By Monica D. Spencer | InMaricopa
Some two dozen business owners and community members attended a town hall Thursday night to air their concerns to city leaders about how — or whether — small businesses are represented in Maricopa.
City Councilman Vincent Manfredi said he hosted the event with Mayor Nancy Smith and City Manager Ben Bitter after hearing such concerns from local business owners.
“I’ve heard from the community that businesses believe the city is not doing enough to help them,” he said. “I want to hear what they believe the city could be doing.”
And hear they did.
The scheduled one-hour session ran at least twice that long with local business owners voicing feelings of being ignored or undervalued in favor of big-box stores and corporations.
