{"id":9712,"date":"2011-12-05T21:26:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T02:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=9712"},"modified":"2011-12-05T21:26:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T02:26:13","slug":"city-councils-new-leadership-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/city-council\/2011\/12\/05\/city-councils-new-leadership-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council&#8217;s New Leadership Sworn In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><right><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 300px; padding: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; font-size: 10px; font-family: serif; background-color: lightgrey;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; color: #00000;\"><center>City Council Swearing-In Ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><em> Click to view full size.<\/em><\/center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/swearing-in-2011-1_t.jpg\"\/><em>The next City Council looks on during Mayor Nancy McFarlane\u2019s speech. From left to right: Eugene Weeks, Russ Stephenson, Randall Stagner, John Odom, Bonner Gaylord, Thomas Crowder and Mary Ann Baldwin.<img src=\"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/swearing-in-2011-2_t.jpg\"\/>The council\u2019s newest member Randall Stagner signs his name to become an official Raleigh City Council member. Judge Jane Gray watches and waits to affix her signature to the document.<img src=\"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/swearing-in-2011-3_t.jpg\"\/>Raleigh\u2019s new mayor Nancy McFarlane watches the choir during the swearing-in ceremony.<img src=\"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/swearing-in-2011-4_t.jpg\"\/>The F.B. Weaver Choir of the Watts Chapel Missionary Baptist Church sings \u201cEverybody Clap Your Hands\u201d during the end of the ceremony.<\/em><\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/right><br \/>\nFor the first time in a decade Raleigh has a new mayor. Judge Jane Gray swore in Mayor Nancy McFarlane and City Councilors Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>McFarlane served as the District A councilor since 2007. Newcomer Randy Stagner will take McFarlane\u2019s old seat, representing North Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p>The new council will get to work Tuesday with its first regular meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The new council<\/strong><br \/>\nHere\u2019s the lineup for the next two years:<\/p>\n<p>Mayor: Nancy McFarlane<br \/>\nAt-large: Mary Ann Baldwin<br \/>\nAt-large: Russ Stephenson<br \/>\nDistrict A: Randall Stagner<br \/>\nDistrict B: John Odom<br \/>\nDistrict C: Eugene Weeks<br \/>\nDistrict D: Thomas Crowder<br \/>\nDistrict E: Bonner Gaylord<\/p>\n<p><strong>County Commission Leaders Re-elected<\/strong><br \/>\nMembers of the Wake County Commission re-elected their chair and vice chair Monday. Paul Coble will return as chair for a second one-year term, as will Phil Matthews as vice chair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Raleigh Councilors were sworn in Monday night. Earlier in the day, Wake County Commissioners re-elected Paul Coble as commission chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24002,"featured_media":9713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}