Meeting with future leaders

During his first official week on the job, Monett Mayor Randy Burke made time to meet with Monett High School students to discuss local issues, his goals as a city official and gather information about what local youth view as positives and negatives in their community.

Immediately following the Friday, April 19 Monett City Council Meeting, which was held at the Monett School District Office, the mayor met with a group of High School Government Class students to field a series of questions they had prepared.

The following Tuesday, Burke met with the GO CAPS Global Business and Entrepreneurism group to commend them on their recent project presentations, which included a plan for the Monett Airport, and discuss his experience and other topics of interest to the students.

Burke also heard from each student a brief presentation on their ambitions for their post-high school careers, including what would, or could, bring them home to Monett following their college careers.