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Overview
The Mayor and four City Councilmembers, as the elected representatives of the City of Temple, formulate public policy to address community needs and assure orderly development in the City. Council meetings are scheduled for the first and third Thursday of each month, at 5:00 p.m. in the Municipal Building. All members of the community are encouraged to attend and participate.
Responsibilities
The City Council is responsible for appointing the City Manager, City Attorney, Director of Finance, City Secretary, Municipal Court Judge, and various citizen boards and commissions.
In its policy-making role, major activities of the City Council are:
- Adopting the annual budget which includes general objectives for the city program activities and service levels
- Reviewing and adopting all ordinances and resolutions
- Approving purchases and contracts as prescribed by the City Charter and state law
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About Mayor Pro Tem Morales Judy Morales was first elected as Councilmember District 2 in May 2011, and Mayor Pro-Tem in May 2013. She was re-elected to the same seat in July, 2014 and then Mayor Pro-Tem in 2017. Judy was raised in Temple, attended St. Mary’s School and graduated from Temple High School. After graduation, she continued her education and received her Master’s in Education from Antioch College. Judy worked as the Director of Social Services for Bell County in the Killeen & Temple H.E.L.P. centers administrating, planning and implementing community-based outreach services and programs. She retired in 2013 after 41 years of community service. Councilmember Morales is an active member and current volunteer for a number of community service organizations. She has served on the regional Work Force Solutions board; the executive board of the Temple Chamber of Commerce, the Executive Board of Catholic Charities; founding charter member of Family Promise, founding chair of the Central Texas Homeless Alliance, and founding chair of Guadalupe Day Care. She presently serves on the TEDC board of Directors, Chair of LULAC Council #4971, Vice President of Citizens for Progress, executive board of the NAACP Temple chapter, and a founding member & treasurer of the Bell County Committee for Persons with Disabilities. Councilmember Morales and her husband, Michael G. Steinheimer, have 5 children and numerous grandchildren. She is an active member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, Temple. Contact InformationMailing Address: 2 North Main Street, Ste 103 Temple, TX 76501 Phone: (254) 298-5700 Email: jmorales@templetx.gov |
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AboutCouncilmember LongSusan Long was elected to the Temple City Council in May of 2017. She has been a resident of District 3 since 1996, after moving to Temple from Washington, D.C. She is retired, having worked in the fields of Public Education, Social Work and Finance. Her husband, Woody, is a Temple native and is retired from the federal intelligence community.
Susan has served the City of Temple on the Building and Standards Commission for two terms, the Planning and Zoning Commission for two terms, and on the TISD School Board for nine years. She is a longtime supporter of the Friends of the Temple Public Library.
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AboutCouncilmember WilliamsWendell Williams was elected to his first term to the Temple City Council, District 4, in May of 2019. He is a Temple native and graduated from Temple High School before graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. Wendell returned to Temple in 1973 to enter into a family business which was sold in 1984. At that time he entered the banking industry where he spent the remainder of his 38 year career as a community banker, ending in March of 2019 as Chairman of Central National Bank-Temple. Wendell has been active in the community for his entire career and has served as Chair of Leadership Temple, The City of Temple Reinvestment Zone, the Temple Economic Development Corporation, the Temple Health and Bioscience District as well as a forty-year Board member of the Ralph Wilson Youth Club and the Chair of the Moment in Time Capital Campaign which raised the $8 million to build the new RWYC facility on South 25th Street. During his time in Temple he has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement for Youth in both 2016 and 2018 as well as the Outstanding Citizen of Temple award and received a city proclamation for his work on the Temple Health and Bioscience District. He and his wife Carolyn have four grown children and eight grandchildren.
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