LEWISTON — The city’s Inauguration Ceremony may be a few weeks away, but newly elected city councilors are already getting to work.

City Administrator Ed Barrett said he met with councilors-elect Jim Lysen, Tim Lajoie and Joline Beam to discuss Freedom of Access and Maine Right to Know laws, City Council email policies, National Incident Management rules and City Council procedures Friday.

Councilor-elect Isobel Golden and Councilor Kristen Cloutier attended an orientation session Saturday.

“We went through a lot of background issues,” Barrett said. “Most of the department heads were there as well.”

The city will swear in its newly-elected officials at the Franco Center at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 4, with a ceremony featuring speeches by Mayor Robert Macdonald, the new City Council president and the new School Committee chairman. Both the president and the chairman will be selected at the ceremony.

It will be the first time the Franco Center has hosted the city’s Inauguration Ceremony. The inauguration has been held at the Lewiston Middle School in years past.

The 2014 inauguration was originally scheduled at the Franco Center, but was postponed a day because of a storm and moved to the Lewiston Public Library’s Callahan Hall.

Voters elected four new councilors at the polls in November. Councilors-elect include Lysen in Ward 1, Lajoie in Ward 2, Golden in Ward 3 and Beam in Ward 6.

They join Macdonald and three councilors returning to office: Shane Bouchard in Ward 4, Cloutier in Ward 5 and Mike Lachance in Ward 7.

Members of the School Committee being sworn in at the ceremony are Linda Scott, Ward 1; Paul St. Pierre, Ward 2; Francis Gagnon, Ward 3; Benjamin Martin, Ward 4; Richard White, Ward 5; Matthew Roy, Ward 6; Thomas Shannon, Ward 7; and at-large member Megan Parks.

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