Members of the Atlantic City Council will meet in the Council’s Chambers 5:30-p.m. Wednesday, at City Hall. On their agenda, is:

• A Proclamation by Mayor Dave Jones, recognizing Sept. 21st at Alzheimer’s Awareness Day. The City will join in the International community in bringing awareness of the disease.
• An order approving an Administrative Contract with SWIPCO (The Southwest Iowa Planning Council), for the CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) Downtown Revitalization Project. Alexis Fleener, Community Development Team Leader for SWIPCO, will be the grant administrator for the project, the services for which will cost $30,000. All of the costs are part of the grant itself, and are not part of the grant match, according to City Administrator John Lund.
• On a related note: The City Council will act on approving the final design contract for the CDBG project, the architectural and construction aspects of which will be handled by RDG Planning and Design. The total cost of their services is $130,000, $80,000 of which is from the grant, with the remaining $50,000 part of the City’s match. Eight downtown businesses are participating in the business revitalization program, with a combined share cost of $171,375.
  

  Building facade improvements proposed by RDG Architects.

• The Atlantic City Council will also consider a request from Brown’s Shoe Fit to close-off the sidewalk and parking at in front of the store at 502 Chestnut, for a Summer Clearance sale. City Code states that “It is unlawful….for goods or merchandise for sale or display…to interfere with the free and uninterrupted passage of pedestrians on the sidewalk…[and] more than three-feet of the sidewalk next to the building….”
• The Council will also act on a Resolution setting the salary of the Parks & Recreation Director (Bryant Rasmussen), after action last week by the City’s Personnel & Finance Committee, recommending his salary be $47,600. The increase was requested by the Parks Board, following Rasmussen’s change of employment status on August 19th from Interim Parks & Rec Director, to permanent Parks & Rec Director.
• And, the Council will hold a Public Hearing on Vacating a portion of the final plat of the Country Oaks Addition.

In other business, Atlantic Police Chief Dave Erickson, Wednesday, will make an announcement with regard to deer hunting within the City Limits. Erickson has received word from the Iowa DNR, and a recommendation, that only 10 Does be harvested this year inside the City. The Bow Hunting season would begin Oct. 1st, and end on Dec. 6th.