On Friday, the Belize City Council will also be celebrating its first anniversary in office, and they've planned out an entire week of activities to commemorate it - one of which we told you about yesterday as they fed the elderly. Today, the council hosted an open day fair in the NICH Parking lot in which all of the different departments put on a presentation of their roles and functions.
Now that might sound about as interesting as watching grass grow, but the Mayor explained why it should matter to the public.
Darrell Bradley - Mayor, Belize City Council
"This is the marking of our 1 year anniversary in office, and actually the fair is something routinely done. We invested a little bit more, we asked the staff to go a little bit more since it marks the 1 year anniversary of us being in office. What we've done is every department of the City Council is represented out here, and they're showcasing to the general public what the city council does. We would have information about the court; we have information about trade licenses, liquor licenses, works, and sanitations. We have information from the office of the Mayor; we have about our prospectors and our bond information. Any question that anyone has about anything that goes on at the City Council, they could come here, and there will be person from the City Council who will be able to give a quick response. We've also invited a lot of schools and so you will see during the fair a lot of young people are coming out, because we want, especially our younger person to have that awareness as it relates to what role and functions the City Council performs within the city."
Daniel Ortiz
"So what have the response been like from this morning until this moment?"
Darrell Bradley
"It's been tremendous, it has stared 9:30 a.m. and from 9:30 we expect that it will continue on to this evening, that we will have a flurry of persons coming through asking questions. We had people from Albert Street just walking off, asking what was going on. Every single hour we have a flurry of school children coming through and they're asking questions. They're learning a lot about what the City Council does, so I am very proud of our staff that they went all out to make the booths very interactive."
Tomorrow the council makes things a little more interesting with a Street Naming Award Ceremony where prominent individuals will be acknowledged with streets named in their honor.
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