Salem City Hall On Move To Levesque Community Life Center (For A Day)

SALEM, MA — Salem City Hall is on the move once again — for one day, anyway — as part of the next Mobile Mayor's Office.

The program, designed to relocate all or a portion of a day to serve the public from a location beyond the wall of City Hall, will move staff to the Jean Levesque Community Life Center on May 21 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

"We're always thinking about how we can help improve access for community members to their local government," Salem Mayor Dominick Pangallo said. "We want everyone to be able to connect with our team easily and conveniently.

"We found the first rounds of this program in November of last year and in February of this year to be successful and well-received, and now we are working to expand it and offer this service more regularly and throughout more parts of our city."

For this month's Mobile Mayor's Office, Bates Elementary School students worked with the newly launched Salem Children's Alliance to create a community art project that students will present as a gift to the Council on Aging during the mobile office hours on May 21.

"Our youngest residents have the power to positively impact their community, starting with learning about empathy for others," said Sarah Roy, Director of the Salem Children's Alliance. "Bates students read the book 'How Full Is Your Bucket?' by Tom Rath, and learned about the importance of embracing their unique identity, while building awareness of how their words and actions impact those around them.

"This project is an opportunity for these students to begin viewing themselves as powerful and important and will serve as a building block for future civic engagement opportunities in their schools and beyond."

The Mobile Mayor's Office welcomes community members to visit the CLC with questions or concerns.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)