It was a great idea that was the reason for a middle school student to have the ability to run the afternoon session at last nights (October 1st) city council meeting. 

 Middle school student Maddox Nelles won the Mayor For A Day challenge for his brilliant idea. 

The idea is to change areas around storm drains from mulch to rock to prevent the drains being clogged and to further increase the safety of people around the areas by reducing the pools of water. 

At last nights City Council Nelles was given the power to run the City Council afternoon session. 

During the session, Nelles supervised a public questions period as well as a public hearing. 

Nelles ended the meeting by pitching an action plan to make his idea a reality. 

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