{"id":1288257,"date":"2024-01-10T07:26:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1288257"},"modified":"2024-01-11T07:22:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T13:22:01","slug":"city-of-hawkins-accepts-mayor-and-pro-tems-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1288257","title":{"rendered":"City of Hawkins accepts mayor and pro-tem\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1288258\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/CityofHawkins-175x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/CityofHawkins-175x172.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/CityofHawkins-178x175.jpg 178w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/CityofHawkins-356x350.jpg 356w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/CityofHawkins-768x755.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/CityofHawkins.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>HAWKINS &#8212; On Tuesday night, the Hawkins city council started the new year with personnel changes and approved the resignation of the first female mayor, Susan Hubbard, according to our news partner KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are certain pressures on her. There are certain citizens in our communities that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to see the growth, the possibilities the good things,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said 21-year-old former mayor pro-tem Clara Kay. In the absence of a city leader, the mayor pro-tem steps in to fill the role of mayor. However, Kay resigned as well. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This was going to be my last term running anyway, so I thought this would be a good time with her going out anyway to kind of go out with her, almost like John Wayne riding into the sunset together,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Kay.<!--more--> Charles Richoz will take on the role as pro-tem carrying out the rest of Hubbard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s term until May and push towards a unified city. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I would like to finish what Susan started, I would love to cure the animosity between the departments in the city but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to happen,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Richoz. As of now, Richoz does not know if he will run for election after he finishes the term. On Tuesday, the city council also voted to put disciplinary action on hold, regarding complaints against their city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAWKINS &#8212; On Tuesday night, the Hawkins city council started the new year with personnel changes and approved the resignation of the first female mayor, Susan Hubbard, according to our news partner KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are certain pressures on her. There are certain citizens in our communities that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to see the growth, the possibilities &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1288257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City of Hawkins accepts mayor and pro-tem\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resignation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1288259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/01\/CityofHawkins-175x172.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"City of Hawkins accepts mayor and pro-tem\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resignation","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 01:27:07","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\/2024\/01\/CityofHawkins-175x172.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"City of Hawkins accepts mayor and pro-tem\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resignation","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288257","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=1288257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288260,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288257\/revisions\/1288260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}