Young Emerging Leaders

All three City of Fort Smith Citizens Academies are accepting applications for the Spring 2008 series of classes.

The academies programs are a great way for citizens to immerse themselves and experience various facets of city government. We have great participation from YEL members and are looking forward to getting lots of applications this time around.

Dates
Citizens Academy               Thursdays      March 6 - May 22
Citizens Fire Academy         Mondays        March 31 - May 19
Citizens Police Academy      Thursdays      March 6 - May 22

Information about each academy is located here. For the first time, we've combined all three applications so that interested citizens only need to fill out one form one time. A pdf version of the application is here.

A few communities across the country have Citizens Academies -- several have Citizens Police Academies, and Little Rock launched a Citizens Academy last fall -- based on the success of Fort Smith's program. However, we haven't found a single community in Arkansas -- or anywhere else in the nation -- that hosts THREE citizens academies twice a year.

This program is the ULTIMATE in putting yourself on the inside of what makes your city government tick -- and what it's like to respond to emergencies. 

I PROMISE you'll have a BLAST!