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Taft council honors retiring clerk Yvette Mayfield and unanimously appoints deputy Faith Melton as city clerk

Taft City Council and Successor Agency · January 21, 2026
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The Taft City Council presented a proclamation to retiring City Clerk Yvette Mayfield and appointed deputy city clerk Faith Melton effective Jan. 20, 2026; the appointment was approved by a 3–0 roll-call vote and Melton was sworn in (oath record shows the name 'Faith Milton').

The Taft City Council on Jan. 20 presented a proclamation honoring outgoing City Clerk Yvette Mayfield for her years of service and unanimously appointed deputy city clerk Faith Melton to the post effective Jan. 20, 2026.

Mayfield, who joined Taft in 2013 after grant-administration work in Wasco and for the Tejon Indian Tribe, was recognized in a council proclamation listing her administrative work on city grants, the Taft City…

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