Burlington City Councilor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, a Progressive from Ward 2, will be leaving her city council seat on December 15. She is moving from the ward, so she can no longer represent it. There will be two Progressives on the Burlington City Council after she leaves. The mayor of Burlington, Bob Kiss, is also a Progressive. The seat will remain vacant until next March, when elections are held.
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1 Mike Indiana // Dec 7, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Sad news for the Vermont Progressives.
hopefully the party can find a strong candidate to run for the seat. In theory this shouldn’t be to hard, after all the Vermont Progressives are the strongest third party (at the state level, party is not national) in the country and there base is Burlington.
2 Don Lake .......... John Anderson volunteer 1980 // Dec 8, 2009 at 3:32 am
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3 Third Party Revolution // Dec 8, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Can’t Kiss appoint a Progressive to fill up the empty seat?
4 Mike Indiana // Dec 9, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Third Party Revolution,
The linked article clearly states that under the terms of the city charter, when a councilor moves from the ward in which he or she was elected, the council seat becomes vacant.
The remaining year in her term will be filled during the city election in March 2010. So the seat will only be vacant from Dec. 15 through March.
So in answer to your question Kiss can’t appoint someone to fill the empty seat.
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