{"id":37703,"date":"2025-11-07T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/37703\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:16:08","slug":"steinke-appointed-mayor-pro-tem-gunter-to-continue-as-council-office-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/37703\/","title":{"rendered":"Steinke appointed mayor pro tem; Gunter to continue as council office manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Councilmember Bill Steinke will serve as mayor pro tem and Mayor John Gunter will serve as office manager, a role he has had previously to manage the day-to-day operations of the Council Office.<\/p>\n<p>The two appointments were among housekeeping actions taken by the Cape Coral City Council Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In other actions:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Council approved its 2026 council meeting schedule with the first regular Council meeting to be held Wednesday, Jan. 6, following a hiatus from Dec. 10, \u00a0to Jan. 5. The regular meetings will be held at 4 p.m., workshops at 9 a.m., or 9:30 a.m. if following the South Cape Redevelopment Agency meetings. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Council approved the membership dues for six organizations \u2013 Florida League of Cities for $38,490, Florida League of Mayors for $1,350, Metropolitan Planning Organization for $18,232.09, National League of Cities for $14,025, Southwest Florida League of Cities for $3,000 and U.S. Conferences of Mayors for $14,840.<\/p>\n<p>With Wednesday\u2019s meeting being the first one held in November, the council selected liaisons and members for various boards, committees and commissions, keeping the same appointments. <\/p>\n<p>To reach MEGHAN BRADBURY, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecoralbreeze.com\/news\/local-news\/2025\/11\/07\/steinke-appointed-mayor-pro-tem-gunter-to-continue-as-council-office-manager\/mailto:news@breezenewspapers.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news@breezenewspapers.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councilmember Bill Steinke will serve as mayor pro tem and Mayor John Gunter will serve as office manager,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-37703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37703","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=37703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}