The city of Montgomery will welcome a new mayor and city council members on May 20 following the cancellation of the May 9 city election.

The city cancelled the election due to a lack of opposition to candidates who filed for election by the Feb. 27 deadline, City Administrator Jack Yates said.

Mayor Pro-Tem Kirk Jones is now scheduled to fill the unexpired term of former Mayor John Fox, who did not publicly cite a reason for his resignation in November, Yates said. The term will expire in May 2016, Yates said.

T.J. Wilkerson was the only candidate to file for the seat vacated by Jones and will join the council in May, Yates said.

Incumbent councilmembers Jon Bickford and Dave McCorquodale filed for re-election, but were the only candidates to file for their respective seats. Bickford has worked on the city council for two years, filling a previously unexpired term, and McCorquodale has completed his own two-year term, Yates said.

The new positions will become official May 20, Yates said. Wilkerson, Bickford and McCorquodale will serve the full three-year term, which are scheduled to expire in May 2018.

Yates joined the city Dec. 9 as interim city administrator following the resignation of former administrator Bill Kotlan. Yates was officially named city administrator March 2. He joined the city of Montgomery after retiring in July 2014 from a nine-year stint as city administrator of Tishomingo, Oklahoma.

Kotlan resigned from the city administrator position to return to private practice as an engineer, Yates said.

Additionally, Susan Hensley has been named as the new city secretary and started the new position March 16. Hensley replaces Carol Langley who retired in March.