The Geary City Council will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday in City Hall. This is the council’s first meeting following the resignation of the mayor and a majority of the police force.
Council member Rocky Coleman will act as the mayor until municipal elections may be held in April. Although Coleman and council member Kristy Miller had offered their resignations prior to that of Mayor Waylon Upchego, those resignations were not delivered by hand in person or by mail and were therefore null. Each council member agreed to remain on the council. Coleman had been vice mayor.
On the agenda are the financial report from the city’s accounting firm, changing the date of the December meeting from the 12 to Dec. 17 and approve the meeting dates for 2025. It also carries a vote for proceeding with municipal elections on April 1. That election, if approved, will seat a mayor for the remainder of the unexpired term; a city clerk for the rest of the unexpired term; and council members for wards 1,2 and 4.
The council will also discuss the ongoing employment of interim police chief J.J. Stitt in executive session.
Each agenda is prefaced with a paragraph outlining what the council may do and what the legal support for those actions may be.
Geary had previously been criticized for its lack of transparency in city matters.