Welcome to summer! I want to let you know about some events we have coming up in the next two weeks. This issue of TAMUite Announcements has a common theme, but I will leave it up to you to figure out what that theme is.
First, There will be a TAMUite General Meeting (first of the summer) next Tuesday, June 9 at 11:30 AM in CE/TTI Room 217. Note that this is a lunch meeting and not an evening meeting. The speaker will be Dale Picha from the City of Bryan, Texas presenting on "Traffic Control for Special Events: 2009 Texas Reds Festival in Bryan, Texas." The presentation will focus on local traffic engineering and operational issues associated with street closures and parking for the Texas Reds Festival in Downtown Bryan to handle the more than 20,000 visitors to the annual festival. Pizza lunch will be served to all those in attendance. I hope to see you all there next Tuesday.
Second, we will be having a field trip to the City of Bryan Development Services Open House on Friday, June 12 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Transportation engineers and planners have a lot of interaction with local agencies such as this and the Open House gives us a unique opportunity to see what The Development Services Department does and to meet the professional staff. There will also be a free lunch. To learn more about the City of Bryan Development Services Department, please visit: http://www.bryantx.gov/departments/?name=planning. More details and sign-up will be available at the June 9 meeting.
Finally, TAMUite has been asked to provide some volunteers at the 2009 Texas Reds Steak and Grape Festival in Downtown Bryan. This will be the second year that TAMUite has volunteered at the event. We need to fill 16 two-hour shifts throughout the day on Saturday, June 20. Shifts are two hours in length and go from 8:00 AM until Midnight. Volunteers will recieve a free hamburger meal and a volunteer T-shirt. For those who did not participate last year in the event, it is a blast and once your shift is over you can stay and enjoy the festival. For more information about the festival, please visit: http://www.texasredsfestival.com/. Please respond to me via e-mail if you would like to volunteer or if you have any questions. Sign-up will also be available at the general meeting on June 9.
That's all for now. See you Tuesday if not sooner.