Meetings Preview: Whitnall's Preliminary Budget, Safe Routes To School, and More

The Whitnall School Board will get its first look at the 2011-12 preliminary budget during a presentation at Monday’s meeting a 6:30 p.m. in the district’s .

The board members are also expected to discuss and could take action on the , among other business.

In city government, the Board of Public Works will meet Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Common Council chambers of for a presentation by the Safe Routes To School committee.

The committee is expected to request that the board begin pursuing grants for improvements to or the .

In addition, the board will discuss amending a municipal code that requires residents to pay a $50 permit fee for driveway approaches. Residents on South Tuckaway Drive from South 27th Street to South 31st Street , where the city has been repairing and replacing culverts and improving drainage in preparation of a pavement replacement project, believe they should not have to pay the fee when the city is doing the driveway work in conjunction with a road project.

At Wednesday’s Finance and Human Resources Committee meeting, also in the council chambers of City Hall, the 2012 budget and consolidation are again among the agenda items.