Mayor Kevin Foy wants the Chapel Hill Town Council to appoint someone to finish Bill Strom's term Nov. 9 -- after the Nov. 3 election, but before the new council is seated in December.
In an interview today, Foy said picking the fifth place finisher doesn't make sense since the three council incumbents chose not apply for the seat. What if one of them finished fifth, he asked.
But if the council won't go for the fifth, or sixth or seventh finisher, why not wait until December? That's what Matt Czajkowski wants.
"Absolutely, absolutely," Czajkowski said this afternoon. "The newly elected council will reflect the most recent sentiment of the voters in the town who should decide," he said.
Not so, said the mayor. The Strom seat went to the voters two years ago and the current council is going to fill it.
"This is the council that was presented with the vacancy," he said. "This council could have made the decision to appoint someone immediately. We didn't. We decided to take the election into account. But that's not the same thing as saying let the next council do it."
Look for more on this in tomorrow's News & Observer.
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The seat is tainted
Thu, 10/15/2009 - 18:23 — kdevansAnybody who accepts the appointment from Foy will be tainted. It's going to be political poison and the person named will be seen as a puppet. Now, if the rest of the council can vote down Foy's nomination, which I believe they can do, maybe we can get some sanity into the choice and the fifth-place vote-getter can take the seat. Call it Strom's Revenge -- he sure left a huge pile in his wake!
Protest Foy's Action
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:28 — TerryDiddleTo sign the petition requesting that the voters have their say, go to
http://www.gopetition.com/online/31349.html
Third Strike! You're out Foy...
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 08:31 — CH_GOTV_2009Kevin Foy's third strike at his own reputation and legacy as mayor. He should have learned when the public slammed him for hiding his own lifetime health care on a consent agenda, bringing the cost of the Town employee's benefits squarely into focus and making them a political issue. Less than a year later, he conspires with Mark Kleinschmidt to resign in the morning of the day Mark announces his mayoral candidacy in the afternoon, throwing Mayor Protem Jim Ward under a bus (Bill Strom's Winnebago). In the final swing at destroying his reputation entirely, Foy wants to appoint one of his cronies to fill Bill Strom's vacant seat before the new Mayor and all of his new Council members are seated. To avoid that conversation, he invokes Jim Merritt's name, even though Merritt did not apply. Foy is playing fast and loose with the Town's policies again. Monday night's oppositional behavior and defiance of Matt Czajkowski's reasonable guidance http://tiny.cc/RcBy0 are public record.
Cross posted from http://tiny.cc/mU6La
Mayor hopes to pick Strom successor
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 20:52 — PostalUnbelievable. They just can't let go. They're addicted to power.
Foy had to have cut some sort of deal
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 18:58 — elvisboy77Or he would not be so vehement about making it happen before he is out. So, what is the deal, and with whom? I guess we will eventually know even if the press does not dig it up in the meantime.
Actually, a local reporter
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 19:37 — pmcgahanActually, a local reporter told me that Strom tried to name his successor.
Gamesmanship
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 17:18 — pmcgahanIs anyone surprised that the current Chapel Hill Town Council wants to choose Stroms successor. The majority members of the current town council all knew that Bill Strom was vacating his seat. Heck, he sold his house in April.
In order for the majority block to choose his successor, they convinced him to hold off on notifiying the council until after the election deadline.
In fact, I heard that Strom actually asked to name his own replacement.
Please don't let your idealogical views cloud the blatant disregard for the public trust exhibited by the majority block of the current Chapel Hill Town Council.