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New councilors Jerry Gibson, Wayne Waldack and Frank Recker take their oaths from Judge Lauren Brodie at the top of Monday's City Council meeting. Incumbent Councilor Bill Trotter (not pictured) was also sworn in, and later elected chair of the council by a unanimous vote. Recker was unanimously voted vice chair. Both men were the only nominees for the posts.
No time was wasted in getting Marco City Council’s newest members sworn in and ready to do business Monday.
After the swearing in they took their seats and got to work, handing out plaques to the outgoing councilors, electing a new chair and vice chair and mulling over candidates for the city’s next city manager.
Bill Trotter, who ran for re-election this year, was elected chair of the council by a unanimous vote. Trotter, who was vice chair in 2007 and acting council chair until Monday, was the only person nominated for the post.
Council then voted Frank Recker into the vice chair slot by another unanimous vote, with no nominees opposing.
To help you get to know your new city councilors a little better, we asked them a few questions to find out what they like about Marco Island, what they are reading and where they hail from, among other things. For longer profiles of each councilor from when they announced their candidacy for City Council, go to marconews.com.
1. Where are you originally from?
2. How long have you lived on Marco?
3. What is your favorite thing about Marco Island?
4. What is your favorite film?
5. What book(s) are you currently reading?
6. What is your idea of the perfect way to spend an afternoon?
7. Tell us one more thing most people might not know about you.
Jerry Gibson
1. Suburban Philadelphia, Penn.
2. 22 years in June
3. The hustle and bustle of winter and the slow, easy lifestyle in summer
4. Any of the “Pink Panther” films starring Peter Sellers
5. “Press On!” by Chuck Yeager, and “Burn Zone” by James O. Born
6. “Forgetting about life while I’m humbled by the game of golf”
7. “Walking into a room full of strangers scare the devil out of me.”
Frank Recker
1. Cincinnati, Ohio
2. 11 years — “Since summer, 1997, pre-city”
3. Tropical ambiance, nice people, beaches and the “total” environment
4. “Although I enjoy most films, ‘Dirty Harry’ is one of my old favorites.”
5. “Current books I am reading deal with municipal government, but casual reading includes professional journals and historical accounts of major events.”
6. “Enjoying the beach of boating with family and friends. Equally enjoyable is bike riding around the island with my wife, Sandy, and son Mac.”
7. “I learn something from virtually everyone I meet, and love to stay abreast of current events, both locally and nationally.”
Wayne Waldack
1. Chicago, North Side — three blocks from Wrigley Field
2. 13 years this month
3. Weather, beaches, being in paradise
4. “Hope Floats”
5. “Unlikely Ways Home” by Edward L. Beck
6. “Being with the people you care most about”
7. “My feeling for know-it-alls is that since they know it all, they have reached the end of their learning curve.”
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dc5799 writes:
Let the games begin, Wayne!
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