Two people have been appointed to fill vacancies on Jacksonville City Council.<\/p>\n
Rob Thomas, owner of DTE Technologies, will represent Ward 1. The ward encompasses downtown and the northeast part of town. He said he was told by Erin White-Williams, a longtime friend, that she was resigning, so he told Mayor Andy Ezard he was interested.<\/p>\n
Thomas will fill the vacancy through May 2027. He said he plans to run in the election next year to keep his seat.<\/p>\n
“I can represent Ward 1, not only the city of Jacksonville, but help the interest of Ward 1,” Thomas said. “The square is a a vital part of Ward 1, and it needs to be protected and preserved with all the great work that the business owners and building owners have done.”<\/p>\n
Mark Sorrill, who retired after a career as a senior designer for Benton Engineering, will represent Ward 5 through May 2029. He will fill a vacancy created by the departure of Alderman Don Cook. The ward is part of the far southwest side of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
He cited his friendship with\u00a0Ezard and his long time working for the city through Benton as the reason behind the appointment.<\/p>\n
“The city of Jacksonville was one of my main clients and my expertise was basically water and wastewater,” Sorrill said.<\/p>\n
Some of the biggest projects in Jacksonville that Sorrill helped with were the city’s new water plant and wastewater treatment plant.<\/p>\n
Council approved the\u00a0appointments unanimously during Monday’s meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been appointed to fill vacancies on Jacksonville City Council. Rob Thomas, owner of DTE Technologies,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4613,116,118,117,115,4614,278],"class_list":["post-268160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-breakingnews","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news","tag-pubnow","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}