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Five to vie for council
Two Chelsea residents have filed petitions as write-in candidates
By Steve Ricci, Staff Writer
PUBLISHED: October 27, 2005
Chelsea residents will have an opportunity to fill four seats on the City Council Nov. 8.
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The polling site for all city residents will be at the Washington Street Education Center, 500 Washington St. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 8 in Chelsea.
There are no elections or proposals on the Nov. 8 ballot for Chelsea-area residents living in Lyndon, Lima and Sylvan townships.
Before the election consolidation law took effect and when Chelsea was a village, Village Council elections were held in March.
When Chelsea's new city charter was adopted in March 2004, it stipulated that the mayor's seat — as well as City Council seats of the three lowest vote-winners elected to office — would be up for election after a two-year term.
City Council seats for the three lowest vote-winners in the March 2004 election — trustees Cheri Albertson, Frank Hammer and Jim Myles — will be up for election Nov. 8. for four-year terms.
Trustee seats for the remaining City Council trustees — Jamie Bollinger, Joe Merkel and Jason Lindauer — will be up for election in November 2007 for four-year terms.
Only Feeney, Albertson and Hammer turned in petitions by the deadline last March to be placed on the ballot.
Myles is running as a write-in candidate.
As of press time, only one newcomer, Kent Martinez-Kratz, had entered the race as an official write-in candidate.
Anyone interested in running as a write-in for the mayor or trustee seats can declare candidacy with Chelsea City Clerk Terri Burtch until 5 p.m. Nov. 4.
Write-in candidates, whose names will not appear on the ballot, do not need to turn in petition signatures.
As of last week, 213 residents had requested absentee ballots, which must be turned in by 4 p.m. on Election Day, Burtch said.
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