City Council certifies election results, orders District 3 runoff

City Council members read and filed a canvassing resolution that certified municipal election vote totals and declared winners for several council seats while setting a runoff for District 3.

The council read Canvassing Resolution No. 2025-2103, which the city clerk provided in typed form to replace an earlier handwritten copy. The resolution, as read into the record, included totals adjusted by provisional ballots and absentee returns.

The resolution certified the following vote totals: mayor — William Ronnie Marks, 2,427; Danny Whitfield, 1,570; Mark Wilson, 240. City Council District 2 — Alan Creasy, 1,030; Tim Colling, 245. City Council District 3 — James Lucas, 295; Henry A. White, 277; Kelly Dye, 68. City Council District 4 — Dana Sims Henry, 650; Jared Schulte, 249. City Council District 5 — Amy Golden, 285; Jamie Elliott, 101.

The council noted by the resolution that William Ronnie Marks (mayor), Alan Creasy (District 2), Dana Sims Henry (District 4) and Amy Golden (District 5) had been duly elected to their respective offices. The resolution also recorded that no other candidate appeared for City Council District 1; by a separate council resolution, Chris Seibert was noted as the only candidate and therefore duly elected for District 1.

Because no candidate obtained a clear majority in City Council District 3, the council recorded a runoff between James Lucas and Henry A. White for that seat. The council discussed the typed copy provided by the city clerk and noted that formal copies of the canvass had been signed after the body's earlier vote; members indicated the council had already voted and adjourned prior to the reading of the typed resolution.

No motions, roll-call vote tallies for the council's approval of the canvass, or dissenting votes were recorded in the read segment; the record provided and signed by council members served as the formal canvass documentation.

Next steps noted in the read materials: filing of the canvass documents and scheduling of the District 3 runoff according to the city's election calendar (specific runoff date not specified in the read material).