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Council elects Terry as council president, approves mayor’s slate of appointments
Summary
At its annual organizational meeting, Plain City council nominated and elected Mr. Terry as council president and agreed to approve a slate of mayoral appointments and committee assignments in bulk; the council also discussed committee rosters and vacancies.
Plain City’s council nominated and chose a council president at its yearly organizational meeting. Chair (Speaker 1) opened nominations and Speaker 6 moved to “nominate mister Terry as council president,” a motion seconded by Speaker 5; the council voted to approve the nomination with multiple affirmative responses during roll call.
The action was announced for the assembled members after Chair called for nominations and a vote. Chair framed the process as routine and requested the mayor’s recommendations for committee appointments. The mayor’s slate (read aloud during the meeting) proposed keeping many incumbents and assigning specific members to committees: BZA to Mr. Herriman, Parks & Recreation to Mr. Terry, Personnel and Finance to Mr. Lewis, Fire Board to Mr. Sims, Economic Development to Miss Ferguson, and retaining Mr. Udaly on the CIC. Speaker 4 and others discussed continuity and slight reassignment of boards and commissions.
Council members voiced no formal objections to approving the slate in bulk, though multiple members asked for clarity on a few committee terms and vacancies. The Chair said the council could adopt the appointments in bulk “as long as my legal counsel and my clerk is okay with that,” and the council proceeded without recorded objections. The council also instructed staff to prepare updated rosters and one-page summaries of committee terms to make upcoming expirations and responsibilities clearer.
The motion to elect the council president and the mayor’s appointments were handled as procedural business and recorded in the meeting transcript; the transcript records affirmative votes but does not list a complete, individual roll-call tally for the president election.
