{"id":1151910,"date":"2022-08-09T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T14:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1151910"},"modified":"2022-08-10T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:25:30","slug":"coffee-city-mayor-to-resign-following-city-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1151910","title":{"rendered":"Coffee City mayor to resign following city council meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"COFFEE CITY — One month ago, three Coffee City Council members and the city secretary resigned from their positions, putting city business on hold. According to our news partner KETK, some city officials including the police chief said the council members hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been showing up due to dissatisfaction with operations, the use of city property without proper approval and even alleged racial remarks between employees. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Relieved! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very relieved for the citizens, myself and the council members,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Coffee City Mayor Frank Serrato. Serrato announced he would be turning in his resignation at the next city meeting. Citing family and a new job as his priority. For months, members said the no-shows of council members have left the city unable to conduct regular business. This week, four council members showed up, which allowed the discussion to fill in vacant seats on the council.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153With all of the vacancies and knowing that we needed to get them filled, I just figured I might as well step up now so I at least can kind of figure out what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jeff Blackstone, a newly appointed council member. Four new applicants were discussed and interviewed to replace the vacant seats. Though, only one was appointed until the next scheduled meeting. Blackstone said his primary goals are just to get the city up and running again. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think the problem that we have right now is that there is not a whole lot of communication. We had a good turn out here tonight, but people have all these questions and they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know the answers to and we need to be more transparent and explain to people why the EDC can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy a piece of property or why we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have this over here,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Blackstone.<\/p>\n

The next City Council meeting will be held on August 18 at the Coffee City Community Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COFFEE CITY — One month ago, three Coffee City Council members and the city secretary resigned from their positions, putting city business on hold. According to our news partner KETK, some city officials including the police chief said the council members hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been showing up due to dissatisfaction with operations, the use of city property … Continue reading Coffee City mayor to resign following city council meeting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1151933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/Coffee-City-Mayor-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Coffee City mayor to resign following city council meeting","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 20:55:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/Coffee-City-Mayor-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Coffee City mayor to resign following city council meeting","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151932,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151910\/revisions\/1151932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}