{"id":1388,"date":"2014-01-09T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2014-01-09T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:29:44","slug":"process-announced-fill-council-district-2-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/process-announced-fill-council-district-2-vacancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Process Announced to Fill Council District 2 Vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During an open public session on Thursday, January 16<sup>th<\/sup>, the Yakima City Council will hear presentations from all thirteen applicants interested in filling the vacancy on the Council created by Sara Bristol\u2019s resignation from the District 2 seat.\u00a0 Following the January 16<sup>th<\/sup> presentations, the Council is expected to narrow the field to a pool of finalists.\u00a0 The next day, Friday, January 17<sup>th<\/sup>, the finalists will go through individual interviews with the Council, which will also take place during an open public session.\u00a0 The Council is expected to decide who will fill the District 2 seat in time for the appointee to be sworn in at the Council\u2019s January 21<sup>st<\/sup> regular business meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The January 16<sup>th<\/sup> applicant presentations will begin at 2:00 pm in the Council Chambers at YakimaCity \u00a0 Hall.\u00a0 Each applicant will be given three minutes to talk to the Council about their qualifications and desire to fill the District 2 seat.<\/p>\n<p>The January 17<sup>th<\/sup> finalists\u2019 pool interviews will begin at 9:30 am and will also take place in the Council Chambers.\u00a0 The length of the interviews will be based on the size of the finalists\u2019 pool.<\/p>\n<p>Both the January 16<sup>th<\/sup> applicants\u2019 presentations and the January 17<sup>th<\/sup> finalists\u2019 pool interviews will be telecast live on Y-PAC, Charter Cable channel 22.<\/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, and 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>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 on December 31<sup>st<\/sup> because she and her family have moved back to her hometown of Grants Pass, Oregon where Bristol and her husband, Chris, now work for the Grants Pass Daily Courier newspaper.\u00a0 Bristol is a copy editor for the newspaper.\u00a0 Her husband took over as the Daily Courier\u2019s city editor in late October of last year.<\/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-Process-News-Release.pdf\">City Council Vacancy Process &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an open public session on Thursday, January 16th, the Yakima City Council will hear presentations from all thirteen applicants interested in filling the vacancy on the Council created by Sara Bristol\u2019s resignation from the District 2 seat.\u00a0 Following the January 16th presentations, the Council is expected to narrow the field to a pool of<\/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-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}