Community Service

After serving in PTA locally for about 15 years, I figured this was my last year of doing that kind of service for my community.  I doubled dipped a few years with Strawberry Days volunteering too.  But this week I start a new community service chapter in my life.

I was asked to sit on a citizens' committee regarding our Public Safety Building that is proposed for our town.  It was on our local municipal ballot last year, but the rush to get it a bond for the building on the ballot that quickly had some people imagining there was some nefarious business going on and their suspicions spread like wild fire and the bond issue was voted down--along with our mayor and a few others on the city council.

This committee will meet with the consulting architects and the police and fire department heads and then consider the costs, locations, option,s and needs to make the most efficient and logistically feasible choice.  I'm sure I will learn a LOT.

We are only scheduled for four committee meetings--plus a large city wide introductory meeting tomorrow night--so we will need to work fast.  I am kind of happy that the meetings are already set and we have a time limit.  Otherwise people get in their heads this is the most important thing EVER and meetings last forever.

I'm happy to serve my neighbors and friends here.  I don't think I know anyone else on the committee, so I have many more potential friends to meet.  I do like our little town and I know that when we serve each other every is blessed.  Wish me luck!