Our temporary reprieve from last week’s heat and humidity came just in time to give us the opportunity to venture out from our air conditioned homes for a number of meetings and other activities this week in and around the city.

Today (Monday) is school registration day in the Belle Plaine Community Schools. Register your student today from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the junior-senior high school. Student pictures will also be taken today.

This afternoon, the Belle Plaine City Council meets in its monthly committee of the whole session at 5 p.m. and then the regular council meeting at 6 p.m. at City Hall. During the committee of the whole session, councilmen will discuss school bus alley traffic in the Longfellow School area, a drainage tile situation in the Sunset Drive area and a discussion of trick or treat hours.

The council will consider several routine matters during the formal session at 6 p.m. Some of the items on the agenda include payments for the sanitary and storm sewer project and the aquatics center, approval of a five-year membership in Priority One, consideration of rescheduling the first September council meeting to Tuesday, Sept. 7 due to the Labor Day holiday, setting the date for the next committee of the whole meeting and reports from Belle Plaine Community Development and the police department. The city administrator is scheduled to report on the downtown revitalization project and the Ninth Avenue sanitary sewer project.

Other meetings this week include the Belle Plaine Community Development Promotions Committee at 5:15 p.m. Monday at Iowa Mold and the cemetery board meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the community center.

On Wednesday, the Belle Plaine Board of Education will meet at a special time, 5:30 p.m. at the administration center at Longfellow Elementary School. Some of the items on the agenda include personnel matters, approval of the sale of adult activity tickets, elementary student handbook and curriculum for the upcoming school year and a tour or the new school facilities.

This week also marks the end of the first season of the aquatics center. The season ends Sunday with the traditional doggie dip.