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The Twin Falls City Council met on November 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM to consider six candidates for a vacant council seat and to conduct routine business. Councilwoman Vollmer recused herself from the candidate selection process. All consent calendar items were approved unanimously.
The council heard from six candidates to fill the seat resulting from Councilman Stone's resignation and a potential additional vacancy. Each candidate had six minutes for presentation, followed by council questions and a one-minute closing.
All candidates expressed deep community ties and willingness to serve.
Okay, we'll go ahead and call the uh Twin Falls City Council meeting for November second, twenty twenty six to order. I will confirm that we have five members of council in chambers and is Councilwoman Volmer on the phone. Uh so we'll proceed with uh with our meeting. Um the next item is the Pledge of Allegiance. Any of those that would like to participate that and are able, please stand. I pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands on the member. Thank you. We'll move on to the consent calendar uh tonight. What are council's wishes? Move to approve. I'll second. We have a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar as uh printed. Any further discussion. Amy roll call vote, please. Ruth Pierce. Yes. Chris Reed? Yes. Craig Hawkins? Yes. Jason Barron. Yes. Gary Vulmer. And Nathan Murray. Yes. Okay, motion carries six to zero. We'll move on to our um our next item or our only item for tonight, and that is the uh presentation of the six candidates selected to fill the vacancy for Twin Falls uh City Council seat that resulted in um from Councilman Stone's uh recent resignation and one that could potentially occur uh with the election tomorrow night. Um I will say uh Councilwoman Volmer will she she's on the phone, so we've asked her to recuse herself from this process. So it'll be the five of us up here that uh that will be uh listening and uh ultimately uh in the next subsequent weeks making the decision based upon my recommendations. Uh I really would just want to start out. This has been a been a good process, been an interesting process. I appreciate all the applicants uh that submitted and as as we went through and looked at uh the resumes and and the applications. Um I believe that any one of the six can fill fill the seat uh appropriately. Uh I will promise you this is not an easy decision or a recommendation, but it is part of the process that we go through to to make uh make this work. So um kind of the way as it was explained in in that email or the letter that you received is each candidate will have six minutes and then we'll go through uh a QA period if the council has any questions or anything uh that we that like to ask of those candidates. And then you'll have one minute to close with any closing statements. Um we did randomize it. I have a list here. It it's uh ours looks a little different here, so it's not in any particular order. Um and we'll go ahead and and start the process. I will open it up just uh real quick for any of the council members. Do we have any questions or comments or anything before we we go okay? Okay.