Prince George, B.C. –The new mayor and council will be sworn in this evening, with a brief ceremony  set  to  get underway in Council  Chamber at 6 tonight.

Mayor- elect  Lyn Hall says  Lheidli T’enneh Chief Dominick Frederick will be on hand to offer some opening remarks,  “Councillors will have an opportunity to  say a few words,  and then I will wrap  it up with a few words on behalf of Mayor and council.”

There is an agenda for this evening, but basically,  the  new Mayor and Council will  simply by  receiving the final  election results before the new business of  adopting the  Council meeting calendar for  2015,  appointing the Acting Mayors for the full four year term.  Each month will see a  different Councillor  appointed as “Acting Mayor” in the event Lyn  Hall is unable to.  Council will then be called upon to approve  the schedule for those  acting mayors.

Hall has had a chance to  huddle with the new Council members, “I’ve met with all the Councillors and I have had an opportunity  to get to know the new  Councillors a bit better and find out what committees they would like  to sit on  and  just get  an idea on where their interests are.”

Hall  says  he   has a “real positive feeling about the new group,  One of the things that I want to make sure  we do,  is match the  committees to their  strengths and areas that they are really interested in and that really  came out in the meetings we’ve had so far.”

Hall says there will be an orientation meeting for Council on the 6^th and 7^th  with the first full Council meeting on December 15^th.