City Council, School Board Elections This Fall

By Bruce Kettelle

Election season will begin this summer as candidates begin to register for several open seats on the Trotwood City Council and the Trotwood-Madison School Board. It appears that all the existing seat holders plan to run for re-election. Some competition is brewing as a few residents have already taken out petitions at the board of elections to qualify for the November ballot.

There is still time for more to enter the fray with the deadline for filing petitions still several months away on August 20.

The four Ward or district seats on the city council expire at the end of this year. Currently holding those seats are Joyce Sutton-Cameron (Ward 1), Rap Hankins (Ward 2), Ronald Vaughn (Ward 3), and Mary McDonald (Ward 4.) To run for any of these seats residents must live in the ward they wish to represent.

So far two challengers have signed out ballot petitions for the city council race. Mattie Clay in Ward 1 and Janice Chinn in Ward 2 are currently collecting signatures. All four incumbents have also taken petitions.

Candidates for school board can live anywhere inside the district’s boundaries. The terms are up this year for Deborah Daniel, Teena Davis, and Denise Moore. So far they do not have any challengers.

Residents interested in getting more information on how to run for office can contact the Clerk of Council at 854-7212 or the Secretary to the Superintendent of Schools at 854-3050 x212.