Each of the four Sammamish City Council races will have primaries in August.
Final filings occurred by 5pm today.
The candidates are:
Four primaries in Sammamish City Council race in August
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Keller for mayor, Malchow for deputy mayor
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
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
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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New battle brewing over Ebright Creek development
Wally Pereyra, gearing up for a new land use appeal over development affecting Ebright Creek.
A tiny, two-home short plat is at the heart of what’s likely to be another appeal to protect environmentally sensitive Ebright Creek.
The Sammamish City Staff Monday approved development “to subdivide one parcel comprising approximately 2.97 acres into two single-family residential lots. The site is located to the east of Ebright Creek, west of the Greenbriar subdivision. The site is constrained by the buffer of a Type F stream (Ebright Creek) and landslide hazard area buffers.”
The applicants, Clifford and Pauline Cantor, first filed for development 16 years ago.
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