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Youth City Council creating coloring book to teach children about city government; to be printed locally
Summary
City leaders praised the Youth City Council's plan to produce a coloring book about municipal government, saying the students visited city offices, will use local printer Royal Printing, and plan distribution to city schools.
Mayor Deborah Wimping and Aaron McCulloch highlighted a Youth City Council project in which student members are creating an educational book about municipal government.
Wimping described the project as a book about municipalities and what city councils do. She said the current group of seniors on the Youth City Council plans a coloring book that will be distributed to schools in the city. McCulloch said the students visited various city offices and took photos that will be used for illustrations, and that the printing will be done by Royal Printing, a local printer.
Officials framed the project as a civic-education initiative intended to introduce children to local government roles such as city councilor, city clerk and city attorney. The transcript captures city leaderspraise for the students and notes the city will use a local printer for production. No formal city action or funding allocation for the book was recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.
