BY MELISSA ENAJE & RACHEL LELAND
League City selects Justin Hicks as Mayor Pro Tem League City City Council appointed Council Member Justin Hicks as mayor pro tem Nov. 28. The gist Hicks replaced the former Mayor Pro Tem Andy Mann. The mayor pro tem is a council member who assumes the mayor’s responsibilities if the mayor is absent or unable to perform their duties. Every year in December, League City City Council votes to appoint a council member to the mayor pro tem position. In their own words Council members Tom Crews and Chad Tressler were the only two council members out of seven who spoke against Hicks’ nomination and voted to nominate Tressler instead.
Online citizen survey now available to all League City residents League City residents can take an online satisfaction survey to help o cials deter- mine what issues to focus on. The gist To complete the survey, which is given every two years and takes 20-30 minutes, resi- dents need to visit a link accessible through League City’s website and validate their name and address. The survey was rst mailed to 400 random residents in October and is now available to any resident interested in taking it. One more thing Residents in 2021 reported they were overwhelmingly satis ed with League City.
Pictured is Justin Hicks, League City city council member.
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Tressler said that he felt Hicks was often absent from meetings, particularly at the start of work sessions. “That to me is a logistical challenge on making him mayor pro tem,” Tressler said. “In the inter- est of saying I tried to keep that from happening, I second [nominating Tressler instead].” Hicks defended his meeting attendance record, saying that his attendance record is “almost impeccable.”
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