{"id":12408,"date":"2026-07-09T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/?p=12408"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:52:22","slug":"council-welcomes-new-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/?p=12408","title":{"rendered":"Council welcomes new member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Council is pleased to welcome new Yukon Government-nominated member, Jacob Newkirk aboard.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob has a northern and rural community planning background and has worked as a planner in the Yukon for several years. His three-year term runs June 15, 2026 to June 14, 2029.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank outgoing Yukon-Government-nominated member, Al Foster for his dedication and commitment to the Council since 2023. Thank you for your service and we wish you well on your next chapter.<img class=\\\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12415\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-06-YLUPC-Als-Going-Away.jpeg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"1\\\" height=\\\"1\\\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council is pleased to welcome new Yukon Government-nominated member, Jacob Newkirk aboard. Jacob has a northern and rural community planning background and has worked as a planner in the Yukon for several years. His three-year term runs June 15, 2026 to June 14, 2029. We would like to thank outgoing Yukon-Government-nominated member, Al Foster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planyukon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}