The Atlantic City Council will meet in a regular session 5:30-p.m. Wednesday, at City Hall. During their session, the Council is expected to hear a presentation from Trees Forever spokesperson Dolly Bergmann, with regard to the Trees Forever conference she attended, in Des Moines. Bergmann will also present the Council with a Tree City USA flag. The City has the distinction of holding the designation for the past two decades.

The Council will also act on an order to close the 100 block of Chestnut Street from the Rock Island Depot to 2nd Street, on Saturday Sept. 2nd, from 4:30-p.m. to Midnight, for the Atlantic 1st Responders Family Night Out. The event will be free and open to the public, with family-friendly activities and a meal. The night will finish with a performance by the “John Doe” band from Omaha, and a beer garden.The Night Out is a way to say “Thank you” to the community that shows it always “Have our back,”and is intended to show they have our backs, too.

The Atlantic 1st Responders sold tee shirts this past fall as part of a fundraising for the event. Another fundraiser is a golf tournament to be held July 7th at the Atlantic Golf and Country Club. That event is also open to the public and features a meal, silent auction, and gun raffle.

The Atlantic City Council will also act on an order approving an Engineering Agreement with Snyder and Associates for the AMU (Atlantic Municipal Utilities) North Well Field Trail Paving Project. And, they’ll hold the third and final reading of an Ordinance pertaining to Separation Distances for pesticide application that applies to persons in the area of E. 3rd Street place, with regard to hazardous materials clean-up caused by a decades old plume of dry cleaning chemical clean-up.

Another part of the meeting will be a Public Forum from a group of citizens who may be present to present a petition for the removal of poultry from a portion of the City Code. And, the Council will recognize the Atlantic Police Reserves with an Oustanding Service Award.