Council opening

As mentioned in my previous post, we got a little tidbit of news in the council comments. Council Member Jeri Neely announced she was resigning her position. Jeri mentioned various family and work issues taking a bunch of her time. And they were good things, new grandbabies, more hours at work, and road trips upcoming to see her youngest play her senior year of college softball.

Jeri's term was up the November, and I kinda expected she would not run for re-election. So I guess she will be done a little sooner. I'm thinking she started as an appointed mayor, maybe 9 years or so ago. Nobody ran for Mayor, none of the write-ins wanted the job, so we found her (I was on the council at the time), and she was mayor for a year or so. A bit later, I think there was a council opening, and we appointed her to the council, and then found somebody else for mayor. (shows you what a great gig mayor is! The appeal of council is that you can vote on stuff, the mayor cannot). Anyway, she maybe was re-elected to council twice I'm thinking. So Jeri has definitely put in her time.

So we have our 2nd council opening in about as many months. If you recall, Chad Proctor resigned due to a job move late last year.

While we could not, as a council, make an official decision on how to fill the position, there was a consensus to again appoint a replacement rather than hold an election. We will formalize that at the next city council meeting. My understanding of this position, since it was up for election this fall, is that the highest vote getter in the race for the 4 year terms will take office immediately after the election is certified. The other winners will then take office at the usual time of January 1, 2014. At least that is my non-legal take on it.

So anyway, if you are interested in being appointed to the city council, please notify me, or the staff at City Hall.

HERE is the official link to the notice on the city website.