is a fun pandemic video shared by Information Systems' own Matt Dunlap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYmSAMcwXA8
FUN STUFF
Continuing the Halloween theme, here is every kid's worst Halloween nightmare! Truth be told, there were a couple of years when I dressed up that my kids would like to forget. But don't even ask about the time my wife and our two kids (at the time) dressed up like Raggedy Ann and Andy (times two) and got a double take from a police officer at a stop light on our way to a family portrait. He followed us all the way there; I'm sure he was looking for a reason for a field sobriety test. 😅
And tomorrow, our Thursday edition of Internet memes will include some of my all time favorites with a spooky theme. Hope the rest of your day is awesome!
Wayne
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