{"id":11633,"date":"2025-03-17T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=11633"},"modified":"2025-03-17T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:47:29","slug":"state-of-the-city-address-by-mayor-flowers-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/event\/state-of-the-city-address-by-mayor-flowers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the City Address by Mayor Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Yvonne Flowers will deliver the State of the City address on next Friday night, March 21, at The Bardavon 1869 Opera House, 35 Market St., Poughkeepsie.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor will be highlighting the city\u2019s accomplishments, key priorities, and vision for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Flowers began her term in January 2024, becoming the first African American to hold the position. She has focused on working with partners on housing options addressing the homeless issue, spurring economic development and seeking more grants for the city, among other initiatives in her first 14 months in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to providing the public with important updates on these topics and so much more,\u201d said Mayor Flowers. \u201cWe have made great headway so far, but we realize there is far more to do. There is a new level of cooperation between the City Administration and Common Council, and we continue to grow the vast number of government and community partnerships we have created. The city has laid so much groundwork and is poised to reap the reward of that hard work,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The State of the City event will start at 5:30 p.m.<a href=\"https:\/\/cityofpoughkeepsie.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e00eed7ef2bf4addeabf4b729&amp;id=7231593c62&amp;e=21563e7f64\"> RSVP by March 18 here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event also will be made available live and for replay on the city\u2019s website, www.cityofpoughkeepsie.com and its Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11634\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/files\/2025\/03\/unnamed-57-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1977\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/files\/2025\/03\/unnamed-57-scaled.jpg 1977w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/files\/2025\/03\/unnamed-57-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/files\/2025\/03\/unnamed-57-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/files\/2025\/03\/unnamed-57-768x995.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/files\/2025\/03\/unnamed-57-1186x1536.jpg 1186w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/files\/2025\/03\/unnamed-57-1582x2048.jpg 1582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Yvonne Flowers will deliver the State of the City address on next Friday night, March 21, at The Bardavon 1869 Opera House, 35 Market St., Poughkeepsie. The mayor will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/event\/state-of-the-city-address-by-mayor-flowers-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;State of the City Address by Mayor Flowers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9436,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-11633","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11635,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11633\/revisions\/11635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11633"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/officeofcommunityengagedlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}