By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
St. Joseph city leaders will take questions from the public this evening at a City Leaders Forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Northwest Missouri.
Moderator Sharon Kosek with the League says those attending can submit questions written on slips of paper provided at the forum. She suggests broad questions that concern the entire community.
A little tact helps as well.
“We want people to be able to have continuing communication. So, you want to open up whatever it is you have to say in a gracious manner. You can be firm that you want a response,” Kosek tells KFEQmmunity. “Our city leaders have always been very responsive, but even more so now.”
St. Joseph City Manager, Mike Schumacher, and department heads are scheduled to be at the forum along with three city councilmembers.
The forum begins at 5:30 Friday evening at the Rolling Hills Library – Upper Story Room.
City leaders in attendance will open by answering a couple of questions. Those in attendance can submit questions written on slips of paper to Kosek who will sort them and pose them to the leaders.
Kosek says the forum presents a unique venue to communicate with St. Joseph city staff.
“You can go to city council meetings or just a variety of different meetings here in town. But seeing these people one-on-one in the same room with you, their responses, having to get to see them,” Kosek says. “It’s just good to see their decorum, how they respond to questions.”
The forum begins at 5:30 tonight at the Rolling Hills Library – Upper Story Room on the North Belt Highway. It will run for one hour.
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