Tucker is a City. Now What?

Now that Tucker voters have approved cityhood, the next step is electing a six-member city council and a mayor.

Those elections for Georgia’s newest city will be held in March 2016, according to Tucker 2015. The mayor will earn $20,000 and each council member will be paid $14,000, annually.

All city elections are nonpartisan.

Two council members would be elected from each of the three council districts by the residents of that district and would hold Council District 1, Post 1; Council District 1, Post 2; Council District 2, Post 1; Council District 2, Post 2; Council District 3, Post 1; and Council District 3, Post 2.

In order to assure staggered elections of the council members, all Post 1 seats would be up for re-election November 2017 and all Post 2 seats would be up for re-election November 2019.

The first elected mayor’s seat would also be up for re-election November 2017.

After this, council members would serve for four years and are limited to two successive terms and the mayor would serve for four years and be limited to three successive terms.