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Home » News » 2025 » July

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July 16, 2025 |  By: Gavin McGough

After six and a half years of service to the city, Tye Parsons resigns

 Tye Parsons, thanks for joining us today. First off, what are the highlight accomplishments from your time with the city?

 "There have been a lot of highlights in the six and a half years that I've been on council. Probably the most obvious one is the south main project, both phase one and phase two." 

"Phase one we completed and phase two is on track to be completed for the most part by the end of this year, although they have until spring of 26 to finish completely. An enormous project there, the South Main Reconstruction project, funded by federal money, so there wasn't a burden on the Maryville taxpayers, so I was very happy about that project. It's something that truly is transformational and generational for our community."

"Really that South Main corridor is perhaps the most important economic area for all of Northwest Missouri, not just Maryville. A lot of the dollars that go through Northwest Missouri actually happened right there on South Main in Maryville, and so was just thrilled to get that project done. The first phase completed and the second phase is just about done. So that's the biggest one, the most obvious one."

"But we have worked, you know, so hard on the water treatment side of things. The taxpayers and the voters approved our $50 million bond issue back in February of this year. This is a project that will serve the residents of Maryville for the next fifty to a hundred years or beyond. So that's a really cool thing to me to think that we've been working towards that enormous project for so long, and I'm just really proud and happy that I was able to play a small part."

 You were reelected only this April. Why are you stepping back now and why make the announcement so suddenly?

 "Yeah, and I know it seems like it was short notice, but it's something certainly that I've been  considering and thinking about for a while. So my family is highly involved in the community and will continue to be highly involved even after I step off of council."

"My daughter is entering her senior year of high school and she's a two sport athlete and is in the show choir and there's lots of demands on our time and I just felt like it was a time when things are going very well at the city and so I felt like I could step back at this point knowing that the city's in really good hands."

 You're a citizen and a former elected official. What's your message to fellow citizens? What do elected officials in the city need from residents in order to make effective decisions and good city government?

 "Yeah, that's a great question. Really I think our elected officials just need input, you know, for one they need to hear from the citizens of our town and not just when people have a complaint. That's kind of the thing, you don't think about your government until there's something wrong, until you have a pothole in front of your street or you're mad about taxes or whatever the case may be. I think that your elected officials really need to hear about other things as well. What ideas do we have to grow the town and to be more progressive and how can we really engage in our region as a whole?"

"Those are the types of things your elected officials need to hear about, just not only the things that need to be fixed, which we need to hear about those too, but to hear about the good stuff too and the ideas that our citizens have."

 All right, that'll do it Mr. Parson, thank you for your time today.

" Okay, great. Yeah, I appreciate the time."