
{"id":8345,"date":"2009-12-14T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T01:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2009-12-14T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T01:27:43","slug":"bell-wins-town-council-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/12\/14\/bell-wins-town-council-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell wins Town Council appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northside resident and Planning Board member Donna Bell has won a seat on the Chapel Hill Town Council by a 6-2 vote.<\/p>\n<p>She takes her seat at the next council meeting, filling a vacancy left when Bill Strom resigned in August. <\/p>\n<p>New Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt joined council members Laurin Easthom, Sally Green, Ed Harrison, Penny Rich and Jim Ward in voting for Bell at a special meeting of the Town Council Monday night.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Several members of the council said they were concerned that with Jim Merritt&#8217;s loss in the fall election the council did not have adequate representation in the African American community and that Bell would be the best choice to fill that void. <\/p>\n<p>Council members Matt Czajkowski and Gene Pease voted for Matt Pohlman, the fifth-place finisher in this fall&#8217;s council election. Pohlman had been a supporter of Czajkowski&#8217;s bid for mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northside resident and Planning Board member Donna Bell has won a seat on the Chapel Hill Town Council by a 6-2 vote. She takes her seat at the next council meeting, filling a vacancy left when Bill Strom resigned in August. New Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt joined council members Laurin Easthom, Sally Green, Ed Harrison, Penny&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[400],"class_list":["post-8345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-top-story","tag-donna-bell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8352,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions\/8352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}