Huntsville South

District 3 Town Hall Meeting Monday Night August 29, 2016

8/22/2016

OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER

FROM THE DESK OF JENNIE ROBINSON
District 3 Town Hall Meeting Monday Night
Please join me this Monday night, August 29, at 6:30 p.m., for a District 3 Town Hall meeting at the Bailey Cove Public Library, 1409 Weatherly Plaza SE.
Representatives from the City and the Alabama Department of Transportation will provide updates on South Parkway construction, timelines on the stages of completion, as well as answer questions from the public.
Bring a neighbor and don't miss this month's District 3 Town Hall Meeting!

Big Picture Exhibition Heads to South Huntsville The Big Picture traveling exhibition will open at Aldersgate Methodist Church, 12901 Bailey Cove Road, at 6 p.m. on August 30. The exhibition runs through September 1.

Jennie Robinson
City Council Member District 3
City of Huntsville, Alabama
256-427-5011

P.O. Box 308
Huntsville, AL 35804
Keep up with the latest news in City Hall and District 3

SOUTH HUNTSVILLE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION August Meeting Announcement

8/1/2016

SOUTH HUNTSVILLE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
August Meeting Announcement
Panel Discussion on South Parkway Construction

The South Huntsville Business Association (SHBA) will hold a special meeting at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, August 9, at the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel, Huntsville South, 6000 Memorial Parkway South. The meeting will begin with a brief update on SHBA incorporation and activities, and then concentrate on South Parkway construction. The construction venue will include a Presentation Session and a Question & Answer Session, both led by a distinguished panel that includes:

Huntsville Government Representatives:

Tommy Battle, Mayor, City of Huntsville
Shane Davis, Director of Urban Development, City of Huntsville
Dr. Jennie Robinson, District 3 Representative, City Council, City of Huntsville

Construction Specialists:

Jerry Cargile, 4Site, Inc.
Kathy Martin, City Engineer, City of Huntsville
Seth Burkett, North Region Information Specialist, Alabama Department of Transportation

The SHBA encourages attendance at this meeting by:

Owners and affiliates of South Huntsville businesses, especially near the construction zone
Representatives from businesses with interests in South Huntsville
Representatives from neighboring civic associations

The formal meeting will end at 4:00 PM. However, some or all panel members, SHBA members, and other city representatives will stay afterward for additional discussion as needed.

South Huntsville businesses are also encouraged to participate in the new SHBA Business Exchange, by bringing brochures, business cards, and other business material. Table space will be available for these materials, which can be placed before the meeting and presented after the meeting.

Seating is limited to 100 attendees. If you plan to attend, please RSVP at the link below. For more information please contact Kellie Andrews, Huntsville Hub, Suite 104, 600 Boulevard South SW, Phone: 256-705-3535, Email: kellie@huntsvillehub.com.August 9, 20163:00 P.M.
Panel Discussion on South Parkway Construction
RSVP

Happy 4th of Julu

7/4/2016

OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER
FROM THE DESK OF JENNIE ROBINSON
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Happy 4th of July

As we celebrate Independence Day, we also have a great deal to celebrate in our community. The City recently went to the bond market to retire debt and borrow $140 million for capital projects, at an unbelievably low interest rate because of our top triple A credit score. As a result, we will be investing more money in our parks, greenways, and public amenities.
Fundraisers are making progress for the new library on Bailey Cove, and if you haven't had a chance to participate, I encourage you to support this important project. This new facility will serve as a learning center and technology-rich lab for our residents.
Meanwhile, the Alabama Department of Transportation and Reed Contractors are working expeditiously on South Parkway construction. By December, the access roads will be complete, and construction will move to the center lanes.
Coming later this month, the City's Planning department will unveil results from public input for The Big Picture comprehensive master plan. They will present a touring exhibit of the outcomes (your vision of Huntsville's future), and we look forward to hosting several opportunities in our southeast neighborhoods for you to review the master plan. We will notify you of dates and locations.

Ditto Landing's New WebsiteDitto Landing launched a new web site with more information, and stunning images, about all of the recreation opportunities on the Tennessee River. This photo should make everyone proud to live in the beautiful Tennessee Valley! Ditto has greenways, kayaking, camping, fishing and boating. Check out the new site at www.dittolanding.com.

Parks & Recreation July Activities Indoor Flag Football
Fern Bell Recreation Center is having an Indoor Flag Football League (5-10 years old), July 16, 23, 20 & August 6 from 9 a.m. -12 p.m.. FREE! call 256-883-3640 for details.

Youth Soccer Registration
Players may sign up the last two weekends in July and first weekend in August at their zone city park or recreation center.
Zone 1 Coordinator: Paul Jenson 256-883-3296
Zone 2 Coordinator: Brian Wilson 256-883-3290
Zone 3 Coordinator: Tony Hughes 256-883-3291
Zone 4 Coordinator: Jay Cloys 256-883-3292

Jennie Robinson
City Council Member District 3
City of Huntsville, Alabama
256-427-5011
jennie.robinson@huntsvilleal.gov

HUNTSVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION PRESENTS ERIK LARSON AT VIVE LE LIVRE

7/1/2016

HUNTSVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION PRESENTS ERIK LARSON AT VIVE LE LIVRE
Author of ‘Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania’ brings history to life at 30th annual fundraising gala

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (July 1, 2016) – From maritime disasters to a homicidal doctor, a killer storm to Victorian serial killers, Erik Larson specializes in adrenaline-fueled historical narratives. This author of five New York Times bestselling novels, including “In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin,” “Devil in the White City,” and most recently, “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania,” will be the guest of honor and keynote speaker at the Huntsville Library Foundation’s 30th annual Vive le Livre gala on Wednesday, Nov. 16.
“This year marks an amazing milestone in the history of the Huntsville Library Foundation,” said Foundation Chair Christina Tabereaux. “We have raised over $1.4 million dollars over the last 30 years to support programs and initiatives at Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, and we are excited to celebrate this achievement by bringing an amazing author like Mr. Larson to our amazing community of library supporters.”
Not only has Erik Larson mastered the art of compelling storytelling, he also challenges your preconceived notions of what a typical historian looks and acts like. Mix equal parts of investigative journalist, experienced and inquisitive traveller, expert researcher, family man, animal lover, and wine enthusiast, then add a generous portion of dry humor, and you might come close to creating a historian similar to Larson. This detective of history challenges misconceptions and inaccuracies in a style that seems more like fiction novels than academic research.
“Mr. Larson turns the already heavily chronicled destruction of the Lusitania into a sort of geopolitical thriller, one that reads like a brainy mash-up of James Cameron’s ‘Titanic’ and Steven Spielberg’s ‘Jaws,’ with the invisible menace of the submarine spreading panic among seafarers like a rogue great white shark,” said Alexandra Alter of the New York Times, when describing “Dead Wake.”

Vive le Livre will be held at the Jackson Center, 6001 Moquin Drive, in Cummings Research Park. The evening will begin with an author reception at 6 p.m. followed by a seated dinner at 7 and the speaker at 8. Tickets start at $125 per person, and all proceeds benefit the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit HuntsvilleLibraryFoundation.org. Reservations are required by Nov. 10.

The Foundation’s annual Vive le Livre (“Long live the book”) gala has featured such literary celebrities as Dave Barry, Garrison Keillor, Ann Patchett, Rick Bragg, Joshilyn Jackson, and Winston Groom. Erik Larson joins them in the long list of acclaimed authors to come to Huntsville in support of the Library.
Born in 1954, Larson grew up in Freeport, Long Island in New York City. He attended the University of Pennsylvania where he studied Russian history, language, and culture, and he later received a masters in journalism from Columbia University. Larson started at the Bucks County Courier Times and later became a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, and later a contributing writer for Time Magazine. He has also written for The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New Yorker, and other publications.
In 2010, Leonardo DiCaprio bought the option to adapt the book “Devil in the White City” into a movie. Martin Scorsese agreed in Aug. 2015 to direct the movie for Paramount Studios and Billy Ray will write the screenplay.
Larson lives in New York City with his wife and three daughters.

About the Huntsville Library Foundation
Founded in 1986, the Huntsville Library Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to advocate for the library and to acquire resources that enhance the value to the community. This team of dedicated individuals works year-round to raise funds for the 12 branches of HMCPL to better server Madison County. The Foundation believes that a great library helps make a great community. For more information about the Foundation, please visit HuntsvilleLibraryFoundation.org.

About Huntsville-Madison County Public Library
This is the public’s library. Huntsville-Madison County Public Library (HMCPL) is a nonprofit 12-branch system that serves all of Madison County, Ala. For nearly 200 years, the library has been dedicated to enriching the educational, recreational and cultural lives of communities in Madison County through materials, information and programs that foster a lifelong love of learning. In addition to the collection of over 500,000 items, HMCPL also provides outreach services, a BookMobile and Book Bike, online services, training, an extensive digital collection, public-use computers, free Wi-fi, meeting spaces and much more. For more information about HMCPL and its services, please visit www.hmcpl.org.

Slow Down and Move Over where Workers are Present! It's the Law!

4/23/2016

HUNTSVILLE SOUTH Civic Association
A message from the South Huntsville Business Association
As we travel through the South Parkway construction zone, we usually think only of our own needs and our own schedules. But we also need to remember that the construction zone is occupied by people just like us. Construction workers, ALDOT monitors, and their coworkers. People who want to get home safely each day, just like we do. People with families at home, who want their loved ones to arrive home safely each day, just like our families do. People whose safety depends on each of us, our driving alertness, our driving safety habits, and our compliance with highway driving laws.

April 11-15, 2016, is National Work Zone Awareness Week.
National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW) is an annual spring campaign held at the start of construction season to encourage safe driving through highway work zones. The key message is for road
users to use extra caution in work zones. This year's theme,
"Don't Be That Driver!" reinforces the message that motorists should
be constantly alert and prepared for dynamic changes in and around work zones.

Slow Down and Move Over where Workers are Present!
It's the Law!

The attached file is a poster for the 2016 NWZAW campaign.
The following link is an NWZAW video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFLLl4YliU.

This campaign is not just an abstraction, not just a nice idea. This campaign is about real life. Something happened early this morning in our own North Alabama Community that emphasizes the urgent need for this campaign. An ALDOT worker was killed, and a coworker injured, during a traffic collision in a construction zone on I-65, near the Tennessee River bridge. Just before the accident, these workers were relocating safety barrels. Tonight, that ALDOT worker will not be going home to his wife, their young son, and their little twins. Tomorrow, that ALDOT worker will not be working alongside his ALDOT colleagues. Instead, that family and those coworkers will be grieving.

As we drive through our own South Parkway construction zone:
Let’s remember the people who work in that construction zone.
Let's remember their families and coworkers
Let's send them safely home each day.
Let's remember the 2016 NWZAW theme:
Don't Be That Driver!

Summer Robotics Camp Info and Sign up

4/7/2016

https://roboticscamp.hsv-k12.org

Spring Festival at Rosie's Plaza

4/7/2016

April 2016 Dist.3 Newsletter

4/6/2016

OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER
FROM THE DESK OF JENNIE ROBINSON
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South Huntsville Clean up Day!It's time for spring cleaning! Join us on Saturday, April 30, for a district-wide clean up event. We'll supply the trash bags if you bring the elbow grease to help beautify our neighborhoods. Bring your family and friends, meet new neighbors, and help us improve South Huntsville! Learn more HERE.



  Sneak A Peek - New Grissom High SchoolTown Hall Meeting April 25, 6:30 p.m.The new Grissom High School opens this fall, and we can't wait to see what the school will look like. Principal Rebecca Balentine will offer a sneak peek at this month's District 3 Town Hall meeting on April 25, in the Bailey Cove Library, 1409 Weatherly Plaza SE.
Principal Balentine will show videos of the construction, review plans for the new campus, and provide us with a timeline for the big move.
Arrive early at 6 p.m. and pick up your free neighborhood clean up supplies for our Saturday clean up day.
Bring a neighbor and don't miss this month's District 3 Town Hall Meeting!



  South Parkway ConstructionBirds eye view of the new interchange at Martin Road and South Memorial Parkway. Roadwork is progressing exceptionally well. We are grateful to ALDOT and Reed Construction for expediting the project and doing everything possible to keep traffic moving as swiftly as possible.



  Upcoming Events7 April  |  5 pm
City Council Work Session, City Hall14 April  | 6 pm
City Council Meeting, City Hall
25 April |  6 pm
Pick up cleanup supplies, Bailey Cove Library
25 April |  6:30 pm
Town Hall Meeting, Bailey Cove Library
30 April | 9 am
South Huntsville Clean up Day, Your Neighborhood

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City Council Member District 3
City of Huntsville, Alabama
256-427-5011

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Huntsville, AL 35804
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HUNTSVILLE SOUTH CIVIC ASSOC. OPPOSES UTILITY RATE INCREASE

4/1/2016

HUNTSVILLE SOUTH CIVIC ASSOC. OPPOSES UTILITY RATE INCREASE

Dear Councilmembers Jennie Robinson and Bill Kling:

With regard to the Huntsville Utilities proposed rate increase for electric service, HUNTSVILLE SOUTH requests that you vote NO to the proposed increases. The Huntsville Utilities website currently lists the availability fee as $8.88. Their proposed increase to be effective May 1st of $2.50 represents a 29% increase in this fee. Adding another $2.40 in October will increase this percentage to 56%. A 56% increase in ANY fee is ridiculous.

For years Huntsville Utilities has been asking Huntsville customers to become more energy efficient and to conserve energy by recommending using newer technology like LED lights, energy saving appliances, replacing doors and windows. From the articles in the media of Mr. Stowe’s comments, it appears the citizens of Huntsville has taken Huntsville Utilities advice. One of Mr. Stowe’s arguments to raise the utility fee is that usage is down. Isn’t that what Huntsville Utilities has been asking us to do all these years; conserve? So what good does conserving usage do if the people are going to see their rates increase anyway?

We have already seen an increase in water rates that have been phased in since 2012. That increase resulted in an approximate 50% increase for sprinkler water and 62% increase for water. Mr. Stowe stated that by increasing the utility fixed rates on the citizens of Huntsville it will save citizens money since the increase will cause citizens to conserve more and thus stabilize variable rates. Will this increase stop what seems to be an annual increase in fees to cover the adjustment increases from TVA for fuel costs? Rates went up in 2014 and 2015 due to TVA adjustment increases.

Huntsville Utilities has asked the citizens of Huntsville to conserve and become more efficient in our use of utilities. Mr. Stowe has clearly indicated that has happened. We suggest that instead of a rate increase, Huntsville Utilities work to become more efficient and reduce their expenses.

Please vote NO to this proposed rate increase.

James D. Brown
President
HUNTSVILLE SOUTH Civic Association
jdbrownhsv@gmail.com

Robot Competition

3/17/2016

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