Lancaster City Councilman Arnie Rodio, a 64-year-old retired plumbing business owner, will have the largely honorary job of mayor during the coming year, his council colleagues have decided.
Rodio has been chairman of the city's Redevelopment Agency during the past year. That job will now go to Councilman George Root for the next year. Root is a former Jet Propulsion Lab administrator who had been serving as mayor.
