There are two public meetings tonight open to Queen Anne community members. The first is a Health Reform Town Hall with public officials from the 36th legislative delegation Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Reps. Mary Lou Dickerson and Reuven Carlyle. The meeting will address current issues surrounding the health care debate with the chair of the Senate Health & Long-Term Care Committee, Sen. Karen Keiser, and the chair of the House Health Care & Wellness Committee, Rep. Eileen Cody, who will discuss the potential impact of federal health reform efforts on Washington residents. The meeting will be held at the Ballard Swedish Medical Center (5300 Tallman Ave.), Room A on the 1st Floor from 7-9 p.m. tonight.

The second meeting tonight is a Winter Weather Open House put on by the city and the Seattle Department of Transportation to discuss the new winter snow plan. The meeting will be held at the Queen Anne Community Center at 7 p.m. tonight, and is one of several open houses being held throughout the city. For details on tonight’s meeting click here. For a list of all the Winter Weather Open Houses in the area and further information on the new snow plan, click here. Download the Winter Weather snow map here (pdf).

Later this week there will be a meeting to discuss new plans for Queen Anne’s Old Hay, which will be reopening as part of the city’s new school attendance area boundary maps. Successful Schools in Action is hosting the meeting to discuss program options for Old Hay’s new K-5 programs (a Montessori “option school”), and a new name for the school on Thursday, October 29 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at Catharine Blaine Elementary Library, located at 2550 34th Ave. W.