The emotional final gathering of the 2011-’13 Madison Common Council Tuesday included appreciative praise from the continuing alders to their retiring colleagues as well as a swearing in of the new alders and an election, which resulted in Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, being appointed Council president pro tem.
Among the alders saying their farewells was Langdon-area representative Bridget Maniaci, who said she is taking a temporary leave from city government to attend graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa. Ald. Ledell Zellers, District 2, took the oath of office to officially take over Maniaci’s former Council seat.
The new Council elected Ald. Chris Schmidt, District 11, as president to act in place of Mayor Paul Soglin when he is out of town, as well as Resnick as president pro tem. Together Schmidt and Resnick will serve as a direct communication line between Soglin and the remaining 18 alders.
