SALISBURY — The Salisbury City Council will consider a proclamation honoring the life and legacy of Mayor Karen Alexander during the upcoming meeting on Tuesday.

Alexander died on Sunday, Dec. 29, at the age of 73. In October, Alexander stepped back from her availability as mayor to focus on her personal health after a cancer diagnosis. Alexander’s death was confirmed on Monday, Dec. 30, by Assistant City Manager Kelly Baker, who called Alexander a “legitimately warm individual who cared greatly about the city, its people and everyone who worked for it.”

Alexander was in her fourth term as mayor, having first been elected to the Salisbury City Council in 2013 and serving as mayor from 2015 until 2017. She returned to the mayoral position in 2019 before winning the city’s first ever mayoral election in 2021. She was reelected in 2023 after running unopposed, and her term runs through 2025.  

The upcoming Salisbury City Council meeting will be at 6 p.m at city hall, located at 217 S. Main St. There are no other items on the agenda, other than items such as mayor pro tem’s comments, city manager’s comments and the consent agenda that are on every agenda.