Roundabout meeting Tuesday
The City Council will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Tuesday to review plans for tearing out the two traffic roundabouts in Vineyard Avenue and re-routing traffic onto Old Vineyard Avenue while the construction project is under way. The work is expected to take two to three months to complete.The roundabouts were installed two years ago as part of a $6 million realignment of Vineyard Avenue. They were designed to allow traffic in and out of two streets built to serve Neal Elementary School to move more smoothly than traffic signals would have permitted. Neal School has yet to be built and complaints from east side motorists over the dangers posed by the roundabouts convinced council members to order them removed. The cost of ripping out the roundabouts and replacing them with two lanes of pavement to match the Vineyard Avenue approaches is estimated at $750,000. The city will also spend additional funds to repave and add new lane striping on Old Vineyard.
TuesdayÃs hearing will be held in the council chambers at 200 Old Bernal Avenue.
Art awards
Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council is accepting applications for the annual Young Artist Achievement Awards. Artists ages 14-20 who live or go to school in Pleasanton are invited to apply. PCAC will award $500 to the winners in creative writing, visual arts, music and performing arts. Winners will be notified in mid-May and will be honored at the annual PCAC Awards Banquet, Wednesday May 31. Applications are due by April 24. Visit www.pleasatnonarts.org for an application form or call Rebecca Bruner at 426-3815 for more information.Foothill alumni needed
Alumni of Foothill High School are invited to present at Foothill’s annual Alumni Career Day happening Friday May 19. The day will start with a luncheon followed by alumni visits to junior and senior classrooms where they will share information about their current career. Visit www.pleasanton.k12.ca.us/foothill and click on “Alumni Information” for more information about the program. E-mail acd_fhs@hotmail.com to sign-up as a presenter.
