{"id":66897,"date":"2023-12-22T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/mayor-ralph-swears-in-four-kent-city-council-members\/"},"modified":"2023-12-22T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T00:33:00","slug":"mayor-ralph-swears-in-four-kent-city-council-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/mayor-ralph-swears-in-four-kent-city-council-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Ralph swears in four Kent City Council members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With no Kent City Council meeting scheduled until Jan. 16, 2024, Mayor Dana Ralph swore in three reelected members and one new member a bit early.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph held the swearing-in ceremony Friday, Dec. 22 at City Hall for Councilmember-elect John Boyd and reelected Council President Bill Boyce,and Councilmember Marli Larimer and Councilmember Zandria Michaud. All four members will serve four-year terms on the council starting Jan. 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd defeated Kelly Wiggans-Crawford on the November ballot to replace Les Thomas, who retired after 20 years on the council.<\/p>\n<p>Boyce, who was first elected in 2011, ran unopposed. He will begin his fourth four-year term. Michaud defeated challenger Darryl Jones and will begin her second four-year term. Larimer defeated challenger Jessie Ramsey. Larmier was appointed to fill a council vacancy in 2018 and won election to that seat in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The other three members of the council are Toni Troutner, Brenda Fincher and Satwinder Kaur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Boyd, Bill Boyce, Marli Larimer and Zandria Michaud; Boyd only newcomer <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":66898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-66897","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\/66897"}],"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=66897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66897"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}