NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Hutchinson Mayor Jon Richardson is looking forward to having a five member City Council again after Tuesday's installation of Stacy Goss and Stuart Conklin. The process in the meeting where they were chosen went the way he intended for it to.
"We were fortunate, we had 17 people reach out as part of the community to be on City Council," Richardson said. "We could only choose two. It was important to me to have a decision where we were basing it on the top reasons to choose someone, rather than running people through there one by one and saying this person's not right for the role because of XYZ."
Richardson doesn't expect everyone on the council to agree, even with the new members.
"It's not necessarily having someone up there that's going to agree with our personal opinions, as much as it is having someone on city council that will bring their own strengths to it," Richardson said. "Also, we need to function well as a team of five that don't agree with each other all the time."
The Hutchinson City Council meets Tuesday at 9 a.m. at City Hall.
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