Council to Discuss Open Space Tree-Cutting Consequences

Are you keeping up on Avon municipal issues?

The Town Council is scheduled to meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Selectmen's conference Room at . The meeting agenda is available on the town website.

• If you're looking for an update on the , the public actually can't be in the room for the executive session discussion about the situation. Avon Patch will provide an update when it becomes available.

However, there are plenty of other agenda items during regular session that the public is welcome to sit in on before executive session.

• With the 2012 election approaching, redistricting is a topic that . The voting district has grown, so Town Hall may no longer be big enough. Redistricting is on the meeting agenda under new business.

• The Board of Education has requested access to $1.5 million in unbudgeted revenue that would have otherwise been placed in a former revolving account that rolled over annually. The Town Council and Board of Finance are required to approve supplemental appropriations before the schools or town can access unbudgeted revenue.

In a net budget, like Avon Public Schools currenly has, revenue is not included whereas it is in a gross budget. The district will switch to gross accounting next year. This request is intended to ease the transition, John Spang, school district finance director previously said.

• The council will also review a school board request for permission to apply $163,478 in leftover school board funds from 2010-11 to the current fiscal year's budget. Traditionally, any surplus is deposited in the to build upon the town's cumulative surplus, Board of Finance Chairman Thomas Harrison previously said.

• The will also present the results of its survey about how to make Avon more pedestrian- and bike- friendly.