February 3, 2025 • 13 mins
What if the future of your city depended on high school students? Mayor Gary Carey Jr. is banking on it. Join us as we explore his pioneering approach with the Mayor's Youth Academy, a dynamic initiative aimed at shaping the City of Walker's next generation of leaders. Mayor Carey gives us an insightful glimpse into Walker's evolution from a township to a thriving city, and how he plans to nurture a legacy of informed and passionate civic participants. Through the Youth Academy, students are not just learning about the city's rich history and inner workings of local government but are being equipped to champion the community's progress and quality of life for years to come.
But it's not just about the youth. We dive into the importance of civic engagement and how every resident can leave a positive mark on the City of Walker, Michigan. Hear firsthand from Mayor Carey about innovative efforts to foster community involvement and the avenues available for residents to make a meaningful impact. This episode is a call to action for all who care about the future of their city. We also encourage feedback and suggestions from our listeners, showing our commitment to making this a truly community-driven podcast experience. Tune in and discover how you can get involved and inspire change in your local area.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to Made in Walker, a podcast that connects
you to the people, the storiesand the ideas shaping our
community, from local innovatorsto everyday changemakers.
We're diving deep into whatmakes Walker a great place to
live, work and grow.
Here's your host, nicoleDiDonato.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Thank you for joining us in the Made in Walker
podcast.
I'm Nicole DiDonato, thecommunications manager here for
the city of Walker, and so muchis going on in the city.
We know that our commissioners,our elected officials they have
term limits so they have atimeline of when they need to
get things done.
So what's important to bring inthat next pipeline of people to
(00:48):
carry on that mission?
Well, I'm here with City ofWalker Mayor Gary Carey Jr and
he has a solution for that witha program that you've kind of
reinstated at the City of Walker, right.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Sure.
No.
Thank you Glad to be here againand one of our newest
introductions here in an attemptto start to plan for our future
succession planning, and it'sreally critical and I want to
give our hats out to our citycommission.
It is something that we're veryattuned to and it's not just
we're in there to serve for aterm or two and then we're
(01:19):
walking out the door.
We really do care about whatwe're building and we want to
make sure it's left in goodhands out the door.
I mean, we really do care aboutwhat we're building and we want
to make sure it's left in goodhands.
I've mentioned before I thinkeven on this podcast of not
having people come in withhidden agendas and, you know,
really disrupt the progress thecity's made into the quality of
life that we enjoy in Walker.
So we want to make sure wedevelop this pipeline.
People understand, too, what itmeans to govern, what
(01:40):
policymaking means, whatcollaboration, and even though
our roles are nonpartisan, someof us have different ideologies
and viewpoints, and that's allgreat we have in our households,
with our families.
So it's really important thatwe understand how it is to get
to a common ground that is inthe best interest of our
community.
So one of the things we fordecades had a group called the
(02:01):
Youth Committee I think itbecame the Youth Commission at
one point and really in thevision is, you know, looking
forward is how do we developthese kids, you know, at the
high school level and I'll saykids, students at the high
school level and how do we getthem giving some passion, having
some working knowledge of localgovernment?
So much of what they get outthere might be a mainstream news
(02:21):
media nowadays and we want tomake sure they understand.
Understand, because localgovernment is the most important
one and that really is thefoundation, um, as this country
was founded, um, that, uh, youknow, our founding fathers, uh,
really put that emphasis at thelocal level of making sure that
they, uh, we, just we, that'sjust how we roll.
So, um, when we look at the uhmayor's youth academy, uh, we
(02:42):
just started this past fall in2024.
Our first session was actuallyjust talking about how did
Walker come to be?
And, really important for me,it was important to give those
kids a foundation of where westarted and where we've come
from.
And one of the things, many ofthem were astounded to find out
that we started as a township1837.
(03:03):
December 30th 1837, our firsttownship hall that we used was
the old Baptist MissionSchoolhouse.
It was down on the riverbank ofthe Grand River near where
Bridgewater Place and GeraldFord Museum is.
At today's age and, for thestudents to comprehend, that's
where City Hall, as they call it, used to be and we took them
(03:24):
through that.
So everything north and west ofthe grand river, um, at the
time was walker township.
So we talked about how thatchanged over the years and, uh,
you know, we talked about theterm of annexation and, uh,
cities go through that and youknow, and, quite frankly,
there's the working relationshipbetween the city of grand
rapids and the city walker todayare just incredible and one of
(03:45):
the things I've taken from MayorBliss, in addition to being a
tremendous mentor for me overthe years that we've served in
our respective cities together,was the importance of building
that pipeline for the future, ofat the youth level and as they
get into young adults and intoadults, that they learn a lot of
the fundamental needs that wehave to have as elected
officials and to set good policyand good governance.
(04:07):
So in talking with thesestudents, you explained to them
annexation took place when thevillage of kent, which became
the city grand rapids, startedto annex land over the years and
going back into the 1800s.
So in showing them a slide, youknow an alpine what is now
avistar Park used to be the oldGeneral Motors plant and I said
that was the flashpoint of howwe became a city.
(04:29):
We were a township up to thatpoint.
Explaining them the difference,nuances between townships and
cities and how that works, andunderstanding that cities can't
annex land.
They can't annex land fromtownships.
What they want from othercities can't from other cities
annex land.
They can annex land fromtownships.
What they want from othercities can't from other cities.
And explaining that to them andshowing them that plan and
explaining them what a tax baseand tax revenue means, um, so
(04:52):
walking through all that so theyhave a better understanding.
I already heard from one of theparents of one of the students
in the uh, the youth academyabout uh.
I learned things I hadabsolutely no idea on and I'm
third generation in the city sothat was pretty cool to hear
that piece of it.
But teaching them that first,you know really that baseline
and that first monthly meetingwe had back in the fall last
(05:14):
year.
And second session that wetalked about was governance and
policymaking and understandingwhat it means to come to the
table and we might have, youknow, we maybe even use some of
the examples of favorite flavorsof ice cream.
Yours might be chocolate,mine's vanilla.
How do we get that twist conetogether?
But there's an art to that.
But you have to be verydeliberate about doing that and
(05:38):
you have to want to do that.
And that's where I go back tomaking sure the people that hold
elected office are qualified todo so, because they're doing it
for the right reasons.
You're not getting rich doingthis, definitely not the local
level.
You're not getting rich doingthis.
You're doing this because youlove doing this and so kind of
instilling that.
And we're having an impactalready.
You wouldn't think on youngadults as these teenagers
(06:00):
they're getting it and it'sreally cool.
And you know the the lastsession we did before we break
broke for the holidays was ourpolice department.
It's our biggest budget withinthe city because we've
identified public safety asbeing the most important thing
with within our community.
And next in the curriculum isthe fire department night.
(06:21):
That we'll do, but with thedepartment we went through and
explained how we, how we staff,how we fund the importance and
the investment we make in ourpeople.
It was just really neat to seethe, the, the, the kids were
able to get through things likevirtual reality training.
So everybody got a chance to trysome new technology that we had
purchased at the city and we'rejust starting to implement at
(06:42):
the time and I had not seen ityet and had not used it, and a
lot of our officers most of ourofficers had not yet.
So the kids really got itbehind the scenes.
You know this is how we usethis, so I think they understand
that better.
And then you know we showed howthat we use our drone system.
We use it for proactivesituations as well as, in that
worst case, a reactive situation, and explaining that what they
(07:05):
didn't get to see at the timewas our police command vehicle
and why we made that investmentusing some of our American
Rescue Plan Act money towardsthat.
So the kids are picking up areally good baseline of what it
takes to run that city andreally the ongoing curriculum is
continue to educate them howfinances work.
You know you can't.
(07:26):
You can't borrow your way toprosperity, explaining how we
have to make sure that budgetsare balanced and and you can't
get up to your neck in debt.
You can't run credit cards upbecause it's it's a bad thing as
a municipality.
So there's upcoming sessionswe'll do we're going to get into
public infrastructure, waterand sewer types of discussions.
So they're going to get somebehind-the-scenes tours of
(07:47):
things that people normallydon't get to do.
And then what we've taken thisis because it's been such a
success so far, and I'll go backto Mayor Bliss at Grand Rapids.
She's done a great job ofgetting those young adults, that
next generation of leaders.
So we're going to do that samething here, starting up in late
winter, of leaders.
So we're going to do that samething here, starting up in late
winter, and applications will becoming out for that soon and we
(08:08):
want to go through anapplication process and making
sure that people are doing thisbecause they're actually
interested in serving.
They want to learn more whetheror not they ever actually
decide to serve.
But if that, you know, I thinkis another discussion, but at
bare minimum can we get them tojoin a committee and find out
what that's like.
Not everybody's going to run forelected office, not everybody
has the time and not everybodymaybe has the stomach sometimes
(08:31):
for doing it.
So I'm just excited aboutbuilding that pipeline for the
future, you know, and buildingthe, because really you can look
at some of our committees thatwe have right now within the
city.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
What are some of those committees?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
You have things like planning, and the Planning
Commission and the Zoning Boardof Appeals are great
foundational resources.
When you look at a lot of ourcity commission past and present
foundationally many have servedon one or both of those at some
point in time.
I happen to come up on theHistorical Commission.
I'm just that history, localhistory nerd and one of the
(09:06):
things that really for us isimportant is to make sure that
you work with other people in agroup setting and you have the
ability to understand, you setpolicy, what good and bad looks
like and what the impact of thedecisions you make now.
Something that you might passmight not have an impact for
years down the road.
(09:27):
And it's understanding that weuse the term.
You know playing chess, notcheckers.
We want to make sure that ourstand as we're playing a game of
chess, that we're makingstrategic moves for years and
maybe decades in the future hereand I think that's something
that people don't really thinkabout is that you know these are
going to affect generations tocome.
Absolutely, when you think ofsome of the projects, even that
(09:48):
we have going on through thecity and one of the when we
talked about policy andgovernment making when that
session it's been a few monthssince we did that, but when we
did that session we showed oneof the developments that we're
actively looking at right nowthat's hot in the pipeline,
that'll be coming to fruitionhere pretty quickly, and we went
through the twist and turns atthis development, proposed
developments taking place, andto that point you can use
(10:11):
another metaphor there Once yousqueeze a toothpaste out of the
tube, you can't get it back in.
You start breaking ground andbuilding buildings on it.
It's not like you knock themdown and you put cornfields back
where they were.
So we have to get it right thefirst time.
So we believe it's veryimportant.
So this really is a call-out togetting people to join
committees If you're notnecessarily comfortable wanting
(10:33):
to serve on one of thosehigher-profile committees.
There's things like thecommunity engagement.
It is a very, very robust andback when that is when it's been
around for a few decades it'sdefinitely had some evolutions.
It started out as a really asan international relations
(10:57):
committee when we were activewith our sister city, colac,
australia, and is involved tocommunity relations.
At some point where theystarted to give awards out
annually for things and reallywe, coming on as mayor, I'd
asked the commission in my firstyear or so there of this is
something I wanted to do toengage the community about it.
I want to have relations justwith.
We wanted to engage them andget them active and volunteer
for to work at events or I meanjust somehow to get them engaged
and more involved.
(11:19):
And it's just paid dividendsbeyond what we had hoped for.
So it's a very active group,some really good leadership in
there right now, with a group ofpeople leading that.
But that's something.
It's kind of low key, not ashigh profile as a planning or a
zoning board would be, but yetit's just as important because
we have to engage with ourcommunity.
Yeah, so there's a multitude ofways that you're able to within
(11:42):
the Walker community to engagein things and, quite frankly, if
you're not sure, have aconversation myself, one of your
commissioners, one of our cityleaders or whatever it may be.
Let's find something for you.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
If you want to serve.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
We'll find a room, we'll find a space for you.
I love that and so if folks arelistening and they're interested
, what's, what would be a bestway for them to kind of look for
this information?
Great question.
So, walkercity, there's a spotfor boards and committees and
there's an application there andin the dropdown menu it has the
different applications.
And you know, one of the thingsthat I don't want to say, we
take for granted, but maybe Ijust, for our community,
(12:16):
emphasize all of our electedofficials in the city of Walker
have their cell phone numbersout there, including the mayor,
and I don't there's not a lot ofmayor to do that, because
mayors get a lot, can get a lotof weird phone calls at times
and maybe not so good phonecalls from, from people with
with different motives.
What have you?
And reach out to one of us.
We're very accessible, have aconversation, we will find a
(12:39):
home for you and if you knowit's something that you're not
sure of, we'll have you attend ameeting or two.
I mean, be a part of it, andwe'll get you to where you need
to be.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I love that you guys make it easy and, again, this is
just one way for folks to getthat information to them if they
have been wondering for a whileif there is something that they
can impact their community.
There are ways and we're gladthat there are funnels for that.
So thank you so much, mayor,for all of your work in trying
to do that and bring thattogether and we hope that again,
maybe something sparked in yourmind that you do want to help
(13:12):
and step up and work with theCity of Walker.
We have a place for you.
Thank you so much for listeningto us.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
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in Walker podcast.
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Please drop us an email atpodcast at walkercity.
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Michigan.
You can find Made in Walkerwherever you get your podcasts.
Welcome to Made in Walker, a podcast that connects
you to the people, the storiesand the ideas shaping our
community, from local innovatorsto everyday changemakers.
We're diving deep into whatmakes Walker a great place to
live, work and grow.
Here's your host, nicoleDiDonato.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Thank you for joining us in the Made in Walker
podcast.
I'm Nicole DiDonato, thecommunications manager here for
the city of Walker, and so muchis going on in the city.
We know that our commissioners,our elected officials they have
term limits so they have atimeline of when they need to
get things done.
So what's important to bring inthat next pipeline of people to
(00:48):
carry on that mission?
Well, I'm here with City ofWalker Mayor Gary Carey Jr and
he has a solution for that witha program that you've kind of
reinstated at the City of Walker, right.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Sure.
No.
Thank you Glad to be here againand one of our newest
introductions here in an attemptto start to plan for our future
succession planning, and it'sreally critical and I want to
give our hats out to our citycommission.
It is something that we're veryattuned to and it's not just
we're in there to serve for aterm or two and then we're
(01:19):
walking out the door.
We really do care about whatwe're building and we want to
make sure it's left in goodhands out the door.
I mean, we really do care aboutwhat we're building and we want
to make sure it's left in goodhands.
I've mentioned before I thinkeven on this podcast of not
having people come in withhidden agendas and, you know,
really disrupt the progress thecity's made into the quality of
life that we enjoy in Walker.
So we want to make sure wedevelop this pipeline.
People understand, too, what itmeans to govern, what
(01:40):
policymaking means, whatcollaboration, and even though
our roles are nonpartisan, someof us have different ideologies
and viewpoints, and that's allgreat we have in our households,
with our families.
So it's really important thatwe understand how it is to get
to a common ground that is inthe best interest of our
community.
So one of the things we fordecades had a group called the
(02:01):
Youth Committee I think itbecame the Youth Commission at
one point and really in thevision is, you know, looking
forward is how do we developthese kids, you know, at the
high school level and I'll saykids, students at the high
school level and how do we getthem giving some passion, having
some working knowledge of localgovernment?
So much of what they get outthere might be a mainstream news
(02:21):
media nowadays and we want tomake sure they understand.
Understand, because localgovernment is the most important
one and that really is thefoundation, um, as this country
was founded, um, that, uh, youknow, our founding fathers, uh,
really put that emphasis at thelocal level of making sure that
they, uh, we, just we, that'sjust how we roll.
So, um, when we look at the uhmayor's youth academy, uh, we
(02:42):
just started this past fall in2024.
Our first session was actuallyjust talking about how did
Walker come to be?
And, really important for me,it was important to give those
kids a foundation of where westarted and where we've come
from.
And one of the things, many ofthem were astounded to find out
that we started as a township1837.
(03:03):
December 30th 1837, our firsttownship hall that we used was
the old Baptist MissionSchoolhouse.
It was down on the riverbank ofthe Grand River near where
Bridgewater Place and GeraldFord Museum is.
At today's age and, for thestudents to comprehend, that's
where City Hall, as they call it, used to be and we took them
(03:24):
through that.
So everything north and west ofthe grand river, um, at the
time was walker township.
So we talked about how thatchanged over the years and, uh,
you know, we talked about theterm of annexation and, uh,
cities go through that and youknow, and, quite frankly,
there's the working relationshipbetween the city of grand
rapids and the city walker todayare just incredible and one of
(03:45):
the things I've taken from MayorBliss, in addition to being a
tremendous mentor for me overthe years that we've served in
our respective cities together,was the importance of building
that pipeline for the future, ofat the youth level and as they
get into young adults and intoadults, that they learn a lot of
the fundamental needs that wehave to have as elected
officials and to set good policyand good governance.
(04:07):
So in talking with thesestudents, you explained to them
annexation took place when thevillage of kent, which became
the city grand rapids, startedto annex land over the years and
going back into the 1800s.
So in showing them a slide, youknow an alpine what is now
avistar Park used to be the oldGeneral Motors plant and I said
that was the flashpoint of howwe became a city.
(04:29):
We were a township up to thatpoint.
Explaining them the difference,nuances between townships and
cities and how that works, andunderstanding that cities can't
annex land.
They can't annex land fromtownships.
What they want from othercities can't from other cities
annex land.
They can annex land fromtownships.
What they want from othercities can't from other cities.
And explaining that to them andshowing them that plan and
explaining them what a tax baseand tax revenue means, um, so
(04:52):
walking through all that so theyhave a better understanding.
I already heard from one of theparents of one of the students
in the uh, the youth academyabout uh.
I learned things I hadabsolutely no idea on and I'm
third generation in the city sothat was pretty cool to hear
that piece of it.
But teaching them that first,you know really that baseline
and that first monthly meetingwe had back in the fall last
(05:14):
year.
And second session that wetalked about was governance and
policymaking and understandingwhat it means to come to the
table and we might have, youknow, we maybe even use some of
the examples of favorite flavorsof ice cream.
Yours might be chocolate,mine's vanilla.
How do we get that twist conetogether?
But there's an art to that.
But you have to be verydeliberate about doing that and
(05:38):
you have to want to do that.
And that's where I go back tomaking sure the people that hold
elected office are qualified todo so, because they're doing it
for the right reasons.
You're not getting rich doingthis, definitely not the local
level.
You're not getting rich doingthis.
You're doing this because youlove doing this and so kind of
instilling that.
And we're having an impactalready.
You wouldn't think on youngadults as these teenagers
(06:00):
they're getting it and it'sreally cool.
And you know the the lastsession we did before we break
broke for the holidays was ourpolice department.
It's our biggest budget withinthe city because we've
identified public safety asbeing the most important thing
with within our community.
And next in the curriculum isthe fire department night.
(06:21):
That we'll do, but with thedepartment we went through and
explained how we, how we staff,how we fund the importance and
the investment we make in ourpeople.
It was just really neat to seethe, the, the, the kids were
able to get through things likevirtual reality training.
So everybody got a chance to trysome new technology that we had
purchased at the city and we'rejust starting to implement at
(06:42):
the time and I had not seen ityet and had not used it, and a
lot of our officers most of ourofficers had not yet.
So the kids really got itbehind the scenes.
You know this is how we usethis, so I think they understand
that better.
And then you know we showed howthat we use our drone system.
We use it for proactivesituations as well as, in that
worst case, a reactive situation, and explaining that what they
(07:05):
didn't get to see at the timewas our police command vehicle
and why we made that investmentusing some of our American
Rescue Plan Act money towardsthat.
So the kids are picking up areally good baseline of what it
takes to run that city andreally the ongoing curriculum is
continue to educate them howfinances work.
You know you can't.
(07:26):
You can't borrow your way toprosperity, explaining how we
have to make sure that budgetsare balanced and and you can't
get up to your neck in debt.
You can't run credit cards upbecause it's it's a bad thing as
a municipality.
So there's upcoming sessionswe'll do we're going to get into
public infrastructure, waterand sewer types of discussions.
So they're going to get somebehind-the-scenes tours of
(07:47):
things that people normallydon't get to do.
And then what we've taken thisis because it's been such a
success so far, and I'll go backto Mayor Bliss at Grand Rapids.
She's done a great job ofgetting those young adults, that
next generation of leaders.
So we're going to do that samething here, starting up in late
winter, of leaders.
So we're going to do that samething here, starting up in late
winter, and applications will becoming out for that soon and we
(08:08):
want to go through anapplication process and making
sure that people are doing thisbecause they're actually
interested in serving.
They want to learn more whetheror not they ever actually
decide to serve.
But if that, you know, I thinkis another discussion, but at
bare minimum can we get them tojoin a committee and find out
what that's like.
Not everybody's going to run forelected office, not everybody
has the time and not everybodymaybe has the stomach sometimes
(08:31):
for doing it.
So I'm just excited aboutbuilding that pipeline for the
future, you know, and buildingthe, because really you can look
at some of our committees thatwe have right now within the
city.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
What are some of those committees?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
You have things like planning, and the Planning
Commission and the Zoning Boardof Appeals are great
foundational resources.
When you look at a lot of ourcity commission past and present
foundationally many have servedon one or both of those at some
point in time.
I happen to come up on theHistorical Commission.
I'm just that history, localhistory nerd and one of the
(09:06):
things that really for us isimportant is to make sure that
you work with other people in agroup setting and you have the
ability to understand, you setpolicy, what good and bad looks
like and what the impact of thedecisions you make now.
Something that you might passmight not have an impact for
years down the road.
(09:27):
And it's understanding that weuse the term.
You know playing chess, notcheckers.
We want to make sure that ourstand as we're playing a game of
chess, that we're makingstrategic moves for years and
maybe decades in the future hereand I think that's something
that people don't really thinkabout is that you know these are
going to affect generations tocome.
Absolutely, when you think ofsome of the projects, even that
(09:48):
we have going on through thecity and one of the when we
talked about policy andgovernment making when that
session it's been a few monthssince we did that, but when we
did that session we showed oneof the developments that we're
actively looking at right nowthat's hot in the pipeline,
that'll be coming to fruitionhere pretty quickly, and we went
through the twist and turns atthis development, proposed
developments taking place, andto that point you can use
(10:11):
another metaphor there Once yousqueeze a toothpaste out of the
tube, you can't get it back in.
You start breaking ground andbuilding buildings on it.
It's not like you knock themdown and you put cornfields back
where they were.
So we have to get it right thefirst time.
So we believe it's veryimportant.
So this really is a call-out togetting people to join
committees If you're notnecessarily comfortable wanting
(10:33):
to serve on one of thosehigher-profile committees.
There's things like thecommunity engagement.
It is a very, very robust andback when that is when it's been
around for a few decades it'sdefinitely had some evolutions.
It started out as a really asan international relations
(10:57):
committee when we were activewith our sister city, colac,
australia, and is involved tocommunity relations.
At some point where theystarted to give awards out
annually for things and reallywe, coming on as mayor, I'd
asked the commission in my firstyear or so there of this is
something I wanted to do toengage the community about it.
I want to have relations justwith.
We wanted to engage them andget them active and volunteer
for to work at events or I meanjust somehow to get them engaged
and more involved.
(11:19):
And it's just paid dividendsbeyond what we had hoped for.
So it's a very active group,some really good leadership in
there right now, with a group ofpeople leading that.
But that's something.
It's kind of low key, not ashigh profile as a planning or a
zoning board would be, but yetit's just as important because
we have to engage with ourcommunity.
Yeah, so there's a multitude ofways that you're able to within
(11:42):
the Walker community to engagein things and, quite frankly, if
you're not sure, have aconversation myself, one of your
commissioners, one of our cityleaders or whatever it may be.
Let's find something for you.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
If you want to serve.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
We'll find a room, we'll find a space for you.
I love that and so if folks arelistening and they're interested
, what's, what would be a bestway for them to kind of look for
this information?
Great question.
So, walkercity, there's a spotfor boards and committees and
there's an application there andin the dropdown menu it has the
different applications.
And you know, one of the thingsthat I don't want to say, we
take for granted, but maybe Ijust, for our community,
(12:16):
emphasize all of our electedofficials in the city of Walker
have their cell phone numbersout there, including the mayor,
and I don't there's not a lot ofmayor to do that, because
mayors get a lot, can get a lotof weird phone calls at times
and maybe not so good phonecalls from, from people with
with different motives.
What have you?
And reach out to one of us.
We're very accessible, have aconversation, we will find a
(12:39):
home for you and if you knowit's something that you're not
sure of, we'll have you attend ameeting or two.
I mean, be a part of it, andwe'll get you to where you need
to be.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I love that you guys make it easy and, again, this is
just one way for folks to getthat information to them if they
have been wondering for a whileif there is something that they
can impact their community.
There are ways and we're gladthat there are funnels for that.
So thank you so much, mayor,for all of your work in trying
to do that and bring thattogether and we hope that again,
maybe something sparked in yourmind that you do want to help
(13:12):
and step up and work with theCity of Walker.
We have a place for you.
Thank you so much for listeningto us.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Thank you for joining us for this episode of the Made
in Walker podcast.
If you have comments orquestions about this podcast, or
if you have suggestions forfuture episodes, we'd love to
hear from you.
Please drop us an email atpodcast at walkercity.
Made in Walker is the officialpodcast of the city of Walker,
Michigan.
You can find Made in Walkerwherever you get your podcasts.
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