Eight candidates for City Council, three for School Board, 20 for Charter Commission

Note: This story was last updated at 1:40 p.m.

There are eight candidates who qualified to run for three seats on Oak Ridge City Council in the November 8 election, and three candidates qualified for two seats on Oak Ridge Board of Education. There are also 20 candidates for eight seats on a new Anderson County Charter Commission.

Here are the Oak Ridge City Council candidates (elect three):

• Jim Dodson
• Wende Doolittle
• Anne Garcia Garland
• L.C. “Charlie” Hensley
• Charles “Chuck” Hope Jr.
• Joseph Lee
• Mark LeNoir
• Hans Vogel

Current City Council member Trina Baughn will not be on the ballot. Hensley and Hope are incumbents. Garcia Garland is a former Council member.

The City Council has seven members who serve staggered terms, meaning the other four seats are up for election in November 2018.

Here are the Board of Education candidates (elect two):

• Angi Agle
• Keys Fillauer
• Myra F. Mansfield

Agle and Fillauer are incumbents. Mansfield ran in another race this summer, in the special election on August 4 for one of two seats in District 8 on Anderson County Commission.

The Board of Education has five members who serve staggered terms, meaning the other three seats are up for election in November 2018.

The deadline to qualify as a candidate in the November 8 municipal election was noon Thursday (August 18). Each candidate had to collect signatures from 25 registered voters to get on the ballot.

Here are the Anderson County Charter Commission candidates. Voters will elect one charter commissioner per district. The Charter Commission districts are the same as the County Commission districts. Districts six, seven, and eight represent different parts of Oak Ridge.

District 1 (elect one)

• Floyd E. Grisham
• Tim Risden
• V.L. Stonecipher

District 2 (elect one)

• Mark Alderson
• Jim Cooper
• Stephen H. Day

District 3 (elect one)

• Steve Emert
• Dusty Irwin

District 4 (elect one)

• Dennis Hashbarger
• Tim Isbel

District 5 (elect one)

• Howard L. Farmer
• Robert McKamey
• Jerry White

District 6 (elect one)

• Steve Mead
• Hugh B. Ward Jr.

District 7 (elect one)

• Marjorie Mott Lloyd
• Theresa Scott
• David G. Stanley

District 8 (elect one)

• Kathleen D. Moore
• Bob Smallridge

When elected, the charter commissioners will make a decision on what to take on, said Mark Stephens, Anderson County Election Commission administrator. It could be very broad, or not.

It would be the first charter for Anderson County, Stephens said. Only two counties in the state have a charter now, he said: Knox County and Shelby County.

Those who sought to have a Charter Commission submitted the required 1,776 signatures—equal to 10 percent of those voting in the last governor’s race in 2014—in a petition on July 1, Stephens said.

Also on the ballot in November will be liquor-by-the-drink questions in Oliver Springs and Rocky Top. Liquor by the drink is required in Oliver Springs in order for Food City to sell wine, Stephens said.

Here is what else will be on the ballot, depending upon where you live:

Oak Ridge City Judge

• Robert A. McNees III

Clinton Board of Education, Ward 1 (elect two)

• David W. Queener
• Joey Smith

Clinton Board of Education, Ward 3

• Merle Pryse

Clinton City Council, Ward 1

• Rob Herrell

Clinton City Council, Ward 2

• Larry Gann

Clinton City Council, Ward 3

• Jim McBride

Norris City Council (elect five)

• Jack Black
• William “Bill” Grieve Jr.
• York K. Haverkamp
• Sheila R. Herren
• Ron Hill
• Roy T. Langheld
• Chris Mitchell
• Loretta Ann Painter
• Peter Sexton
• Matthew S. Zorvan

Rocky Top City Council (elect two)

• Nathan Dison
• Donald Douglas
• Robert Griffith
• Gary Rains

More information will be added as it becomes available.