HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Hutchinson City Council will hold its organizational meeting for 2023 on Tuesday.
A Mayor and Vice-Mayor will be elected by the council members.
Traditionally, the person who served as Vice-Mayor serves as Mayor in the next year and Jon Richardson has held that post in 2022.
However, the council broke with that tradition in 2022 by failing to elect Sara Bagwell Mayor after she served as Vice-Mayor in 2021, instead choosing to give Mayor Jade Piros de Carvalho another year of leading the meetings.
Bagwell announced her resignation at the last council meeting, so there will be only four council members to choose from and Steve Garza served as Mayor in 2021.
If tradition comes back, it would follow that Richardson and Greg Fast would be elected as Mayor and Vice Mayor, respectively, but that is still subject to nomination by the body on Tuesday.
Also to be approved is the 2023 street maintenance plan.
In 2021, the city was able to start the 8 year rotation program so that every street will receive a seal every 8 years. The downtown side streets have not been treated since the mid 1990s.
In 2023, they will be receiving a scrub seal and then coated with a mastic surface treatment, similar to the Sports Arena parking lot.
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