{"id":54071,"date":"2022-01-05T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-mayor-three-city-council-members-sworn-in-photos\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T23:54:00","slug":"kent-mayor-three-city-council-members-sworn-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-mayor-three-city-council-members-sworn-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent mayor, three City Council members sworn in | Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent Mayor Dana Ralph and City Council members Toni Troutner, Satwinder Kaur and Brenda Fincher were sworn in after all four were reelected to four-year terms.<\/p>\n

Ralph, Troutner and Kaur were present at the Jan. 4 City Council meeting while Fincher was sworn in via Zoom.<\/p>\n

Ralph is beginning her second term as mayor after six years on the council. Voters also reelected Troutner and Kaur to their second terms.<\/p>\n

The council appointed Fincher in 2014 to replace Ken Sharp, who resigned after just two weeks in office because of first-degree theft charges. Fincher defeated Troutner in a 2015 election and was reelected in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dana Ralph, Toni Troutner, Satwinder Kaur and Brenda Fincher each return for four more years <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":54072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-54071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54071"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=54071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}