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HomeMy Public PortalAbout201003Newsletter.docMarch Events March 9 7 - 9 PM Mayor’s Night In – call City Clerk Vivian Woods at 786-4573 x103 for an appointment March 11 6:30 PM Council Meeting - Consent agenda begins at 6:30, full meeting at 7 until business complete March 13 3 PM Irish Heritage Parade – aka St. Patrick’s Day Parade - Memorial Park to the Strand March 15 2 - 3 PM Parking Committee Meeting – at City Hall March 15 9 – 10 AM Better Hometown - Board of Directors meeting – TEMA Room at Old School March 16 7 PM Planning Commission – Joint meeting with Council & DNR – joint session to begin at 7:30 March 18 5 – 6 PM Third Thursdays on Tybee – continues at Tybee Oaks with Lauren LaPointe March 25 6:30 PM Council Meeting - Consent agenda begins at 6:30, full meeting at 7 until business complete March 31 Business License Renewals Due! April 1 2010 Census Day – Please be sure to return your Census questionnaire before today! Hammer Down! Beginning a home improvement project may be as simple as picking up a hammer, but anyone wanting to renovate their home would do well to check with the City first about obtaining a building permit. Whether it is an interior or exterior project, failure to obtain a permit prior to beginning work will result in the homeowner or contractor being required to pay double what the fees would have been. Hammer down… until you have visited City Hall or called our building official at (912) 786-4573, extension 114, to discuss the scope of your project. Planning and Zoning Going ONLINE! Please stay tuned to the City of Tybee Island website (www.cityoftybee.org) as we will be including Planning Commission and City Council zoning meeting agenda items on the site. While normally the agendas get published, we will begin scanning and putting each item online for public review prior to the meetings to begin prior to the March Planning Commission meeting! This is part of the ongoing effort to increase public involvement in the process of YOUR local government. If you have any questions please contact Jonathan Lynn, Planning and Zoning Manager at ext. 107. Web Site Forums Added The City’s web site has added another feature to help you communicate with your government representatives on Tybee Island. The forums are accessed from the navigation menu at the left side of any page at www.cityoftybee.org. Before you can use the forums, you will need to go to the “Register for an Account” screen, where you will create your own login name and password. You will be required to give some sort of verifiable identification, as the intention of these forums is NOT for anonymous input, in order to keep discussions at a reasonable level of moderation! Once you have established a login, you can then use it to post your input to any discussion. Initially, there will be a forum hosting discussions about Lost & Found items. There has been a lot of demand for a centralized place to go look for lost items or to announce found ones, as well as one for lost pets. If you find or lose something, be sure to stop by this web page to see if someone else has lost or found it! This forum, at least, will forward all posts to the City’s Facebook page as well, so you will be able to view the posts there. Items on Facebook can scroll off the bottom of the first page of postings very quickly, and not everyone has a Facebook account. For these reasons, we recommend that you visit the forum on the City website in any case, just to make sure everyone sees all posts. Even before any official announcement, and in cooperation with TIPD and Animal Control Officer Doug Broom, this forum has already helped to reunite two lost pets with their owners! Planned forums currently include one for discussion about Parking on Tybee – that one should be interesting! – ridesharing to and from work, the Better Hometown Initiative projects, and a “Suggestion Box”. These will each be rolled out over the next few weeks, and we hope you will let us know if you have ideas for other forum areas you would like to see! No Credit at Parking Kiosks Parking and IT department staffs continue to work on upgrades to the parking kiosks around the island that will allow the return of credit card processing for parking fees. This problem has resulted in major problems for City staff in several departments, as well as inconvenience for visitors and businesses – we are working hard to get things back to normal. Credit cards should usable again during March. Other City Communications Citizens Alert – Look for the sign-up button on the City web page, www.cityoftybee.org. Evacuation hotline for emergencies: (877) 615-3277. 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