Ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger joins 97.9 The Hill’s Brighton McConnell. She details some of the item’s on this week’s agenda for the last town council meeting for the summer. Plus: business is changing, partially thanks to new rules in college athletics allowing athlete endorsements.

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