Safety Town registration begins this week, and the Board of Supervisors will meet on Tuesday to hold several public hearings.

Monday is the first day to register for York County’s award-winning “Safety Town” program, which teaches pre-kindergartners various aspects of life safety.

Registration will take place at the Community Services administrative offices located at 224 Ballard Street. The program aims to reduce childhood injury by introducing four- and five-year-olds to basic safety concepts through the use of interactive experiences.

Registrations will be accepted until all available slots are filled, or until the deadline of Friday, May 20. The registration form and fee will only be accepted by hand-delivery to the address listed above, and only during the registration time period.

Set up to resemble a small-scale “town,” with portable buildings, sidewalks, roads and street signs, the appealing “Safety Town” learning environment is used as a practice area for several of the safety lessons. Each session lasts one week, running Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. All lessons and activities relate to a specific topic each day, such as Traffic and Pedestrian Safety, Fire Safety, Personal Safety, and Home Safety.

The schedule for the 2011 “Safety Town” is as follows:

July 11 - July 15 Mt. Vernon Elementary School

July 18 - July 22 Mt. Vernon Elementary School

July 25 - July 29 Mt. Vernon Elementary School

August 1 – August 5 Magruder Elementary School

Registration forms and information are available at all York County Elementary Schools, the York County Public Library, Parks and Recreation, the Griffin-Yeates Center and online. Safety Town spaces are limited to 50 children per week, and registration begins at 7:30 a.m. each day. The fee for York County residents is $10 and for non-York County residents, $25.

Children who are non-York County residents (but meet the age guidelines) may be considered for Safety Town after the deadline date, space permitting.

For further information call Gianna Pack, Department of Community Services, at 890-3880.

Board of Supervisors Meeting

The Board will meet Tuesday evening.

On the agenda are four public hearings, the first of which is regarding a Special Use Permit for a non-resident employee to work at a home-based business in Dandy Loop.

The second public hearing is for a special use permit to install a 708-square-foot game room to a residence.

The Board will also open hearings for conveying a 12-foot strip of land along Route 17 to the adjacent planned Nelson’s Grant community (at Battle Road) and for the six-year secondary road improvement plan.

View the agenda and related materials on the county’s website. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at York Hall.

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