Thomasville Insights
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Thomasville Insights
Why Are There Traffic Cones Everywhere? A Midyear Update
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We sit down with City Manager Chris White for a midyear look at what’s moving in Thomasville and why the pace of work feels like a whirlwind. We break down the biggest budget in city history, the projects behind the road cones, and the practical ways you can get involved.
• record-setting operating and capital budgets and what progress looks like
• infill development district that unlocks hundreds of previously undevelopable parcels
• stormwater utility as a long-term way to fund drainage and runoff work
• downtown entertainment district rules, benefits, and early results
• Remington Avenue streetscape timeline, water main replacement, and retention pond impact
• Old Albany Road pedestrian safety improvements and GDOT partnership
• municipal building and auditorium renovation scope plus the upcoming temporary relocation
• parks, airport, landfill, sewer, and resurfacing projects across the city
• why current resurfacing funding creates a decades-long cycle and what could change it
• ways to serve on boards, watch meetings, and follow city updates online
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Welcome And Midyear Check-In
SPEAKER_01Welcome to Thomasville Insights with the City of Thomasville. On the podcast, we'll talk to experts on everything from Thomasville history and events to daily operations and city business, all while having some fun in the process.
SPEAKER_03Welcome to Thomasville Insights with the City of Thomasville. I am Austin Reims and I am here with Ricky Zambrano, man of the year.
SPEAKER_01Ricky. You know, you skipped a couple of episodes with that, so I'm appreciative that you brought it back and uh hopefully it keeps you in your place and keeps you grounded. Um of the presence that you have sitting next to you. Yep. You realize I came back a little stronger this time. I love it. You know, yeah, yeah. And uh you know kind of growing into the shoes of it. That's right.
SPEAKER_03Ricky pays me five dollars every time I mention that he's man of the year.
SPEAKER_01So uh you know and uh you're you're making me bankrupt. So let's let's let's let's pump the brakes a little bit. We'll we'll pump the brakes, unlike the acceleration of the days and months of 2026, which uh has led us into nearing the end of May that quickly. And uh, you know, it's graduation season. Graduation season, so much more. Uh once again, the Mets are you know nestled near the bottom of the standings. So it certainly is May if the Mets are nestled at the bottom of the standings, but at least we got the Knicks.
SPEAKER_03All right, there we go. That's right. Uh we're we're sorry for having these uh New York uh updates to sports, but here we are. That's uh what Ricky Zembrano can bring.
SPEAKER_01But that's because it's not college football season yet.
SPEAKER_03That's right, that's right.
SPEAKER_01That'll be uh season two of 2026, right?
SPEAKER_03That's right, that's right. We we are uh you know got a mid-year update and uh everything goes fast. And uh finishing up the uh the season number five is uh by my counts. Is this even season number five? I believe it is, Ricky.
SPEAKER_01If you say so.
SPEAKER_03All right, very
Meeting City Manager Chris White
SPEAKER_03good. Well, we have a special guest, and I do mean special. Uh Ricky, would you like to introduce our very special guest?
SPEAKER_01I'll try and get the words out because I get so nervous when I'm in his presence. And uh, you know, unlike you, who you just say whatever you want in his presence, and I'm not there yet. You know, you're 20 plus years, I'm the new guy around here. So uh one day the guy will wake up and be like, we gotta get rid of this guy.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So let's I'll be respectful when I introduce the greatness of our city manager, uh Chris White. It is such a pleasure. I'm gonna ramp that up a little bit more. You know, such a pleasure to be in your presence and have you here with us today. Um, we are all better today because we're sitting next to Chris. Did that kind of amp it up a little bit?
SPEAKER_02Does that sound pretty good, Chris? Ricky, you know what? I I'm it's just no honor to be in your presence. I mean, you are the man of the year. I'm not the man of the year. I'm not even the man of the hour. You're the man of the year.
SPEAKER_01I mean you're you're like the man of the last 29 years, though.
SPEAKER_03I mean Philadelphia. But also, as of note, I don't remember very many center managers ever being man of the year. Maybe Tom Barry won it after he retired or something. I think he got that after he retired, if I'm not mistaken.
SPEAKER_02Or is it the close close to that? I don't know. I don't remember exactly.
SPEAKER_03I mean, here's a City of Thomasville employee just getting man of the year. And I mean, what about Chris? Now Kay McDonald got woman of the year. That's true. That's true.
SPEAKER_01She was city manager.
SPEAKER_03She was retired. She was. She was retired.
SPEAKER_01Listen, it's kind of like my approach to Valentine's Day. You don't have to celebrate something on one particular day when you know Chris has uh his day every day, doesn't he?
SPEAKER_02Austin, you and I are just in pure greatness. That's true. That's true.
SPEAKER_03You know when you you know when you're here in front of greatness. So I'm glad the community finally recognized Ricky's greatness.
SPEAKER_02And he's got he's got the face for podcasting and radios. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01That's only that's Austin's line. Only Austin can tell me that. Now, Chris, you know, now we gotta back up a little bit. You you're kind of uh knocking off the dynamics here by taking Austin's lines. You know, he's gonna get insulted because he's he's the only one that can insult me around here.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01But in all seriousness, it is it is uh great to be here at the midpoint of the year and have Chris here uh with us. Uh and uh, you know, really, and and this is no exaggeration. Every time uh Chris is able to be here with us, we're able to learn not just you know more about our present times, but uh he he always been is able to give us a little bit about the history because of the time period, yeah, uh the decades that he has spent here serving our communities.
SPEAKER_03He wasn't here when the town was founded, but it was close. It was close.
SPEAKER_01I think he put on the first electric clothing. Yes, right, 190C. He turned on the light switch the first time. Yep, sure he did. Proud to say it, Ricky. But but we are we are in the midpoint of our year, and it's great to have you here. And and and I'll start with a with a simple one for you, Chris. Just, you know, you you lead this great organization of over 450 employees. You know, when you think about it and you sit back and think about it, what aspect of your role do you take most pride in?
SPEAKER_02Well, and you mentioned 450 employees, um, Ricky. That that's spread across really about 35 departments. So very diverse and very complex organization. And what I enjoy the most and uh about my job is being able to take the initiatives and ideas and recommendations um from those various departments and and get those um in front of our city council and getting all those initiatives across the finish line. You know, I like being in the middle of that, making sure that that happens. That that's probably one of the most rewarding things that I have about my job.
SPEAKER_01And and uh, you know, we can I think we could all attest that that is uh certainly the truth. And uh there's not many calendar invites that Chris will decline uh across the board when it comes to uh project and things like that. He keeps himself very informed, and that's why it's we're very lucky to be able to carve out some time in his schedule to get him on here. So we we certainly appreciate um you making time for us, Chris. Absolutely.
The Biggest Budget In City History
SPEAKER_03Well, um kind of you know, you you kicked off 2026. Um, you know, we did that in early January podcast, and we're halfway through. Sort of kind of, what do you what do you want to characterize the first half of 2026? What what word would that be?
SPEAKER_02Um let's go with a whirlwind, Austin. So uh we have had or we we passed the the largest budget in recorded history for the city of Thomasville, you know, a hundred and forty million dollar operating budget and fifty-two million dollars in capital projects. And that is, you know, almost triple most in any any previous year that we've able we we're able to get that much done. So if we're able to get all of these projects across the finish line this year, it will be monumental. Now, chances are there's gonna be a few that we that may roll into the first quarter of 27 or so, but uh our goal is to get as much of that done as we can.
SPEAKER_03The the way I heard you say it in a meeting one time is um you know, uh sometimes Chris has a a good uh short, concise way of saying stuff. And it was there's there's concrete and roads tore up everywhere. True. And uh you were lying. There's a lot of uh a lot of progress going on, but but um um you know, uh below the surface, a lot a lot of stuff going on.
SPEAKER_02It's hard to make a turn here in town without running into uh seeing a street cone or a backhoe or a detour sign or a barricade. That's right. We've got work going on everywhere. Really, really busy year.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's and certainly been uh extremely busy six months to start off the year.
Housing, Stormwater, And Downtown Changes
SPEAKER_01Um as as you look at the first six months, uh and talk to us about some of the major highlights of this first half of the year.
SPEAKER_02So outside of capital projects, we were able to get our traditional neighborhood infield development district approved by city council. That took our planning department quite some time to do that. And on the surface, that may not seem like much, but what that does is allows for we have about 500 properties or so in in town that were undevelopable. You couldn't build on them because of our own coding and our own ordinances. So this unlocks those parcels for uh development, in-field development for hopefully affordable housing for the folks that live here. So that was a big lift for us uh to get that accomplished. Um another big initiative that we got across the finish line was our stormwater utility, which is not always popular by everyone, but it is much needed. You know, we spend well over a million dollars a year in stormwater activity, and this is just a mechanism to help pay for the services that are being received by the the folks that live in here and uh traverse our city streets.
SPEAKER_01And and important to understand on that note is that it allowed to set a staff that addresses those needs.
SPEAKER_02Dedicated to that to that effort. And then another good initiative that we had was uh the creation of the entertainment district, which is really benefits our downtown um and allowing for uh alcohol consumption, very, very regulated, very controlled, but within the boundaries of that district downtown, and to allow people to enjoy those those beverages while they're dining on the sidewalk or or while they're shopping. So yeah, and it saves us money too. And it saves us, I think the number was you know twenty-four, twenty-six thousand dollars a year and overtime and cups and things of that nature. So yeah, really a good move in the in the right direction.
SPEAKER_01And we just celebrated our first Roe Show and Festival with an entertainment district in place. We did, very successful.
SPEAKER_03Yep, glad to have that there.
Remington Streetscape And Old Albany Progress
SPEAKER_03Um, couple of major projects. We've been talking about these a lot. I know our audience is pretty familiar with um uh some of these that are gonna be uh finished here. What a give us an update on Remington Streetscape, and uh it's it's getting closer. Uh you know, it's all the roundabout and the roses in the roundabout.
SPEAKER_02So yeah, so we've the roundabout is completed. The portion from the roundabout that Smith uh is also completed. You may notice all the roses within the roundabout, and we were trying to be uh in a um commencement mode, uh plant 200 uh roses within the roundabout and that area right there, that intersection of the roundabout. And the balance of that roadway should be completed by um August. Okay, maybe mid-August. But there's a lot of work that's still got to be done out there. A lot what has been taken a good bit of time is the water main extension. So we're replacing all that water infrastructure along that entire route all the way out to um Pine Tree Boulevard. And you'll notice there's being a retention pond that's being constructed there at the county EOC operation. So that's gonna really help with some of that stormwater runoff in that area and help this at actually helped save us millions of dollars in stormwater management to move that water uh through the ditches and pipes along uh Remington Avenue. So that was uh um a great idea that some of our engineering staff come up with and to be able to retain that water and hold it and let it dissipate over time.
SPEAKER_01And some will say, uh, and fair enough that they will say that why can't we just go ahead and get the road paved while all this work is taking place? But there's a lot of heavy equipment, as you've mentioned during council meetings, a lot of heavy equipment trucks that are you know traversing the area, so that just damages the roadway if you if you pave it.
SPEAKER_02The last thing we want to do is spend all that money in paving and beat it up with with dump trucks and you know, tractor trailers and backhoes and skid steers and things like that.
SPEAKER_01And uh another major project, Old Albany.
SPEAKER_02You see, Old Albany should be, you know, funny enough, that that initiative started in 2019.
SPEAKER_04Yep.
SPEAKER_02So I am more than ready to get this across the finish line. Um that is a Department of Transportation owned pro uh uh roadway. So it's technically uh it's their project, but we we are funding 20% of that. So it's about a five and a half million dollar project. The city's on the hook for 20%. But um, we feel like it's very important to have um pedestrian activity from town, Carroll Hill area, all the way out to plantation oak uh drive for folks that live in those two apartment complexes on Cassidy and Old Albany Road.
SPEAKER_01Yep. And it looks great. It's looking really good. Yeah, yep.
SPEAKER_03Very safe, you know, really as we said before, you want to make everything as pedestrian friendly as possible. And that road wasn't originally designed for that. No, but now now uh you're kind of retrofitting it for that.
SPEAKER_02So that should be done this summer as well.
Municipal Building Renovation And Relocation
SPEAKER_02Excited about that.
SPEAKER_03Uh another thing in uh we've talked about, but uh we've got the uh capital improvement budget also included some couple of dollars for the municipal building and auditorium. Um tell us, uh can you tell us where we're at on that one?
SPEAKER_02Well, uh, we'll go with a couple of dollars. That's it's uh budgeted at 6.5 million, which is uh a big, big lift for this, and we're in this in that building in this space today. But uh what that will include is a lot of life safety and deferred maintenance issues. We're we'll be in um have asbestos abatement, we're putting in a um fire suppression system. We're taking uh a look at all the intrusion, uh water intrusion, which is coming through some of the seals of the building. Um the windows and doors will be addressed, as well as our auditorium, you know, with paint, carpet, and um our infamous ceiling in there that looks horrific. Um that will be changed out and and um redone, and the rigging on the auditorium will be replaced. So it you when you ride by on Crawford or Jackson, you probably won't see six and a half million, but uh trust us, it's there. It's all in the it's all in the interior of the building, if you will. But great project. We recently received a um $500,000 grant from the Fox Gives uh Fox Theater kind of associated, right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_02It's part of Fox Theater, so great organization. We're very honored and privileged to be able to receive that multi-year grant um for for this building.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's gonna be um, you know, this uh it's probably been hard to know for um for council and for for staff to do what to do with this building because it's in use all the time. People kind of wanna, you know, they have dancer saddles here and and the graduations have been here and and city business goes on here. So um it seems to make sense to kind of get it all over with as at one time because there's a lot to be done here.
SPEAKER_02Yes, sir. I mean, unfortunately, we're gonna have to vacate this building and it's gonna displace all the staff that is here for at least a year. We know that. So stay tuned for more information about that, uh, where our main street office will be relocated to, uh, visitor center, and and actually our city council um uh meeting quarters will be relocated as well.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and there's a that's a lot uh behind the scenes to find and coordinate that, and then we've got to market that to get people there. Yeah, yeah, all the stuff's gotta, and it's gotta go somewhere. And yeah, yeah, so there's a lot going
Parks, Airport, Landfill, And Sewer Projects
SPEAKER_03on.
SPEAKER_02So aside of that uh capital project, Austin, we've got um quite a bit of other um capital projects going on. We're doing a landfill expansion at our landfill uh for about four and a half million dollars. That should be completed at the end of this year. We're doing a five million dollar expansion at our airport for additional hangar space and um some runway lighting improvements. We are doing about a five million dollar wastewater or sewer project uh over on um East Pine Tree Boulevard. That way we can dig up yet another road here in town. That's right. That should get started here pretty soon. This is the year of the parks improvement.
SPEAKER_03So we've got a lot of that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we've got a project going at uh Balfour Park, uh, which would be phase one. That's a a million and a half dollars on that spin. We're doing a five and a half million dollar project at Paradise Park phase two, which was um, and this is it's a really about a six million dollar project, but um three million dollars of that came from the state of Georgia, and then the balance of that is probably gonna come from not probably will come from private investment. So um we've already raised close to two million dollars on the private side, which is phenomenal. Yeah, that's awesome. I mean, it's just phenomenal.
SPEAKER_03And that part looks great. I I can't wait to see all the parks get get up and going after these improvements.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's um and it's all like you said, it's already looking good, but um it's gonna look even better. And then and every year we do quite a bit of street resurfacing. So we've got about seven million dollars in street resurfacing and uh and yeah, for the town. Much of that includes water work up under the street. So we always try to go in there. If the if the infrastructure needs to be replaced, we go ahead and replace that infrastructure prior to resurfacing the street. The last thing you want to do, yeah, you know, pick up the street. Beautiful new street. We're bad enough at that as it is. We don't need to be doing that intentionally.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah, and sometimes you can't help it. Sometimes you don't help it. Water main, you you just got to get to, then that's what happens.
Road Resurfacing Limits And T-SPLOST
SPEAKER_03Yep. So um, and again, uh as you said before, the um, you know, we have the the splost is paying for some of the roads, but like we're not still not paving enough roads just yet at the moment.
SPEAKER_02No, we've got 153 miles of roads, city streets, right? So on our current funding source, we're doing about three miles a year. Maybe a little more, maybe a little less, but about about three miles a year. So I went to Thomas County Central, but three miles a year, 150 miles of streets, you're looking at a 50-year cycle. Yeah, that's a long, long time, and that's not sustainable. We really need to be resurfacing, you know, seven, eight, nine miles a year at at minimum. But there may be an opportunity here in the tail end of the year in November, I'm told that a transportation swast is gonna be put on the ballot. So I would encourage all of our listeners that um if that when if and when that time comes that you vote in favor of that T splost. That will put um the sales tax here to nine cent, which does sound high. But um, you know, we're all about consumption taxes. Let people that use uh our services help pay for them. We're such a destination town and we have so many out-of-town folks that come in. Why not let them when in their purchases of meals and and hotel stays help pay for the some of the services they receive. Put some of the things that instead of putting it on the property tax.
SPEAKER_03And I, you know, on the landowners. And we um from your homeowners and landowners and all that, but also to me, I know last time you said maybe you know 20,000 people-ish live here and 50,000 come during the day. I man, I kind of think it's more. I mean, I can't believe every time I go out on 19 and 319, you can't you can't get across town no more. I mean, that's uh that's gotta be more than 50,000. Anyway, that's just me. I mean, I'm totally speculating, but anyway.
SPEAKER_02Well, you can look at the at the arterial corridors in the mornings, and it is just a line coming you know, all inbound.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02You know, from 19 south, 19 north, you know, coming in from Cairo, yeah, 84 east coming in from Cairo. I mean, it's 319, that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, we mentioned November and uh and and obviously the potential of having that as a as an option for voting.
How To Follow Council And Get Involved
SPEAKER_01Um, you know, on that topic of of civic duty, you know, uh, Chris, what what to you, what are the best ways for our community to get involved and uh keep up to date with everything that's before council and and and other uh natures of what we do?
SPEAKER_02Well, um, first of all, I would encourage anybody that's interested in that and uh uh signing up, um, putting an application to serve on a committee. We have numerous committees here within the city that act as um steering committees and recomm recommendation committees for our city council, you know, planning and zoning, uh, Main Street Advisory Board, Downtown Development Authority, and if there's a ton of them. So I would encourage uh anybody that's interested in serving, serving in that capacity. Um also, you know, attend city council workshops and city council meetings. Sometimes I know the schedules don't allow folks to go to those, but um I encourage you to do that. If you can't do it in person, they're they're live streamed and they're archived on our website, so you can go back and watch them and hear what's going on in the community and what the what the city council's got going on. And as always, um, you can stay tuned to one of our many resources of outreach is our our website, this podcast, our newsletters, um radio shows that we do, and all of that. I think we we joke that we do everything except carry pigeons and smoke. Signals as far as trying to get the messaging out to our communities. But that's a true statement.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Ricky was learning Morris code the other day. I was wondering why you were doing that.
SPEAKER_01I was trying to start my car.
SPEAKER_03That's what that sound was. Okay. All right. Well, um, kind of last question coming up. Uh, you know, just kind of uh last message and things to share with our community as we kind of wrap up uh the first half of 2026 and wrap up the podcast season. Um, thoughts with the community.
SPEAKER_02Well, um every day I'm reminded how fortunate we are to call this place home. And our community continues to thrive because of the people who make this city special. Thomasville has always been defined by a strong sense of community. We don't just say that. I mean that's that's true. We have pride in our history and commitment to progress, whether it's supporting local businesses and investing in our neighborhoods and celebrating our traditions or preparing um for the future so we continue to move forward together with a purpose and opposite. So I want to thank uh each of you for the role you play in our city in making our city exceptional. Your support, involvement, and dedication help strengthen our community every day.
SPEAKER_03Don't cry, Regional. It's about time. It's about us, are we gonna make our community?
SPEAKER_02It takes us all. As we look ahead, we remain committed to providing excellent services, enhancing the quality of life, and creating opportunities that benefit everyone who lives, works, and visits Thomas.
SPEAKER_03And some of what uh you're in a bit of a driver's seat where you see so many aspects of the community converge to make a great community, and where you see business or in industry, you see volunteers and you see city staff, except for me and Ricky, city staff really working hard to um to make a great community.
SPEAKER_02Well, look at the output of this great community. You've got Ricky's Ambroma. That's right. That's right.
SPEAKER_03What else can you ask? That's true. Uh can we retire as a city? This is the best we can do. You know, we're like, all right, we're out. Drop the mic and we're done now. Uh we've we've done enough good to the world.
SPEAKER_01Do we qualify for a pension? That's right. Right? Chris, can you write can you write that in the pension?
SPEAKER_03No goodness. Yeah. Um, well, we we certainly certainly do thank you. Uh thank y'all for having me. And um, you know, city manager, I've been around long enough to know that uh it is not an easy job. Uh you are um on the hook and in the line of fire for a lot of things. Um, and we appreciate your efforts. We we know that you care about staff, and we know that you care about this community, uh, and it shows, and we appreciate it.
SPEAKER_02Thank you, Austin. Thank you both.
Thomasville History Did You Know
SPEAKER_01All right. We're switching gears here a little bit in honor of the bicentennial. Our 2026 podcast will include a Thomasville History Did You Know segment. Uh, this information is generously provided to us by the Thomasville History Center. You ready?
SPEAKER_03I'm ready. Here we go.
SPEAKER_01We we we missed it in that podcast one of May, but but we're back. So here we go. Uh, did you know that in 1870, Thomas County population at that point stands at 14,523? Who is that 23rd person? Is really what I'd like to know. Uh moving forward a couple of years, in 1874, the first Mitchell house, Thomasville's first luxury hotel opened in the 100 block of North Broad Street.
SPEAKER_03And so where the uh the euporium is for uh the emotion toy store emporium emporium. Um I don't know. I don't know. Nobody knows. Nobody knows. Nobody knows the old Neil House, as people call it, but uh that that's where that was, and it was facing the courthouse. So it had a pretty cool courtyard if you see some of the old pictures.
SPEAKER_01Okay, and lastly, in 1877, Thomasville's Henry O. Flipper became the first African American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. You know, for someone that moved here in 05, it is incredible as you dig through history to find out so many deep-rooted uh pieces of history uh that are significant nationally that come out of this community. And um, and and I'll be honest, I'm gonna be I'm gonna sound ignorant when I say this, but when I came here, I thought Charlie Ward was the biggest thing that came out of Thomasville. And that's been the biggest pleasure for me uh to learn the history of the community in so many different ways that this community has impacted the the country as a whole.
SPEAKER_03And um And Charlie Ward Jr. being one of those too, I'm for sure. Yes. Yeah, but knocking him, but just saying there's a lot more, a lot more than you see. Yeah, I mean remember, he played for the Knicks. So there you go. There you go.
SPEAKER_01He was my point guard. That's right.
SPEAKER_03He had a great career. Great, great NBA career.
SPEAKER_01Well, we're we're nearing uh we're nearing the end.
Coffee With City Managers And Season Wrap
SPEAKER_01So uh j just some some reminders as this is the last uh podcast of our first half of the season. So our our calendar is gonna be pretty widespread, but we do have uh an upcoming event of note, and that is on Tuesday, June 9th. We will hold our coffee and conversations with the city managers, the spectacular Chris White and our assistant, even more spectacular assistant city manager Cheryl Seeley.
SPEAKER_03I totally recommend that you ignore Chris and talk to Cheryl. I mean, you know, that's totally what I would recommend.
SPEAKER_01And Chris would be okay with it.
SPEAKER_03Chris is shaking his head over here, agreeing with us.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that that will take place on on uh on June 9th, as I mentioned, at 5 30 p.m. And that will be held at the Thomas County Public Library. Um, as was mentioned earlier, uh there are going to be a lot of moving parts with the municipal building. So we encourage the community to keep a keep an ear, uh an eye out, and and an ear to the ground uh to hear about all those relocations uh that will be taking place. All that information will come out through Thomasville.org and our social media outlets. And as always, uh we will have a laundry list of uh of events such as First Fridays coming up and other community outreach events that will all uh social media will always be the best place to gather all of that information while we take a little break from uh the podcast season.
SPEAKER_03That's right. So uh we'll be uh getting back uh you know, come August or maybe the end of July is when season's gonna be.
SPEAKER_01Guess what comes back at the end of July?
SPEAKER_03What's that?
SPEAKER_01The intern takeover. We will start the second half of the year with the traditional, what has now become a great tradition, the intern takeover. Um you know, our our interns that will be with us at that point nearing the end of their uh summer internship, and they will have full control over the internship of the over the podcast. And uh it's it's been great the last couple of years that we've done that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they've done an excellent job. And um, we're just glad to really like that program and like to get uh uh young folks in here and uh see what they what they bring and fresh ideas they bring to the table. It's always kind of fun to watch and uh and see and listen to. Uh again, just want to thank everybody. I'm uh closing the show out. I want to remind you to uh subscribe on the podcast and on your favorite listening app so that you can give us a hard time.
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