Mayor John Curtis says the second most important kind of engagement is civic engagement; being involved in the community. He came to BYU campus to speak the students and faculty Oct. 29, 2015 (Natalie Bothwell).
Residents of Provo are not as involved in the community as they should be, according to Mayor John Curtis.
Curtis came to the BYU campus on Thursday Oct. 29, 2015, to speak on something he feels is being severely neglected in the Provo City community: civic engagement.
The mayor said the vast majority of Provo City residents are not involved in things that will greatly affect them.
In the past Curtis received many emails about what he was going to do to make downtown Provo a fun place to be. He used the good example of someone who decided to take action: Courtney Kendrick, who launched the idea that eventually turned into Provo City Rooftop Concert Series. The Rooftop Concert Series has become so big that Provo City blocks off the entire west-side of Center Street to host these events.
Curtis said one of the greatest things about Provo is that it has reached national recognition as one of the safest places to live in the United States. He explained one of the biggest crutches that stops the improvement of Provo is that so many people have all these ideas of how to make it better, but no one does anything to make it happen.