{"id":1506259,"date":"2026-05-13T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1506259"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:01:58","slug":"new-city-council-members-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1506259","title":{"rendered":"New city council members sworn in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/COUNCDUO-200x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1506260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/COUNCDUO-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/COUNCDUO-275x275.png 275w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/COUNCDUO-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/COUNCDUO.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>TYLER &#8211; On Wednesday, May 13, City of Tyler City Council members were sworn into office. Those taking their oath of office included newly elected Councilmembers Clint Childs (District 4) and\u00a0Carleen Dark-Bays\u00a0(District 6).\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRe-elected Council member\u00a0Petra Hawkins\u00a0(District\u00a02)\u00a0will be re-sworn in\u00a0at a later date.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nFollowing the swearing-in, the council held its first meeting, where they elected\u00a0District 2\u00a0Council member\u00a0Petra Hawkins\u00a0as Mayor Pro Tem.\u00a0Members of the Council elect the Mayor Pro Tem, who serves in the Mayor&#8217;s absence for\u00a0a one-year term.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; On Wednesday, May 13, City of Tyler City Council members were sworn into office. Those taking their oath of office included newly elected Councilmembers Clint Childs (District 4) and\u00a0Carleen Dark-Bays\u00a0(District 6).\u00a0 \u00a0 Re-elected Council member\u00a0Petra Hawkins\u00a0(District\u00a02)\u00a0will be re-sworn in\u00a0at a later date.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Following the swearing-in, the council held its first meeting, where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1506259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New city council members sworn in<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1506260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/COUNCDUO-200x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 05:06:36","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\/2026\/05\/COUNCDUO-200x200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506259","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1506259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506563,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506259\/revisions\/1506563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}