If you have gripes about any of the following, then the place to be on July 15th is the Hartford Public Library: bed bugs, public safety, crime, violence, noise, street racing, graffiti, neighborhood cleanliness, and blighted buildings.

From 6-8pm the “Summer in the City: Quality of Life in Hartford” panel will be moderated by Councilperson Jim Boucher. Light refreshments will be available beginning at 5:30. A representative of the Hartford Police Department will be on hand.

At the same time, there will be a forum on bed bugs. The Mayor’s office sent out a press release for this:

The City of Hartford Health and Human Services Department in collaboration with the Hartford Public Library will be offering a community forum to inform Hartford residents about solutions to an issue affecting urban centers such as Hartford in recent years- bed bugs. This community forum will be held on Wednesday July 15, 2009 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Downtown branch of the Hartford Public Library located at 500 Main Street.

This event will include presentations by a panel of experts and a question and answer session to allow the public to obtain more information on this topic. The panel will include:

Dr. Gale Ridge:  CT Agricultural Experiment Station

Attorney Robyn Johnson:  Housing Prosecutor/CT Chief State’s Attorney

Cristina Berger:  Department of Environmental Protection Pesticides Program

Carol Steinke:  Public Health Nursing Supervisor/Hartford HHS

Jose Morales:  Public Health Sanitarian/Hartford HHS

Darlene Robertson:  Division of License and Inspections/City of Hartford

If you have something to say about bed bugs in particular and quality of life in general, then I guess you are supposed to go panel-hopping.