Category Archives: City Politics

Keller for mayor, Malchow for deputy mayor

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Bob Keller

With Don Gerend planning to step down in July as Sammamish mayor, due to personal business reasons, the City Council must select a new mayor the next meeting.

Gerend will remain on the Council as a member retaining a vote for his successor.

Bob Keller is deputy mayor, but under Council rules, he does not automatically succeed Gerend. A Council vote makes this decision.

(The mayor is selected by the Council, not the public, under the state laws governing Sammamish’s council-manager form of government., unlike Redmond and Issaquah in which the public directly votes for the mayor.)

Sammamish Comment supports elevating Keller to mayor for the rest of this year, the unexpired mayoral term for Gerend. Gerend and Keller decided not to seek reelection in November and each goes off the Council Dec. 31.

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#9 files for Sammamish City Council

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Miki Mullor

A ninth candidate filed for Sammamish City Council today.

Miki Mullor filed for Position 1, and will oppose Jason Ritchie. Until now, Ritchie was the only candidate for one of four positions up for election this year who remained unopposed.

Position 7 so far has three candidates seeking this seat, ensuring a primary in August if nobody withdraws. Positions 3 and 5 each have two candidates.

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8th candidate files for Sammamish council

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The eighth candidate for Sammamish City Council filed today.

Melanie L. Curtright, 57, of the Hampton Woods neighborhood in the North end of the city, filed for Position 7. John Robinson and Pamela Stuart previously filed for this position. If none drops out or changes slots, this sets up a primary in August at which the top two advance to the November election.

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Gerend to resign as Sammamish mayor in July

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Don Gerend

Don Gerend will resign as Sammamish mayor in July, Sammamish Comment learned.

He will remain on the Council.

Reached last night, Gerend said he is resigning the mayoral position for personal reasons, cutting back on his commitments.

The Deputy Mayor is Bob Keller,  but it is not a given that he will ascend to Gerend’s spot. Under Sammamish council rules, a vote will be taken at the next meeting after Gerend resigns to select a new mayor.

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7th candidate files for Sammamish City Council

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The seventh candidate field for Sammamish City Council yesterday. Four seats are up for election.

Pamela Stuart filed her paperwork with the state Public Disclosure Commission, declaring for Position 7, the seat held by retiring Council Member Tom Odell.

John Robinson previously filed for this position.

Stuart hasn’t officially announced, or so it seems. But she’s already been endorsed by the King County Democrats organization (hence probably triggering the PDC filing).

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