2025 State of the City Video and Highlights Share

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The hon­or­able May­or, Ronald Mor­rell, Jr. deliv­ered the State of the City address on Mar­i­on’s 193^rd birth­day, 5/20/25.

Here are a few highlights:

-54% Gen­er­al Fund Cash Reserves

-$10M invest­ed in infrastructure 

-$65M in new business/​business expan­sion (total of 205 new jobs)

-$57M pri­vate invest­ment into the River­front District 

-By the DATA, crime is the low­est its been in the last 5 years

-$2.7M invest­ed in our parks 

-$1.5M invest­ed in Clean­ing up Marion/​blight elimination 

-Fire Sta­tion 1 set to break ground this summer

Over $130M of new invest­ment into Mar­i­on in just 18 months. 

#Des­per­a­tionToDes­ti­na­tion

Video pro­duced by Media Out­fit­ters, LLC