There will be contested races for one seat on the borough assembly, three seats on the school board and one seat on the port commission in Wrangell’s Oct. 5 municipal election.
Candidates for two other borough assembly seats and a port commission seat are unchallenged.
Jim DeBord and Bob Dalrymple are running for the two three-year open terms on the assembly. Dalrymple is an incumbent; he was appointed in January to fill out the year for Julie Decker, who left the assembly. DeBord also expressed interest in the seat at that time, though the assembly selected Dalrymple to serve until the October election.
Unless a write-in candidate outpolls either contestant on the ballot, DeBord and Dalrymple will win seats that run to 2024. Both have previously served on the assembly.
Don McConachie Sr. and David Powell are running for the last year of Decker’s unexpired term. The winner
will serve on the assembly until October 2022.
Powell is currently on the assembly; his term expires in October.
Terry Courson’s term on the assembly ends next month and he is not seeking reelection.
There are four candidates for two three-year terms on the school board. The top two vote-getters will win the job: Angela Allen, Alex Angerman, Brittani Robbins and Elizabeth Roundtree. None of the four are currently on the school board.
Julia Ostrander and Jessica Whitaker are running for the one-year seat of an unexpired term on the school board.
School board members Cyni Crary, Aaron Angerman and Patti Gilbert are not seeking reelection.
Chris Buness and incumbent John Martin are the only candidates for two three-year terms on the port commission.
Incumbent port commissioner Frank Roppel is seeking election to a one-year unexpired term.
Absentee voting in the election will open Sept. 20. Registered voters who will be unable to vote on election day may cast absentee ballots from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays Sept. 20 through Oct. 4 at city hall.
The Oct. 5 in-person voting will be held at the Nolan Center, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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