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Nine to interview for council seat tonight

By Jeff Mores

Posted: September 8, 2009 at 1:52 p.m.

BENTONVILLE — Nine candidates will interview tonight for the Bentonville City Council seat vacated by alderman Brad Crain last week. And whoever emerges will be appointed - tonight.

By close of business Friday, J. Ryan Parks, 3507 Cardinal Lane; Jody Coberly, 608 W. Central Ave.; Jerome Grotts, 604 N.W. 17th Ct.; Barbara Ludwig, 2401 N.W. Rita Way; Matt Hewitt, 52 Stonehenge Drive; and Frank Hysell, 210 Devon Green St. had put their names into the hat.

Prior to the 9 a.m. application deadline this morning, four new names were added to the list, and Grotts withdrew his name from consideration.

Brad Reed, 407 N.W. Saddlebrook Dr.; Katherine Smith, 211 Ridgefield; Pine Drewyor, 11 N.W. Gorman Gate; and Matthew Zachary, 107 S.W. Blackhawk Road joined the list of candidates prior to this morning's deadline.

Coberly and Zachary ran against Crain in the November 2008 election.

As the last order of business at the Bentonville City Council meeting, scheduled for 6 p.m. tonight at the Community Development Building, 305 S.W. A St., aldermen will interview the nine candidates. A state statute that went into affect in August requires cities that had a population fewer than 20,000 at the time of the 2000 Census to appoint a replacement for any vacated council seat by its next regularly scheduled meeting.

Crain represented Ward 2, Position 1.

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