(Forest Hill, TX) — The two top elected officials in Forest Hill are out over a scandal about tickets to an event to see former First Lady Michelle Obama.

Mayor Lyndia Thomas and Mayor Pro-Tem Beckie Duncan Hayes resigned yesterday before a public hearing and possible vote by other council members to remove them from office. Thomas and Duncan Hayes were reportedly reimbursed more than a thousand dollars for the tickets they bought to attend an event with Obama in Dallas last month.

The have since paid the money back to the city.