Now it's time for the local elections

April 9th voters in Collinsville will have a ballot listing 6 people running for 3 open positions on the city council. 2 are incumbents-Nancy Moss and Jeff Kypta while the other 4 are newcomers. One council seat will run for only two years as it is an election to fill the unexpire term of Liz Dalton who is now on the Madison County board. One thing about Collinsville's local elections is that there are always many people who run for council and school board, the seats are always competitive. This isn't the case in many cities.

The candidates running for the two year term are: Robert Graham, Bob Dorman and Karen Woolard

Candidates running for the full 4 year term are: Jesse Hoskin, Jeff Kypta and Nancy Moss.

Interesting to me are Graham and Hoskin, two men who have long been active in the American Legion. Did something happen with the legion to have two involved officers decide to run for the city council?

I would assume that there will be the traditional pre-election candidate forum so voters could get to know them all before voting.

Comments

[Ron]

Jeff Kypta has done a fine job as a councilman and deserves another 4 year term. He takes a balanced approach to his comments and votes.
Jesse Hoskins would be a fine addition to the council and a fresh voice.

[Frank]

I don't know if Kypta has helped pass any motions in his term in office. I think he just votes against the majority. A straw party official. Nancy Moss is my favorite. We should have at least 7 members on the Council so that the citizens are properly represented and lessen the effect of such a small number of elected officials making the decisions for the community.

[Ron]

If some of the council members, like Nancy Moss, had stood up to Bob Knabel's and Paul Mann's poor financial decisions the city would be in a much better financial condition today. Scott Williams has done a terrific job in righting the ship towards fiscal common sense.
And it might have helped if some of the Gateway Center board members would have spoken out about the Gateway Center to keep it from needing a million dollar rescue from the city.