{"id":268005,"date":"2026-04-14T22:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268005\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:15:10","slug":"ferndale-seeking-applications-to-fill-city-council-vacancy-following-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268005\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferndale Seeking Applications to Fill City Council Vacancy Following Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplihom.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-161657 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/simpliHOM_real-estate_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ferndale Seeking Applications to Fill City Council Vacancy Following Resignation<\/p>\n<p>(City of Ferndale, April 14, 2026)<\/p>\n<p>Ferndale, MI \u2013 City Councilmember Donnie Johnson announced his resignation at the Monday, April 13, 2026, City Council Meeting due to changes in his professional role. The City of Ferndale sincerely thanks Donnie for his service to the community and passion for public service.<\/p>\n<p>A temporary City Council appointment is now open to fill the remainder of the term, from May 2026 to December 2027.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2705.png\" alt=\"\u2705\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\"\/> City Council will accept applications from Wednesday, April 15, to Tuesday, May 5, 2026. Applications will be reviewed at the Monday, May 11, meeting and the final determination will be made no later than the Tuesday, May 26, 2026, meeting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2705.png\" alt=\"\u2705\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\"\/> Per the City Charter, applicants must be at least 25 years old and have lived in Ferndale for at least 2 years. The application form also requires additional information regarding employment, education, and a brief biography.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/2026\/04\/14\/ferndale-seeking-applications-to-fill-city-council-vacancy-following-resignation\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/>Save this post to PDF<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/2026\/04\/14\/ferndale-seeking-applications-to-fill-city-council-vacancy-following-resignation\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/>Print this post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferndale Seeking Applications to Fill City Council Vacancy Following Resignation (City of Ferndale, April 14, 2026) Ferndale, MI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-268005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268005","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=268005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}