{"id":14,"date":"2018-03-01T20:42:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-04-23T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:23:05","slug":"council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/index.php\/council\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1921, voters in the City of Excelsior Springs adopted the City Manager form of government, becoming the first city in the State of Missouri to formally adopt this style of governing. The City Council is made up of five members, elected at large, for terms of three years. The mayor is elected for a one-year term from the five body council. Meetings are held the first and third Monday of each month in the council chambers of city hall, Hall of Waters building, 201 E. Broadway, and are convened at 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12575 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/city-council-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Excelsior Springs City Council 2025\n\" width=\"900\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/city-council-2025.jpg 900w, https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/city-council-2025-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/city-council-2025-768x409.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Council:<\/strong><div class=\"gca-column one-third first\"><strong>Mayor<\/strong><br \/>\nMark Spohn<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-158\" src=\"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/spacer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"6\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"gca-column one-third\"><strong>Mayor Pro-Tem<\/strong><br \/>\nReggie St. John<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-158\" src=\"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/spacer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"6\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"gca-column one-third\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-158\" src=\"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/spacer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"6\" \/><\/div><div class=\"gca-column one-third first\"><strong>Councilman<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn McGovern<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-158\" src=\"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/spacer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"6\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"gca-column one-third\"><strong>Councilman<\/strong><br \/>\nGary Renne<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-158\" src=\"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/spacer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"6\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"gca-column one-third\"><strong>Councilman<\/strong><br \/>\nStephen Spear<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1921, voters in the City of Excelsior Springs adopted the City Manager form of government, becoming the first city in the State of Missouri to formally adopt this <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/index.php\/council\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12576,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/12576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}