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What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

Newly-elected City Councilwoman Leslie Knope won't be sworn into office for a few months, but she's keeping her promise to get a jump-start on fixing Pawnee's problems. She wants to hear what you want to tackle first. Here are just a few of the suggestions she's received so far - if you have your own, keep sending them in!

Leslie at podium.

What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

Make it mandatory to have everyone ride bikes. And make those bikes generate electricity. And make that electricity power a cold fusion plant, and make that cold fusion plant power Pawnee. I'm telling you it could work! If we invent cold fusion.
- Nark Neltini

Family Riding Bikes

What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

Two words: Frozen Yogurt. Seventeen words: We should have frozen yogurt available to everyone for free all the time and also ice cream. Forty-three words: Also it would be cool if there were a government-run program to help people who suffer from Terlingame-Smoak Syndrome, a rare and mostly harmless disability that forces them to announce the number of words that appear in every sentence they write.
Four words, James Warreld, concerned citizen

Frozen Yogurt

What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

My cats won't give me the respect I deserve, no matter how many times I demand it. Fix this, Councilwoman.
- Moira Bornstein

Cat

What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

It's absurd that Pawneeans have to wait until November to see the movie "What to Expect When You're Expecting." I can't wait that long. My baby is coming, and I need to know what do.
- Helen Crisforth

Pregnant woman

What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

There should be a recycling program where instead of people throwing away old computers and used cars and valuable jewelry, they give them to me.
- Curt Majerles

Collecting laptop computers

What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

It's about time Pawnee had a four star restaurant. What's a guy gotta do to get some fancy grub? I haven't had an amuse-bouche in forever.
-Tom Haverford

Pate

What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

I'd like the railroad tracks either (a) finished, or (b) removed from my backyard.
- Clyde Thornwell

Train tracks ending

What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

This town, like America, has forgotten about traditions this country was based on. We need to pass a city law that states that marriage is between one man and one woman who is the man's best friend's wife (Sharon).
- Anonymous

Couple holding hands

What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

Do you have a ladder I can borrow? Mine's broken.
- Greg

Ladder

What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

Fireworks Night and the Paper Mache Gala should be held on different nights, or at separate locations.
- Chuck Hagarty, Fireman

Fireworks and paper mache

What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

We need to help small business owners. Please make it legal to run business operations out of the AM/PM parking lot on 6th Ave, between the hours of 1:00-4:00 a.m.
- Ted, Legal Business Owner

Parking lot

What Should Councilwoman Knope Fix First?

All-expense paid vacations for me and my wife.
- Andy Dwyuuuuuum I Mean Regular Person

Bare feet on beach
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