The City Council Tuesday night set a Nov. 8 special election to fill a vacant council seat.
The special election will coincide with the Nov. 8 general election. The council seat was vacated last November when incumbent Joan Peck was elected as mayor.
The council is currently at six members. The city considered bringing in an outside vendor to conduct an election to fill the council seat after July 31 but before Oct. 7.
However, council members said that option — which would have cost the city $390,000 — was too expensive. Holding the special election November 8 would cost the city $130,000, well within the city’s election budget, according to staff reports.
