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The University City School District is continuing their dialogue with the community on <br />issues relating to race and its impact on education and academic achievement. The <br />“Community Connections <br />program has a new name: ”, it replaces the Bridges Across <br />Racial Polarization, which took place earlier this year. They held their first meeting this <br />week on June 30. The next public meeting will be on July 28, from 6:30 PM to 8 PM, at <br />the McNair Administration Building, 8136 Groby Road. Call 290-4020 for more <br />information. <br />Flynn <br />I attached correspondence to the School District to collaborate with us on the <br />Park tennis court grant <br />. The City has been successful in receiving Municipal Park <br />grants through partnering and leveraging resources with other government agencies, <br />which benefit from the park improvements.The overall project budget it $340,000, <br />which includes new fencing, ADA ramp, windscreens, site amenities and practice <br />backboards. We are also working on trail connections at the middle school and <br />coordinating work on the Flynn Park playground with planned school renovations. <br />Jeff Fister ofVirginia Publishing and Administrative Intern Julie Zhang put together an <br />excellent community directory <br />. The directories are funded through advertising and <br />are free to the City and the public. Directories are available from Community <br />Development Department. They will be distributed with new resident packets. The <br />directory incorporates larger outreach to the Olive Business Community and provides <br />another point of celebration for the anniversary of the Lion’s Gates of Opportunity. <br />We have a Prayer: <br />The Council is invited to attend two Jewish Council events. “ <br />Interfaith Relations in Difficult Times” <br /> on Monday, July 13, 7:00 – 9:00 PM, Aquinas <br />Institute of Theology, 23 S. Spring Ave.(at Forest Park Ave.), St. Louis, MO 63108 <br />(parking in SLU garage on Laclede Ave.) Admission is free. All are welcome to attend. <br />RSVP encouraged. For more information, call JCRC at 314-442-3871 or email to <br />jcrcstl@jcrcstl.org. A second event is a special evening benefiting the Jewish Council <br />for Public Affairs on Wednesday, July 15, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, The Home of Lee Bohm, <br />11502 New London Drive, Creve Couer, MO, RSVP to Morgan Brown at (202) 682- <br />2202 or mbrown@cfc-dc.com. <br />The Missouri Municipal League sent out the following notice. “The Missouri Citizens for <br />initiatives to amend the Missouri <br />Property Rights, the group pushing two <br />Constitution to nullify nuisance abatement laws and procedures to redevelop <br />blighted areas <br /> with eminent domain, is urging their members to contact city officials to <br />tell them to stop using public funds to delay or fight these proposals. Please be advised <br />that all the efforts to fight these proposals are financed by the private sector; not one <br />penny of “taxpayers money” or MML funds have ever been used. Our coalition of <br />business groups has been successful in the courts, and our opponents seem to be <br />growing desperate. If successful, these proposals would remove our ability to fight blight <br />and decay in our cities, and that is why the MML opposes them. Please find attached a <br />summary of the most recent court decision”. <br />Public Informational Open House:Loop Trolleyon Track <br />A will be on Wednesday, <br />July 8, 4:00 – 7:00 PM at the Regional Arts Commission – Studio Room, 6128 Delmar <br />Blvd. Come and learn the latest on the Loop Trolley project and tell what you think <br />about the proposed route, trolley vehicles and much more. RAC will host the open <br /> <br />