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The Nov. 3 general election just got a bit more dramatic.
Four candidates – including council appointee Ian Robertson – will seek to retain Council Member Steve Taylor’s Position 2 seat on the Spokane Valley City Council. Taylor vacated the seat at the end of June to take a job as city administrator in Connell.
Robertson, who had been chairman of the city Planning Commission, was appointed 4-2 by the council to serve in an interim capacity until November’s election. On the ballot will be Robertson, Dean Grafos, Ed Foote and Edward Pace.
All filed at the Spokane County Elections Office on Aug. 26, with Foote – who has run a pair of unsuccessful campaigns against former 4th District state Rep. Lynn Schindler – doing so just before 5 p.m.
The winner of the Nov. 4 election will fill the remaining two years on Taylor’s term. None of the other candidates interviewed by the council – Diana Sanderson or Ben Wick – opted to run for the council seat.
Grafos – who runs Grafos Investments and is a critic of Spokane Valley city government – applied for the post but was not granted an interview by the council. He has also has given financial support to disincorporation backers seeking to dissolve the city, which incorporated in 2003.
Pace, like Grafos, supports disincorporation and the dissolution of the Sprague-Appleway Revitalization Plan, which Robertson approved as head of the Planning Commission.
Robertson is a retired pastor at Spokane Valley Nazarene Church – a characteristic he shares in common with Pace, who recently retired as pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Chewelah. Foote has worked as an educator.
Also filing last week, in Fairfield, Karrie Stewart – who was appointed to the Town Council when Carl Toetly passed away – will be challenged by Brian Kauffman.
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By
Mike Huffman
