PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — With one year left in office, Mayor Jim Kenney speculated last week about what he might do when his term is up.
“I really would like to do something with kids because kids are always rewarding,” Kenney said. “Politics isn’t always that rewarding.”
At a briefing on the agenda for his final year in office, Kenney was asked to look ahead to 2024.
He expects he’s done with the elective office and said he has no idea what he’ll do next. He added that he’s not looking for a project, yet, but when the time comes, he’d like to create new opportunities for the city’s children.
“I think giving children the opportunity to have experiences they would never normally have changes the trajectory of their life,” Kenney said.
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Kenney backed up this idea with a personal experience, reflecting on his freshman year of high school when his class took a trip to the Walnut Street Theater to see the Alvin Ailey dance troupe.
“That’s 1972, and I still remember the impact it had on me,” Kenney said.
“If we could do something, maybe in my next life, to get kids from around the city into those types of experience, you don’t know what it’s going to do to change them, how they’re going to look at things differently.”