Langs resigns as council president, Gray appointed

Bonners Ferry City Councilman John Langs resigned as president during Tuesday’s city council meeting due to health reasons.

Langs nominated Dave Gray as new city council president. The decision to appoint him was unanimous.

Langs, 61, last month suffered a heart attack  while on his annual trek to Phoenix Ariz., to watch the Chicago Cubs’ in spring training with his brothers. The owner of the State Farm Insurance Agency in Bonners Ferry, he had two stints put in and remained hospitalized for six days before returning to Bonners Ferry on March 19. 

“Due to my health concerns I would like to resign as council president, and in doing so I would like to nominate Dave Gray,” Langs said. “I think Dave Gray is a very intelligent, energetic, well balanced council member and I would be proud to nominate him as council president.”

“Those are very humbling and very kind words that you said, ‘thank you sir,’” Gray said.