The City Council in Monday elected Ed Prince to be council president for 2015 and Randy Corman as president pro tem.

As council president, it will be Prince’s role to conduct the meetings and set the agendas for both the council meetings and the Committee of the Whole meetings that precede them.

Prince is in his first term on the council and presently serves as chair of the Planning and Development committee. He will take over the president’s role from Don Persson.

Corman is the longest serving member of the City Council. He was first elected in 1994 and most recently re-elected in 2013. He has served as both council president and president pro-tem in the past, including as president last year. He presently chairs the Public Safety Committee.

The president pro tem runs the meeting in the president’s absence.

As in the past, the votes for president and president pro tem were not unanimous.

Prince was elected by a 4-0 margin, with Councilman Greg Taylor abstaining. Councilmembers Terri Briere and Armondo Pavone were both absent Monday.

The vote for Corman was even tighter. He was elected by a 3-2 margin with Taylor and Councilwoman Marcie Palmer both voting against.

Last year, Taylor and Councilwoman Marcie Palmer voted against Prince in the pro tem role as Taylor questioned why he had not yet been elected to a leadership position.

Prince and Corman both begin serving in their new roles in January.

The council’s Committee on Committees, which includes Prince, Corman and Persson, will meet later this month to select new members for each of the council’s six subcommittees.