The Biloxi City Council will hold two meetings Tuesday, a morning meeting to continue deliberations over the 2010 municipal budget and a regularly scheduled afternoon meeting.
Both meetings will be at City Hall and are open to the public.
At the morning meeting, which begins at 9:30 a.m., councilmembers are expected to discuss departmental budgets and insurance.
During the afternoon meeting, which begins at 1:30, Mayor A.J. Holloway will be seeking approval for construction contracts for the new visitors center north of the Biloxi Lighthouse and a new downtown library and civic center, which will be on Howard Avenue, across from the Biloxi Community Center. (For background on both projects, click here.)
Also among the nearly two dozen agenda items are two previously tabled issues: a proposal in which the Humane Society of South Mississippi would undertake a feral cat neuter-and-release program in Biloxi, and a proposal to accept the donation of an historic house in downtown Biloxi and relocate it to the Rue Magnolia.
To see the complete agendas and available resolutions for both meetings, click here.
News and notes
Weekend preview: Among the headliners in town this weekend are Foreigner at the IP, Melissa Etheridge at the Hard Rock, and Michael Bolton at the Beau Rivage, plus there’s Roy Jones Jr. and Jeff Lacy hooking it up at the Coast Coliseum. For details on these events and others, click here.
Now you see it, Monday you won’t: Workers with J.O. Collins Contracting of Biloxi are expected to begin encircling the Biloxi Lighthouse with a huge tarp on Monday morning, the next step in the six-month restoration of the city’s signature landmark. To see photos from Monday through this afternoon, click here.
Indian football: Biloxi football fans will get their first glimpse of the 2009 Indians this evening when Biloxi hosts Long Beach for a football jamboree. The junior varsity teams begin play at 6:30 p.m. and the varsity teams are expected to begin scrimmage about 7:30 p.m. at the stadium on the Biloxi High School campus.
