Precinct 6 Seat before Council at Next Meeting

By Adam Swift

It can often be a challenge to get contested elections for town office.

But that hasn’t been the case in drawing in interested candidates for the vacant Precinct 6 seat on the town council.

Former Precinct 6 Councilor John DaRos stepped down from the seat following last November’s town election.

This year, the council has been taking letters of interest from potential candidates to fill the seat.

At last week’s meeting, Council President Jim Letterie said there are four candidates for the position, and that the council will likely vote to appoint one of those candidates at its next meeting on Tuesday, March 10.

Martin Flynn, Danny Floyd, Michael Gillespie, and Kevin Morales have all put their names in for the Precinct 6 seat.

“I haven’t had a chance to meet all of them, so I definitely want to do that,” Letterie said at last week’s council meeting. “I don’t know if everybody else has had the opportunity to or not, but we will definitely be taking that up on the agenda at our next meeting.”

During the public speaking portion of last week’s meeting, former Councilor Rob DeMarco voiced his support for the current council members and said he was glad to see so much interest in the vacant council seat.

“They are all genuinely great people, and they have stepped up, and the one thing I would ask is that whoever does not get appointed to the position gets nominated to a committee, because we need these kinds of people in our town,” said DeMarco.

In other business, Letterie appointed Sheryl Howard and Jaime Montesano to the firehouse building reuse committee and Michael Gillespie to the citizens finance advisory committee.