Meet Mayor Bobby Font
Mayor Bobby Font
Town of Walker
Walker Municipal Building
10136 Florida Boulevard
Walker, LA 70785
Phone: 225.665.4356
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Mayor Bobby Font has been serving the people of Walker since January 2009. As leader of one of the fastest growing communities in Louisiana, his mission is to build upon the town's alluring quality of life on all fronts, from recruiting the businesses that will most benefit our residents, to preserving and expanding our cultural offerings.
Since taking office, Mayor Font has introduced a number of significant improvements to the community, including:
: : Launching a comprehensive online presence that gives residents unprecedented insight into the workings of municipal government - including how their tax dollars are spent - and easy access to the services we provide;
: : Initiating multiple beaufication projects, including planting more than 4,000 magnolias and crepe myrtle trees and Indian Hawthorne shrubberies along Hwy. 447; planting flowering trees at our interchanges; lining drainage ditches with white rocks [also improving drainage]; and mulching our existing flower beds;
: : Expanding recreational facilities for children, including upgrading our ballfields with high-grade baseball dirt and contracting with the Livingston Parish Soccer Association to erect a dozen soccer fields and additional parking on town-owned property near the ballfields;
: : Cultivating cultural offerings, including Movies Under the Stars, a three-day Centennial Celebration, a Christmas festival featuring a 30-foot tree adorned with ornaments made by the community's schoolchildren, a Fourth of July festival with fireworks, the fall Music Under the Oaks concert series, summer arts camps for children and art classes for adults;
: : Formulating Walker's first master plan, beginning with an intensive demographic and business overview study by the Southeastern Louisiana University Business Research Center. We have hired John Dardis, an experienced South Louisiana urban planner certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners, to work with us in determining the best course of growth for our community. His efforts have included a survey of the people of Walker on what you want to be our top priorities;
: : Fostering strong relationships among Walker's businesspeople, in part by implementing regular gatherings, where we can network and share ideas for making Walker the best community it can be;
: : Introducing a recycling program that will expand as demand warrants;
: : Establishing The Walker Museum & Community Art Gallery to preserve this community's rich history - reaching back to our founding as Milton Old Field in 1861 - and share it with future generations. It also serve as a cultural center for the town, providing a place to showcase regional artists and offer classes to foster future talent;
: : Refinancing our sewer bonds, which added $899,000-plus to the general fund and saved taxpayers an additional $350,000 per year in bond payments. That allows us to provide more services and negates the possibility of an increase in sewer fees;
: : Making badly needed drainage improvements in a number of neighborhoods, repairing culverts and cleaning out ditches.
Mayor Font has devoted his life to public service. He retired from law enforcement after 32 years; before that, he worked in the office of the mayor of the City of Baton Rouge. He is married to Penny Font, and is blessed with four daughters and four grandchildren.