Summary: Welcome to Roses & Weeds! A City of Tyler podcast that is here to keep you up to date with current events and news related to our beautiful city. In our this episode, we have special guests John Nix who is a City Council Member representing Tyler District 6 in the South part of town, and we have Smittee Root the Executive Director of Leadership Tyler. Both our guests today are graduates of Leadership Tyler’s Core Program. Leadership Tyler is an organization dedicated to identifying, motivating, and developing future leadership in Tyler. Leadership Tyler was first founded in 1986 and has a formal mission of equipping leaders to enrich our community. You can find out more about Leadership Tyler and about all its programs at https://leadershiptyler.org/, by emailing info@leadershiptyler.org or by calling 903-535-9242. Roses & Weeds is recorded at the Tyler Innovation Pipeline, which is a makers space staffed by the city of Tyler and the University of Texas Tyler College of Business and Technology where you too can come record a podcast with our world class audio studio, record something on a huge professionally lit green screen, use 3d Printers, Laser Cutters, and so much more. Memberships are now available. Roses & Weeds is hosted by City employees Veronica Brady Innovation Manager of the Innovation Pipeline and by Samuel Brady from Tyler GIS or Geographic Information Services. If you have any questions, comments, or ideas for future show topics please reach out to us at PublicRelations@TylerTexas.com, and be sure to #roses&weeds all your questions to the City of Tyler on social media. Recordings of City Council, as well as Meeting Agendas, can be found here: tylercitytx.iqm2.com/Citizens/Default.aspx. City Council meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month at City Hall 212 N. Bonner Ave, Tyler, TX 75702. Music used in intro and outro is Surfing day by Marcos H. Bolanos on Unchained Melodies Vol. 2, Creative Commons. Roses & Weeds is a City of Tyler production, all rights reserved. This episode was produced by Bob Mauldin, Julie Goodgame, Samuel Brady, and Veronica Brady. Edited by Samuel Brady. Shownotes by Samuel Brady.
