{"id":93385,"date":"2026-01-12T08:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=93385"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:31:26","slug":"hays-city-commissioners-sworn-in-ruder-elected-as-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=93385","title":{"rendered":"Hays City Commissioners sworn in, Ruder elected as Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By ALICIA FEYERHERM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Tiger Media Network<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hays City Commissioners were sworn in during Thursday\u2019s meeting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissioners Shaun Musil and Sandy Jacobs were re-elected in November and will serve four-year terms. Commissioner David Vilaysing was also elected, serving a two-year term.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissioners Mason Ruder and Alaina Cunningham were not up for election this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commission nominated and elected Mason Ruder as Mayor and Alaina Cunningham as Vice Mayor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outgoing Mayor Sandy Jacobs thanked the community for the opportunity to continue serving as a commissioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTitles may change, but values don\u2019t,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cAs I step down as Mayor and continue as City Commissioner, servant leadership remains my guiding principle. Public service is a responsibility. Leadership to me has never been about position or title, but about listening, bringing people together and keeping the community at the center of every decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Ruder thanked Jacobs for her service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat stands out about your term is how consistently you brought people together not just to talk, but to actually move work forward through collaboration,\u201d Ruder said. \u201cYou\u2019ve been a steady voice for economic development that\u2019s practical and community-minded and growth that creates opportunity and strengthens Hays for the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commission approved the 2026 Rules and Procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next City Commission meeting will be at 4:00 p.m. on January 22 at City Hall.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ALICIA FEYERHERM Tiger Media Network Hays City Commissioners were sworn in during Thursday\u2019s meeting.&nbsp; Commissioners Shaun Musil and Sandy Jacobs were re-elected in November&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":72031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,11,3570],"tags":[14480,14249,1523,2038,13407],"class_list":["post-93385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-area-news","category-news","category-politics-news","tag-alicia-feyerherm","tag-city-commission","tag-city-of-hays","tag-hays-city-commission","tag-mason-ruder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/City-of-Hays-logo.jpeg?fit=1200%2C642&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93387,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93385\/revisions\/93387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}