The Edmonds City Council will interview some of the candidates to fill the vacancy on the council before the Tuesday. Feb. 17, meeting and some after the meeting.
Council President Adrienne Fraley-Monillas said Tuesday, Feb. 10, that the schedule allows the Council to do everything that it needs to do in one night.
The council will interview four of the 10 candidates to fill the vacancy between 5 and 7 p.m., allowing each candidate 30 minutes, before the 7 p.m. Council meeting. Then it will interview the other six candidates, also for 30 minutes each from 8 to 11 p.m., after the meeting.
The council has notified each candidate of the time that he or she will be interviewed.
Members plan to vote March 3 to fill the vacancy created when former Councilman Strom Peterson left to start the term in the State House of Representatives that he won in the November election.
The council has 90 days from Peterson’s Jan. 6 resignation to name a new council member. Otherwise, the Snohomish County Council would have 90 additional days to fill the vacancy.
Among the applicants are former Edmonds Economic Development Director Stephen Clifton; Deputy Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney Adam Cornell; Edmonds Economic Development Commission member Debbie Matteson; Edmonds Port Commissioner David Preston; former council candidate Alvin Rutledge, a Republican candidate in the 32nd Legislative District in 2015; Jeff Scherrer, a Republican candidate in the 21st Legislative District in 2015; and Edmonds Planning Board member Neil Tibbott, who was an applicant in 2014, when the council appointed Thomas Mesaros to replace former Councilman Frank Yamamoto.
Here are names of other applicants: Mario Brown, Michael Jay Nelson, David L. Teitzel.
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.
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