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.