Fifty-two second-graders from Blair Moody Elementary School made a visit March 25 to the Municipal Building, Police Department, 23rd District Court and the Fire Department.
The children got to meet some of the key leaders in the City of Taylor. They started in the Mayor's Office with Rick Sollars, who talked to them about his role in government and took questions.
Mayor Sollars then took the group downstairs to the City Council Chambers, where Councilman Tim Woolley took over and discussed his role in the City and what he and his elected peers do on a regular basis.
Woolley, a member of the Taylor Veterans Museum Committee and a veteran himself, then took the group on a tour of the Veterans Museum, one of the City's hidden gems, located right off the main lobby of City Hall.
Next stop was the Police Department, where Chief Mary Sclabassi talked to the children before she handed them off to staff members, who showed them everything from the emergency dispatch center to the jail, detective bureau and finally a patrol car in the parking lot.
One of the tour's high points was a visit to the District Court, where Judge Joseph Slaven engaged the group in a great discussion about the court and a judge's role in the community. Pupils were eventually selected to play out a trial -- in the roles of prosecutors, defense attorneys and defendant, court officer, judge and jury. It marked a high point of the tour.
The children finished by eating lunch at the Fire Department before taking a tour of the facility, which is always a high point of any visit to the City Hall complex.
The children left today with candy eggs, police badges, pens, pins from the Veterans Museum and much more.
Anyone who is interested in a tour of the complex should contact Kimber Dorton (kdorton@ci.taylor.mi.us) or Karl Ziomek (kziomek@ci.taylor.mi.us) in the Mayor's Office.
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