{"id":1372,"date":"2013-12-31T12:15:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T20:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2014-01-02T14:53:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T22:53:26","slug":"thirteen-apply-fill-district-2-council-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/thirteen-apply-fill-district-2-council-vacancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen Apply to Fill District 2 Council Vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council has received thirteen applications from candidates interested in filling the vacancy on the Council created by Sara Bristol\u2019s resignation from her District 2 seat.\u00a0 The deadline for submitting an application to fill the District 2 position was December 31<sup>st<\/sup> at noon.\u00a0 Bristol\u2019s resignation officially took effect at midnight on December 31<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Applications to fill the vacancy have been submitted by (in alphabetical order) Patricia Byers, Thomas Dittmar, Maria Giedra, Michael Hayes, Mark Johnson, Lyle Kang, Nicholas Kline, Alphonso Lee, Michael Liddicoat, Richard Marcley, James McLean, Dan Polage, Tony Sloan.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible, applicants have to be registered to vote and have to live within the boundaries of Yakima City Council District 2.\u00a0 The borders of District 2 are, generally, Tieton Drive to the North, Ahtanum Road to the south, 40<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue to the west, and 1<sup>st<\/sup> \u00a0 Avenue to the east (although portions of the eastern boundary extend further east). A map of District 2 can be found on the City\u2019s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1aKy7kE\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1aKy7kE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the application deadline now passed, a check of the applicants\u2019 eligibility will be performed.\u00a0 Then, the remaining six Council members will review the applications and determine how the remainder of the process will unfold.\u00a0 The Council is scheduled to preliminarily discuss how it will fill the District 2 vacancy during its January 7<sup>th<\/sup> business meeting.\u00a0 Any candidate interviews would have to be conducted during an open meeting of the Council, which is required by state law.\u00a0 As of now, the Council has not set a deadline for naming Bristol\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Bristol was elected to the Yakima City Council in November 2011 after having received more than 70% of the vote and was sworn into office in January 2012.\u00a0 She resigned from her District 2 seat because she and her family have moved back to her hometown of Grants Pass, Oregon where Bristol and her husband, Chris, have both accepted jobs with the Grants Pass Daily Courier newspaper.\u00a0 Bristol is working for the newspaper as a copy editor.\u00a0 Her husband took over as the Daily Courier\u2019s city editor in late October.<\/p>\n<p>The District 2 seat is one of four district-specific positions on the Council.\u00a0 Maureen Adkison holds the District 1 seat, Rick Ensey is the District 3 representative, and Kathy Coffey represents District 4.\u00a0 The other three seats on the Council are at-large positions, which are currently held by Micah Cawley, Dave Ettl, and Bill Lover.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u2013 end \u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/City-Council-Vacancy-News-Release-2.pdf\">City Council Vacancy &#8211; News Release 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council has received thirteen applications from candidates interested in filling the vacancy on the Council created by Sara Bristol\u2019s resignation from her District 2 seat.\u00a0 The deadline for submitting an application to fill the District 2 position was December 31st at noon.\u00a0 Bristol\u2019s resignation officially took effect at midnight on December 31st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}