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Hutton chosen mayor, Turner vice mayor as new council member Rebecca Ray Acard is sworn in
Summary
At its Jan. 7 meeting, the Bristol, Tennessee City Council swore in a newly elected member and selected Mark Hutton as mayor and Vince Turner as vice mayor in unanimous roll-call votes.
Rebecca Ray Acard was sworn in as a city council member at the Bristol, Tennessee City Council meeting on Jan. 7, 2025, and the council selected Council member Mark Hutton as mayor and Council member Vince Turner as vice mayor for the year.
The swearing-in ceremony opened the meeting. City staff administered the oath of office to Acard before the council moved to the annual selections the city charter requires at the first meeting of the calendar year. Council members then nominated and voted to appoint Mark Hutton as mayor and Vince Turner as vice mayor.
The council voted by roll call to approve both leadership appointments. For the mayoral appointment the roll call recorded affirmative votes from the members present. The council followed the same process to appoint Turner as vice mayor.
The mayor and vice mayor appointments were made by motion and second on the council floor and approved by roll call with no recorded dissent. The swearing-in and leadership selections were followed by a brief recess and the council reconvened to continue the agenda.
The meeting record does not list a separate ordinance or statutory citation tied to the appointments; the council acted under the city charter’s annual selection procedure for mayor and vice mayor.
