This week on Brewocracy Now, Jim Burke sits in for host Taylor Clark. Jim and co-host City Manager John Mauro discuss a wide range of topics: Spring, Rhody Fest, Water Quality, Potholes, Golf Course, Fort Worden and this wonderful town and county we live in. Plus, the County BOCC has selected the next County Administrator!
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark welcomed Port Townsend Director of Communications and Marketing Shelly Leavens and Director of Public Works Steve King. We reviewed a bunch of projects that are wrapping up, in progress or planned for the near future, including the boatyard expansion along Sims Way and the chip seal planned for San Juan and F streets. And lots more.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and co-host Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro welcomed PT Mayor David Faber for his quarterly visit on BrewNow.
Brewocracy Now featured a chance to meet Samantha Stromberg, Port Townsend High School Class of 2023. As her senior project, Samantha worked with city staff, advisors, and electeds to get lighting installed at the Skate Park on Monroe Street. Joining us on the show we welcomed Debbie Jahnke, chair of the Parks, Recreation, Trees and Trails advisory board, as well as Parks and Facilities Manager Michael Todd. Celebrate this grass roots accomplishment with “Skate Under the Lights” on Saturday, April 19 at 7:30pm.
Our guest on Brewocracy Now was Kailey Fuhs from the Peninsula Dispute Resolution Center, who was here talking about their upcoming Basic Mediation Training class in Port Townsend, beginning on May 13. More information is available here.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark sat back and really enjoyed Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro‘s interview with Big in Sweden author Sally Franson. We were joined by Community Services Director Melody Sky Weaver who will be appearing with Sally Franson in a discussion Thursday night at 6pm at the Maritime Center as part of the Port Townsend 20th Anniversary Community Read.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark was joined by City of Port Townsend’s Community Services Director Melody Sky Weaver and Christy Spencer from the Port Townsend Film Festival. We talked about the PT 20th annual community read which is Big In Sweden by Sally Franson (who will be on BrewNow next week). We also talked about a tie-in with PTFF, who will be presenting Mama Mia at the Rose on March 29. Our subtext keywords are happiness, humor, gladness and spring.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and guest host City of Port Townsend’s Community Services Director Melody Sky Weaver will be chatting with Danielle McClelland and Christy Spencer from the Port Townsend Film Festival about the long-standing film and book pairing collaboration for the Community Read. This year the film is an Abba inspired Mama Mia sing-along at the Rose Theatre on Saturday, March 29th at 10am.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro talked about the Shoreline Master Plan meeting yesterday, we talked about the city budgeting process and how to get involved, and John extended an on-air invitation for the publisher of the Port Townsend Leader to join us live on a future Brewocracy Now show.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and cohost Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro talked about the importance of building community and looking forward toward the future. In the second half of the broadcast we explored some details about the city’s budget in response to some of the things Taylor has been reading on social media about the budget not being balanced. Listen in to hear John’s explanation, it’s quite interesting.
