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1866–2026 · THE MINUTES RECORD 2008–2026; THE EARLIER SPAN A NAMED GAP
A town has no mayor, and never has — the checklist's mayoral line maps to the council presidency, and that line is dug here to the depth the online record allows. New Carlisle is governed under Chapter 31 of its own code: a five-member council (§31.01), elected at large since the abolishment of wards (§31.02), which elects its president (§31.04). The presidency as the minutes record carries it, 2008–2026: Carolyn Higgins, elected president unanimously in 2008 and still president in the minutes of April and August 2015, Vojtko her vice president; Ken Carter, president across the minutes of January 2016 to November 2017, Vojtko still vice president; Marcy Kauffman, president by the minutes of July and August 2020, Budreau vice president and Samantha Rush a member; Samantha Rush, elected president on 12 January 2021 by a 4–0 vote on Kauffman's nomination, Kauffman her vice president, and president through the minutes of December 2021 — the same meeting season in which, on 17 March 2021, her council voted the marshal-department hire the claims leg examines; then Kauffman again, president from the minutes of May 2024 to the present roster, where she stands as president with a council term of 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2026. Two breaks print whole, as the government leg banked them: Rush's exit after December 2021 is unexplained in the record read, and the public-hearing minutes of 21 May 2024 name a "Vice-President Doll" whom no roster carries — both stand open, their settlers the 2022 municipal record and the town minutes of 2022–2024 respectively. Before 2008 the line does not run online at all: the presidency and council succession of 1866–2007 stands in the town's minute books and ordinance book, which no pass has read, and in part in the State Board of Accounts' schedules of officials — the instrument that does carry the clerk's line backward in the next article. That span is banked here as the line's named gap, settler the minute books 1866–2007, and no name is asserted for it.
Sources:
- Government, nc-president-line and the current-seats article — the minutes line 2008–2026, the two breaks, and the roster as of 11 November 2026 (Kauffman P; Colanese VP; Pemberton; Short; Abbott), read whole.
- Town of New Carlisle code, Chapter 31 (§§31.01–31.04) — the council's form.
- Town council minutes, Special Meeting, 17 March 2021 (townofnewcarlisle.com) — President Samantha Rush presiding; read at the page for this section.