{"id":560702,"date":"2016-11-22T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=560702"},"modified":"2016-11-23T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T21:14:01","slug":"new-palestine-city-manager-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=560702","title":{"rendered":"New Palestine City Manager Selected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/11\/Mike-Alexander.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/11\/Mike-Alexander-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"mike-alexander\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-560705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/11\/Mike-Alexander-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/11\/Mike-Alexander.jpeg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>PALESTINE &#8211; The term interim is being removed from Palestine City Manager Mike Alexander&#8217;s title. Following an executive session Monday night, the Palestine City Council named Alexander as city manager. Alexander came to the city a couple of years ago as interim police chief. He remains as the city&#8217;s police chief, with his Assistant Chief, John Herod, running the day-to-day operations. When City Manager Wendy Ellis was fired in October of last year, Alexander became Interim City Manager. Last month, the Palestine City Council named Yoakum City Manager Kevin Coleman for the job. But, last week, he withdrew his name for the post. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A news release from the city quotes Alexander as saying he will \u00e2\u20ac\u0153continue to enact strategies that will work effectively within all departments, including police, fire and in city hall. I, along with senior staff, will collaboratively to create synergy and transparency within the city structure so that we can better serve our citizenry.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>To help accomplish those tasks, Alexander named Michael Hornes as Assistant City Manager. Hornes has worked with the city since 2013 and is currently a Deputy Director in the Public Works department. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALESTINE &#8211; The term interim is being removed from Palestine City Manager Mike Alexander&#8217;s title. Following an executive session Monday night, the Palestine City Council named Alexander as city manager. Alexander came to the city a couple of years ago as interim police chief. He remains as the city&#8217;s police chief, with his Assistant Chief, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=560702\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Palestine City Manager Selected<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":560705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 06:32:40","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\/560702","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560706,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560702\/revisions\/560706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/560705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}