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Filing season for election opens Monday

Posted on July 2, 2009July 2, 2009 by Staff

By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer

While some candidates have already announced their intentions to run, their efforts won’t become official until they make the trip to the county board of elections office in Hillsborough to sign on the dotted line and pay their filing fees.

That all starts Monday at 8 a.m. Candidates have from then until noon on Friday, July 17 to sign-up to run for town offices and school board races.

This week saw another announcement ahead of the opening of the filing period, with incumbent Carrboro Board of Aldermen member Randee Haven-O’Donnell telling supporters gathered at Carrboro Town Commons for a solar power workshop that she intends to seek another term. She said her choice of venue wasn’t a coincidence and cited her interest in seeing the town become a center for green jobs.

“As a science teacher and environmental educator, this appealed to my interest in new, green technologies to reduce our collective carbon footprint. As an environmental advocate, it was a clear way to begin to encourage clean power production and promote sustainability through local power generation,” she told supporters.

Haven-O’Donnell’s is the second official entry in the race for three seats on the board of aldermen that are up this year. She joins Sammy Slade who announced last week. Alderman Jacquie Gist has also said she is going to run for another term. Alderman John Herrera announced last week that he would not seek re-election.

Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton is also expected to seek another term, but has not announced he is doing so.

In all, the terms of 18 incumbents are up in Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Pittsboro and Hillsborough and on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board.

Also on the ballot this fall are three seats on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education. Those seats are held by Jean Hamilton, Gregory McElveen and Lisa Stuckey. Stuckey, the current chair of the school board, and Hamilton have said they are going to not seek re-election.

In Chapel Hill, Kevin Foy’s decision not to seek another term has touched off at least a three-way race for mayor between transportation board chair Augustus Cho and town council members Matt Czajkowski and Mark Kleinschmidt.

In the race for three seats on the Chapel Hill Town Council, Penny Rich has announced and council member Ed Harrison has indicated he is likely to do so, as well. Council member Jim Merritt, who was named to replace the late Bill Thorpe, has yet to announce his intention.

In Hillsborough, Mayor Tom Stevens has announced he will seek re-election. Seats up this year on the town board are held by Frances Dancy and Michael Gering.

In Pittsboro, the terms of Mayor Randy Voller and town commissioners Pamela Baldwin and Christopher Walker expire this year.

The Orange County Board of Elections website will keep track of candidates as they file at co.orange.nc.us/elect/2009CandidateFilings.asp

1 thought on “Filing season for election opens Monday”

  1. Mia Burroughs says:
    July 2, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    I think you left out the word “not” regarding Jean Hamilton and Lisa Stuckey. They have announced that they will NOT seek reelection. Greg McElveen told the CH Herald that he will run this cycle.

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