{"id":23650,"date":"2022-07-08T23:04:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T03:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=23650"},"modified":"2022-07-08T23:04:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T03:04:43","slug":"city-lakeland-is-accepting-applications-for-interim-city-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/07\/08\/city-lakeland-is-accepting-applications-for-interim-city-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>City Lakeland is accepting applications for interim city commissioner<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland residents have until Aug. 26\u00a0to toss their hat in the ring to serve as interim city commissioner.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/city-of-lakeland-website-01.png?resize=1024%2C538&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/city-of-lakeland-website-01.png?resize=1024%2C538&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/city-of-lakeland-website-01.png?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/city-of-lakeland-website-01.png?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/city-of-lakeland-website-01.png?resize=1536%2C807&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/city-of-lakeland-website-01.png?resize=2048%2C1076&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/city-of-lakeland-website-01.png?w=2220&amp;ssl=1 2220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/city-of-lakeland-website-01.png?w=3330&amp;ssl=1 3330w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commissioner Phillip Walker submitted a letter of resignation marking Nov. 6&nbsp;his last day representing the city&#8217;s Northwest district, as he&#8217;s running for Florida House District 50.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A city charter changed, approved by voters last year, and allows commissioners to appoint an interim commissioner until the next municipal election in November 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those interested in serving as the city&#8217;s Northwest District commissioner must meet the following qualifications:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Be a resident of District A &#8211; Northwest District for at least one year prior to Nov. 7<\/li><li>Never been convicted of a felony<\/li><li>Be a registered voter<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Candidates are asked to complete the Interim Candidate Contact Form on the city&#8217;s website at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakelandgov.net\/elections\/\">lakelandgov.net\/elections<\/a> &nbsp;The completed form should be submitted via email to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:cityclerk@lakelandgov.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cityclerk@lakelandgov.net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city clerk&#8217;s office will verify an individual is qualified before forwarding the interested parties and sending the interested parties&#8217; candidate&#8217;s packet. The completed packet must be returned by noon on Aug. 26. Individuals will be asked to submit their resume or cover letter, voter ID card, and proof of residency.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The commission will receive a list of all who apply early and vote on who will take Walker&#8217;s seat in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakeland residents have until Aug. 26\u00a0to toss their hat in the ring to serve as interim city commissioner.\u00a0 Commissioner Phillip Walker submitted a letter of resignation marking Nov. 6&nbsp;his last&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3111],"class_list":["post-23650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-city-lakeland-is-accepting-applications-for-interim-city-commissioner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}