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Wednesday, May 28, at 10:00 at the Council’s office. The St. Louis County Meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 17 at the Webster Groves Recreation Complex from 4 to 7 pm. The U City Municipal Commission on Arts & Letters will host its first annual summer Movies in the Park. All movies are on Saturdays at 8:45 pm. The PG movies will be: nd May 24 Akeelah and the Bee Fogerty Park (1500 block of No. 82 Street) June 28 Jaws Heman Park Pool (7210 Olive) July 26 Singin’ in the Rain Mooney Park (North of Jackson at Delmar) St. Louis Walk of Fame On Saturday, June 7 at 11:00 am, the will induce Cedric the Entertainer at 6166 Delmar in the Loop across from the Pageant Theatre. This will be the first star in the East or St. Louis portion of the Loop. A ragtime band will play. Cedric “the Entertainer” Kyles first performed stand-up comedy at a St. Louis open mic night. He graduated from Berkeley High School. He is a television and movie actor, winning four NAACP Image Awards as best Supporting Actor. He is a noted philanthropist in the St. Louis Community through his Cedric the Entertainer Charitable Foundation. The United States Conference of Mayors are putting forth their full support behind Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer’s revised version of the Climate Security Act pending (S.2191), which will enable cities and the country to make systematic reductions nationwide in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. For more Energy Efficiency and than a year, the Conference’s top legislative priority is the Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) . program Through this important funding commitment to the Block Grant program, which the pending Senate Climate bill provides, mayors will be further enabled to deliver systematic emission reductions through significantly increased energy efficiency and renewable energy development programs in their communities. Mayors, including University City’s Mayor Adams, through their work over the years, have been leaders on initiatives to improve the environment, with increased efforts focused on climate protection. To date, more than 850 Mayors, representing more than 80 million Americans, have signed the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement, a shared demonstration of our promise to take daily action to protect our nation and the planet. Each mayor who has signed this Agreement, pledged to reduce their city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012 (in line with the Kyoto protocol). Recently Mayor Adams and City staff presented to the community, at jointly sponsored Sierra Club/ U- City-United forum, all the numerous ways University City has been implementing its commitment to the Climate Protection Agreement. For more information on University City’s green practices or how you can the join the Green Practices Committee, please contact Petree Eastman at 505-8535 or peastman@ucitymo.org. 2008 LEGISLATIVE WRAP-UP Missouri Municipal League Below is the from theas May 19, 2008 of: On the last day of the Session, more than 80 bills were passed into law - more than were passed the previous five and one-half months. Many anti-municipal issues were viable until the last day. With a lot of work and some luck, we dodged the bullets.