AGENDA

ROLL CALL

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

RECOGNITION OF SCHOOLS

READING AND AMENDMENT OF MINUTES

REPORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS

CONSENT AGENDA
FIRST READING OF ORDINANCES OR RESOLUTIONS
RESOLUTION C-2013-3 PUBLIC WORKS O’DANIEL
A Resolution of the Common Council Approving an Interlocal Agreement with Vanderburgh County (Burkhardt Road and Virginia Street Intersection)

RESOLUTION C-2013-4 FINANCE FRIEND
A Preliminary Resolution of the Common Council of the City of Evansville Declaring an Economic Revitalization Area for Property Tax Phase-in for the Acquisition and Installation of New Manufacturing Equipment (Berry Plastics Opco, Inc.) (101 Oakley Street, Evansville, IN)

MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS
There will not be a City Council Meeting next Monday, February 4, 2013. The next City Council meeting will be Monday, February 11, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. Committee Meetings will begin at 5:15 p.m. on February 11, 2013

Marisa Campbell: METS Service

COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT

ADJOURNMENT

201 E. Boonville-New Harmony Road, Evansville, IN 47725

January 26 – 27, 2013

Collectors Carnival Antiques & Collectibles Show will be held at the Vanderburgh Co. 4-H Center with 75 quality dealers in 2 heated buildings selling antiques and vintage collectibles from the 1970’s and beyond.

Show Hours & Admission: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday & Sunday/$2 per person

Saturday Preview Shopper 7-9 a.m. $5/person

Friday Setup Shopper 3-8 p.m. $15/person

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New University of Southern Indiana English faculty member Marcus Wicker will rub elbows with the likes of Denzel Washington, Alicia Keys, Halle Berry, Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, and many more celebrities at the 44th Annual NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles on February 1. The awards show will air live at 7 p.m. CST on NBC.

Wicker, whose debut book of poetry Maybe the Saddest Thing was published by Harper Perrenial (a paperback imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) in October, is nominated for an Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry Award along with U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey and other noted poets.

Wicker joined USI in fall 2012 as assistant professor of English. He is poetry editor of Southern Indiana Review, the University’s literary magazine, and is leading the New Harmony Writers Retreat, which will launch in summer 2014.

Wicker was introduced to poetry through slam poetry performances when he was a teenager in Ann Arbor, Michigan. “I’d been writing in a journal, and I didn’t know if it was poetry or not, but I saw students perform. The subject matter was similar, but they seemed so fearless. I thought, ‘I have to do that. I have to try.’”

He earned his bachelor’s degree at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University in 2010, and then spent seven months at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he worked on his book.

Through a Wayne State University program called InsideOut, he served for a year as Writer-in-Residence for the Detroit public schools, completing the residency in spring 2012, and taught an intensive workshop at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing last summer.

Wicker was featured in the December issue of Ebony magazine and is in current issues of Poets and Writers and Slate.

His book was selected by D. A. Powell for publication by Harper Perennial as one of five winners of the National Poetry Series Competition. It wasn’t the first contest he entered.

After graduate school, he entered his manuscript in 18 contests. “You apply, send $25, $40, or $50 and the manuscript, and you cross your fingers,” he said. In retrospect, he’s glad he didn’t win those contests (though he was a finalist for the Beatrice Hawley Award).

His manuscript, “heavily revised,” won the National Poetry Series in a second round of submissions. “That’s the prize everybody wants,” he said.

At USI, Wicker teaches creative writing courses. “USI is an exciting place to work. The faculty is so young, with lots of energy – they are publishing and taking on responsibilities not in their job description. People seem to be really thriving here.”

The ceremony for the NAACP’s literary Image Awards will be held the night before the star-studded television broadcast, but Wicker will attend both, and there’s one celebrity he’s anxious to meet. “I’d like to meet Kerry Washington and ask her out,” he said.

Before he heads to Los Angeles, Wicker and Dr. Annette Parks, chair of the University of Evansville History Department, will be featured in the second annual Soul Writers’ Guild Authors’ Book Fair and Reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, January 25, at the Evansville African American Museum.

Source: USI.edu

The Classical Guitar Society of Evansville and the University of Evansville are pleased to present a performance by classical guitarist Daniel Bolshoy of Montreal, Canada, who will perform works by Eduardo Sainz de la Maza, Michael Karmon, Augustin Barrios Mangore, and Sergio Assad.

The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, January 25 in Wheeler Concert Hall on the University of Evansville campus. Admission is $15 for the general public, $5 for students, and free for UE students. Tickets are available at the door.

Bolshoy is the head of the guitar division at the University of British Columbia School of Music. He is also the head of the guitar department at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music.

He has performed with international orchestras such as the Mexico City Philharmonic, the Toronto Philharmonia, the Edmonton Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic, the New Mexico Symphony, the Vancouver Philharmonic, the Beer Sheva Symphoniette (Israel), and the Manitoba and Ottawa Chamber Orchestras.

Bolshoy’s recitals are frequently broadcast on CBC Radio, and he has also appeared in two documentary films for the Bravo! (TV) series The Classical Now and appears on four commercial CD recordings.

He performs solo and chamber music recitals in Canada’s most prestigious venues, including the Glenn Gould Studio, the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts, the National Art Centre, and Vancouver’s Chan Centre.

Source: Evansville.edu

“We have nine students enrolled in the program, and this will allow us to help approximately 16 taxpayers per night this tax season,” said Brett Long, associate professor of accounting and business law. “Preparing tax returns for members of our community is a great experience for our accounting students and a real savings for taxpayers.”

In VITA programs, the Internal Revenue Service partners with national and local organizations to provide tax services to individuals with low-to-moderate income at no cost to the taxpayer. Accounting students will interview and prepare the taxes of those taxpayers who make an appointment for this service. VITA sites do not prepare Schedule C business forms or Schedule E rental forms. Your federal and state tax returns are prepared while you wait and all taxpayers must be available to sign their returns. Preparation of returns typically takes 90 minutes to two hours to complete.

The sessions will be held by appointment only in Room 1004 in the USI Business and Engineering Center, at 5 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. on the following Wednesdays: February 6, 13, 20, and 27; March 6, 20, and 27; and April 3 and 10.

Individuals will be required to bring tax information, photo identification cards, and Social Security cards for themselves and their dependents. International students must bring their passports and visas as well. The IRS encourages electronic filing and returns will be filed electronically for those who are eligible.

Please bring copies of your 2011 state and federal tax returns if they are available. Your tax returns from the prior year are very helpful in preparing correct and complete current year returns. Paper returns will be prepared for those taxpayers who do not qualify for electronic filing or prefer paper returns.

To make an appointment, call the USI College of Business at 812-464-1718.