 Hi, I'm Alicia Woodruff, and welcome to the Fort Report. We've all heard that all politics are local, but a quick look at voter turnout in recent elections shows that people aren't so engaged in local politics. Mayor Betsy Price has been working to change that, and get people healthier at the same time, with rolling town halls. The bike ride series ended October 26th with a Halloween-themed costume ride through downtown Fort Worth, and Fort Worth Television was there to talk to the riders. The costumes ranged from the simple to the strange, but those serious cyclists showed that they know how to have a little fun while getting some exercise. You know, it wasn't as hard as I thought. There was room for my legs to move, and I tried not to wobble too much, so it went fine. The Halloween ride marked the end of the Tour de Fort Worth Rolling Town Hall series. Though most of the rides this year have been near 20 miles, riders wrapped up the series with a short ride and a bit of a twist, a graveyard tour. Welcome to Pioneer's Rest Cemetery. This cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Fort Worth, though a graveyard tour might make you think the rolling town halls are dead. Mayor Price is only putting the bike away for the season and going on foot instead. We started the town hall series to try to engage people, to get people out. You know, I always say with your crazy enough to put spandex on, show up in public, people will talk to you. They'll get real comfortable with you and they'll tell you all kinds of things about the city and what they think and what they need and what they want to hear from their elected officials. The walking town halls are pretty much like the rolling town halls, the bike town halls, except that lots of people don't cycle, but most everybody does walk, and you can get out and walk with us a mile or a couple of miles, talk to us, tell us. Plus, you can see a whole lot of the city that you may not have seen before as you're moving around. Walking town halls begin in mid-November and are scheduled through the coming year in every city council district. This is a part of the engagement, getting our citizens out and getting them engaged, getting them to speak to us and give us their feedback. Rolling town hall, which is on my shirt, is something that I believe in, that I stand for and that has really changed my life. I've never felt so connected in a city as I do with this city, so I love it. We are going to start substituting the walking town halls for the rolling ones. The days have gotten where there's not as much daylight now, and it's hard for people to get on their bikes, and while a lot of people ride at night, it's just better to do it in short days to have them out walking, so we'll do the walking town halls probably through about mid-March, and then we'll start our rolling town halls, and probably do some walking and rolling come spring. You can get involved in the walking town halls by checking out the city's Walk Fort Worth website, or you can learn more about all of the mayor's initiatives at FortWorthTexas.gov slash mayor.