Mills-Ransome is new Plainfield City Council president

City Council elected its new officers Monday evening.

The Hon. Joylette Mills-Ransome is the new Plainfield City Council president for 2019.

Mills-Ransome, who was elected to her own four-year term as at-large councilor for Wards 2 and 3 in November, will serve as president of the City Council through December 31, 2019.

Municipal  Clerk "AJay" conducted the reorganization meeting until Mills-Ransome was elected as there is no Council President between the end of the year and the reorganization.

Once elected and sworn in, she was seated as president and conducted the balance of the reorganization meeting.

The first order of business was the election of a vice president, and Councilor Steve Hockaday was elected unanimously.

First Ward Councilor Ashley S. Davis and Citywide at-large Councilor Elton Armady were also sworn in and seated.

The Council will meet next on Tuesday, January 22 (Monday is the observance of Martin Luther King's birthday) in a combined Agenda and Business meeting.

Note that five combined meetings are scheduled for this year -- January, June, July, August and November.

It is refreshing to see that Council has apparently taken up its historic pattern of changing presidents every year -- a practice that fell into abeyance during the several years of former councilor Bridget Rivers' tenure.

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 -- Dan Damon [ follow ]

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