Hamilton City officials sworn in; council approves reappointments and $33,000 for wastewater valve repair

Hamilton City’s newly seated officials were sworn in and the council moved quickly through organizational business Monday night, reappointing several municipal officers, updating bank signatories and approving up to $33,000 to repair a wastewater-treatment header valve.

Mayor Tammy Lewis Williams presided over the meeting and led the council through a slate of resolutions that reappointed Angela Owen as city clerk and Jeremy Streetman as both municipal court prosecutor (monthly pay of $600) and city attorney (monthly retainer $500). The council also reappointed an existing municipal judge and continued the monthly pay for that position at $1,300; the judge’s name appears inconsistently in the meeting record (the resolution text refers to “George White Howe” while the oath transcript later reads “White Hale”).

“This administration will continue on the same schedule as the previous administration,” Mayor Williams said, announcing regular meeting…