{"id":261737,"date":"2026-08-08T18:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261737\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:26:50","slug":"millvale-council-president-stepping-down-ahead-of-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261737\/","title":{"rendered":"Millvale Council president stepping down ahead of resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millvale Council will be naming a new president before filling a vacancy.<\/p>\n<p>Council President James Machajewski is stepping down as council president in August before resigning in September, borough Manager Seth Abrams said.<\/p>\n<p>Machajewski is doing that because he and his wife will be moving to Shaler, Abrams said.<\/p>\n<p>Machajewski confirmed his plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking this change, at this time, allows for me to help make a smooth transition for Millvale\u2019s future council president,\u201d he said. \u201cIt also allows them to be more acclimated in that new position before the budget season begins and any year-end activities come around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>September will mark 17 years since Machajewski joined council. After running in the May 2009 primary, he was appointed to fill a vacancy in September of that year, before the November 2009 election. He has been president of council since February 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Council will hold a special reorganization meeting to elect a new council president when it meets at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, in council chambers, 501 Lincoln Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will be open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millvale Council will be naming a new president before filling a vacancy. Council President James Machajewski is stepping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-261737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}