A resident told city leaders it was time for them to work together as a team to improve the community. During Monday’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting, Billy Young said he was going to begin his own efforts to reach out to the local youth, encouraging the city council to also put their own differences aside.
“Yazoo City is not the Yazoo City I use to love,” he said, during the public commentary section of the meeting. “When I was coming up, the whole neighborhood was my parents. But nobody has that love anymore. And you are supposed to be a team. We all have got to work together.”
Young said the younger generation needs to be taught respect by everyone within the community, adding that efforts need to be made “in the beginning.”
“You can’t wait until they are grown,” he said. “Starting next week, I am going to start getting to work. And it’s not just the kids, but it’s these people just standing on the corner. We are not supposed to be living like this with all these killings.”
Young encouraged the city council to work together in an effort to resolve some of the many issues within Yazoo City.
“Y’all need to start doing what’s right and work together,” he said.
