• State of the City 2018

Just a brief recap of the 2018 State of the City even held at Wildomar City Council Chambers. The event was free to attend, which included samples of food from Angelo's Brick Oven Pizzeria, Pie Nation, WaBa Grill, and Dunkin Donuts.

The opening slide of the presentation.

The event was put on by the Murrieta/Wildomar Chamber, and they were pouring craft beer from 8 Bit Brewery during the reception hour, which began at 5:00pm.

Mayor Ben J. Benoit delivering The State of the City address.

The attendees included many residents of Wildomar and several elected officials from nearby towns. The program started a bit after 6pm with an introduction by one of the chamber board members, followed up by a prayer from John Pleasnick of Faith Bible Church. 

Boy Scout Troop 332 served as color guard and brought the flags to their places in the room. This was led by newly minted Eagle Scout Damion Gonzalo as the audience then recited The Pledge of Allegiance.

The theme had Wildomar as the heart of Southwest Riverside County.

From there Mayor Benoit spent about 40 minutes giving some history of Wildomar, some statistics, a look at our emergency services, roads, parks, and a pitch for Measure AA, with several videos woven in between.

The coming name change of Baxter/Central/Porras/George/Shopping Center
to Wildomar Trail was highlighted.

This wasn't the type of meeting that needs to be quoted or analyzed. State of the City events are really just a chance to show off what's going on in a city, and do some networking at the same time. 

The 2018 Wildomar City Council: Tim Walker, Dustin Nigg,
Ben Benoit, Bridgette Moore and Marsha Swanson.

Great job Mayor! (and thanks for the shoutout) ☺

I liked the way the front of the Council Chambers looked, and the white chairs inside. The videos were nice as was the speech. The only way to improve it would be to get the production live streamed on a city source. Maybe next year. 

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
– Douglas Horton

One thing you can say about Wildomar Rap is that it's been pretty constant over the years. 

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