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Council sets deadline, interview rules and coin-toss tie-breaker for mayoral vacancy
Summary
The council set December 5 as the application deadline to fill the mayoral vacancy, approved an interview format (speaking time plus council questions), barred council candidates from asking questions, and adopted a round-robin coin-toss procedure to break multi-way ties.
Midvale City Council set a schedule and a detailed procedure to fill the current mayoral vacancy, including the application deadline, interview format, voting and tie-breaking mechanisms.
City Manager Matt Dole told the council that state law requires the council to appoint a replacement and that several procedural choices remain for the council to define. The council set the application deadline as December 5, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. and confirmed that every qualified applicant will be interviewed publicly before the council.
The council defined the interview format: when there are 10 or fewer candidates, each will be…
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