MONTGOMERY – Mayor Steven L. Reed and the Montgomery United Transition Team will host a Municipal Assembly to encourage public participation in the process of building the blueprint for a better Montgomery on Feb. 12 at 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium at Montgomery City Hall, 103 N. Perry St.

“We know the best solutions to the challenges we face are often already known by the people who are experiencing them on the ground every day,” Mayor Reed said. “The transition process was designed to provide various platforms for Montgomery residents to be heard as the Committee prepares its transition report for our consideration. To ensure we fully engage in as diverse a dialogue as possible, we need what I call ‘community solutions’ in this process, and that starts with all of us.”

Mayor Reed seeks these “community solutions” to complement the transition team’s weeks of in-depth study sessions and work with subject matter experts, internal City managers and community leaders. The Municipal Assembly has been arranged as a time when transition team committee members can listen, learn and engage as they collect feedback from the public.

The recently completed rounds of Montgomery United Transition Committee study sessions were designed to give committee members ample room to communicate ideas, review data and challenge long-held assumptions tied to public policies. While members of the public joined to observe these study sessions, the opportunity for public discourse and community solutions will drive Wednesday’s event. It will also include a recap of the Transition Committee study sessions’ past discussions.

“Mayor Reed and the Montgomery United Transition Team have been hard at work investigating and analyzing the best ways to address critical issues in our city,” Montgomery United Transition Co-Chair John Mazyck said. “Thanks to their unwavering commitment to Mayor Reed, he and the community will have a set of solid solutions to bring forth a unified vision for making Montgomery the best it can be.”

For more on the Montgomery United Transition process, please visit http://mayorstevenlreed.org.

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