Times: Hercules will hold election to fill council seat

— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 11 February 2011 — 3 comments below »

Tom Lochner reports… “The council voted 2-1 this week for an election instead of an appointment, with Councilman John Delgado and Mayor Joanne Ward in favor and Councilman Don Kuehne dissenting; Councilwoman Myrna de Vera was absent. Kuehne had argued for appointing someone to serve out the balance of Balico’s term, which runs until December 2012; Balico resigned Jan. 11, citing family reasons.”

Below is video of Kuehne’s comments on Tuesday (which I also referred to in yesterday’s Saltpeter column)…

I wonder who Kuehne had hoped to appoint.

3 comments already …

  1. # JC commented on 11-Feb-11 @ 4:54pm

    I agree with Donald Kuehne that there are a lot of major decisions to be made by the city council within the next few months. I am also hoping that when decision time comes, Donald Kuehne will not be a part of this city council any longer.

  2. # Wilbur Figueira commented on 12-Feb-11 @ 11:33am

    What an idiot.

  3. # Susan Keeffe commented on 12-Feb-11 @ 5:21pm

    I would prefer neither Kuehne nor Ward have any say in who serves on the Council. Let the people decide. Even on an interim basis. But I agree it makes good sense for the City to have a policy to cover situations when they don’t have enough Council members for a quorum or need to appoint members on an interim only basis.

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