City Connection - New city Emergency Manager joins Mayor Bliss for in-studio discussion

Every month, Mayor Bliss or a representative from the city will be open to all questions sent in during or in anticipation of her live on-air show "City Connection." The mayor will respond to citizen questions submitted by calling in, emailing, tweeting or just posting a question in the comments section at the bottom of the article page. This month, Mayor Bliss is joined by Grand Rapids' brand new Emergency Manager Allison Farole. Mayor Bliss and Farole, who assumed her position in September of last year, will talk about the city's disaster and emergency readiness programs as well as a variety of other issues facing the city today.

For over 18 years, the mayors of Grand Rapids have hosted City Connection, a monthly, live call-in show on GRTV’s Livewire, Comcast channel 24. Mayor John Logie started the program in 1992 as a way to share mayoral perspective with Grand Rapidians and to bring a little more transparency to local government. City Connection is an opportunity to interact directly with one of our city’s top elected officials.