City Council Meets; City Kids Read

1. We’ll have a mostly sunny day with more humidity and a high of about 89 today, the National Weather Service says. The overnight low will be about 68.

2. The will hear from the public at 2 p.m. today in the boardroom at 100 Cherokee St. about the , which goes into effect Oct. 1. Marietta Patch will have live coverage of the hearing.

3. The gathers at 5:15 p.m. for a series of committee meetings and an agenda work session in the council chambers at City Hall. See the attached agendas for each committee.

4. In high school sports today, the varsity softball team plays at Lovett at 5:30 p.m.

5. Today marks the end of the Scholastic Summer Challenge, a global push to set a record for student summer reading. Since May 1, students have recorded the time they’ve spent reading books at a website set up by children’s publisher Scholastic. Students at the , the and have contributed more than 5,300 minutes toward the global total of more than 58 million minutes, crushing the 2010 record of 52.7 million minutes of summer reading.