Mayor

Mayor

Mayor of Botkins

Mayor Lance Symonds

Lance is a 2004 Jackson Center graduate and has served on the Botkins Council since 2013. He and is wife have lived in Botkins since 2007, together they have two boys; Dylan and Ethan. In his spare time Lance enjoys golfing and camping.

Mayor Duties

The executive branch of a village is created and established under Ohio Revised Code 733.23 which creates the office of the mayor. The mayor of a village is the "chief conservator of the peace" and president of the legislative authority, to preside at all regular meetings of the council, but has NO vote unless there is a tie.

The mayor of a village shall be elected for a term of four years, commencing on the first day of January next after his/her election. He/She shall be an elector of the village and shall have resided in the village for at least one year immediately preceding his/her election.

The mayor is authorized to perform all duties prescribed by the bylaws and ordinances of the village, and sign any document required by the legislative authority or authorized by law.

The mayor has the general supervisory capacity over each department within a village and each office provided for under Title 7 (Municipal Corporation) of the Ohio Revised Code. The mayor is also responsible for issuing charges against any officer whom the mayor believes may be in dereliction of his duties.

Past Mayors of the Village of Botkins

Excerpted from Council Records, Mayor's Court, Various Plats and Maps, and Invoices

1882 P.W. Speker (Speaker)

1884 P.R. Clinehens (Dr.)

1885 J.J. Sullivan

1886 P.R. Clinehens

1887 J.J. Sullivan

1888 H.H. Varner

1890 Chas. Maurer

1894 Ambrose McEvoy

1895 Jacob C. Paul

1897-1900 J.B. Greve

1900 Jacob C. Paul

1901 Joe F. Vocke

1903 Adam E. Blakeley

1907-1911 Thomas Kennedy

1911-1912 J.B. Stolly

1914 Isaac D. McMannamy

1915-1920 Wm. J. Taubken

1921 Edward Paul

1927 D.L. Murphy

1930 Wm. J. Taubken

1941-1943 J.H.M. Schurr

1947-1949 Emerson Koenig

1951 Ralph Taylor

1953 Lawrence Brown

1954-1957 Stanley Platfoot

1960 L.M. "Louie" Brown

1964-1967 Bill Koenig

1968-1971 Laverne Brown

1972-1979 Steve Maurer

1979 Jim King

1979-1996 Don Doll

1996-1997 William Gauntt

1998-2002 Tom Cisco

2002-2006 Jim King

2006-2023 Steven "Woody" Woodruff

2023- Present Lance Symonds

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