The Jacksonville Daily News has posted profiles of the candidates for Jacksonville City Council. For your convenience, I’ve linked the individual profiles below (The JDNews page is a bit squirrelly and quiet a bit confusing…)
Incumbents:
Reva Sullivan (Onslow) (Ward 2)
Randy Thomas (Onslow) (At Large)
Alva M. Williams (Onslow) (At Large)
Jerome Willingham (Onslow) (Ward 1)
Challengers:
Jerry A. Bittner (Onslow) [...]
The 2009 municipal elections are just more than a month away and there’s been nary a word from the majority of candidates running for Jacksonville’s City Council.
Below is a list of questions I will be sending to all the candidates within a few weeks. Give them a read and add your own in the [...]
Filing for 2009’s municipal elections are over and the slate of candidates for November’s ballot is complete. It’s time to stop guessing who will pony up to run and prognosticate about the campaigning.
Since there’s not much campaigning to analyze so far, I figure that it’d be useful to lay a baseline…Which is how I would [...]
The filing deadline for 2009’s municipal election has passed and the final listing of candidates is available at the Onslow County Board of Elections site.
The incumbents:
Jerome Willingham (Ward 1)
Reva Sullivan (Ward 2)
Alva Williams (At-Large)
Randy Thomas (At-Large)
The challengers:
Jerry Bittner (Ward 2)
Hunter Hadley, Jr. (At-Large)
Robert Warden (At-Large)
James Bryan (At-Large)
Lori Ready (At-Large)
Kevin O’Connor (At-Large)
You’ll notice that Mr. [...]
The Jacksonville Daily News has a story, but it doesn’t name any of the “numerous people interested” in replacing Willingham, Sullivan, Williams or Thomas on the Jacksonville City Council.
Alva Williams has an interesting quotation, though:
"We’re not through with our work yet…I hope the voting public is smart enough to figure it out that we are [...]
Candidate filing for the 2009 municipal elections will begin Monday, July 6th and end at Noon on Friday, July 17th.
Filing fees (MS Excel) and more information on the municipal elections is available at the Onslow County Board of Elections website.
There are four seats (Willingham Ward 1, Sullivan Ward 2, Thomas (At-Large) and Williams (At-Large) [...]
The Jacksonville City Council is still reeling from the aftershocks of the 4-2 vote to dismiss former City Manager Kristoff Bauer and revelation that Council-member Reva Sullivan may have been attempting to contact him inappropriately.
Bauer wrote a letter to the editor of the Jacksonville Daily News declaring his intent to waive any right to [...]
Jacksonville’s former City Manager, Kristoff Bauer, was fired in a 4-2 (Jerome Willingham, Reva Sullivan, Alva Williams and Randy Thomas for, Michael Lazzara and Fannie Coleman against, Sammy Phillips, as Mayor, only votes in ties) vote on June 9th.
After the firing, there was quite the bit of backlash from city employees and residents.
City Employees [...]
The City of Jacksonville’s Trails and Greenways, Parks and Recreations and Beautification and Appearance commissions met Monday, May 18th for their annual joint meeting. The agenda is here.
All commissions previous meeting minutes were approved.
The chairmen of each commission made reports on each the actions of each commission:
Parks and Recreation: Work on the recreation Capital Improvement [...]
The Jacksonville Trails and Greenways Commission is meeting Monday, May 18th at 6pm in the Choate Room at the Jacksonville Commons Senior Center. This is a public meeting and all City residents are invited and welcome to come.
The agenda is below.
I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Previous Meeting’s Minutes
a. Recreation & Parks Commission [...]
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