“I never take anything for granted,” Allen, who was first elected in 2017, said in a telephone interview Tuesday night. “I think there were good candidates out there, we got to know each other in various forums, and it will be a different council. We’re losing some experience on council.”
No matter what happens in the Nov. 2 municipal election, the seven-member City Council will look much different in 2022 because only one of City Council’s current members whose seat is on the ballot Allen chose to seek re-election.
That means there will be at least three new members of City Council in 2022.
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Two years ago, Jasmine Flores narrowly missed claiming an Erie City Council seat.
Flores finished fourth in the May 2019 Democratic City Council primary just behind Michael Keys, who went on to win a council seat that November.
She s hoping for an even more successful run this time.
Flores, 28, is among eight Democrats and two Republicans in the City Council race. Four of council s seven seats are on the ballot for the May 18 municipal primary.
All seven council seats are currently held by Democrats.
Along with fellow Democrats Elspeth Kate Koehle and Kendrick Tate, Flores is running as a slate connected to the citizen advocacy and social justice group Erie County United.
No matter what happens at the polls, the seven-member panel will look much different in 2022.
However, only one of City Council’s current members whose seat is on the ballot, Democrat Liz Allen, chose to seek re-election.
Besides Allen, a former reporter and editor at the Erie Times-News who was first elected to City Council in 2017, the other Democrats on the ballot are Jasmine Flores; Elspeth “Kate” Koehle; Kendrick Tate; Cory DiLoreto; Marcus P. Yuille; Maurice “Mo” Troop; and Chuck Nelson, a pastor who lives in the city’s west bayfront.
Flores, Koehle and Tate are running as a slate affiliated with local social justice group Erie County United.