{"id":23815,"date":"2022-07-20T13:27:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=23815"},"modified":"2022-07-20T22:42:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T02:42:20","slug":"lakeland-city-commission-will-appoint-an-interim-city-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/07\/20\/lakeland-city-commission-will-appoint-an-interim-city-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"LAKELAND CITY COMMISSION WILL APPOINT AN INTERIM CITY COMMISSIONER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image 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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lakeland City Commission will be appointing an Interim City Commissioner to replace Commissioner Phillip Walker who must vacate his seat because he is running for state office.&nbsp;Interested candidates must live in District A (Northwest District) and must have lived in the area for at least one year prior to November 7, 2022, to qualify.&nbsp; Those interested in being considered as an Interim City Commissioner must be registered voter in Polk County and never have been convicted of a felony.&nbsp; The deadline to file paperwork with the City Clerk is 12 p.m., August 26<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Candidates will not raise or spend campaign funds.&nbsp; The appointment for the Interim City Commissioner will be made by the Lakeland City Commission on September 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;and the chosen candidate will assume office on November 7, 2022, for a one-year term that ends on December 31, 2023. Interested candidates must complete the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lakelandgov.net\/media\/15365\/interim-candidate-contact-form.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Interim Candidate Contact Form<\/a>&nbsp;and return it via email to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:cityclerk@lakelandgov.net\" target=\"_blank\">cityclerk@lakelandgov.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City Clerk, Kelly Koos said, \u201cUpon receipt of the Interim Candidate Contact Form&nbsp;and&nbsp;verifying qualifications, our office will send an application packet to potential candidates. The packet must be completed and returned to our office no later than 12 p.m., August 26<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; Late applications will not be accepted so please pay attention to the deadline and remember to include a resume, cover letter, copy of voter registration, and proof of residency with the packet.\u201d&nbsp; For more information, please visit&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lakelandgov.net\/elections\" target=\"_blank\">www.lakelandgov.net\/elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakeland City Commission will be appointing an Interim City Commissioner to replace Commissioner Phillip Walker who must vacate his seat because he is running for state office.&nbsp;Interested candidates must&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":[14],"tags":[3139],"class_list":["post-23815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-appoint-an-interim-city-commissioner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23815","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=23815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23815\/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=23815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}