Princeton’s new mayor and reelected council members were sworn in following the city council meeting Monday night.
Mayor-elect Brock Thomas was sworn in by City Clerk Julie Poole. He told the News Edge it “feels great” to be the new mayor and he is looking forward to serving the community.
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Coming into office, Thomas’s priorities are to keep the City of Princeton moving forward.
click to download audioThomas is a 1990 graduate of Caldwell County High School and he graduated from Murray State University in 1995. He previously worked with the Department of Social Services and then as a deputy with the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office prior to becoming sheriff and then judge-executive of Caldwell County. When he was elected as mayor in the November General Election, Thomas was serving as a school resource officer at the local school with the Princeton Police Department.
Thomas’s wife and Caldwell County Elementary School principal Malissa Thomas and their children attended the swearing-in ceremony at the Tourism Center at Princeton City Hall.
He will be joined by all six of the current members of the city council. Jim Joiner, Sheila Gates, Carl Copeland, Brian Conger, Pat George, and Morgan Rousseau were all reelected in the November General Election to serve another 2-year term.
Thomas will be the City of Princeton’s first full-time mayor. The position has been part-time — for as long as anyone can remember — with a salary of $17,449, but at a meeting in April, the city council voted unanimously to make the position full-time with a salary of $42,500 beginning January 1, 2023.
