{"id":274014,"date":"2026-05-17T04:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274014\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T04:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:52:27","slug":"jacksonville-city-council-members-take-oath-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274014\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville City Council members take oath of office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Re-elected members of the Jacksonville City Council took the oath of office to begin the May 12 meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayor Randy Gorham and Councilman Tim McRae, District 3, ran unopposed and were considered elected without being placed on the May 2 ballot. Councilwoman Letitia Horace defeated her opponent Katrina Choice to retain her seat on the council, representing District 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dianah Surber, city clerk, conducted the oath of office for Gorham. Once sworn in himself, Gorham conducted the oath of office for Horace and McRae.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All three council members will serve three-year terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other members of the council are Mindy Gellock, District 2, and Rob Gowin, Place 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gellock was elected to serve as mayor pro-tem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city council meets the second Tuesday of the month in council chambers at Jacksonville City Hall, 315 S. Ragsdale Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re-elected members of the Jacksonville City Council took the oath of office to begin the May 12 meeting.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2153,116,4040,5958,118,117,117084,117083,117082],"class_list":["post-274014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-council-members","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-city-council","tag-jacksonville-city-hall","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-letitia-horace","tag-oath-of-office","tag-randy-gorham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274014","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=274014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}