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Lafayette council schedules interviews for five candidates after residents urge offering seat to next-highest vote getter
Summary
After public comments urging the city to offer a recent vacancy to the next-highest vote-getter, Lafayette City Council voted unanimously to invite all five applicants to 30-minute interviews on Jan. 9 and said it will attempt to appoint at that special meeting.
Lafayette’s City Council voted Jan. 6 to invite all five applicants for a city-council vacancy to 30-minute interviews at a special meeting Friday, Jan. 9, after multiple residents urged the council to consider recent election results when filling the seat.
At public comment resident Betsy Ellis said that when a vacancy occurs within a year of an election “the seat should be offered to the next highest vote getter”…
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