{"id":58840,"date":"2025-11-03T15:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=58840"},"modified":"2025-11-03T15:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:16:19","slug":"election-day-tuesday-races-in-lakeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/11\/03\/election-day-tuesday-races-in-lakeland\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Election Day Tuesday: Races in Lakeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"9872ba\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"245\" height=\"206\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/download-2.webp?resize=245%2C206&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58841 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #9872ba; width:331px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polls open at 7 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polkelections.com\/Events\/2025-November-Municipal-Election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polk County Supervisor of Elections office<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lakeland Mayor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kay Klymko<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaitlin Gracie Kramer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sara Roberts McCarley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cedrick Valrie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>District C Southwest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dennis Odisho<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashley Troutman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>District D Southeast<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Musick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kim-Marie Noble<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the mayor and commission seats, Lakeland voters also will decide on three charter amendments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Charter Amendment #1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proposed charter amendment modifying Commission district boundaries to be as equal in population as practicable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shall the Lakeland City Charter be amended to modify City Commission district boundaries to be as equal in population as practicable consistent with State law? (Yes\/No)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Charter Amendment #2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proposed Charter amendment modifying term limits applicable to City Commissioners and Mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shall the Lakeland City Charter be amended to modify term limits applicable to City Commissioners and Mayor, other than members in office on January 1, 2020, from the current term limits of no more than 3 complete terms in any combination of the positions of Mayor and Commissioner to new term limits of no more than 3 complete terms as a Commissioner and 2 complete terms as Mayor?&nbsp;(Yes\/No)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Charter Amendment #3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proposed Charter amendment eliminating obsolete provisions; renumbering sections; amending other miscellaneous provisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shall the Lakeland City Charter be amended to eliminate obsolete provisions; specify that mayor or commissioner elected to fill vacancy shall take office upon receiving election certificate; authorize any commissioner to call special commission meeting; require neighborhood posting of special assessment notices rather than newspaper ad; provide that ordinances subject to referendum petition shall not be suspended pending referendum and petitions shall be voted on at regular elections; conforming civil service provisions to current practices?&nbsp;(Yes\/No)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls open at 7 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0 Polk County Supervisor of Elections office\u00a0 Lakeland Mayor Kay Klymko Kaitlin Gracie Kramer Sara Roberts McCarley Cedrick Valrie District C Southwest Dennis Odisho Ashley Troutman&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58841,"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":"15","_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMTFcL2Rvd25sb2FkLTIud2VicD9maXQ9MjQ1JTJDMjA2JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiXHUwMGEwRWxlY3Rpb24gRGF5IFR1ZXNkYXk6IFJhY2VzIGluIExha2VsYW5kIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.c9h7SLR2l9AWtsOkuj8YM8nHR4SOUZOOJ1ltLxZ5Kw0MQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":58841,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/download-2.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[12510],"class_list":["post-58840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-election-day-tuesday-races-in-lakeland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58840","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58842,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58840\/revisions\/58842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}