WILKES-BARRE, PA — Mike Merritt will lead city council in 2015.
The former vice chair and former council chair Bill Barrett traded places Monday, when the five-person council selected Merritt to take over as chairman and Barrett as vice chairman in consecutive unanimous decisions.
Merritt addressed the council at the conclusion of the meeting, promising to work with them to kept the city “moving in the right direction.”
The council also passed ordinances establishing the 2015 holiday and meeting schedules.
