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Worth Noting:

The week starts with the second day of the Green Home tour Sunday morning at 10 am and a total lunar eclipse of the moon starting at 7:27 pm if the clouds cooperate and part.

Monday morning at 10:30 am the Council Public safety Committee takes up enforcing parking in fire zones ahead of the special meeting on wildfire preparedness on Thursday at 7:30 pm.

Wednesday the Commission on Aging takes up safe streets and TOPA at 1:30, FITES continues working on a plastic bag ordinance at 2:30 pm. Wednesday evening Update on Alta Bates is item 9 at the HWCAC meeting. The Commission on Labor has two agenda items on the Fair Work Week.

Thursday is the most important meeting day starts with the Budget Committee at 9 am. Review of items for consideration in the 2023 & 2024 biennial budget continues. The department presentations to the Budget Committee have been completed. The requests from councilmembers and commissions are up for discussion. Thursday evening at the Transportation Commissions at 7 pm is the presentation of GoBerkeley. GoBerkeley is the metered parking pilots in residential neighborhoods that is being met with considerable objections. The DRC at 7 pm will conduct a preliminary design review of the R&D project in west Berkeley which comes with a separate 415 auto space parking garage. The annual wildfire preparedness meeting sponsored by Councilmembers Hahn and Wengraf starts at 7:30 pm. Use the link to pre-register.



The May 24th city council agenda is available for comment. https://berkeleyca.gov/your-government/city-council/city-council-agendas



You can participate in the bike plan survey at https://berkeleybikeplan.altaplanning.cloud/#/survey The Healthy Streets Program was closing down streets to through traffic during the height of the pandemic.



Sunday, May 15, 2022

East Bay Green Home Tour at 10 am – 1 pm

Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/east-bay-green-home-tour-2022-tickets-219623960177

Jumpstart your home electrification journey, free online tours May 14 & 15

https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/news/virtual-green-home-tours-reduce-energy-increase-sustainability-protect



The Eclipse of the Moon starts at 7:27 p.m. PDT Sunday and the total eclipse starts at 8:29 p.m. PDT. The face of the moon will get gradually darker until totality peaks at 9:11 p.m.

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/prime-time-eclipse

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