PORT ANGELES — The list of candidates for a vacancy on the Port Angeles City Council is up to seven after insurance broker Helen Elwood and home maintenance business owner Scott Collins submitted letters of interest this week.
Letters will be accepted at Port Angeles City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St., until 5 p.m. today to fill Lauren Erickson’s seat on the seven-member council.
Erickson resigned last month because of health reasons, with 1½ years left on her term.
The council will interview applicants at an as yet undetermined time on Monday, the day of the next City Council meeting.
That meeting was rescheduled from Tuesday because two of the current six council members will be in Spokane at the annual Association of Washington Cities conference.
The applicants
Elwood is a broker with Allstate Insurance.
Collins has owned Mr. Everything Home Maintenance for 20 years.
They join a list of hopefuls that includes motivational speaker and current Planning Commission Chairwoman Cherie Kidd and ex-Planning Commissioner and land developer Patrick Downie of Volunteer Chore Services.
The list also includes Peninsula College management and marketing professor Mike Sims, online publisher Peter Ripley and Edna Petersen, owner of Necessities & Temptations gift shop.
