LAKE STEVENS – A volunteer who helped collect signatures to bring Frontier Village into the city limits was appointed to the City Council on Monday.
Suzanne Quigley, 45, was selected from a field of six applicants to fill a vacancy on the board.
Her appointment completes a game of musical chairs that started in October when Lynn Walty resigned from the mayor’s office. The City Council elected Vern Little to take Walty’s place. In turn, that left Little’s council position vacant, which Quigley was appointed to fill.
Both Little and Quigley will serve out terms that expire this year. They said they plan to run to keep their seats.
Quigley said she’s watched from the sidelines as the city has grown. After Little became mayor, friends called her and suggested she apply for the open council seat, she said.
“I welcome this chance to join with the members of the council to strengthen our community,” she said.
Building a strong city that attracts people is her main priority, she said.
The council interviewed all six candidates before voting unanimously for Quigley.
“The council went through a lot of conversation and I thought they picked a really, really good candidate,” Little said. “All candidates were well qualified.”
Quigley, who has lived in the Frontier Village area on the west side of the lake for about 20 years, has been active in several community-oriented, school and civic causes.
She was named the 2006 Greater Lake Stevens Chamber of Commerce citizen of the year and in 2005 she helped lead a successful effort to pass a school levy.
An audiologist by training, Quigley stepped down from a management position at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2000 to spend more time with her four young children.
She’s married to former state Sen. Kevin Quigley who ran an unsuccessful campaign against Aaron Reardon for the Democratic nomination for county executive.
Also on Monday, Councilwoman Heather Coleman was elected to serve as council president. Tom Hartwell will serve as council vice president.
Reporter Jackson Holtz: 425-339-3437 or jholtz@heraldnet.com.
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