{"id":6389,"date":"2011-12-23T21:25:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T05:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-city-council-reception-and-swearing-in-ceremony-jan-3\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T21:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T04:10:29","slug":"kent-city-council-reception-and-swearing-in-ceremony-jan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-city-council-reception-and-swearing-in-ceremony-jan-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent City Council reception and swearing-in ceremony Jan. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Residents are invited to a reception and swearing-in ceremony for Kent\u2019s new and re-elected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.kent.wa.us\/content.aspx?id=1196\" target=\"_blank\">City Council members<\/a> at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3 in the lobby of City Hall, 220 4<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><span lang=\"EN\">Council members to be sworn in include newly elected Dana Ralph and Bill Boyce, and re&#8211;elected Council members Deborah Ranniger and Les Thomas.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><span lang=\"EN\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><span lang=\"EN\">Entering her first four-year term, Ralph joins the Council after serving on Kent\u2019s Land Use and Planning Board and Arts Commission.\u00a0 Boyce is also entering his first four-year term after serving <\/span>16 years on the Kent School District Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Both Ranniger and Thomas are entering their third terms.\u00a0 Prior to joining the Council, Ranniger served on Kent\u2019s Land Use and Planning Board and Drinking Driver Task Force.\u00a0 She is currently Executive Director of\u00a0Resource Development for Clover Park Technical College.\u00a0 A retired gemologist and small business owner, Thomas served as a King County Councilman, as well as a State Representative in the Washington State Legislature.<span lang=\"EN\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><span lang=\"EN\">Officiated by Mayor Suzette Cooke, the swearing-in ceremony will take place at the beginning of the regular scheduled meeting of the City Council at 7 p.m.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents are invited to a reception and swearing-in ceremony for Kent\u2019s new and re-elected City Council members at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3 in the lobby of City Hall, 220 4th Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}