And now the 490 with Gretchen.

The biker might kill him and Kevin Mullen up.

Welcome to the 419, powered by CTE and presented by Retro Wealth Management.

I'm Kevin Mullen.

Gretchen, do not kill him still.

It's Mayer Monday.

That's right.

It's my favorite first day of the week.

It is a sneaky fan favorite of people.

Do you tell me all the time how much they like, this segment.

This as we were developing.

We've got a big debt today.

Yes.

As we were developing this show, I was like, you know, part of it is looking at like, you know, we went from doing this twice a month to five days a week, which was like, good decision.

Yeah, of course, that wasn't in a lot of those development bets.

No.

You were you just were paid attention.

That's right.

You put most of it in the Excel spreadsheet.

But it was like part of May or Monday was like, here's a consistent way for us to be able to fill a day.

But I didn't realize how much I was going to enjoy.

I agree.

Like and so we kind of realized really after the first episode, like the biggest cheerleaders for any community is largely going to be their mayor.

That's right.

And so to have them come on and get a chance to see a community through their eyes has been a lot of fun for me.

And and we're getting a chance to do that today for the city of Perrysburg, as we have mayor Mark Webber joining us.

And then Tim Anstead with the Perrysburg Chamber of Commerce is going to be here as well as we spend the entire day in the beautiful city of Perrysburg.

It also is a unique way to talk about, the history, the current day in the future.

And you don't get all that in one episode.

And we've gotten the good fortune.

And then almost every time we've had a segment.

So I'm excited to hear a little bit more about Perrysburg, in the past and certainly where they're going.

It it's it's interesting.

There's like so many different kinds of businesses in the area.

When I was working with United Way, you knew that one.

You knew that one.

Come on down.

But I, I think it's is it Master Chemical?

Yeah.

There that is there in Perrysburg.

Like, I didn't even know this industry existed, but let alone.

That's right.

Yeah.

They're like.

They just make like, fluid and lubricants and stuff, and I'm sure.

Yeah.

I was like, I didn't know it, let alone.

It's like tucked in this little corner of Perrysburg.

Have Mister Freeze.

The great park system.

But mostly Mr.

Freeze.

Freeze!

It's got.

Yeah, it's gotta be open.

It's the high brown street.

We got.

I mean, that is.

That is how we dictate seasons.

Yes.

By when they're open.

That is a mr.

freeze.

Yeah, sure.

The show, sponsored by Ozempic.

Oh my goodness.

That's healthy.

Right?

Sure.

It's like.

Yep.

Seasonally comes from a cow.

Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's what you want me to call him?

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Of course you would.

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We're joined now by the mayor of the city of Perrysburg, Mark Webber.

Mayor, thank you so much for being here.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I know you made us invite you because of your birthday.

So here you are.

Yes.

This is.

This is the one gift I want is not birthday.

Thank you.

So sorry then.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's both things.

Think.

At the risk of being somewhat self-congratulatory when I say this, I will say I was, like, blown away when I reached out to Mayor Weber to be on the program.

And your response was that you knew about us?

Oh, yes.

Yeah, sure.

I was like, pleasantly surprised to hear it's going around the mayor.

She's the talk of the town, actually, near Monday's U.S.

Conference of Mayors is.

And, I was warned.

I came here, a month or so ago and did a podcast with, one of the other segments there.

And, so you've seeing other say.

Yes, this is this is my year.

I'm sorry.

It's okay.

You guys are number three or what?

A couple of like.

Sarah.

Well, it's hard to hear it live, but you were warned that you might be dead.

Yeah.

They said, you know, you might just get as I said.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

But, very, very, very excited to be here.

So, mayor, tell us a little bit about yourself.

How, how did you come to be mayo the city of Harrisburg?

Wow.

Tell you what, it was a, It's not the path that you normally would take on.

I, I retired as an electrician.

I was a local electrician for 30, 38 years, and, retired, actually, 55.

So I had, some time at home.

I renovated my house.

I worked on all my kids houses, and for a few years, I said, I don't have much to do anymore.

Honey, something to do.

And, growing up in Perrysburg, my born in, well, four years old, I was four years old when my family moved to Paris in 1961.

Sure.

And that's that's so funny.

To we, that's the year Perrysburg became a city.

They went from the village to a city in January.

So you've always been a leader in the community?

Yeah.

You get there in the city.

Day one.

Man, I'm older than the city.

You know, I do what I tell people.

Yeah.

But Gretchen is to the time anyway.

But all those years of, living there, growing up there, raising my family.

We, I never really got involved in anything with the community, you know, just go to work every day, raise family, run the kids wherever they have to go.

And and so after retirement, I thought you know, it's it sounds kind of cliche, but I really did want to give back.

I, I, I need to do something I mean, I and what really got me started, I, I, I love history, I love local history, and, I, I was collecting tons of photos of, historic Perrysburg just because, I enjoyed it so much.

And then I started putting these, pictures on, on Facebook, then and now.

Oh, yeah.

And, I mean, it was, it was everybody saying, oh, my God, these are great.

You know, anything in particular that is in the infrastructure now and then or, you know, pretty much infrastructure.

And that all started by me looking at my, my sisters, my, older sisters, old yearbooks from 1966.

And, and I saw these pictures of these old buildings uptown there and I and I'm thinking your older, decrepit sisters, how you want to.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that.

That age old gal.

Your words.

I'm so much younger.

Yeah, yeah.

That's right.

I took her yearbook uptown, and I'm looking at her.

The pictures that's in the back.

They had these advertisements for businesses.

Well, the buildings are still there.

different businesses.

And I'm looking at.

And I take the book and I'm like, wow, this, this building, it's changed.

But yeah, it hasn't.

So I started taking pictures of what it looks like now.

And I was posting these then and now side by side on school social media and I start and everyone was just loving it really picked up.

And then the, the local newspaper, I started putting them in there.

They said, you know, you need to do a book.

And everybody said, you've got to do a book.

And I said, well, I, I've never done a book before.

I mean, my gosh, I'm an electrician, I write books, and here it is.

I mean, actually, we did a book, and called Perrysburg then and now, and this was about four years ago, and on the back of everything and, yeah, I know I did that then and now of of myself.

Well, yeah.

Yeah.

Well that's great.

That's I'm involved.

But I have a ton of there's to be a thing.

There's a picture of you of 1973.

White pants, white shoes, white tie.

Yeah.

Which is totally.

I said a car salesman.

That's right.

Yeah.

Or on Miami Vice.

I was gonna say saying.

Then you switched to the white tennis shoes.

White shorts?

Yeah.

Which is kind of the then and now I get it.

I don't I could see the other.

My coauthor is, Gary Franks, and he, I started this book and I worked on it for about five years, and I was that's.

And then that's when I got, appointed to city council, okay?

And I just knew I wasn't going to have time.

So I put the whole thing aside.

While Gary and several other history loving people in Perrysburg said, you've got to get this book finished.

I said, Gary, if I'm going to finish this, you're going to have to help me, because Gary's done like six other history books.

So he really knew what he was doing.

Yeah.

So he, we did it together and we put it out in 2022.

And, we just did it for fun.

We, all the proceeds that we earned on that, we gave it.

We donated to the Perrysburg Area Historic Museum.

So talk to me about it.

Is there, a nugget, potentially something that you that was found in this process about Perrysburg history?

Is there something in particular that you find fascinating or want to make sure people know?

You know, I, I did this because, so many of the folks I grew up with are many and are still living there.

And I did it because I make a, like a, like a trip down memory lane for them.

Yeah.

But then Perrysburg is growing so much.

We get so many new people and they I want them to realize what what you what that used to be like in this town.

Yeah.

And so, it's kind of a history lesson for all of them.

Yeah.

And, it's really worked out well.

And people are buying it.

They were.

We sold.

We printed 1500 copies, and they're all sold out.

Matter of fact, that was one that I had left at my house.

That was my very last copy we're going to so that is is yours to keep.

Yes.

I wanted to get that as my very last copy.

That's so kind.

Yeah.

He's talking about maybe ordering more, but I, I think you might be the first guest to bring us a handmade, self-made gift.

I think.

So everybody else copped out and bought it from a store.

A lot of your daughter?

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

You're the second.

Oh, boy.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Look at that.

On the second hand.

The second.

I did say first guest.

My daughter has not been on the show yet, but she'll they'll probably help stop up the tears.

The mayor.

You were appointed to city council.

You served there for six years.

Yes, I did that.

So like I said, I started when I started thinking, you know, I want to see what goes on.

So I only live a couple blocks away from Municipal Building.

So I started walking down, when I knew there was going to be a meeting.

I'd sit in the back row and just watch.

And, you know, I never knew anything about city government.

This is like 2016.

Okay?

And, I just started going to every meeting, and some of the council members are saying, who's this is, we see you.

Yeah, we see your all the time.

You think of going on council I saw.

No I would never do that.

I just just kind of interested and.

Yeah.

But then we got to know him.

Said, you know you'd make a great council member.

You really should think about this.

That's how they get you and that's how they got it.

Yes, sir.

They talked.

Was there a vacancy or there turned out to be a vacancy.

And they so I, they appointed me in 2019 and and then they pointed me again in 21.

And then my, my son says, you know, dad, you you think you're a big shot.

You you didn't get elected, you got selected, you know, when you're going to really run.

Yeah, so I did.

So in 21 I ran for office.

And I say I finished up my four year term.

So I've had six years that council spiking the football on your son's head.

I feel like you know what I said I'm in victory.

I got the highest vote count too.

So I said now, but that's on.

What was it?

What was that experience like running for office for the first time?

Oh, it was grueling.

I because I am first of all, I'm not a public speaker.

I've never have been.

I when I worked as electrician, I pretty much worked by myself.

So I never really had a lot of interaction with a lot of people.

But that was the hardest thing, was going door to door and talking to people, but was so charming.

But the thing is, I knew, yeah, it was easy for me.

That part was easy because I love Perrysburg so much.

I mean, I know it so well.

Yeah, I've been there.

I was there with the population was 5000 when we, when I, one of my family moved in.

Now it's 26,000 plus.

So that's why I said, really, you are single handedly changed you.

You were there became a city.

And then you more than doubled the population.

You go.

Yeah.

Just one fell for, you just celebrated day 100.

Yes, yes.

On Friday was day 100.

And it's been a whirlwind.

And what a difference between council and and the mayor.

I mean, I really found out and but I love it.

I my wife said I've never seen you ever go to work with a smile on your face and come back with a smile on your face.

I really, really enjoy it.

And it's a part time job.

But I go out, I just go in there just about every day and they, you know, it's such a wonderful thing that you say they like me coming in every day.

I hope they mean it.

Yeah, well, just fire them off.

Tell us a little bit about the city administration.

How many people work for you?

Oh, okay.

Well, you know, mayor is a part time job, even though I, I kind of make it a full time because I love it, but, there's the city administrator.

Joe Fossett.

He does?

Yeah, he does all the day to day stuff that, I don't know what we do out there.

Deputy administrator, Pat Jones.

And then, we have, that's our administration, along with our executive assistant and, public information officer.

And then we have our oh, my gosh, we have we have 214 employees.

Okay.

So it's a lot.

Overnight, I went from never ever have an employee under me.

Now I have 214.

That's also something I can hold up.

And I said how am I going to remember their names?

I really it's important to me to remember names.

Yes.

And so my very first day I went to the HR director and I said, could you please give me, your photos of everybody because they all have ID badges.

I said, please send me a photo in the name of everyone.

So I took that home.

My wife helped me.

We printed them all out on cardstock and cut them up into little cards and made flash cards.

Yeah, sure.

So I had her, so I now I've memorized everyone's name.

You know, but I do that because I, I think it's important that it is that people remember stuff like that.

Yes.

Yeah.

a number of studies that say that everyone's favorite word like that, their brain triggers the favorite word for them to hear is their own name.

Their own name.

And I, you know, I don't think I see so many people every day.

And I don't want to say, hi, how are you?

Hey, guys.

How is it going?

You're like, no, I want to I want to dress in my name.

So I you say you mentioned that you love going to work and and I feel the same way about my day job.

But you talk to me a little bit about, what you love about it.

The people matter to you.

I was I was retired 14 years, sir.

And so what I and everybody said, do you miss working?

I said, I never miss the work, but I miss the people I worked with.

I had I had coworkers and I miss the camaraderie.

So I have that again now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I have it, you know, and I got all these different departments and sit and chat with people.

Maybe I stop them from working a little bit.

But you know, that's right.

They do it, you know.

And that's what I really liked the most is just the camaraderie to have coworkers again and, and, you know, you really joke around a lot.

I know you guys like to joke around a lot with each other.

That's what we do now.

You know, I don't like it that much.

What did you what did you campaign on?

What was the what was your message to voters and what are you what are you focusing on?

You know what's nice I, I, I our previous mayor did a great job.

So I did not campaign on change because Perrysburg changes constantly.

But I've always thought it was changing for the better.

And, but quality of life, Gretchen, is what I really, really wanted to expand on and what we're really doing.

Making a lot of strides that we're we're, really improving our parks and, and we have bicycle trails everywhere.

We're doing our multi-use paths, and we're trying to connect all those parks, if you don't mind it.

To me, Or is it.

I know it's right in here.

Yes, it is, but, you have a great parks system.

Can you talk a little bit about the giant inclusive playground to, some of the amenities are coming online.

Can you talk a little bit about the first in the area to get that inclusive playground?

Thanks to Ryan Wickman and his whole team there.

And, that that just meant so much.

And and, so now we just did, beach volleyball.

We have.

We have a tournament coming up.

That's.

And the thing is, the community gets involved.

We have so many volunteers.

Yes.

And that's another thing that got me involved is when I was doing the research for that book, I was looking up a lot of old newspaper articles, and the same names kept coming up of the same people that were doing all the volunteer work.

And I said, you know, look at these people.

They that's they took their time to for years, I was always the same names.

I said, you know what?

What have you done, Mark?

You know.

So that's why I really like them now.

I now I volunteer for about everything I possibly can and it's just, it's those are the people with the live hearts.

Live minds that really love hearts is a great way.

Just want to, just get involved and make their community better.

So.

But that's what I love.

And the parks.

Yeah.

Everyone.

They don't.

We the parks are so clean.

I think it's because the people that use them, they they don't trash them.

They really care about them.

Care about them.

And, pickleball is my my favorite.

And I play a lot of pickleball.

It is so good in places in Perrysburg, too.

It's like, oh, we have a great we have great pickleball courts.

We have six of them in our old municipal, park, right up right in the middle of town.

And then, eight beautiful courts in our rotary park, which I, I one thing I campaigned on, Gretchen, was I will get you lights for these, pickleball courts.

So we got lights coming this year for the pickleball courts.

So, I mean, a lot of people are happy that way.

Yeah, yeah.

At the risk of ending this segment on a on a down note, I mean, we talk about all the things you love and that you, you know, you get excited to go to work every day, 100 days in.

What's been the most frustrating or challenging part about being mayor?

Okay.

Yeah.

Answering tough questions like that.

No.

Yes it is.

The most challenging part probably has been the public speaking part of it for me.

You know, then and, especially because it's not used to that.

Yeah.

Accustomed to you.

Oh my gosh.

Well, construction.

Yeah, I clean that.

That's all.

Clean up.

No it is.

Yeah.

Sometimes you do have to.

Yeah.

You go from construction worker edition.

You got to really be careful what you say 100%.

Yeah.

But no, I Kevin, that's a good question.

I, it's all been challenging, but it's been a learning curve.

I, all the way.

But I really rely a lot on my, that administrator and deputy administrator to, hey, you know, bounce things off of them, and and, it has to really, really know what they're doing.

Not to be able to do everything you want, right away, right?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And and there's a place you look, I'm glad you brought that up, because I. I keep telling this.

I can't believe how slow government works.

Yeah, it's just I came from construction.

They send you out to get a job done, you go to get it done, get it done that day.

So I said, hey, let's get this done.

It needs to be done.

Well, you know, there's a lot of procedures here.

We go through Mark.

You know, there's studies, there's committees and there's budgets.

Oh yeah, there is all that.

But let's still get it done.

Yeah.

So I do have to read me in a little bit on that, but I guess like why I mean why are those things important.

Right.

Why are the studies in the committees?

I mean, if you come to.

Yes.

Not so far.

Yes.

Yes, I've absolutely found out the importance of that is because it's, you know, we can't just make those decisions on our own when then people are going if things don't go right, because that who made that decision.

But if you have the data to back you up, just like our little robots we have going around on the sidewalks right now.

Yes.

No, we're not just walking around saying with one of the yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're not just going to let's just fix that sidewalk.

Let's fix that.

No.

Now these robots and they are the cutest little you should stop and interact with.

I don't know, they'll they'll just, you know, talk with you and stuff and, but they're given the most precise data that we need to fix this.

The sidewalks make all of our right of ways Ada compliant, which we have a lot of big projects going on for that.

You know, our business district on Louisiana Avenue, where it's all tore up right now.

But we're, it's a sign of progress.

Yes.

We're.

Yes.

And we're, we're wanting to get everything Ada compliant, and we want to make, you know, anybody with any abilities should be able to come in and shop in these doors.

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Mayor, if you're describing your you're traveling the country, you're describing your hometown, Perrysburg.

To someone who's never been here, how do you describe Perrysburg?

It's funny you say that.

I we have traveled my wife and I, we've our goal is to to travel to all 50 states.

We're up to 47.

That's what normal people do.

Yeah, it's a bad job.

And I haven't been since I got since I haven't gone to the last.

I only cross the river.

I haven't seen her in 12 years.

Yeah, right now she's hit all 55.

Yeah.

I mean, if I say, you know, Perrysburg is is, you know, it's.

And I've watched it grow, but it's never lost its charm.

Yes, sir.

It really has not.

We and and it is it's, you know, sounds cliche, but the community, the people, there are so many people that just, want to volunteer.

Even ones that have been here forever.

And the new people, we've got so many great new people that will just say, how do I get involved?

I really do, and I, I really admire that.

So, have you been volunteering for us to be true of me too?

We've just met.

But do you find me more charming now from the first segment to this one?

Well.

Good.

Yeah, yeah, you have to be honest.

You know, you don't have my.

I mean, my entire life, my entire lifetime, Perrysburg has been a destination city like that, that you see, you know, I mean, I grew up in Sylvania, moved to Toledo, and, you know, you see, your friends that are starting to have families, and they're like, I got to get to Perrysburg.

I mean, what why why is that?

Well, a big reason is our schools.

Yes, sir.

Perrysburg schools, have you had, you know, always been at the top of the excellence rating and, and, my daughter's a teacher in Perrysburg schools, and I know firsthand those teachers care so much about the kids and the whole the whole administration.

So and look at our great wrestling program and all of our sports.

Oh, yeah.

Everybody.

They come.

It's a destination town, mainly.

I think our schools, though the schools make the city and the city makes the schools, I believe.

And I had a conversation with Tom Hassler, the former superintendent, years ago.

I was working at Saint John's.

Of course, he's a superintendent at Perrysburg.

But it was a Saint Francis grad, and I had asked him, like, cause he's involved at Saint Francis.

Like, why?

Why is this?

I think you'd be to competitors.

And he had said to me, and it was this eye opening moment for me working in private schools, that he said his goal at Perrysburg is to make sure that the only reason why someone would choose a Catholic school is for religion.

Yeah, sure.

Make sure that every other opportunity exists.

Yeah.

And that the entire I mean, it's not just super, but the staff, he's done an incredible job of making that happen.

Absolutely.

I started off with, I grew up, I went to Saint Rosa Catholic Schools for six years, and I went to the Perrysburg public schools, and I mean, and so my children, I, you know, they all graduated Perrysburg public schools went on to be very successful.

All of them are, BG and three of them have master's, 2 or 3 of have masters between them and their spouse or daughter teach, music.

She's a music at, elementary.

Frank elementary.

She and her 21st year.

How about that?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's just incredible.

And you know what?

She loves that job so much because the children she sees, she's already teaching children of the former students.

Yeah, sure.

And but some of them, they'll go on and get into high school play and then, you know, they.

Yeah, they, they invite her to come, come and see me in the play because I, you know, I learned how to sing when I was in kindergarten.

You other than the other than the schools, which is, which is very highly rated.

What's something else?

What are other things that you're doing to drive the economy of Perrysburg?

Well, we are focusing on our route 25 employment corridor.

You know, we always welcome any kind of retail restaurants, everything mixed.

But we really want to help the schools as much as we can.

So we want to broaden that tax base by by attracting more industrial manufacturing.

A lot of that.

Yes.

We'd like to be three years behind big announcements.

Yeah.

Well okay.

Now, now we had a great announcement.

You may have already heard it on Friday that, whirlpool is, coming to Perrysburg and they're going to occupy one of these, large, facilities that have been empty for quite some time.

So that's going to bring 100 plus jobs, right?

Right.

In the first year.

So we are really excited about that.

And that's in the exact area that we want to develop, farther south from about Rolleston Road South.

And make that bring in these quality jobs and make that more of a, focus on advanced manufacturing type of work that will really, really, help the schools and, you know, provide a lot of jobs for folks.

And there's so many legacy, long term businesses in Perrysburg.

You have the amazing Walt Churchill's market, you have cone camera, you have Mr.

Freeze, all kinds of places in Perrysburg that people from the region love.

What do you what do you say to them?

What are you what are you doing to work with them to help continue to that their there.

You know what we and you're going to you're going to meet Tim Anstead shortly here and that's that our, our Perrysburg Chamber of Commerce really does an amazing job of of promoting all that and especially our local.

So yeah.

Right.

I mean it's well anybody local I really we, we always try to push you know shop local, shop local and we want to keep but these mom and pop shops that started so many years ago and are still at that just means so much to us.

I mean, even where we have our t shirts made at a little shop there, you know, I all my campaign stuff I did.

Yeah.

You know, with, with a local mom and pop shop, I always try to, keep them, go get back to them and make them, you know, want them to stay here.

And if you ever going to have visitors come to Perrysburg for the day.

We've asked other mayors the same question.

They're going to come in.

They want to check out Perrysburg.

Or maybe, you know, family members.

What are you.

What are you doing?

What?

You're picking them up at 10 a.m.

on a on a Saturday morning.

What are you going.

All right, well, no one gets up at 10 a.m., so starts.

Really?

I said up at seven, yet started.

Give us breakfast options.

Yes, I yeah, but you take us give us a day in Perrysburg if you could.

Oh I absolutely will if I, if we have, if we have family come in from out of town, you're going to, we're going to take your we're going to start off, we're going to go down, so Woodland Park and go through the sculpture walk.

It's just a beautiful thing that's very you don't see that around this area.

It's just one of the fields in the whole, you know, it's have one of those crappy Metroparks.

Yeah.

And we're going to we're going to go have breakfast at the lamplight or one of the, nice, great coffee shops that are right on Avenue.

We, we're going to go to, Fort Meadows and do a great tour of like, the, you know, the largest walled up, right, in all of America, real history.

Yes.

And I'm going to show them about the history.

Around a quarter of a mile down, we're going to stop at the Perrysburg RV Historic Museum.

Or, if it's not open, I have a key because I'm on the board there, and I will I will give you a personal tour of the of the museum.

We're very proud of of our our heritage and preserving it at that museum.

A little bit deeper.

Dive.

Give me one thing that is your favorite to visit in that museum.

I know it's probably a long list, but you got to give me one.

Oh, okay.

What's the coolest?

The coolest thing is the coolest artifact in that museum is probably, Oh, my gosh.

But in one of the showcases, they have the, the tools of old, doctor McAuley.

That that, he, he, birthed so many babies here.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

And the most interesting thing is they got the forceps there.

Oh, my gosh, there's something to find.

Yeah, sure.

And I imagine what that was like.

But yeah, that's kind of cool.

People, you know, people say, oh, doctor McAuley, the legend and from Harry's.

But, Oh, there's so many.

We have a police and fire room upstairs where, we have a, Native American artifact room up.

That is.

But the one room schoolhouse is really, really cool.

We have a little, it's looks like a one room schoolhouse, and and, there's a little chair up in the corner says dance.

Got the dunce cap space?

Yeah, I'm familiar with that.

Yeah.

So, Right.

So that gives us.

Yeah.

We're talking with Mark Webber, the mayor of the city of Perrysburg, as you think about the rest of your first term, what are your goals as as the mayor?

Well, we have some major projects coming up right now that, you know, our revitalization going on on our business district uptown.

We've we did phase one last year of the 300 block of Louisiana Avenue, and now we're going to be doing, the 102 hundred blocks.

It's already started.

And so, that is going to be very exciting to to have that done at the end of next year.

We have our wastewater.

Nobody like to talk about wastewater treatment, but you got to go somewhere, right?

That's right.

And we're doing a major, and that is economic development.

Yeah.

Have people move.

That's true where it is.

We're growing.

You have to grow our our wastewater treatment.

Right.

So and so we're we're doing a huge, $8 million a project there that's, so I'm, I love seeing that through.

All these construction projects are right up my alley.

And then our municipal building that we are outgrowing.

It was built in 1965.

We're expanding at the same.

So we, found another building.

We're going to kind of split up our, our, crew there and give but some of them in that building and then renovate.

We're going to renovate both buildings right between this year, next year.

And everyone's excited about that because it needs it.

So these are all capital projects that I'm really excited about.

And like I said earlier about making our right always all Ada compliant, that's that's huge.

Because, you know, we want to always be very inviting and welcoming, and we want to make sure that everybody can get around.

That's right.

But my, my really, my favorite is, is the, the trails we are putting.

So many multi-use paths around that, to make it safer to get around town.

So I really wonder, is in the region?

Yeah.

Thursday nights, downtown Perrysburg.

It's just a wonderful event for family and kids, and it's it's spectacular.

Oh, yeah.

And it's it's getting so well known.

I know Tim is going to want to talk about that when he comes on, but that is, they're just doing a wonderful job there.

I fact my son has a farm down in Wayne and we used to I spent five years in that, in the booth with him way before I ever got in city council.

I thought I was going to be a farmer's hand all this time, I'm sure.

And I was his little ranch hand.

But, we sold eggs.

We sold all, kind of grass fed, you know, beans, eggs, pork and all that.

So that was a lot of fun there in the market.

But, that's, that is a one of the greatest attractions we have.

We are going to stop the fun now because it is time for Gretchen's wacky quiz, which I know you're a fan of the show, so you know what's coming, but I'm going to ask you.

We're going to switch up a little bit.

I'm going to ask you for rapid fire questions.

Those are the ones that scare me.

Yeah, sure.

All right.

Gretchen's going to ask you to describe Perrysburg in one word.

Describe Perrysburg in one word.

Yep.

All right.

This is different You ready for it?

You give me the book back, and then.

Yeah.

And then you and Matt are going to put together a list of the nine best things.

Your nine favorite things in Perrysburg.

Oh, okay.

All right, so you got that?

Yes, sir.

Yeah.

Here we go.

Rapid fire questions.

Easy ones.

All right.

Easy ones.

What fortune would you want to get from a fortune cookie?

Oh, wow.

That's not easy, What fortune would I want to get from a fortune cookie?

Actual fortune.

I think the lottery numbers.

Boy, that's a tough one.

What?

Fortune?

Oh, well, yeah, I will take, yeah.

How about that?

Give me the.

No, I don't play the lottery, so I don't want to.

Yeah.

You know, the.

Let me tell you real quick, I opened up one fortune cookie says help!

I'm trapped in a tree.

That's a good one, I like it.

What's the song that you know all the lyrics of By Heart?

Oh, my gosh, there's so many.

But, I would be surprised by one.

It would be very surprised that I know the song.

The lyrics to the song taxi by Harry Chapman, 1972.

Love that song.

Yeah.

I believe you, I, I don't, I don't even know that song, but I do.

You guys should sing it together.

We'll do it there at the break.

If you could look like someone famous.

Oh, boy.

Who would it be?

My last name is pronounced kill him.

If I could look like someone famous, who would it be?

You know, I really like, George Peppard.

Okay, I like that.

Yeah, that.

Know what?

I'm working on it.

Yeah, I'm not sure.

I got the glasses, the gray hair.

So I'm really trying.

Not so much.

Yeah, I like, what's one thing about you that most people don't know?

That I don't look like George Bush?

Haha, yeah, it's a two.

I can't believe I admitted that.

Yeah, that's, that I have never had a cup of coffee in my life.

Yeah, we're gonna have to ask you to leave, I know.

Yeah.

This is water.

Yeah, yeah.

All right.

Interesting.

What is the one word you would use to describe your beloved Perrysburg?

Oh my gosh.

Welcoming.

Love it.

Well, yeah.

That's welcoming.

I want we really want to welcome.

That's how I describe you, sir.

All right, all right.

We're going to do it.

It's gonna be this actually will be more difficult for you than those other bozos I know because there's a million things that you want to list here.

Yeah but we need nine from you.

All right, all right.

Number one, number one is, farmers market, farmers market, Fort makes what makes the sculpture walk.

Sculpture walk?

Yeah.

Five.

Seven seven Foundation.

Absolutely.

Perrysburg area historic museum doing great.

Let's see.

The lamp light cafe.

Yes, sir.

Well, how many more do I need?

You just have three more, Mister.

Freeze!

Gretchen.

Gretchen walked out.

If you don't know what I. Mr.

Freeze and.

Oh, dear.

Diner.

Yes, and twisty tree and Natalie, what's your.

Why?

Because they're all great.

Your wife's name?

Rachel.

Got them.

All right.

Mary, you've got the state of the Union address coming up on Wednesday.

Yeah, state of the Union Wednesday.

My first.

My first one ever.

So you'll be great.

I asked them to leave.

You know, I it's going to be at the white public library.

And I said, the library doesn't want anyone bring in vegetables that they're going to be throwing at me.

So just take them to the compost.

That's right.

Yeah, well, I'm sure you'll do fabulously.

All right.

Thank you.

So thank you so much.

You for me here.

Appreciate.

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Welcome back into the 419.

It's a mayor Monday edition of the 418 here on the GTI.

And we're taking a tour of the city of Perrysburg.

Just wrapped up a conversation with mayor Mark Weber.

We're joined now by the director of the Perrysburg Area Chamber of Commerce, Tim Mann said, Tim, thank you for being here.

Kevin.

Matt, thanks for having me.

You are no stranger to broadcast rights.

You've got some experience in this.

Yeah, I worked for about 15 years in, corporate radio down in Lexington, Kentucky.

So, you know, I know all this behind the scenes stuff that's going on here, and it's kind of cool to see how you guys operate.

What, what brought you to.

Are you originally from Harrisburg?

So I'm a, 2002 graduate, Perrysburg High School.

So if you know Perrysburg history, the.

Well, the high school that I went to for three years was the one that was on west south boundary where the football stadium is.

Yep.

For my first three years of high school.

And then my senior year was at the and I still call it the new high school ever.

It looks at me kind of weird.

Sure, 20 plus years old, but it was my senior year.

That was my, that year, the first senior class to graduate from there.

And, I went down to Kentucky for school and work for 20 years.

I came back and I still call it the new high school.

Yeah.

So it's not new anymore, but it feels new.

What?

What brought you to the chamber?

So, family and I live down in Lexington, and, you know, we just decided to move back to northwest Ohio to be close to family.

And, I did the same thing from Chicago.

I guess a lot of, you know, there's a lot of pairs where people around you I age that are, you know, going to the big city, going away a couple hours away and then moving back to Perrysburg.

So you have the family who who move back with you, wife and two kids.

So the five year old.

The seven year old.

That's the real deal.

You're in it.

That's something, you know, they're they're joking with me about early mornings.

I was like, I have a five year old, seven year old.

I have a three.

And six.

Yeah.

And you're like, what?

What was it we talked with, you know, Mayor Weber about, you know, at least for my experience, my entire lifetime, Perrysburg has been a destination city for families.

What was it that had you of of all the cities in the country you could choose?

What was it that have you saying we're going to Perrysburg?

Yeah.

Well, I mean, you guys met Mayor Weber, so he's like a huggable teddy bear.

So that was one reason why I wanted to come back.

And, you know, had this great mayor of this community, but, you know, it's a school system, you know, I went through the Perrysburg school system.

It's just a great place to raise a family.

You know, there's a lot of amenities.

It's safe.

Yeah.

The city does a really good job, you know, with its services and everything.

So, you know, all those types of things were, you know, a big part of money.

Move back.

And also free babysitting over the last 103 days.

Been the very best days of Perrysburg lives.

Yeah.

That's what the mayor asked us to say.

Yeah.

You know, the mayor and I go through a little bit of a public spat, and, I heard him mention on the earlier segment, uptown Perrysburg.

So there's like a divide, a generational divide in Perrysburg where, you know, everyone under a certain age call it downtown Perrysburg, and everyone over a certain age call it uptown Perrysburg.

So, and that's exactly kind of conflict over the history.

You know, growing up, you know, people like, grew up in the area.

They, downtown Toledo was the only downtown just right.

Every other, you know, uptown was uptown Maumee, Uptown, Perrysburg, uptown, Sylvania.

But at some point, you know, and I know that makes our current mayor's blood boil at some point.

The narrative switch to downtown Perrysburg.

So, you know, at a certain age, I'm not going to give out ages, but it might be 60 and over by big town and maybe under 60.

They thought downtown, you know, topographically, I think it might be if you're over the hill, you're still looking it uptown.

Maybe that's what it is.

And so now that the mayor has walked out, I feel like you stormed out.

I gotta he's probably heading to downtown right now.

I'm going to kick off.

So, yeah, I will never be allowed to move to Harrisburg.

So I mean, well, that's right.

And buy a house.

So that's true.

There's probably play, talk to us about the Chamber of Commerce.

What is the Perrysburg Area Chamber of Commerce.

Yeah.

So it's actually kind of funny you asked you that's how I end up at the parish or chamber.

So, when I, we moved back up here, I was still commuting back and forth to Lexington every week for work.

You're kidding me.

And I was like, well, you know, this doesn't really work with, you know, a one year old and a three year old, and I got to find something.

Yeah.

So the Chamber of Commerce job opened up, and my story is kind of like, you know, Mark Weber, you know, in 2016, he had no public, you know, office experience.

I didn't know really what the Chamber of Commerce did.

But I was like, oh, this looks like a good opportunity to just apply for it and see what happens.

And a couple days after my interview, they offered me the job.

And, you know, it's a cool thing.

You know, you get to, you know, have a lot of media experience and, you know, sports background, what's worked.

So I so I played soccer in college.

I played soccer at Perrysburg, soccer and basketball players where I played soccer in college.

Where do you play?

Center.

College.

And so I'm back up north now, so I can say Danville.

Yeah, but down there it's Danville.

They like to say they're vols, you know, Louisville, Danville, Pikeville.

I'm significantly older than you, but I had a long high school career getting creamed by Perrysburg in soccer as well.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, we had we have a pretty good squad.

You know, my senior year we lost in the state championship game in a shootout.

Oh, wow.

Which really stings because when you lose that game, you only think about it when you're 17, 18 years old.

Yeah.

Then you move back here and you see all the signs for all the state champions.

The wrestling team just won the state championship.

They get, you know, all this love and parades and tours and we were in second place.

And we don't really get much love.

But that's exactly we played a state I think finalist.

And when we played them was a shootout too.

Only they were the only one shooting on our goal.

Yeah.

And I got to pull the ball out of the back of the goal.

A lot between the three of us.

We have two, college athletes.

That's right.

Yeah.

Was going to keep it at that and a little more sports experience.

So when I got my job down in Kentucky, you know, I manage the news talking sports stations in Lexington.

But a big part of that job was I also manage the University of Kentucky football and basketball radio networks.

Oh, wow.

Which was an awesome job for a couple of years.

Yeah, I got to be there, you know, and John Calipari was the basketball coach.

The football team wasn't that good.

It was SEC football.

So it was kind of cool.

And then I worked all the time, you know, seven days a week.

And I always wanted to work in sports.

And I got to work in sports.

I never one was Lamar.

There was a quarterback Lamar.

He was at Louisville.

Yeah.

So oh I permanent.

Yeah.

But so yeah we played against Lamar a couple of times.

Yeah.

But what's speaking of talking talk to me about the economic, development in all the companies are immersed in the period for Cambridge.

Yeah.

I know you guys and mayor Mark hit on, a little bit, but, you know, Perrysburg is always kind of been a bedroom community, you know, and, you know, you have space, you know, and somewhere in the community, and before you know it, neighborhood multifamily housing unit, you know, pops up and you have more families and more strain on the schools.

So, we do have a lot of businesses coming here, a lot of restaurants, a lot of retail, a lot of office space.

I always say, like Levis Commons.

People don't understand some of those upstairs office space, the Levis Commons are multi-million dollar, beautiful companies.

That's right.

They're based here.

There's hang out in Perrysburg.

And the reason that they're here is because, the reason why I moved back here, you know, there's there's good place to eat, there's good schools, there's good housing.

It's a connect a lot.

It's easy to.

These are.

Yeah.

But we're also naturally, being where we are geographically, you know, the the crossroads of America, the intersection of 1875 is just a desirable place because you can get to Detroit, you get to Cleveland, get to Columbus.

Chicago, Detroit.

So, a lot of these companies want to come here, and then their families can live here and play here and, enjoy it.

I mean, you've got you know, Owens-Illinois, whirlpool is coming, for solar is in Perrysburg.

But then you've also got these small mom and pop shops.

Yes.

How do you, as the chamber kind of what's what's the relationship between those and how do you, you know, how do you serve both of those masters at the same time?

So our sweet spot, you know, in the chamber world is employees one, you know, sole proprietors, you know, is you up to about 50 employees.

That's the sweet spot of the chamber.

Now, that doesn't mean we neglect, you know, the big industries and companies that you just said.

Some of those companies are hard to, you know, they're they're based internationally, but, you know, our our job is to kind of bring the small businesses, the mom pies, the chains, the big industries, the big companies together and, help tell the story.

Perrysburg, that's Perry's was such a great place.

And why are these companies here?

Why are the mom pies that have been here for 30, 40, 50, 60 years still going?

And it's because it's thriving.

It's successful.

You know, the community supports these businesses.

They want to see these families that they grew up with continue to thrive and succeed in Perrysburg.

What's what's your dream for Perrysburg?

Oh, this is where you start.

That's the hard questions.

That's right.

You know, I just want, you know, people to continue to do this kind of my same story, you know, come back.

They might not be from here, but when they move to Perrysburg, when they see Perrysburg their first time, they have good experiences and they're like, this is a great community.

Maybe someday I could see myself, you know, opening a business here.

Sure.

Raising my family here.

Because this just seems like a wonderful place in northwest Ohio.

We're talking with Tim Anstead with the Perrysburg Chamber of Commerce.

One of the big things that you guys do that, you know, certainly folks in Perrysburg know, but it becomes a destination draw for Perrysburg is the farmers market.

Yes.

Talk to us about the Perrysburg Farmers Market.

When does that start?

And, how quickly do I get my my fresh baked goods and jam?

Yes.

So, when I moved back in 2021, I start to hear about this parish or farmer's market.

And I was like, oh, I've been to farmer's market.

You know, it's a couple stand selling corn and maybe some some other baked goods, you know, all this kind of stuff.

And I my first farmers market was like, whoa, yeah, this is a festival.

Every Thursday in Perrysburg.

And, you know, it brings people the community loves it.

And it brings people from all over northwest Ohio.

And it we see people, we'll have people that will be driving through.

And they experience one Thursday in Perrysburg, and then they make a habit of every time they are driving through the area, whether it be coming from the east, the west, the north or south, they try to come through on a Thursday to experience their farmers market.

So it begins this year.

It's always the Thursday before Mother's Day, and we have to do that because we have several, flower merchants that have a bunch of flowers that they want to sell for Mother's Day.

Support public service, do not put flowers in before mother's Day, no matter how warm you think it is.

The last frost warning is pulled officially after Mother's Day weekend, so that is really good advice.

Okay.

Yes.

Yeah.

Make sure to do that.

But.

So it's May 7th, Thursday, May 7th, from 4 p.m.

to 8 p.m.

in downtown Pittsburgh We are under construction downtown Perrysburg.

So this year's market is going to be a little bit unique, but very exciting.

We're going to be closing the entire, Louisiana Avenue from Front Street to the railroad tracks, to traffic and parking.

So we're going to have vendor booths because one side of the street is under construction, and we have vendor booths on the west side sidewalk, and also in the west side parking spaces at 100 and hundred blocks.

That would be really exciting.

I think community is really going to appreciate having, you know, instead of moving it or shifting it somewhere else in Perrysburg or somewhere else in the downtown.

This allows, the community to still see our historic downtown.

The visitors are still come and see what's going on in downtown Perrysburg.

And it also keeps that foot traffic up, to some of these shops that are feeling it a little bit from the construction, the lack of parking.

So another great event that you guys have.

And it fascinates me, because I think the same thing happens every year for this event.

And it's, it's unfortunate, but Winterfest, yes, is another great Perrysburg event, and I, I swear it is the warmest day of the winter.

Every year on winter Fest.

So if we could schedule Winter Fest for Mondays opening day next year, that would be great.

That's what 70 degree weather talks about.

What?

Winter fest.

Yeah.

So?

So Winter Fest is put on by our downtown organization, Downtown Perrysburg Inc.

And I believe the past couple of years it's been in February, I don't know if this is confirmed, but I know they're looking at January date for next year for 2027, so that the chances of it now now it'll be like -50 or that's better than, you know, 50 degrees sunny.

So yeah, Winter Fest is it's ice sculptures and family fun.

I think they had close to 100 ice sculptures this year.

They were split between, Levis Commons and downtown Perrysburg.

And it's just a great, weekend to bring the family out and enjoy, you know, the downtown area, both static events, I think are a good snapshot or microcosm of Perrysburg as a whole.

Right.

So it's the whole community comes out, it's safe, it's walkable.

There's, there's vendors from all walks of life there.

It is a good snapshot of what I think you and the mayor both describe Perrysburg to be like.

Yeah, we we asked this question to the mayor.

We'll ask you, you know, friends from college or coming into town to Perrysburg and spending the day.

What's that day look like for you?

Are these my friends from college when they're, like, 25 years old?

No, they're 42.

They can't do it.

Right.

That's a little bit different.

Yeah, sure.

So, you know, there's the one thing that we always say about Perrysburg is there's just so many different experiences.

So, you know, I'd want them to experience the, the good restaurants.

You know, when we got inside the five swag we got, you know, the really nice ones in Levis Commons because of the benchmarks.

Experience the restaurants.

We have great, you know, a park system.

The mayor mentioned some of these multi-use paths and these trails.

I know that I'll probably get maybe I'll get escorted out here, but one county park district is about to open the Chelsea Circle Trail.

Phase one.

And it's the greatest park district in all of Northwest Ohio.

Okay, I will tell you about that dreadful candidate, Chris.

Molly, who heads wood, is a smart guy.

Hard working guy.

Family guy.

He's an asset to northwest Ohio, to great parks.

Yeah.

So, like, you know, it's this gem, and it's.

And it's in Perrysburg Township, but it has this beautiful visitor's facility, and I take my kids in there and, you know, they have, like, well, fun things.

It's always open.

It's rentable.

And their trails are great.

And there's you circle trails popped up out of nowhere.

It's like, wow, this place is pretty cool.

This is gonna be a great little asset to northwest Ohio.

So, yeah.

So, you know, people outside, I think, you know, now that we're kind of in, it doesn't feel like spring yet, but I think next spring, summer, I think spring's coming.

You know, when the weather starts to change and people outside there just so many different experiences from Perrysburg, you know, restaurants, shopping, you know, walking through downtown, walking through Levis and enjoying the outdoors.

All right, let's do it.

We're gonna put you on the spot.

Okay?

It's now time for Gretchen's wacky quiz.

It doesn't quite feel the same making fun of Gretchen when she's not here.

Yeah, it's it's fun if you still enjoy it.

Better.

Okay.

All right, I'm gonna ask you for rapid fire questions.

Matt is going to ask you, to carry both.

You carry both.

So you got your scribe Perrysburg in one word.

Okay.

And then list the nine best things, okay.

In Perrysburg.

All right.

Harry, good question number one.

What's one thing that you were unbeatable at?

Oh, wow.

Question answering karaoke.

Yeah.

All right, man, what's your song, Purple rain?

Yes.

Wow.

That is not where I saw it.

But we've also had a pop hard reference today, so, big day.

All right, we're going to.

I'm going to need to hear this before you leave.

What's your favorite pet's name?

Trapper first dog.

When I was little kid.

Trapper.

Oh.

What are three objects that you, three objects you own?

Do you value the most?

My car gets me to a place to place, I don't oh.

My kids, I can't say that.

Right.

See my two kids?

Yeah.

Okay.

All right, there you go.

They're great.

How many times do you hit snooze in the morning?

Oh, I hit it three times this morning, and I wanted a fourth, but, three times.

Yeah, it's only nine minutes, though.

I feel like my butt and my phone is only nine minutes.

I feel like it should be ten minutes.

It's like I'm getting gypped.

That's the kind of thing when you run against mirror, the mirror, you're going to change that to a ten minute snooze button?

Yeah.

He needs to add that to the center.

There you go.

That's right, I like it.

All right.

The one thing.

And the scribe.

Yeah, that's right.

It describes Perrysburg in one word.

I would just say fun loving.

I goes with some of the experience.

Yeah.

One is a great answer.

I said, all right, nine of the best things in any order.

Okay.

I'm a history guy, too, so Fort Mags love it.

577 Foundation.

Great place.

I'm gonna go a little Perrysburg Township in trouble.

WWII nature preserve, for sure.

Let's see Hood Park.

The park is pretty good.

Park slash riverside park.

That's the one that goes along the river.

Yep.

Walking trails?

Yep.

I like craft beer, so I'm going to go inside the five.

What do you drink when you get there?

What?

Your favorite, the stout.

I'm mean, I'm a Guinness guy.

All right, there you go.

All right.

Swig last one I get in trouble for not, lettuce.

Comments.

Doctor Deimos with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Coffee porter with ice cream.

Okay.

Phenomenal.

Yeah, I highly recommend it.

All right, Tim, thank you so much.

What's an upcoming event, that the chamber is working on?

Oh, well, one thing we didn't mention is music at the market starts, June 4th.

And that kind of goes on.

The farmers market is June, July and August.

And that's in the Commodore Sweetheart field right there.

You got a great lineup.

Awesome.

People want more information on the chamber.

Where can they get the chamber.com?

It's handsome Tim Anstead with the Perrysburg Chamber of Commerce.

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It's the end of another incredible Mayor Monday edition of the 419.

As we took a tour of the city of Perrysburg with mayor Mark Webber and Chamber of Commerce Director Tim Anstead.

Again, I mean it every time.

Yeah, certainly.

You've got two individuals that absolutely love Perrysburg and are, dedicating every single day to making Perrysburg, the place that they continue to love and a place that their kids, and grandkids will love.

Yeah, we're, there be no surprise to people who watch or listen to the show.

We are relatively new to this.

So, we, at least I still feel very anxious.

If we get someone that comes on the site comfortable, we have to kind of pull information out of them.

But Mayor Monday has never, needed that.

And this was no exception.

You know, I cannot believe that the mayor kept referring to public speaking and things like this, not being comfortable to him because he is incredibly charming.

How much he cares about, his city, is obvious, and I just.

I would gladly volunteer for him.

I can't help but think that that's part of what makes the public speaking hard for him is that he does care so much and wants to get it right.

I mean, it's the the down to the detail of, you know, he gave us this, Perrysburg then and now, a book that, that he coauthored a pictorial look at the past and present, a parody of Ohio.

This was his last copy of The Blow, and he brought it in, to be something that we put on the set here.

And, Kevin, you're a renowned book burner so that I should be given to you.

Really incredible.

I've.

I've actually been trying to find my matches.

You thought Ray Bradbury was a how do you, author?

So this is really putting it.

But.

And and even a joke about this, he will I meet him for the first time.

Yeah.

I'm in pairs of, episodically to little, But that is who I would want my I want to I want to see if yours is.

And we got we got to go quick.

Yours is the same as mine.

What was the most, endearing thing he said that he's done in 100 days learning the names 100%.

Yeah.

That he that he went to the time of print out the photos to learn the names of of all 212 of his employees.

That was a classic make they make.

People who run golf courses do that for their members.

But having the mayor do, it's a different story.

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