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VERIFIED NOVEMBER 2026 — THE COUNT DATE IS PRINTED WITH THE SET
The mayor: Dave Wood, Republican, mayor since 7 September 2010, profiled in the mayoral article above; president of Aim for 2025.
The nine council members: Dale "Woody" Emmons, District 1 — one of the three new members sworn in for the council seated January 2024, thanked into office as Mike Bellovich left it, on the mayor's December 2023 letter. Matt Carroll, District 2 — likewise a new member of the January 2024 council, as Michael Compton left. Lou Ann Hazen, District 3 — so the 2026 roster verified from the council minutes names her; the variance on this seat is printed whole in the next paragraph. Kate Voelker, District 4. Tony Violi, District 5. Ron Banicki, District 6. Gregg Hixenbaugh, at large — council president in 2026, and president across the whole span the modern documents reach: he signs as president in the budget the council passed 25 October 2021, is named president in the 2021 financial report's officials schedule, leads the council in the city's releases of 2023, and presides still in the 2026 minutes. Matt Mammolenti, at large. Lacy Hahn, at large — printed also as Lacy Hahn in the mayor's 2023 letter's roster of the council seated January 2024. The council meets on the first and third Mondays at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 100 Lincolnway West, and sat on 9 November 2026; its recent acts in the record include declaratory resolution R2026-34, adopted 19 October 2026.
The District 3 variance, whole: The mayor's December Communicator of 27 November 2023 names the Third District's member as Tony Hazen, in the council seated January 2024. The 2026 roster verified from the minutes names Lou Ann Hazen in that district. Both documents are the city's; a mid-term replacement would reconcile them, and none of the sources read records one. The variance stands open, with its settling source named: the council minutes of 2024–26, which would record any resignation and appointment (Government gap 14).
The clerk: Deborah S. Block, City Clerk — named in the officials schedule of the 2021 financial report, filing for the office again in the state's candidate lists of 2019 and 2023 under the name Debbie Ladyga-Block, her office issuing the council's notices over her name through the autumn of 2025 — a wastewater-rate hearing notice of September 2025 runs over her signature, with Raven S. Boston as chief deputy and Michael Hixenbaugh as deputy — and her signature, Debbie Ladyga-Block, on the minutes of 2026.
The controller, at her verification strength: Rebecca S. Maguire, City Controller in the officials schedule of the city's Annual Financial Report for the year ended 31 December 2021. That is a 2021 as-of: the present-state article of the Government fragment, verified November 2026, names the mayor, the council and the clerk, and does not re-verify the controller for November 2026. She is printed here at exactly the strength the record gives — the last named controller, 2021 — and the November 2026 holder of the desk, if she has left it, is not named in the sources read. No stronger present-tense claim is made for this line.
Sources:
- The Government fragment of this build — "The government as it stands" (verified November 2026): the mayor, the nine council members by district and at large, President Hixenbaugh for 2026, Clerk Deborah S. Block, the meeting rhythm, the sitting of 9 November 2026 and resolution R2026-34; and the District 3 variance with its settling source.
- Mayor Dave Wood, "Mishawaka December Communicator" (27 November 2023) — the council seated January 2024, the new and outgoing members, and Tony Hazen in District 3.
- City of Mishawaka, Annual Financial Report (2021) — the officials schedule: Mayor David A. Wood, City Clerk Deborah S. Block, City Controller Rebecca S. Maguire, President Gregg Hixenbaugh; and the Office of the City Clerk notice of 30 September 2025 — Block's deputies Boston and Michael Hixenbaugh.