Make Oakland Beautiful is organizing speakers to address the City Council during Open Forum, starting at 5:45pm on Tues, Sept 18th at City Hall Council Chambers, 14th and Broadway. To sign up to speak for 1 minute please visit http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/SpeakerCard/SpeakerCard/OAK032373 or sign up on the night of before 5:30pm. Note that you will be speaking during Open Forum and you can also cede your time to one of our other speakers including Naomi Schiff from the Oakland Heritage Alliance. To see the amazing letter that the Oakland Heritage Alliance wrote in support plus see the graphic overlay of billboard locations that would blight the proposed 200 million dollar Gateway Park, visit http://www.makeoaklandbeautiful.org. Be sure and wear your LED bike light to show how distracting billboards are. We are also submitting a request to bring the billboard issue back to City Council by going through CED (Community for Economic Development) committee.