Politics & Government

Meeting To Interview City Council Applicants Rescheduled

Deadline to apply for city council seat remains to be set for Jan. 5.

A special city council meeting in which applicants for a vacant seat will be interviewed has been rescheduled.

Originally set for Jan. 19, the city council will instead meet and interview applicants who wish to be appointed to the council on Jan. 30, according to City Clerk Sheila Harrington. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m.

Four individuals have picked up a physical application, but the applications are also available online. Harrington said as of Thursday evening, no applications have been submitted back into the City Clerk's Office.

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Applications for the seat can be picked up on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the City Clerk’s office on the fifth floor of , 37101 Newark Blvd.

However, city offices will be closed until Jan. 3, so the application is also available on the city’s website, www.newark.org. Click here for more information and to download the application or see the attached PDF to view the application.

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Applicants are required to be a resident of Newark and a registered voter. The application includes a typewritten statement in which the applicant must state:

  • Why he/she wants to be appointed
  • His/her familiarity with the City of Newark’s organizations and projects
  • His/her past governmental, political, occupational, community service or volunteer experience
  • Applicable education
  • His/her view of the city’s budgetary priorities.

The individual who is appointed will take on Mayor Al Nagy's seat, which became vacant when voters elected him as their top city leade on Nov. 8.

All four members of the Newark City Council voted to go forward with an appointment process rather than an election meeting in order to save costs to the city and to fill the seat on an earlier timeline.


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