The Ames City Council will consider the Hallett's Quarry development at
it's December 28th meeting.  It may either table the motion or deny it.  It
cannot say "yes" because of the legal notification requirements for the
property that would be involuntarily annexed to the city.

A group of citizens whose goal is to have the area set aside as a park have
been meeting on a regular basis.  A number of experts have been scheduled
to speak at the city council meeting  on Dec. 28th.  Scheduled speakers are
being allowed 5 minutes to speak to the city council, others will probably
have even less time.

The citizen group has asked that speakers at the council meeting ask for
the area to be set aside for a park and refrain from discussing the details
of the proposed development, refrain from criticising the developer, and
from repeating any information already covered by another speaker.

You can subscribe to a chat list about Hallett's at onelist.com. Here is
the procedure: send an email to: [log in to unmask] . You will
get a response with further instructions including a personal password to
access the website. Once you are on the system you can send emails to
everyone else on the list simply by using your regular email software
(Eudora, hotmail,aol) and addressing your message to: [log in to unmask]

You can also post a message on our hallets website page at this address:
<http://www.onelist.com> Then click on the tab at the top that says MyList
and then on the "hallets" link. That will put you into the hallets page and
you can read messages on file or send messages. Messages entered on
the website page are only posted once a day.

Remember, once you have subscribed, you don't have to enter the website to
communicate to everyone else on the list. If you reply to a message sent
over this list serve, everyone on the list will get your reply. Therefore,
if you want to send a private message as a reply, address you email
directly to the person; don't use the reply button.