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Filing starts Friday at noon for three
seats on the Wake Forest Town Board, and
a local telephone poll is floating the
names of eight possible candidates:
present Commissioners David Camacho and
Velma Boyd, former commissioners Rob
Bridges and Chris Malone, and planning
board members Mike Martin, Chris
Kaeberlein, Ward Marotti and Peter
Thibodeau.
Bridges is the only
announced candidate. Kaeberlein ran
unsuccessfully for a board seat in 2005.
The third seat to be filled
on the board is now held by Commissioner
Stephen Barrington, who has said he will
not run for another term. He is now the
executive director at the Franklin
County Chamber of Commerce.
Candidates can file either
in Wake Forest with Town Clerk Joyce
Wilson MMC or at the Wake County Board
of Elections on Salisbury Street in
Raleigh. The fee is $15. The filing
period has been shortened by the General
Assembly to only two weeks and ends at
noon Friday, July 20.
Commissioners serve
four-year terms. The board has a
staggered election schedule, with three
of the five commissioners elected at one
time, the mayor and two commissioners
elected at another.
The town board is currently
made up of Mayor Vivian Jones,
Commissioners Frank Drake and Margaret
Stinnett, Boyd, Barrington and Camacho.
The election for the
commissioners will be Tuesday, Nov. 6,
and the new commissioners will be sworn
in at the December board meeting.
Because of the election, the
town board work session and the planning
board meeting and joint public hearings
will be held on Thursday in November. |
