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lighting and may want to join the case as well or seriously consider the purchase of their street lights to get the more favorable 6M rate. Under the 6M rate, entities can opt for an energy only rate or an energy and maintenance rate for much less than the 5M rate. For more information, please contact Ms. Eastman at 505-8535. As part of the City’s efforts to reduce its street lighting costs, it is expected to decommission 20% of the 3264 streetlights under the AmerenUE 5M program. These are lights that illuminate the street and are not pedestrian-oriented lights. Compared to other cities, University City has an over abundance of lights, especially in our thth commercial corridors. Thus, in mid-September from the 14 to the 20, when there is turning off all the no moonlight (according to the Farmers’ Almanac) AmerenUE will be cobra head street lights in the Loop to show citizens, patrons and business owners and the police what the Loop would look like without this additional lighting. Everyone should be aware that more light is not necessarily safer; it can actually be deceiving and create a false sense of security and it can cause more “shadows” for criminals to hide. Because reduction of street lighting is a key goal to reduce our operational costs, everyone should keep an open mind when witnessing this test. Olive Blvd will also be a primary target for the decommissioning of the street lighting, especially between stoplights where commercial businesses already have significant lighting. The City will be using the bulk of the federal stimulus funding under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant funds it is entitled to receive to reduce street lighting. For your information, because of the way the City is billed for street lighting under the 5M programming, it is impossible to measure the impact of a “retrofitting” of these lights with more energy efficient lighting. These lights are not individually metered and do not use that much energy. National Green the Block Day Next Friday, September 11 is the . Our Green Teens will be out in force helping business owners from Kingsland to Leland clean up the litter that seems to proliferate in the Loop. Green Teens was started by a couple of teenagers who do not like the litter in the Loop and want to clean it up. They will be arriving around 1:00 pm with brooms and trash bags to start the cleanup. Following the Green the Block Day this group of lively teens will schedule regular clean up days and hope that business owners will start to take additional ownership of their sidewalks, gutters and common spaces. They hope to influence patrons not to litter, including the dreaded cigarette butts-which are also trash! The Green Teens also would like to work with business owners to start using green practices such as recycling and using sustainable products (no more Styrofoam!) rather than products that are hazardous to our environments.Students are coming from Our Lady of Lourdes, U City schools, North County Tech and Rosati Kain. Watch out for them…they will be in lime green shirts holding brooms. Green Teens are supported by the City and the LSBD. Charles Henry Also on September 11, former City Manager, , will be in town to speak about what the City was like in the late 1950’s—before the Joe Edwards era. The Historical Society of University City will sponsor this fun event at the Library Auditorium at 10:00 AM. Admission is free. You will never smile so much as you will if you attend the University City Dog Park’s Puppy Pool Party scheduled for next Saturday, September 12 from 1PM to 4PM at Heman Park Pool. It is just a riot!For just $10 your pooch and 2 humans can have the