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Medford City Council caucus names Collins vice president-elect and selects Councilor Bayers as president-elect for 2025
Summary
At its Dec. 17 Committee of the Whole caucus, the Medford City Council nominated Councilor Kit Collins as vice president-elect and selected Councilor Bayers as president-elect for 2025; the chair said a formal vote will occur at the first regular meeting in January.
Medford — At a Dec. 17, 2024 caucus during the Medford City Council Committee of the Whole, councilors nominated Councilor Kit Collins as vice president-elect and selected Councilor Bayers as president-elect for 2025.
The meeting, held in the City Council Chamber at Medford City Hall and via Zoom, opened with a roll call that recorded seven members present. The clerk introduced agenda item 24511, a caucus to designate council leadership for 2025. "I nominate councilor Kit Collins for vice president," an unnamed councilor said during the meeting. The nomination was seconded by Councilor Callahan. Vice President Collins accepted the nomination.
The clerk conducted a roll call on the vice president nomination. The transcript records affirmative roll-call responses from council members; the presiding officer congratulated the vice president-elect after the tally.
Later, during nominations for council president, a councilor identified in the transcript as "Councilor Syng" moved to nominate the candidate recorded variously in the transcript as "Isaac B.," "Zach Barris," and "Zac Bayers." Councilor Callahan seconded the motion. After the clerk's roll call, the presiding officer summarized the result as "6 in favor, 1 present" and announced that "Councilor Bayers will be the president of the council for the year 2025." The chair also reminded members that a formal vote will take place at the beginning of the council's first regular meeting in January.
The caucus concluded after a motion to adjourn (mover not specified in the transcript) was seconded by Vice President Collins. The clerk's final roll call produced the result the chair announced as "7 affirmative, none the negative," and the meeting was adjourned. Council members planned to reconvene at 7 p.m. for the regular meeting.
The transcript contains inconsistent spellings and renderings of several people’s names during the president nomination; when a speaker’s name was not stated in the record, this article attributes the remarks as shown in the transcript rather than assigning an unrecorded identity.
Next step: the council is expected to hold a formal vote on the leadership nominations at the first regular meeting in January, per the chair's announcement.
