{"id":1512606,"date":"2026-06-05T03:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512606"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:48:38","slug":"new-city-attorney-hired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512606","title":{"rendered":"New city attorney hired"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"CHANDLER \u2013 The Chandler City Council voted to hire a new city attorney in a meeting discussing the city\u2019s leadership on Thursday night. During the meeting, city council discussed the conduct of City Administrator Kalon Rollins and Chandler Police Department Chief Johnny Foster. The city\u2019s agenda for Thursday\u2019s meeting included discussion of improper spending, bond issues, social media policy and hiring policy under Rollins and Foster.<\/p>\n

The city council members also voted to hire Ronald D. Stutes, 67 of Tyler, as the new Chandler City Attorney during Thursday\u2019s meeting. Stutes is a member of the Fairchild, Price, Haley & Smith law firm and has represented both the City of Palestine and the City of Dallas.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, no formal action was taken against either Rollins or Foster at Thursday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHANDLER \u2013 The Chandler City Council voted to hire a new city attorney in a meeting discussing the city\u2019s leadership on Thursday night. During the meeting, city council discussed the conduct of City Administrator Kalon Rollins and Chandler Police Department Chief Johnny Foster. The city\u2019s agenda for Thursday\u2019s meeting included discussion of improper spending, bond … Continue reading New city attorney hired<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1512607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 06:03:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512606","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512608,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512606\/revisions\/1512608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}