{"id":227660,"date":"2026-03-20T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227660\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:01:07","slug":"fresno-city-council-elects-nelson-esparza-as-new-council-president-tyler-maxwell-as-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227660\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno City Council elects Nelson Esparza as new council president, Tyler Maxwell as vice president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Fresno City Council now has new leadership following a unanimous vote on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Councilmembers elected Nelson Esparza as Council President, a role he previously served years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Council also elected Tyler Maxwell as Vice President, confirming new leadership of the body that will last through 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Late last week, Mike Karbassi <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/mike-karbassi-stepping-down-fresno-city-council-president\/18712169\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced he would be stepping down<\/a> from his role as president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He is campaigning for a seat on the Fresno County Board of Supervisors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">President Esparza said he looks forward to the work ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I have done this before but the council is different now, there&#8217;s new faces and new personalities and new conflicts that arise between us,&#8221; Esparza said. &#8220;I will do my best to calibrate and adapt to all of that and keep things as orderly as we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Karbassi gifted Esparza a ceremonial gavel, while Esparza presented Karbassi with a belt for serving as president.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Fresno City Council now has new leadership following a unanimous vote on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[103553,112,103551,114,113,103552],"class_list":["post-227660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-103553","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-city-council-elects-nelson-esparza-as-new-council-president","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-tyler-maxwell-as-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}