62nd En Bn

[In Libman]

TheProject consists of widening/reconstructing roadway; improving intersections; installing curbs, gutters, sidewalks, ADA ramps, drainage system with water quality features; and implementing landscaping to improve safety, environment, and increase mobility capacity to serve increased growth and economic development.

Beginning Monday July 22, westbound 62nd Avenue will be closed between Lipan and Pecos. There will be a detour directing traffic to 64th Avenue to Pecos. Pedestrian walkways will be closed and detoured onto an ADA compliant walkway. This closure is anticipated to last several days. Please keep in mind schedules are approximate and may vary due to weather or other unforeseen circumstances.

Please visit the FAA National Based Aircraft Inventory website to make sure the registry of your aircraft based location is current as it affects grant funding for Colorado Air and Space Port (CASP). CASP will soon have a form available on our website so you can update your aircraft information with us as well.

The City of Gainesville has completed the SW 62nd Boulevard Connector project, opening the 1.1-mile roadway one month ahead of schedule. The new span links the Newberry Road and Oaks Mall area with the Archer Road and Butler Plaza area, improving accessibility, safety and shaving time off neighborhood commutes.

Funded in large part by a grant from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), the $18.8 million connector is designed as a multimodal artery. It features wider (11-foot) travel lanes, ten-foot shoulders with seven-foot buffered bicycle lanes on each side, and a 10-foot multiuse path. It also includes the first simple span bridge constructed by the City of Gainesville, with a 330-foot segment crossing Hogtown Creek.

Long recognized as a necessary solution to ease traffic congestion, the direct route between SW 43rd Street/Clark Butler Boulevard and the southern end of SW 52nd Street improves flow on SW 34th Street, SW 20th Avenue, Newberry Road and Archer Road. It also has potential to increase highway efficiency and reduce accident rates on I-75 by giving drivers an alternate path across southwest Gainesville.

With the SW 62nd Boulevard Connector complete, the City has four other high-visibility road projects currently in the works. These include the University Avenue safety improvements funded by an $8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation; improvements to NE Ninth Street funded by the Streets Stations and Strong Foundations (SSSF) half-cent infrastructure surtax; the planned addition of buffered bike lanes to NW Eighth Avenue between Sixth Street and Main Street; and the resurfacing of NW Eighth Avenue from Newberry Road to NW 40th Drive.

The proposed project would provide improvements along 62nd Avenue N. from 49th Street N. to 34th Street N. This segment of roadway is approximately 1.5 miles long. The project includes roadway and drainage improvements with a focus on safety and multimodal mobility.

The improvements being studied include enhanced turn lanes at the signalized intersections of 49th Street N. and 34th Street N. to improve the level of service at these intersections. The roadway improvements being studied include a Type F curb and gutter with one travel lane in each direction and a center two-way turn lane. Multimodal transportation improvements being studied include wider sidewalks, a multipurpose trail, mid-block crossings that create pedestrian refuge islands and boarding areas for PSTA bus stops.

March 8, 2023: Pinellas County held an open house from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Lealman Exchange to provide information about the project, share preliminary designs, discuss the project schedule and answer questions. View the presentation on YouTube.

Foundation President Hardy K. Dorsey said, "On behalf of the Board of Directors, I am excited to see the increase in applications, and awards, to these fine LU Scholars. Our students are in financial need, and I am truly thankful to the continued generosity of our donors and their firm commitment to the mission of this organization. As we continue to increase our numbers, we encourage our alums and friends to make their annual pledges for 2022 to support the funding needs of our students."

"We are pleased to continue our mission by awarding scholarships to deserving LU students and to financially support their academic endeavors. The Scholarship Committee works diligently to review and approve applications for these highly qualified LU students," stated Dr. Jerome Offord Jr., Scholarship Committee Chair.

A scholarship reception is scheduled during LU's Homecoming festivities on Thursday, September 29, 2022 in the Lincoln University Student Union Ballroom, 818 Chestnut Street, Jefferson City, MO 65101. Family and friends, along with Foundation supporters and board members, will celebrate with recipients and RSVPs will be required.

Interested students may apply online at www.62-65rlf.org. Questions about applying for scholarships may be emailed to in...@62-65rlf.com. For additional information or to become a donor and supporter of the Foundation's mission, please call Executive Director Sylvia Wilson at 573-291-5384 or email in...@62-65rlf.com.

Since 1970, the mission of The 62nd & 65th Regiments Legacy Foundation, Inc., is to develop, manage and award scholarship funds in accordance with donor intent to qualified Lincoln University of Missouri students.

The Council, the GEF's main governing body, comprises 32 members appointed by constituencies of GEF member countries (14 from developed countries, 16 from developing countries, and two from economies in transition). Council members rotate at different intervals determined by each constituency. The Council, which meets twice annually, develops, adopts and evaluates the operational policies and programs for GEF-financed activities. It also reviews and approves the work program (projects submitted for approval), making decisions by consensus.

Rodrguez highlighted the input that had been received around the new strategy for the LDCF and SCCF, and stressed the need to scale up and provide predictable funds. He underscored that the work program represented an almost 100% expenditure of the available LDCF funds.

Madeleine Diouf Sarr, Chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group, expressed appreciation for the growing number of adaptation projects, the inclusive and transparent process in developing GEF-8, and the proactive training provided for LDCs to understand the new strategies, saying this strengthened their collective vision on adaptation and transformation.

In his presentation of specific projects in the work program, Gustavo Fonseca, GEF Secretariat, highlighted that with this work program, 100% of LDCs were supported during GEF-7. He said all eight projects in this work program would respond to the ambition and requirements of GEF policy on gender equality, and noted that four of the projects address urgent and immediate climate change adaptation priorities in at least four LDCs, including:

The GEF Council concluded a discussion that had begun on Wednesday by adopting text calling for the GEF Secretariat, in consultation with the STAP and interested Council members and alternates, to prepare a paper on a GEF-8 programming risk framework for consideration by the Council at its 64th session.

Council members were also briefed on negotiations on an international legally binding instrument under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ), and the process that would be required if the GEF were to be proposed to serve as its financial mechanism.

GEF CEO Rodrguez thanked the Council members and GEF staff for making the in-person meeting successful. He highlighted that the meeting capped off a successful GEF-7 cycle, and looked forward to the new GEF-8 cycle and the opportunities that it will bring. The 62nd meeting of the GEF Council closed at 4:00 pm.

GEF Council members discussed inputs by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) to guide and evaluate GEF project implementation, kicking off the second day of the 62nd meeting of the Council. The Executive Secretaries of several of the multilateral environmental agreements for which the GEF serves as a financial mechanism discussed funding priorities for the conventions. At the conclusion of the day, Council members were briefed on preparations for the seventh meeting of the GEF Assembly.

Among other conclusions from the nine new papers prepared by STAP, Bierbaum noted that policy coherence creates synergies, helps manage trade-offs, avoids damaging behaviors, and ensures global environmental benefits are not undermined by misaligned policies. She highlighted many possibilities for future work, including a report for the GEF Assembly focusing on the transformation/risk/innovation trio, developing a training course on the theory of change and multi-stakeholder dialogues, and developing a data and knowledge management platform on mercury.

Carlos Manuel Rodrguez, GEF CEO and Chairperson, opened the discussion on relations with the conventions, recalling that he had recently attended the meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions, and highlighting the upcoming meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). He called for more integration across the conventions and noted the opportunity that a focus on the topic of nature provides in this regard.

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, CBD Executive Secretary, highlighted that GEF-8 has substantially increased the funding for biodiversity. She noted that the GEF is supporting early action grants for national planning in response to the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. She added that this activity seeks to promote early national planning with an eye towards the successful adoption of the new biodiversity framework and to jumpstart its implementation.

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