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Special election it is • Council deadlocked 2-2 in fourth meeting over appointment The four members of the Ceres City Council sat in silence for minutes at a time during Thursday night’s special meeting after they kept hitting a deadlock in appointing someone to the empty seat.
A polarized Ceres City Council was unable to resolve its deep division about who should be appointed to an empty District 1 council seat on Thursday evening, triggering a special election for Council District 1 that may cost taxpayers $40,000.
The special meeting was the council’s fourth time discussing an appointment with the same results of Feb. 2, Feb. 8 and Feb. 22. Thursday’s meeting was timed the day before the March 5 automatic trigger for a special election to fill the council seat left vacant when Channce Condit moved to the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 5. State law dictates that a vacancy must be filled within 9