Voters in the November election throughout Snohomish County will choose 15 members of a county charter-review commission.
County voters elect charter-review commissioners every 10 years for one-year terms. The commission can propose amendments to the county charter, proposals that the commission will send to the County Council, which will place them on an upcoming ballot.
Each of the five County Council districts selects three review-commission members.
All candidates who file in each district will appear on the November general-election ballot. There is no primary. Filing is May 11-15. There is no filing fee for the unpaid position. On November ballots, each voter will select three candidates.
Voters in 2005 faced as many as 16 candidates in one district, only six in another.
The commissioners elected in 2005 proposed six amendments for the 2006 ballot. Five passed.
One candidate already has declared an intention to run. Edward Barton has registered as a candidate for one of the positions in County Council District 4. Barton was a Republican candidate last year against Democratic 1st Legislative District State Rep. Luis Moscoso. District 4, including Mountlake Terrace, Brier, Bothell and Mill Creek, is the County Council district that Democratic Councilman Terry Ryan represents.
No one has yet declared as a charter-review-commission candidate in County Council District 3, where Democratic Councilwoman Stephanie Wright will run for re-election.
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.
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