New city council to be sworn in on Thursday

Three city councilors will be sworn in on Thursday, January 8.

Incumbents Wendy Holzman and David Asson both won reelection in the November election. Asson received enough votes to earn four more years on the council; Holzman will serve another two-year term.

Nancy Connolly is the only newcomer elected in November. She will serve a four-year term. Connolly ran on a platform of improved outreach to the citizenry of Sisters.

McKibben Womack and Chris Frye continue to serve on the council; they did not face election in November.

The council will also choose its officers at the January 8 meeting, including the mayor. By city charter, the council members select the mayor, rather than that office being voted on in elections.

The council faces a number of issues as it rolls into 2015, including continuing discussion of how the city code will handle transient and temporary business activity downtown. The council is likely on Thursday night to hear a challenge to a recent staff decision that allows the siting of food carts on an improved commercial property in downtown Sisters.