Mandeville residents can share their short and long range visions and personal ideas for projects to improve the quality of life in the city during a town hall meeting with City Council members on Thursday.

The event, sponsored by the Old Mandeville Business Association, will be from 7-9 p.m. in the gymnasium building at the St. Tammany Parish School Board Technology Center at the corner of Lafitte and Livingston streets in Old Mandeville four blocks south of U.S. Highway 190.

Council members Jeff Bernard, 3rd district; Carla Buchholz, 2nd district; Jerry Coogan, 1st district; and Trilby Lenfant, at-large, have accepted invitations to participate. At-Large Councilwoman Adelaide Boettner has been ill and her participation is questionable. The town hall meeting concept in which citizens are being allowed to share their wishes for specific short and long range capital improvement projects is an outgrowth of a much praised candidate forum the business association conducted last year during the Mandeville municipal elections at the same location.

The event is free, and residents will be asked to submit their questions or pose their concepts on cards provided at the door as they enter.

Those will be screened by event coordinators Richard Boyd and Rick Dennie and read to the council members by a moderator.

Business Association President Ginger Fortson stressed that the meeting will focus only on projects that citizens think might enhance the quality of life in the city such as additional sidewalk networking, improved public landscaping and others.

Each council member will be allowed an opening statement asserting their own visions and goals and short and long range capital project agendas and they will be allowed closing statements.

“We see this as a chance for the citizens to sit down with their elected city government leaders and talk about things that can be done if funding is available to keep improving the quality of life in our city,’’ Dennie said.