By Maria Leon
Palo Verde City Reporter
The newly elected Mayor in Palo Verde City named Paris Long has a heavy load on her for the rest of the week. This Madam Mayor is not only the leader of our town that is also running for Girls Nation as well.
Before I get into her Bill that she will be working on I asked her a few questions on how she will use her skills to be a Funky Fresh Mayor for Palo Verde City!
The first question I asked Mayor Long was, “What is your leadership style and how will you use that in your role as mayor?” Her response was, “I like to work together with people. I think that collaboration is very important and every leadership skill. With being mayor I am trying to see where everyone is at and throw their ideas into our city because I think that their point of view and their mindset should be the goal of our city”.
For the second question I asked her, “What do you plan to implement in your city?” and her response was, “I was looking in our past city book and our map was scored very poorly. So in my mayorship I would like to create a map of our city that reflects our history better and makes Palo Verde a more innovative and collective society”.
For the final question I asked Long, “What is your main goal for Palo Verde at the end of the week?”. Madam Mayor responded with, “The main goal for Palo Verde is that all of the citizens of the city have made a relationship with each other, more of a sisterhood. I hope that we all work towards becoming capital city and that our doors look nice. I also hope that we have people getting the positions they want”.
Some girls from Palo Verde shared how they feel about Paris Long being mayor and we will get to that but right now let’s talk about the Bill that Mayor Long hopes to pass if she gets selected for Girls Nation.
This Bill is about the cost of student education. Many students do not pass the level of high school education because they simply do not have the money to pay for a university.
Low income families have children that strive to be successful and go to a higher level of education but it is not possible.
Paris Long wants to pass a bill that lowers the cost of higher education so that low income students can become more successful and live a better life in the future.
Now the citizens of Palo Verde have a few words to say about their Mayor that they elected.
First off we have Alysa Barcelo saying wonderful things about Mayor Long. Alysa stated, “So far I think she is really energetic. She really puts our time as a priority because she will run meetings quickly so we can get to bed or move on when we are doing something but she will make sure we have time”.
Another person who had nice things to say about Long was Jessica Lee. She said, “I think that our mayor has been such a good mayor. She is so kind and listens to everyone. She is so organized and I’m so glad to have her as our mayor. I feel like I can talk to her about anything and she will understand”.
One last person who had wonderful words about our mayor was Caleigh Hydock. Caleigh said, “I think she is doing such a good job as mayor. It’s such a hard task and you can’t even see her struggling if she is so I think she is doing a great job”.
Paris Long is an excellent mayor and she will be running for Girls Nation. Education is so important and it needs to be an option for everyone and not just for people who are financially blessed. This will improve things around the country! Best of luck to Paris Long for Girls Nation Senator!