Gilpin Supervisors appointed resident Steve Senjan to fill a vacant seat on the board Monday evening.
“I’d been thinking about it for a while,” Senjan, 40, said Tuesday. “When it came up that they needed someone to fill the position…I decided to step into that position, put my letter in, any way.”
The seat – for a term ending at the end of this year – was made vacant after the unexpected death in March of Supervisor Susan Brown. Supervisors last month asked for interested residents to apply to fill the vacancy.
After interviewing six candidates the supervisors chose Senjan.
“He is already very community driven,” Supervisor Chairman Charles Stull said. “He’s on the Leechburg Pool Board and does a lot for the community, and also owns a local business.”